Halconfenix Shinkis

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fanservice time! por Halconfenix, en Flickr

This can only end in not-Build Tiger getting a laser cannon shoved up his tailpipe.

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This can only end in not-Build Tiger getting a laser cannon shoved up his tailpipe.

yeah.... B.A.R.T has that much "luck" when it comes with situations like these....

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alright!

now that everybody is sort of being into the "MK2 mood", i decided to take this chance and for the first time fiddle with tempesta's parts... now i can tell why the MK2 equipment is so versatile... its full of parts, Heck! just tempesta's backpack is more complex than i though...

just for the lulz and the awesome i'm gonna show first the custom waverider mode i came up with (i call it: shinki viper raiser... yeah! dumb name)




and tempesta's OTOMEDIUS mode!




as you can see i just worked with the backpart parts at first because my idea is to have a custom armor mode for tempesta since the "official" mode has a bit of a problem:





as you can see the pylons are too close to each other to allow for some decent head movement with the long hair piece and forces tempesta's head to look down if i want to line up the packpack parts properly...

(and yes... she looks quite stiff in those pics... it was her first time you know...

so i tried different backpack configurations...

1) everything connected to the "raiser cockpit"


looks decent but it doesnt solve my problem...

but the next ones do...

2) pylons on the wings


3) pylons on the wings, everything connected to the "raiser cockpit"


(2) & (3) dont look bad but have the pylons too far from each other...

4) "shinki Raiser" configuration (aka: everything on the backpack's "sideskirts" and nothing in the "raiser cockpit")


5) ... and everything connects again to the cockpit :lol


(4) & (5) remind me a LOT of the classic arnval wings...


6) compact configuration


this one is close to the "official" configuration, but connect the pylons to the cockpit by the middle holes instead of the lowest ones...


¿which configurations you llike?


anyway... the next step was the armor legs...

i wanted some sort of tranche-ish configuration for the legs... but on my fist try i had to use some the weapon holders that are supposed to go in the arms...



and as you can see with half the backpack in place... i failed miserably!


(and yes, tempesta is not exactly happy either...)

well... since there wasnt much parts left i though i couldnt make something worthy of armor legs... still i decided to check again the instructions for the official armor modes for the legs...

and that's when it hit me!



now that's what i call AWESOME!

now i still cant decide which backpack configuration suits her best... and there's not much to do with the armor arms so i'm gonna keep those unmodified :p

any opinions? i really want to know how much badassness i can pull off with a custom MK2 configuration

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Both Mk.II's have a lot of customization possibilities. If you want, you can check out fg-site.net, there are a ton of Arnval Mk.II armor configurations to be seen there (registration is easy, even if the site is pure Japanese...).

If I EVER get my hands on one (Arnval Mk. II of course!), I'm sure to do a lot of fiddling with her armor parts, with the occasional adding of parts from other stuff (like my Beetle Girls).

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If I EVER get my hands on one (Arnval Mk. II of course!), I'm sure to do a lot of fiddling with her armor parts, with the occasional adding of parts from other stuff (like my Beetle Girls).

then make sure you dont overdoit with the fiddling... because some parts on my tempesta already show stress marks on the peg holes and others became loose quite quickly...

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(blatant copy-paste from TFW2005, too lazy to edit the whole thing)

well... i'm done with her armor arms... not much to see here

I like what you did with the legs, with the Tranche2-ish config. Any way to use the tailfins to alloww her to stand, like with the Tranche2?

Anyway, this is my Tempestra config. Sorry for the crappy cellphone pic.

*snip*

I used her non-bladed bits and her guns to bulk out the wings, and did up her BFS in a GN Buster type config. The pylons are actually capable of articulating up over her shoulders, allowing her to use them as beam cannons.

although i like how you did it... i have my reserves about the alignment of the bits, those are in the right place but... you know... i'm just that picky :redface2:

Honestly, you have to be actively trying to come up with a bad config for the Mk2s.

:lol you're right... to be perfectly honest i didn't liked the MK2s at first... you know... Humikane did such a radical change to the classic arnval and strarf that i just could not stand it

but after i got my repaints, the MK2s dont look that bad now, and the versatilty is simply outrageous! so there's plenty of playability so that's a plus in my book. BUT still is not enough to change my favoritism about my classic arnval

(and yes... i have plans for her too, but that's a secret)

Also did some fiddling with Altines today...

can i have your altines???

ok nvm....


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ok i still cant decide which configuration i like best...

the "compact" configuration ...




that i found that can pull off a "polenicus weapon"...

The pylons are actually capable of articulating up over her shoulders, allowing her to use them as beam cannons.

(the hair piece needs to be removed for that to work...)


or the expanded configuration...



that doesnt have that over-the-shoulder option but can transform to an otomedius mode just by turning the whole arrangement around the backpack sideskirts (no picture this time... just look for otomedius mode on my previous posts)

...and still reminds me a lot of the classic v.1 wings!


seriously i'm torn between these 2 modes... what should suit her best??

BONUS PICS!

knee attack!

seriously that's gotta hurt!!! :Gouki:

and laser cannon!


just in case you might ask, i'm keeping things light in the weapons department since i'm waiting for the right time to see if i can get the full arms package repaints and work something out... you know... like dual wielding BFS or something...

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Trio por Halconfenix, en Flickr


Curious Angel por Halconfenix, en Flickr

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PICTURE TIME!

these are for the upcoming profile updates for my comic...






enjoy!

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RANDOM PICTURE TIME!


the cooking team por Halconfenix, en Flickr

you know where this is going...

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mah gradius shinkis arrived today but imma bit sick so i cant play with them right now...

anyway:



more pics when i get better....