Last post wins..?

G'day folks,

Decided a new blog was in order, so as of today, this will be my last post on this blog. What'd I win..? 

Here is a link to the new blog, Watanabe Mech Works. 

 http://watanabemechworks.blogspot.com/

Ya'll stay safe out their and see ya planetside. 

Destiny Gundam Color Ver.

Hey all, just wanted to show what arrived in the mail today... The special edition of the Destiny gundam, the Heine WestenFluss Color Ver. As far as I can tell... All that is different from the standard real grade Destiny is that all the Dark blue parts are an off neon color. 

Seeing how it was only available at the Gunpla Expo in Japan, it was worth paying the premium for it. 

I promised the next gunpla I built I'd treat as a real model kit. I.E paint, extra detailing...  (Hell, it is a real model kit after all.) Because it is the special edition version and I could just paint the standard destiny gundam in neon orange, I opted for just painting the small details. 

Once this one's completed, things will take off around here, I swear. ;)

Currently she's sitting about half complete, I have yet to build the backpack, arms and head. 

In the meantime I picked up a Battletech Stalker II, and painted it in Donegal guards colors as per Savage Coyote's tutorial post on the CBT boards. 

That's all for now folks. 

See ya'll soon, stay safe out there. 

ZUES X-4 Arrives on the battlefield!

G'day folks, 

A little over a week ago I bought the new Zeus X-4 from Aries games and minis (An online store, fast, friendly service, I highly recomend them)

It is painted in the standard Second sword of light red.

I decided to leave the spikes off of the back so I can use it as a proxy for the standard 3025 zeus that hasn't aged well over the years. Of course, the spikes can always be added later should I decide I want to play a 3145+ game. 

Here it is standing next to it's brawler counterpart, the venerable Centurion 50 ton mech from MWO. 

That's all for now, but I should have some gunpla models to post in the next few weeks. 

The unseen become the seen!

G'day folks wanted to post this incase you haven't heard... The Unseens are officially going to be back in the game! 

The Project Pheonix mechs only got the unseens back for the timeline after 3067(?) as they are upgraded variations of the original 3025 units. This left a gap, the unseens from TRO 3025 were still unseen and thus were not allowed to be used in official tournaments. 

There is also a rumored 'Alpha Strike' box set coming soon that will have the essential 12 seen units, and 10 redesigned clan mechs. **Please don't qoute me on this as this is just a rumor at this time. 

Below you'll find the art for the newely redesigned Warhammer, Marauder, Shadowhawk and griffin. As well as a 3D render of that sexy new warhammer. 

All in all I'm glad they're finally getting these classic units back into the game, and I'm more than happy that they chose modernize these machines like MWO. 

I'm sure that this will bring new life into the game, and make new players fall in love with these mechs as so many of us have. 

That's all for now, 

See ya'll soon. 

Need a new 'mech..? Why not Zoidberg..?

G'day folks, 

Wanted to show off something that came in the post today... A king crab from MWO.... In metal. 

I bought it from a nice guy from a certain online store (Of which I will not post so as to not step on anyone's toes, but if you're interested, contact me via google+ and I can send you his way.) I can safely say the casting quality rivals or goes beyond what IWM has to offer. Mold lines were minimal, most prominently near the cockpit area on the torso, and the standard mold lines on the arms and legs. As far as I can tell there is no detail lost in the casting, although I think the molds used to produce these could stand to be replaced as there was some minor pitting on the top of the torso. It is also notable that it comes with open and closed claws for both the left and right arms. 

Mine is curently on the painting table sitting in primer and will be painted up in the standard sword of light unit colors like the jenner I showed a few weeks back. A CBT atlas and hex base is included with the pic to show scale. All in all it scales pretty well for a chicken-Walker assault mech. 

See pics below. 

Mwo Jenner

Hey all, another update... A repaint of the mwo jenner. Like all the others I used enamel paints, so the main goal is to atone for this mistake and use the proper acrylic paints. :S 

All I've got to say is that acrylics are much easier to blend and shade. 

I painted it up in House Kurita's first sword of light colors, a unit I've always liked. Also, it's finally mounted on a hex base! :D

After this one I've also got a jagermech repaint in benjamin regulars colors to go along with those previously shown. 

