BANG - SSI - COBALLKAN
Volks "SuperSpiritSeries" - 1/100 Resin

SSI Coballkan (or "Harezu no ninngyo or Bang Doll"): this is the name of the MH (Mortar Headd) built for hand of three of the greatest builders (Meisters) of MH, Drs. Crosbin, Woona and Ballanche and assigned to the "Lown Knights of Coballkan Sutra" of the planet Kallamity. Known also as the Mortar Headd of the Mortar Headd, the Bang Doll (explosive " Doll ") it is gifted of unbelievable power. They exist from there more exemplary, 137 for the exactness, each of which characterized by variations aesthetical and different degree of power, 5 they are the most famous and you assign to the elite of the Riders of superior caste. The Bang Doll are very beautiful and elegant, how much dangerous and deadly. They are able of teleporting and their height varied between 14 and the 15,3 meters high, while their weight is oscillating around the 121 tons. Her developed power is equal to 1,35 trillionis of horses and his/her first employment it happens in the SC 2600.



This kit is the original one of the first version of Bang Doll of the Volks, that "Super Spirit Series" 1/100 of the ' 92. The history of the realization of this model has been rather long and troubled. After having him/it orderly directly to the Volks in the ' 93 (to the epoch I didn't know other method to get these kits to me), the kit was revealed very more binding than I waited for me, above all in comparison to the technical abilities that I possessed, so I ended it, after numerous errors and to varied resumptions, to the worse, with a debatable coloration white-sbiavido. I had ruined the small shield of the right arm, all the joints (fixed) of the legs of the feet and I had ruined irremediably and broken almost all the thin metallic parts in endowment as the pipes and the characteristics tails (or whips) back.

The model remained with the awkward posture and the semblances brought in the photo here above for more than 8 years up to when, in the November 2001, tired of to see it so, I have not taken the hard decision to refer it afresh all, but with a substantial variation. Definite of to detach me from the usual version SSI, opting for the unusual version commonly called Square Shield that best man at the end of the V volume of the saga (here reproduced while it is fighting with a Black Knight) that, further to some variations introduces a different shield square note. In more I wanted to give that elegance of proportions and that to her rush that only the illustrations of Mamoru Nagano and the kit Work Shop Cast of Ikushima (and now also the new version MM of the Volks) they possess and that they missed in mine entirely. Entirely gotten off this way once, I have dipped all the pieces in a basin full of thinner and, with an old tooth brush from teeth I have provveduto to remove completely the old painting. Subsequently I have made a kind of project of all the variations, more or less radicals, from to perform.

Feet:
continuing the line of the " boot " I have prolonged with fed up Milliput the neck of the foot of around 1 cms also adapting to it the relative mechanical joint. Besides I have reduced the space to the least one between the two " heels ", cutting some parts of the mechanics between them.

Legs:
being this the part mostly incriminated of to make particularly stumpy this model, and being inconceivable of the assistant prostheses to one or to the other extremity, has opted for the longest and binding road. Holding as reference the stair between the inferior part of the leg (what covers the neck of the foot, to intend us) and the rest that arrives up to the knee, has saw in two parts the really long piece that stair. Then, crossing again more times the two faces on a sheet of abrasive paper of rather big nuisance previously fixed on the plan of the table, have removed all the due irregularities to the cut making them perfectly two extremities combacianti. Subsequently I have perforated the two parts worrying me to hold her in axle so that you/they could have united from a rod of 2 mms. Once finished this operation for both the legs, have outdistanced the two sections of 1 cms filling the void with fed up Milliput. Once hardened, I have provveduto to the lisciatura, extremely delicate operation, in how much I wanted to avoid of to ruin the particular and the existing incisions, neither than to damage the stair of the underlying " gaiter ". Once finished up the everything and recreated the lacking part of the back mechanism, I have had to prolong the particular and the incisions with the point of the cutter. Besides, after having carved it on a sheet of Plasticard, I have glued the " V " on the anterior part of the left leg, that was conceived in origin as decal.

Thighs:
Undoubtedly also the thigh had to have lengthened, but not could follow the method used for the legs of "cut and insertion" because of the abundance of anterior incisions and of details present back mechanics on his surface, I have opted for another solution. Always with fed up Milliput I have realized a mechanical prosthesis on the superior part of the limb, moving more aloft the joint that the colleague in the basin of around the cms and canceling the traces of that preexisting. In more I have recreated the mechanics of the knee (in almost nonexistent origin), lifting the subsequently all of around 3 or 4 mms.

