Birthday present

The release of this kit was just a few weeks ago and now it is in my possession!! Wuhaha!! Well, the story goes as follows: It's a birthday present from my brother. I reckon it is the largest present I've ever had!!? Cool huh, so is my bro...
Great, more PG's pending now. Sigh* but we can't resist kits with special parts... can we?

MBF-P02 Astray Red Frame

This Astray Red Frame HG 1/144 kit is a very cool kit. The ability in making critical poses are not as good as the HG 1/100, but it's close to that.

The color for the frame is Bright Red spray (TS-) and Top coat flat after that (I love it matt). The armor plating, as far as you can call those few white panes 'armor', is sprayed with Matt-White (TS-).

A real pain in the ass are the tiny areas on the frame which also need to be colored white. In summary, it is an easy kit with an awesome rep. Perharps it is the Gerbera Straight that is making this MS so cool...

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Gundam Astray Gold Frame SD

This SD kit was release in the second half in 2007. An expensive kit compared to other SD kits, because of the gold plated parts. Actually it is exactly the same kit as the existing Red Frame. For the Blue and Green Frame, you better customize it youself. An alternative I've seen is the Gold Frame with the right hand of Blitz; cool for those who are prepared to sacrafice a Blitz SD kit or just click that arm on it if you already built one.

If you think of making an Amatsu, you better stock up your epoxy putty level. I reckon it is worth to try. If you already have one, please show it.