This is the only Kaiyodo Gundam kit ever produced as far as I know. And that's too bad. The quality of the sculpt is really good and really enhance the design (by Izubuchi, BTW).

The fitting is different story though. It's hard to have the kit pose in a balanced manner. One of the shoulders or legs tend to be higher than the other thus requiring constantly adjusting of positions. Very annoying.

To support the shoulders weight, serveral brass rods are needed but it was very awkward with the positions used to join them. Obviously, not the most fun part to work on.

Oh, and if you're really knit picky, you'll probably notice the missing antenna n the head. Well, what can I say? These parts required you to cut out a sheet of plastic and I was really too lazy at the time. I still might do it someday. Oh well..

Modifications

Despite being a fixed-pose kit, I can't resist adding a little movability here and there. So I used a few ball joints on head, shield and all 4 propellant tanks enable a bit of variation on posing

Another minor thing added is the shield texturing with putty. I wanted to give it a gritty look in contrast to the almost brand new MS (or MA, whatever).

Painting

I use a mixture Gunze Sangyo reds including shine red (79), red madder or Monza red (68) and perhaps red (3) in a ratio unbeknown to me ;-). And I must have added some sort of light gray to lighten the tone as well. For the shading, I use the remains of those colors and added either mahoghany or dark brown. The propellant tanks are painted aircraft gray (73) and shade it with..perhaps a seagull gray.

Weathering

There are 2 types of wash at work here. One for panel lines is Tamiya's flat black and the other for dirts and grease stuff is an oil-based paint: raw umber.

I did a little drybrush on the shield texture with light gray over navy blue (14) and midnight blue (81).