1/100 MG Kampfer **High Gloss**

Pro Tip : Buy atleast one set of snake chains, mesh chains, and ugly tube.  They are some insainley indispensable materials for making mods to parts, especially to like Zakus and such, and they look WONDERFUL.  See below

thanks!  Smeagol is right - there are sets for the Kampfer (whichis what I am using) but the baffles fit other mecha as well - there really four sizes to look at and depending on the type of finish you want you can mix and match them.

I wish they had sets for Sinanju and other new kits too.  I highly recommend mechaskunk - Fulcy is great to deal with - he gets back to you right away and is always super helpful!

the verniers they sell on mechaskunk are specificly designed for the Kaempfer.  They may fit on other kits but they werent designed to be universal.

by the way, looks freaking amazing.

No problem - lucky for you ALL of the parts I used on this build were from one source:

www.mechaskunk.com

Hope that helps ;)

Oh man, that is looking nice.

Would it be too much to ask for a list of the specific parts you used to detail this kit? I'd love to use some of those verniers on mine, and the spikes on the shoulders are awesome too.

update time - worked on the legs

those seamlines on the back of the upper legs were a royal BIATCH

parts are coming along nicely now

also added a nice big resin gun lol

thanks for looking!

more mecha madness

some of the photos are terrible - please forgive me I was under heavy influence of Grey Goose

near completed torso:

one thruster

three thrusters ;)

with covers

beads and decals added too

Foot Vernier M, hmm? I love those things.

 the amount of work you put into the gloss shows. You should show it off on the automotive forum.

yours looks nice - is that an MG?

As for the snake chain - thats what I thought I was going to do - but I got the wrong size from mechaskunk - too thin - designed for an HG 1/144 kit - so I didnt use it.  

For energy cable I have a woven metallic braid material I am going to use on it already.  But your metal mesh looks nice - are you going to paint it?

the first pic, see the decal with the circle, put a bit more decal softener onto that, you can see a tiny bit of an edge.

You know what I did, for the neck piece you have there, I cut those molded wires out of the side and put in the mecha skunk snake chain.  I also replaced the chain around the waste with ugly tube surrounded by wire mech chain

Here is another quick update - I have been having so much fun building this one that progress comes fast hehe

The other shoulder - different, smaller thrusters, screws and decals all from mechaskunk -Thanks Rob!  (I just saw a spec of dust int he first photo  :( Going to need to polish it out.

Now moving on to arms - started to drill out holes in the armor 

also started to add gunpla pla plate bits and koto detail 

got done with the under-neck part - same treatment. I was going to replace the hoses with snake chain, but the chain I orderedfrom mechaskunk was not big enough - I didnt realize the size 

Oh, very nice! I like the way the markings came out.

My Kampfer build stalled a while back, I very much appreciate the insight into aftermarket parts.

Everything is super easy.

The eye is basically an MV type lens commonly used my model railroad builders to simulate non-working lights.  Its a plastic lens, that is shaped in a dome - very realistic when backed by the chrome or metal paint/part.  The metal eye socket is perfectly shaped for this particular size lens - they sell two different standard mecha sizes.  Once assembled together the entire eye assembly simply superglued instead of the kit part - no problems.

As for the metal spikes there are MANY options and styles of these, short, medium, long, detachable base or molded base.  Lookat G-Option, Model Up or Mechaskunk parts for examples -simply drilled an appropriate sized hole and insert the spike.

 I will updated this tomorrow and show you the spikes close up