Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Tieren Desert Storm Ground Type 1:100

This kit has been a typical playing ground for experimenting different types of weathering from soft to hard and battle damages. This kit is so popular from the 00 gundam series that is used by the Human Reform League in its ground warfare with the celestial beings. It has enormous amount of photos floating around the net so I won't bother to post here any out of the box pics to avoid redundancy.

I think this has been the kit that I have assembled quickest so far. It took me a day to snap-fit the parts together. Then another day to paint the entire thing, and lastly, another full day to put weathering and battle damages. Unfortunately, after completing it, it took me weeks before to post it here. Another kit in the pipeline caught my attention and I have left the Tieren standing on the shelf collecting dust.





Thanks to the runners of my MG Shin Musha, it has extra lots of parts and I was able to salvage its spiked flail mace. Then I added a chain to hold it together. 
Here is a work in progress photo of the kit prior to the weathering. I have changed its color with a hue of  beige but the effect of articial lighting makes it on the side of the green. But during the cast of a natural daylight it looks more of a sand beige. The photos way below show the effect somehow.





This battle damage incurred shows an exposed circuit board that I engraved on the kit. I used some computer RAM from my pc and placed it inside the armor :)

                                      








Poseability 8/10

For a No-grade kit it has great articualtion form the waist, shoulders, arms and legs.

Excitement 7/10

There's a lot of interest that lingers in my imagination on how you will weather it and even battle daamge effects!

Design 7/10

Quite unique. Personally, I prefer its looks than the Zaku.

Weapons 6/10


Nothing so special about it but the cannon is decent enough so I added the flail mace.

Detail 7/10

It's plain and simple but matches well with its design.

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