Almost a year ago, back in August, I bought a bunch of waterslide decal sheets. One of them was, basically, a “Zeta Gundam” sheet, filled with decals and markings to use on mobile suits from that particular show. Of course that meant that it had a whole bunch of Titans logos, which was a bit of a problem for me.
Aside from my old, Real Grade Gundam Mk II, I had no Titans model kits. And since that kit was already built, and is very old, and is already loaded up with decals, I couldn’t really go back and use waterslides on it.
That meant I that if I wanted to use these Titans decals, I needed to buy a new Zeta Gundam kit. The good news was that at the time, Bandai had gone on a bit of spree, reprinting numerous Zeta-era kits during the late summer and fall. The bad news is that I had already blown through my model kit budget. It wasn’t until October that I had any spending money, and by then most of those Zeta kits were sold out.
But as luck would have it, I found one left at the local hobby store (literally, it was the last one on the shelf). And hey, I’ll take what I can get:
This here is the High Grade Barzam, and yes, it was an impulse purchase made out of pure desperation.