What I did with this kit, is my usual out of the box build with the original color scheme, but with some minor experiment in detail up for this is the first time I used metal parts but only in the mega beam launcher, and also my second try on custom decal instead of using the included decal because the decal included with the kit is the marking decal (sticker type) and the dry transfer decal, which I'd personally prefer water-slide.
The posing of this kit is advised and done by a fellow modeller that I knew in Zero-G forum, who's a very good modeller and has a great sense of vision in creativity. I did planned to use this kit to enter into this year GBWC 2011 Malaysia together with the MK-II Gundam that I did previously in a diorama set piece. The result is like in the following photo.
It is not easy to do a diorama because of the sense of space and also the message that I tried to deliver to the viewers. Plus, there's something really bad happened to this set because of the internal heat cause by the spot light that's causing the base to wobble. Realized it too late, but at least gained experience that next time I'll need to do more planning.
After this year competition, I'd try to come out with a work that's cater for the competition because I usually only do out of the box build, of which it's not going to go any further in the competition due to the high standard that's been set by all previous modellers that joined the competition. Plus, I don't believe that standard should be compromised at all cost, so I'll try to step it up this time to see how far I could go. The coming build for 2012 shall be my first (and hopefully the last) to be competitive in modelling, I hope...
