Gundam Mini Figure Selection

I was shopping at Uwajimaya, Seattle on Saturday, and was looking for some magazines. Then I found these mini figures were on sale. I remember they used to be 24.99 dollars. For some reasons, they marked down the price to 4.99. Wow, I immediately got one and took it home! I am thinking now if I should just go get another one!







They are Char's Customized Selection. The below words are from the box. The chief pilot of ZEON, Char Aznable uses his personal MS's colored in red. He performs excellently regardless place, in the space, on the gound, or in the water, with his matchless sense in battling. char's sucessive wins, the EFSF members dread him calling in the name of "Red Comet". He goes giving full play to his ability as a NEW TYPE PILOT.

G.F.F. #0014 Transformation Project - Day 5

I actually have the G-cruiser done already. I am telling you that it probably takes more time to blog about it then actually work on it. Anyway, on day 6, the whole thing would be done. I will show you the finish pictures.

Below is the body that I put all the pieces from day 4 together.


Different angle of the body.


The body only on the rack!


Body with legs from above. You can see that I acutally almost used all pieces that I cut off from the body and put all of them back together here!


Body and the legs from behind!

G.F.F. #0014 Transformation Project - Day 4 - legs & body

Now it comes to the legs and body today! The leg is relatively easy. You only need three cuts and you are done.


Then just glue them together like the below picture! Easy!


The body is crazy. First, it took me a while to understand the below picture. Then to decide where to the body apart. The two part took a while already.


Alright, the is the body before you cut it without the head, arms and legs.


I would suggest you to first cut off the back piece, which I think this is the easiest part in term of separating body parts.



Then, cut off the shoulder part near the neck.


This is the hardest part of all the cutting. You have to make sure you separate the red piece from the chest. You need to be extra careful about the cutting. First, you need to cut off the red part from the edge and make sure you don't cut the joint, the grey area. Then, separate the rest of the upper body from the lower body. They are actually two piece to begin with, but the cutter can't reach the area where they glue the two piece together. I used a screw driver to separate them. It require extra force, really. My suggest is to force in a philip screw drive, and turn clockwise for 90 degree. It might also damage part of the body. Make sure you don't damage the part where you can see. I will show you a picture tomorrow, and you can take note on what part of the body will be seen from the outside.


Below are the gundam's body in four pieces. Finally, I will show you the pictures that I put all body parts together in the next two days.

G.F.F. #0014 Transformation Project - Off Topic #2

Ahhhhh..... you can find so many interesting pictures from the internet. Thanks to the google image serach, I found some more crazy pictures of the Ex-S Gundam. The below pictures are a 1/35 Ex-S Gundam. That thing is as big as a 4 year old!!!!

G.F.F. #0014 Transformation Project - Day 3 - arms

Now, it comes to the 3rd day of the Project. It's actually the 4th day, but I wasn't doing anything yesterday. Anyway, I am working on the arm today. The below picture shows what it should look like when the shoulder, arm, the wing on the arm, the backpack on the arm are in the cruiser form, idealy.




The arm and shoulder are taken apart. They are glued so tight together that I spent so much time just to take the blue pieces off the shoulder. If you are going to do it, make sure you have a cutting mat, or you will need a new table after the project. Also, make sure to wear protective glove before you start. You might seriously injure yourself, if you don't!


As you can see, I use super glue to glue the piece together, and it works pretty well. The below picture shows a half done hand piece.


Right, the hand and shoulder in mobile suit form. On the left, the hand and shoulder in cruiser form.

G.F.F. #0014 Transformation Project - Day 2

Research, research, and research, and took it all apart! Now, I think I have enough information making it happen, transforming the Ex-S Gundam from Gundam form to G - Cruiser form.

I am doing this after work and during the weekend in a slow paste. The first day is all about research and taking the Ex-S Gundam apart. The pictures to the left is showing how a G-Cruiser should look like with the Gundam parts. Figuring out which part go where took a long time, but it took me even longer just to take the Gundam apart. It's not easy to do so because they glue the parts to damn tight together. I had to use so much force, and now my hand is hurting. I will go throught the details steps as I go through the rest of the days. My current plan is to work on the arms, legs, then to the body. By looking at the arms right now, it probably going to take me a long time to disassemble the Gundam's arms further. Will see how it goes later.

G.F.F. #0014 Transformation Project - Off Topic

Ho Ho Ho! I found these pictures while I was looking for info on the Ex-S Gundam. They are so cool. According to the site, that guy spent five months on putting it together!!!

G.F.F. #0014 Transformation Project - Day 1

G.F.F #0014 is the Ex-S Gundam that is shown on the right. This is one of the G.F.F. that you love and hate. If it sit there by itself, it looks good with the big shoulder. The extra booster unit on the back makes this Gundam looks even nicer. O, yes, and the fuel tanks that hook to the shoulder nuclear reactor makes it a monster. Yes, It looks good, but that's it about it. You can't really do anything with it or post it beside moving the arms and legs a bit. It has to be on the display rack. It can't stand on it's feet because of the extra stuff on the back makes it off balance.
Supposely, the Ex-S Gundam can transform into the G Cruiser. It can't do that In this version of the Gundam Fix. This is one of the better looking Gundams, and I have be thinking about transforming this for a while, but didn't know where to start. Until one day, while I was surfing for cheap Gundam stuff, I came across this site. I found so much information about the Ex-S Gundam, and I decide to go ahead and make this happen!!!!!

More details about G.F.F #0040 Perfect Gundam III “Red Warrior”/RX-78/CA Gundam (Casval Rem Deikun’s Custom)

This G.F.F is going to be released in Nov/2008. I happened to find some images of it online. Enjoy!

More details about G.F.F #1004 RX-78-2 Gundam Ver. Ka

Hmm..... It turns out that the so to be new GFF #1004 is the same as the #1001, without the G-armor. What's new in the box is that you will get a Gundam hammer, and the bean javelin. Also, it will come with the making of "Gundam Crisis".