Some supposed mech fan...

Just some Tumblr user, not too much to see aside from the odd reblog and occasional spat of art/model stuff... DA: http://mechy-z.deviantart.com/

[mechy-z]

A Hambrabi I finished a few days ago.  

Now that I think about it, should have used the action base for a few more MS poses... oh well, will have to remember next time I finished a model.

Tried being a bit more liberal with the panel lining (I blame the tubes and hands).  Felt like it at least doubled the build time, heh.  Not a particularly difficult build and rather straightforward,but was fun and most of the areas that use stickers can be painted easily enough.  But the articulation, mainly in the arms, can be a bit of a let down due to the large static shoulders.  Especially since getting it to hold the Feyadeen rifle with minimal hand parting is a pain and the structure of the arms do not help (actually split the forearm itself a few times).  Still a nice rendition of the Hambrabi and glad I got my hands on it.

Should probably get around to at least using a makeshift backdrop eventually.

Well, later y’all!

[mechy-z]

On a side note, finally got around to blocking some certain bots.  99.99% sure I didn’t block anyone, but if I did sorry about that and let me know so I can unblock.

Also let me if there’s anything I should be tagging.  Been a while and I’m mostly posting gunpla related junk, so might be things I wouldn’t think to tag.

[mechy-z]

A Zeong I did about a month ago.  Normally don’t panel line, but figured I would give a go when I was just about finished.  As anyone whose built this might guess, that made the thruster area a pain, so I didn’t do quite as much as I might have; which is fine since I tried to keep it to a minimum of sorts, going mostly for obvious candidates.

Had a bit of fun and posed it harassing my poor Guncannon MP, heh.

Also why did I only now realize the skirt looks like a heart from the bottom!?

[mechy-z]

Some pics of a Black Tri Star Zaku I and MP Guncannon kits that I’d quickly built and given a little bit of detail paint a few weeks ago to leave at a local store that I play Gundam Skirmish at to free up some room a few weeks ago due to relatives (one of whom was young and had accidentally snapped off the hand of an 80′s FAZZ the last time they stayed).

Was a little disappointed at the sparse ankle joint and hard to remove torso panel on the Zaku I and the one rear, lower torso part that realistically needed glue, but otherwise some nice kits with more articulation than I thought would be in the MP Guncannon (as well feeling stupidly sturdy barring the cannons).

Was kind of annoying painting all that black on the MP, but definitely worth it given it looks better than if left bare.  If you couldn’t tell, I kind of gave up trying to get the yellow crest painted right, heh...

Was pleasantly surprised that the first purple (Model Master German Mauve) I tried for the heat hawk was virtually identical to the color used for the plastic. Definitely will remember that paint for future Black Tri Stars suits, Doms, or other similar such. 

[ask-aromatisse]

No no no no not again! This Forest has been so peaceful I don’t want this to happen again please! I can’t run too fast it’s always so awkward please be alright please let no one be hurt please please please!!! Wait, what is that- MOONLIGHT??

Ugh, hey Tissue. What a coincidence you find me again on the floor with the world’s worst bruise on my head, huh? It’s a lil embarrassing at this point, huh.

Moonlight are you okay? Were you in that explosion? Can you think straight? Is your vision blurred?? Who did this to you??

Well not to brag but…

I was the one who did that. Sorry ‘bout that, but he was way stronger than I imagined. Didn’t have to pull out all the stops to really knock him down to the ground though, lucky me I guess, so I’ve got plenty of energy left.

I don’t know…

[ @askgng ]

[megagallade]

I had been intending to make a companion piece for my La Muerte Xerneas for a while now

so here’s Xibalba as a Yveltal!!! color scheme took forever to figure out but I think I did a p ok job at getting it to work

[mechy-z]

Some pictures I’d taken a while ago of some other WIPs I’ve been working on every now and then.

Starting to a accrue a bit too many lately.  Not including a perpetual one (or two) and those that only need flat coats, think I’m at five WIPs now.

[asktheoldmandarkrai]

Quiet times.

[hotdoghowitzer]

Fuck I’ve only seen five episodes of this goddamn show and this is my life now. 

