My next project

Hot on the heels of the Yamato, i got myself a new project.

Yet again a present from a friend in Japan (I sure do love presents).
What i got is a MG (Master Grade) One -Year War Gundam RX-78-2.
For those not into the model world, a breif explanation; Gundam models are 4 kinds:

1)No grade models (scale 1:220~1:60) -> generally cheap but usually use one sprue color and are generally a pain in the but to make them even remotely decent looking. Glue is sometimes needed.

1)High grade models (scale 1:144) -> generally well designed and nearly completely precolored. No glue required to make them and have decent posability.(~1500 yen = 11 $)

2)Master grade models (scale 1:100) -> The standard of Gundam kits. Superbly design and nearly 90% prepainted out of the box. Excellent gimmiks and exceptional posability. Some have complete internal skeletons and individual moving fingers. VERY nice.(~3000 yen = 25 $)

3)Perfect grade models (scale 1:60) -> The epitomy of Gundam Models. Very Large, EXTREMELY detailed and look excellent right out of the Box with no paint at all but very EXPENSIVE. (~15000 yen = 120 $)

My newest master grade is a very nice rendition of the Classic Gundam design (First Gundam).
Hoping to start on this next monday with the holdiays coming .

Here is the box I got and Pics of a finished model (Not mine of course :P).
Check out the posability of this model at this page:

http://gunpla-web.hp.infoseek.co.jp/mg-gundam-ver.one-year-war-0079.htm

And by the way here are some of the tools I use: