Well, that took awhile but is now taken care of. Moham and I try to meet up every Saturday to work on models now, but because of scheduling problems we couldn't all the time and this took several months longer than expected. We're probably going to paint it next, so I'll post more pictures later when that's done.

As you can easily see from looking at it, all the weight is on the back. I haven't watched Endless Waltz in over ten years so I can't remember if Wing Zero went to Earth or just stayed in space the whole time, but I can't imagine this surviving with normal gravity; it'd just fall over backwards. Before we attached the wings, we noticed the legs are disproportionally large in comparison with the rest of the body, which I'm assuming is to make up for the weight in the back.

Consequently the wings are going to support most of it. The "feathers" are made of rubber, and the lowest ones are definitely going to be permanently bent thanks to this.

This comes with four different wings: two on the exterior with rubber feathers, and two perpendicular with the back. The latter have this cool mechanism where they can extend using springs if you raise them upward, only to revert back to normal if you lower them back down.

It has two LEDs to light up the chest, eyes, and jewel on the forehead. Whoever in Bandai designed this should be completely ashamed of themselves. Attaching everything was a complete nightmare. They intended for the wire to go down a hole, have the LED placed on top, and then everything is screwed down so that serves as the conduit from the wire to the LED. The fucking screw just was too small for the hole, and after several laborious hours we just soldered the whole thing together. And that was nothing compared to the battery part. Moham deals with this type of shit for a living, and he said it was one of the worst things he's ever seen.

What I like about the perfect grade is the fingers have joints and you can put them into any position that you like.

Now that I'm done, I'm infuriated that this doesn't come with a stand, nor is Bandai producing any for the 1/60 size. As far as I can tell the Action Base 1, 2, and 3 only work for 1/100 and 1/144. Ridiculous.

Well, we're done. Now onto Metal Gear!