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At
this point most of the major parts are finished. A lot of patching ups
with putty is done.
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| Close-up view of the mostly finished head. |
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Cockpit hatch details. I blindly placed a cockpit door inside the hatch, totally forgetting the fact that Guncannon, too has a Core Fighter! Here, I use a square rod placed undernesth the body as a place to hold all the skirt armors. |
| The peg for attaching legs are the cut from kit's, and use brass rod to reinforced. I used some spare parts for detail-up. |
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Knee Knee armor modified from FG Gundamby adding spacer of 3mm in the middle. The style is pretty much followed those of RX-78 ver.Ka in a different proportion. |
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Upper leg heighten by 3mm. Foot is connect with a double ball joint, with the socket placed on a plastic plate mouthed inside the leg. That's one of the reason I like HGUC, they're so easy to find places to add new joints. On the side, I added some personal stamp with the details. For foot, I chiseled a couple of lowered panels at the end. |
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Skirt armors The lttle square button on the side skirt is actually cut from original HGUC part. |
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Cannons Modified/extended from original's. The increase in lenght was meant to compensate for the fact that its placement is moved backward to the backpack, rather than right on the shoulder. New details include a cannon scope on top, nozzle, and cover rings over extending cylinder. |
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Backpack A backpack of GM Cannon II has gone through some stylistical changes. Where originally an ammo drum, is now a burner, while the back vernier is now become minus mold, miroring those of Gundam and GM's. |
| Compares with out-of-the-box Guncannon. |
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Now's the time to put it all together. The overall height exceeded the original model quite a bit, and also the Gundam ver.Ka. In the real scale it would be at 18.5-19m height. Well, you can't win them all... |
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Another features added is the stabilizing gear, like the mass-produced version from 0080. There are 3 size of cylinder used for the hydraulic parts. The smallest of which is a 1.5mm diameter brass rod that is adjustable in length to match different pose. |
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Side view, showing the stabilizing gear. See next page for finishing process. >> |
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