I'm going to be documenting my Victory Gundam and Dash Pack build here. This kit is one of those that when I got I was very worried that I'd never get up the courage to build, my Unicorn Gundam is on that list too and I haven't even dared to buy a MG Sinanju. But as I've grown as a modeler I've started to warm up to the idea. Last week I finally opened it up. First things first. There's a few things I decided for this build:
I'm not going to spray paint this model. I'll go over it with some dirty water, but no spray paint.I will paint details with enamels and a paintbrush.After the paint, I'll hit it up with some glossy top coat before the decals. Then top coat to seal the decals. That's it.I'll display this model in a transparent Action Base with the two Core Boosters under it. Both Core Boosters will have the Hexa head. The second V-Gundam head Core-Booster will not be displayed. The Victory Gundam will have the Dash Pack on and it will be holding the Beam Smartgun.
With all of this decided I finally started it up. The first thing they'll ask you to build is the Core Boosters. Yes, Boosters, plural. There are actually four of them. You can have a Booster setup with each individual piece of the Victory Gundam, the Bottom Fighter, Top Fighter and Dash Pack and still have a Booster left over to display by itself.
You will get them through this phase and build the main area of the boosters first, then you'll put together four heads. Two Hexa heads and two normal V-Gundam heads.
A finished Core Booster with a Hexa Head. The more I look at the Hexa heads the more I like them, I might even end up going the other way and having the Hexa Head be the one I put on the Victory Gundam, and have the two Boosters around it with the normal V-Fins.
All four Boosters are now finished. The next part of the build is the Dash Pack. Before I go into that however I'm going to pick one of the Boosters and sand it down. I'm going to make sure that its as perfect as I can get it since it's going to be the head and chest of the Victory Gundam, the other boosters will just be for details on the side. This build is going to be pretty slow, since I decided not to use paint I'm going to have to be extra careful with the plastic. I'm going to also try using the Tamiya Polishing Compounds, which I'll order sometime this week.
Time elapsed: ~9 hours over 3 days