Two quick end-of-winter builds to clear the palate and refresh my spirit. Winter was pretty rough here, and the temps kept me out of the workshop save for brief intervals, even parking my aging carcass next to the space heater. I took the Drcoon (I think it's supposed to be "Dragoon", but Japanese transliteration can be a little weird.) out of a box it had been languishing in for at least two decades, finished the seams, and took the one day it warmed into the teens (Celsius) and primered this and the subsequent build.
Dracoon is a screen filler/target ship from the 80's anime film
Crusher Joe. It's Space cops versus Space Pirates, and is a lot of fun if you like that sort of thing. Nitto produced scads of kits for this film, and while they are neat little kits for the most part, they did not do terribly well commercially, which resulted in a lot of them being available even to day. (Albeit at rather increased prices. But I digress.)
Aminga is a bad guy mech from the early 80's anime
Acrobunch, which poses the question "What if Indiana Jones was a widowed father of four who built giant transforming robots on the side?" The series is avaiable on youtube, and is really for the younger set, though some of the designs are kinda neat. I've had two of these, and mined the first for parts for this, that, and the other thing for years, but I took a look at this one day in late February, and decided I just needed to slap something together. So, no real WIP shots, but I think they came out okay.
Aminga in Primer
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VileDr.Yo, on Flickr
and finished
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VileDr.Yo, on Flickr
And the Dracoon
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VileDr.Yo, on Flickr
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All that was done a month or so back, and this has been on the bench since-
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VileDr.Yo, on Flickr
Though the original Mobile Suit Gundam series has some fairly goofy designs, this "Mobile Armor", the Zakurello, must rank near the top.
My goal is to make it even goofier. Build thread in a day or two.
