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I've begun work on Yushanfang's 1/96 scale "Hawthorne Cake" Sazabi, and I think I have DRASTICALLY underestimated how big this thing is gonna be. The shield alone is only slightly smaller than a 20oz bottle of soda. This thing is going to be an absolute monster, and I am HYPED.

Last up is the Beam Tomahawk, which will ALWAYS be displayed in Full Saber mode, because who wouldn't?? Naturally, it flouresces under UV the same way as the monoeye, but due to its size, this thing can actually cast a significant amount of green light on things around it if I hold the light close.

I've begun work on Yushanfang's 1/96 scale "Hawthorne Cake" Sazabi, and I think I have DRASTICALLY underestimated how big this thing is gonna be. The shield alone is only slightly smaller than a 20oz bottle of soda. This thing is going to be an absolute monster, and I am HYPED.

Funnels, funnels, funnels. Always the most tedious part of building a kit like this. ...except it kind of wasn't, TBH. Maybe it's because there are only 6 of them, and they're small. They went together quickly.

I've begun work on Yushanfang's 1/96 scale "Hawthorne Cake" Sazabi, and I think I have DRASTICALLY underestimated how big this thing is gonna be. The shield alone is only slightly smaller than a 20oz bottle of soda. This thing is going to be an absolute monster, and I am HYPED.

"...and I'll form the head!" That's better. Now the Rick Dias is wearing Char's stahlhelm, so it suddenly looks like Sazabi again. The forehead camera is made of the same plastic as the monoeye, and I was right about the UV light. Look at that thing glow!

I've begun work on Yushanfang's 1/96 scale "Hawthorne Cake" Sazabi, and I think I have DRASTICALLY underestimated how big this thing is gonna be. The shield alone is only slightly smaller than a 20oz bottle of soda. This thing is going to be an absolute monster, and I am HYPED.

And now the pauldrons. Lots more opportunity for highlighting and panel lining here than there was with the arms. I'm finding that it's often better to use paint than the foil stickers. Many of them have large clear sections and only a little silver on them, so they seem less practical.

I've begun work on Yushanfang's 1/96 scale "Hawthorne Cake" Sazabi, and I think I have DRASTICALLY underestimated how big this thing is gonna be. The shield alone is only slightly smaller than a 20oz bottle of soda. This thing is going to be an absolute monster, and I am HYPED.

I painted the power cables on the mantle yellow, to match the ones at the waist. They feel like the same kind of hoses that would be found on a Zaku, so it felt like they should be the same color.

I've begun work on Yushanfang's 1/96 scale "Hawthorne Cake" Sazabi, and I think I have DRASTICALLY underestimated how big this thing is gonna be. The shield alone is only slightly smaller than a 20oz bottle of soda. This thing is going to be an absolute monster, and I am HYPED.

Why... is there so much stuff... on this butt-flap?? Seriously, I've built entire kits that have less detail than this one piece — and most of it just gets covered up by the armor!

I've begun work on Yushanfang's 1/96 scale "Hawthorne Cake" Sazabi, and I think I have DRASTICALLY underestimated how big this thing is gonna be. The shield alone is only slightly smaller than a 20oz bottle of soda. This thing is going to be an absolute monster, and I am HYPED.

Leg #1 is done. So many opportunities for panel lining and details that could go unnoticed, and that I frankly didn't appreciate on the RG. It really is a shame that Bandai won't release those 1/100 RG models they were showing off.

I've begun work on Yushanfang's 1/96 scale "Hawthorne Cake" Sazabi, and I think I have DRASTICALLY underestimated how big this thing is gonna be. The shield alone is only slightly smaller than a 20oz bottle of soda. This thing is going to be an absolute monster, and I am HYPED.

Truth be told, I go through a LOT of these pens because of that reason. It's so much time, paint and work to detail all those parts, which will ultimately be covered up by the armor anyway. ...but *I* know how it looks on the inside, and that's important to me.

I've begun work on Yushanfang's 1/96 scale "Hawthorne Cake" Sazabi, and I think I have DRASTICALLY underestimated how big this thing is gonna be. The shield alone is only slightly smaller than a 20oz bottle of soda. This thing is going to be an absolute monster, and I am HYPED.

HG Draken E. As a Sniper II fan I had to get one of these, and lucked out. I somehow won this on EBay with a single $15 bid. A very different build than the average kit, with some pretty cool features. It was fun to zhuzh it up with some extra color, especially in its impressively-detailed cockpit.