Icarus's blog: "Hurts to watch."

Where the HELL is my grape juice...

Alright, Between work
phone
girl
comics
thirst
and inventorying

Last thing I remember before I went to bed was

doing an initial sketch of my Gouf.

I did it from the manual and did a pretty decent job of it
and I decided on
...
oh yeah I was gonna panel line of the arms.

I decided that this would be a high mobility variant black tri-stars colored Gouf.

High mobility means more thrusters
... ooh that could suck

and less armor.
So I drew the upper 80% of the suit and on one side reduced some of the armor and surfaces.
... I didn't hate it.
So I said that'd be the first thing I do tonight.

Two hours later and some interesting things happening with plastic dust I've reduced the mass of my Gouf's shoulder's by about 20%... probably more.
It...
really might not be that noticeable

but the maneuverability of the arm went WAY up and those unsightly overly round and bumpy surfaces between the shoulder and the spikes are gone

thinned the middle prongs reduced the bevel on the edge of the shoulder down as far as I could and still have the part connect and sit on the body.
Short answer

I like it.
And I love these fucking files.

I think it looks sleeker. And I think I'm going to put a sharp bevel on the bottom of the skirt.

It was a lot more noticeable when I had one shoulder done and placed it right next to the slimmer one.

That rough dry appearance is the result of the filing and sanding, it'll clean up in priming.

There's more surface mods planned. The skirt, the sword possibly the torso. No intentions for the legs yet other than sizing it up for a box and a jet on the calves.

That

needs sketched first.

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4/15/10:

Skirt and torso bevels/reduction are done.

I got a mango smoothy and decided to feel sorry for myself after work. then I produced a lot of angry blue plastic powder.

Did I mention I was in special projects all day at work today... did I mention the environment at work is becoming more... uptight. Did I mention... nope.

Skirt and torso bevels/reductions are done. I sketched the mods for the kit over breaks and lulls (systems went down for a full hour today). I'm thinking 3 bell cups (jet boosters) on each leg... unless they overlap each other in the space between the legs, and an extensive backpack mod because... the stock booster pack looks like it could barely lift my gramma much less a walking metal god of death. At the moment the booster should get two fairly large cups on the back two shoulder struts with articulated verniers (those lil jets on shuttles and crap to adjust direction in space)

The plan is to put a lot of directional force in the design, a lot of lift and a lot of thrust, but ... not so much in correction, hence the struts. I also played around with the shield, the sword and the command spire. At the moment the sabre fits in the shield and is drawn and stored within.

If I'm gonna put rings in that sword, it won't fit in the shield any more, so I designed a holster, then I'm free to redesign the shield into a more threatening spiked design, I was thinking of giving it a frontal talon so it could be used as a piercing weapon and still have space for the hand machine guns on the left hand. It pretty much just involves extending the current lines to a point.

More conceptualizing and adapting as I can. It's getting late and I need to close shop for the night.