Full Mechanics Forbidden Gundam

Built and decaled by me. Painted and panel lined by my dad.

Honestly it’s been so long since I snapped up the Forbidden I kinda forgot what I wanted to say about the build, but I’ll try to talk about my thoughts anyway.

In my opinion, this is the best Full Mechanics in terms of engineering, but it kinda acts as a double edged sword. In my last post, I made as much of the inner frame as I could, and I found it very impressive. Snapping the armor pieces together, the body was pretty solid, and my god the backpack basically built like an MG, having amazing part separation and a crazy amount of moving joints, but my god the backpack alone weighs as much as the Gundam, and as you can guess, it can barely stand on its own. The trick that I was able to pull off is to lay the feet unevenly, and position it in a way that the stance doesn’t look awkward. Little would I know that the scythe being so outlandishly large, holding it with the scythe pointing forwards, the kit somehow balances out. Granted, it’s the only pose you can pull off while standing. 

Anyway, as this was my dad’s kit, he was in charge of doing the detailing. As per usual, it would take him 4 weeks to finish it, with like 3-5 days within that period where he actually worked on it. For him, this was fortunately not as excruciating to do as the Calamity as the Forbidden had quite a few more inner frame protrusions, but unfortunately messed up on the paint in some places, such as on the right thigh, which is why it looks “damaged.” Once he finally finished painting, I then used the sticker decals that still suck, but none of us still don’t want to pay or do the effort of using waterslides. For how big the kit is, there’s not much that needs to be applied, nor is there much leftovers to use, so decaling ‘er up only took one sitting in one evening.

Finally, I posed Forbidden up and my god I really need a bigger lightbox at this point. Something I didn’t realize until I posed Calamity and Raider was that, Jesus, SEED’s druggie trios are surprisingly bulky AF, that any time I want to do a cool dynamic pose, well, it wouldn’t fit in the frame properly, if the image explains what I mean. I really had to photoshop my way to fix the backgrounds. Though, I’m still surprised what poses I can get out of it regardless. Also, there’s some great irony with Forbidden’s transformation—it balances better on the ground versus having it on the stand. Why couldn’t they bother making a sturdier adapter so that the transformed state wouldn’t be so front heavy? 

Well, that’s that. The druggie trio is finally complete, and I could really take on a break from this frame, although I should expect Aile Calamity to arrive on my doorstep next month. Having rewatched SEED and Destiny to catch up for SEED Freedom, which I luckily was able to catch in theaters last week, it should be no surprise what we’ll be tackling for our next project… I’ll see you then!