Clearing the Smoke...

A week later, which is today, my prize has finally reached the den!

Send directly from the organisers of AFA09 themselves, I am amazed at the almost damage-less condition I received the danbooru, as the Postal Dude usually messes up all my packages once too often... >,<

The prize is a single 1/100 MG RX-78-2 Gundam Version 2.0 Mechanical Smoked Clear Version, which is almost identical to the ProShop limited Mechanical Clear Version from a few months back, safe a few differently coloured runners...

The prize was first available for purchase during AFA09 two months back... Glad I didn't do an impulse Gunpla purchase back then... ^^;

Being a mechanical Smoked Clear Version, all outer armour parts are moulded smoky clear, with the internal frame in light greyish hue... A water transfer decal sheet is included to allow you to spice up the internal frame, which I think I'll pass for the time being...

Assembly will be very straight forward as panel linings are obviously not needed and my decision against applying water slide decals, saving a majority of my time... XD I still intend to apply the dry transfer decals as well as the clear stickers tho... :3c

Pretty much the same as the anime colour-correct version of RX-78-2 I have in my collection... XD

I intend to place this MG into one of the di:Stage display case as sort of a trophy... ^_^ Assembly will commence probably by tomorrow nite, which is the start of the weekend...

Unfortunately tho, I've since heard and read complains and dissatisfactions from some 負け犬達 over their lost... Altho I do agree with a majority of their arguments (You know who you are... :|c), know that this is a contest for FUN... Not a tournament or Gran Prix... Besides, it is the judges from AFA09 committee who agreed on the outcome not us... ^^;

Just like what Danny always said in all of his Giveaways: no matter how we change the rules to please a certain group of people, there will always be objections from some other hidden factions... You just cannot expect to satisfy all at the same time... ^^;