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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.

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.

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.

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).

285 pieces, how!? I decided to detail this one as I built it, but after all that work (15 hours building and panel lining), I have no energy left for the application of stickers. I’ll wait a while for that. Best thing about this kit is the choice of canopy colors: orange for the newschool fans, and smoke for the oldsters. Take your time deciding, because prying apart these pieces is nearly impossible without casualties. Worst thing about this kit is the minimal jaw movement. I modified mine based on this guy’s work, and got a bit more movement (enough to make me happy, at least).

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.

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.

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

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

I must say, this guy looks a hundred times better with stickers applied! But not good enough to keep it from being sold when I got the HMM version.

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.

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.