Quite a long time ago now, I picked up the new HGUC Delta Plus from a store in London [as it was one of the only kits they had that I actually liked -_-] and I've been working on it on and off for several months. Mostly due to laziness.
Anyway, this is my first 'transformable' kit, even if it is a parts-swapper, so I figured I'd best give it a varnish after painting. I used Matt Cote, since I didn't want it too shiny.
For colours, I used my old standard Boltgun Metal for all the metallic areas, which I then gave a thin brown wash to dull down the shine and make the metal look older. The nozzle of the gun, business end of the beam saber, and thrusters got a drybrush of dark brown then a lighter drybrush of black for a scorched effect. Some of the raised edges of the coloured areas had 'chips' of Boltgun metal added.
For the main colour scheme, I decided to set it up so that in waverider mode, it would resemble the colours of a famous WWII British fighter, the Spitfire. So I looked on the back of an Airfix kit box for the paints they reccomend using, then just bought a matt enamel tin of each. The top half of the waverider is painted a drab brown, torn-off bits of masking tape stuck all over, then given a coat of drab green and the tape peeled off. The underbelly is an off-white colour that I quite like.
At any rate, I still have a lot of those paints left, so I'm looking at maybe doing the V Project suits in those colours later.
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It evokes a Robotech/Macross Valkyrie in flight mode to me. Or is it from that series?
Gundam not having aliens [except in one or two cases]is more of a spanner in the works, although to be honest, making all Gundam series share a reality [as the games like to do] is harder than making a few of them share with Robotech.
Pretty much what I thought. Many Robotech mechs would work great as fodder units in Gundam reality - especially as that's what they are already in Robotech. Valkyries would be great second ranking units to Gundams. They're mass built but have variations and there aren't as many of them as there are other units. I think it would be great to see a Gundam leading a team of Valkyries each. They seem better built than the majority of GMs.
The giant transforming battleships found in Robotech would serve as pretty good mobile suit carriers and backup, and they'd be a good deterrent against any further 'colony drop' tactics.