scandalousmess: PG Unicorn Gundam (Part 2 - Unicorn Mode) Here are 10 selected photos which cu
PG Unicorn Gundam (Part 2 - Unicorn Mode)
Here are 10 selected photos which culminated from half a day’s worth of photoshoot.
This beast is huge, and after working on it for over a week and then going back to look at my master grade kits, they look puny. Despite the size, there are quite a bit of details going on all over this mobile suit. The inner frame mechanism is immensely elaborate, and one of the joys I find about assembling gunpla is putting one piece onto another without really know why, only to exclaim later - “Oh! So that’s what this piece is for!” Every single piece is equally important, whether or not they’ll eventually be seen from the exterior.
As I decided to paint some of the frame parts, I checked out some gunpla blogs for inspiration on how and where I should go about custom painting. Since I’ve not invested in an air-brush system, spray cans are what I have been using whenever I wanted to paint something. The challenging part is having to do a semi-assembly without snap-fitting the pieces so that I’m able to determine which piece exactly will be revealed on the surface in order to paint them. Parts of the frame were given a coat of gunmetal, and some silver leaf, while the feet and backpack were repainted with deep metallic blue.
Assembling wasn’t exactly difficult, except that there were tonnes of pieces, but as I would say, the more pieces the merrier! The difficult part was wiring up the LED unit into the frame, and then testing whether moving the joints would cause too much strain on the cables, or worse still, snap the solder points. That would have been my worst nightmare. Thankfully, Syd fromHobbylink Japan and their youtube channel offered great help in guiding gunpla builders on how to assemble, wire up, and transform this PG unicorn. The instructions from the manual are mostly clear, but the wiring-up can be rather tricky.
As with most of the kits I’ve built, panel-lining was also done. Thankfully this kit provided quite a fair bit of panel-lining opportunities. Finally, several layers of Mr Hobby’s flat matte top-coat was also given to hide the usual ‘cheap plastic sheen’.
I hope everyone enjoys these photos and I’ll be back with the 3rd part of this mini review - Destroy Mode.
