PMX-OO1 PALLAS ATHENA 1/144 BANDAI PLASTIC KIT Modelling Lewismaster Photos C. Spallanzani The Gryps conflict of U.C 0087 between the Titans, the A.E.U.G. and New Zion had another antagonist in the enigmatic character with a hidden agenda called Paptimus Scirocco. He was the owner of a huge starship, the Jupitoris, and the designer of a few powerful prototype mobile suits. The Pallas Athena is one of them. It's a war machine filled to the ears with weapons, but without enough energy to use them all togheter. Despite these limitations, it was used extensively in the final stages of the war, when it was destroyed in a fight to the death with Gundam Mk.II. The kit is quite fine for mobility and prportions, but it lacks all of the external weapons and needs a lot of work in adding details. This is another model that was built and modified a first time and later dismantled and modified again to reach satisfactory results. It could be better, but who knows when i'll have the time and the will to change it again for a third time.

	HEAD - If you take a look at the head of this mobile suit as drawn in the original design and compare it with this one, you'd think that they are from different models. Whoever made the design for this kit didn't waste time to draw a decent head, so the ever-diligent model maker should break it to pieces and reassemble it together, adding the new parts that are missing. In particular the profile of the lower part should be changed with a lower angle, the "cheeks" should be inflated with some putty, two new tubes should come out in the front and a new platform should be made to connect the neck with the torso. The head can't move very much to begin with and with these modifications it can move even less, unless you reduce the thickness of the high collar. Don't expect it to be fully articulated, but at least you can pull the head in and out.

	BODY - The body is quite well sculpted and very hard to modify, so, with the exception of a big nozzle in the ass, I limited the changes to the backpack and the wings. I opened all the holes in the backpack and made a system of articulation for the wings, in order to make them mobile. The parts given with the kit are very easily modified using small rubber joints to give mobility to the wings and this modification gives the model much more visual impact. The wings are hollow inside, so I filled them with plasticard and putty, drilling the holes for the missiles.

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