This build was a goddamn trip. This was built in 2016 by me, the first year I got into Gunpla and was terrible and cleaning up nubs. Before the time my dad started painting kits, it was needed a rework, which we planned to do since last year or so but only got reworked it now. This was… not fun for most of the time we re-did it.
Standing for 5 years on the shelf and being a transforming kit, disassembling the kit was the first shitty thing about redoing this. Parts were hard to get off, multiple pieces broke and the waist was a real bitch. We decided to leave the frame as one color because it was too much effort to take out everything piece by piece.
My dad’s paintjob went well and the resassembly was fine… for the most part. The joints that hold the white pieces on the torso were half broken, other things broke out of the blue, the skirt armor is loose as hell and the Zeta still can’t stand for its life. It’s not impossible nor tedious, but you can only stand the Zeta by just standing on its feet.
Then, it was time for detailing and hand painting, which my dad decided to do. Problem was, he kept procrastinating, so it took him about a week or two to get everything done until he handed it to me again so I can do the decals.
Now this is where the thing was fucking hell: the goddamn decals. Luckily finding Bandai’s official decal sheet for the Zeta 2.0, I was going insane actually trying to put them on. One, the decals took forever to get them out of the decal sheet and two, the decals themselves stick as much as overused cellophane tape. Even using the mark setter, the decals would not stick at all. I was infuriated. Trying to put everything back in one piece was fucking frustrating as the decals decided to fall off. I usually do pictures for my Instagram page, but I was ashamed by the decal work and I didn’t bother. I transformed it, more decals falling off, and then called it a day.
I was not happy. Not satisfied. I didn’t want to leave Zeta the way it was. So, I looked up third party decals for Zeta, which was hard to come by without those non-branded eBay ‘scaled up’ decals, but I came across Delpi Decal, which had great feedback across the community, so we decided to try it out.
Well shit, I was saved, and the kit as well. The procedure of putting them on was so much better than the Bandai decals, I can’t believe I was actually having fun putting them on. They come out the decal sheet super fast and stick way too good way too fast. And since it was obviously based on the RG Zeta decals, the kit looks freaking amazing over the original decals. I still have some left over, but wow, something good actually came out of this rework. It looks amazing, besides all the paint chipped off from the transformation.