AMS-119 Geara Doga (Char's counter attack set) ギラ ドーガ

This time, I will formally start the Char's Counter Attack Set. As you might have notice, I built the Jegan on the first review, so it is time to complete the rest.

This set comes with eight MS, and the box art is an SD version of the original movie's poster, the box is huge too, so I was pretty surprised when I got it in mail.

Geara Doga comes in two different color in this set, the purple is a custom machine for some character in the movie, but the two units are identical. They have a pretty impressive arsenal too.

Geara Doga from the front.

...from behind

For some reason, Zeon's MS all look bad ass.

equipped with the lazer multi-tool.

I can be use as an axe, a pointy digging tool.

AND swords, I need to get myself one of these for Christmas.

The projectile weapon for them is the shield grenade launcher. Yet another one of my favorite BB senshi weapon. On top of leaving both hands free, it can hold and fire TWO bullets.

Let's see what this baby can do. We will use the Guncannon dummy as the target. Ready, aim.........

FIRE! Missed the first shot due to my poor aim, the second shot knocked dummy off the ground.

The paint job was relatively easy, and the built and weapons are really cool, so this turned out to be a really fun kit to built and play with.

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RX-77 GunCannon ガンキャノン

This time we will be back to the Earth Federation's MS. The RX-77 GunCannon.

This is one of the original three main MS in the original Gundam series. It is designed to be heavily armed and specialized in mid range support.

True to its root, this guy has NO close quarter weapon, instead he has SIXTEEN bullets, the most of any BB senshi I have came across, so he won't run out of ammo and allow anyone to come close. Also included is the parts for the RX-77 heavy weapon type.

"Face, Off". It will forever be a mystery why they would think this is a good gimmick for a SD character.

Guncannon with the spray missile launcher, they use clear plastic for this eyes, which is a very nice touch.

Dummybot, he holds all the spare parts that you don't use.

Guncannon with his 204 mm cannons. These are his main projectile weapons in this kit.

In my version, he wears the shoulder pads. For some reason shoulder pads make them look stronger.

Armed!

ready, aim...........fire!

The bullets can go to a pretty impressive range

This kit is one of the few kits that has 3 spring loaded weapon. With the clear plastic goggle and face open mode, it is one of the most playable kit in the early time.

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MS-14B Gelgoog ゲルググ

I have slacked off a few weeks, so this time I will update a few. First will be the Zeon MS, Gelgoog.

This is one of my favorite MS of all time, it kind of reminds me of a medieval knight. 

This kit comes with customizable parts so you can choose to set it up as the classic Gelgoog, Regelgoog or Johnny Ridden's Gelgoog. It has a pretty impressive arsenal when you lay them out.

This is the class Gelgoog form.

The tiny shield is probably not going to protect him much, but it looks good for the shooting pose.

Zeon MS all look Badass.

This is the Regelgoog style, changing just the shoulder pads makes him look even more badass, and of course I let him equipped his spinning double sword.

Really compromised on the painting for this guy, but he looks good with minimal painting anyway.

The other backpack didn't fit well, I probably will have to glue it on if I really want it. Oh well, until the day I find a real run that fits him, this will be left in the reserve.

And the most surprising feature of this guy, the right hand has a tiny rubber band in it, so the sword can actually spin! AWESOME!

Gelgoog's projectile weapon, the grenade launcher. The one of the right hand is the "actual" to scale size, the one on the left hand is the functional size.

Since the grenade launcher is mounted on the forearm, that leaves his hands free to carry other weapons, and if you have a second kit, you can even equip him with two of this baby(ies).

A trial shot, the bullet is tiny, so it goes to a pretty decent distance with the original BB spring.

The Zeon MS usually have bolder design, I guess unlike the Gundams, they don't have to be in the viewer's face at all time, so their job is to create the surprise element in bursts and thus giving them more creative freedom to do non-standard thing. This is actually a very good trend when it comes to toys.

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RGM-89 JEGAN ジェガン

I will try to update this blog with one completed kit a week. The first one to make the list is this one

RGM-89 JEGAN

Personally I like these mass production type MS a lot, they all seem to make more sense then the Gundams. If we will ever have robot type weapons, they will most likely look like them.

I have painted these kits with minimum effort, MY goal is for them to pass for children's toy. So I am not going to go nuts and fix every detail.

Here's the rear view.

Jegan comes with a pretty decent arsenal, from rifle, swords, shield, grenade and flying fist(??)

And of course the missile launcher shoulder pack.

I went a bit overboard and got multiple units. This particular kit is extremely easy to paint, so it didn't really take much time to put them together.

I prefer the standard type, because the shoulder pack restricts arm movement, making it EVEN HARDER to pose.

Last but not least, a group shot.

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Making stronger guns. スプリングガンをパワーアップじゃ。

So I have received the model kits I ordered and got excited to start putting them together. The first component is of course the little spring loaded gun.

"Umm, something is wrong."

The spring that comes in the G Generation package feels very.......soft. Anyway I will put it together and see how it goes.


"................................."

What the..........this bullet barely made it through the barrel, I guess the toy safety law has forced Bandai to switch to weaker springs. That's fine, it's just a spring, there must be a fix for that. I just need to measure the dimensions, calculate the load and make sure i don't get a spring too strong that would destroy the gun itself.

The world has become a better place, they have website that allows you to design your own spring:

http://www.planetspring.com/pages/compression-spring-calculator-coil-calculator.php?id=compression

The BB senshi springs are 12 coils, 9.652mm in free length and 0.254mm for the wire diameter. Thank whoever invented the caliper for this.

So i went to Enco ( http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRHM ) to look for similar spring, and the closest thing I find is a 0.444mm wire diameter spring. I punched in the numbers and here's the result:

it looks like the 0.444mm one would do the trick, about 9 times stronger then the G Generation ones.

I ordered three dozens of it, and have put them on the gun. Here's what they look like :

The custom spring is about twice the length of the original one, so I cut it to the same length as the original ones in order for it to fit.
















This time we will use Jegan to perform the shooting test.

The bullet we are using is the heaviest one in his arsenal. We will start with the GG spring(weakest).

Ready, set.............

GO!

Pretty pathetic, it almost made me cry.  Now let's try the original BB senshi spring

An improvement, but not that big a difference. Let's try the Enco Spring

Woohoo! I think we have a winner! The rotation of this picture screwed up, but you can see Jegan at the lower right corner. Judging from this, I will be using the enco spring for all of the other kits.