I finally finished working on my Guntank, I took about a week but I enjoyed it. Guntank, unlike the RX-78-2, had much bigger parts, so basically the panel-lining took a while. But here are the pictures as I have said in the previous post. I'll start off with the arms.
The left arm. Didn't really have much trouble putting it together, the only problem was that the front part could be taken off.
The right arm, same not much difficulty, just the front comes off.
See, you can see the part I'm holding, yeah, you can spin this and then the 2 will move forward while the other two move to the back. And the part in front of it is the part that comes off all the time.
Spin it and then, yeah, it moves. It makes it easy of make this model look like it's firing its cannons. And you can see the tip coming off a bit.
The cockpit as I have shown in the previous post but this time with the neck attachment. Under that there's an LED light powered by 2 LR 41 batteries.
Now, this I have added the cockpit cover or maybe protection, it does make the pilot harder to look at though.
The LED lighted up you can see the green light there.
When you light up the LED the display and control screen lights up as well. Its pretty cool.
A closer look.
And the upper torso is complete!!! I forgot to post pics for the 120 mm low-reaction cannon.
The lower body. This is where the torso meets the waist. This is also the part where the core fighter is placed.
A rear view.
Now, I am going to show the articulation for the waist.
Move front.
Move back.
Now for the track joint. you can actually pull it outwards and downwards.
Pulled downwards, this can help the Guntank gain height. Then, he'll be saying,
"I grow taller, you can't look down on me anymore!!"
The tracks, and I lost a picture off the other side. I panel-lined the wheels interior with paint and then cleaned it up with cotton buds. Quite a messy job but easier than panel lining all those wheels.
A closer look at the wheels, I used the same technique to panel line these too.
This is the shock absorber system, it also allows you to increase the height of the Guntank.
When you switch it the other way the tracks loose height.
Now the complete model. I will also show other features it has.
Now you can lower this thing so that it opens.
As shown above.
This part can too be opened to reveal further detail.
As shown above.
Now this is the travelling lock to allow the cannons to stay in position I think.
Well, that's all. I completed it next up will be the Guntank and RX-78-2 together, side by side
and also a distorted look to Gundam models. I really liked this model. And the tracks are not meant to be spun or moved they are supposed to just stay as they are. Earlier tries made the tracks come off easily, an early warning. Appart from that, the gimmicks for this model is just extraordinary. I never liked this model last time, I thought, "Ugh, ugly gundam with tracks for legs!!" But it never looked so good before. Bwahahahahahahaha!!!! Ba Bye!!
Farid
