Wip Mg Kaempfer

smeagol the vile

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April 2008
From: Philadelphia PA

Wip Mg Kaempfer

Posted by smeagol the vile on Sunday, June 1, 2008 8:29 PM

I, in a pattern you can see by my last gundam WIP, I am tired of seeing the sheen of bare plastic on my shelves. So I have decided to do up my Kaempfer. This time, as you will see in the pics, I have decided to do some slight modifications. At this time it is only opening the vent holes, instead of just painting them black, with my Dremel. I am considering buying some after market parts for this, like a mono eye, aluminuminium beam saber, maybe a resin weapon

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Puma_Adder

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May 2008
From: In transit to new location.

Posted by Puma_Adder on Sunday, June 1, 2008 10:19 PM

WHY IS THE DECAL CROOKED!!! jk Looks great, its a lot further along than mine, yours has arms (and legs?). Wish I could finish mine but Im going home for a bit and it wont fit in my carry-on. keep up the great work!

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smeagol the vile

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April 2008
From: Philadelphia PA

Posted by smeagol the vile on Sunday, June 1, 2008 11:37 PM

Oh, god no. That is just snapped, been snapped for a while ago. The stickers are all coming off, and it is all getting painted. That was just to show the holes in the arms and shoulders

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Puma_Adder

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May 2008
From: In transit to new location.

Posted by Puma_Adder on Sunday, June 1, 2008 11:42 PM

LoL. my MS-18E has been sitting unassembled for about 6 months or so. that being said, you still have more done than I do, yours was standing.

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smeagol the vile

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April 2008
From: Philadelphia PA

Posted by smeagol the vile on Monday, June 2, 2008 2:57 PM

I guess you are right there...

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Puma_Adder

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May 2008
From: In transit to new location.

Posted by Puma_Adder on Monday, June 2, 2008 6:13 PM

Just be carefull, if your suit looks as good as the PG you just finished, I may have to do up a NT1 Amuro Ray custom build.

Lets hope I can find a second Alex kit.

Some people spend their whole lives wondering if they made a difference. Gundams don't have that problem.

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smeagol the vile

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April 2008
From: Philadelphia PA

Posted by smeagol the vile on Monday, June 2, 2008 7:55 PM

If you live in japan, just order a new Mg nt-1 from www.hlj.com If your in the states www.Gundamstoreandmore.com has a great gundam selection

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smeagol the vile

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April 2008
From: Philadelphia PA

Posted by smeagol the vile on Monday, June 2, 2008 11:24 PM

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dj898

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December 2005
From: Down Under

Posted by dj898 on Tuesday, June 3, 2008 1:41 AM

one of the challange when it comes to Kampfer is fixing the seam line at the back of calf. It has that big seam line right in the middle. Good luck with your build~

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smeagol the vile

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April 2008
From: Philadelphia PA

Posted by smeagol the vile on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:36 PM

My metal and resin parts should be coming in the mail today or tomarrow from Mecha Skunk

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SkullGundam

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Posted by SkullGundam on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:03 PM

Looks good man. I really liked those drilled out holes, they do look better than black dots. I look forward to seeing more of this as its finished.

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smeagol the vile

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April 2008
From: Philadelphia PA

Posted by smeagol the vile on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:22 PM

What do y'all thing of the silver, in replace of the yellow

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Cosmic J

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December 2007
From: Louisville, KY.

Posted by Cosmic J on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:57 PM

I actually like the metal color more than the yellow-orange. I've been working on a Kaempfer off and on for a while now, and I think I'm gonna paint mine a burnt metal / jet exhaust color.

Any advice when painting them?

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smeagol the vile

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April 2008
From: Philadelphia PA

Posted by smeagol the vile on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:30 PM

Good thing about the Kaempfer is the orange parts always fit into a holder so you can take them out, a few I had to drill a hole in the back to get it ouit, but they all come out. so its simple painting the engine and the holder

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dj898

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December 2005
From: Down Under

Posted by dj898 on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:42 PM

Here's the abandended project where I was trying the Patlabor colour scheme.
Also tried the metal finish on few areas which imho looked quite nice~
Hope this of some help, mate~ ^ ^

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smeagol the vile

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April 2008
From: Philadelphia PA

Posted by smeagol the vile on Thursday, June 12, 2008 3:32 PM

I have run into a bad problem... the frame has gotten a extremly bad habbit recently, whch is to grab the blue from the armor and smear it on the joints. all the paint is dry, I dunno why its doing this, its really buggin me

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Cosmic J

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From: Louisville, KY.

Posted by Cosmic J on Friday, June 13, 2008 9:23 PM

Dj898:

Here's the abandended project where I was trying the Patlabor colour scheme.
Also tried the metal finish on few areas which imho looked quite nice~
Hope this of some help, mate~ ^ ^

That looks pretty sweet. Nice shading. How come you gave up on it?

stv:

I have run into a bad problem... the frame has gotten a extremly bad habbit recently, whch is to grab the blue from the armor and smear it on the joints. all the paint is dry, I dunno why its doing this, its really buggin me

What kind of paints are you using? Is it like a dry/scratch type of transfer, or something else?

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smeagol the vile

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April 2008
From: Philadelphia PA

Posted by smeagol the vile on Friday, June 13, 2008 11:38 PM

It's on the elbow. I just took the elbow joint out, painted it again. I am going to keep it de-constructed untill everything has a clear coat on it and It's ready to be displayed.

Now the problem I have run into, is that I dont have any kinds of tools to cut these metal chains I got aftermarket from Mecha Skunk, I cant find my needle nosed plyers with the wire cutter blade on it. So untill then I cant do the neck bit, or the waist chain.

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smeagol the vile

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April 2008
From: Philadelphia PA

Posted by smeagol the vile on Sunday, June 15, 2008 7:38 PM

Thanks to the guys at Mechaskunk for the aftermarket parts. I used the snake chain for the replacement of those plastic, molded into the neck piece tubes. I used the Mesh chain for the chain around the waist, I used MG sized metal beamsaber holders (Even though there really big compared to the kaempfer's normal ones) and I used the 4.44 mono eye and red lense of that same size.