Sazabi is a really big kit. There’s lots of parts on the armour and some of them have stickers, so I decided to mask them, and airbrush different undercoats so as to produce the differentiated red tones I’m after.  I just love how the Alclad polished brass came out. It goes great with the Alclad Chrome and copper.For the funnels, I wanted to test how the dark red colour is going to look, so I put Alclad black gloss on the inside and grey on the outside. Then I used the Createx pearl red, followed by Tamiya clear red. The insides looked rather strange with just the pearl red on them. But after the clear red the colour really came together. The Createx pearl doesn’t seem to go onto the Alclad gloss black very well, but I think with care the end result is going to work. Here’s a closer look at the masked undercoat for the armour pieces.  I went through the grey pieces and looked for any that could look good in the polished brass. Here’s the tops of the funnels, with some white oil wash in their details. This comes out too subtle when covered in the Tamiya clear red, so when I use this technique I may have to do the white after the clear red.  Now you can see a comparison of the colour on the inside and outside of the funnel pieces. I like how the dark red came out.The inner  detail of the funnels used the combination of chrome, brass and copper. I’m happy! They look great and just need the water slides to complete them. More chrome on these sections that will hold the funnels. And to protect the inner details, I gave them a gloss top coat. Although you never really clearly see these details, I like to paint them anyway. I used the Tamiya smoke as a panel line detail. It’s subtle, but I always like what it does. I decided that I liked the polished brass so much, that I thought it would be great on all the joint sections of the legs, arms and shoulders. And although I undercoated the entire piece, for these larger sections I just did the polished brass on the joint sections, top coated them, and then masked so I could do the rest of the piece in Tamiya gunmetal.  I really like how this piece on the skirt came out.  And I took my finest brush and bottle of Tamiya smoke to most of these pieces to enhance the details.It took a bit of work to figure which of the pre-painted thruster nozzles were the right ones, but once assembled, the result is great. I did enhance some of the small details on the polished brass with the Tamiya smoke. It doesn’t take much, and because of the gloss black undercoat you do get a bit of extra darkness in the details to begin with.