GUNDAM
DEATHSCYTH HELL CUSTOM
I bought this over
the net with the serpent custom at the suggestion of Mun. Mun sent me some
e-mail after I posted the h-arms on starship modeller and I asked him what
would be a good thing to build next? He said the Deathscyth so I got it
and the serpent at really good (compared to here) prices over the net. Like
the serpent this is a 1/100 scale Hg kit and uses the same multi colour
plastic sprues (damn impressive even though I'll be painting them). It also
comes with a figure of Duo Maxwell, the pilot.
Like the other
bandai models I've made this one goes together well though due to functionality
and snap together construction a few details are a bit dodgy (mostly the
wings). The wings are truly huge pieces of plastic and spread out to about
a foot. This along with the scyth make for a really impressive model, though
the GP02a I might be acquiring is supposed to be more impressive. I started
out building the wings, which have some problems. The locator pins stick
through some of the pieces and have to be sanded flat and puttied. Once
this was done I covered over some holes on the backpack part of the wings
and then decided to do a bit of work on the "tail" part of the wings. This
part is supposed to be the same as the other parts of the wings, having
the vents and batlike vanes but there's only surface detail in the form
of raised lines that show the outline of the vents. I attached some sheet
plastic to the raised lines to make the wings look better. The wings are now almost finished and awaiting painting. The legs are ready for painting and the torso and arms are under construction.
To be continued...
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