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A couple of things to be aware of about this kit.

1. The eyes are a couple of tiny clear green parts that slot into a black frame to show the silver camera greebles underneath. The manual says to snap the frame in place first, don't do that. It's easier to put the clear parts into the frame first, then do the frame.
2. Unlike with the ver Ka there's no action base adapter for neo bird mode, and only the one hole on the backpack that according to the manual is explicitly designed for one of the action base 7 adapters (but will also fit the action base 4/5 main arms). So you pretty much have to hang it from the stand and hope you've got it positioned so that it doesn't slide off.

Still, those issues notwithstanding I otherwise enjoyed the build. Definitely deserves the MG label.

This was done a while back, maybe a year or so. It was my first full paint job. Used Mr. Color rattle cans and went for a more military color scheme. I didn’t order enough paint so while waiting for deliveries I kinda kit bashed the OG Astaroth and the rinascimento. Made a few mistakes but learned from it.

This was back last year. I took a EG RX-78-2 and used hobby mio lacquer paints through my new iwata airbrush. Overall pretty happy. Used knight gold and mecha “black” plus red on the eyes. Only complaint was the black was purple. Idk who at hobby mio decided THIS was “mecha black”

I just finished building this guy the other day. For an older kit it wasn’t that bad. Added some detail painting to make him pop(or cause I refuse to use stickers)

Holy smokes folks, tons of great kits. Give it a look and remember if you want something, get it because it might just sell out. I wasn't trying to buy any more kits to add to my backlog but here I go spending money again.

Got myself this to test the tools I had at hand and get to grips with the assembly of one of these things.

Got an RG Nu Gundam in the wing waiting to benefit from all the stuff I learned making this little guy.

Gotta say, I’m in a weird place with this model. One one hand I’m blown away by the complexity of the parts and the logic of it all. On the other hand, the lack of an internal frame means a lot of stuff is hanging off one tiny peg and things drop off this dude at the slightest provocation.

backlog intensifies

First build of the new year is the P-Bandai HGAC Altron. This is, of course, TV Altron which is the superior Altron. I'm normally all for ver Ka redesigns, but Katoki made a mistake here replacing the original folding shoulder mechanism for the accordian arms.

Also, part of the reason I ordered this kit was because I was curious how they gave it the ability to t-pose, because I have a MG Shenlong that I slapped the old 1/100 HG Altron shoulders onto and wanted to see if I could give it some better articulation there. Turns out the socket for the shoulder inside the torso swings up, instead of forward like with most kits. So that would have required completely re-engineering the MG torso inner frame, which, uh, is way beyond my skill set. Sad.

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"It's just a windmill!" they said. "You're delusional!" they said. Well who's crazy now?!

Featuring Knight Gundam and Nether Gundam. Since I had leftover SD frames from some SDCS builds, I decided to 3D print a conversion kit for one of the Gundams of all time. Strictly speaking, it's specifically a CS frame conversion kit and not intended for the SD frame at all, with the arm pieces wedged against the shoulder armor having basically no articulation at all, and the legs and feet just straight up too bulky to even assemble on the SD frame. If this were any other Gundam, this would have been a problem, but the Nether Gundam has a flight mode, so here we are.

Plot twist: I haven't built any of these kits lol. The original HG, MG 1.0, Beyond Global, SDCS, EG... but not the revive or RGs. I should fix that.

https://imgur.com/gallery/southern-cross-ms-06gd-zaku-squad-tCaAlIJ

I finally decided to tackle building the whole Southern Cross Squad from Cucuruz Doan's Island. And after around 3 months of work I am finally done.

This was a bit of a challenge with all of the water decals, especially the commander who had about 125 total water decals. I also have decided that I'm tired of mono-colored weapons and have started painting knife and axe blades. Mono-eye = good, mono-color = not good.

Mobile Haro with SD Sazabi parts

chef's kiss

Bonus

How am I supposed to play basketball with this?

Not sure it was worth the hour drive plus the hour wait in line, but at least we got out of the house. Pickings were slim, with most of the exclusives gone even though we got there early. They had tons of the HG Destroy, which hurt to pass on but the budget ain't what it used to be 😅😒