Santa brought me Gunpla from Figure GAF for Christmas!
As it happens, posing both kits arms is a serious pain in the ass, so I didn't do much in the way of action poses:
I did get one or two good romantic shots of our darling, Master Grade couple, though:
"H-Haman-sama!" "Judau-kun~" *robots blush*
And for the sake of my embarrassment, I guess, here are the only sort of terribly blurry reject shots:
Ultimately I've learned that Dry Rub >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Water Slide decals. The ones on the ZZ Slim were falling off despite having been added on days ago. Hours of work just sliding off. I think I must still have missed something with Water Slide, like maybe you have to apply some kind of sealant to the kit afterward, like the clear varnish or whatever you put over a deck. Not saying to use that chemical, but like, just that same concept. Cuz otherwise I have no idea how water slide decals do not drive even the most dedicated modelers insane. They're brittle, they absolutely don't stick, and the process to get them in place can be insanely frustrating at times.
Dry Rub, on the other hand, was just a matter of taping the piece to the kit and rubbing it. Even when I erred, all I had to do was lay it back down and rub some more to get it in place. It caused me some concern because I never know how much force a Gunpla can withstand, but it seems to have worked out just fine.
All in all the ZZ Slim and MG Qubeley are super cool to look at together. They take up enormous amounts of space, but I'm just really impressed by the details on them. The MG Qubeley has articulate fingers, a mini-Haman Khan in the cockpit, a full set of Funnels, and wrist mounted beam-sabers. The ZZ Slim has the sexiest redesign of the ZZ possible, a reduced backpack (the backpack's size has ever been my chief complaint with the suit), articulated hands (not as much so as the Qubeley, but the ZZ's hands can actually grip things better because of it), plus Hyper Beam Sabers and a Twin Buster Rifle that can be split like the one the Wing Zero wields, so that each barrel is held in a different hand.
I have my gripes, but the overwhelming satisfaction I have with these kits should more than drown them out.