#barbatos lupus

[bigtrout143]

The Devil of Tekkadan

oil on canvas, 8 x 6 inches

[othersolid]

finished my second christmas present gundam! barbatos lupus is by far the most stable of the 3 i have, probably due to its massive shoes. very fun to pose and really sick

[chipstm1]

I drew the Barbatos Lupus, ^-^

[mikaorga]

proper pic of the mg lupus, im in love tbh

[mikaorga]

santa barb wants to know if you had a good christmas

[lesser-moook]

*gundam pilot pulls a "Matrix dodge" evasion underneath a live beam fired at him at high speed, while the mobile suit is skating along a vertical wall

Deflecting beam shots with sabers. Washing clothes; gundams are all-purpose.

[argumentalist]

I know I've mentioned my love for Iron-Blooded Orphans before... Unfortunately those kits are pretty hard to find these days, so I'm stuck building stuff I don't love. In this case - that's the Gundam Barbatos Lupus.

I don't love the Barbatos Lupus. My favorite is just the good old fourth form. I mean, I like the big sword mace... But, for the most part, Lupus just looks overdone to me. Too big and bulky.

This is where things started to go wrong with this build...

I don't love color-correcting stickers and I might normally opt for paint. But these stickers had little metallic details that I thought might actually look good. So I decided to try using them while leaving myself the option of going back to paint later... Which meant I wasn't going to do my usual gluing and tightening for an IBO kit.

Right off the bat, this torso section feels all kinds of loose and wobbly. I'd normally tighten it up some... But, again, I don't want to do anything permanent because I'm thinking I might want to disassemble the kit to paint it later.

As I've said before - one of the fun things about building models like this is getting to directly experience the physicality of the thing. In this case I'm building Barbatos Lupus starting with what I think is the exact same inner-frame that Barbatos used... But then there's these little extension pieces that go into the arms to make them longer.

And, again, the gigantic feet I keep seeing with these IBO kits.

And then things went really wrong...

I spilled my Tamiya Extra Thin. I didn't really do too much damage to anything, but I got a big thumbprint on the sword mace. So I had to sand that down.

This is about where I decided I was really going to have to paint this model eventually. The stickers just looked bad. Lots of edges and bends to fold and they just don't look great. Sure, from a bit of a distance they'll be fine... But I'm not happy with the results.

Not a lot of accessories in this kit - just the sword mace and a couple alternate holding hands.

A neat feature of this kit, as opposed to the standard Barbatos, is that the backpack actually has articulated arms. Not that I'm likely to really use those arms for much...

There it is - all built and posed. And I'm really not thrilled with this build. The kit is fine, all things considered, but it really needs a little extra effort. I really need to tighten the joints and replace those stickers with paint. As it is now, it's floppy as all hell and barely holds a pose. And the stickers look absolutely terrible up close.

[aqueousstar]

hes gonna take a sip of sweet tea