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<\/a><\/p>\nSo far, the main things I’ve done with the arms have been to polycap the shoulder joint on the left arm, and to cut away the shoulder pauldron from the shoulder block it was molded into… But gutting the shoulder joint parts out of the inside of the shoulder pauldron meant that I effectively destroyed one of my kit’s shoulders. Rather than reconstruct the shoulder block, I just swiped one from one of my green FG Zakus. Actually, since this isn’t the first time I’ve worked on polycapping a FG Zaku, I just swiped the whole left arm. I’m going to use it with the forearm from a 08th MS Team HG Zaku kit, because I think they look better than the PG\/FG forearm design…<\/p>\n
I rejointed both knees using a Kotobukiya T-Joint polycap (one of the most useful aftermarket polycaps you can buy!) and slotting it into the knee area of the lower leg frame. I cut away the original ankle joint and replaced it with a Yellow Submarine ball joint. The ball joint is nice but I think I may need to switch it to some kind of double-joint system if I want to improve the flexibility of the ankle.<\/p>\n The thrusters on the lower legs were bugging me a bit – the kit includes the cool-looking thruster pods on the lower legs that were present on the PG Char’s Zaku, but there’s no actual thruster bells there – the area’s just blanked out. So I cut out the thruster panels on the right leg and I’ve been working out what thruster part I want to use there. Similarly, on the backpack, I cut away the whole thruster panel so I could hack together a simple-looking “engine” to go with that thruster bell, and sink that into the backpack.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n