Are the HMM Liger Zero armour parts meant to be off-white?

[shovelchop81]

I just got around to opening my hmm liger zero brand new sealed in packets/box and was a bit annoyed to find the armour parts are cream not bright white! Is this normal? They're in sealed wrappers so it can't be age related can it? Cheers!

[Snowflake]

Well the original kit was slightly offwhite, slightly bleached-bone color. Not sure what the HMM is meant to look like

[Maethius]

Kind of very bright cream... I don't think Kotobukiya likes "just white" much.

[shovelchop81]

Cheers guys! Anyone have a pic of a unpainted assembled HMM one handy? I just need to know whether to fork out for more spray paint or not! LOL.

[aceoftherebellion]

Yeah, it's supposed to be off-white, you didn't get a defective one or anything, that's just the color Liger Zero is actually supposed to be. There's photos of every HMM kit over at Dalong.net, a Korean site that's probably the best resource for model kits produced by Kotobukiya and Bandai that exists right now. Here's the Liger Zero gallery. I have mine built in front of me, and while I intend to paint it, I'll be painting it the same off-white color. (It's what I'd call either eggshell or bisque, if you want to get fancy with color names)

[shovelchop81]

Thanks! Did some research too via you tube and I'm not crazy about the off-white so I've ordered some white primer and gloss white spray paint. Mean while I spraying 90% of my HMM IKPK hammer black and just leaving a few red bits to simulate the Schwartz version I couldn't afford.

[Snowflake]

Awesome, make sure to take pictures! I've always thought the look of pure-white zeros is special somehow, the few times we've seen them

[shovelchop81]

Nov 17, 2016 13:27:46 GMT -5 Snowflake said:

Awesome, make sure to take pictures! I've always thought the look of pure-white zeros is special somehow, the few times we've seen them

As pure white suits your name! . Still waiting on the paint.