TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

[clee-cm]

1. Thanks for the compliment, Ezechiel.

2. Wow, recasting the model...

I did not even think about that idea, but because of the ambitious nature of this project, I have to say let's wait and see what happens and see how this MS turns out.

One step at a time, I still have a lot of work to do.

But thanks for the idea, FichtenFoo. 

[mtomczek]

So will you attempt to get this casted if it turns out well? I know at least one person that'd likely buy it if it did. *cough*matt*cough*

Ahahahah! You know me to well. 

[ZLuca]

 :twitch:I'm speachless for this kind of work!
Huge! This is really a brave project, congratulations Clee!
I'll be more than glad to follow it.
WOW!
z

[aspexx]

  Yes, the Hazel Owsla is going to be 1/35 scale and big, but not to big, so far I am doing very well with the styrene. The most complicated part of the initial construction was the primrose unit, since has a lot of moving parts that transform (I am not going to make a transforming Primrose Unit), I used a lot of styrene to construct this beast. Otherwise, the construction of the rest of the MS is going well.

I bought styrene in 12" x 24" sheets, so I am doing great on styrene, if you ever do any kind of scratch build, buy the styrene in large sheets, this will save you a ton of money. 

The more people who join the build the better, don't let me scare you off. 

haha i just saw the deadline..if its august of next year i am definitely in!
maybe i'll do a 1/60 tr6 lol
btw just curious what is the thickness u are using?
and where did you get you supply?
i get mine from my local hobby store...they are the evergreen ones about 5"x 10" and depending on thickness,
thinner ones usually come with 3-4 pieces selling for about $4-5

[clee-cm]

I am using .010, .040, .100 Evergreen Sheet Styrene, I bought the styrene from Walthers.com, it is a great place to buy stuff for modeling, they mainly sell model rail road supplies and kits but the sell a lot of stuff for scratch building.   

.010 for the outside surface details like non moving hatches, doors and levers
.040 for the outer panels, and .100 for the main structural parts, the
.100 styrene will provide structural support for the parts.

Here is the URL for Walther's Styrene page.

Again, the price of the styrene varies according to the thickness.

[clee-cm]

Test Assemble of Primrose Unit and Thruster Pack

A few days ago, I test assembled the Primrose unit, to my relief everthing for the most part everything fit. Right now I my main goal is to construct the pieced of the Hazel, once all of basic components are completed, I will begin filling and sanding all of the seams and rough spots. I included a 1/35 German Panzer Grenadier for comparisons, during the construction process, I switched liquid cement, I am now using Plastruct, so far so good.

I still have all of the small elements left to construct, my next goal after the constuction of the arms is the top High-speed Booster Unit mount, that goes on the top of the thruster.

Here are some photos of the test assemble.

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

Hazel Arm

Now that I have finished constructing the Primrose Unit, I decided to start construction of the arms, I was going to do the feet or one of the lower leg armor units, but I am running out of styrene, so I settled on constructing the arms, the hands are a different story all together. 

I cut the pieces of styrene just like I constructed the rest of the MS built so far. but since I cut all of the pieces of styrene before I started the assembly of the pieces of the arm. I used a sharpie to label all of the different pieces, as a result, the assembly went much smoother than I expected.   

What I ended up doing is scanning the MG RGM-79Q Quel kit plans, and enlarging them to the required scale. I went to Ninja Science's flickr photo gallery and found the images for the necessary parts of the arms and the various pieces of the shoulder armor that I needed.

I decided to construct the low profile shoulder armor instead of using the normal RGM-79Q shoulder armor units. Right now I still have to construct the mounts for the shoulder armor, and cut the beveled edges for the arm.

I have not constructed the hands yet, I am still deciding how to tackle this project, scratch build them, or buy two UC Hardgraph kits and take the hands and use them on the hazel. Yes, I will have to modify them if I do this.

I am not sure yet. 

Here are the photos for the arm.

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

[fulcy]

I see you have alot of work done on the arm already, but did you consider using the hard graph gundam arms as a base for yours instead of scratchbuilding the entire arm?

[Ezechiel]

Looks awesome! Love that wip!
I don't like the UCHG hands, they look boring. I don't think they would match the sexy AoZ feel of the rest of your kit. Plus, having build 1/60 hands from scratch, I can tell you 1/35 should not be too hard, especially if you're not going for something moveable. It takes time, that's for sure, but it's pretty fun if you're into this, and judging from what I see here, you definitely are!
Plus it'll be cheaper...

[nico]

That's an impressive WIP quite fast building so far. I agree Eze with the rigth styren stuffs, building the hands should not be to difficult (for you  )

[clee-cm]

I see you have alot of work done on the arm already, but did you consider using the hard graph gundam arms as a base for yours instead of scratchbuilding the entire arm?

I had a look real good look at the arm for the RX-79 in the UC Hardgraph kit, the problem is that the shape and detail is different from the RGM-79Q Quel.
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Looks awesome! Love that wip!
I don't like the UCHG hands, they look boring. I don't think they would match the sexy AoZ feel of the rest of your kit. Plus, having build 1/60 hands from scratch, I can tell you 1/35 should not be too hard, especially if you're not going for something moveable. It takes time, that's for sure, but it's pretty fun if you're into this, and judging from what I see here, you definitely are!
Plus it'll be cheaper...

Thanks Ezechiel

I am seriously considering scratchbuilding the hands. I am trying to decide on weather they will be movable or not.

Your giant hands for the gaplant inspired me to scratchbuild this Hazel.

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Thank you Nico for the compliment.

[clee-cm]

I am posting a quick status update on this project.

This project is not abandoned or forgotten, because of the Holiday Season, and my Traveling to Europe for New Years, I have not worked on this project for a while.

