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...

 

 

 

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!

my 2012 Mecha Contest project - concept inspirations

All concept robot art were taken from concept robots.blogspot.com



I have yet to submit my ENTRY PASS for the 2012 Mecha Contest at Mech Arts Community  ( MAC )Forums. But I brought my entry kit here in the office and and is starting to brain storm some designs with the help of robot artworks I took from concept robots.blogspot.com.



I will keep it as a surprise for now on what kit I will be working on. But me joining our own contest is just a call to the ( friendly ) challenge  of Kenny Lim aka Toymaker as he just submitted his entry pass yesterday.



My 2012 Mecha Contest entry is going to be sort of a Toymaker versus DC23 part 2! Anyways, I figured I'd share to you my great concept robot finds earlier today. This post will serve as my quick reference as I work on my project soon.



Needless to say, I vow to beat Kenny this time around! lol