Way Cooler Than Leo's Gundam

Today, I started my first Gundam model in maybe 10 years.  I ordered the real grade version of the ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam.  This is a 1/144 scale model, which is about the same size as my Gundam toys I used to play with when I was a kid/whenever I'm home.  Don't judge me cunts.  Now apparently this dude is from Gundam Seed, which I've never watched so I have no idea anything about this guy.  But, he looks pretty fucking sweet...

...and with a name like Freedom Gundam, I figure he's gotta be one of the most American Gundams out there.  So I figured, what the fuck, and ordered him off amazon, and today he came.  And Then I realized just what I got myself into...

But I persevered, and grabbed the instructions...

Yeah this will be a piece of cake!

...fuck

But there were nice pictures inside so it wasn't too hard.  First I made this sweet ass skeleton

just to make sure everything fit together.  A cool thing about this model is it's mad posable, way more than the toys I still play with.  I'm sure someone can count all the millions of points of articulation blah blah blah.  Let's get started, bottom up, with the foot!

That looks like shit, but luckily, I'm a boss, and with some effort, BOOM!

Way better than before

Now we got both done

Then, I'll do the legs

and holy shit are these fucks posable

Stab those fucks into the feet, and boom

Next I made the crotch, which had a surprising amount of articulation and stabbed the dudes in that

Now I made the torso, which came out sweet

Stab that fucker into the legs

Next, I did the arms, here's a before/after

And stab those fucks into the body

And now the head.  Fuck this piece, holy shit.  This things like the size of a penny and is made up of like 50 pieces.  Christ, I almost burned down my apartment in rage making this fucker

Here's a size comparison so you can tell I ain't shitting you.  Oh and that shitty red goatee is a separate part.

Stab that fucker into the body and boom, we got a Gundam!

I got tired so I'll make his wings and weapons and shit tomorrow, the wings should suck huge amounts of dicks, but it'll look mad sweet.  He looks pretty cool right out of the box, and since I'm stuck in my shitty studio apartment, I probably won't end up painting him.  But I will panel line him, just to make him pop.  Tune in tomorrow or sometime soon to see how he ends up.