Turn A Gundam is considered to me, at least, the one and only kind of rare designed Gundam. I read an article before that during the production of the latest Turn A Gundam anime by Tomino Yoshihino, the meaning of Turn A is the collection of all previous Gundam, therefore he wanted to have someone who could design a Gundam that would fits the theme, and thus came forth the design by Syd Mead.
Honestly I was not really buying into the design at first, but after watching the anime and further digging shows that this Gundam is indeed unique and it does somehow suits the theme that Tomino wanted. It is to date can be considered as a pretty strong Gundam due to the fact that it uses i-Field as propulsion system, possesses nano-machine technology that could turns everything in contact to dust, plus able to regenerate itself.
This MG Kit that I did was for the Pla-Zone forum Overkill Group Build. In someway my theme would be to overkill it with details, which I don't think I've achieved much. At least I was able to do something new. Without further ado, the following are the pictures taken for this kit.
The color scheme is mainly White because Turn A Gundam has a nick name called White Doll. So I was trying to go along that line, White. Then, I chose the Gundam Hammer instead of the usual beam saber or beam rifle just to give it something different than the usual setup. I have used the Gunpla Builders Parts for this kit as well, mostly for the clear green lenses on the back of the body, the head, and also for the Gundam Hammer. The rest of the details are pretty much added using pla-plate.
The other significant change of this kit is the head, where I shifted the antenna from the chin to the forehead. Indeed that Turn A signature is the mustache antenna, but I thought probably trying to see how it would looks like should the mustache is moved to the forehead. It turns out pretty cool, in someway.
This kit has been entered into the Malaysia Gunpla Builders World Cup 2012. I never thought that I would get good comment from people though because the color is considered as pretty monotonous as most people would prefer more vibrant and more colors. Still, even with those little comments that I received, it's good enough for me because I'm still learning to improve, and those comments are like an achievement remarks that "Yes, I have at least achieved the objective!". Of course, some critical comments are good as well in a way that could help to improve on my future build.
The work in progress for this kit and the finishing pictures are also posted on the Pla-Zone forum as well.
