{"id":1029,"date":"2010-04-20T00:38:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T07:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2010-04-20T00:38:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T07:38:55","slug":"mg-gn-x-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"MG GN-X Completed"},"content":{"rendered":"

And she’s done. Most folks following my blog may or may not have known that I was working on this for the past few weeks in my spare time. I kept most of the update on the forums. But nothing too fancy, a quick OOB build. The only modifications I did were to the GN Drive’s LEDs for which I took from an MG Exia kit. The Exia’s LEDs were green, so the original LEDs were clipped and I soldered on some blue LEDs I had lying around. The piston ends of the drive also had some metal beads glued into place to accent the rather bland detailing there. The beam sabers were cut and glued together to create a Darth Maul-esq weapon and the sabers themselves were trimmed and reshaped – then following the Star Wars theme, they were painted with a clear purple ala Mace Windu.<\/p>\n

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Originally, I was going to let the kit sit for another day for the last bits of the clear gloss to breath and cure. I wanted to use some polishing compound and auto wax to future shine the thing up. But tonight I tested it out on one of the cured pieces, first with tamiya polishing compound, then used some ultra gloss turtle wax over the part. And after polishing it a couple of times, I didn’t notice any difference in added gloss. So I’ll just leave it up for folks to tell me if it’s glossy enough, or I should just go and wax it anyways; which isn’t too big a deal to do as I can just pop the major sub assemblies apart and get that done, but I don’t see it getting any glossier than it is now. Here are some additional full profile pictures of the kit.<\/p>\n

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Here are a few close up shots. Glossy kits are a bit of a pain in the ass to photograph because they reflect EVERYTHING. And over exposing things flushes out some of the other colors while I try to show off some of the metallic indigo that I used for the originally gray pieces. So I have some pictures with varying tones as I changed exposure times and lighting targets. I spent a decent amount of time spraying layers of gloss over the kit to hide the decal lines as best as I can. In certain light they can still be seen, but I’m pretty satisfied with the final outcome.<\/p>\n

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Here are some pictures of the back of the kit mostly focused on the drive. The rear part of the drive is also lit up, but with the photographs and the general design of the back of the drive, it’s difficult to see that it’s actually lit up. In hindsight, I guess I should have taken a picture of the kit with the drive turned off.<\/p>\n

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Click here for the full build progress page that details the steps in this project<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here for the completed gallery page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And she’s done. Most folks following my blog may or may not have known that I was working on this for the past few weeks in my spare time. I kept most of the update on the forums. But nothing too fancy, a quick OOB build. 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