The One-eyed Crimson Fox
Introduction by Metal Slime

With the order of Basque Ohm, the enhanced-human project has gone full swing. This resulted in improvement on the machines as well. As there are many prototype MSes/MAs created during the Gryps War (U.C. 0087-0088). The Baund Doc is one of them, in which it incorporated Zeonic design philosophy under the supervsion of Newtype Research Laboratory leader, Lauren Nakamoto.

The development is based on data collected from RX-110 Gabthley. The 1st test unit was painted in 2-tone gray scheme for test pilot Gates Kyapa. The 2nd unit for Rozamia Badam was painted in this crimson/black scheme. It was later handed to Jerid Mesa, Kimiyu's arch rival, when Rozamia has opted for Psyco Gundam Mk.II. And this was to be the last machine of the Titan’s hotshot.

Some interesting note: Jerid is the “Machine Killer”, the number of MS he piloted equals to Char’s official record (Zaku, Z’gok, Gelgoog, Ziong, Rick Dias, 100Shiki, and Sazabi) but he did it all in ONE year, while Char took the whole 0079-0093!

The kit

One of the few soft vinyl Gundam kit out there indeed. This is one of the only 3 1/144 kits (2 others being Quebeley and The-O) that Wave has produced back in the late 80s. I was lucky to get the last batch of the reissue in '93. Since then, seems like Sunrise has pulled all the license for Gundam garage kit from everyone, but B-Club. Compare with the recent resin offering of the Baund Doc from Zokeimura, I find the look of that kit to be very stiff and soulless.

One obvious advantage of issuing a garage kit in vinyl is its weight. Especially in a particularly large model, resin usually suffers when it comes to posing the kit. No such problem here. The kit comes with both vinyl and plastic parts, with the plastic ones assigned to upper legs, feet, and both arms (excluding armor).

This model is also transformable. And does it quite well. The head has to be removed during the process, since the athene is fixed, and would get in the way. But apart from that it pretty much faithful to the design.

The Making of

Ok, this kit was done several years ago, I remember only vaguely in some areas. So I'll keep it short and sweet.

Doing vinyl kit used to be like a bitter pill to me. I remember rushing through this one to get it over as soon as possible, as I was still dreaded with the previous soft vinyl, Quebeley and The-O (the result was rather satisfying though, I must say). Turns out, I had quite a great time with it.

There were some problems with the plastic pieces however, as the fitting was quite poor. The knee joint required some modifications and insertion of plastic sheet spacer. I think the fitting problems are something that have been plague Wave's kits until very recently.

Added Details

I made some added details panel for the inside of rear skirt armor. As usual, this is pretty much a junk parts fare. As a matter of fact it was thrown together in a few hours. Nevertheless, I think it comes out pretty decent.

Painting

A mixture of shine red (79) for all the red part, with added brown for shading. Navy blue/midnight blue for dark parts. Piece of cake, huh?

For the rear burner nozzle, I first sprayed Gunze's Mr.metal color, steel, then buffed it up and then accent the edge with clear smoke. The clear color also served as a sealer for the metal color.