HG Masurao: Review

Tonight I will be giving my thoughts on the High Grade Masurao from Gundam 00!  The first completely unique suit that pilot Graham Aker piloted in the anime, the Masurao was very samurai inspired and I have always loved this design.  Now, giving that the pilot is one of my favorites and I enjoy the look of this mobile suit so much, then you'd likely conclude that I would love the model of it right....well in the end that's only partially accurate.  Lets go over this more.

RG Destiny Gundam: Review

The Real Grade Destiny Gundam is the second RG kit that I've gotten around to building, and I really don't have a lot of complaints to say about it.  Design wise, it is a very good update to the Destiny model, even more detailed than the MG.  The only complaint I have in this department, and is the common one, is that the feet are way bigger than they should be...and I can't really see a reason why they are so huge.  It's something that could be easily modified with some sanding or perhaps the use of a rotary tool, but it didn't bother me enough to go that far.  These are my thoughts on this kit.  All painting was done with an airbrush.

HGAW Gundam Double X

Greetings, so it's been some time since my last post I noticed...well I've been back and forth working on the MG Dark Hound and HG Masurao since then.  HG Masurao is "done" as off last weekend, however several pieces broke while putting it back together after painting and I became very frustrated with it and haven't touched it since then.  I'll fix it, eventually, but in the meantime I needed something to build and just refresh.  Enter HGAW Gundam Double X!  I've built about 75% of it thus far and just from the build to this point it's a very well done high grade (much better than certain aspects of the Masurao, though I love that mobile suit it's HG kit is not very good)  Anyways, this will basically be a straight OOB paint job on this guy, however building has reignited my thoughts of using it's satellite cannons on the 00 gundam for that custom I've wanted to make, so I'll be having to get another one of these guys here pretty soon!  And, hopefully, now that we have a MG Gundam X (that I'll be getting soon also) a MG Double X will happen this year sometime...*fingers crossed*

HG Masurao

At long last, I present the HG Masurao.  Released in 2009, I've wanted this kit ever since, can't believe it took me this long to get it.  This is one of my top 10 favorite mobile suits, so this is going to be a straight build, and is going to need a lot of painting...  Should be really fun though, pretty excited about it!

MG Gundam Age-2 Dark Hound

Well this is long overdue, this is my Master Grade Gundam Age-2 Dark Hound I bought at the local anime convention in August.  I'm building this in tandem with my friend who is building the MG Crossbone X2, so I'll probably make separate posts with both kits.  Assembly is complete, next we'll be taking them apart and painting them up!

HG Gundam Age FX

Quick side project, this came in yesterday and I opened it up and snapped it all together in about 2 hours.  Overall, not too impressed with this build, especially the legs and parts of the arms, but once I paint it that'll probably clear up.  There are a couple clear parts that should've been on the clear green runner, like the "A" in the cest....but other than that and the strange use of purple in some spots it has good separation.  The main reason I got this was to do a kitbash with the 00 Quanta and 00 Gundam for a future custom suit, I'll probably be working on that this weekend (and hopefully some MG Dark Hound...)

MG 1/100 Gundam X Announcement!

I don't normally post about new kit releases but for this one I can't help it.  Master Grade Gundam X, to be released this coming January!  Now I'm not a huge X fan, but I love the Double X Gundam and getting this means there's a good chance of the DX coming sometime.  The biggest thing here is, this was the only Gundam series left that didn't have any Master Grade kits at all (excluding the new Build Fighters...) and it's a line that a very large amount of people have wanted for quite some time now.  So on this night, we thank you Bandai for finally releasing a brand new MG that we can all enjoy!