HG Enact Guest Review

Here’s another guest review by Brazen Folly. Enjoy:

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Summary:

Pros:

1. Better Durability than the Overflag
2. Minute details that count
3. Nice tiny details
4. Stickers given so little painting required
5. Commander and normal head given

Cons:

1. Bad balance due to height of the kit
2. Blade weapon unpainted
3. Joints wear out quickly due to lack of polycaps

Seraphim HG 1/144 Out Next Month!

The HG 1/144 Seraphim will be out next month! That’s fast!

I like the looks of the head. Not black enough though.

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HG 1/144 Gundam Virtue

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Summary:

Pros:

1. GN Bazooka very posable
2. GN Field generators can open up
3. Comes with beams
4. Chest flap can open up

Cons:

1. Limited leg posability
2. GN Bazooka is a little too heavy
3. Chest flap pops off easily

Due to recent feedback of my reviews being too long, I will focus on the special features of the kits only.

HG 1/144 Gundam Kyrios Review

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Summary:

Pros:

1. Transformation
2. Complex Weapons

Cons:

1. Bad balance
2. Legs have bad posability
3. Transformation requires parts swapping
4. Loose parts
5. Requires Lots of Painting

1/144 HG Dynames Review

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Summary:

Pros:

1. Sturdy Build
2. Good Articulation
3. Quick OOB build
4. Steady Shield Mechanism

Cons:

1. Incomplete weapon set
2. Forehead Scope is not perfect

1/100 Exia Review

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Brief Summary:

Pros:

1. Very Detailed
2. Very Good Posability
3. Many weapons

Cons:

1. Arms cannot hold the GN blade properly for some poses
2. V fin snaps easily
3. Bad balance
4. Loose parts
5. Shoulder beam sabers connectors are fragile

This 1/100 scale Exia has a different design from the 1/144 and 1/60 as they are based on two different versions of the design.

Review: HG 1/144 00 Gundam

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Brief Summary:

Pros:

1. Amazing Posability
2. Interesting GN Sword/ Rifle design

Cons:

1. Comes with only two complete weapons; the rest of the weapons are to be bought with the 1/144 O Raiser
2. V Fin requires is not molded in right colours
3. Forearms do not have a docking point for the GN Sword II’s rifle butt

Update: Bandai has released the 1/144 00 Raiser with newly redesigned stickers similar to the 1/60 Exia & some decals included. Go get that instead! It’ll be out inf Feb 09.

Check it out here

HG 1/144 OverFlag Review

Here’s the brief summary:

Pros:

1. It’s one of the coolest grunt units ever; when was the last time you saw a sticks looking so good?
2. Its angular design gives it a nice hornet looking flight mode
3. It can be configured as Graham’s Custom or the default configuration
4. It’s very posable (when mounted on an action base)
5. No polycaps!
6. Comes with decals

Cons

1. It’s transformation is a little tricky as the parts fall part very often
2. The head portion disconnects frequently
3. Its balance is relatively bad
4. No Polycaps!

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Now, moving on to the actual review:

1/144 HG Exia Battle Damage Mod

Check out the updated mod here

My friend once mentioned to me that he wanted to an exia mod but was not really sure how to do the face. After thinking about it for a minute, I thought it would be actually fun to try out the mod and voila, it actually got completed in just an hour ^ ^!

Weathering
The weathering of this kit was particularly tedious. The method I used was to file tiny grooves in the armour and rubbing a charcoal pill over these grooves to make charcoal dust to sit into them to give that grimy look. The filing process was particularly tedious as it had to be thorough, or else the dirty look would not be consistent. To finish off the weathering, I carved a few deep grooves randomly on the armour to make some contrast to the thinner grooves in order to create the effect of battle scars.

Face & Head
The plastic for the mouth and the eyes is a single red component, so having the red eye was easy; I’d simply snipped off the right side of the face plate and coloured the mouth and eye piece black except for the eye. Simply snip of the right antennae to the right length to achieve the desired effect

Missing Right Shin Armour
The 1/144 Exia’s shin armour is a single component in itself. However, there is a connector. Snipping off the connector and doing weathering on the connector covered up the obvious nip mark.

Damaged GN Sword
The gn sword was rather easy to complete, as you simply had to snap of the front end of the blade and cutting out a small block from half of the horizontal axis of the sword.

Pelvis GN Blade Rack
The white cap of the gn blade holster was to be removed and the flat surface on the edge of the semi-circle of the holster was removed to accomodate the protruding edge of the connector. The GN Sword sat into the holster nicely.

That’s it, the battle damaged exia mod is completed!