Gūijiă TAG Finally Done!

Gūijiă with a Gŭiláng sniper for scale.

Any of you elephants out there reading this blog might remember that I said that my Gūijiă TAG would be finished next week, back in November last year. Well, here we are nine months later and my baby is finally done! Hehe! Actually this is somewhat of a habit of mine when it comes to painting larger Infinity stuff. Both my Aragoto and my Sù-Jiàn were left half finished for months before I finally got around to squaring them out. Generally, I get tired of painting large models that require lots of detailing. My Dust Warfare mecha I knocked out in an evening or two, but those were also just spray, wash and drybrush - easy. For Infinity I want to try to do better than that.

Gundam decals for some extra detailing. Should get some more sheets, they're very useful!

Anyway, here she finally is. I think the Gūijiă is my favourite Infinity TAG design, it's not my favourite execution (that would be the Gecko) but I do love the Masamune style landmate thing that it has going for it. Many are turned off by the large flat thighs but I think that's most definitely a feature! There are however some problems with it. The two things that jump out at you from the get go is the ridiculously oversized gun and the sword. Really? A sword? When you have a gun that big?! I thought long and hard about modifying the gun, loosing the sword and then changing the pose so both hands would be on the gun, but it just seemed like too much work when I'm sure we'll see a resculpt of the Gūijiă sooner or later (perhaps sooner considering the upcoming Invincible sectorial). So I bit the bullet, glued on the sword and the four meter long gun and went to work!

I've taken inspiration from some other Gūijiă paint jobs I've seen as well as the works of Shirow Masamune. I wanted to get faaaaar away from the orange horror that is the studio paintjob (sorry Ángel!) and make it look more like a working machine than some cartoon... blob. The idea behind the colours is to evoke a kind of police/SWAT feeling and I think it workes fairly well.

That gun... *sigh*

With all of these large flat spaces this model really cries out for some nice airbrushing, but since I still don't have one I had to go at it with the old brush. I'm not entirely happy with the gradients as my feathering isn't good enough to do the thighs justice but, meh, what the hell. It looks good enough I think. I might go back and redo the sword some day though as it's pretty bland at the moment.

In any case I'm happy simply to finally have a TAG painted! Granted it's not one of those fancy "trick TAGs" like the Cutter with its TO camo or the Yoroi with its cute ambulatory mines, but it has solid stats and can bring a heavy grenade launcher and that is all I ask for. :)

Next up painting wise is probably some spaceships for Jovian Chronicles, but after that I think I might just get cracking on my remotes. Now that I have figured out the colour scheme...