The Duckpond

  I wasn’t a huge fan of the Zaku I initially. To me, it never really looked like a predecessor to the Zaku II, rather just a stripped down version of it. But the design eventually grew on me and I liked it enough to build a model of it. This isn’t actually a Zaku I model kit. It was built out of a HG Zaku II from the 08th ms team line. It was a simple conversion, since the Zaku I is just a Zaku II with some bits taken off. Mostly, I just had to fill in the holes left by the power cables and do some scratchbuilding. I built joint covers for the elbows and built a new armour part for the cockpit hatch. The machine gun was made by cutting up the old gun and rearranging the pieces to make the Zaku I machine gun. The spikes on the shield are the spikes that were cut off of the shoulder ball. I also made new shoulder and ankle joints for the model. The model was painted with a brush and then I added some decals and weathering. Comparing the unpainted model and the finished version New a...

This is an older 1/100 high grade model of the Gundam X. From the After war Gundam X TV show. Despite being an older kit it is still color separated and snap fit assembled. But still, it would need some work to look its best. I removed the seam lines as best I could, installed some LEDs in the head and chest and painted it. For this kit I decided to go with a two tone white and light gray color scheme, inspired by Bandais Real grade series. Like most of the kits made by Bandai in the 90s, the kit is covered in panel lines. These panel lines gave a good guideline for painting the gray parts. I was considering if I would paint the yellow parts in gold. I thought that the gold paint might look tacky, but I decided to go with it since with the chrome parts and the crazy 90s style panel lines, the kit was going to look tacky either way. The result ended up looking pretty great. The paint ended up being kind of sloppy and the Less could have been used better. But It still looks nice on my sh...

It’s been a while since started making Zeons secret asteroid base, so I’ve forgotten where the urge to make it came from. But I can tell you something else that inspired its creation. I saw a Bollywood movie. There were quite a few oddities compared to the regular American action movies I’m used to. But the big one that stood out to me, was how they were more concerned with putting up a good show than with making it look real. An American movie might avoid something too flashy since it might end up looking cheap and tacky. But in Bollywood a silly looking special effect won’t be a problem. With my previous Gundam stop motion video I chose the setting to be a barren asteroid. Since I could build somewhat realistic looking fake rocks. Anything else would have looked silly. This time I went in and made whatever I wanted, no matter how cheap it would look. I also chose a more stylised and cartoony animation style for this video, since I wasn’t going for realism this time. The original Gund...