Gundam of the Future aka Mirai Gundam is finally done! 5 days worth of work and countless hours... Countless because I didn't keep track of how long it took me to make it. There were some extra unaccountable work that I did not foresee. But here is my blog's first anniversary project finally done. In case you don't know, mirai means future in English.
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So what started all this? Why, it's Mirai Suenaga of course, the mascot to
DannyChoo.com. I knew I wanted to make another Gundam kitbash after the
Saber Gundam, but I couldn't figure out what. Then I thought a Mirai Gundam would be feasible with the use of Nadleeh! Oh and if you saw
my first post about this Gundam project, I've added a red herring... which is the GN Archer. I didn't use any parts of it on Mirai Gundam :P I have another plan for that one.
Now a word of warning: I am not that good of a modeller... I only have something in mind but I cannot execute it well. So please don't mind the crappy paint job and overall of it, lol. I may take some advice and wouldn't mind having a suggestion for which paint I can use instead of markers for future references if I have time to fix it.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP8w2sbZeSoMBmlTvMZLIoxDjNJSMdHt1UxUbfw915-U813Wls4Sj0o8u2gubirtl9v_0NjvnP37st2XkiBN7i7Ger_ETBP1NPRWeXTIjMTN0VFmeX8zHi7zphdGzvir1wgC2mLpZN0JI/s400/MiraiGundam02.jpg)
Here's a quick tour of the Mirai Gundam... In the front you'll notice the "d" on the chest. That was a printed out decal from my computer and stuck on with glue. It's not well done and some of the paint stuck on the front of it before. I had to fix it real quick with white paint. Hopefully it's not too bad. Forgot to mention... instead of the ribbon on the chest, I opted to colour in the core in the blue ribbon colour.
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The neck piece that is used for the Kyrios torso tilts forwards and backwards, so it has a bit of an effect on the hair at the front.
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Angled side view shows the "d" logo on the side of the arm that's supposed to be a part of the uniform for Mirai. And I gotta say... this is the first time I've seen a Gundam with "socks"! I laughed and laughed at this fact. It just looks so strange XD
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Here's the back side... the hair had to be repainted just before I took these photos. Some of the paint peeled off because the hair is actually a flexible piece instead of other materials. In the future I may have to repaint it again.
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Another side view shows the hair tie on the side of Mirai's head. It was hard to paint it because I was all shaky and couldn't paint in a straight line. I can see visibly how the paint is rubbing off here... I'll fix that soon.
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Here's the Mirai printout I used for colour reference. You can see that I was trying to compare my Gundam markers to the original art.
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Mirai Gundam with GN Rifle! What do you like best? Mirai with a gun...
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Or with a beam saber?
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Or perhaps with dual beam sabers?
I'm trying to do all the poses that Mirai does, but unfortunately Danny's mascot page is offline at the moment... Either that or I can't find it at the moment. If I remember other poses that I haven't done, I'll post it here or make another post.
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Mirai Gundam with hanky? Do Gundams cry GN particles?
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This is the Mirai Figma pose that was shown at
Tokyo Figure Show... though the arms are a bit too long here ^^;
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The pantsu exposing pose... And YES, I painted the bottom part white for this reason! :P Cannot unsee?
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Here's a pose where Mirai is supposed to be in a maid uniform... but I don't have one, so go with this one ok?
I visited
Chun on Thursday to show her this Mirai Gundam. She suggested I do outdoor photos. It was a nice day outside, but it was kinda windy. As for the people watching me, I didn't even notice. I was focused on the Gundam not falling from the wind and trying to get the right focus for the camera.
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So here she is outside... Had to prop her up on the box I was carrying her in because there weren't any stable surface outside.
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Mirai... it's not nice to read over someone's shoulder... or their wrist for that matter. A bronze statue that sat on the bench at the mall I went to.
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The mall had an indoor garden with perhaps fake plants... I thought it was a nice setting for this. Just as I finished taking these pictures, my brother called and I tried to quickly grab the Gundam as I was talking... Unfortunately I dropped her on the pot of dirt right beside this bridge... Thankfully it wasn't so dirty. I also noticed a security guard passing by, but she didn't say anything to me.
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There's a waterfall in the background.
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This is what it'll look lilke IF Danny uses Mirai Gundam as part of the
DannyChoo.com banner XD
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Here's that kneeling picture again. This time she's holding a smaller version of her Gundam ^^
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I really liked this dual wield beam saber pose! So much so that maybe we can use it for a
Figure.fm header?
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And finally, I had to do a parody of that
Hidamari Sketch scene... Gundams are a bit hard to handle unfortunately ^^;
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I think I'll have more things I'll do with Mirai Gundam in the future, she is after all, Gundam of the future!