Axis Model Works Osiris Aerial Dominator arrived a few weeks ago, and I had to complete the PG01 and get it off my desk before I could even take a look at this new 3rd party kit.

There are just so many runners on this kit, so rather than overwhelm myself, I started small with cutting out and painting the pieces from the first page of the manual.

First thing you notice is this kit is detailed! So much detail, not just in the sculpting of the pieces, but in how what could be a single piece is made of many, so you can get easy colour differentiation. However, the pieces are so tight that if you’ve painted the piece (like the orange pipes here) they may no longer fit. So be prepared to sand and file down bits to make things fit, and mask connecting pieces of plastic (or scrape off paint) to make getting the kit together easier.

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I’m trying to follow the plastic colours with the paint. I’m using Tamiya Gun Metal, Dark Grey, and just grey primer for the lighter pieces. The orange is Tamiya Lemon Yellow with a top coat of Tamiya Clear Orange. Doing the double layer paint on the orange pieces is a bit of a pain, but the colour looks so good and has a real depth to it.

The leg side pods have a great action to them, but the pins are so tight into the legs, I’ve sanded off the paint from the pins, and just putting them in gently (not all the way) until time for the armour.

The feet are full of detail, and the nice pre-painted metallic parts are looking good. They’re sorta undergated, making them look good without painting.

Putting the legs together, I did a top coat just to seal in the paint and the Tamiya Weathering Master I’m using as a dry brush to bring out the fine details.

The skirt section pieces are incredible. The rear piece is one of the most absurdly detailed pieces of a model I’ve built. It’s fun and goes together reasonably well, but the instructions are not really up to the same level of detail as the pieces! That said, there’s enough logic in how it goes together that you can figure it out.

All the skirt section pieces getting a top coat.

The red pieces have been painted similarly to the orange, with a coat of Signal Red, followed by Tamiya Clear Red. Before the clear red, I’ll go in with my black fineliner and put detail lines in. With the clear red on top, it’ll sell the effect far better than putting the black lines on at the end.

Again, I went all over with Tamiya Weathering Master to dry brush some of the details. This rubs off the Gun Metal painted pieces really easily, so I’ll always top coat soon after to seal the effect in.

So far, the kit is good. There’s no polycaps, no doubt as the weight of the kit is too great for polycaps to give a tight hold on the parts while still allowing for articulation. The plastic-on-plastic is tight, so if you’re painting be really careful!