That's all for this post and see ya'll soon. 

GUNDAM POWERED GM CARDIGAN!

LHey all, 

recently picked up another gundam kit at my local hobby shop, the Powered GM Cardigan. It is one of the newer kits made by Bandai, and my first High-grade Gunpla kit I have built. It is modeled in 1/144 scale, so it stands in about 4-5 inches tall depending how you decide to pose it. 

This has got to be the model I have put the least work into, Didn't even have to spray paint it, just had to outline the panels. (One thing I forgot to do is put a layer of glosscoat... Will do that eventually.) I think it turned out pretty decent. 

The kit came with multiple variation bits to costomize the estetics of the model. I decided to build it stock, as Pilot Fumina Hoshino had it. My only major gripe about the model is the stock backpack. It often effects the model making it hard to pose and keep the balance. To solve this I used the extra backpack included in the kit, that did not have the equipment attached to it like on the boxart. 

So enough talk, and let's get to what you'll came to see, pictures! 

I chose this model over the others because of the overall clunky-ness of the armor, while still taking the sleak style of Eastern Mecha into account. It's a good meating point for both eastern and western design. 

Definitely more gunpla kits to be featured on this blog as we go along. ;) 

That's all for now, 

Ya'll stay safe out there. 

Mech Exchange!

Hey all, in January their was a CBT mech exchange on a forum I'm on, and got the rare priviledge to work with 'Phlop' of Camospecs.

He painted up a very sharp looking 2nd Benjamin Regulars Sunder and was kind enough to give me the names of the paints he used. 

(One of these days I oughtta through together a short tutorial to show how he painted the mini up... Soon TM.) 

In turn I painted up a Clan Ghost Bear Alpha Galaxy Vulture, below are pics of both minis. 

(Please excuse the sheer crappyness of the picture I took of the Vulture.) 

Overall their is much too learn from The members of Camospecs, 

Anyways, that is all for now, 

See you guys real soon and stay safe out there. 

MWO MECH REPAINTS!

Hey all, in Febuary I realised I painted up my MWO CBT scale minis in Enamel paints. :S 

So I begain to strip off paint on the major panels, and repaint them using the proper acrylic paints. 

Recently I have been working on a Battalion sized unit painted up in House Kurita's 2nd Benjamin Regulars. (Link to their Wiki page on Sarna... http://www.sarna.net/wiki/2nd_Benjamin_Regulars) 

The 2nd Benjamin regulars are painted in white-Brown. 

The brown is located on the

-Upper Legs

-Center Torso

-Upper arms W/ Shoulders

Likewise, the white is painted on the

-Lower Legs and arms

-Right torso

-Left Torso

A chain bear trap is painted on the upper portion of the right arm, as if to connect to the Kurita crest. 

(As referenced by the camospecs examples found here... http://www.camospecs.com/Unit.asp?ID=115) 

On mine I avoided doing this in fear of screwing up the rest of the paint scheme. 

See attached pics below 

On the right arm of the awesome mech I painted in Japanese "Lyran Scum!" Using Google translate so I'm not sure how close I got to it. Lol. 

If you are interested in aquiring some of these fine CBT models, you can contact me via Google+ and I can point you in the right direction. 

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I think that's pretty much it for this update, 

Stay safe out there. 

See ya'al soon. 

BACK IN BLACK!

Back in black! 

Dark grey..? Light grey..? No? Okay, Olive drab I geuss. 

Hey all, I'd like to show what I've painted up/worked on since January; starting with the most recent of the bunch. 

I just got one of the CBT scale Doloire mechs from the Dark Age. Since I don't have a favorite faction in that timeline, I decided to paint it in a generic camoscheme. 

All in all the mech went together quite well, with these major peices. 

-Torso assembly 

-Hip assembly (W/ Left leg attached)

-Right leg seperate

-Shoulder mount (Left/right arm) 

-Upper and lower right/left arm

-Large laser peices that attach to the lower arms. 

I pinned the mini where applicable. (Torso/ hip, right leg joint) 

Unfortunately I don't have a picture with out any paint on it, about the closest thing I've got to that is it sitting in primer. 

