Qubeley: Tail Binder 2

Talk about being a lazy punk. Took a break yesterday and it feels like I was hell-raising. Only now getting to finish the tail binder. Seeing also a strange smoothing error behind the arm controller that I'll have to investigate, as well as some sharpening that needs to be done on the tail.

Qubeley: Tail Binder 1

Usually I hit the waist next, but the tail binder and funnels interests me, so starting that.

Qubeley: Body 2

It's about time I got back to the body. Took long enough. Ironing out some of the mechanics.

Qubeley: Body 1

Only had time to start the body. Life's getting a bit busier nowadays.

Qubeley: Head 2

Difficult to get anything done on Tuesdays. Still have the vents on the side of the head and the inner frame of the head, not to mention smoothing out the contour a bit as it seems a bit bent in toward the mid section.

Qubeley

I'm going with the Qubeley next instead of the Asshimar. Forever starting the head first...

GP01fb: okey dokey

Not a lot of the legs had to be redone at all. Some shrinkage of parts not used and the removal of parts of the frame that looked like the GP01 leg so that the GP01fb leg parts could be put in their place. Not much after that. Then the clown feet. Again, time to move on...

GP01fb: Waist 2

There's most of that.... I left the weapons rack clip in the rear of the waist just in case, even though it seems that when the core fighter is docked, the clip cannot be opened without colliding with the rear boosters. Perhaps something similar to what the gm command or even the Nemo uses would be a better idea.

GP01fb: Waist 1

Just a bit of redoing here and there for the waist. Shouldn't be much work...

Short Beam Rifle 2

Think I've got it mostly sorted out.

Short Beam Rifle 1

Think it would be interesting to equip some different weapons for the GP01, especially as katoki's version has a weapons clip in the rear.

GP01FB: Arms

Basically the arms are the same as the GP01, just that the shoulder guards are redone for the FB. Not much to see though. Not feeling it today. I'm bushed and I have to start waking up early for marathon training, so this is it for now.

GP01FB: Body

Some of the chest is fiddled with in order accommodate the newer size/style of the core fighter (which still isn't complete).

240mm Cannon 2

It's fold-able. I might change the color a bit (probably to match the GP01FB)

240mm Cannon 1

In the same vein as the GP01 made earlier, I figured a different gun from the norm would be nice. Starting that too.

GP01FB

Time has come to move on a bit. Going on to convert the GP01 made before into the Full Vernian GP01FB. The process shouldn't be too difficult as the end result isn't anywhere near as radically different as some of the previous ones have been. Starting on the core fighter. As it's a conversion, some parts from the original GP01 unit are still present next to the newer parts. Still progressing.

Deep Striker: Test 1

Going to have to move on soon as time is running thin. Still not done with this guy though. Quite a bit left to do and fix. A shame that I can't continue for the time being.

Deep Striker: Conformal Pack 2

The boosters are probably rotated back too far right now. I'll get to that. Still have a bit to go until the boosters conformal pack is finished.

Deep Striker: Conformal Pack

or whatever the section is that fits on the rear area of the Deep Striker's lower boosters.... Giving them the old start.

Deep Striker: Waist Parts 2

This one's a bit tough. Though it seems to fit on the waist area (after removal of the Ex-S's gun arm and anchor) it doesn't seem to sit right. Still working on it.

Ex-S: Test 1

For the past few days I've been fiddling around with textures and lighting for testing. The test was full screen and with different settings and a different bake of textures to see if perhaps a frame with a decent amount of detail could be rendered (sufficiently) quickly. In this case the test failed as though the render is OK, the time taken is far too long (15x longer than targeted) and again it's back to the drawing board.

Deep Striker: Waist Parts 1

Getting around to the parts for the waist and all. Some of these concepts are bizarre looking....

Deep Striker: Smart Beam Gun

Gave the S-Gundam Smart Beam gun a slight changeover. It's a wee bit longer and the body is of a more bulky looking stature.

Deep Striker: Equipment Mount

It's probably not correct. I'm fairly sure that I have to make it a bit "thicker". But still, at least something is "holding" the cannon and raydome.

Deep Striker: Breast Expansion Unit

The organic looking protrusion from the chest is basically the same mesh as what I made for the Ex-S, just elongated and rounded out a lot more. I probably need to straight edge some parts just to make it look like it's gripping the chest a bit more. The I-Field emitter is a bit larger than the Ex-S version and is centered a little more on the front plate.

Deep Striker: Mega-Particle Cannon 3

I'm fairly sure that the cannon looks ok on its. But with no mounting in place at the boosters it looks a bit silly just floating there. Still working on it as usual.

Deep Striker: Mega-Particle Cannon 2

...Yeah, the shapes are indeed simple, but getting them to look like the images is a bit more difficult than I thought. So it's going slowly.

Deep Striker: Mega-Particle Cannon 1

Starting on that cannon. I'm hoping it wont be too bad as it looks like a lot of simple shapes.

Deep Striker: Multi-Sensor 2

I think the sensor might be a bit too big but it's attached to the arm at the moment.

Deep Striker: Multi-Sensor

It's hard to choose which images would show the correct detail. Even Katoki's own images are slightly different every time, so detail will probably be snaked off of whatever I find on the net. Anyway, working on the arm mounted multi-sensor.

Deep Striker: Raydome

Kinda there. The raydome sits on a mounting shelf on the boosters in the rear, but I'm not 100% sure of what it looks like in more than a couple of angles at the moment so I'll move on to what I can see clearly. The raydome is in a temporary position as it is.

Deep Striker

Making it to the Ex-S just kind of made me think that the DEEP STRIKER could be do-able. Most of the objects look simple, it's just a matter of using every picture I've found for it. Probably wont be perfect but it should be fun. And so starting simple. This is the start of large disk radar-dome (raydome?) mounted on the backpack. Actually, I think it's mounted on something else which is then mounted on the backpack. I'll have to figure that out. But this is basically a modification of the Sentinel Smart Gun's raydome.

Ex-S: ...everyone else has made one

...but at least it's built. I'm figuring on continuing on and so I'll stop with the textures for now on this.

Ex-S: Legs

The leg boosters are in place as are the INCOM systems on the knee appendage. Have to smooth it out a bit more and fiddle with the angles on the INCOM arms as they look a bit off.

Ex-S: Boosters

Created the boosters in the back when I made the Hummingbird. Of course, the latter has a modified booster which puts a mechanical system in place of the fuel tanks in the booster casing, ultimately aiding in transformation. In this case I just reverted to the booster I created before the Hummingbird's boosters. This means that the fuel tanks are back in place.

Ex-S: Hip Beam Cannons

Knockin them out too. The rotation is a little off but it works for now.

Ex-S: Gun Mount Waist

Moving along swiftly I guess. I think the rotating arm may be a bit too large, but it's gettin there. Since the gun is mounted in the front, the side mounts no longer need to exist.

Ex-S: I-Field Generator

Fitting the I-Field generator on the chest and over the front cockpit. Interesting that it fit so well right off the bat. I figured I would have had to rescale it at least a little.

S-Gundam: Damn near it...

....at least enough to move on.