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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

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

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.

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.....

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

For me; I almost broke the part into 2 when I force it in. In the end, I superglued it.
I suspect because of the gold coating which makes the part slightly thicker.

Yeah, because I never plan on transforming it into Unicorn mode, it will stay in it's Destroy mode.
Glad you found another way in assembling it.

Not sure about the others; you'll find another roadblock when assembling the torso, a small block but I don't think you'll have any problem with it

I gave an advise on this few months back. It's the joint, too big, file it to make it smaller, for both left and right.