Guess I ended up doing her after all. This is not my kit, but rather my dad’s, as his intention getting her along with Hresvelgr Bikini Armor was to have them as models for his RC drift cars that are surprisingly enough in 1/10 scale, like the Frame Arms Girl line supposedly is. He got them back last summer, which I wanted him to try out building Girlpla himself, but because he’s so busy with his RC car and his business with it, I was told to build them, with agreement that he’d paint Hresvelgr because there’s no way my hands would be able to paint that neatly. Innocentia on the other hand had much simpler painting to do, and even then the green on the legs were still a bitch to do, especially as we have not had any paint retarder in months ;-;
Anyway, I was never really huge on the Innocentia line before this, but doing this kit in its entirety has changed my mind a bit, but not to a point that I’d ever get another version. My main problem with the whole line is… well, whatever the fuck the hips are meant to be. She’s basically not wearing anything below her waist besides panties that don’t even join together at the hips, and it’s just a really odd design that looks incomplete. I was also under the assumption that the green lines of her underwear were actually supposed to be connected to the rest of the green, which is why I hand painted the skin into gray and damn does it look a lot more coherent.
Other than that, you can really tell the age of this kit in the way she builds—compared to what I’ve built, she’s like a twig and her core joints are much simpler than others. There’s no shoulder pop outs, no leg pop outs and ab crunches are minimal. Her limbs are quite barebones and she doesn’t come with any weapons or anything to hold. Really what she has is the plethora of accessories that come included, such as an entire set of bare skin limbs, hair without twintails (don’t know why you would do that), and a bunch of different ears. As you can probably tell, I did not do any mixing with the accessories, as I settled for one configuration and called it a day. For the rest of her build, I just painted her exactly how it shows on the manual, did some panel lining, gave a flat coat and she was basically done.
However, Innocentia Racer comes with an entirely other kit, the Maruttoys Noseru, which honestly just reminds me of some rip off Haro, or rather, if WALL-E met Haro or something. It has a considerably hefty build to it with a detailed inner frame and a lot of moving parts, most of which you won’t see unless you open it up. I did paint the tires black and part of the inner frame in Vallejo Steel as per the manual, but really skimped on the panel lining because I didn’t want to put the effort in that. However, I did put all those decals on, which there were a lot, and a lot of them were big, and I did use the ones that came in the box. Was it fun? Hell no, but it wasn’t the worst experience, as I had given Noseru a gloss top coat instead as I heard it does wonders for detailing, and yeah, even if the decals broke on me midway through the application, it stuck to the plastic afterwards without a hitch, something I can’t ever say with Bandai water decals. I gave it another gloss coat just to be safe, and now Innocentia’s got herself a pretty good looking companion with her!
Posing was unexpectedly very fun. Even without any accessories, Innocentia is very photogenic, probably helped with her faces being very cute and expressive. She’s dead easy to pose since there’s literally nothing that could get in the way, and a lot of her joints are looser rather than tight out of the box. Balancing can get tricky, but that’s nothing a stand can’t fix. She really shines posing with riced out Noseru, really giving that Race Queen look with the black and lime green that pops out a lot. With the paint, I somehow got Innocentia to grip onto Noseru real firm that she can almost float by just the handles alone. And of course, she can model for my dad’s RC cars. My picture couldn’t do it justice, but she is good at it.
Overall, Innocentia was just an enjoyable time. She’s cute and simple, I really learned how to mix paint colors for the first time to really match them with the plastic (mainly the lime green), Noseru was a unique experience, and she turned out a lot better than expected. I’d definitely want to build another simple FA:Girl kit again, and I just realized that Skylet Swimsuit Ver. is coming out real soon. My dad has yet to paint Hresvelgr, but he’s going to do it soon™. Once she’s done, I’ll be back to present her in her full glory! See ya!
