WIP NG Providence - Part 3

G'day to you ladies (if any) and gents. It was a lazy chilly spring day in London and out of boredom due to the gloomy weather, I managed to made some update on the Providence -

Firstly, I filled the front skirts with epoxy putty. It was just ugly to leave hollow there. I still need to sand it down though -

I wanted to improve the over all look so I started to put on plates on the body parts for aesthetic purposes. I started with some simple platings on the groin armour 

and some more simple plates on the front skits -left -

and right - 

And I carried on the platings on to the upper arm -Front -

sides -

back -

And While I was working on the arms, I Managed to fix a small issue that was bothering me -

The texts in the photo should be self explanatory. The darn things are still not as flashed as I want them to though, gonna have to sand more.After that, I used my usual method to hide the seam lines without gluing and keeping the parts removable - 

Following that, I decided to hide the seams on the lower legs the same way. 

After the knee, I moved on to the shin -

and after the shin, I moved on to the calves -

and this is how the front of the legs looks with the '' seam camo '' in place-

While working on hiding the seams on the legs, I noticed something that needed to be fixed on the movement of the knee joints. The darn things bend forward as well and make the joints turn into a reverse joint type legs so I fixed it like to -

I hate the concept of pipes showing obviously on the body so decided to throw away the pips that comes along with it and it left a gaping whole on the back which I filled up like so - 

and This is how it looks now -Without the backpack -

and with the backpack -


I'm pretty happy with the proportions .. I was having my doubt but after seeing these last two photos, I'm quite happy. Well, that's it for now. I don't want to give myself a great burden or work by making big/major mods so I will mostly be doing platings mods in the next updates.Stay Tuned for more and Thank you guys for the support as always.

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WIP NG Providence - Part 2

Right ... so in order to satisfy my need for modding, I continued on with this guy ... although, with my current life and situation, I can't do time consuming big mods so I do apologize in advance... 

Ok.... so I was never heavy with how this thing look with huge shoulders and quite normal legs so I decided to build up a side boosters for them -
I started off with a block over the sides- 

and extended them further like so - 

and after that, I just glued on the little koto vents like so and voila -

And I decided to extend the thighs to compensate for the extended length of the waists and the elbows -

They are extended by exactly 4.5mm, if anybody is wondering how much.

This is the ''before '' shot -

and This is the '' after '' shot -

I really hated the NG hands that came along with the kits so decided to used the movable fingers that I bought a year ago.. :P

I love those hands, be careful though, they are quite a bit on the  fragile side

And to further explain what I did next, I have to re-cap on the previous work -

As you can see, the top part of the elbow joint block looks ugly without anything to fill in the gap between the joint and the upper arm part ( the Red part ). So after tweaking around- I put on a small slab like so -

Its still messy but you can see a small plate going into the upper arm ... it also cover the huge gap when looking from behind as well so it was a two bird with one stone work. 

I noticed the front part of the elbow is really boring so I put on a koto part that I saw lying around and I also put on some putty over the curvy portion of the red parts to flash out the curvy portions and make then rectangular to coincide with the rest of the boxy features of the kit -

What comes next would paint staking hours of sanding to get a nice, flash, upper arm ... hooo boy 

Well, like I said, I haven't done anything big so this is all I can update at this time. Sorry in advance and Thank you for your support as always and please stay tuned. 

And here's the muse for the update today .. ( lately I been listening to cyber/industrial music ) -

Enjoy

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WIP NG Providence - Part 1

Hello beautiful people .... Miss me ?? Well, here I am .. :P 

Nothing too special about this WIP .. I recently acquired an Iwata HP-CS and I want to paint more and I thought well, I should paint the Providence but then the Scratch building Shinigami in this little bird said - '' Gary, mod something '' and I just gave in to the Shinigami's will :P 

If you guys are wondering, this is the kit -

and IF any of you guys are familiar with this guy, he come with a single joint elbow ( darn you bandai )
So, I had to sit down and start figuring out how to give this guy a double joint elbow after 4 hours of brain storming and digging into my spare parts- 
I made this -

The red parts comes from my HG Bushido Ahead.

followed up by a evening of brain storming and test fitting and came up with the elbow block -

The block is build around a plastic rod.

All together, they look like this when connected - 

which allow the elbows to move like this - 

Following the elbow mod, the arm become a little long so I had to compensate the other parts for proportion sake. The Providence already has a little bit dis-proportionate torso so I decided to extend the waist by 4.5 mm 

To further secure the waist to the peg on the groin, I drilled a hole and put in a polycap like so-

All together, this guy looks like this now - 

I still need to refine the edges and a lot of sanding to come up next ... ugh .. sanding ...  (sicker) (sicker) (sicker) (sicker)

Anyway, Happy to be back to modding and stay tuned for more
While I'm at it, I feel like sharing my muse for this update -

ENJOY

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