martedì 9 ottobre 2007

Gebler

I haven't got back my camera yet, and, as usual, I'm waiting for packages to arrive from Japan, this time it's books and models, I hope I can take some pictures when they arrive.
Well, today I took out of my shelves the pieces for the Gebler project, a big kitbash I started planning last year and keeps evolving very slowly since then.
Gebler was born as an "imitation model" from Kobayashi's Advanced Shape Wars' ones, I bought some Gundam kits and a Knight of Gold from FSS to do something similar.
So I needed a strong military look, and yet do it with a hint of organic appearences, as usual, projects were doomed by my habit of changing them rapidly and so Gebler got a more Z.O.E.ish appearance, with feetless legs and flight designed elements.
And now, what has become of Gebler?
Well, its progress is still, obviously, but has reached a steady status of a cyborg-like giant mecha, something like Neo Shaian in Dragon's Heaven.
In fact, I'm keeping a vynil Iria's cloak for this model, along with other parts took from Dunbine's action figures and many plastic and resin kits. I think I'm going to try and recast some parts from Cambria and Neo Shaian for this one, and then add some 1/35 figures around.

Now some pictures, the first one is a couple of early sketches of the big G, one for the arm and one for the Z.o.e.y version, then two other sketches, with the bigger, fuzzy one to represent the cloaked mecha and then the last shot I could take of his head, today I got a little further but not very much.





Bye, TF