Lefts just say it's a super fine silver powder, so if u used blue base then you will have silver blue contrast instead of silver black chrome effect worth a try coz this baby quite worth it only a bit will shine like crazy, but given u have smooth glossy surface

Finally got my hg rick dias kai finished, there's a few disasters worth mentioning and hopefully no one repeat my mistakes:

1. chrome powder tends to clog up and appear effect like the side skirts if too much of gloss coat applied, have to be slight and fast spray in the 1st run
2. hg rick dias legs are extremely fragile, so if seam line removal is intended do handle it with extra care as mine tends to crack and have to redo all process again
3. the rest might be my 1st time trying modding on mesh, hence too much of 502 loctite applied showing less mesh and more glued surface, butter fingers on feet showing traces of loctite when modding them and hole drilling slightly slipped even the metal piece cant fully hide them...

then again overall results still quite ok, this kit is still under WIP as water decals design have yet to decide...

great weathering effect! you might also want to try out weathering powder which can provide a better weathering fade out effect!

gotta admit old time models really suck especially the beam sabers still have bubble in them lol

shit MS-08TX efreet? for sure no brainer for me a straight buy! but how come no XM-01 Den'an Zon am i the only guy thinks its a cool unit?

Kinda think he meant the reborn from the 00 gundam the white gold and red gundam with twin gn drive and can change to cannon mode...

aih, my buy 1st regret later went steroid mode and bought 9 old BBs, 5 RGs and 1 MG and 1 amazing lev d

8 BBs and 5 RGs all bought comparable to local due to damn shipment fee and exchange rates

but the last MG is the one I have been waiting rare items, kyoshiro ver perfect gundam...
so bandai for the sake of god dont ever ever release a reborn version of this perfect gundam else i will be in deep, i mean REAL deep despair...

This post has been edited by heally82: Sep 28 2015, 05:36 PM

aih lucky my wife didnt monitor me though this website else mati...

spent around rm1k already... habis...

think gonna let go some of the bb kits just to ease my pain a bit...

also just so you know after i po the lev d damn japs release another for just 1000yen also same nakano shop...

curse those japs, if your into it go po it la...

This post has been edited by heally82: Sep 28 2015, 05:46 PM

I only can answer you based on others reviews, its best among RE100 the only downside is it doesn't have inner frame...

also consider its simple build compare to mg lineup, pretty much you can build it within 30mins...

also if you do airbrush, consider this is a fairly good choice... (i think the straight build color separation a bit plain)

so you can pretty much imagine the hollow feeling when playing it, still it has pretty good reviews comparing other REs like the dijeh (heard its the worst)

its impressive how bf and bft series revived the old models in design and popularity...

just knew that hg gaia gundam from seed destiny got marked up to 3500 yen more than 100% hiked, just because of custom nyaia gundam design...

yeah, else they will have to redesign on coming new series which they dun know the acceptance of the crowd better off using existing kits...

newer kits just dont have the kicks like it used to...

hehe i'm taking more of a wait and see strategy as i think bandai has more up in their sleeves, they're just ensure to milk us kaokao 1st...

yeah old school sd gundam better but all those became rare items already

just collected 2 transformable sd from the 90s, last time i saw a few quite cool like the crossbone pair sds...

i got them unwilling-fully put them on garage sale nobody ask for it, heck i telan lah

oso saw some these crossbone one from taobao really makes me drooling all over...

heres the taobao link havent really hunt it out yet

https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z02....cb-360c64c22daa

hehe thought i want to sell them one, but since no one ask for it at garage sale then i keep for my own lo...

if not mistaken mandarake still have 1 or 2 kits around but at hell price like 6k to 7k yen, check it out if you reaaaally want it...

may be wait until i got my air compressor spare parts arrived 1st, my mini compressor cant build up pressure the piston seal teared.

kinda like the G self and kabakali design (except for the fingers...)

wao just 2 weeks, must be more than 4 hours per day, last time i build pg strike took me more than 2 weeks everyday build it after working hours...

with pg unicorn for 2 weeks considered very good already...

both gloss yellow and gold base will not give a superb chrome metallic effect, without a top coat these powder might rub off if you repeatedly touches the surface leaving patches of uneven chrome effect. so unless after you apply the powder and store it as display else top coat it is recommended.

but speaking of top coating it is a bit tricky, these powder tends to float even with the slightest thinnest layer, so there is a way of so called dry spray which most likely only air brush can do. just adjust to the lowest paint output and spray it.

my mini compressor cant maintain a steady pressured outflow so tends to fail from time to time...

so to keep it simple, this chrome powder is nothing but just super fine metallic powder that when you rub them on your glossy black surface, they will filled up all the tiny rough surfaces that eye cant see but felt like its not "shiny". so the mirror like chrome effect is nothing but super smooth surface (try imagine mirror like ice the smoother the surface the more mirror effect you will get)

Yes but surface evenness will be a challenge...

Lol may be bandai is superstitious about the naming?

"No E.X Thanks" so changed to just EX...

i'm totally with you on this one coz origin design more bulkier than the others...