Mass Production Guncannon from Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket

[Danny Lectro]

These photos were taken by Gamera Baenre at the 2010 NY Comic Con and Anime Festival, at the Bandai model contest booth. This model won 1st place in the 1/144 scale category.

I opened all the molded holes in the armor. I beefed up the chest side thrusters with Kotobukiya vernier parts. The visor was made with aurora film applied over a shiny Metallizer to make it more reflective.

I replaced one of the shoulder cannons with a Kotobukiya MSG Weapon Unit missile launcher, and devised a way to make it posable. The joint is not pretty, but it is not visible under the guard-piece on the backpack.

The hand-held gun is another MSG part, and the shield came from an Armored Core weapon set. I modified a piece from my bits-box as a handle for the shield. I hacked at the shield with a rotary tool to make battle damage. There are a couple of small bullet-holes on other areas of the suit, but I concentrated the damage on the shield in an attempt to show the pilot is skilled with parrying attacks before they can do any damage.

The model is painted in custom colors. Paints are Model Master, with Metallizer Titanium for all of the frame and joint parts. The wash is thinned out Tamiya German Grey, and I weathered with Tamiya Weathering Master. The flat coat is Micro-Scale flat acrylic.

The number decals came from a Maschinen Krieger kit produced by wave. The "nose art" decal on the shoulder is by Starship Modeler.

[gray07]

Very cool, all of them have great detail.