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Big blue .. plastic ?

^ pretty much expected.. using old strike mold, after all.. but what bothers me most is that they can't even put more effort into the build booster.. or at least give us a white gun instead of red

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why good things always hard to get

Quick review of the 1/144 Buster Remastered version.

Pros:
1. Cheap as. Only 1000 yen and has fairly good proportions compared to the other HG Seed kits (Aegis, Strike, Freedom, and Raider have bizarre proportions). It also has one of the nicer head sculpts too with the long bunny ear V-fins. Colours are more or less spot on, apart from tiny parts such as the green orbs on the crotch armor, shoulder frame (stickers given), and rear shoulder vents (but see cons #3).

2. The remastered version replaces the grey parts with glossy gunmetal grey. Now this makes the guns look more striking, although the trade off is slightly more obvious nubmarks (not as bad as chrome plated parts).

3. The orange covers for the shoulder missile pod is plastic-on-plastic, yet it fits snugly enough even when opened. Much better than the Duel whose shoulder missile pod couldn't even be opened.

4. Pretty solid joints apart from the extending arms that support the guns. The feet, despite looking flat and chunky, have very decent articulation and since they are flat, they make the Buster very stable even in exaggerated shooting stances.

Cons:
1. Huge design flaw in the way the guns flip beneath the shoulders. They are just too big to fit underneath the armpits, and the lack of swivelling shoulders and short arms don't help. If you pose the guns separately the arms have to be twisted awkwardly and even so they don't grab the gun handles properly. However when the guns are connected (either way) there's no such problem.

2. The guns do not slide for the combination. They still connect without any problems but don't look as good as the MG, understandably.

3. Orange stickers are given for the cheeks instead of actual orange parts. Why?? There's already an orange plate ! The stickers do fit nicely but still, whyyyy?

4. Additional stickers - nice addition, although you can't use all of them on one kit since a lot of them are for other GAT-X and ZGMF gundams. The Buster's armour doesn't allow the fairly large stickers to stick on properly, unless you stick the X103 slanted on the shoulder flap as depicted in the manual. Looks ugly in my opinion, and I ended up using the decals on the skirt armour instead (not yet applied in the above pics).

Conclusion:
This is above average for it's relatively low price. The Buster is still one of the better, if not the best HG 1/144 of the Seed series with its near-accurate proportions, colours, and absence of huge stickers. In fact it's the cheapest of all the 1/144 Seed kits, hence making it the best value for money.

For those who adore the Buster, it's probably better to fork out the extra money for the highly-praised MG version; but for a quick and fun build, this is still worth your dough.

One thing to look out for when assembling - the eye stickers should be applied lower than the creases suggest to avoid being obscured by the big green head armour piece.

Next up... V2.

This post has been edited by StarGhazzer: Mar 9 2014, 08:19 AM

This is the thunderbolt version, right?

now to the decaling section

Eh does anyone know how much HGBF Kampfer Amazing at BTS?

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840 yen for a robot damashi? wow.

wow I'll love to have one on my desk ~

Very true for the PG 00 Raiser case. When I combine my 00 Raiser and gundam, I need something else to support the tip of 00 Raiser or else the whole kit will bent to the back. When I use the action stand (Which came with the initial production order, I was so worry about my 00 Gundam's waist will break if I leave it like that for too long

HAHAHA totally agree for the dragoon thing! I was crying when building and painting it

RM62/RM63

If I were you and needed to assemble the same thing multiple times, I would limit myself to do only two or three a day to preserve my patience with each of them

Hi guys, want to ask if anyone know a tutorial to do a "RG like" 2 or 3 toning for the same colour

example:

on RG Zaku (Green) there are light green and normal green
on RG Gundam MK II (AEUG) there are white, very light grey and light grey

Is there any guide to create these very subtle changes in colour? I tried but the contrast is over.

have you tried referring to the RG's colour guide?

Bling Bling arrived

wow fast
post a local review here whn done especially on the nub
although its known that it will be the same mould as 01 and 02

Very nice The runners are the same as previous Unicorn-based kits and also the Armor DE.

that only possible if you already work on other stuff and begin the dragoon mid way.

Let's say if you start your gunpla for the day and you start it with dragoon...

Thanks for reply. Sorry for didn't give enough details in my question. I'm actually doing custom colour for my Gunpla and couldn't get the right subtle effect. Hopefully can get some tips from other modellers.

Example: I'm currently doing different sheds of grey on my HGUC Zaku II F2 and the grey goes wrong T__T

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