Construction and optional painting

Painting is optional. Follow the Gaia or Ortega configuration in the instructions. Two heat sabers are built, with a spare heat-saber part; Gaia attaches the back saber and Ortega does not.

Cut the supplied Haken lead wire in half for the two units. Use a suitable tool for the wire; the optional plastic sprue cutter recommendation applies to plastic runners. Action Base 7 is sold separately. Supplied markings remain optional finishing choices.

The cover character artwork does not represent included pilot figures. Keep the 13 printed model and weapon color roles, including the two distinct metallic sensor colors.

Materials in the parts list: PS runners; PVC lead wire.

The source pairs English Red Madder with Japanese モンザレッド (Monza Red). Both labels are retained without H/C product-code inference. RLM75 Gray / Japanese RLM75 gray-violet is distinct from unnumbered Gray.

Suitable tool for cutting the supplied lead wire: The original calls for cutting the Haken wire in half. Choose a tool appropriate to that wire; the plastic sprue-cutter recommendation is for plastic runners. No store variant or price is assigned to this wire-cutting tool. Reference only; no purchase option is selected.

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

13 printed roles use 15 distinct named ingredients. 12 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 purple: Purple 55% + White 30% + RLM75 Gray 15%.
2. Body blue purple: Cobalt Blue 55% + Purple 25% + White 15% + Black 5%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Cobalt Blue has no chosen store match.
3. Body black: Cobalt Blue 80% + Black 20%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Cobalt Blue has no chosen store match.
4. Body dark purple: Purple 35% + White 25% + Cobalt Blue 25% + Black 15%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Cobalt Blue has no chosen store match.
5. Body gray: RLM75 Gray 85% + Black 15%.
6. Body blue: Cobalt Blue 90% + Blue 5% + Shine Red 5% + Black small dose. Candidate recipe incomplete: Cobalt Blue, Shine Red has no chosen store match.
7. Body red: Wine Red 65% + Red Madder (Japanese Monza Red) 20% + White 15%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Red Madder (Japanese Monza Red) has no chosen store match.
8. Body silver: Silver 85% + Black 15%.
9. Weaponry gray: Gray 85% + Black 15%.
10. Weaponry light gray: Gray 90% + White 10%.
11. Weaponry green: Green 90% + Blue 10% + White small dose.
12. Sensor metallic blue: Metallic Blue 100%.
13. Sensor metallic red: Metallic Red 80% + Gold 20%.

Named ingredients and optional store candidates

12 mapped purchase cards and 3 disabled ingredient references cover all 15 named ingredients. Mapped cards represent 12 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. Purple. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Purple AK11073. Purple is a named opaque water-based candidate. Exact source formulation and dried appearance are untested. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Cobalt Blue. AK11201 Cobalt Blue is explicitly in the metallic range. The source ordinary Cobalt Blue does not establish a metallic effect, so that candidate is rejected.
5. Black. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Black AK11029. Black is a named opaque water-based candidate. Exact source formulation and dried appearance are untested. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
6. Blue. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Deep Blue AK11182. Deep Blue supplies an opaque blue candidate, with untested depth and pigment strength. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
7. Shine Red. No sufficiently supported water-based Shine Red hue/finish candidate is established. Generic red does not establish its named hue or shine.
8. Wine Red. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Wine Red AK11096. Wine Red is a dark wine-red opaque candidate supported by the manufacturer name and red-brown chart sample; the dried hue and mixtures remain untested. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
9. Red Madder (Japanese Monza Red). 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.
10. Silver. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Silver AK11209. Silver is a named metallic water-based candidate. Exact source formulation and dried appearance are untested. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: metallic.
11. 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.
12. Green. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Deep Green AK11142. Deep Green supplies a generic opaque green approximation, separate from the Dark Green and special named green ingredients. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
13. Metallic Blue. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Metallic Blue AK11199. Manufacturer Metallic Blue preserves the named blue metallic effect; exact hue and metal particle behavior untested. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: metallic.
14. Metallic Red. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Foundry Red AK11203. Manufacturer Foundry Red is explicitly in the metallic range and has a red chart sample. Approximate metallic-red hue/effect candidate; particle size and dried reflectance untested. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: metallic.
15. 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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