2012 Mecha Contest WIP - initial mods

Started a little bit of work on my 2012 Mecha Contest entry for the modified plastic category earlier today. Not much progress actually. I stripped the PG Aile Strike of it's precious 30th anniversary clear armor parts and started with the basic shapes of the chest and as usual the crotch.



I also started a bit of work on the huge weapon which was made of 1.2 mm pla plates, 8mm clear plastic rod and a 5mm plastic rod. I basically need to scratch built huge armor pieces and sort of design my own. Scratch building on the fly without much reference adds to the challenge and the fun of this project. I hope I can pull it off. Needless to say I only plan to use the internals of the perfect grade kit and will not use any of it's armors. Maybe I will end up with a naked kit. lol



Anyways here are photos of the initial mods...

 

 

 

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my 2012 Mecha Contest Entry Pass!

It was a bit of a hassle getting the box as it is at the bottom of a 5 foot stack of MG boxes. But I should follow the rule.



Anyways my entry for our 2012 Mecha Contest at Mech Arts Community ( MAC ) forums will be my Perfect Grade Aile Strike Gundam clear version.I will be entering in the modified plastic category.I got challenged by my good friend Kenny Lim aka TOYMAKER as he will be using a PG Aile Strike Gundam as entry for the modified plastic category as well.



This was a gift from my friends from Singapore who came over in last year's MAC forums anniversary. Again special thanks to Joyce of HAG ( Hobby Art Gallery ) for this generous gift! Now I get to use it for a contest.



Basically to save the precious clear armors, I will be stripping / removing this kit of it's armors and will be trying to scratch built custom armor parts of my own design. I collected various concept robot artworks for my inspiration for this project yesterday. Wish me luck guys!

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TOYMAKER joins 2012 Mecha Contest at MAC!

My good friend and former Face-Off buddy Kenny Lim aka TOYMAKER, has just entered and joined our 2012 Mecha Contest at Mech Arts Community Forums ( MAC forums )!



Kenny will be building a PG Strike Gundam complete with all 3 strike systems!



High profile modelers has joined the fun and the 2012 Mecha Contest at MAC forums will be a war! FichtenFoo is judging along side the creators Kamm and Sneeper1980. Now this makes me think if I could join too? I just resigned as MAC forums admin last week ( but I am back )... maybe I should resign again so that I could join? lol



Older Gunpla modelers like me do not join contests as much as before. Aor_or_die and I are not allowed to join Bandai competitions. Toymaker will no longer be joining Bandai contests from now on and Matt Tomczek and Matt Mrozek are not joining official contests as well. Toymaker joining the 2012 marks an almost complete line up of Gunpla masters in the 2012 Mecha Contest ( That does not happen even in Bandai competitions ). This sure is so fun to watch!



Should I be joining the party at Mech Arts Community ( MAC ) Forums as well??? :)

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PMS-007 JAGUAR 1 WIP by aor_or_die

I am very envious as all of my friends are joining our 2012 Mecha Contest at MAC forums ( 163 entries so far ). All the big names in Matt Mrozek, Matt Tomczek, Decay, Tember Gundam and even Toymaker    has joined the fun! Lots of new, young and up coming Filipino modelers has also joined the 2012 Mecha Contest in amir anti yosi, krescenhaze, Davime and Gianshopao among others.



Lots of great entries to look out for so join in the fun today!



Content in watching this battle of mecha building at Mech Arts Community forums, I will just feature work in progress threads of entries that I like. Although it is almost impossible for me to keep track of all the entries but if your works are impressive, will sure shout it out here in my website. Simply put, impressive WIP threads in our 2012 Mecha Contest gets featured through out the contest ( until July 1st ).



First 2012 Mecha Contest WIP feature would be the work in progress thread of my good friend Omar aka aor_or_die of Italy! Omar is scratch building and scrap building a PMS-007 Jaguar 1 from various plastic and resin parts. He has casted a MG Sazabi head as the base shape and has progress well with the scratch built neck and face parts.



Although he has only finished the head up to the neck part, this build sure is looking very impressive already! Anyways join the discussion and see more photos of this 2012 Mecha Contest entry at MAC forums. Here is the link guys...

PMS-007 JAGUAR 1 WIP by aor_or_die

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