Gerbera Tetra Kai: Test

I'm at a point where I want to clean up some of the textures, step back and see where I've gone nuts. Working with a scene that maybe helps illustrate to me where I could change. Some of the recent MG boxart really shines with awesome textures and design in general.

Gerbera Tetra: Test Render

It feels like it's been so long again. I'd like to really gun this stuff. Anyway, opened the Tetra mesh from a couple years back to take a look at it and rendered something out. Needs work...like they all do. But feeling inspired. I threw in the fuel tanks and I removed some of the armor I felt it didn't need. I'm debating the armor on the rear of the calves as well.

Gerbera Tetra Kai: Weapon 2

The gun needs to have some girth removed from its width and the frame needs more detail under it. I returned to a little bit of both the legs and the rear skirt with very small additions but that's about it thus far.

Gerbera Tetra Kai: Weapon 1

The machine gun is going for the kai, but needs some smoothing out. Get that epac in there and things should be straight.

Gerbera Tetra Kai: Legs 1

Legs1...but I guess they're quite close to being structurally complete. Obviously there are scaling/collisioning and positioning issues relative to the rest of the mobile suit as far as the add-on armor is concerned, and there's a boat-load of improvement that can be done with detail in the leg area, but I'll be ironing them out while I finish the remaining armament.

Gerbera Tetra Kai: Arms 2

The shoulder armor is attached and parented. Need to fake some frame in there too. I went ahead and made the booster mounted on the top of the armor movable -- rotatable by the top of the mount, contrary to the wee figure which is static. Edit: Darn, missed a piece of detail on the rear skirt too...

Gerbera Tetra Kai: Arms 1

Trying to get the shoulder armor modeled out here. Curvey as all get out. Need to knock some holes for decoration in there and then get some "frame" ish detail.

Gerbera Tetra Kai: Body 4

And that basically gets a good portion of the waist out of the way. Trying conjure up some detail for the rear skirt just to take the "blah" out of it.

Gerbera Tetra Kai: Body 3

Thar she blows. I haven't thought up a suitable look for the frame so I'm looking up aircraft images for it and starting to work on that. But the outside is pretty snazy except from the right side green-ish sensor thingy.

Gerbera Tetra Kai: Body 2

Trying to model out the booster in the back, but it's taking a little time as unlike most parts, it's non-symmetric. So both sides have to be modeled and detailed differently.

Gerbera Tetra Kai: Body 1

The front of the body isn't too far from finished, but looks bad with the waist of the GP-04 in the way. The sturm booster still isn't finished which is why it still isn't there, but should fit in the backside when I'm finished fiddlin with it.

Gerbera Tetra Kai: Head

In keeping with Gundam 0083's plot line, those zeon mechanics that worked at Anaheim Electronics took the now "unwanted" GP-04 and converted it into the Cima use Gerbera Tetra, a very zeonic looking MS. Designer Katoki Hajime's version (Gerbera Tetra Kai) changes the look of that mobile suit to literally make the suit look like it was an obvious refit. So I've gotten the head, but faking some detail underneath it. Also removing the armor that the GP-04 uses so that I can ready the Gerbera Tetra. I still need to remove more of the frame to accommodate the Tetra's rather roundish looking armor. The head's a little large, but we'll fix that...