Wow, another post another build, the new Hasegawa Glaug kit!

So yeah, I didn’t think I’d get another kit built this year after those two Corsairs, but here we are. I cracked open the Hasegawa 1/72 scale Glaug kit a little over a week ago, on Oct 3rd. Playing around with the first part of the build, it seemed very nicely engineered. The leg and feet were a crap ton of parts and the engineering was damn nice.

They engineered it so there were no long seams along the leg. The clear red pieces could be assembled after the whole leg was painted as well since it’s not glued together for seam fixes. Here’s a quick video of the leg engineering and mobility.

Having built the old Arii/Bandai 1/100 Glaug kit over 20 years ago, I’m pretty damn impressed. This was also roughly a week long build; so there are not too many progress pictures, but you get the idea.

So again, the engineering for the legs was damn nice. And the build just quickly sucked me into working on it. The upper leg/thigh joint had a seam but most of it was hidden by a bottom piece. The main foot body was also a two piece part so I need to work on painting the internals for that first before assembling and fixing that seam, but just looking at the pictures, you can barely tell that there’s seam there.

While the legs were nicely engineered; not much can be done with the rest of the kit. Arm parts in separate joints, but all half pieces and fairly easy to glue and sand. The main arm guns only had a seam down the bottom, so that was easily worked on. The main gun is also a two part piece. Bandai’s engineering would have injection molded this in one solid piece – but this isn’t the typical shake the box and out pops a ZakuGundam snapped together kit. Seam details didn’t run too badly.

Parts sanded and ready for primer. Then some parts got paint that needed to be masked while sanded down seamed parts got primed. I was rushing through this so I barely paid attention to some of the missed seams. This kit has a cockpit and functioning hatch! So that needed to be painted up and built before the main body halves can be glued and sanded. The two parts of the internal cockpit and seat are painted and glued together. There’s a very slight color variation from the seat and internal cockpit that called for two different paint mixes that used the same base purple but different shades of grey. The bottles looked identical to me, so I needed to label them. But once painted, the difference is fairly noticeable.

The cockpit also has some decals. Even with the cockpit hatch open, the under hatch detail can’t be seen unless you use a dental mirror inside the opened hatch. That seemed like a little waste of time to do; but it’s in the instructions, so why the hell not. The last picture is the small nose cannons that were just solid pieces of plastic. A little drill bit works to open them up a but and make it actually look like a cannon.

Cockpit internals done and painted, the hatch was painted as well as it also gets clam shelled together with the main body halves. Once that was done, the two halves of the main body gets glued and pressed for seams.

While the above is happening and curing, the other parts get painted with a dark grey and some shading as well as the red parts with neutral grey and white shading followed by the red to create a subtle color lift shading effect. Then once all the paint dries, the smaller pieces are assembled to the bigger legs and feet.

The main body is painted and with that dried, the small bits for the body are assembled and ready for the clear gloss sessions.

Gloss, decals, gloss, panel lines, then flat coat in that order. This was all done this past Thursday through Saturday in between sessions of going to the movies to watch Tron Ares, Roofman, and playing ?? with my friends.

With the kit’s final clear flat dried for a few hours in the dehydrator, on goes some latex gloves and the kit is assembled.

And here’s a picture of the 20+ year old (built – the kit is actually from the 80’s so it’s closer to 40 years old now) next to the more recent Metal Box resin Glaug and the very new 1/72 Glaug released at the end of March of 2025.

The thing poses very nice. and it’s not too bad a build for rushing it to finish by the time of our local IPMS Orangecon competition; but I’m pretty happy with the build. It looks and moves so much nicer than the old Arii kit.

Eventually I’ll do a photo session for this and the Corsairs; but the work bench has been busy with projects – which is a good thing I think. Come see this and the Gerwalk Elintseeker I finished earlier this year at SCGMC 2025 with our current theme of Macrotech in November!