Fell into the 30MM rabbit hole for the first time last week, and started to work on a custom idea
I kinda discovered the 30MM kits a week ago after finally googling "Hey, where do the boxes next to the gunpla at my local merch store come from? I don't recognize that show's name?" and kinda got hooked on the premise of
"They're gunplas, except I don't have to feel bad for buying kits when I never watched Gundam Wings"
Anyway, I kinda got into my head to try and work on a long term custom, crow-themed build, mostly because I thought the head from the horse mecha kit was funny looking, and kinda looked like a beak
This is like, the preliminary build with the few parts I have so far that I'm the most happy with.
(Mostly, it's obviously using the Levinox type B as a base with the horse head on top, as well as a Gardonova's arm, the feets from the Brown Arm/Leg Option part set, and a few bits and pieces from the Sengoku Spinatio)
On the to do list, obviously I'm going to want to paint the guy to give 'im a nice Black and White color scheme, and I still want to grab a box of the black wing parts, not only because it would fit a lot better than the Buzz Lightyearesque wing job I did, but also because they're a bit heavy, and the big arms replacement are making this guy fairly top heavy already, and it tends to have some posing trouble around the waist.
And I'm probably going to try to just start cutting and gluing the pieces I'm using for the claw, so that the black blades can eventually be attached via a C-clip and a replace the default Gardonova fingers that are still in place, instead of going on top of them. (Also thinking of experimenting with dipping the fourth, unused leftover blade from the Levinix set in a hot water to see if that could allow me to curve them slightly, and if that works well enough, doing the same with the one on this guy)
But I'm already quite happy with how some things are shaping up, it really wasn't planned, but I like how the purple chest piece on the Levinix Type-B kinda work as far as like, evocating the shape of puffy chest feather. Like an inverse of the white pattens on a hooded crow or something.
And although my first attempt of putting the horse head on the Spinatio was kinda really silly looking, on the Levinix I like how it kinda just makes it looks like it's hunched other.