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Quality wise, I'll give them 9/10, plastic feels almost identical to B's

The coating looks very nice, too bad there are still some parts are not undergated, making nub marks very visible upclose

Overall OK, except for a few difficulties I faced during assembling
- impossible to insert the arms to the body; either the part Q10 is too thick, or the polycap POM7 is too small. In the end, I trimmed the Q10 and managed to insert them
- almost broke N1 during head assembly. Studied the manual carefully, referred to videos, still unable to assemble it. Used too much force and the part almost broke into half. Finally, no choice, super glued the head portion. Need some advise on this portion.
- correct me if I'm wrong, Daban's LED seems dimmer as compared to ori's. If that's true, I truly regretted using them, shld hv used ori from the beginning
- the LEDs on the shoulder armor cannot be pulled to firm, right hand side will cause all LED not functional, left side will cause only left arm not functional

Other than that, parts snap fit very nice, no loose parts, joints are tight, able to stand independently (without backpack of cos)
Because the parts are so tight, I decided to build it in it's Destroy mode. Also, I preferred it in this mode

what touch up gold are closest to use?
tamiya gold leaf or normal gold marker wld suffice?

I was using Artline Gold, so so only, wanna try Sharpie, seems OK but out of ink liao
I don't hv Tamiya so couldn't comment

Artline and Sharpie are basically the same, Tamiya Gold Leaf is brighter than those two.

I seldom build coated kits, so I seldom use these. Will try and find tamiya's to try.
If I'm not wrong, the coated gold shld b similar to Hyaku Shiki and DM Akatsuki right?
If tamiya's blend well with them, I think it wouldn't b a problem with the Phenex.

Nah, it's different from the one used in Akatsuki and Hyaku. Tamiya gold leaf is bright yellowish (but still is better than Sharpie 'gold' if you're going for bright gold.

The one I ever came close to produce near identical result to the electroplated piece was Bosny Copper Gold on gloss black base, but I have been searching for that spray paint for two years and still couldn't find any store that still sells it

- impossible to insert the arms to the body; either the part Q10 is too thick, or the polycap POM7 is too small. In the end, I trimmed the Q10 and managed to insert them
- almost broke N1 during head assembly. Studied the manual carefully, referred to videos, still unable to assemble it. Used too much force and the part almost broke into half. Finally, no choice, super glued the head portion. Need some advise on this portion.

same with me.the hand part almost impossible to insert in.i push2 harder n mange to clip in.so afraid to break it.
N1 also i superglue it.same issue with u.i didnt have this problem with daban banshee though

This post has been edited by kaizor11: Oct 4 2016, 09:33 AM


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The N1 part maybe can be explained as the part B19 is coated and thus is thicker, making the part impossible to insert into it.
The Banshee wouldn't hv this problem because it's not coated. Wonder if all of them (Phenex) having this similar issue.

The arm part, highest possibility I guess will be the POM7 being too small.

And one more problem with I faced, since I'm using Daban's LED, the backpack LED seems to be faulty, which suks.....

i put my daban led on my B Unicorn. the light not dim as per ur claim but i need to solder the led back to get it work as it got problem.for banshee n phenex i decide not put LEd.enough with unicorn

This post has been edited by kaizor11: Oct 4 2016, 12:03 PM

Then maybe my expectation for the LED is too high lol
I expected them to be much brighter. No way to compare now, at least until I build B's Banshee

so the daban banshee, no problem? everything fine? and snap fit?

yup.daban banshee work fine for me

might temptet to get 1

how much is this

this guy cant stand on its own without display stand.those backpack are so heavy


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Rm350++ if not mistaken.forgot already

banshee was awesome


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fuuuuu, all unicorn.
i gonna to build my Mg unicorn & cage need month.
inb4 my type c defender still havent paint yet.

the V fin still can push in rite?
saw alot ppl din really push the V fin completely.. or is the problem with daban?

yes.can push.but i accidentally break mine.so superglue it.haha