1/100 MG Gundam Unicorn Review (ish)

Hi all, I know this isn't necessarily a post about my Gf and I but I thought I'd share this too, seeing as I posted about the anime convention not too long ago, I thought I might make this a ocurring trend as well as posts about the things She and I have been up to :)



So here's my latest gunpla project, the 1/100 MG Gundam Unicorn, I've had this model for a while now, but I wanted to wait till I moved to build this monster, and believe me, it IS a monster of a model to create.



The first thing you see when opening the box, the instruction manual (Though I prefer the large carboard cover the MG 1/100 Freedom has, its not necessariyl important but I always thought it gave it more protection) Its not a particualrly thick manual but as with most gunpla is very detailed, all Japanese and has awesome illustrations, both of the Model and reference from the Gundam series this particular model is from.



An image of a few of the trees, There are a LOT of these on this model, more than the Freedom I built a while back (I'll post that soon too), if Iremember there were roughly 20 trees for the main body alone and another 4-5 for its arsenal.




So lets get started! with PGTips monkey keeping a watchful eye.




Some WIP pics, the main cockpit, I've left the pilot completely unpainted as its something I'm still not completely confident with, I've also left the model unpainted.




Showing the frame around the cockpit, Though I do feel the pink is a little too light the pink is such a great color for this model. It gives it such a great contrast from unicorn to psycho frame.




The head WIP



With this pic comes my first complaint for this model, though I do throughly admire the overall design of the model what I dislike about it is the piecing together of the different parts of the white armor during "unicorn" mode, looks very shoddy and loosely fit...then again that could just be my shoddy handy work :lol:



a size comparison between the head and upper torso

Now after this pic I got REALLY into building and creating this awesome model and by the time I realised I wasnt taking pics I was almost finished! so heres some *nearly* finished shots






As stated before I'm not even close to being confident enough to paint my Gundams, so for now stickers will suffice.







And here she is in all her glory








Overall I thouroughly enjoyed making this model, it was such a HUGE challenge for me but in the end I think it was definately worth it, though I'm not too happy with the overall poseability its to be expected from the design of the unicorn, I also really like the weapons it comes with, very detailed and look absolutely awesome.

Next up: Destiny ;)