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.

Over­com­pli­cated Exces­sive Model Pow­ers Activate!

More pics after the break…

Back view, show­ing the over­sized Nuclear Ther­mal Rockets.

Another rear view, show­ing the noz­zles of the Nuclear Ther­mal Rockets.

Core fighter. For some rea­son these are always a favorite of mine. Espe­cially when the kit comes with the abil­ity to dis­play the core fighter along with the model.

Another view of the Core Fighter.

Com­pleted model with Beam Smart­gun and Beam Saber.

At least the head of the model was rel­a­tively sim­ple to build.

Size com­par­i­son of model to model’s Beam Smart­gun. I think the gun itself is close to the size of my 1/60 scale PG Wing Zero Custom’s Buster Rifle, but I couldn’t find the box that had that dis­as­sem­bled model in it for comparison.

View of com­pleted torso after attach­ing the chest­plate. The swiv­el­ling peg towards the bot­tom of the frame is used for mount­ing the Beam Smartgun.

Side view at almost com­plete stage.

Semi-obligatory hip thrust­ing. Pretty much the only way I could actu­ally attach the arm assem­blies since the arm itself kept hit­ting the thigh…things, which accord­ing to MAHQ are Beam Cannons.

Almost com­plete. Just miss­ing chest­plate and weapons. Evi­dence of dif­fi­cult to bal­ance model too.

Over­com­pli­cated Arm/Tank/Fin/Shoulder Unit

Pos­si­bly Related Posts

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