Quickie Custom: Teaser

I'll post the completed custom on Zoidspoison, but in the meantime I'll put up a teaser pic here :)

A quickie custom

Took a second detour and worked on a quickie custom on Sunday. GTO was the first detour from the original custom that I had intended for the Zoidspoison customs contest. But I took that one too far apart ("literally") and I'm still toying with an idea on how to put "humpty dumpty" together again.

Now this 3rd one will take me away from GTO for a while. Hopefully 3 times will be a charm and I'll get it done up real fast. This one has some potential to be taken further though, but I'd like to just finish the basic for now. I probably won't paint it just yet because most likely I would want to work on it some more at a later date.

I'll post it first on Zoidspoison, so catch it there ;)

LBZ-01 G.T.O. - Progress so far

Now that I have my camera back, its time to post some pictures.

I've only gotten as far as one side of the power pack/generator, well almost one side. The tube structure there took me 3 attempts before I got it right. Here I have it next to the gold pilot figure for scale.


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I did a mock up of the power pack/generator mounted onto the Gojulas just to have a feel of the proportions. The unit is fixed onto one of the back fins using masking tape. It looks okay :)


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Now for the other side and the undercarriage (another headache because of all the tubes that needs fusing).

G.T.O. backpack

I haven't been working on the scratchbuild as often as I wanted. Between the different interests I have and my girlfriend's demand for me to spend time with her, I get on average an hour a day at most on weekdays, perhaps a little more during the weekends. What's more I have this little quirk of not liking to leave a piece half done. Who knows when I'll get to revisit it again, and perhaps by then the ideas and inspirations would've been gone. So on most occasions, if I can't finish the part, I usually put off starting it.

I saw on T.V. recently that the brain releases dopamine at the onset of a creative spark as an internal "reward" to spur us to create. Maybe thats why you get a rush when you sit down in anticipation of a build and have all the pieces and tools laid out before you. Maybe that is also why when I don't feel I have everything in place or the time to complete something, the "happy" rush is not there, and I loose the motivation to start.

Anyway, I've completed the square block of the G.T.O. backpack which I assume to be some sort of power generator or battery pack. What I don't understand, is why it has a pipe that links to the missle pod on the belly of the beast? It's not like the thing on the belly is an energy weapon that needs an extra boost of power to fire up. Well, maybe I'll make a second unit and call it an MKII and correct all the mistakes that I think are there.

Moving on from the square block, I'm building up the tube structure that is attached to it. The tube itself is fairly easy to make. Its the various attachments that connects the tube to the block that requires some effort. I'll try to post some images once my sis gets back with camera (which should be any day now).