Update (04/26/2010): the color “cyan red” is actually “shine red”, my mistake, sorry…

Update (03/30/2010): English Construction Manual of the 1/100 Gundam Virtue can be found here.

Was looking at the 1/100 Gundam Virtue model kit at the mall. The Gundam Virtue was piloted by Tierra Erde and was seen in the Gundam 00 Season 1 series. Its the biggest Gundam in the arsenal of Celestial Being owing to its role as the heavy bombardment specialist. The Gundam Virtue also plays host to the super-secret Gundam Nadleeh. Which is one reason why the Virtue is slightly expensive than the other Gundam 00 1/100 non-grade kits of Bandai.

Some pictures and literature for the Macross Quarter toy was posted at the Tamashii web site. The Macross Quarter was scheduled for release on December 19, 2009. The Macross Quarter is the battleship of the Private Military Group known as the SMS that functions as security for the Macross Frontier.

With the picture below you can see a comparison of the box of the Quarter vs the Chogokin 1/60 VF-25F Messiah of Alto Saotome. Then beside that is a shot of the inside of the box. Last picture shows the 5 parts that make up the Macross Quarter.

Finally finished translating the 00 Raiser Instruction Manual to English. Hence also the apparent lack of posts in this site. Well maybe for one day only…hehehe. Can’t really tell either how accurate my translation is considering that I don’t have a 00 Raiser kit to build where I can cross check my translations.

Definitely though what helped in the translation was my prior knowledge of the terms and practices used in model kit building as well as in the Gundam 00 series.

Decided to strip the dark green paint off the Gundam Dynames because I wasn’t comfortable with the color. Plus of course, I was able to find a much closer color, Pylox Singa Green during my hunt for some TOA plastic primer. There is still a shortage of plastic primer as I was only able to scrounge two cans worth. When I asked them if I could order for more they said that it wasn’t possible because they just take what the supplier gives them…blehhh.