First of all, the thing that I tried to do is to add extra details to it. After some thoughts and consideration by looking at the kit itself, I find that it doesn't need much detailing to added because by itself alone it has a lot of details already with all those nicely done details on the armor itself. With that, I decided to only add a few extra panel lines that would enhance the detail a little bit, and also scribed existing mold mark & panel lines on the armor to sharpen the overall image.
The other things that I did was using the Kotobukiya detailing parts to replace the details of the armor because those details are not really molded nicely due to the parting line. I've tried to fill in the underneath of the front skirt armor as well with epoxy putty followed by some detailing with pla-plate. Then, due to the reason that there's a lot of places where the internal armor would be exposed, I painted the inside of each armor pieces with the frame color. Lastly, since I couldn't get the Bandai water slide decal for this kit, I tried to use custom type water slide decal that I bought from a local hobby workshop for most of the kit, and also using some of the water slide decal of the old version kit, which is also from Bandai, for the marking on the shoulder.
Without further ado, here are some of the pictures that I took. I retake the following pictures for the group build organizer to create a photo booklet for all the completed kits.
Overall I'm quite happy with it. I must confess that without decal, a Gundam would indeed looks pretty dull, which is what happened with my previous Wing Gundam TV ver. build, which I should have done better with it. I'll be going to enter this kit for this year Gunpla Builder World Cup 2011, which it is going to be part of a MS deck diorama with my latest build, the MG 1/100 Zeta Gundam Ver. 2.0, which will be revealed after I'm done with the building of the whole diorama.
