HGUC GM – Work In Progress - Kusakusa Gunpla

HGUC GM – Work in progress

January 22, 2018 at 02:28 | Posted in Work In Progress | Leave a comment Tags: HGBF GM/GM, HGUC RX-78 Revive, kitbash, work in progress

For this build, I’m using the body of the HGUC RX-78 Revive and a GM head. The old HGUC GM head is too big and doesn’t fit the more slender RX-78 Revive  body. The HGBF GM/GM kit comes with three heads, one of which looks a bit like the MG GM 1.0 head. In addition to the head transplant, I made some other minor changes outlined below:

Head: This is the aforementioned GM/GM head. No changes except for drilling holes on the vulcan cannons.

Body: The RX-78 and GM torso is basically similar, except for the cockpit. I glued a rectangular piece of 0.5mm plaplate on it.

I used the GM/GM backpack, and covered the two holes with some M.S.G detail parts.

I also made a bazooka attachment using RX-78 parts and a spare peg from the GM/GM kit.

The position of the pegs on the GM/GM backpack didn’t fit the RX-78 body, so I did a simple cut and paste job to make them fit.

For the back skirt armor, I used the one from the old HGUC GM kit. To attach it to the RX-78 hips, I used epoxy putty.

I could have used the old GM parts for the front skirt armor as well, but I wanted extra articulation. So I decided to use the GM/GM skirt armor. I had to split them apart but they fit the RX-78 hips nicely.

Legs: Another difference between the RX-78 and GM is the knee armor. To make it look more GM-like, I covered the RX-78 knees with epoxy putty and shaped it like so: Basic putty was applied to smoothen the surface.

Weapons: No fancy weapons this time. Just the plain ol’ GM beam spray gun from the GM/GM kit. I trimmed off some plastic from the grip and muzzle.

For extra firepower I decided to use the RX-78 bazooka, with no modifications.

#Finished kit is here.

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