Built, painted and decaled by me.
You might wanna read this post about my thoughts on the Shi-ve.A as I built this right after completing that.Â
Damn, I didn’t think I would be building another Strike Freedom so soon. At least this Strike Freedom is fresh, with a few changes here and there under its “Type II” name, and the Proud Defender being quite different from SF’s Super Dragoon backpack. Like the Shi-ve.A, this is one solid build, but comes with not one, but two pretty subpar gold colors OOB, which I airbrushed them up with Alclad Pale Gold. I’ve never owned the original HGCE Strike Freedom, but I do have a Perfect Strike Freedom Rouge in progress and goddamn the MSF is a lot more rigid, they’re worlds apart. The MSF just has better proportions as well, and the backpack wings can hold itself much better than the 2006 MG Strike Freedom ever could. My only real problems with the kit is that the guns come with a heavy amount of color correcting stickers that I did use because I was just too lazy to paint, and the fact that the wings are larger than I anticipated that it was quite difficult to get good shots of the kit while keeping it in the white backdrop. The beam sabers are also loose OOB but that’s nothing putty can’t fix.
Outside of airbrushing the gold frame, I did quite a bit of detail painting as well. All those gold protrusions you see that aren’t gold OOB were made by using a Pilot Gold Marker, and for whatever reason I just wanted to use Vallejo Dark Gray on the rail cannons and the inside of the shoulders. Vallejo Red was applied on the vents, and afterwards I panel lined the kit, and slapped a few generic caution decals from Delpi. Gave a flat topcoat when the humidity was just right, and he was finished.
For an HG, I really like how Mighty Strike Freedom ended up. My days of rapidly modeling HGs are over, and I’m not really inclined to get them anymore as I used to, but MSF and Shi-ve.A were solid choices. That’s about it for now, my plastic model kit projects are going to be more musume oriented in coming months, so, I’ll see you when I get back to another Gunpla kit!