Construction and optional painting

Build Aerial Rebuild with its Flight Unit, beam sabers and Beam Rifle, which can use the shown short or long configuration. The Escutcheon separates into eleven GUND-BIT parts for the body-mounted or display arrangements. Choose the Shell Unit inserts and stickers as shown; Action Base 5 and The Witch from Mercury Weapon Display Base are sold separately.

Bandai recommends water-based paint and advises against painting ABS parts. Preserve the six optional recipes and every small addition. Bright Blue is printed beside Japanese Indy Blue, Red madder beside Monza Red, and RLM75 Gray beside RLM75 Gray-Violet; these bilingual names do not establish an exact store-paint match.

Materials in the parts list: PS parts and beam sabers; ABS F parts.

Bright Blue (English) / Indy Blue (Japanese), 5% in the blue body recipe: unresolved hue; do not silently substitute a modern numbered paint.

Red madder (English) / Monza Red (Japanese).

RLM75 Gray (English) / RLM75 Gray-Violet (Japanese).

The original recommends water-based paint and gives named ingredients without numerical H/C product codes. The water-based AK 3GEN store products below are optional approximate candidates, not manufacturer-specified paints or physically verified matches.

Complete original painting recipes

6 printed roles use 12 distinct named ingredients. 6 roles contain mixtures; 0 use separate paint layers. Original proportions describe the source paints. Ratios for these substitute pigments are unvalidated starting points: test and adjust a small dried sample. Unquantified additions remain unquantified. Keep undercoats and topcoats separate and let each layer dry.

1. Body white: White 100% + Gray small dose.
2. Body blue: Cobalt Blue 80% + White 10% + Bright Blue 5% + RLM75 Gray 5% + Red small dose. Candidate recipe incomplete: Cobalt Blue, Bright Blue has no chosen store match.
3. Body yellow: Yellow 90% + Orange Yellow 10% + Gray small dose.
4. Legs and waist red: Brown 70% + Red madder 20% + White 10%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Red madder has no chosen store match.
5. Frame gray: RLM75 Gray 100% + White small dose.
6. Sensor green: Metallic Green 70% + Gold 30%.

Named ingredients and optional store candidates

9 mapped purchase cards and 3 disabled ingredient references cover all 12 named ingredients. Mapped cards represent 9 unique paint variants. Source-role counts are not purchase quantities. Each selected variant is added once, even if chosen for more than one source ingredient.

1. White. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic White AK11001. White is a named opaque water-based candidate. Exact source formulation and dried appearance are untested. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
2. Gray. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Neutral Grey AK11018. Neutral Grey is a generic gray approximation; it does not define the distinct named Neutral Gray source as an identical formulation. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
3. Cobalt Blue. No ordinary opaque Cobalt Blue match is chosen. A metallic paint with the same name would change the effect.
4. Bright Blue. The original pairs Bright Blue with Japanese Indy Blue. A matching hue is not established; a light-cyan candidate is not used.
5. RLM75 Gray. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic RLM 75 AK11826. Manufacturer identifies AK11826 as RLM 75; source spelling retained and formulation remains approximate. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
6. Red. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Matt Red AK11092. Matt Red supplies an opaque red candidate; matte describes the candidate, not a proven source finish. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
7. Yellow. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Yellow AK11044. Yellow is a named opaque water-based candidate. Exact source formulation and dried appearance are untested. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
8. Orange Yellow. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Golden Yellow AK11041. Golden Yellow supplies a warm yellow-orange approximation, distinct from Orange and Yellow. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
9. Brown. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Deep Brown AK11102. Deep Brown supplies a generic brown approximation, kept distinct from Pale Brown, Mahogany and Wood Brown. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
10. Red madder. The source gives a named Red Madder ingredient without a numeric product code; some originals pair the English with Japanese Monza Red. No matching formulation is established.
11. Metallic Green. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Metallic Green AK11205. Metallic Green is a named metallic water-based candidate. Exact source formulation and dried appearance are untested. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: metallic.
12. Gold. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Gold AK11191. Gold is a named metallic water-based candidate. Exact source formulation and dried appearance are untested. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: metallic.

Optional supplies are recommendations for the tasks described above, not manufacturer-required purchases. The AK 3GEN thinner applies only to the AK 3GEN candidates. Do not paint materials the original warns against painting. Digital color squares are browsing aids; they do not prove dried color, pigment strength, sheen, metallic reflection, transparency or a successful mixture.

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