{"id":1423,"date":"2005-11-08T10:13:46","date_gmt":"2005-11-08T18:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2009-02-11T10:17:21","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T18:17:21","slug":"completed-%c2%bb-shinobi-strike-gundam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/completed-%c2%bb-shinobi-strike-gundam\/","title":{"rendered":"Completed \u00c2\u00bb Shinobi Strike Gundam"},"content":{"rendered":"

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About The Kit \u00c2\u00bb<\/p>\n

After completing this kit, I must admit I really like the Strike Gundam from Gundam Seed. Sure it’s “Seed”, but it’s not over the top like most of the other Seed Mobile Suits. The Strike is a basic and well-rounded unit and is not an elaborate design, but still more modern than say the RX-78-2.<\/p>\n

The Strike Gundam is a general-purpose\/multi-role unit. It’s a Gundam at the core armed only with 2 Armor Schneider Combat Knives and some head-vulcan cannons. The “Striker-Packs are what make this unit “multi-purpose”. Basically the Strike has multiple hard-points to attach various “upgrades”. There’s the Aile pack which is basically a flight back-pack, shield, and beam rifle, the Sword pack which gives the Strike greater melee capabilities with a large beam-sword and cable-claw dealie, and the Launcher pack which is your basic BFG and rocket launchers. Pretty nifty design that way.<\/p>\n

Because of this I wanted to design my own “Striker Pack”. I had been wanting to do a “ninja” MS for quite some time now but nothing seemed right for the base kit. The Strike had been sitting on my shelf for about a year and I had one of those “doh” moments and got to work on the “Shinobi Strike”.<\/p>\n

My main feature was an arm-mounted sword and sheath. I played with a lot of ideas before I came to the one I built. I got the idea
\nfrom a cool blind swordsman from the PS2 game – Shinobi who had a sword strapped to his forearm.<\/p>\n

The sword is made from a leftover gun handle, sharpened styrene strip, and misc. bits. The sheath is made from square-tube styrene
\nwhich was cut, shaped, sanded, etc…<\/p>\n

The other idea I had was for a sensor-jamming backpack of sorts. I wanted a nice-size round part on the backpack, but nothing seemed right. Then I found a large washer and got the idea for the jammer-ring. After holding the rubber washer up behind the Strike the look of it grew on me. I went to Home Depot, bought a PVC test-cap, cut the lip off it and that’s what the ring is made from. The rest of the backpack is made from ReGZ BWS parts and Sheet Styrene sanded to taste.<\/p>\n

The color scheme and decals reflect that this is a testing unit for prototype Striker Packs. The decals were designed by me and printed as usual by Models4U who did an excellent job as always.<\/p>\n

About The Base \u00c2\u00bb<\/p>\n

The base is the stock launch deck that came with the MG Strike. I drilled out the little holes and added blinking LEDs using the 4060 timer chip. No movie clips yet.<\/p>\n\n\t\t