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  • Manufacturer: Bandai
  • Part number: BAN914214
  • Year of production: 2002
  • Gundam in-universe model number: RGM-79C
  • Scale: 1/100
  • Series: Gundam 0083
  • Kit type: MG
  • In-universe role: Mass production space mobile suit
  • Build date: Summer 2019


  • Swapped hands with MS Hand 01 (Federation) from the Gundam Builders Parts HD set
  • Iwata Neo TRN-1 airbrush
  • Home-made spray booth
  • Various Badger Ultimate sanding sticks 400/600 grit
  • Mr Hobby snips
  • White armour base coat: primed in Vallejo light grey surface primer, pre-shading in MIG Ammo sea blue
  • Red armour base coat: primed in Vallejo desert tan surface primer, pre-shading in MIG Ammo gunship grey
  • Inner frame base coat: primed in Badger Ultimate grey primer
  • Inner frame top coat: MIG Ammo Duraluminum enamel, various Vallejo model air (gold, blue, red) for details and Tamiya black + brown panel line ink

Summer 2019:

An older Master Grade kit of the RGM79 GM 'Jim' good-guy grunt suit… that died by the bucket-full in the anime. This is the slightly enhanced 'Kai' version which has extra thrusters and different armament to the basic suit.

In all of the images of this kit it looks orange/red and a slightly off-white colour… it's not! It's mint green! That's something that will have to be taken care of when I paint it!

Only dry-built for now. It will have to come back apart to be painted.

Update January 20th 2020: Started prepping the the kit for paint.

Update January 25th 2020: White parts primed, shaded and final colour applied. Red parts primed and shaded.

Not yet fully built


Snapped together build, you can't quite tell in these images, but the bare, unpainted plastic is a very slight mint-green colour. Yuck!

It definitely requires painting, so…..

Parts disassembled and primed in Vallejo light grey and Badger Ultimate dark grey acrylic:

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Inner frame painted in MIG Ammo Duraluminum enamel, with details picked out in Vallejo gold, ferrari red and MIG Ammo French blue:

Exterior armour parts primed in Vellejo light grey, pre-shaded with MIG sea blue and finished in MIG cold grey:

Red armour parts primed in Vallejo desert tan and pre-shaded with MIG gunship grey:

Upper body mostly assembled:

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