After completing Valvrave I, I needed a complete change, and it was time to put off the 1/100 MG Unicorn Full Armor no longer!For a 1/100 this is a big kit, with a box packed chock-full of runners and thicker-than-usual manual. I started with some Alclad polished aluminium on the thrusters, first painting in the insides while on the runner,  then cutting out, trimming nubs and sticking to some masking tape so I can easily spray the outside. I’ve covered with some Finish to ensure I don’t muck up the nice Alclad finish with my grubby fingers and to give a good surface to do some detailing later.Theres not many blue pieces on the model, so time to try something new. I could have used the Tamiya dark blue that I used on PG Strike Freedom, but I fancied something a bit more metallic. The Tamiya clear blue over Alclad is nice, but way too glitzy for this mech, so what I ended up doing is Createx pearl blue, with an over-coat of Tamiya smoke. The smoke, being clear allows you to see the metallic effect, but it also darkens down the blue making it a better match to the colour of the underlying plastic. I added a few small details with some Tamiya smoke by hand too. There’s a fair few white runners on this kit, so I mixed up some grey paint using Createx white, a few drops of black and some Finish to thin it down a bit. I’d tried Createx white with added Finish on Valvrave I and it worked well, so I knew that it would be nice for the grey on this kit. Why grey you ask? Well, I intend to pain these pieces white (with perhaps some Createx white pearl too) with some masking for areas I wish to stay grey. I like the clean look of this kit, but I do want to make the armour appear a bit more three-dimensional than just a plain white paint job.