More Master Grade Char's Z'Gok

We are back with some more on the Char's Z'Gok after completing panel lines I got into setting out some decals. 
The decals that come with it are either stickers or dry transfers. I'm usually against putting stickers on due to the fact that they don't work too well with a top coat so i only use them in time of desperation e.g Cyclops Team symbols because Bandai decided to discontinue the water slide sheet that had them (super sad face).

Dry transfers are the other thing on there and I am not too keen to use them because I have read they are quite hard to use e.g if you balls up the position that's it.
So that left me with water slide decals, which are probably the best  unfortunately I have only 1/144 scale decals which sucks because I had to wait for ages to get them and HLJ is always sold out of almost any form of decals from Bandai. 

So after looking around online I noticed a few other people had used 1/144 scale decals on master grade Z'Goks and suprisingly they looked quite good and more realistic so I just went with them instead. The only thing is I would be missing out on a few of the cool decals that came as dry transfers.

I just added some of the basic ones to start like Zeon symbols, rank, unit numbers and a few other caution decals. They seemed to work out pretty good and I was happy with the result. I had ordered a HiQ parts caution water slide decal sheet from HLJ that came in a white and orange colour unfortunately again they were sized for 1/144 scale but I went ahead and put them on anyway :).

The result was better than expected again. I was pretty happy how they came out, they are really durable and the orange can still slightly be seen so wins all round. 
The size is perfect in my opinion too because the writing is small i figured that's what maintenance crews would see anyway when they go near hatches and panels. I still have a hell of a lot more to put on but I will probably do more this week.

I have also put on a decal from the HiQ parts marine decal sheet its of an Orca with some other blurb and a number which I was thinking would be like what Zeon Submarine it would be attached too. I kind of go the idea from 0080 WITP when the Cyclops team deploy at the start of the first episode and Unicorn when the Feddie Aqua GM's get surprised by the Zee Zulus. 

Oh and also when using these HiQ parts decals use a setter as well as a softener too make sure the decal stays in place. This just my experience and the advice I got from the HiQ parts Japanese website.

Next up more decals and possibly a Gunpla side project that I have been working on in between this build.