So, uh, this one is clearly long overdue. Like last year with our Quanta armor, I didn’t have time during the final few days of building and the subsequent rush of the actual convention to churn out the final build log chronicling our last leg of the journey that led to the full Wing suit. We worked until 7am the…
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Operation Meteor: Part 4
The suit is finally living up to its namesake – Wing has wings! But of course, this build isn’t done giving us issues – the wings may be up, but they don’t like being down. In retrospect now, it’s a really good thing we decided to get a head start on this year’s suit – we’ve had to rebuild…
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Operation Meteor: Part 3
Don’t be fooled – he’s wearing the armor, but it’s held together by tape right now – none of it is actually strapped and ready for paint yet. We still have quite a few kinks to work out. Wing has turned out to be the most difficult Gundam to work with in terms of its outrageous proportions – you’d…
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Operation Meteor: Part 1
Summer’s rolling in, which of course means Anime Expo is too. It feels like we barely got a break from building cosplay armor since we had a little commission project this last winter, but the regularly scheduled show still rolls on as we get to our next Gundam armor – this time from the After Colony era. We considered…
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MG Heavyarms Gundam EW
Heavyarms was always my favorite suit from Wing; loved pretty much everything about it, color scheme, nipple blaster guns, stupidly large ammunition supply, pilot, and all. Needless to say the Master Grade release was an instant-buy; after nearly a decade we finally get a presentable Heavyarms kit, and it happens to be Katoki’s original Endless Waltz redesign. You get the…
