SD RX 78-2 - WIP 1

 New Year, New Kit

Would like to wish everyone out there a very Happy New Year!!

As this is a new year, decided to start a new kit. This is an older kit which was released in 2009. Started on this kit as it has large parts and wanted to try the Pearl White paint after reading online how to effectively use it. Another reason is to let the frustration of working on the Z-Knight build die down before rebooting the build.

The last granddaddy kit built was the RG back in 2015. The plan is to display all the different sizes of the RX 78-2 kits together from 1/48 down to SD to show the various sizes difference. I don't remember if I have the MG kit in the backlog but will cross that bridge when I get it to.

Granddaddy of Gundams

[Box]

   

   

Information about the kit at the side of the box

Contents

An image of the White Base in battle

Removing the cover, there is the RX-75 Guntank and RX-77-2 Guncannon

   

Preorder of the SD RX-75 and RX-77-2

[Manual]

Front page of the manual

   

More information about the RX-78-2

Color and sticker guide

According to the manual, there are only 9 steps to complete the build

[Contents]

All the runners for the kit

   

   

   

Look at how huge and detailed the parts are for a SD kit

   

   

The shield is molded in the wrong color. This will be the most paint job required for the kit. The weapons and backpack will mostly be painted in metal black used for Z-Knight

   

Surprisingly this kit comes with both type of stickers

The stand procedure of removing all the parts from the runner and into their respective boxes

The plan was to only paint the backpack, beam rifle, beam saber and shield as those came in the wrong color. The white will be sprayed a few layers of the pearl white and see how it turns out as that is also used for the PG Astray Blue Frame but did not have the expected result.