09.29.07» Sources, Concepts & Initial Building

Next up is a favorite design of mine. Yeah, the anime was totally emo, and this isn't necessarily a mecha, but it's big, evil-looking, purple, and bad-ass. I've been wanting to do one of these PG Evas since it came out, but heard bad things about the rubber parts so I avoided it. Then I saw an image of a white eva 01 which made me think twice. I searched and searched and eventually found a site with a few more of this exact same Eva 01 on the last page of a massive google search, (see reference links on the right of this page) but in the stock colors and later found out all 3 are a rare resin kit.

What's interesting and great about those rare resin kits are the woven parts for the arms, knees and waist instead of the solid rubber/black. After some more searching I found a retailer for braided nylon sleeving in black and ordered some in various widths (from 1/8"-1 3/4") to replace the rubber bits with. Since this sleeving (which hasn't arrived yet) is supposed to be expandable, I think it'll conform nicely to the shape of the arms and such after I add some muscular bulk underneath to give it some definition and muscle tone. Hopefully that works out.

The kit itself is quite massive. I knew it'd be big, but it's bigger than I had expected. While waiting on the nylon sleeving I've started on some of the initial pre-building and modifications. I really like the additions to that resin Eva 01 so I'm basing some of my mods on that. Extra latch-looking parts for one. I'm also extending the knee and forearm "armors". I split the feet and made the toes a little bulkier with a raised lip. More tread was added around the edge of the soles as well.

The pallet gun is pretty nice so I'll just be making a few cosmetic modifications to it. The knives though look a little small and unmeanacing. I decided to scratchbuild a new knife, giving it more curves and making it a little larger. My plan is to recast it to use the blade on another project and to make several of these knives.

I'll also be scratchbuilding some additional weapons that didn't come with the PG such as the positron gun. I'm using a Unit 1 load out pic and a smaller version from a Kyodo toy as reference.