06.29.2006 » Concepts / Intro

Since I wasn't using my Gelgoog shield for my Gelgoog and had a bunch of MG Zaku weapons lying around, I decided to make a Zeon-Use GM out of one of my $5 MG GMs from Amazon's legendary sale. I'll be doing the scheme up in green with yellow decals and highlights. I'll also be detailing up this piece with lots of aluminum and option parts.

First up is the weapons done up in the "Jeep" style. I'm beginning to love my electric drill for polishing crappy aluminum tubing into high-polished eye-catching upgrades. I use very fine steel wool, then a make-up wedge "borrowed" from my wife. You can see below the difference between the polished and unpolished pieces.

For the MMP-80 I removed the baller and the round "back" of the barrel with my scribing saws. I then drilled out the holes to make the barrel one piece that slides all the way through. Smaller aluminm details were added afterwards.

For the 280mm Bazooka, I have been making it seperatable using more telescoping pieces of polished aluminum tubing. More on this later as I've gotten further with inserts.

07.09.2006 » More In-progress

Here's some more progress on the ZGM. I decided to add 2 more thrusters to the backpack. I used them from another GM kit that won't be needing them. I painted them with Alclad Polished Aluminum and painted the insides with Tamiya Clear Orange. The clear orange actually looks a little golden which is cool. To attach them I mounted a ring magnet onto each side of the backpack internals. Then I glued steel bearings to each of the 4 bells. An extra magnet attaches the lower bells to the top. The feet bells are small Wave option parts painted the same way and inserted into holes I drilled in the feet. For the face, I painted the inside with chrome and the outside clear part with Clear Orange.