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Oldie, Moldie TOS 1/144 Gouf - Work resumes!

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  • Member since
    May 2011
  • From: Honolulu, Hawaii
Posted by Real G on Friday, September 23, 2011 7:20 PM

A small update.

I gathered up the little bits of broken fingers and glued them back onto the right hand.  I'm short most of a pinkie, so I'll just carve up some sprue to make a replacement.  The originals were made from Tamiya plastic rod, but it was kind of too hard for my liking, so El Cheapo sprue it will be!  The fingers kind of look like puffy sausages wrapped in dental floss, but I'm keeping them.

Gouf Original WIP-008

I popped the head off to replace the inner piece with a movable mono eye system, ala HGUC.  I want the Gouf to be able to look sideways, to complement action poses.  Note blob of Milliput used to secure the outer head to the inner piece.  Brain!  Lots of tasty brain!

Gouf Original WIP-009

I added some Kotobukiya "Minus molds" to cap the knee joints.  They were a little thick, but what the hey, it's done.  Below, the Gouf is posed next to the "exciting" box art that was responsible for me deciding to buy this lame-o kit.  But every silver lining has a cloud Stick out tongue , thus I was inspired to modify the kit as seen here.  (But being that I was never known for paying attention, my concept differed considerably from what was on the box.)

Gouf Original WIP-010

Next up will be fabricating the mono eye, the missing pinkie, and the power conduits and connectors.  To enhance posability, I am also considering replacing the hip armor joint (currently a "T" joint) with a ball type joint.  This will allow the legs to swing further forward, allowing the model to more closely approach the exciting box art.

Thanks for looking!

“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”

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    March 2006
Posted by TD4438 on Friday, September 23, 2011 5:47 PM

Old or not,I like it!

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    October 2009
Posted by DrShrinker on Thursday, September 22, 2011 8:16 PM

damn clever. lookin forward to more.

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    October 2008
  • From: italy
Posted by bsyamato on Thursday, September 22, 2011 11:03 AM

The ancient one Bow Down nice to see it again stand up. I'm thinkin that was 1/100 scale Hmm

  • Member since
    May 2011
  • From: Honolulu, Hawaii
Oldie, Moldie TOS 1/144 Gouf - Work resumes!
Posted by Real G on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 10:15 PM

I have finally started repairs to a highly modified TOS Gouf that was damaged in a "Homer Simpson falling off a cliff" type of accident.  (You know:  OW!  OOH!  ARHGH!  OUCH!  EE!  OOF!  UGH!  AAAAAGH!  CRASH!)  I couldn't figure out how to fix a broken internal shoulder joint without tearing the body apart, but I learned a lot in two decades.

Gouf Original WIP-001 

I ripped out the remaining structural elements of both shoulder joints from the body, including the undamaged one.  Pieces of square section tubing were used to create new mounting points for the salvaged polycaps.

Gouf Original WIP-002

Here the new joint has been installed.  5mm plastic pipe segments were drilled out and used to secure the polycaps in place.  I'm undecided yet whether or not I will leave the raised edge of the tubing.  There is a lot of sanding dust covering the model in this photo.  Don't worry, he'll be cleaned up.

 Gouf Original WIP-006

And here is where the Gouf stands as of last night.  (Pun intended!)  I still need to fabricate small items like the short spikes for the shoulder armor, the power conduits (the ones on the head are temporary), and some replacement fingers.  I am planning on adding some additional details that were not in the original plan, like a rear skirt mount latch and maybe a side grenade rack.

The reason this oldie was rolled out to work on is that our model club's theme this month is "frosting the turd", and the original kit was very turd-like.  Plus I added a lot of frosting, in the form of scratchbuilt midsection, cockpit hatch, hip, hip armor, upper arms, elbows, hands, and shield.  I plan on repainting the Gouf in a camouflage pattern inspired by the comic "The Dogs of War", which ran in B-Club magazine in the early 90s.  Hopefully this project won't stall for another twenty years!  (I know I'll be getting a comment from Bsyamato about not working on my Gundam GB models!)

Anyway, hope you likee.

Neal

“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”

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