You guys here talk about Gunpla too? The general model kit thread is a wasteland and the other figure thread is filled with people buying either Batmen
or super
moé anime girls and they don't seem too interested in big robots.
Anyway, has anyone else built the recent RG Zeta? Despite the end product looking pretty cool it's hampered down by the transformation ability. The frame is so flimsy and everything is interconnected in a way that, while ingenious, ends up being annoying. At one point the right leg snapped off of mine when trying to do the pose depicted on the box which requires the legs to be rotated outside a bit. Because I had not previously worked that joint it was still tense and ended up tossing the entire leg off the hip. Getting it back on was horrible. I had to remove all the already flimsy skirt pieces and to get some pieces off the back the chestplace had to move which also likes to fall apart a lot. The head elevator also seems problematic. I feel it doesn't come up high enough and the head likes to travel down really easily. It never goes tumbling down on itself but the slightest bump against it will mean you have to realign it.
Just horrible stuff in regards to stability and it left a really bad impression upon me because I could not care less about the fact that this transforms into the Waverider. Yeah, it's cool that it does but I'll never do it. If it's already that flimsy in its MS form then I'm already wary of posing it too much.
Then again, it does look pretty rad.
My entirely boring album here.
The best part about it was putting the decals on. Never felt like the kit was done after doing all the assembly. I did feel it after putting the final decal on.
No idea about what kit to do next. RG Justice seems like a cool one
, The HG Titanium Sinanju I'm wary about because I've heard that the Titanium finish will be a pain if you're lazy about your cutting. There's also a new MG Strike coming in May which could be interesting. The old MG Strike seems boring and I don't think I'll be satisfied with the RG Strike because good old Zeta here will simply tower over that one.