[georgeledoux]

Mechwarrior Online Cyclops Lore by Randall Bills

Battletech Cyclops lore written by Randall Bills for the Mechwarrior Online game website. I enjoyed the stories and felt inspired to create some videos for a...

Here’s a new video I put together while buying a house that I closed on Friday.

I’m tired.

[pirateguyhatesdomainsquatters]

S.L.A.I., Armored Core, or Front Mission 3

S.L.A.I.

never played | want to play | terrible | boring | okay | good | great | a favorite

never heard of this before, but looks COOL

Armored Core

never played | want to play | terrible | boring | okay | good | great | a favorite

I played Armored Core 2: Another Age on PS2 back in the day, but I’ve always been more of a battletech sort of guy when it comes to muh robits

Front Mission 3

never played | want to play | terrible | boring | okay | good | great | a favorite

I’ve actually never played FM3, but I played 4 and fuckin love it to this day (even if I haven’t finished it ;w;)

[mechy-z]

Haven't got too far in it yet, but S.L.A.I. is definitely a neat and fun PS2 gem if a bit unforgiving to beginners (cash is hard to come by in the beginning without resorting to heavy speculation, the "bosses" can be brutal or feel outright cheap without heavily modded machines, and getting blown up is very expensive).  Definitely glad it showed up in my local store a few months ago.  Also kind of like the, for better lack of words, vibe it has for some reason.

Yeah, loved FM4 too, though haven't replayed like I do FM3 since it can feel like a bit of a slog at times due to things like slower movement animations, and the split story lines and squads/parties is both a hit and a miss for me (a bit annoying suddenly not having access to the bunch of folks you’ve built up).  Though the more intuitive, less RNG dependent, and part independent skill learning was a nice change (I still to this day manage to accidentally come across at least one skill I’ve never seen before whenever I replay).  Also liked that just about all of the equipment/weapons got a chance to shine, the better emphasis on squad roles, and the return of weapon arms.

[mechy-z]

Apparently it has been four years since I’ve joined tumblr.  Feels a little unreal that it’s actually been that long since I first made this blog.

Then again I’ve barely been around the last year or so, so it makes sense that it’d feel like it hasn’t been that long, heh.

On a side note, which I probably should have said a bit ago, probably going to largely be Gundam model related stuff posted for the time being.  So if you aren’t fond of seeing it on your dash and haven’t already, such posts will almost always be tagged with Gundam and/or Gunpla.

Welp, later y’all!

[mechy-z]

Figured I’d post some pictures of this since I’m more or less finished it.

Figuring it’d be a fairly easy mod, I made a GM kit as a GM Light Armor; with a tweak here or there.  The right arm is supposed to be the same color as the left, but wasn’t paying attention and didn’t realize my mistake until it was too late, but kept it because it didn’t really hurt anything and already is a modification so a few minor differences/custom tweaks are well and good me thinks, heh.  Similarly had forgotten that the GM Light Armor doesn’t carry vulcans, but figure can write that off as either being a conversion or a quick field repair, either way with the vulcans themselves removed and the openings just closed off with scrap plate or something.

Had debated whether to be lazy or trim the side skirts like they’re supposed to be, but they’re not too much longer than the front and back and kind of like them in the tan instead of as the british crimson like the rest of the skirt.  Plus I was kind of feeling lazy and always go back and change them if I really want to.

Still debating whether to paint the shoulder polycaps or cut some plastic strips and glue them onto the polycaps and paint those, which would probably look a bit better and be a little more faithful.

Also for fun posed it with a HGUC Revive Gyan I’d recently bought and built.

[mechy-z]

Some pictures I took while painting little details since I really liked the pose I had put the Zaku II FZ body in before I finally got the time to do some minimal painting on these two.

[mechy-z]

Some more quick work in progress pics.

A quick put-together of the GM Cannon I did to determine if I’m liking where it’s heading before I get any further.  Not 100% sure yet if I’m going to keep the gun connected to the back like it is or try and have it fit into the torso “bracing”.  

Also decided on hydraulic piston thingies to fill in the gaping space in front of the ankle joint, and naturally decided like a fool to try and make them moving instead of static like an HG’s normally would.  Lost quite a bit of the ankles’ movement range, but all in all glad I went this route.  Just have to clean the legs up a bit before I get to the point where I start painting the kit.

