Icarus's blog: "Hurts to watch."

Above is the finished 1/100 MG Gouf Custom. I'm probably over halfway there. That is not mine >>

It's time to take a break
Estimated time spent thus far on my mastergrade 1/100 Gouf
~9 hours.
At least two (lost track)
were spent on the individual fucking 1/2 centemeter diameter rings that I had to slide onto a guide wire, feed the guide wire through
not one
not two
but FOUR teeny tiny loops/sockets on the hips and crotch

I still have to feed the rear end of the tubes into the jet pack.
It took
THAT long to get it right, the damn things kept slipping out of their sockets in the front and spilling loose bead sized parts all over the floor.
So I'd feed half the beads on the guide wire.
Slide the guide into the hip loops and then put the other half of the beads on (because the beads would snag on the hip loops... of course and couldn't be fitted into the crotch sockets) which were mounted on the underside of the panel and about 3/4 the size of toothpick holes.

... I'd show you pictures of this shit so I wouldn't sound like a complete lunatic- but GOOD FUCKING GOD I am too fucking tired to bother right now.

Basically, a lot of PLAMO involves working with things that wouldn't fit through a salt shaker's lid.
For several hours.
My eyes hurt, my back and shoulders hurt.
My fingers REALLY hurt from working all the plastic nibs and jamming all those teeny pieces with hard plastic edges.
Also
if the Japanese tell you to use a screw
tell them to go fork themselves in the eye
that shit almost cost me an elbow joint.

Weapons are done (and the weapons were pretty involved despite having fairly large pieces. Lower body is done
just got the head
... which is like 30 pieces for a 1/2 inch cubed space.
the backpack which has more parts that you can't even see but the awesome thing about the MG series is that if you remove (or just never put on) the exterior paneling, you can see all the internal works, gears, engines, capacitors and wiring

so there's a ton of extra pointless shit with these things
like... individual rings fed like beads on an extremely unstable tube that could've just as easilly been made out of ONE PIECE OF MOLDED PLASTIC!!!
but they're pretty cool
and a very large portion of the appeal is the challenge.
I forgot to dig out my old file and sander though.
That was a mistake.
Maybe next time :B

2 arms
2 legs
hips
gatling shield
heat sabre
arm mounted gatling cannons
and for right now I'm leaving the heat rod (which isn't a heat rod at all in this model) sheathed
I have the option of cutting some wire, attaching some parts, and so on
but right now I'm doing an idle pose not an active one.
So it doesn't make much sense to have some launched tethered electric probe all blasted out and gnarly looking.

Head
Torso
backpack
and I'm only applying a few decals
probably the captain insignia on the left arm
the zeon cross on the chest
and of course the monocamera eye.

God damn I'm tired.
Been a surprisingly busy day huh?

Oh yeah >> and I baked my batch of amish friendship bread.
No you can't have any.
More on these things later.