by Brendan Moss
Scale: 1.144
Major Cima Garahau - hero of the Lili Marlene and bane of both Zeon and Federation alike. Cima sama uses this suit to literally make swiss cheese of the new Federation suit the RX-78 GP01 Zephyranthes, but meets her death ultimately at the hands of the same pilot flying the RX-78 GP03 Dendrobium.
This is the Bandai High Grade Universal Century (HGUC) 1/144 injection kit of Cima Garahau's customised Gelgoog Marine MS-14Fs Mobile suit from "Gundam 0083 Stardust Memories".
Assembly
The kit is built from the box with the following exceptions:
Head Vulcan cannons were repositioned
Head antenna was lengthened and sharpened
Head fin was made taller
The eye opening for the mono eye camera was made narrower with styrene
Mono eye camera sticker was replaced with a Wave H eye
Top of the chest armour (either side of the head) was raised 1 mm with styrene
Front intake below the head was opened up
Front chest armour was built out with epoxy putty and larger Wave verniers were added
Shoulder tip armour was raised and sharpened
Shoulder armour vents were opened up and backed with engraved styrene
Forearms were made rounder with epoxy putty
Hands were upgraded to B-Club high detail manipulators
Backpack antenna was replaced with a Wave J Sensor
Rear skirt main boosters were scratchbuilt larger
Rear skirt openings and verniers made larger
Knee and elbow joints were made round from square with epoxy putty
Foot armour was thickened by 0.5 mm with strip styrene and the joint between the heel and forefoot opened up
Leg skirts were filled out with epoxy putty
Ankle joints were covered with Wave minus molds
A Wave H eye was added to the rifle sensor
Painting
The kit is painted in custom mixes of Gunze and Tamiya Acrylics. The surfaces were sealed with Humbrol gloss varnish and detailed with oil paints and Tamiya acrylics. The final coat was a Humbrol matt varnish.
Image: Side view
Image: From above
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