HobbyLink Japan announced today a Holiday sale on Sci-Fi model kits in their inventory. Lots of Kotobukiya kits included in this sale promo, I see some Armored Core, Frame Arms, Star Wars and Zoid kits. Sale will last till January 4, 2012 at 6Pm Japan Standard Time.

Released last month by Kotobukiya was the 1/72 scale Aspina X-Sobrero Fragile from their Armored Core line of model kits. Armored Core is the popular video game full of mecha’s fighting each other. I remember playing this for the first time on my friend’s PS2 and was blown away with the graphics and the game play.

The Interior Union Y01-Tellus from the Armored Core game made into a 1/72 model kit by Kotobukiya. I remember the first time I saw an Armored Core game, and this was in 2000 when the PS2 first came out.

Please Read this First: Kindly refer to the color chart posted below when using the translated color guides to look for the corresponding paint number. That’s because the translated katakana name of the color guide is sometimes different from the english name of the GSI creos paints. So if you go on the translated color guide alone, there might be a slim chance that you won’t find that GSI Creos paint color in your local hobby shop. When buying/ordering the GSI Creos paint I’d recommend using both it’s paint no. and the english name because I’d seen instances where GSI Creos changed the paint number designation from its english name.

An example of the difference between english name and katakana name is with the most common colors found in the Gundam Model kits: Indy Blue and Daytona Green. Their English Equivalent are Bright Blue (C65) and Bright Green (C66) but if you translate its katakana equivalents in the color guide it says Indy Blue and Daytona Green. Why GSI creos did it this way I have no idea

Took stock of the model kit color guides that have been translated to English and found out that there’s a lot already. Decided to create a list for easier look up. Will update this page periodically whenever a new model kit’s color guide gets translated to English.