Built and coated by me. Painted by my dad.
Like his Innocentia Racer, this is my dad’s other Girlpla kit that he bought to model with his RC drift cars, in which I agreed to build it for him, but he would have to paint her himself, because she is wildly color inaccurate out of the box but her details are so miniscule that I would for sure done a pretty sloppy job trying to get everything right. It did take him 3 weeks after I finished snapping her together to do all the detailed painting within just a few sittings, and mah god he sure never fails to impress me. He has done a bunch of 1/100 pilot figures in the past, but damn he’s still got it.
Anyway, how is Hresvelgr Bikini Armor as a kit? Engineering wise, she’s definitely in the middle of the road of FA:Girl kits, not as ancient and lanky as Innocentia, but not as advanced and caked up as the Magatsuki line and Kongo are. Unlike Innocentia Racer, she comes with a lot less accessories, only consisting of two additional hair bang options and two dagger blades. It’s not the end of the world though, I always liked her design with her swimsuit, tummy, and having armored limbs which ngl I find sexier than bare limbs, but again, I would rather jump into a pool of lava than attempt to paint her as accurately as possible.
For painting, my dad painted Borgar as accurate to the manual as possible but used some creative liberties for what paints he used. For the yellow orange, he used Tru-Color TCP-70 Reefer Orange (we ran out of Tamiya Orange to mix with), Tamiya XF-24 Dark Gray for the two tone gray, and Tamiya X-16 Purple for the two tone purple. As usual, I gave it a flat coat to top it all off, and got damn she is gorgeous being complete. The yellow orange as an accent color works superb and yeah I just really like the way she looks. Let’s get ‘er posing!
Unfortunately having heels, she can’t stand for shit, but I stole the Action Base 6 that came included with 30MS Tokai Teio to ease my frustrations and while she has barely any accessories, her two daggers can go a long way. For whatever reason, she looks really awkward if I keep her legs straight, but posing with her legs to do unnaturally sexy crossings proves to be super effective with her. Equipping her with a gun does bring some menace to her, and not only was posing her with Innocentia look amazing, but it was super fun what I could make up with the two of them.
All that’s left is to get them posing with my dad’s RC cars, but that can wait another day as I want to keep Hresvelgr carrying Innocentia for now cuz it’s super cute.
That being said, it’s been a great experience with both Hresvelgr and Innocentia, they were quick builds with tons of playability due to being quite simple, and I’m really tempted to get something similar of the same vein, I just don’t know specifically who. At the same time, there are so many kits that are coming out this year that I do want to get. Decisions, decisions… I’ll find out soon enough. Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you later!
