HMM Mirage

Won 1st place at Tekkoshocon's 2012 Model Contest in all categories entered (people's choice, best in show, & non-Gundam category)

4th place in Zoidspoison's Model Contest

I always thought the Mirage color scheme was lost potential, like it tried to copy King Liger's awesomeness and just failed. (Oh am I the only one who thinks Mirage's colors were based off King's?) White and red are always a good combo, but Mirage just didn't have enough contrast in the colors to really make it stand out, esp when it's next to the awesome color explosion called Night Fight. So I really wanted to make Mirage actually look really nice and be able to stand out on its own.

Fully repainted my HMM Blade Liger Mirage, so yeah, no more pearl D: Changed the pearl to gloss white, the orange-red to crimson red, and the light blue to black... I REALLY hated that light blue XD I mainly wanted to switch the blue to black to add some more contrast. It really makes the white and red details just pop. I do like how they added the brown on the HMM version, I just switched that to a more richer brown. It's actually not as dark as in the pics.

Changed some of the decals compared to what was in the manual. Mostly cuz I thought there were way too many and just cluttered the thing. Also switched the Helic insignia to the old school red and black one. I matched better. Definitely one of the decals I wanted to replace was the huge gaudy CP-12 ones that were suppose to go on the top of the AB unit. Took the red strip decal from the HMM Saix's sheet and made the smaller CP-12 text with numbers from the HMM Command Wolf's sheet.

As you can see, there's already some brotherly love going on between Mirage and Shadow XD They have a cool light vs dark theme displayed by each other.

Oh and the purple light is just a neon light. Makes a cool lighting effect. Everyone always asks me about that XD;

Zoids (c) Takara Tomy