Finished work on my RG Astray Red Frame earlier this week, oh is she a beautiful kit to put together. In terms of both detail and posability, the kit is above the average, my only complaint would be with the Gerbera Straight Katana in general. The Yellow-Gold bits don't look the best and one could consider them plain ugly. It is the same type of "gold" platic that is seen on the inner frame of the RG Strike Freedom Gundam. I probably will paint them with a coat or two of the krylon gold Plate I have laying around to make them look better.
Another thing I noticed were the nub marks on the Katana's blade in general. While they can be removed without too much of a hassle, you can still see where they were clear as day in the right lighting conditions as the blade is prepainted in this georgeos chrome plate. It would have been nice if they had bothered to remove the blade from the sprue before they painted it, but it can't be helped I suppose.
I ended up dry brushing Vallejo's Matte Earth, German Grey, and Nuetral Grey onto the edges of the model and then putting two layers of dull coat onto the mecha. It gives it the look of being fully painted, with minimal effort (And Time!) put into it.
My apologies for the photos, I do intend to build a light box. (Soon.)
After obstaining from the internet to avoid spoilers, I got to see the new Star Wars film, The Force Awakens! There wasn't anything to huge I could pick at like I was hoping lol. There were a few minor plot holes that I picked up on so the movie isn't perfect by any means, but they aren't so gawling that they keep you from enjoying the movie. I'll probably list the ones that I noticed later so as to not spoil anything for those who haven't seen it yet and are planning to.
