MG RX-0 Unicorn Gundam 02 Banshee

Wow, it's almost three months after my last post, hahaha. Sooo busy with my work at the office and the 'take home' work. Actually the banshee was finished a week after that last post, minus the decals, but some event and weakness of this kit render me disappointed.

RG Char's Zaku II (WISP3)

Head parts

Forgot to take pic of the complete head.

The Green Dwarf

 "BB Senshi SD Gundam Kshatriya,"
got this little guy weeks ago. My very first SD grade gunpla ^^.

Actually, I don't quite fond with SD designs, except the Sangokuden series.

IMHO they looked childish or too cute. Then why I picked this guy?

Maybe because he (she?) has relative smaller head than other SD out there, not like that "hydrochepalus" tiny gundams. It helps to keep the "menacing" look without loosing it's cuteness.

The box contains three runners, three PC runner, stickers, manual sheet,
and something like a glass coaster with ZEON emblem on it.

 Runner A

Contains almost all of the Kshatriya's body parts.

Runner B

 Contains the wings and head parts.

Runner C

 Contains several body and wings parts, also Loto parts.

(Geez, that Loto looks very simple.)

The PC parts, foil sticker, clear sticker, and glass coaster.

( I think the glass coaster is a kind of bonus for the first batch product?)

Head and body parts

 Head and body, assembled.

Hands

 Legs and waist

 Wings

No funnels there... -__-

 Ready to 'gattai'  ^_^

Completely assembled! Front side.

No stickers applied yet. Plain out of box.

 Back side 

Those 'back collar' reminds me of Zeta design.

 See the difference between the artwork and the out of box (OOB) kit?

He/she really needs a lot of color detailing. 

I don't like the stickers, maybe I'll try to paint him/her later.

That's it! My first SD Gundam ^^

Cutted, cleaned, and assembled in 80 minutes at a sleepless night last weekend (on my bed)

I thought SD Gundams are for childs, but with this minimum details and colors, I changed my mind, hahaha.

Seravee Designer Color [Work Log]

And so the next build is on! ^^ It's Seravee Gundam Designer Color, from Gundam 00 2nd season.
Actually want to buy 00 Raiser designer color, but out of stock -_- Seravee still on stock, so I thought might as well upgrade my most sentimentil gunpla (you know who) hehe..

So in the past two weekends, I have started Seravee build. I change my building steps on this kit.
1. Now I'll do snapfit until finish before sanding the visible excess sprue, before I snap and sand first before putting all together.
2. During snapfit, I also prepare for easy disassembling later by cutting the male peg diagonally (sorry didn't take pic -_-). I may need to disassemble for sanding and painting later (tiny chance i'm gonna do it)

Anyway some comments on the parts (above, comparing with the anime illustration):

1. The clear part on center of the head supposed to look red, but the sticker inside doesn't really do the job.

2. The eyes when LED is on, doesn't have shape since the light is scattered.

3. The small lowered hole in the chest, looks unrealistic. Supposed to be screw-like hole, don't know how to make it looks real, hand paint, drill a hole and put some small screw? *chicken out* XD 

So at least I did something with the first two. I painted the clear part with semi clear red. And I cut eyes shape holes on the eyes sticker (which wasn't used anymore), to only allow light through the eyes hole. There're still detail flaws on the hole I need to fix though. Looks better right? Now what to do with the chest? :-\

And as usual the seam lines hell XD I never removed seam line before. Maybe I'll try this time, but on different kit first, maybe blue destiny..

So this is as far as i get last two weekends, still looking plain without decals and lining :)  No it isn't finish snapfitting yet, since Seravee has 'two' bodies XD

~till next post..