Gundam Seed Destiny

Just finished watching Gundam Seed Destiny.

It was OK, despite some boring parts because I really got immersed in the storyline.

It takes off where Gundam Seed ends. The peace between ZAFT and the EARTH ALLIANCE FORCE was once again broken because of a terrorist act on the Naturals (EAF).

The neutral Ground that is ORB is forced to ally with the EAF as the Naturals go into war against PLANT... this is where the complication begins and where the fun kicks off!

Now as a series of event pull Asuran back to plant, Cagalli back in the Archangel, Kira back in Freedom and so on... you will be taken on a love hate trip with one of the new lead characters Shinn.

Kira and Stellar... I understand where they were coming from, so I didn't hate them that much!Lolx!

Now some may say this anime is too EMO, but as I have said I liked the serious political plot and of course, the mobile suits in action was also a rallying factor why I watched the Anime through and through!

Strike Freedom!!!

I absolutely loved Kira and Lacos in this series, and I especially loved Strike Freedom as well as the Akatsuki!!

Images of Gold Strike Freedom!

Good day guys, just wanted to show you some images of our latest project, our G-custom inspired Strike Freedom- Gold!

The first few stages of assembly, looking good eh!


Strike freedom is way bigger than our IWSP Strike!

Now with the wings! Asteeg!


Wings plus the big guns make Strike Freedom a Prized purchase!

As always, MG flexibility is measured by the kneel-ability...Lolx!

Ladies and Gents our first Color customized MG Gundam!!

Gundam Making Aftermath!

Unbelievable!!

Sobrang Dami Talaga!!

Wow check that out!!So much plastic wasted!!Lolx!

I'm Talking about the plastic runners left after every MG and or SD we build. It just seems sucha a big waste!

Maybe we can recycle it...

Yep, maybe we can use this again somehow...

Gold Strike Freedom!Yata!!!

Guess what part this is...

Now I must tell you that piecing together a Gundam kit with your own hands is a very accomplishing feeling! This is what I felt with our Strike with I.W.S.P. and F 91. However it was a much better feeling with Strike Freedom when it emerged from the assembly line... find out why, read along!

Now I do not want to be wordy with this post because the images will do the talking for me! Now as I have mentioned earlier we chose Strike Freedom because we had big plans for it. This was supposed to be our very first color customized MG, a means to open new portals in our Gundam Plamo building skills!

Sprues lined up to dry!

So here it goes! First off, the paint... the standard color combination for SF is red, white, blue and gray and of course gold for the inner frame. But for this project, we picked up N0. 14 black, mat white and Gold. We also picked up an exacto knife and a 1200 grade sandpaper.

The painting team... where's the BLUE color??LOlx!

For this Gundam we wanted to deviate from the standard color and just use red, black, white and gold. We started painting at 10 pm and finished at 3 am even if 3 of us worked on the painting job. It took us some time to alter some colored parts since it required more than one go with our spray paint!

Getting down and dirty with Strike Freedom!

Project Strike Freedom Gold begins the next day. The sand paper, paint brush, spray paints and markers were all within reach as we began cutting the parts, ready to sand and paint excess sprue parts.

I am now officially cross eyed because of all the paneling!

Paneling SF's parts was definitely a grueling task, especially its gold parts and the wings!Phew!

A small nail cutter and the Exacto knife helped a lot in trimming the plastic parts, which was the immediate task after the inking en route to the start of the assembly mode.

Strike Freedom is a fun build MG from head to legs... it was really fun piecing it together.

Kira Yamato- white version! LOlx!

The hands was different from the IWSP Strike but it was still solid. The newer MG's, like Noir and IWSP have far more flexible joints for the arms and hands.



While the entire body was a breeze, the wings was definitely a tornado! It was like piecing together a leg for each wing!Awts! And as a result, it took us until the next day before we pieced together everything! More than 8 hours of cutting and sanding and inking and ...

The 100 piece wing!!Joke!

But in the end of it all, I would have to say that the outcome was very pleasing! And so here it is, the finished product.


Oh and BTW, here is our inspiration for this project:

So is it close enough??LOlx!

More images of this strike version on the G-custom website. I will post additional images of our Strike Freedom next entry!

Strike Freedom wins the survey!

Strike Freedom wins!

Based on the MG Gundam Survey I previously posted in my blog, I finally decided to purchase the clear cut winner of the survey and that is none other than STRIKE FREEDOM!

It was a tight fight between Strike Noir since the Stargazer MG Kit had excellent reviews especially with its hands and shoulders. However when it came to the actual purchase time, Strike Freedom was the better choice. It was Freedom's explosive backpack that clinched the win!

Kewl MG as well! But SF was better!

I also chose SF because it came a long with a stand just like our Strike with IWSP! On the other hand, Noir had just 2 primary colors (gray and black) so it would cost us less on the spray paints, while SF will cost us 3 colors, namely gold, blue and white.

More ways to customize!

But again, Strike Freedom got the nod from us in the end... we wanted something a bit different from our IWSP Strike... but with the same number of weapons... the Freedom Strike won again in this category!

So as we bring home SF, we already had monumental plans for this MG!Just wait and see!