Update 28/06/2010:  It’s been about a year since I actually finished this kit, but I’ve finally gotten around to taking some better pictures of it.  Gallery added.

Completed in just under a month!

Gallery after the jump.

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20/9/09 Update:  I added some posed photos, namely the Full Burst and shooting at multiple targets.  While this kit may have awesome articulation, I find it hard to find a good pose that isn’t dorky.

About 30 hours later…

Quite happy with the final result, which is much cleaner than my previous God Gundam build.  My worst experience with this kit was definately dealing with the wings, from sanding, masking, and then un-masking.  By the time the paint had finished drying, the blu-tack had dried up a bit, and as a result was a real nightmare to get off.  There’s still a bit of green crap stuck to the occasional place in the wing joints.

Other dramas included breaking one of the ball joints off the fingers, but luckily I was able to glue it back into place and it seems like its holding out well enough.  I also lost one of the red verniers for the wings, and one of the rear leg covers.  I also think I have over top coated some areas such as the chest, and under coated such as the backpack.

Overall, this kit requires a ton of patience to build, and tested my limits as a lazy modeller.  Even with the 30 or so hours I spent on this already there’s still so much more that I could’ve done.

No posed shots yet, but the gallery after the jump.

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Managed to put some time aside today to finish this guy off.

Took just under two months to finish this kit, due to heaps of real life issues popping up.

Finally being able to see this kit completed, it actually looks much better than I originally thought it would in terms of the proportions.

In terms of the blue, I think I prefer the shade I did on the WZC, since you can see the shading better on it.

My major issues dealing with this kit were:

• Painting the black strips on the ankle guard / shoulders / skirts.  I was originally going to airbrush them on with acrylics, but chickened out and decided to do an enamel wash instead…didn’t turn out too well as you can see.
• Painting the yellow parts.  I used straight yellow mixed with some orange yellow, and the final result was waaay too bright in contrast with the other colours.  I had to redo the yellow parts and add a little black this time, something which I think I’ll do on all my kits from now on.
• Rampant dust getting on white parts when painting.  This usually doesn’t happen to me, but I suspect it had something to do with my crappy priming when first doing these parts.
• Really tight joints made posing tough, and ended up getting alot of chips and scratches on the parts as a result.

Gallery after the jump.

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After god knows how long the damn WZC is finally completed!

17th May update: some better non-posed pics added.

18th May update: Write-up added.

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