Sounded like a good day to sit down at the bench. Decided I wanted to do something different. Had this kit in the stash so I thought it would be a nice break from my Sherman and Panzer III.
I think it is a spin off of the Maschinen Krieger series (or S.F.3.D.) for some of you who may remember that far back. The Kit is by Hasegawa and includes two Suits one with a fixed gun arm, and another they call Smartgun Equipment Type. So every thing you see for now is times two as I am building both at the same time.
I am going with this colour scheme, Like the playing Card Markings.
Was able to get a good start on a number of the sub assemblies. Here is the waist down. I need to add a weld seam around the power packs on the thigh yet and the Power cable going to the lower leg is going to be replaced with a metal spring as I have no Idea how to remove the mold seam from the poly power cables supplied with the kit. Some seams to fill but nothing to difficult.
Here is the visor, I am going to add a weld bead around the two sensors above the face plate. I also replaced all of the rivets supplied in the kit with the very nice Meng Bolts.
More bolts added to the front of the body.
Again some more items to add a weld seam, will be adding one around the arm sockets, and more Meng bolts added.
Even made a start on the cockpit, this is the Meng set I have been using it' the 1.7mm recessed bolt heads I am using.
This is turning into a super quick build for me. I'll break out the A+B putty and work on the welds tomorrow.
Regards,
Rod
