Construction and optional painting

Build the Strike and Aile Striker pack in the printed sequence, taking care with the Advanced MS Joint frame and the small moving parts. The kit uses PS, ABS and PP. Bandai recommends water-based paint and advises against painting the ABS mechanical sections because paint can cause breakage.

Apply the supplied Realistic Decal adhesive stickers using the marking diagram. The kit includes the rifle, shield, Armor Schneider knives and beam sabers, plus Kira Yamato figure details covered by six recipes. The antenna blend uses Orange 10%. The illustrated Action Base 2 and the Skygrasper shown in the Striker Pack explanation are separate products.

Materials in the parts list: PS: armor and weapons; ABS and PP: B Advanced MS Joint runner; ABS: G runner.

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

15 printed roles use 16 distinct named ingredients. 8 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. Face and shield white: White 100%.
2. Shin light gray: White 90% + Neutral Gray 10% + Blue small dose.
3. Beam saber grip white: White 85% + Neutral Gray 10% + Dark Earth 5% + Yellow small dose.
4. Chest blue: Blue 100% + White small dose + Black small dose.
5. Waist red: Shine Red 60% + Monza Red 40%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Shine Red, Monza Red has no chosen store match.
6. Backpack dark red: Monza Red 60% + Wine Red (Maroon) 40%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Monza Red has no chosen store match.
7. Antenna yellow: Yellow 60% + White 30% + Orange 10%.
8. Joints dark gray: Midnight Blue 90% + White 10%.
9. Backpack black: Black 100%.
10. Kira Yamato face and skin: Flesh 100%.
11. Kira Yamato hair brown: Mahogany 100%.
12. Kira Yamato normal suit white: White 100%.
13. Kira Yamato normal suit blue: Indy Blue 60% + White 30% + Daytona Green 10%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Indy Blue, Daytona Green has no chosen store match.
14. Kira Yamato normal suit black: Midnight Blue 100%.
15. Kira Yamato backpack gray: Medium Blue 100%. Candidate recipe incomplete: Medium Blue has no chosen store match.

Named ingredients and optional store candidates

11 mapped purchase cards and 5 disabled ingredient references cover all 16 named ingredients. Mapped cards represent 11 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. 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.
4. Dark Earth. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic RAF Dark Earth AK11841. RAF Dark Earth provides a named earth-brown candidate. The source does not specify an RAF standard. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Shine Red. No candidate is chosen that supports both the named Shine Red shade and its shine.
8. Monza Red. No supported candidate is chosen for the named Monza Red shade.
9. Wine Red (Maroon). Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Wine Red AK11096. The original explicitly names Wine Red (Maroon). Manufacturer Wine Red supports an approximate dark red candidate; no source product code is inferred. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. Flesh. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Basic Skin Tone AK11052. Basic Skin Tone supplies a generic flesh-color approximation. No measured likeness or skin tone is claimed. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
13. Mahogany. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Mahogany Brown AK11106. Mahogany Brown supplies a named reddish wood-brown approximation. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
14. Indy Blue. No supported candidate is chosen for the named Indy Blue shade.
15. Daytona Green. No supported candidate is chosen for the named Daytona Green shade.
16. Medium Blue. No candidate is chosen. The available AK Medium Blue sample is dark saturated blue, which does not support these blue-gray/gray source roles.

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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