Restartt Hobby

We're back on the guntank!   Just as a reminder, my plan is to eventually paint this, I just wanted to get it assembled first.  As you may recall, I did the wheels and the base on the couch in between doing serpent custom posts.  Today I was kicking back enjoying some wine I had opened with dinner earlier, and decided to get a little more progress done at the computer desk.  So we have migrated there, and I even pulled up a youtube video of "best gundam theme songs".  Anyways, here's our work area for today, and a reminder of where we are starting from: So the next step is the treads! They've got some nice flexible soft grey plastic that will wrap around the wheel holes. This stuff is nice because you can nip as close as you want and it wont ever have stress marks, but, its soft/rubber enough that if you try and do gentle shaves with a knife a bit will often hand on. A little frustrating, but take it slow and do it right the first time and it isn't t...

As mentioned in the latest serpent custom build/paint post , I had a night with no plans due to heavy storms.  And this was the same day a shipment of HG kits arrived.  In between coats of painting, I started the Rx-75 Guntank! I'm not the BIGGEST fan of the guntank, though I think its fine.  I actually slightly prefer the RTX-65 early type from the origin series.  By the way, if you haven't seen the SD (super deformed)  convergence model (not a kit, just a little model) of the early type, it's ADORABLE. Its tiny and angry! But I digress - back to the RX-75.  The design is ok, I just think the color scheme and blockiness is too "Fisher Price's my first mecha". "Its uncanny. Twins" But seriously, thats what you get for a design right from like episode 1 or 2 of the first gundam series ever.  I mainly got it to help round out my "stuff you'd see in 08th MS" 1/144 collection.  That fight with the gouf custom and the gunta...