GN-X Awaits Decals

GN-X Upper Half Done

Just finished the waist and arms/shoulders, which leaves only the legs and equipment left to build, so I'd say I'm about half done. These components were pretty straight forward to build, nothing complicated or special (as there aren't many gimmicks to this kit).

GN-X Gets Ahead

Finished the head! To keep up my trend of trying not to use the foil stickers, I painted the eyes as well as the surfaces below the purple sensor. The purple I had was a little to dark (it didn't contrast much with the black) so I mixed it with silver. I like the results for now, but I can always touch it more up later. Painted the vulcans titanium gold.

GN-X Start!

Well, I never did finish up painting Sinanju's shield (I still plan to though), but I thought starting a new kit might get me out of my Gunpla slump. So here we have a MG GN-X torso! I thought about starting MG Zeta 2.0 but I thought the kit might be a little large to ease back into Gunpla (it's been a month after all) and plus, GN-X was the most popular on the poll!

Looking Forward To...

the MG GN-X kit:

A bunch of new images have surfaced, as seen on Ngee Khiong's site (this post). I like the color scheme, the different shades of grey with bits of clear purple. The weapons look good too, although I wish it had a more conventional shield. It doesn't really fit in with other kits from the UC era, as with most of the 00 Gundam M.S. designs, but it should look good with Exia. As 00 Gundam was the first series I watched all the way through when I was getting into Gunpla, I'll probably be excited for any MG from the series. Hope they make a MG Reborn's Gundam sometime soon!

Not sure which kit to start on when I get back. Maybe Crossbone? Or maybe I'll finally do the decals for RX-78-2.

Exia, Exterminating the Plastic Shine

Exia was a little more complicated to Topcoat due to all the clear pieces. Nemo had the clear orange visor to take off, but that was minimal. Exia has those clear green circles on the legs, arms, head, and chest. Actually, they weren't that bad to remove. The "new material" strips (holographic plastic), however, I didn't even try to take out, since most are embedded well in the build of the kit. I tried to cover the arm loops with tape, but it didn't work out so well... Good thing the fogginess isn't too bad.

Aerial Pose Enabling Device

AKA Stand. Got a Celestial Being one, so I put an Exia on.

GF Makes HG

A slew of posts is underway as 2 all of them are overdue.

Girlfriend made a HG Gundam Throne Drei. My idea, got it for her. Despite filing the nubs, she apparently enjoyed building it and is now buying an MG Strike Rouge.

MG Exia Complete

Finally got all the decals on. Ugh, dry decalas are such a pain. I only messed majorly a couple of times and a lot of them are crooked. The stickers went surprisingly better, but also with a couple of hiccups. Learned something, use tweezers! It was a learning experience fo sho.

GN Shield + GN Blades

Exia Seven Sword mode complete. Now all there is to do is add all the decals. I bet I'll mess up the dry decals... ugh. Hopefully the sticker ones don't have too much excess bits either, or else I'll have to cut each one out individually.

GN Sword

Complete. I like very much.

Exia Build Complete

Finally got the last leg and hip unit built.

Just have to build the weapons and shield now. Then all the decals and such, fun fun fun.

I'll have a size comparison between the 3 MGs eventually. Exia seems to be in the middle.

MG Exia Progress

As you can see from the photos, Exia is one leg and one waist away from completion. Also need weapons and shield.