MG Tallgeese WIP 1

This is WIP 1 of the MG Tallgeese.

I recently received this Daban kit as a Christmas present from my wife - and since I was in no rush to finish up the RG Freedom diorama I thought I'd kick off the new year with this build. I decided to submit it as an entry to GundamUK's ongoing Level Up competition. I really like the theme of this event, as it encourages the builder to up their skills and try something new.

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As an avid fan of fantasy games, movies, and tv shows, I've always wanted to incorporate a fantasy/medieval theme into one of my projects. The tallgeese is a good candidate for this because it already resembles knight armor. For this build, I thought I'd push that theme a bit further. As I'd just finished watching season 3 of Game of Thrones my head is already full of inspiration going into this project. After going around the local mall, I was able to find a furry thing that might satisfy my needs...and ended up with this:

a furry tail keychain of course...what were you thinking?

This wouldn't be the first time I'd be using unconventional stuff to modify my gunpla (see Kampfer Desolator with gel-filled light-up glass fuses)

After cutting the fur thing up a bit...

Tallgeese...of house Stark?

The gundam purists reading this right now are rolling their eyes so hard they can see their own brains...Gundam universe context aside, I think the fur shoulders suit the kit quite well. If exia repair and crossbone can have giant cloaks that magically billow in the non-existent outer space wind - then my tallgeese can rock an effing pelt! Remember the giant space whale fossil in Seed? Well, this pelt is from a giant alien space wolf! gyahahahaha!  Anyway, I expect it will be a love-it-or-hate-it kind of mod, but I am building for myself and I think it looks good, so I'm going with it.

The left shoulder and collar have been done up with scale-armor looking plates, and the head  is being modded to look more like a helmet...

Madness?...This is SPARTA!

I'll be doing more of the scale plating wherever I think it might improve the design and reinforce the whole mechanical knight theme.

I still have quite a way to go with the mods, but the most difficult part I think will be trying to get the paint to look ok with the fur. I may have to do some type of weathering to bring it all together..but that is exactly what the Level Up competition is all about!

Stay tuned!