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Dec 27 2009

Ex-S [Ext] Gundam: Finally Done!

Posted by sajuuk in Fandom General, Models/Figures, tags: , ,

With the hol­i­day sea­son wind­ing down, I fig­ured I would get back to build­ing mod­els.  Of course, I had to get the Ex-S off my work­bench before I could start a new kit, so I finally got around to fin­ish­ing it today.  Yeah, it only took me sev­eral weeks to build this thing.  Got side­tracked with work-related things and panic clean­ing before my par­ents showed up for the hol­i­days and the model just kind of got pushed to the side.  But I finally got around to fin­ish­ing it today, and I really wish that it was easy to pose some­thing this unbal­anced.  So instead, I’ve just got some pho­tos of it sit­ting there on its stand from dif­fer­ent angles.

I’ll admit, this is most def­i­nitely not my finest work to date.  Towards the end of build­ing this kit, I think I was just so fed up with its com­plex­ity that I just wanted to fin­ish it and move onto the next one, so I started to skip some of the decals and paint.  Maybe one of these days I’ll actu­ally get around to find­ing a trans­la­tion of Gun­dam Sen­tinel and read­ing up on how this mon­stros­ity actu­ally per­formed in com­bat.  Maybe even­tu­ally I’ll get around to attempt­ing a decent pho­to­shoot of this thing at a later date, but for now it shall sit on its stand between my ZZ Gun­dam model and NANOHA (my server).

Final Opin­ion on the Ex-S [Ext] Gun­dam MG 1/100 Kit: “WARNING.  May cause tem­po­rary insan­ity, annoy­ance at grav­ity and obses­sion over tiny lit­tle details.”  I believe that about sums it up.  This kit is truly for hard­core mod­ellers only, or those crazy enough to try and build it (which includes me).  For the time being, I think I’ll stick to slightly more sane suits.

Next project: Prob­a­bly a Metal­lic Fin­ish HD Color MG 1/100 Hyakushiki, some­thing that thank­fully is much eas­ier to pose and per­son­ally one of my favorite suits of all time.

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Dec 09 2009

Ex-S [Ext] Gundam Work In Progress: 1 of 2

Posted by sajuuk in Models/Figures, tags: , ,
Well, I took a break of a few weeks from build­ing mod­els to deal with some other things going on and replen­ish the model stash a bit. I’m now up to 8 unbuilt Mas­ter Grades, 3 High Grades, 2 SD Gun­dam kits, and 3 more kits on the way (1 HG, 2 MG). Last week I built a Mas­ter Grade ZZ Gun­dam as well as a High Grade Airos Gun­dam and GN Archer dis­played docked to each other as was intended. But right now I’m work­ing on what has to be the most absurdly awe­some kit I have ever done — the MSA-0011[Ext] Ex-S Gun­dam.

The box for this thing was big­ger than the one for my Saz­abi model, and the kit has 29 run­ners of parts plus the included stand. And that stand is nec­es­sary, since this model is so unbal­anced it can’t stand on its own feet with­out either a) mad skills at bal­anc­ing it, or b) adding weight inside the model. You actu­ally have to build the kit onto the stand!

I started the model a few days back, but didn’t think of doing Work in Progress posts until today, so you don’t get to see the waist sit­ting on the stand with noth­ing else attached. Instead, you get to see the waist and legs on the stand, which is where I was when I started today, along with part of the torso, and the core fighter.

GIGANTIC LEGS!

GIGANTIC LEGS!

The legs weren’t too dif­fi­cult to build — the only part that was dif­fer­ent from the stan­dard mas­ter grade kit inter­nally is the fact that there are more screws in the legs to sup­port the weight and keep the joints from becom­ing too flex­i­ble. The pieces that hold the Incoms (the lit­tle red nubs near the knees) where a bit of a pain to get installed cor­rectly though, as you have to bend the joints far­ther than depicted in the instruc­tions to get them to actu­ally snap in.

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