Completed Build: HGUC Delta Plus Ver. Centurion

HGUC Delta plus centurion gundam unicorn

Intro

Completed my entry for Zakuaurelius' 100k contest. I decided on a Roman centurion themed build. To get the appropriate look, I wanted to add a cowl/cape and round pauldrons, with sword and shield as weapons. Another challenge was to balance my desire for high amounts of details but also having to complete this within a deadline.

Methods and WIP

I snapped the kit on Nov 7 and began planning and modifying

By the 23rd, I had a gist of what the kit would look like; there was still scribing to be done. I took detail parts from dollar store star wars hot wheel toys. At this stage I had ordered the Kotobukiya side cloak, but had no idea whether it would arrive on time.

I noticed a gap between the shoulder and the chest when I attached the IBO Barbatos pauldrons using magnets, so I scratch built a couple spacers using styrene. These parts slot perfectly into the shoulder armour connector for the original kit's shoulders

scratch build HGUC Delta plus centurion gundam unicorn

The cloak came just in time so I was able to complete all surface detailing. I had to carve the cloak extensively in order to get it to fit onto the kit. The effort seems worthwhile; it has an imposing look with all these mods.

By now I had about 1 week to fix surface details, and paint the kit. For painting, I took the shortest path possible; primed but without re-assembly, and mostly guessed on what the colour should be. I used Mr.Hobby lacquers: wood brown and mahogany for main body, hull red mixture for the red, and did post-shading with lighter tones.

It was not comfortable at all since I wasn't sure how the colours would look together, but I was relieved when everything looked pretty complementary at the end. No time for decals, unfortunately, but I think the clean look is quite nice. Notice the "delta" on the shield; inspired by the spartan shields that had "lambda" on it.