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HMM-007 Command Wolf AC

RCM — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:40:11 +0000

Thanks to a sale at HLJ I was able to pick this up for cheap(ish).

HMM-002(ltd) Empire Command Wolf LC

RCM — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:04:10 +0000

Well, Irvine’s gun has never looked better. Empire Command Wolf LC was the second limited kit from the HMM line, released summer 2007. It is a recolor of the regular Command Wolf, but it also includes a new weapon—the long range cannon (like Irvine’s variant in the NJR). It sold out quickly, teaching a valuable lesson: if something’s limited, don’t hesitate! I hesitated, so I had to pay a lot more on the secondary market.

HMM-002(ltd) Empire Command Wolf LC (Build Review)

RCM — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:02:42 +0000

What to glue, what to paint, check it out, check it out!

General tip:
Apply the stickers as you complete each piece, instead of waiting until the kit’s finished. It is much less tedious this way! A-and: don’t work in a carpeted room, if possible. There are some really tiny pieces that can be lost easily. Every time I dropped a piece, I ended up crawling around for an hour until I found it again.
Sprues:

A lot of sprues are duplicated (4 of sprue G, for example), which saves on production costs, but also means you need to pay attention when building. Once I accidentally made three left legs and had to pry some pieces apart (dangerous, since most pieces want to stay stuck after assembly).
Head:

The teeth are part of the main head assembly, and thus unpainted. You must paint them, or your woof will look bland. For the Empire woof here, I went with silver.
“Bust”, as they call it:

Glue that peg, or else it will stay stuck in the leg’s polycap, if you ever need to remove them. For the rest of the “bust”, some detailing will work wonders. I used a foil sticker and green Sharpie for the chest light.
Waist hoses:

Glue them on this end, since this piece gets a lot of strain and they’ll pop out if you don’t.
Waist connection:

An interesting thing with the wolf is that the head and waist are connected by a “spine”, and then the chest attaches to that spine piece.
Waist and tail painting needed:

The shock absorbers are one piece in gold plastic, so some silver helps out. The tail piece is not even that lucky, so break out the gold as well as the silver.
Gun mount:

Depending on which way you face it, it will mount the default guns, or the Irvine gun. Also, gold and silver detailing is recommended on the hydraulics.
The big gun:

This is the big feature of the kit, and BE CAREFUL with piece O-1. The part where it goes into the main gun is the most fragile piece ever. “Luckily” mine broke in a way that’s not so visible. I’m afraid to even glue it, since the dab of glue would be even bigger than the break.
Leg and foot details:

The ankle hydraulic is tiny, but detailing is worth it. The leg one is gold only, so get out the silver.
Paint those feet:

Since the feet are on the same sprue as all the hydraulics, they’re stuck in an Empire-inappropriate gold. Thankfully some primer and Tamiya Gloss Aluminum spray saved the day.

HMM-002 Command Wolf (One Year Later)

RCM — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:27:51 +0000

One year later, and I’m finally finished. All the time I was putting off doing stickers, I was also bothered by the ham-fisted panel lining job this poor guy got. My previous gold and silver markers were a piece of crap, so I redid the teeth and hydraulics too. Either this project was cursed, or HMM kits really don’t stand up do disassembly, because I broke three pieces AND lost one. I replaced the lost one (a cap-like piece that holds the shoulder armor on) with a leftover Armored Core weapon. Just what the crap it’s supposed to be, I don’t know.

UPDATE 9/08: I found the lost shoulder cap!

Command Wolf

RCM — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:04:08 +0000

This one originally came with gold underbits, but I did not want that, so I grabbed a Command Woof AC for the black parts. Much nicer.

Command Wolf HT swaps

RCM — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:59:31 +0000

1-5: I didn’t like the red bits on the Command Wolf HT, so I swapped them with parts from an NJR woof.
6-10: Lately I’ve been interested in the idea of clear bits over shiny bits (like the G1 dinobots). Then I remembered I had some leftover gold bits from my leoshop Woof. I know that your eyes are hurting right now.

Command Wolf repaint

RCM — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:55:05 +0000

I got this off the Yahoo Japans, mainly because it was the cheapest way to get an OJR smoke colored canopy (got it for 1000 yen). Turns out it’s a very sweet repaint here. Good detailing, though oddly the dood didn’t trim the stickers (it doesn’t hurt the model any).

RZ-042 Command Wolf AC

RCM — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:23:23 +0000

How many Command Woofs do you need, anyway? Yes, but this one has a blue metal-flake finish, and comes with CP-04. Plus I have an affinity for the number 42.

Zi-024 Command Wolf (Irvine’s)

RCM — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:14:24 +0000

I swapped out the white caps for black ones, and also painted the feet black, to give it more contrast. The figure is prepainted and came from a gashapon set I got off Yahoo Japan.

Command Wolf HT

RCM — Sun, 25 May 2008 17:55:51 +0000

This was a Fuzors limited that was sold at a convention in early 2005. Those nasty red pieces will make your eyes bleed, so get a spare NJR for swaps. The last pic is a really ugly flash shot, but it shows the shiny plastics that many Fuzors kits had.