BB Senshi Destiny Part 1

Prelude to its bigger equivalence ;)

Bought this some time around the beginning of last year, and it was stuck in my closet awaiting its unforeseeable date of assembly.

One night I got so bored I built its head, and the weapons, and left everything else hanging, till now. ^^;

Luckily I never had any bad dream of being haunted by a bodiless Destiny XD

As with the other BB Senshi SEED Destiny models, the articulation of this Destiny is superb. It can move as much as the HG version, and with all the weapons included, all the action poses the Gundam performed in the anime are possible.

However, the biggest attraction of the kit for me is this:



Not enough with the articulation of the wings, a pair of beam wings, the Wing of Light are included, with glittering effect on them some more. ^^

Just can't wait to try them on the completed model ^^

A few parts completed before this review:


I found it to be too irresistible to wait for the right time to build everything together so I started on the head and the weapons first.


Done for the head: painted gray for the Vulcan, panel-lining and even applied the foil stickers to the eyes and main camera.



Super-straight assembly, without even the remains of the Gates cleared off.
* Notice the huge size differences between the spread palm and the hand. XD
At first glance, it certainly has more parts and better color allocation for the various parts as compared to BB Senshi Sangokuden, but quite a lot of painting is required nonetheless.

Several major parts for painting:
- hands & spread palm (4 parts): white => gray
- beam shield generator (4 parts): blue => yellow
- beam shield (1 part): clear pink => blue(?) & yellow (generator)
- top cover of the wing (2 parts): red => black
- beam rifle (1 part): white => gray
- neck area & collar (2 parts): blue => gray
- anti ship sword (2 part): blue => light blue & white
- mount racks for anti ship sword & beam launcher (2 parts): blue => black
- skirt armor (2 parts): white => blue, red, & black

The biggest challenge is the beam shield I think. Molded on the same runner as the beam wings, the shield is in clear pink instead of clear blue.


How to retain the transparency of the shield while changing the color is on my head right now ^^;

Also, since it has much more gimmicks and articulation, I'm quite concerned about how the painted parts may be affected in certain action, and how I can minimize on that.

Started painting the spread palm:



Use a toothpick to get the paint into the tiny spaces between each finger.
Painting of the other parts will be in the next review.