Impulse : Blast Silhouette 2

Still working by eye so some of this is probably super off, but it looks like it at least fits. Used the force silhouette as the starting point for sizing. Hopefully the larger cannons work out.

Aegis: Surfacing / Rigging 1

Had to rerig this as I flubbed the parenting and the transformation looked really off. Also working on some missing geometry as I hadn't taken some of this into account when building it. Most of the transform is a surprise in terms of how the engineers created this.

Aegis: Rifle 2

Seems to fit on the right binder ok. A few more detailed bits and it should be good to go.

Aegis: Beam Rifle 1

Started on the rifle. I recall these being easier than this one appears. Hopefully there aren't any real surprises in this one.

Aegis: Shield 3

I suppose mounting the shield on the binder is the anime normal? Probably good when transformed.

Aegis: Shield 2

It's getting close, but a lot of the detail just doesn't flow with the mesh for the shield itself. I'll go back and add more of the shield bits in, but some I suppose I'll map in as well.

Aegis: Shield 1

Finally getting to work on the shield stuffs. It's a nice departure from the X100 series sheild design in some ways.

Aegis: Binders

Finally got the side binders --for the most part. I think the rest of the the detail can be just mapped instead of modelled. So I'll go with what exists here now.

Aegis: Side Binder 1

These binders are huge! Looks like a little space ship next to the mobile suit. Would be neat to have a cockpit in them - but I'm not going to do that. Strangely complicated though.

Aegis: Arms 1

The holidays have been over for a while but I'm only now getting to this. I find it interesting how similarly the arms and legs are built, but I guess it's because of how symmetric the mobile armor is in the end. Still, I have lots of detail left to cover and some placeholders to get rid of.

Aegis: Waist Section 1

After the holidays I've finally been able to sit down on this again. But instead I'm looking at getting a better rig for burning through image processing and such. Anyway, it's kinda going.

Aegis: Body 3

It's not terribly difficult in terms of geometry, but to be honest, finding time nowadays to build this is actually rougher than I thought -- compared to what it used to be!! It's coming along but holidays and what-not are wearing away the time :D

Aegis: Head 1

I recall being able to pump one of these things out seemingly almost every other month. I highly doubt I can do that now, but it would be fun to try. Here's to the start. I had forgotten most of the tools and shortcuts I used for making these so I don't think this will be a quick job. I wanted to make this one basically because the old Zeta-esque transformation is kind of boring, and many of the other mobile suit transformations are either obvious or not really tranformations. Aegis does a damn good job of making me scratch my head and ask "what went where??" It'll be fun to figure this one out. Here's to the start!

Still on it...

Still working on the water and adding more ships. Conveniently running out of memory a great deal so I'm probably going to have to bump that up in the near future. The astrays - the dumbed down version of the red frame created earlier as well as the flight unit, need shields and guns and the ship itself could use more detail -- and maybe roll back the fog a bit.

Takemikazuchi Test

Trying to get used to this fancy-pants node system and all of the new stuff that seems to have come out for both Blender and Lightwave.

Takemikazuchi Update

I've forgotten a lot about how to go about modeling, my shortcuts I have to relearn, and some of my older plugins don't seem to exist (or they've moved/changed names). To try to recall all of this again, I've gone back to simpler bits in terms of shapes and reworked the takemikazuchi model I was hoping to finish. I've never seen an exact set of prints for this one so it's still on-the-fly with some reference from relatively modern carriers.

Astray Red Frame -- sans Flight Pack

I still like the Astray after all of these years -- 4 since I started this model. I think I'm getting the bug again...

Freedom Gundam V2: Test Scene

Once the archangel gets done I'll want to make a wings spread kind of scene, probably similar to Seed's episode 35 when it makes it's entery to save the Archangel. Anyway, since I never checked the wings, I thought I'd do it now...

Freedom Gundam V2: Leg Frame

I've gotten a few questions on this... Is it the case that I construct a frame for the Gundams? The answer is yes. For example the leg frame of the Freedom. Damage occurs at some point and the leg will need to come off... It would signal a sort of "half-assed" modelling attempt if it wasnt there after the leg(s) get totalled.

Freedom Gundam V2: Complete-ish

Mostly done. Needs a couple more texture areas that I forgot. I'll start/finish the Archangel before I get another pose I think... [edit]: I don't really need the Justice Gundam for any of the animations anymore and truthfully, I didn't really like it. Personally I think it got the wrong end of the hardware stick in Gundam Seed -- though I'll admit that the Infine version is quite nice and at least focuses on a particular attack paradigm. Eitherway, enough people are probably building it, so it won't even be a novelty to make for fun...much like it's no longer a novelty to build Freedom (there're so many on the net now).