Construction and optional painting

Build GFreD with the rifle, shield and beam sabers, choosing the opened or unopened head. Follow the Core Fighter conversion and detached ES Bit display options. Detail stickers and marking stickers are supplied; Action Base 7 and The Witch from Mercury Weapon Display Base are sold separately.

Bandai recommends water-based paint. Retain all thirteen optional recipes, including the metallic blue-green canopy ingredient and metallic eye finish. The printed English Bright Green is Japanese Daytona Green, Red madder is Monza Red, and Metallic Blue Green is 青竹色; keep these paired names without inventing paint codes.

Materials in the parts list: PS parts.

Bright Green (English) / Daytona Green (Japanese), retained wherever used.

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

Metallic Blue Green (English) / 青竹色 (Japanese, blue bamboo color).

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 19 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 100% + Black small dose.
2. Body light purple: White 100% + Purple small dose.
3. Body green: Bright Green 50% + Sky Blue 40% + Cobalt Blue 10%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Bright Green, Cobalt Blue has no chosen store match.
4. Body blue: Sky Blue 80% + Bright Green 20%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Bright Green has no chosen store match.
5. Body yellow green: Yellow Green 90% + White 10% + Gray small dose.
6. Body orange: Orange 65% + Orange Yellow 20% + White 15% + Gray small dose.
7. Body white: White 100% + Black small dose.
8. Body red: Red 70% + Red madder 30%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Red madder has no chosen store match.
9. Body light green: Bright Green 60% + White 30% + Orange Yellow 10%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Bright Green has no chosen store match.
10. Saber grip emerald green: Emerald Green 100%.
11. Frame dark gray: Mahogany 45% + White 25% + Black 20% + Khaki 10%.
12. Canopy blue green: Cobalt Blue 75% + Green 20% + Metallic Blue Green 5%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Cobalt Blue has no chosen store match.
13. Twin eye light metallic green: Gold 75% + Metallic Green 25%.

Named ingredients and optional store candidates

16 mapped purchase cards and 3 disabled ingredient references cover all 19 named ingredients. Mapped cards represent 16 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. 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.
3. 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.
4. Bright Green. The source Bright Green is a separate named shade; its compatible store hue has not been established.
5. Sky Blue. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Sky Blue AK11175. Same descriptive Sky Blue name supports a pale blue candidate. Separate Light Blue ingredients are retained even when sharing this bottle. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
6. Cobalt Blue. No ordinary opaque Cobalt Blue match is chosen. A metallic paint with the same name would change the effect.
7. Yellow Green. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Interior Yellow Green AK11138. Interior Yellow Green supplies a yellow-green hue approximation. No aircraft-interior standard is assigned to the source. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
8. 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.
9. Orange. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Medium Orange AK11078. Orange is a named opaque water-based candidate. Exact source formulation and dried appearance are untested. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. Emerald Green. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Emerald AK11144. Emerald is the standard opaque green candidate. The separately sold Emerald Metallic Green is expressly rejected for this ordinary color. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
14. Mahogany. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Mahogany Brown AK11106. Mahogany Brown supplies a named reddish wood-brown approximation. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
15. Khaki. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic British Khaki AK11127. British Khaki supplies a khaki-brown hue approximation. The source does not specify a British uniform standard. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
16. 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.
17. Metallic Blue Green. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Astral Beryllium AK11200. Manufacturer Astral Beryllium is in the metallic range with a blue-green/teal chart sample. This is an approximate hue/effect candidate, never an exact named formula conversion. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: metallic.
18. 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.
19. 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.

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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