What Derringer and I both mean is that if you look at the lineart, the torso is physically the same from the outside at least. The size of the torso didn’t change between the Masurao and Susanowo, although you’re right, the internals obviously did.

Thanks for the best wishes on luck, I’ll need it, if for not nothing else than making myself not be all that lazy and finishing something for once.

I personally agree with you, however; I too liked Masurao better, and was depressed when they were going to release a Robot Damashii and not an HG kit. It’s like GN Flag all over again. I did end up getting that Damashii though, I couldn’t wait for a kit (and I’m not skilled enough yet to scratch-build a GN Flag from the Overflag kit I have). We’ll see what happens with Masurao.

I suppose my greatest sadness was that the manual for the HG Susanowo makes no mention of the technical aspects of its Transam system, information I wanted ever since the first time Masurao did it. Sigh.

Best of luck!

@Nomake
As you can see from the lineart, the Susanowo is just a customized Masurao. I used it in the comparison pic just since it was the best full body shot of either suit I could find.

Over the Masurao, the Susanowo adds a number of small adjustments very similar from the transition of Overflag to the GN Flag (in fact, I’m nearly positive the resemblance was meant to be seen, with the added plug on the shoulder, etc), but the overall proportions are exactly the same other than added spikes here and there, the engine on the back, and the added racks to move the hip armor.

I’ve decided to keep this as just the Susanowo and see what I can do in terms of adjustments to make it sleeker. I’m currently a bit conflicted as I’m not sure whether or not I chose the right place to add the joint for the hip armor, but we’ll see how it goes…

I personally like the Masurao a bit better in certain ways, but I’m positive Bandai will come out with a kit of it later, and I’m just a bit too lazy to go through the headache of creating giant beam katana blades, haha. Many thanks for the input though.

While the Susanowo has more bulkier parts like the shoulders, they still both share the same torso construction, which is much shorter on the model than what we’ve been led to believe.

Susanowo is the mobile suit from the very end of 00 season 2, the one with the chest beam cannon and hip-mounted claws and all that jazz. Much bulkier than Masurao was.

So yeah. I’d give a comparison shot of Susanowo but I’m not at home so I don’t have access to my episodes. It’s towards the end of the series though.

In any event, best of luck with the project! Will you be trying to convert the Susanowo into Masurao, then?