Finally done with this piece of sh. I lost all patience after spending over a month working on it on and off when I had some free time. It started out okay, over 400 parts so it took a lot of time to paint, than came the days of applying decals (there's like over a 100 of em) and than the real shit show started. After the decals I did the final flat coat which introduced even more gunk and fluff and shit into the paint job. Then I applied the metal.etch parts, cos I forgot I bought those too. Ofc that ended up scratching the paint and staining it with CA glue. And ofc half of didn't even want to fit.
So this last night, doing the LEDs I was already piased off before I started. Cracked the center lenses cos why not at this point... Then I had to drill the head and add a third led in there cos the two I dropped in before just wouldn't light up the eyes at all.
So anyways, here's my attempt at an MG wing ver.ka. Custom.
Edit: excuse the poor photos, I got absolutely no space for this guy yet, so I just put him up on top of my printer, as it was the last clean horizontal surface large enough to hold it, and outside the reach of children. And wife.
Also, I could have attached the battery pack to the body on it's back and hidden the wires between the backpack and body, my original intention when choosing the CR2032 as the battery, but I just couldn't be fucked. It's just bluetacked onto the stand arm. It was almost impossible to solder the damned wires, ya know the horrible laquered type they use in earphones and such... god I hate those. So much work for such a low-end result. I know I know, it doesn't really show up in the pictures, but get closer than 3 feet and it's clearly visible to the eye that it's just not a professional clean build at all. It's full of errors.
I was planning on selling this one day, when I ran out of money or space.... not anymore.
Oh, and I hate the blue I went with. I was hoping it would turn out different in the light, especially after the clear coats. It didn't. It's just a sad factory blue even though it has the fancy name of mecha electric blue, and some other I can't recall the name of. Oh yeah, that's actually two different blues. Can't tell the difference, neither on photo, nor IRL.
Funny thing is, I got the twice this size PG's box taunting me from the corner of my room, with a resin kit on top of it just to make it that much more of a hell.
Obviously I'm not building the same gundam back to back, instead I'm just gonna build my first PG, an Astray Red next, cos that's surely easier than this was...
(It might actually end up being easier. Bigger parts and less of em)