Gundam Deathscythe Hell Custom model

Yay! Still chugging along with my Maya model of the Gundam Deathscythe Hell Custom. Got the body and scythe done. I've lost track of how long it's taken to build it simple because I'm working on other more important things and only touch this when I have down time. Either way, I love building things with Maya. It's fun and I like the challenge of figuring out how to get things done.

 The main body and the scythe off to the side

Overhead view of the chest area, the head, and shoulders.

The hands. Wow, these were difficult to put together. I spent days trying to find reference images with the hands. I never noticed it before, but each Gundam series has a different way of drawing/making the hands. I finally found a reference to the hand in the Gundam Wing Technical Manual. Unfortunately, half way through building it I realized that there was no way in HELL that the mechanics/physics behind the hand were gonna work. Eventually, I ended up tweaking it the best I could while keeping to the original.

The waist area. The elbow joints was also somewhat difficult to understand and needed creative tweaking as well.

 The knee area! Katoki's design was quite a challenge. Wrapping the knee part around the front of the upper leg was interesting. It took a while, but I finally got some understanding of it.

And finally, the back of the knees. Yup, more creative tweaking to the joint in order to make it work.

So now it's on to building the Deathscythe's wings... Just looking at images of it is making my head hurt. Those things are REALLY going to be a challenge to build.