[Finished] Evangelion EVA-00 Prototype Unit

Recently I found the old stash of Volks Evangelion EVA-0 injection kit which I believe released in 90s before Bandai released its LM range of Evangelion kits. To say this Volks kit is difficult one to build would be the understatement.

After several nights of frustration I've shelved it and got the new movie version of EVA-0 kit on my way home from work. That was last week...

And after an hour of "me" time every night I've managed to build this one minus couple more decal and lining before seal the whole thing with top coat~

The main aim with this kit was to get rid of the seam line, especially prominent at the thigh parts as well as back of calf parts. Also the groin and waist armour had very obvious seam line where two pieces are met.

The groin and waist parts were easy. All I had to do was glue them and cut it at both side panel lines. For the groin armour I've modified it with C-joint mode so it can slide onto the groin frame after painted. Just make sure the front joint is very strongly held coz when put this one on you need to pull the both ends apart little bit.

The major issue was the thigh and lower legs seam line. This kit uses the same way the knee joint is held in the old kit - i.e. it's held by both upper and lower leg parts male pegs. The problem with this arrangement is you need to mask the knee joint in order to paint and having different coloured upper and lower leg means you have to make those as well when you paint. Now I'm never been a big fan of masking and I'll do anything if I can get away without masking. However utilising the C-joint mod would've been difficult in terms of durability and stability. Eva kits were well known for its poseability and I did not want to harm its mobility in any way.

I finally solved it by using both masking and the C-joint mod. I assembled the knee joint and glue the inner upper leg frame onto it. These were to be painted in the same colour so no masking was necessary. After the paint was dried I put the masking take around the knee joint and then modified the male pegs inside the lower leg assembly which already glued and seam lines fixed. Once done it was matter of pulling the lower leg joint opening apart and slot in the knee joint. Again I used the CA to glue the lower leg parts since there is fair bit of pulling required to push in the knee parts.

And the rest were easy as pie - or so I thought till I accidentally put the tape on one of dry decal for arm. Being tried I put the tape on wrong side of dry decal and destroying it. -__-;; Now it has no decal on outside of left arm. Will have to source the dry decal and look for the water decal is one is available...

And for the weapons I've decided to use the resin parts I have in my junk box. I believe it's from Volks resin kit but don't know which one. I found both pistol as well as big bazooka(?) so I will use those instead of pallet gun included in the kit.


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