Before I left, I started work on the Thruster Pack Clamps, Top Booster Unit mount, and the Beam Saber mount on the Thruster pack, but I am out of Styrene, so I am going to have to order some from Walthers before I start on this project again.

I have also created the plans for the Hazel's torso and weapon mounting point.

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

I traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, Prague, Czech Republic, and Toronto, Canada, but I brought back a unwanted souvenir, I got sick on the way home.

[clee-cm]

It took me a while, but I am back at work on my Hazel, I had to order some more styrene, and wait until Mom flew back home before I could start work on this project.

I am working on the torso right now, I started on the Rear torso maneuvering thruster unit that attaches to the Hazel's rear torso, I have completed the construction of the basic shape, and started construction on the torso it self. I am using .100 styrene for stiffness and support, the outer skin will be .040 styrene, so far I am progressing faster than I had expected.

Eventually I will cut out the six holes in the tail for the maneuvering thrusters, it should not be a problem looking for something to replicate the six thrusters, the two 20mm or so diameter thrusters that sit in between the tail thrusters will be a challenge. I have to find something that looks like rocket thrusters, so far I have not come up with any ideas yet.

Here are a few shots of the construction process.

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

Here is a shot of all the plates from a test fit after I completed cutting and construction of the frame.

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

I will post more photos once I finish work on the torso unit, I did on realize how much bigger the Hazel's torso is compared to the GM-Q Quel's torso unit. I still have a lot of work to do, I have to cut and sand the corners of the rear tail, and make the 6 thruster bays.

If you are at all curious, here are some photos from my trip. Click here to check out my photos.

Enjoy.

[Ezechiel]

Glad to see you back on it!
Still very accurate!
(nice pics btw)

[Kiske]

Did you just use the 1/60 Paper Model Hazel and scale it up for most of this... 

[clee-cm]

Did you just use the 1/60 Paper Model Hazel and scale it up for most of this... 

To create the plans for my hazel, I started out with the 1/100 MG RGM-79Q Quel plans in the instruction booklet and scanned the plans to the size that I needed, then I went to Ninja Science's weblog and looked through the scans that he had posted, his flickr photo gallery is also a great place to look for AOZ scans from the Dengeki Hobby Mag's AOZ Specials to research the Hazel's mechanical parts, and draw the plans that I needed.

Since I am building the primrose unit, I had to do a lot of extra research, the Hazel and the Quel share common parts externally, but that is where the similarities end. 

By the time I finished, the original plans looked completely different from my finished plans.

I did not create my hazel's plans based on a model, I wanted to do the research myself.

I am including links to the two sites I am talking about below.

Ninja Science's Flickr Gallery

Mechascientific

[Kiske]

not acussing or anything, just asking 

well then, I hope these help you in you endeverous adventure-

http://www.geocities.com/mechanim8or/papercraft

[clee-cm]

  No offense taken, I am building the Hazel/Owsla, the Hazel TR-1 has a different chest and cockpit unit.

Still, thanks for the link to the paper model. 

[clee-cm]

Ever since I returned from my trip, I have been working on the torso, so far I have made good progress on the construction of the torso. I started out by cutting out the basic shapes of the mobile suit from .100 styrene, per my previous update. To provide support for the waist sections that will support the waist armor and the side ammo storage racks, I have laminated pieces of styrene together so that when I drill holes for the support rods there will be some thing behind the walls of styrene to support everything.

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

Torso Unit

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

Torso Unit hole

As I progressed in my construction, I drilled pilot holes to mark where the leg jounts will go, I will make the holes larger and add the needed detail later, once I finish construction of all the mobile suit's major components. In one of the photos below, I drew a red rectangle around the spot where the pilot holes are, there is one on each side. In the other photos, I have stacked up the pieces of styrene to show what I am trying to accomplish, later I will add some kit bashed parts into the spaces to simulate the internals of the waist sections, normally you will not be able to see this since the normal Torso unit will cover the detail. But the Primrose unit is narrower, and sits higher up, so I have decided to add some detail in this area and a few other places.

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

Right Torso Section

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

Right waist section

I have made lots of progress with the tail section. I have cut out the holes for the tail thrusters, and started to cut the beveled corners of the tail. I test fitted all of the parts, but I will have to do some sanding and cutting to create the correct corners.

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

Rear Thruster plates

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

Tail section rear

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

rear close up

After the construction on the waist units were completed, I test fitted all of the parts for the torso, below are some photos of the work I have completed so far. I have to build the torso weapons latch and the ring mount that attaches to the latch, eventually I will drill out all of the holes needed to attach the parts. I have decided that I will drill holes and super-glue the metal rods in place to provide the needed support for the other pieces of the model. I still have to add some styrene to the rear and raise the tail higher, plus I have to add the ring mount for the chest unit.

Here are some photos of my progress so far:

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

front view torso

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

top view torso

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

side view torso

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

Rear view torso

I have to thank everyone for their support in this project, and giving me the encoragement to keep working on this model.

Thanks everyone.
Clee-cm

[clee-cm]

Well, Since I spent Sunday waiting for the handy man, and football season is at a end... 

I had a lot of time on my hands, so I spent the day working on the Hazel, I started to cut the plates for the Hazel's lower leg armor last night, and finally started to trim off the base plates for the 4 parts of the lower leg armor, and the upper leg sections.

I got a far as assembling the front knee Armor for the Hazel's lower leg, here are a few more photos from the construction process.

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

TR-1 Hazel Owsla/Primrose

I still have a long ways to go, but I am making some progress.

[Ezechiel]

Oh wow, so you're doing the whole thing?
Proportions look perfect so far!