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(Wes) Murphy's Laws of GunPla Modelling:

    * There is no such thing as two perfectly fitting parts.
    * Dropped parts will always land freshly-painted side down.
    * You only need to sneeze or scratch an itch the very moment you're using tweezers to mount joints on your Master Grade.
    * Add-on detail parts for your mobile suit will always cost 3-5 times more than the  original kit.
    * Gunze Sangyo's "Easy to Use" Gundam Markers...aren't.
    * Gunze Sangyo's "Professional Quality" Gundam Paints...aren't.
    * White is the hardest color to paint properly on a model kit. And Gundams just happen to come in a thousand subtly different shades of white.
    * Despite the box labels, GunPla are NEVER to scale.
    * The only insect in your entire house ALWAYS decides to park right on top of your kit just as the paint dries.
    * Law of Inverse Multiplicity (circa 1990 and later): The more numerous a mobile suit is in a Gundam series, the fewer models of it will be made.
    * Corollary #1: And more often than not, kits of mass-production MS are more expensive than those of the Gundams.
    * Corollary #2: Conversely, the rarer a mobile suit is in a Gundam series, the more models of it are produced. 90% of all Gundam models ever made are of the Gundams themselves.
    * Corollary #3: And at least half again of those produced are color variations of the same model.
    * Corollary #4 (AKA The Law of Inverse Demand): The more longtime Gunpla fans want a particular mass-production or special-use mobile suit made into a model, the less chances there are of it ever being produced.
    * Law of Inverse Craptacularity: The uglier a mobile suit model kit is, the better it will look after kitbashing.
    * the Weapon "shooting" hands will have trouble fitting around the weapon grips the model is supposed to be "shooting".
    * The Gundam color palette has more pastel shades than a drawing room in the Versailles palace. But they don't have flat black....
    * According to the Gunze Sangyo palette, "Char red" means "salmon pink" and "Char pink" means "Easter parade purple".
    *An MS with a large weapons assortment will never have all its weapons in 1 kit. You will have to buy at least 2 kits to get all of them.
  * The wimpy background equipment models like fighters, transport trucks, tanks, and the like cost twice as much as the typical MS kit. They will not be snap-together, either (i.e EX models).
  * When cutting PVC joints off their rack, at least 3 will launch in a random direction and end up under a table or the nearest other piece of large furniture.*-The incidence for jumping PVC parts increases by 50% if the floor is colored grey or fitted with shag carpet.
  * Law of Purchased Product Improvement: Bandai only releases new and improved versions of their GunPla kits right after you've bought the old one.

it was fun for me to read, just hoping to share it with all of ya... oh the ardous pains of Gunpla modelling  !

problem is which to pick. Damn Ban Dai really know how to make money
I'm not choosing Shiranui Akatsuki also for that reason. The backpack is like Infinite Justice (& Saviour) which I already have. Will almost look exactly the same. I want something different
Buying both is a big nono
and Cosmic Region's Akatsuki...although has both backpacks and has its own custom stand, looks...weird. The shoulders are just...off
yup, most people go for Flat Top Coat. I think those used in Bakuc are also Flat Top Coats rite?

I did that to my HG SF but dun seemed to work coz it'll somehow revert to its almost normal state....Dare not to use any heat on those thing coz d plastic like rubber looks easy to melt, hehe.... 

Guess that the only thing that u can do (if u dun wanna apply heat)'s to bend that thing frequently so that it'll keep the damn shape there