by Joseph Passero

This is a resin kit of Minmay in her Chinese Dress from Macross. I got the kit from Hobbyfan.com. I built her straight from the box with no instructions. It was an easy build...except the hair braids were a little bit of a pain to pin. The skin was a mix of flesh and white and a DROP of yellow. Then highlights of flesh and white.

The dress was painted in this order: Primer...white....sliver....then INSTEAD of the clear red, yellow and orange I used metallic brown over some areas of the silver. Then I went and mixed metallic brown, clear red and yellow. The inside of the dress is the same but a little more clear red. I felt it should be darker inside. The clear gives a shine but I added future on just the dress and hair only. The hair has some clear blue in it.

Clear paints are like syrup. So after getting my finger print on the dress I went and put the future for that EXTRA shine and to protect it. The gold leaf trim is supposed to go on the dress cut by the leg but it has a gold tint to it so I left it alone.

The eyelashes are wire painted black. And the base is seperate. It came from themodelbase.com

Image: Closer look

Image: Right side

Image: Left side

Image: From behind

Image: Legs

Image: Legs, front view

Image: Overall