Also took a picture of the MSV Z-Type Zaku I’m working on since I took a break from GM Cannon again to figure how I want to tackle making the torso sections.  Got lucky with the ankles and found a combination of one type of polycap from left over Kotobukiya Armored Core pieces and a standard-ish Bandai Gunpla one that both fit just right in the foot and on the calf connecting piece AND extended it just the right amount to increase movement to a decent degree without being conspicuous.  And all without any cutting/modding of the parts.

Had a little trouble introducing polycaps to the knee, but found two polycaps that whose halves fit into the appropriate parts of the knee.  So at least managed to prevent to much plastic on plastic there.

Cut up a lower torso piece from an HG (think GP03) so it would fit in the lower torso and cut/filed away the peg socket in the thigh until the appropriate polycap for the HG torso piece fit snugly wedged between that and the opening of the thigh.

Kind of regret being hasty with figuring out how to modify and build the Zaku since now it’ll kind of be a pain to paint.  Since when test fitting the thruster (as I had to file the connection bigger), it fit too well and I fear trying to remove it will undo the glue on the leg.  Similarly, left too much slack to remove without breaking something in my fear of not leaving enough for it to remain when the leg is bent.

Trying to figure the arm/torso connection is still throwing me for a loop due to polycaps being too large, small, or loose fitting.

[mechy-z]

I’d say in the future I’ll try to keep kitbashes and such within certain “production years” (for lack of better words), but then I’d make a liar of myself.

Trying to make a GM Cannon out of the HG GM and what stuff I have lying around has been... interesting.  Especially since I made things harder on myself by choosing Serpent Custom lower legs to try and emulate the, as it turns out, rather odd (for a gundam mecha) lower legs. The reason it’s harder? The ball joints don’t go the same way.

So finally managed to improvise working ankle joints after scrounging through my leftover MG parts I thankfully still had after all these years.  Used some sort of hinge type-ish two piece’r (probably leftovers from my MG Gouf Custom) with two standard polycaps on the connecting prongs.  Was a bit of a hassle due to one prong being smaller and needing the smaller polycaps which don’t fit right in the lower leg ankle polycap pegs and would come loose, until on a whim I tried these leftover rectangle polycaps typically used in the Gundam/GM/etc. MGs to hold shields on the forearms.  Not quite as tight as I’d like, but as long as I’m not too careless/rough stays in fairly well.

Not quite sure what the heck I’m going to do about the cannon.  Figure will have to do some amount of scratch-building to make the torso mounting and still not sure how exactly how I’ll try to mount the gun in the end (or if I’ll even use this one).

But before I worry about that can of worms, I’ll worry about fixing up the knees a bit so I can get a proper connection, use the GM’s “knee” pieces, and have at least modest articulation.  Oh, and try and get it more centered, or something to that effect.  Typing that all out suddenly makes it sound a bit harder than it seems like it will actually be.

Welp, I’m going to cap off this already too long post, later y’all!

... also don’t suppose per chance anyone has any suggestions or advice they’d be willing to part with?

[mechy-z]

Some quick pictures of an old Magella Attack tank kit I was working on.

Putting this together was both fun and infuriating.  Wasn’t to bad putting most of it together and and some of it actually went together well (if only said easy parts weren’t largely hidden :/ ).  Then I got to the nozzles and railings on the back of the tank top and bottom....  The nozzles are friggin’ tiny and naturally had the nubs on the sides, and due to their size and proximity to each other I kept knocking loose those already glued when I wasn’t fumbling and failing to get the nozzle in before the glue dried too much (or for the hell of it sometimes both at once!).  And the railings... both were too long on the same and most problematic end, and there was virtually no indentations or anything to help with placing them.  So naturally, combined with their small size, they were just as problematic to put on and ended up marred a bit by capillary action causing glue to run over fingers from the ends.

Other than that, for an old kit wasn’t a bad build.  Ended up deciding to make an attempt at a camo, in part to try something different and in part to cover up some of the mishaps from not knowing what this kit would be like and being unfamiliar with liquid cements.  Trying to decide if I want to try and add a third color to the mix or leave as is and apply a flat coat.  Any suggestions are welcome!

Welp, at least I have a better clue going into the next one.

Later folks!