{"id":1743,"date":"2007-01-12T06:13:11","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T14:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2009-02-12T06:14:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T14:14:49","slug":"in-progress-%c2%bb-project-pandora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/in-progress-%c2%bb-project-pandora\/","title":{"rendered":"In Progress \u00c2\u00bb Project Pandora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subhead\">12.27.2006 \u00c2\u00bb Concepts<br \/>\n\/ Intro<\/p>\n<p>My next project is a custom MS design<br \/>\nbased on the PG WZC frame. I&#8217;m calling this unit<br \/>\nthe Pandora. I still need to decide on an era<br \/>\nor if I even care to fit it in one. Probably post<br \/>\nF91 so I can justify a beam shield and short stature.<\/p>\n<p>I am looking to find a good acronym<br \/>\nfor H.O.P.E. System though to do the whole Pandora&#8217;s<br \/>\nBox thing. So far my favorite is <strong>H<\/strong>ydr<strong>O<\/strong>xide<br \/>\n<strong>P<\/strong>olymorphic <strong>E<\/strong>ngine<\/p>\n<p>As for the design, I&#8217;m taking elements<br \/>\nfrom a lot of my favorite MS designs and fan-art<br \/>\n(especially WindFall and Studio Reckless) for<br \/>\nthis. Also some queues from the Evolve Hi-Nu (hence<br \/>\nthe extended ass and crotch) even though I&#8217;m generally<br \/>\nnot a Hi-Nu fan at all.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I have no sketches as the<br \/>\ndesign is in my head. I&#8217;m also playing it by ear.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve got so far. The main gimmick<br \/>\nfeature I designed on it so far is the top of<br \/>\nthe mid-chest which slides forward to open the<br \/>\ncockpit. I know the WZC does that, but I had to<br \/>\nmake my own mechanisms. I&#8217;m also integrating magnets<br \/>\nunder the armor for potential full armor (Full<br \/>\nPithos (storage jar)) mode.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"anInprogImage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fichtenfoo.com\/images\/prog-Pandora\/armor-01.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"anInprogImage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fichtenfoo.com\/images\/prog-Pandora\/armor-02.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"614\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"subhead\">12.28.2006 \u00c2\u00bb More<br \/>\nChest Armor<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten the basic shape of the<br \/>\nchest armor done. Now I just need to do clean-up<br \/>\nand the detail work for it. It splits up into<br \/>\nseveral pieces to allow for painting and removal.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll take pics of all the seperate parts soon.<br \/>\nI also need to do the upper torso, but needed<br \/>\nthe chest fleshed out first. It&#8217;s funny that I<br \/>\nneed to do A before B before C, but I need to<br \/>\nfirst figure out what A is. Gotta love scratchbuilding.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the pics.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"anInprogImage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fichtenfoo.com\/images\/prog-Pandora\/armor-03.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"anInprogImage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fichtenfoo.com\/images\/prog-Pandora\/armor-04.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"subhead\">12.29.2006 \u00c2\u00bb More<br \/>\nChest Armor<\/p>\n<p>Last night I made the boxes to add<br \/>\nto the shoulders and started on really cleaning-up<br \/>\nthe chest parts before detailing. Below is a photo<br \/>\nof the finalizes chest shape. The chest vents<br \/>\nare modified extras from my MG Rick Dias.<\/p>\n<p>Today I worked on the upper torso<br \/>\nthat is connected to the chest, the crotch armor<br \/>\nand I started on the thigh armor. A lot of the<br \/>\noriginal WZC armor is rounded. This will be a<br \/>\nboxier design so much of those parts are getting<br \/>\nscrapped. I am still using small bits of the armor<br \/>\nthough and just layering over it to get the shapes<br \/>\nI want, but allowing me to keep the same attachment<br \/>\npoints to the frame.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"anInprogImage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fichtenfoo.com\/images\/prog-Pandora\/armor-05.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"subhead\">01.03.2007 \u00c2\u00bb Skirts<br \/>\nand Legs<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the latest batch of photos<br \/>\nwith some new body parts armored. Obviously there&#8217;s<br \/>\nmuch progress all over, but this project is so<br \/>\nmassive that it all seems to look the same for<br \/>\nquite some time. These shots show the basic bare-bones<br \/>\nprogress. These &#8220;panels&#8221; of styrene<br \/>\nare merely the first layer to give me something<br \/>\nto start building onto. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"anInprogImage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fichtenfoo.com\/images\/prog-Pandora\/armor-06.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"412\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"anInprogImage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fichtenfoo.com\/images\/prog-Pandora\/armor-07.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"543\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"subhead\">01.12.2007 \u00c2\u00bb Legs<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the latest on the Pandora&#8230;<br \/>\nnot much new as I&#8217;ve been too busy to work much<br \/>\non it, but I got the leg armor shaping up. Here&#8217;s<br \/>\na pic:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"anInprogImage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fichtenfoo.com\/images\/prog-Pandora\/armor-08.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"561\" \/><\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Ffichtenfoo.net%2Fblog%2Fin-progress-%25c2%25bb-project-pandora%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font=trebuchet+ms\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 3px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12.27.2006 \u00c2\u00bb Concepts \/ Intro My next project is a custom MS design based on the PG WZC frame. I&#8217;m calling this unit the Pandora. I still need to decide on an era or if I even care to fit it in one. Probably post F91 so I can justify&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/in-progress-%c2%bb-project-pandora\/\"><span>Continue Reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,56],"tags":[175,72,42,193,708,234,250,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}