Construction and optional painting

Assemble the body and backpack beam cannon, then fit the beam rifle, shield and beam saber. Apply the indicated stickers before closing the head and weapon parts. Action Base 5 is sold separately.

Bandai recommends water-based paint. Keep all seven optional recipes, including the three distinct metallic sensor colors. The printed metallic-pink sensor mix is Cobalt Blue 60%, Silver 30% and Wine Red 10%; use that literal recipe without changing it to match the name or illustration.

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

The counterintuitive metallic-pink sensor role and Cobalt Blue 60% + Silver 30% + Wine Red 10% recipe are both printed in the original.

Intermediate Blue is the printed English name where bilingual; Japanese ミディアムブルー is Medium Blue. This name pair does not establish equivalence to any modern paint called Medium Blue.

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 13 distinct named ingredients. 7 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 gray: White 50% + Neutral Gray 45% + Purple 5%.
2. Body purple: Purple 40% + Intermediate Blue 35% + Neutral Gray 25%.
3. Body and shield white: White 55% + Light Gull Gray 40% + Intermediate Blue 5%.
4. Backpack gray: Gray 95% + Cocoa Brown 5%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Cocoa Brown has no chosen store match.
5. Sensor metallic green: Metallic Green 70% + Gold 30%.
6. Sensor metallic purple: Wine Red 70% + Metallic Blue 20% + Silver 10%.
7. Sensor metallic pink: Cobalt Blue 60% + Silver 30% + Wine Red 10%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Cobalt Blue has no chosen store match.

Named ingredients and optional store candidates

11 mapped purchase cards and 2 disabled ingredient references cover all 13 named ingredients. Mapped cards represent 10 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. 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.
3. 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.
4. Intermediate Blue. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Intermediate Blue AK11163. Manufacturer Intermediate Blue is a muted gray-blue candidate, supported by its English name and actual current catalog sample. The original pairs English Intermediate Blue with Japanese Medium Blue; both labels remain visible. This uncalibrated approximation is separate from the unsupported dark saturated AK11184 Medium Blue product. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
5. Light Gull Gray. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Light Gull Grey FS 16440 AK11866. Light Gull Grey is a named approximation; the candidate’s FS16440 label is its identity and is not retroactively assigned to the source. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
6. 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.
7. Cocoa Brown. No independently supported Cocoa brown shade is established. Generic Deep Brown or an invented H/C code is not silently substituted.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
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. Cobalt Blue. No ordinary opaque Cobalt Blue match is chosen. A metallic paint with the same name would change the effect.

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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