Construction and optional painting

Assemble Gundvolva with its backpack, Beam Carbine, shield and beam sabers. The carbine can mount on the shield, and the sabers attach as shown. Apply the head, chest and weapon stickers during the indicated steps. Action Base 5 is sold separately.

Bandai recommends water-based paint. The seven optional recipes include two layered sensor finishes: Silver underneath Clear Yellow on the sensor, and Silver underneath Clear Green on the Beam Carbine sensor. Apply these as separate coats; neither is a 50/50 mixture.

Materials in the parts list: PS parts and beam sabers.

Russet is paired with Japanese Azuki color.

The original explicitly labels Silver as the undercoat before the Clear Yellow or Clear Green coat.

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

7 printed roles use 14 distinct named ingredients. 5 roles contain mixtures; 2 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 gray: White 50% + Gray 40% + Wood Brown 10%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Wood Brown has no chosen store match.
2. Body purple gray: Gray 80% + Cocoa Brown 10% + Russet 10%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Cocoa Brown, Russet has no chosen store match.
3. Frame gray: Gray 50% + Khaki Green 30% + Black 10% + Cocoa Brown 10%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Cocoa Brown, Khaki Green has no chosen store match.
4. Shield blue: Blue Gray 50% + Purple 30% + Navy Blue 20%.
5. Head white: White 90% + Neutral Gray 10%.
6. Sensor metallic yellow: Silver 100% undercoat, then Clear Yellow 100%.
7. Beam Carbine sensor metallic green: Silver 100% undercoat, then Clear Green 100%.

Named ingredients and optional store candidates

10 mapped purchase cards and 4 disabled ingredient references cover all 14 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. Wood Brown. No defensible Wood Brown match is chosen; a pale wood-base color is not assumed equivalent.
4. Cocoa Brown. No independently supported Cocoa brown shade is established. Generic Deep Brown or an invented H/C code is not silently substituted.
5. Russet. The printed Russet ingredient remains distinct from Red brown and Cocoa brown. A matching shade is not established.
6. Khaki Green. No candidate was established that resolves this source Khaki Green without imposing a more specific military standard. It remains distinct from Khaki and ordinary Green.
7. 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.
8. Blue Gray. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Blue Grey AK11011. Blue Grey supplies a named blue-gray approximation; exact blue/gray balance is untested. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
9. 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.
10. Navy Blue. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Dark Blue AK11181. Dark Blue has a dark navy-blue chart sample. It is a hue-family approximation, distinct from the near-black Midnight Blue candidate. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
11. Neutral Gray. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Neutral Grey AK11018. The descriptive Neutral Grey candidate supports a neutral-gray approximation. Its bottle may also serve generic Gray while both ingredient names remain separate. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
12. 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.
13. Clear Yellow. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Clear Yellow AK11217. Clear Yellow is a named transparent water-based candidate. Exact source formulation and dried appearance are untested. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: transparent.
14. Clear Green. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Clear Green AK11216. Clear Green is a named transparent water-based candidate. Exact source formulation and dried appearance are untested. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: transparent.

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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