After translating the Color Guide for the Gundam Mk II, Titans version, decided to translate to English the Color Guide for the RX-178 Gundam Mk II AEUG.

The titular Gundam of the Zeta Gundam series, the Zeta Gundam. Flown by Newtype Kamille Bidan, it’s unique because it can transform to mobile armor mode. To be honest, I wasn’t really blown away with the design of the Zeta Gundam, in fact, I was more impressed with the design of the Rick Dias. Judging from the colors listed in its color guide, no mixing is required if you are using Mr. Color type of paints because the colors are readily available..

Color Guide for the Perfect Grade 1/60 Strike Gundam was translated from Japanese to English. I can’t really say much about the Strike Gundam because I’ve had no experience watching the first Gundam Seed series. I’ve watched Gundam Seed Destiny though and found it entertaining.

Would sure love to see though what it feels like to build a perfect grade Gundam. The perfect grade line is said to be the epoch of plamodel construction because of the articulation and sheer amount of parts. Not to mention, I like it also because its a big 1/60 scale model kit.

I realized after I translated the PG 00 Raiser’s color guide that its been quite some time already since I last translated something as part of my exercises to learn Japanese for the certification exams. And thanks to my recent introduction to Dalong.net, a great source for manuals, I’ve decided to try and translate the Perfect Grade 00 Raiser manual to English. Kindly read the disclaimer before proceeding with this.

Update (12/04/2009) : Just wanted to point out that “0 Raiser supplementary weapons, etc grey parts” is not a typo. This grey is specifically for the 0 Raiser that is piloted by Saji Crossroad and not the 00 Raiser combination of the 00 Gundam and the 0 Raiser.

Did a quick translation of the Color Guide for the Perfect Grade 00 Raiser by Bandai to English from its original Japanese. Click on the image below to enlarge it.

Yesterday I received confirmation that the 1/100 Gundam Astray Red Frame and 1/100 Gundam Astray Blue Frame that I had bought from HWJapan was shipped already, yey!

Saw this at the Bandai site. No idea when this will be released but its foot pads for your Perfect Grade Gundam to prevent them from slipping on your display stand because of their weight. You can see them as the black pads on the sole of the Gundam Astray’s feet. Pretty nifty and practical idea I have to say.

Update 02/09/2010: 3rd Party sellers selling it at Amazon for $280.11 … gaaahhh.

Update 12/05/2009: After the color guide, I started translating slowly the PG 00 Raiser’s Japanese Construction Manual into English.

Update 12/04/2009: Color Guide had been translated to English here. Check out Dalong.net for detailed parts shots.

Update 11/28/2009: With HWJapan’s Gundam Sale ongoing, their price for the PG 00 Raiser is at 17500 yen or 30% off. The bad news is that due to size shipment limitations, they cannot ship to the following countries: (EMS) Spain, Philippines, Argentine, and others. (SAL) U.S.A., Argentine, Australia, Brazil, Mexico Russia and others. I wonder if its the same for other online shops? I guess what they mean here is that for the US, they can’t ship via SAL, only EMS? I hope that is what they mean by that. Best to shoot them an email before ordering from HWJapan.

Update 11/11/2009: Amiami is selling this for only 18,280, they just recently started shipping overseas.

Update 10/22/2009: Amazon Japan is selling it for ￥16533 yen, don’t think they ship overseas though.

Update 10/11/2009 : More photos of the Pefect Grade Double 00 Raiser taken from the 49th All Japan Plastic Model Show can be found here.

Update: I’m wondering though why HLJ is selling theirs for only Y17062 at their Japanese site while in the english site its pre-order price is Y23,750?

Update: According to this official post from the developers of the PG 00 Raiser, the kit has a total of 1031 piece parts.

Whoa, just saw this at the Bandai Site. A Perfect Grade rendition of the 00 Raiser (”Double O” Raiser) in 1/60 th scale. Be sure to check out the PDF file at the link above for more details and shots of the kit.

In the “Gundam”-verse, a GN-0000 00 Gundam will combine with a GNR-010 0 Raiser to produce this marvelous mecha of mayhem and destruction known as the 00 Raiser.