Quote Originally Posted by ZEUS View Post
We can tackle that next, Bart! Making a Trooper would be cake!!
Yeah, one of the Indonesian Trooper guys made this recently:
http://forum.planetisuzoo.com/viewto...model&start=25

It's a pretty good effort. The basic shape is correct.

Quote Originally Posted by ZEUS View Post
You ever seen this one before? Tamiya
It's so expensive because it's so rare - I think it's the rarest of the CC-01 chassis kit varieties. Next time you go to Japan, look for it!
Yeah, I have seen it before. They also make a regular Mu model kit just like that. I went into several huge model shops in Tokyo and Osaka looking for a 1st gen Trooper kit, and all I could find was the Mu, the usual VX kit, and this 2nd gen Bighorn kit.

http://www.noppin.com/portal_ya_deta...n%2Fk135118090

I even muddled through a conversation with the shop keeper, and he confirmed no such kit was ever made. Anyway, I was thinking the 2nd gen Bighorn kit could be sanded down and shaped into a 1st gen. You would just have to use a lot of filler, square it off and shape the rockers and you could get it pretty damn close.

Bart