GM Sniper 2

Bandai 1/144 scale GM Command+B-Club conversion kit

 Nothing radical here (yet). Just applying the conversion kit. A few places needed to be patch up, cut out.


 I think I'm gonna make a plastic frame to use in that upper vent with a mesh plate.


 It doesn't show in the photo, but I made some very sloppy drillings in the lower leg area. ^^; I added thin plastic sheet on the side of the knee to give the impression of it being a separate piece of armor. The groin is shortened and slapped with a 1mm sheet. It still needs a vernier underneath.

 Added some rivets to match the line art and scribed a line around the wrist. Verniers are to be added in the shoulder where I carved away the old one.



07/28/99 Update

 Additional details are added as followed:

  • More rivets
  • Chest sensor
  • Bars on shoulders
  • Added 1.5mm to the torso height
  • Athena
  • Install an inserting pegs to the backpack to make it removable from body
  • Replaced shoulder verniers
  • Photo-etched part

 Old vernier is replaced with one of Wave's using pla plate as a base. The bar comes from (someone else's) MG Gundam.

 Look familiar? Yes I rip off the design of Raiden from Gasaraki. I felt no shame 'borrowing' design elements from one mech and apply it on the same designer's another mech. :-)


09/15/99


 

Some final additions are added to it. These includes

  • Shield mounting mechanism with ball joint and vernier
  • More detail panel lines scribed on the legs
  • the venting ducts on the chest

Now it's all done! Ready to be painted.


 I also made ducts from plastic plate and attached mesh on the back of them. It's hardly visible when put together though.


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