Being short on cash during the 4th of July holiday, I spent the weekend priming and working on the model. I finished priming the parts, so I assembled and glued the Torso and Abdomen of the Hazel, everything fit together for the most part. I had to sand down the insides of the side walls so that the base plate for the Hazel's neck will fit onto model. The hardest part was getting the two halves of the primrose unit to line up and fit onto the mounting plate. But otherwise the construction process went well.
Surprisingly the hardest part was getting the Abdomen parts to line up and fit together, I neglected to sand down the brass rods, all of the primer thicked the rods so that they did not fit inside properly. But after some sanding and filing the parts fit together fine. After all of the primer had a chance to set, I glued the rear section of the Hazel's abdomen together.
I am very happy that I was able to assemble the Primrose Unit, I was really worried that I would not be able to glue the Thruster pack to the Primrose Unit. I am not going to glue the remaining part of the Primrose Unit to the cockpit since I still have to paint and assemble the cockpit.
Torso Parts...
Abdomen Parts...

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It's been a while since I have updated this thread, I was on vacation in Euroope for two weeks, but after I got back to town I started to prime all of the parts that I have finished.

I used Automotive and Surface primer to cover the parts, still have more parts to cover, then I have to let the primer set before I do any more work on the model.
Here are the photos from my trip.
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I am making progress on the Ammo units, I glued on the outer layer of each of the ammo clips and beveled the edges of the ammo clips. But I did run into some alignment issues, and had to reglue the styrene plates so that they line up, otherwise I am finished with the ammo cips themselves. Now I have to build the motorized arms that control the two clamps that attach to the Hazel's Hips.

On Saturday, I spent the day cleaning up the parts that I had already constructed, I added the copper wire that simulate the Hazel's lighting on top of the tomohawk, and drilled out the holes in the sub-arms that mount the fingers. But I did have a close look again at the drawings in the Gundam Quel model, after some debate and thinking I decided to correct the angel of the hazel's hip unit. I had to use a disc cutter and cut off the extra styrene and make the bottom of each hip unit angular and not flat. I later added some extra detail for looks.

Well, that's it for now...
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I spent the weekend working on the internals for the hip, and some of the other details around the primrose unit. The main thing was adding the pipes and control cables for the various electronic components in the hip, and the two ammo carriers on each side of the hip, I used copper wire and aluminum tubing for the cables and pipes.

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Ever since the last update, I have been hard ar work on the joints for the shoulders. In order to make the shoulders sit properly on each side of the Hazels hips, I had to build a joint for each of the shoulders. The two joints will allow the shoulders to move outward not just front and back motion. I am not going to make a set of 90 degree articulating shoulders, just about 45 degrees, which will allow the arms to rest on each side of the hips with the two ammo clips attached to each side.
I also worked on the detail for the neck, after glueing the brackets for the side plates around the neck, I added the support rod for each side.


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I have been busy adding the surface detail to the all of the Hazel's parts, I added the two mounting bolts that attach the supplimental armor on each side of the shoulder. a brass rod was cut into pieces and then filled flush with the surface. I added the two access panels which allow the maintenance crew to remove the front ankle armor, and added the two access panels for each of the hip sockets. In both situations, I cut and glued a piece of scrap styrene to the surface.
I still have to go back and add any additional access panels and covers to the other parts

Most of my time and energy has been focused on detailing the cockpit, I built the LCD Screens and the Cockpit Chair from scrap styrene, and went through my parts box for the rest of the cockpit components. I still have to add the wiring and tubing that run along the walls and ceiling, but otherwise I am making good progress. I found a 1/35 scale seat for comparison, I got the dimensions correctly, but I was really amazed at how small the cockpit really is. I am not to worried about making the components accurate, it will be very difficult to see most of the detail anyways. with all of the other parts surrounding the cockpit.
Besides the wiring, I still have to build the center console and the two control sticks that the pilot uses.


HeadI know it's been a while I have updated the thread, but I am still working on various pieces of the Hazel, I went back and added detail inside of the tomohawk on the hazel's head. This part normally illuminates. I went back into my scraps box and found several pieces of styrene, and later I will use some copper wire to simulate the lighting tubes that run through the channels.

Cockpit
I also worked on the cockpit, I added the rest of the detail to the roof and side walls, I used various pieces of left over model parts to simulate the various control surfaces. I also used strips of styrene and copper wire to simulate the wiring for the various control surfaces, I am not going for accuracy since very little of the detail is not going to visible.
Beam SaberAnother thing that I did was build the beam saber, I used a styrene tube as a base, then filled in one end with Milliput Putty, and wrapped the tube with 2 long strips of stryene thicken the tube and let it dry. Later I had to use putt to fill in the uneven surfaces created by the glue used.
The hazel's beam saber has a antenna so I used a two pieces of aluminum tube to create the antenna, on the other end, I used a piece of the barrel from a Panzer IV Tank to create the front of the Beam Saber. I went back to several books and images and found out that the Bean Saber sits at angle, I used some scrap styrene to create the tilted platform that the Beam Saber rests on the back pack.
HipInside the two cavity on each hip they contain the various pieces of machinery that help control the legs and thrusters inside the abdomen. I used various pieces of model parts left over from other model projects to build all of the components in the below photo.

I had to stop for a while, I took a trip to Toronto to visit some relatives there. Below is a photo of Toronto's newer city hall, it was used as the back drop for the Umbrella Corporation's Racoon City HQ.

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