I used 'Krylon grey primer' for the base coat, then dusted a white primer on top of that. 

This helps with the artificial highlights that you add on where you would imagine light would hit and refract on the real obj.

With the dusted primer on top

All in all if you're debating picking up this mech, I'd say that you are getting your money's worth. Just about my only complaint is how the right leg connects to the waist, it leaves a gap between the leg and hip assembly that isn't there on the left side. Luckily this can be quickly resolved with some very minor pinning. 

Over the next few weeks I'll update the blog with the last 4-5 months worth of projects. To keep up with the blog, make sure you subscribe via the email subscription box to the right of this page. ---->

I've also got a 1/144 scale Gundam Mecha in the works, I should have it finished soon enough. 

Here is a small preview... I think it's turning out rather well. 

In the meantime, Thank you for looking. 

See ya'al soon. 

Last post for now

This'll be the last post on the blog for a while, probably till summer.
See you soon.

Progress is progressing progressively

Update: The warhammer is almost done, I've finished putting the primer on. 

If the warhammer was a clan mech, I geuss you could say it was the... Prime variant... I'll show myself out. 

I was originally going to do a grey death legion scheme with silly putty, but I've decided on the digital camo. 

*A fair warning* I used to use silly putty to mask off peices on a model, though it seems they've changed the formula. 

Silly putty appears to be a little greasier than when I last used it so it doesn't stick to the models surface. 

Ramble on

Hey all, I didn't have enough time over the weekend to get the warhammer finished up yet, but it is getting there, it will most likely be finished in next Monday's update. This is because it snowed over the weekend and when I was spray painting it it fell of the hanger and into the snow, so I'm waiting for it to completely dry out. 

In the meantime I'd like to show you some more MWO minis that I'm getting in a little over 3 months. 

For inquiries about these fine scale models, you can contact me here:

geigera42@gmail.com

First off is the awesome mech

I am getting two centurion mechs

I'm not particularly sure what colors the awesome will be painted in. Though the one of the centurions will be painted as the MWO hero mech 'Yen Lo Wang' and the other will be painted as the '-AH' loyalty reward mech that we just got a few weeks ago. 

The 'Yen Lo Wang' mech is a canon mech variant that was owned by a davion pilot that fought in the arenas on the planet Solaris VII. 

Though I'm sure that I could go on and on with the lore on this mech, let's talk about the '-AH' variant. 

The '-AH' reward mech has a unique scheme that is quite 

frankly the coolest scheme they could come up with, see 

images below and I hope you'll agree with me here. 

(Click on images for larger sizes) 

This will be the most complicated paintscheme I have ever done. 

Well, that's all for today, thank you for your time,

See you soon.

It's HAMMER TIME!

Warhammer update:

Because of mis-cast errors on the gauss rifle that are un reparable, I have decided to graft the PPC back on to the hardpoint. 

The interior of the cannon was hollow so I decided to fill it with some white putty to make the mount sturdier. 

Tip of the day: use squadron's white putty VERY SPARINGLY, as two much will start melting styrene or any other plastic type. 

Because of this I replaced the styrene wide flange with a 4.77 mm thick aluminum rod. I wish I had bothered to take photos of this process because of how well it went. 

Instead of the digital camo I was planning to do I have decided on a classic grey death Legion urban camouflage. Which is a light grey with various shades of brown camouflage. 

A little history on the grey death legion according to sarna  the BT wiki. 

The grey death legion was founded by Grayson Death Carlyle in 3024. The infamous unit (under contract of house marik) found the "Helm Memory Core" in 3028, which was considered "Lostech" (lost-tech) to the inner sphere, that sparked great technological advancements. 

In 3065, the unit was destroyed in the defence of defiance Industries along with several steiner units fighting off house davion's forces. 

I am modeling the first company's fire lance warhammer as of 3039; piloted by Lieutenant  Hassen Ali Khalid. 

As no particular details on embellishments on the this warhammer were given; the PPC barrels will be marked with

"thunder!" And "lightning!" Get it? Because that's both what the PPC looks and sounds like when firing.

That is it for this post, see you next Monday.