What's in the Box: FA-78-3 Full Armor Gundam 7th

This is a unit from the game, UC battlefield record. The box art is nice and that shoulder mega particle cannon is really cool.

I love looking through the manual arts but this manual lack little extra content. I think the default colour scheme is nice.

+1 point for multi coloured spurs. After looking at the spurs, I actually want this gundam to be pastel coloured.

And look at the size of the Mega particle Cannon

Shipment from HLJ

I must stop buying new kits. I still have more in the HLJ private warehouse but waiting on the Unicorn Fenix to be released.

08th MS Team is probably my favourite side story in the Gundam universe. I do have the GM sniper and the Ez-8 on order but the first to arrive is the Gouf Custom. I could give this the Aina Sahalin paint scheme instead of the standard paint scheme. not sure houw the MS-06RD-4_Zaku_II_Prototype colours would look on a Gouf.

I'm also watching the current Remastered Gundam Seed Destiny on gundam.info channel. I must say that I really like the Ootori Strike rouge.

I also like the Destiny Impulse from the Destiny MSV files. It's a great unit in SD G Generation Overworld. So bought both the Destiny gundam and Impulse gundam and i'm going to just use Unit 3 colour scheme and put the destiny pack on to the impulse. Still figuring out how to attach the beam boomerang.

The Last 2 things i bought isn't from Gundam series. One is the Rein Weiss Ritter from SRW OG. The box is massive for a 1/144 scale. But i do expect it to be taller than most gundams in 1/144.

The other is the SU-47 Berkut from Muv-luv Alternative Total eclipse. A great mech design in my opinion.

HG 1/144 Extreme Gundam

So my next Gundam, The Extreme Gundam from the game Gundam Extreme Vs.

Yes that is a Guitar for a beam rifle and a guitar case for a shield. The beam rifle can be stored in the shield. 

I painted the whole thing. so i decided to separate each limbs from each other.

I used metallic blue instead of the normal  blue  and added a grey tone to the white armor pieces. 

Completed HGUC Unicorn Gundam Axis Shock Mode Titanium finish

So it's done. The Green cam out darker than expected that's probably to do with the fact that it was painted on a clear red.

I was surprised by how stable this unit is. and also its size. Here it is with a same scale (1/144) Sengoku Astray

It stands a whole head above the astray, yes astray is not the biggest unit but i'm just thinking of the SNRI design suits like the victory gundam and the F91.

The titanium finish really do comes off easily. I'm glad it's a high grade kit and i don't feel as bad, leaving some nubs on the parts. I do what I can. I did modify the skirt to be independent. this made it more flimsy but looks much better when posing. It;s an easy modification, just use a hobby knife to part the middle section.

HGUC 1/144 Unicorn Gundam Destroy Mode Titanium Finish

So my second build (The build booster doesn't count) The Box art is really cool. However this red glow is what I call Berserker Banager. It's nice, but I really like the green Axis Shock glow at the end of Episode 5 and on the Full Armor version Ka.

Because it's a Titanium finish model I wanted to keep painting to a minimum. And for the record, the Coating is really really really fragile. Almost wipes off. Nevertheless it's cool. But I wanted it to have a green glow instead of red so all the clear red runner had been painted Clear green.

I also added a coat of iridescent medium, this gives the clear green sparkly flakes. When i assembled the upper torso and the backpack, the clear green may have been to dark.

Update: HGBF Build Booster and New Arrivals

I've a few things to post today. Firstly I finished my Build Booster. Having finished it, I now wish I'd bought the whole Build Strike Full Package.  I've plan to make a fully kitted model with both the Build booster and Build Booster Mk2. HGUC Nemo?

Truthfully I was a little disappointed when I open the box. There was only one colour. What do you expect from 400 yen. That's 4 USD and about 2.50 GBP. But after a little bit of colouring it looks pretty nice. I'm using this for practicing my masking tape technique.

Next, the good bit.

I'm a big fan of the Dom design. Can't say no to a good jet stream attack. I don't think I'll paint the Triple Dom set, It's all in the pose and bandai supplied the stand. I really like the colour of this Rick Dom so that green will stay. The Dreissen however will probably get a new paint scheme.

The Unicorn kits are really nice. I wonder how a HG Titanium finish will look. The Byarlant had a whole minute and a half of screen time that made it to my likable unit I wonder how a main gundam colour(white, blue red, yellow) would look. When I first saw the ReZEL in episode 1 I didn't like the colour scheme at all but I'm really like the General Revi colour. The Jesta Cannon is just cool. It might get the same colour as the ReZEL.

Let's go back in time a little. despite not having alot of screen time, the Gebera tetra was a very nice unit. especially when you know it;s actually a gundam GP04 unit. So I might give it the gundam colour too. The super gundam is a nice way to collect gundam mk 2.

Lastly I've the Extreme Gundam from the Gundam Extreme Vs. games. It actually came with a few clear blue runners. But the best bit is definitely the guitar beam rifle and the guitar case shield. the other unit is the Full Armor Gundam 7th, It's also from  a game, Gundam Battlefield record.

One extra picture

These were the boxes I bought when I was in Japan for X'mas

Completed HGBF 1/144 Sengoku Astray

It's done. I used the eye green gundam markers for the round green thinggy. This is the picture with gloss coating.

The Back View

I really like the shield. I don;t go with the full silver/titanium armor because i wanted to highlight the metallic red frame. I'm on the fence with the result.

So I went ahead and flat coat the whole thing.

One last picture,

This model has very little panel lines. Instead there are lots of shadow area. I tried to do what I can but without a paint brush and enamel paint it's kinda hard.

A whole bunch of HG models just arrived today. Will post a reaction too each model soon.