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My custom 1/48 GU-11 Gatling Cannon


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Take one extra gunpod, fold in some scrap parts from a MG Gouf Custom, and whip it together one day when you're bored, and you get this.

I started with just adding the gatling barrels, and it looked pretty badass. But I always like to keep a little realism with stuff like this. The GU-11 fires from an internal magazine, and the spent shells eject out of the middle portion.

I like to think of this as a modification of the GU-11 to fire twice as much ammo, which requires an external magazine, and feed belt, the ejection port is still the same.

Yes, the barrels spin

Yes, the GU-11 still collapses.

NO - The handle does not collapse into the body (I had to make one sacrifice).

Pics...

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very nice i like the shark face stickers on the valk nosecone alot.

chris

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very nice i like the shark face stickers on the valk nosecone alot.

chris

Thanks Chris...

The shark teeth stickers (and all the others) came from Takatoys custom sticker set. I know they don't match the valk and all, but this J is my knockaround valk anyway, so I have all kinds of different stuff on it. :rolleyes:

As to the gatling, it's one step closer to my dream of a custom UN Army A-10 style gropo valkyrie.

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i take it the nosecone can no longer come off right? (because the stickers are holding it on) the vf-1a i used to have had the nosecone fall off all the time i could have used something like that on mine.

chris :p

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i take it the nosecone can no longer come off right? (because the stickers are holding it on) the vf-1a i used to have had the nosecone fall off all the time i could have used something like that on mine.

chris :p

Actually, it will still come off. Erik's stickers are resilient enough that you can unpeel it just enough to take the nosecone off. Of course, I wouldn't do it all the time, but every now and then, it's no big deal.

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I watched that movie Napoleon Dynamite yesterday.. and in his words, "SWEET!"

The Gouf cannon looks like it was made for a GU. Man, the next time I'm drunk at home I'm gonna steal my Gouf's gatling too. Sorry little guy, it's for a greater cause.

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Thanks guys!

On a related note, someone pointed out that there's a concept sketch of a valk with a gatling gun in Entertainment Bible #27.

Anyone got a scan of that pic? I'd like to see how close I may have come to the mark.

And yeah, the Gouf cannon fits REALLY well. I just got lucky when I snipped off the front of the GU-11, that I did it at a point where the circumfrence of the pod was pretty much the same as the Gatling.

In all, it was a very easy mod. All I did was separate the GU-11 parts, I cut the GU-11 just on the outside (towards the front) of the inner wall pieces that tell the grip where to stop when collapsed into the pod.

I cut those pieces out, made a little more room with a big fat drill bit, which also worked to hollow out the walls of the pod just a bit.

If anyone's interested, I can put up some pics....

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That looks really sweet... like a high calibur anti-armor gattling gun... and y'know, you COULD slit the sticker so you could remove the nosecone without peeling up the sticker... just get it where you want it and use a brand new sharp X-acto knife blade to cut along the joint.... it'd still line up without having to be peeled off opver and over again, thus preventing you from ruining the sticker.

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Cool, thanks!

Ultimately, I just stuck the teeth on to see how they would look. That color is really for a Low Viz. I think I'm going to track down some 1/48 scale shark mouth decals with the red background, those would look sweet on Hikaru's J model.

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Its is awesome. Custom stuff doesn't usually get me but that gunpod is amazing. I second the notion of a recast of it. Now that I seconded it, put me down for a recast, please.

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Really cool custom. The closest I got to something like that was pulling a gatling gun from some cheap G.I. Joe knock-off and sticking it in the hands of the Matchbox Robotech Hovertank in robot mode.

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Its is awesome. Custom stuff doesn't usually get me but that gunpod is amazing. I second the notion of a recast of it. Now that I seconded it, put me down for a recast, please.

I think it would be cheaper to go out and buy yourself a MG Gouf Custom and steal his gun. Or, I wonder if those 1/6 scale weapons would fit? I almost bought one for my Panzer Cop when I was in HK. I guess Dragon make them?

Like one of these:

http://www.rakuten.co.jp/tokyo-maniacs/468.../464199/#434048

or maybe a 1/48 Thunderbolt kit and steal his gatling?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...5978367106&rd=1

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Its is awesome.  Custom stuff doesn't usually get me but that gunpod is amazing.  I second the notion of a recast of it.  Now that I seconded it, put me down for a recast, please.

I think it would be cheaper to go out and buy yourself a MG Gouf Custom and steal his gun. Or, I wonder if those 1/6 scale weapons would fit? I almost bought one for my Panzer Cop when I was in HK. I guess Dragon make them?

Like one of these:

http://www.rakuten.co.jp/tokyo-maniacs/468.../464199/#434048

or maybe a 1/48 Thunderbolt kit and steal his gatling?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...5978367106&rd=1

1/6 scale weapons work great on 48s and 60s. ;)

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...opic=12971&st=0

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