{"id":93,"date":"2008-01-24T18:34:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T23:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?page_id=93"},"modified":"2008-10-17T12:27:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T16:27:35","slug":"1144-geara-doga","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?page_id=93","title":{"rendered":"1:144 Geara Doga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yutaka Izubuchi, mecha designer of Gundam: Char&#8217;s Counterattack       and War in the Pocket, made an appearance at Anime Expo 2006.       Naturally I was delighted at the chance to meet him.  Since I       was going to the con I also made plans to enter the model       competition there: by this time my Wing Zero model had made the       rounds to various model contests, but I also felt I&#8217;d rather       bring a model of an Izubuchi design.  Not having a lot of time       before the con I decided against my HGUC GM Command that was       already in-progress, as it was too complicated, and my HGUC       Gelgoog Jager due to mishaps involving its antenna &#8211; looking       over my options I decided on an old 1:144 Geara Doga I&#8217;d started       years earlier.  I resolved to do a quick build and get it done       on time.<\/p>\n<p>As it turned out, I didn&#8217;t get it done on time for Anime Expo,       Otakon, or Granitecon, and so as a result I haven&#8217;t had contest       entries for any model contests this year, not since Tekkoshocon       anyway.  I did succeed in getting quite a lot done &#8211; most of the       structural work, including a LED monoeye, new details on the       forearms and knees, installation of replacement hands by       Kotobukiya, etc.  I had also started work on filling in the       back-side of the large, folding shield, but because time was       running out I decided to save that project for after the con.       By the time AX rolled around the model (minus the folding       shield) was ready to paint &#8211; but for me painting is generally a       time-consuming process and I failed to take that into account.<\/p>\n<p>This project is the first I&#8217;ve given a proper base: the base       serves a practical purpose as a battery holder but additionally       I think this particular kit looks much better in a flight pose,       and so I think the base is very important.  I also feel that       the base improves the overall presentation, and so I want to       start including bases with most of my projects from now on.<\/p>\n<p>This project is, by my standards, close to &#8220;out-of-box&#8221;.  I       made the following alterations as part of the construction:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Installed LED monoeye in head<\/li>\n<li>Replaced exhaust-port-things in back of head with actuall         thruster bells<\/li>\n<li>Adapted backpack for a polycap connection (this gives me a         convenient way to access the wiring inside the torso)<\/li>\n<li>Sunk the thrusters on the sides of the backpack deeper in         so they wouldn&#8217;t look quite so fake<\/li>\n<li>Carved away original forearm &#8220;internal&#8221; detail, replaced         with styrene rod, Kotobukiya mecha pipe, and springs<\/li>\n<li>Replaced butt-ugly kit hands with Kotobukiya metal         hands<\/li>\n<li>Filled in hollow back side of folding shield, added         back-side detail based on illustration in instruction         manual<\/li>\n<li>Drilled out the grenade launcher in the rifle, and inserted         a minus mold to represent a grenade<\/li>\n<li>Corrected the shape of the beam saber hilt that&#8217;s stored         on the back skirt (kit part was lacking the flare at the         butt end of it, so that the part could slide into place.  I         used part of one of the other saber handles included in the         kit to make the deactive one correct.  I also detailed up         the emitter areas a bit)<\/li>\n<li>Altered various areas so they could be assembled after         painting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Various things gave me some trouble on this project.  The       antenna broke off five or six times, I screwed up the paint job       in various ways, and various parts that I dull-coated wound up       transferring once they came in contact with the parts they&#8217;re       supposed to come in contact with.  I was very un-careful with       the wash and rushed through the decals.  I even had some       detailing mishaps result in a few areas of paint getting chipped       away &#8211; those I just had to patch as well as I could.  I also had bouts of       indecision about just what kind of weathering or finishing work       I&#8217;d be doing &#8211; early on the plan was for dry-brushed faded edges       and pastel weathering.  Toward the end I finally did the       dry-brushing (not too gracefully, either) but by the time it was       ready for pastels I was ready to move on to other things, so I       decided to leave it be after the last dullcoat was on and the       wiring was done.<\/p>\n<p>With the completion of this project I was inspired to paint my       <a href=\"\/?page_id=218\">Nintendo DS<\/a> in the same color       scheme.  I&#8217;m very happy with how it turned out.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_front_1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_front_1_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_front_2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_front_2_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_front_3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_front_3_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_front_4.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_front_4_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_front_5.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_front_5_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_back_1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_back_1_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_back_2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_back_2_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_back_3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_back_3_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_side_1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_side_1_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_side_2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_side_2_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_side_3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_side_3_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_close_1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_close_1_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_close_2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_close_2_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_close_3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_close_3_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_base_1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_144_Geara_Doga\/gdoga_base_1_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yutaka Izubuchi, mecha designer of Gundam: Char&#8217;s Counterattack and War in the Pocket, made an appearance at Anime Expo 2006. Naturally I was delighted at the chance to meet him. Since I was going to the con I also made plans to enter the model competition there: by this time my Wing Zero model had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93\/revisions\/224"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}