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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Glaug


Here is an image of Dave Porter's Glaug battle pod.

This is a “Glaug” battle pod from the Macross. It’s piloted by officers of the Zentraedi army (the bad guys). This kit is 1/200 scale and I built it straight from the box. I created a Martian surface for a base. The model is finished in Gunze colors and artist oils.

9 comments:

-Warren Zoell said...

I think I'm going to finish my Trad 11. I'm feeling inspired.

Anonymous said...

Hi Warren,

What is the Trad 11? What show if any?

Dave

-Warren Zoell said...

The Trad 11 was a walker machine from the early 80s anime tv show called Combat Mecha Xabungle.

Valerie Troutman said...

Love the model as always, but that's got to be one of the worst names. I can just picture somebody yelling, "Oh no! It's a Glaug!"

-Warren Zoell said...

When I hear that name I picture some solitary, fat, large,bad tempered slimy beast with a penchant for tasty creatures that run away from him.

Anonymous said...

Yeah! I can't even pronounce most of the names of the hardware. The Robotech series scrapped most of the Japanese Macross names and came up more generic ones.

kevin said...

Hello,
It's a nice paintjob you did there, especially since it's supposed to be quite a small piece.
I'm wondering what exact size is this kit, once finished, I can find no info about it. Would you tell me what's its exact height and the length of the cockpit/main body, please ?
Thanks in advance.
Kevin. (france)

Anonymous said...

Hi Kevin,

Thanks you for the compliment. The kit is 9.5 cm tall and the pod is 4.6 cm long. The scale is 1/200. They show up on ebay once in a while. There is a 1/100 available too. Are you looking to get one?

Dave

kevin said...

Hello Dave,
Thanks a lot for your nice reply !
Now I know how small it is, thanks to you.
I'm actually wanting to make a squad of fully articulated Zentradi pods like the revoltech "Regult" one (-> http://www.flickr.com/photos/20495509@N00/3742111707/ ) and since the 1/100 old Macross kits are way too big in comparison, I wondered if the 1/200 pieces would match, so I have some base to work with. I already started to work on modified parts for the Regult I recasted. Then I'll be able to have several "standard" ones, plus the different "missile carrier" ones and a "scout" each with is own markings.
... Now I guess I'll have to full-scratch the Glaug, since the scale of the Regult seems to be between 1/100 and 1/200. Too bad that there is no existing 1/144 model for these Pods ! ^__^

Thanks again and best regards !
Kevin.