RG 1/144 STRIKE FREEDOM

Hello readers..

It's been a long while since my last post. Well I'm sorry for being on a long hiatus, I just lost my phone back then and was saving money for my hobby and new phone...

Well anyway! I'm back! lets start this by having a review on a RG Strikefreedom, the OP mobile suit in Gundam Destiny series...



PLATE:

PLATES

Nice details, small parts, just as an RG is supposed to be. However, the disappointment is on those crappy gold plates. If you really want to have some shine on them, you should probably paint them.

PS: I forgot to take pictures on the decals and the manual... so I'm not including them

PARTS

FEET

Simple, yet stunning. Details are good. Can bend on three parts.

LEGS

Now, these where the gold paint take place. I really recommend to paint the gold plates to add more realistic color in them.

Details are good, double jointed knees and has sliding mechanism when bent.

SKIRTS

Simple, and has good details. Front skirts and back skirts are connected separately.

BODY

Body is nice, has panel lines in them, however, due to its dark color, black ink will not be so visible. I'm planning on pane lining them with gold. 

Color and part separation are nice, has an opening cock pit. rail guns are connected on below the waist, which will be also its side skirts.

ARMS

Double jointed elbow and has nice details.

HEAD

Good details and anime accurate... well maybe more details than the anime. Decals for the fore and back head camera are too small, so be very careful on applying them.

MOBILE SUIT

No comment here.. just breath taking.

BACK PACK

Wings can be bend backwards and can open as pictures below. As a bonus you can spread it more exposing it's gold chrome plates.

ACCESORIES AND WEAPONS

For accessories, it has a pair of closed fist, open palm, trigger finger and RG Hands. 

Weapons are those beam sabers, beam riffle and the energy shield.

BEAM SABERS

Beam sabers are simple, no need for panel lining. However, you could connect them both just like in the picture.

I cant make them hold it using the trigger finger hand though.. using the RG hand will do.

If not in used, you can connect them on the side skirts (rail gun).

BEAM RIFFLE

Well, very simple, and has minor details on it. 

Both guns can be connected at the side when not in used by pulling the back skirts down, slide the rail guns at the back, and pulling out the connector on the waist. Also, you can combine the two riffles to make a beam cannon.

ENERGY SHIELD

Lastly the energy shield, the color details on it are decals, and aligning them are such a pain.

OVERALL

Such a nice kit. My only complain are the crappy gold parts. If you don't want to paint, it will not be that good.

Nice articulation, you could pull of  some of its signature poses. 

That's all I can say for now readers and I hope you can look forward on my next review. 

Thanks!

RG 1/144 Exia

Hello again once more. So this is the last kit on my backlogs... Today were going to take a look on the 1/144 RG Exia Gundam from the Gundam 00 series...piloted by a gundam maniac Setsuna...

Exia is one of the popular gundam as of date... and Bandai did a great job putting the Exia in the RG line... so without further ado... unto the review...

PLATES

Nine plates in total with. a decal sheet, soft plastic (with holographic effects) and a manual... for colors... you'll get two shades of white, two shades of gray, two shades of blue, red. clear green and a chrome for GN weapons.

Before the part review, I would just like to tell that this is not your average kit... especially building the head... damn! its hard placing those holographic part and the small yellow piece for the cheeks! it almos took me 30mins just placing those holographic plastic... and not mentioning I almost lost the yellow piece on the process.... so take your time building this kit...and be very extra careful.

and I messed up on the right shoulder... I mistook the peg for the holographic plastic in the arm as a part of the twig... so read (well analyze) the instruction carefully... I have to put some super glue on it... and it really pissed me off (I feel so stupid)

With that said... Im going to review this kit as a whole...since I messed up on that arm... and I dont want to disconnect the parts... but dont mistook me, this is a solid kit... I just dont want to remove the parts...

STICKER DETAILS
every clear parts on this kit has a foil sticker in it... with texts...with the correct lighting you could see the text inside the clear plastic.

oh, you might as well do some sanding on those bunny ears... as you can see at the picture above... those are some nasty nub marks..

PARTS

LEGS and FEET

Unlike other RG's your going to build the feet and the legs as a whole... though you can still remove the feet from the legs...

The legs is double jointed has great articulation...

on the way the skirt and the legs are designed, moving the legs forward and back is limited though

Back ward

and forward

 The foot is connected in a ball joint and has a swivel on the ankle... it has two point of articulation...the toe and the heels so it can bend down...

For split test... this is much you could do...

for full split... well it great... but since splitting is to mainstream.. lets have a high kick test.

yeah... it could kick high...

BODY and SKIRTS.

the skirts is not detachable on the body... and your also going to build this as a whole... front and back skirts can move independently... the body can rotate... it could do a ab crunch a little but the waist can do side to side... It also has an opening cockpit...like the other RG's

ARMS

Double jointed elbow... and since it has holographic plastic connected to the shoulder armor... it tends to hinder it moving the arms upward.

the shoulder could also move forward... to the point that it could reach the beam saber attached to the other shoulder...

HEAD

it moves forward and back and rotate when the yellow fin on the shoulder is bent down..

and upward a little.

so all in all very good articulation and it has sense of balance.. you could do some pretty unique poses if you want to... as shown on the pictures above...

WEAPONS and ACCESSORIES

For accessories, you'll get variation of hands, closed fist hand, open palm hand, holding hand and the RG hand... but using the holding hand is enough to handle all its weapons.

and a connector for the action base.

You'll also get some extra parts since there are two E plates...
one for part of GN Drive and one extra V-fin...
..and it also has a small blue Setsuna figure, which I forgot to take picture..

For weapons, Exia is know for its sword wielding... so almost all of them are swords, and beam sabers...
you'll get total of six beam sabers (two of them has a peg), a shield, and of course the GN blades and the GN sword (which can transform into the GN gun)

The beam sabers has four beam effect parts... two long beams and two short beams

The short beam sabers...

<Exia shouting: "You dont belong here!!">

The long beam sabers.

The GN shield

GN blades, the short and the long one..

Which is if not in use, it could be stored on the hips... (which is very tricky to do)

and of course the GN Sword/Gun

OVERALL

Bandai really did a great job on this kit. This kit is amazing... Details of this kit met its most potential... even without the decals... Articulation is great... It almost can do everything! I have no complains on this kit... just me being stupid on the arms... Building this kit is really fan and at the same time... its hard... not your average RG kit. If your a first timer in building RG kits... you might as well practice first building other RG before going to this kit (or its just me over exaggerating). Just be careful on the small parts...specially the yellow part on the cheek and holographic effect on the head...
If you love Exia in a 1/144 scale... this is a kit you must get...

Well that all for me... loo on to my other reviews and please look forward on my next review ... see ya!