Assault Virtue Roll-Out Color Version 1:100

Here it is as promised. Gundam Virtue 1:00 Review. Among the other units of the 00 gundam series Exia, Dynames, and Kyrios, the Gundam Virtue has caught my attention in the episode 10 when this mammoth size bulk purged its armor. Its massiveness may not be typically attractive but I find this kit interesting.

I was itching to buy this kit before but the stocks were usually unavailable. Until last month I was able to grab one. Surprisingly, its price is the same as other MG kits. I really don't know why until I had opened the box and found lots of runners! It should have been an MG. Only the absence of an inner frame has classified it as a No-grade. Nontheless, this kit is fun to build and customize.

Coming Soon!.....Assault Virtue: The Roll-out Color Version

Still in progress but I have managed to get a good clean shot of his face! Huge but menacing! I'll post everything once completed. I'm still working out Gundam Nadleeh inside.

Why Snap Fit?

Why Snap Fit? A review of 00 Gundam Raiser No-grade 1:100 has the answers why I rebuilt it. Certainly if you're going to simply make an out of the box build and not go beyond it then there is nothing to talk about it except of course certain ways on how to make a smooth and clean straight-build. But there are questions come to play on why do we commonly Snap-Fit our kits.

What will be the Paint/Color Scheme? Visualisation takes a better place once the model is in the palm of your hands after the snap fitting it. Choosing which kind of color will suit or not in each part of the kit gives you a more in-depth idea and concept so that it can be more tailored to your taste. It's also good to take a picture. I even play with the colors in photoshop so I can imagine vividly the colors.

Any Modifications? If you're a hard core gunpla maker then snap fitting is a sure kind of way to study all the parts- proportions, scale, articulations, etc. before starting the mods. This method really takes out a hell of imagination and artistic sense. And sometimes it's a make or break thing when dealing with mods. I have seen some awesome modifications and messy ones. So if you want take it to another level then snap fitting before the mods is the way to go.

Which Part/s to Paint or not? During the time when I built my first kit, I was so eager to custom paint it. Not paying attention to the value of snap fitting.  A grave mistake! I painted each part first before assembling them. And when assembling took place.... there are parts that are so difficult to fit together. It was because I even had painted the pegs and some of the joints. Bandai was so damn good that the parts are really measured to last millimeter so that when fitting the parts they snap perfectly.

Then, I finally realized that I had ruined my first kit's paint job after I had already assembled other kits. So I decided to rebuild it and fix the paint job. I disassembled and painted again the messed-up parts. So the photos you see here are my 00gundam's re-incarnation. The Raiser is not yet finished so for now here they are. No photoshop tricks here... these are all raw pics:)

First 00 Gundam & first customized

  



My first customized gundam kit. Likewise I would say it's my first gundam kit as well. For a newbie, it's not that I'm bragging what I posted here but I'm just honestly proud of whatever I have customized to my 00 raiser. It took me sometime in pondering if I gonna purchase this gundam kit. I have been an avid follower of the 00 Series from the Seed Destiny Series. And now I'm hooked in the Unicorn Episodes. I have just finished watching the  episode 3. And now I am eagerly awaiting the succeeding episodes to come.

Customisation took me a lot of time with my imagination in what type of paint to be used, color combination, preparations, etc. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to picture the procedures I have made just like from other sites that showed the way they assembled their kits because I was quite anxious if what I will do will be enough or okay. To give further detail, I used acrylic spray cans. The limbs which I really like, have a combination of two (2) paints. It's a combination of gold sparkle and graphite finish. Having the graphite applied first and while it is wet I sprayed on the gold sparkle in order for it to react with graphite - giving it a so called gold-carbon finish look! The rest, blue and red, are also sprayed on with my graphite finish.

So there you go.... in my next posting, I'll explain in further how I accomplished such customization. But for now, all the photos below are all raw images and are unedited! - no photoshop here or whatever photo effects and tricks.