Just as soon as I finished building my MG Banshee, things begin again. The 6th, and perhaps final, member of my MG Unicorn family has arrived – the MG Full Armor Unicorn.
It comes after my MG Delta Plus placed first in Gundam Australia Forum’s Delta Group Build. A special thanks to Sonar, of Gundam Australia, and Ryan Sabourin of HLJ.
Time to start keep building!
I just wanted to take a quick minute to share my early impressions of the latest member of my MG Gundam Unicorn collection, the Master Grade Banshee. P.S. Be forewarned, it’s incredibly late after a long day at work and this article is probably full of incoherent sentences and half finished thoughts.
The kit itself appears to have been built off the MG Unicorn OVA version kit. I have to dive into it a bit more but it looks like it has the shorter leg pieces (to facilitate a tad more poseability) and the non-vulcan head (though the head pieces are different, apparently to facilitate the Banshee’s antlers.
So, technically I finished this guy back in July, but I don’t think I ever shared the pictures on OR…
Thoughts?
In retrospect there are a lot of issues I would’ve fixed then but opted not to since I just wanted to finish the kit. There are a few places where the paint is too thing and looks lighter against the white plastic. There are a couple other blemishes/scratches stashed about here and there. There are even a couple caused by either Micro Sol or Set (used for applying decals). Can you spot them all? It’s like a Where’s Waldo of failure.
Almost done…
…but I think I’m out of paint, just shy of finishing the fucking shield. Damn it!
So, finally got some paint and the time to work on my MG Banshee project…
Some more progress today.
Lessons learned so far? Resin fucking sucks. Despite a good cleaning my primer acted completely different to resin than it does normal plastic. It also has the tendency to randomly break, as you’ll see when I post close up shots.
Behold, the first work in progress shot of my MG Banshee.
So far things are going okay. Although the paint I’m using does a good job of exposing all the little flaws from failed sanding attempts. Plus I’m almost out. Already.