Basin and skirt:
Having lengthened the legs of around 3 cms and mean, so that to avoid disproportions, has had to also adapt the skirt, moving his/her plates more in low of around half cm, also giving so anymore breath to the bust. The two side parts - and central have been instead you lengthen to the usual way creating a prosthesis of Milliput. Same discourse for the frontal part - central, whose has been lengthened of around 4 mms.



Bust:
The bust has also been lengthened of around 2 mms with uo thickness of plaster in the part superior and subordinate, adapted subsequently and finished up following the convexities of the mechanics.

Chest:
The only variation of the chest has been the to recreate its dorsal part, operation for which inspired me the Ban Doll WSC of Ikoushima (as usual I have used the Milliput).

Head:
Being the head another substantial variation of the version Square Shield, and being gifted of a shorter spike in comparison to the normal version, has detached the long blade (14 cms) anchored on the summit of the head cutting last 6 cms by him. Then I have glued the blade so gotten on the summit of the head, previously reconstructed following the indications of the illustration of Nagano and the recent version Volks MM.

Shoulders:
Always following the aforesaid illustration I have provveduto to vary the anterior protections, making her more triangular and square and approaching them to the chest, while the back protections have been lengthened and estranged by the chest (since they bumped against it). subsequently I have recalled the mechanism of joint the chest, dressing again a rod of 2 mms with fed up Milliput, subsequently worked to dry. Finally I have added, on the anterior surface of the right shoulder and on that back of the left others two " V" carved in the Plasticard.

Arms:
Since the superior part of arms were short and stumpy, I have scrathbuilt them , keeping track of the back mechanics. The small shield of the right arm has been entirely almost referred, as all the mechanics between a piece and the other. For how much it concerns the left arm, what would have had to bring the new shield, has been everything strengthened with a rod of 2 mms that, departing from the sword, went out above the hand. Subsequently the open piece, after having been dressed again of Milliput, has been transformed in the mechanism of support of the shield, as usual carved and finished up to dry with cutter and abrasive paper more nuisances.

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Shield:
The shield has been completely autocostruito to more stadiums, following the few formal indications of which I prepared. For first thing I have cut as I support the form desired on a sheet of zinc, in the mean of which I have proceeded, always with the good old Milliput, with the to create the central mechanisms. Once completed and finished up I have them favorite dressing again them from a thickness of resin (drawn by the excesses of the sheets of the same kit) of the same dimensions, around which I have begun to support a layer of Milliput with him of around 3 mms of thickness, that would have become the amplest and smooth surface of the shield. Once hardened this surface I have detached the rectangular protection of resin, that had already created the gradient between the central part and the rest. To the inside I have glued a sheet of Plasticard of the same form perimetrale of the shield, but more narrow than around half cm, to level the all and on which have proceeded with the to model the inside mechanisms following the usual procedure.

Pipes and back tails:
The pipes, being those original gone lost or broken, I have scratchbuilt them dressing again some iron rod with small rings divided one from the other to create the characteristic crack. The " tails " or " whips " have also been reconstructed by zero, since those original had broken in more points. For each of the three back tails I have followed this procedure: after having carved from a sheet of Plasticard 8 placchettes (7 peers and that final longest), I have engraved her vertically on the half to facilitate the folding of each of them to " house roof". After having made this operation for all the necessary plates to everybody and three the tails, I have glued them on the iron fil previously cut to measure. Subsequently I have dressed again the inside part of every plate with Milliput, to cover the iron rod and the glue.

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Painting
For how much it concerns the coloration I have opted for a most neutral and grey tonality to distinguish it from the traditional Bang Doll. After having washed and taked the grease out of with care from all the pieces and dried perfectly once, I have proceeded with the layout to airbrush of a grey primer a lot of dark color, gotten from mixes of basic Flat + Flat black + Flat white Tamiya. On it I have stretched the grey definitive more polish (White + Seed-gloss black + a point of blue, always Tamiya), not uniformly, but leaving trasparire more dark halos, especially in the proximities of the mechanical parts. Dried perfectly subsequently once the everything, and after having disguised all the necessary parts with masking ribbon Tamiya, I have painted with colors Gunze (The pigment of the white one is better decidedly of that Tamiya, above all for that polish) the clearest parts, getting a white whipped cream from mixes of the white one with a point of yellow. For how much it concerns the mechanical parts, for the you dress again only still from the primer, I have performed on them a drybrush with a grey slightly metallic. All the details have been performed passing with a very thin round brush of the black ink. Finally, always to brush, I have realized the sporcatures and the straining with biting for wood.

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