Green Light for Ojou Upgrade
Had been hunting for upgrade kits for Ojou yesterday after work but to no avail as most electronic supply stores don't have those compact button battery pack available... Eventually I gave up and headed straight back to my den... ^^;
Inspiration came later that same night when I suddenly remembered my comments from months ago in Figure.fm in which I suggested the possible usage of Light Units from Gunpla kits to light up Ojou's eyes...
Unhooking my extra Light Unit from my 1/100 00-Raiser, which I purchased through HLJ as Gunpla parts, I've managed to slightly modify it to work for the Ojou... :D
Removing the original LED from its resting place, I extended the wirings using scavenged soundcard jack wire... The minuscule work onto the wiring is tedious, especially during the phase of removing its rubber coating to reveal the shiny wires, requiring steady fingers with the help of a pair of pointy tweezers...
Testing the wiring couplings... Success...
Further reinforcement using bits of the extras left behind from the massacre of the soundcard jack wire... ^^;
Green light for Ojou Lighting Version! :3
And now to properly mount the Light Unit onto Ojou's bare back... ^_^
From my many years of Gunpla-ing, a lot of excess parts from various kits pile up indefinitely. From those extras I found and used some polycaps to form the base of the backpack that will connect to the Light Unit...
The peg will go into Ojou's hole while the transparent grabby thingie will hold onto the wire of the Light Unit... :D
Due to the nature of the connecting pieces, I can readjust/remove the backpack whenever/however I want... :D
It's alive! Portable Lighting Unit in the works! ~_^
An overview of the backpack at a couple of angles...
Looks good! Now to paint to match her Highness. :)
Paint does not work well with polycaps so I'll pass... ^_^
brush a bit of primer, then paint.
I find paints will hinder movements between the polycaps... >,<
It does ok if you use Polycarbonate paint (Tamiya has them for RC cars), and the power cable and battery holder should take paint fine.
I think I'll stick with the backpack being an utility instead of being a part of her body... LOL
Now that you mention it, it does have a geniuine touch.
Mount something there?, a shoulder cannon, gatling gun, wings, custom power ups for her highness?
OOOH! Nice result!
Took me quite a while but it's worth it... :D
Oooooh. You get extra points for using gunpla parts, and portability. Add some glossy paint, I'd swear it was suppose to be there. Great work, Yunamon!
Well... Don't wanna waste the excess polycaps, do I? ^_^
Paint it white, paint it white!
Get yours today~! XD Paint her all you like... Heck, paint her pink! XD
pretty coll, makes me wanna light up my recently acquired drossel.
Make your Ojou unique!
So far in Figure.fm comrade kodomut's the most unique with her Danchou armband... ^_^
Is it possible to turn it on and off?
I want to do this, but it seems so difficult cause I have no experience with this stuff. Even after reading Kodomut's tutorial, still hard looking D:
I deliberately made the backpack with the on/off switch in mind...
You can see the sliding switch here... http://www.figure.fm/post/en/2099/Green+Light+for+Ojou+Upgrade.html#image11341
nice improvising with spare parts! looks great ^^
Arigatou~!
Well, one's refuse is another's treasure... ^_^
All it needs is cueing the Energizer Drossel Commercial.
LOL Good one! Now I need that Usamimi comrade zh3us's been sewing... XD
Genius!
Awww... You're too kind... *^_^*
Ooooh wonderful! Good job on the mod. I wonder if I should mod mine or not ^^;
You should...! Makes you closer to your Figma...
Much like how you appreciates your Gunpla when you've spent times at assembling them... ^_^
Woot!! A GN Particle-powered Drosell! Twin-tail Drossel, ikimasu!
Now that you've mentioned it... I find the fighter hair piece on Ojou looks like the twin GN Rings as emitted by 00-Raiser... XD
I should get Drossel then XD
Preorders still up at HS and HLJ... quick!
GN Drive activated, Gundam Drossel system all green, preparing to launch~
Fantastic work ^o^b
Now onto Innovating other Figmas... Nendo won't stand a chance in the upcoming Figma versus Nendo war... XD
fo sho!
gundam figmas > moe nendos lol
Dunno... Sometimes Nendo can kill you with just a pose... XD
Ojou-sama looks like an astronaut with that Backpack which is pretty cool .
Hmmm... Ojou-sama now has Ojou-Beam .
A strong contender for Mikuru Beam~!
Now if only I have more budgets to get a Battle Waitress... ^_~
I love the pose on the last one! Very cool!
She's like a special kind of borg...
My fave pose as well... :D
But she's no Borg... She's a Construct... :3
Green eyes make her look awesome. Great job ^.^
Green light shines over the original bluish transparent base eyes really enhances Ojou... ^_^
Very creative I must say. I would love to see everyone's Drossel customized. ^ ^
So am I... The possibilities are endless! :D
Ooh! The backpack looks really snazzy. ^^ Not that either is better - but is it just me, or does the Gundam green LED looks darker than kodomut's? Is it just the camera?
kodo-san's Ojou has two LEDs installed... Mine only has one... ^^;
Power source current and type of LED plays a part too!
That I concur... Might further upgrade her eyes if I got any chance... XD
*facepalm* Y'know, if you take DC slang into account...sounds like someone's getting silicon. ^^;
Might consider that if it's possible... ^^;
good job on the modding :D
love the gn drive lookalike attachment on the back ^^
Mmm... Perhaps adding the GN Particle effects on my future 4koma... ^_^
That's a cool backpack. Nice job with the LED :)
make it look like GN drive ;)
Hunting for brighter LED... Got one just now... Will try and test the drive tonite...
nice works, I just received her, will add led too ~!
Drossel equipped with the GN drive? She might get too powerful and might harm you through continued use! Even more than the psycho frame!
Why is she called "Ojou"?
Some darn impressive ingenuity!
ahahah when she's holding her back apck unit, it reminds me of the magnet iron man needed to keep jimself alive in the 1st movie