Working on the Macross Frontier - 1/72 VF-25F Messiah Alto's Unit that I got sometime back (Can't really remember the time). It is now in the painting process and it's a difficult one because of the red & black stripe. The kit comes with a set of marking decals and a set of water slide decals. They are both the same and you could choose to use either one to decorate the kit.
Yet, I don't really want to use decal for the stripes because naturally the color of the decal just doesn't blend well with the paint, at least for me. So I decided to paint the stripes instead. It took me about 4 days to mask and paint. It turns out really nice despite some hiccups here and there, but hey it's worth the try. But despite the 4 days, I only managed to finish the paint on the torso and the wings only. This show how much works have to be done to work on the painting.
Did try to put the body together to test out the transformation. It turns out that the transformation can be very risky because you might get some broken plastic parts. I got a broken parts from the bottom part of the torso when I tried to do the transformation of the lower body part. It shows how fragile the plastic is. I couldn't do any repair to it for now because each time I put it back on, it will somehow break in another part, so I've decided to glue the broken pieces together instead without sanding anything. I'll be using this as an example to build the next Messiahs (VF-25S Ozma Lee, RVF-25, VF-25G).
