2012 Mecha Contest Entry: Legend Gundam Part 5

Hello Ladies and Gents .... Welcome to another modeling blog post ( you know whose voice I'm trying to talk in.. LOOOL )

Right, time for another update ....

if you guys can remember, I was working on a MG shoulder yes?? After 1 and a half year of trying and failing, I finally achieved the desire result. Don't worry, I will give a full walk through of what I did ( As I always do ) ....

Okay, picking up from I left off, I made the two slabs like so -

Those two slabs are both 1.5mm think, if you are curious ....
And this is the layout of it.....

which, assembled, gives me something like this -

And after assembled with the body, the shoulders look like this -

Which allow the shoulder to move freely just like a MG ....

Again, I have to give credit to and say thank you to Gondordestiny that it was because of him I was aware of such ''glitch'' .. and the glitch is the shoulder it self.. it was long and wide that it was hindering the movement of the arm and the arm can't swing out as much as I wanted to ... and referencing Gondordestiny's Legend, I knew how to counter that .. so Thank you again GondorDestiny of Plamo.

Right, moving on , I cut the shoulder itself like so -

Its not entirely finished yet, FYI

so that, when I put it on the body, the height is reduced that it does not hinder with the arm swinging movement anymore. ( as you can from the photo, the rod of the flap can be seen above the shoulder)

After cutting that shoulder like so, with no more hindering, it becomes like this

And I am grealy satisfied how it comes out ....

After that, I'm moving on to the knew. I want to make a MG knee and I have no idea how to do it so I ''copied'' MG WZC's knee movenment and I based my mods on dydee's 1/144 wing zero mod... so Thank you so much dydee....

So i made this -

and following this templete-

I cut 4 identical pieces of them, all 1 mm thick.

As you can see, I have two pieces of brass rods on the top... and this is so that I can form the knee like so -

and the little pieces I showed earlier is glued on like so -

and when the knee armour is attached, it can bend like this -

I know, I know,, this is kid stuffs but its the best I can do ....'''yet ''' ...  but at least, I'm happy with what I got ... I will see what more I can do ...

and I also extended the toe -

I was going to sand the steps down but I kinda like it ..... i might keep it.. but I'm not too sure.....

Right, this is it for this update .....and again I stress, my works are rough as I take photos as I build along...

Thank you all for looking and stay tuned for more ....