"Here, Let's try for a two-fer!"

G'day folks, picked up the HG:IBO Barbatos, and I thought I'd throw it up for review. Overall, it is a great kit, with posability being it's greatest asset out of the box due to it's full inner frame. Essentially any pose that you can think of, you can display it in. I'm not that creative when it comes to posing my kits so for this review it'll be shown standing for the most part. 

Allthough this kit has great posability, the color separation is lack-luster, even for your average high grade. Stickers make up the majority of the color separation, aside from the standard Gundam colors; blue red and yellow. Some of the smaller yellow details that should be there are stickers as well. These yellow stickers being placed on the shoulder armor and other smaller, less noticeable bits. 

Black stickers are used on the back of the legs behind the knee simulate the look of the jump jets, but they don't look the best either considering that they have to be folded to match the general contour of the model. However, this problem can be fixed with some minimal masking and paint work. For the dark metallic, I used Testor's magnesium buffing metalizer. I think this greatly improved the look of the model. 

Metallic red stickers are used on the shin and shoulder armor; they look okay, but I chose to paint them in. 

Alltogether, the HG Barbatos is a very solid kit, and the $10 price point can't be beat for a hg of it's overall quality. The only thing that I wish that they would have done was spend more time and budget on the color separation, as it is seriously dissapointing. 

My apologies for the terrible final picture, I'll take better ones once I've gotten my completed models portfolio on the blog completed. More on that at a later date further down the line. 

Finally got around to painting my "3D printed" Victor that I had posted a few months back from one of my favorite video games to date, Mechwarrior Online, of the Mechwarrior/Battletech franchise that got me into giant stompy robots in the first place. 

It's painted in the canon paint scheme of House Kurita's First Sword of Light.

 HONOR THE DRAGON! 

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