I finished the 'Gray' Zeta.   I just need to make space for it on my large Gundam shelf.   Becoming harder, that...

I currently have no pics of it finished in robot form.   Pain to switch the thing.   I had painted in the stripes, along with washing the panel lines.   Ended up using sepia, to offset some of the vibrancy of the orange.   Still not gray.

I picked up a clever little kit on a supply run to the local;

The clever little kit is exclusively the arm, lance, and cannon-job on the right of the picture.   Bandai's new concept with the smaller-scale kits is compatibility.   Any kit released since about 4 years ago uses common joint designs, allowing for easy arm swaps.   Backpack mounts are common, as well.   As a tie-in to a couple of series Bandai's released recently, there are even 'option' kits that are just collections of parts to add-on to or swap other kits.   Such changes are yet to make any significant inroads to the larger 'Master Grade' kits I normally build.   Still, $10 for a kit - any kit - is perfectly fine for an evening.   The robot itself is a 30 Minute Mission Portanova.   No series tie-in, no Gundam tag.   I think there is still a royalty attached to the Gundam name on model kits, so Bandai can sell the 30 Minute Mission kits at a discount.   They are Bandai's attempt to combat Kotobukiya's Frame-Arms series.

Managed to get it to hold the normal arm with the monstrosity.

Finally, still in a building mood, I opened another kit.   Dragon's 1/35 Sd.Kfz. 250/8 Neu mit 7.5cm KwK 37 (L/24).   WWII German armored halftrack.   Dragon kits aren't bad, I just hate the inclusion of individual-link tracks.   These don't look so bad - they might be workable or working if I'm careful.  Better than the stupid Sherman tracks.   I haven't touched the tracks, yet.    Building up the hull, along with the suspension.   Dragon was considerate; they keyed the suspension arms, so that it may be made to sit level.

This will probably be the next week's of work, at least.  Maybe I'll paint again.  We'll see.