Construction and optional painting

The Revive RX-78-2 builds with molded colors and supplied foil stickers. Bandai illustrates this kit as a no-paint-needed build, so the five color recipes are optional finishing choices. Use nippers to remove the parts cleanly and take care not to crush the soft polycaps.

The kit includes the beam rifle, hyper bazooka, shield and beam sabers. The bazooka can mount at the rear waist, and the shield has alternative attachment positions. The Action Base 2 shown in some poses is sold separately. Water-based paint is recommended if you choose to paint.

Materials in the parts list: PS: A, B, C and SB-13 runners; PE: PC-002 polycaps.

For this exact HGUC RX-78-2 Gundam Revive kit, Bandai’s Gunpla Navigation Web Catalogue 2023 identifies the illustrated supplied-color build as needing no paint. The five recipes below are optional repainting choices; every purchase option starts unchecked.

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

5 printed roles use 9 distinct named ingredients. 5 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 white: White 100% + Pale Green small dose + Gray small dose + Yellow extremely small dose.
2. Chest blue: Indy Blue 60% + White 40% + Blue small dose. Candidate recipe incomplete: Indy Blue has no chosen store match.
3. Waist red: Monza Red 85% + Yellow 15% + Gray small dose. Candidate recipe incomplete: Monza Red has no chosen store match.
4. Intakes yellow: Yellow 60% + White 30% + Orange 10%.
5. Joints gray: Gray 80% + Black 20%.

Named ingredients and optional store candidates

7 mapped purchase cards and 2 disabled ingredient references cover all 9 named ingredients. Mapped cards represent 7 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. Pale Green. Approximate candidate: 3G Acrylic Pastel Green AK11131. Pastel Green provides a pale green hue-family approximation. The source does not establish a calibrated pigment or finish. Family: AK 3rd Generation. Finish/effect: matte.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Indy Blue. No independently supported water-based Indy Blue hue/formulation is established. A similarly named blue or inferred H/C code is not used.
6. 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.
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. 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.
9. 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.

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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