Construction and optional painting

Build ZZ with its double beam rifle, hyper beam sabers and Core Fighter, then follow the full Core Top, Core Base and G-Fortress transformations. A small support and storage base is included; the illustrated Action Base 1 is sold separately. Apply the foil stickers at the marked steps.

Bandai recommends water-based paint and advises against painting ABS. Keep all ten optional roles: the canopy Silver undercoat and Smoke Gray topcoat are separate stages, and the white arms and legs retain both extremely small additions of Yellow Green and Intermediate Blue.

Materials in the parts list: PS parts; ABS F parts; PE PC-132ABC polycaps.

Japanese 極少量 is retained as extremely small dose; no percentage inferred.

Canopy undercoat and topcoat remain two distinct source roles forming successive layers.

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

10 printed roles use 13 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. Chest: Cobalt Blue 100% + White small dose. Candidate recipe incomplete: Cobalt Blue has no chosen store match.
2. Head antenna: Yellow 70% + Orange Yellow 30%.
3. Arms and legs: White 100% + Yellow Green extremely small dose + Intermediate Blue extremely small dose.
4. Feet: Monza Red 100%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Monza Red has no chosen store match.
5. Backpack: Cobalt Blue 60% + White 25% + Midnight Blue 15%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Cobalt Blue has no chosen store match.
6. Rifle and gun barrel: Gray 90% + Black 10%.
7. Core Fighter canopy front: Black 100%.
8. Canopy undercoat: Silver 100%.
9. Canopy topcoat: Smoke Gray 100%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Smoke Gray has no chosen store match.
10. Camera eyes: Clear Green 100%.

Named ingredients and optional store candidates

10 mapped purchase cards and 3 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. Cobalt Blue. No ordinary opaque Cobalt Blue match is chosen. A metallic paint with the same name would change the effect.
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. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Monza Red. No independently supported water-based Monza Red candidate is established. Preserve the source name and any bilingual Monza Red / Red Madder note without inventing code equivalence.
8. Midnight Blue. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Strong Dark Blue AK11187. Strong Dark Blue has a very dark, near-black blue chart sample. It is an approximation to the Midnight Blue hue, distinct from Navy Blue; no manufacturer crosswalk is claimed. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. Smoke Gray. No transparent Smoke Gray match is chosen; brown smoke and opaque gray would change the result.
13. 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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