1/60 Perfect Grade Wing Gundam Zero Custom

Hello Everyone!

Look at this lovely box of Wing Gundam Zero Custom!

(Sorry for the really not-so-good = lousy photo quality,

took it in a haste and was too excited about it)

For people who think that it is a W.I.P post... HA! You are trapped. This is a post by Tako! And this post will disclose how blur I am at times.

The truth behind this is.. 

I own 2 boxes of W-Gundam Zero Custom! Yes, it is a PERFECT GRADE!

Long story short, well, my first exposure to Gundam was actually from the anime series of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, and I was totally in "love" with Heero Yuy! HA!

(Heero Yuy - ヒロ・ユイ)

This meant that I would love the Gundam that he was piloting and this would mean that I would like to own Wing Gundam!

More than 10 yrs ago..
And well, one day, a box fell onto my lap. I became the owner of a PG Wing Gundam Zero Custom! I happily opened the box and started building it. Back then, I was totally clueless about what is Perfect Grade and my only experience is only High Grade. Ok, my "back then" is like more than 10 yrs ago. So back then, I was just a girl who was fascinated with Gundam but did not research on gunpla. But come to think of it, there were not much resources during those days, there was no Gundam Expo, not much of internet resources telling you how to build or improve on Gunpla skills. Or maybe, I was really not exposed to the gunpla community back then. My only modelling skills came from building a Zoid at the age of 7 with my dad, and ermmm... I went ahead to challenge-start-build a PG! Whoah, come to think of it,  I salute myself. HAHA.

I digressed.

So more than 10 yrs ago..

I started to build it right from the box and after snapping together some joints, I realised that... HEY! The runners were NOT COMPLETE!! There were MISSING RUNNERS!!!!!!!!!!

AHHHH! NIGHTMARE!

Well, then after some time, another box of fell onto my lap! Heard that the person who sold the first box of missing-runners-wing gundam actually gave the second one for free and this chap is from Hong Kong. He came Singapore for holiday and brought this second kit along to pass it to me.

NOW, I own 2 boxes of Wing Gundam Zero Custom:-

1. PG missing-runners-Wing Gundam Zero Custom; and

2. PG Wing Gundam Zero Custom

In YEAR 2011!

So how can i be selfish and own 2 boxes of it? I decided to bring it out and start counting the runners..

I picked up the construction manual and started counting the runners for the "PG missing-runners-Wing Gundam Zero Custom".

Counting in Progress....

THERE WERE 4 RUNNERS MISSING!!!

Now that I have known Ren, of course, I would be disturbing him to help me revive the box of "PG missing-runner-Wing Gundam Zero Custom". And we calculated how much it would cost to ship runners over. AND ALL THE MISSING RUNNERS were EITHER in CHROME or in MIXED COLOURS! Sigh.. we were expecting to spend about 100odd bucks in shipping the 4 runners over. (T.T)

BUT we started deluding ourselves:-

1. Errr, Ren, maybe you can make a Wing Gundam in repair mode??

2. Errrrr, or Ren, maybe you can modify it???

3. Errrrrrrrr, Tako, maybe we can treat that box as a spare-parts box???

Ahhh! We can't convince ourselves that we are OK with 4 missing runners. So we will ship the runners over!

So that we can own 2 complete sets of PG WING GUNDAM ZERO CUSTOM!!

楽しみ！！！

Tako ('O')9

Pssssst: Don't be misled by the ticks on the Construction Manual. The ticks came from the complete-runner-Wing Gundam Zero Custom. I had developed the habit of counting runners for all gunpla model kits! Super no sense of security now. Remember, the Musha MK-II that I bought for Ren, I counted the runners twice! Ren was laughing his head off when he saw me bending at the table feverently counting runners..