The first batch of this kit also came with a clear purple runner in addition to the clear orange and clear. However, ppl reported issues with the metal joints being loose. For kits in the second batch onwards (which should be the only version of this kit you can realistically obtain outside of China, or even within China, at this point), they improved (or at least they promised to improve) the metal joints and threw in a vial of rather strong super glue. It's not oil. Anyway, I used mine to tighten the waist joint. Applied a few layers and made sure to continuously move the waist joint as it dried and it more or less worked out. BTW, this only cost 158 RMB (~$23 USD) on release, which was a major selling point that the company advertised. That's an insanely cheap price, even among other Chinese kits in China. You can't realistically obtain it at that price even within China nowadays bc it sold so well. A friend of mine found it at a local hobby shop in Shanghai for around $50 USD just last month. This design is actually from a manhua called Tales of Armored Colossus. I tried reading it. It's kinda ass ngl, tropey characters and not much of a plot. The mech designs are the only worthwhile thing from it lol.
How the hell is this thing 60 dollars once again OMM's having amazing pricing while having metal innerframes?? Thanks for sharing this with us I feel like getting this as a gift for a friend!
It retailed for 158 RMB (~$23 USD) in China, which was a major selling point bc that's actually absurdly cheap, even by Chinese standards. It's gone up quite a bit in price since then due to demand, to the point that a friend in Shanghai found it for like $50 USD at a local shop last month.
because bandai is ripping you off. they are still using old tech, old machines. and they dont care because they think they are the one to go too. extra accessoires ? bandai says nope more weapons, backpack ? bandai usually says nope need a base ? buy it extra says bandai. color seperation ? please no says bandai. new 1/100 kits every year ? bandai doenst give a f and nope . bandai shouldnt be more expensive because of ip issues. you are just paying more because you think its special iam really glad that there is a real market. i started 2021 with collecting and building mecha kits. and the first year was kinda painful. but 2022/2023 it all exploded. and in a good way.
@@matthiaszapf1171Being someone who started in 2011, Bandai isn't ripping you off all the time here. Keep in mind that they produce kits as cheap as possible so that Gunpla for the most part can stay affordable, that always has been their tactic ever since they did kits and they introduce new tech a lot so I don't know what you mean by "old tech". There is also that Japan's economy is really bad now so it isn't like they can willy nilly release 1/100 MG kits all the time either.
@@matthiaszapf1171 wait, there was a worldwide gunpla shortage in 2021. Bandai wasn't charging high prices, resellers were. Gunpla has always been relatively cheap compared to other non-Chinese model kit brands, and Bandai has continuously pioneered new model kit molding techniques. That kind of R&D costs money, but such labor is more expensive in Japan than China. Even then, these original Chinese kits are made by people who grew up building gunpla and probably still do - they're mainly good because they're designed by people with an actual passion for the hobby, unlike older Chinese bootleg kits. Bandai paved the way for this new generation of high-quality, original Chinese kits but the Chinese do have an economic advantage when it comes to costs for both labor and materials, which translates to lower prices.
Just finished building mine. Felt like I was making a metal build given the heft and the gray look of the plastic. A real bang for your buck. Was a breeze to build as well given its undergated and the plastic material so clean to cut with my godhand nipper.
I love the design and pre ordered the Bailu, had some trouble building the chest but my main hand only half works so I think that was on me. I usually lie metal frames but after a week the base couldn't support it and the mech fell off, snapping the connection peg off the base and leaving it attached inside the model :(. I'll be trying an action base that cups the machine to see how that works. One other problem I had was the end cap for the left shoulder just... split in half O_o. I just look up from doing something and the two halves fell apart. Maybe I looked at it to hard. I mostly fixed it, but its not in great alignment anymore. I'm thinking of painting that shoulder black and adding a special marking to it to hide the flaws. Wish me luck!
really love the look of this kit, was my first original kit I built. had some problems with the head antenna not holding on had to put in some glue. The sniper mode for the gun is also supported only by a single plastic part for the bottom and a bit of the carbine nozzle in the center, and yes the scope, I had to put glue on it as well. overall, a nice kit to start branching out to original gunpla kits.
got the same kit a few months ago, it's pretty good build, simple but good looking, my only issue, tried to use flow type marker and I cant clean it easily with alcohol, so be careful with that
its like a flag from gundam 00 and a gundam had a baby edit: looking at it. its like waist down very gundam 00 waist up is very seed with the gat-04 windam build with a more pointed out chest and head. the head looks a bid like it came from gundam wing with a bit of astray flare but with a mask on
Amazing price for something with a metal frame. Gives me hope for the already announced Mecha Break model kits. I forget what company is doing it I just remember they said it’ll have a metal frame and I was dreading the price tag being over $100 USD
Let me add: Decals are shining in ultraviolet, also you probably install "back locking" tab in wrong position. But even then itmakes kit stay only a little bended, not locking it in full bend. In my kit i also got problems with drones falling off too easy from their stands.
Really cool kit. Sleek and simple color scheme, and just the right amount of detail for my taste. Also it's not absolutely covered in spikey bits like so many of these Chinese kits tend to be!
@@matthiaszapf1171 i know its not an accurate description specially if you follow the proper term, its spawned with the battle of bandai vs bootleg, zakuaurelius has a video explaining it.....its like a vendiagram, 1st party (bandai) vs 2nd party (same design with or without permission like bootleg or resin kits) then here comes 3rd party (where some designs are heavily inspired and whether or not its considered a copycat)....some people can see it as an original design but some see it as a copy then edit then paste, thats why the term 3rd party was more or less formed for easier grouping....from what i see most of the time, its an original design if it has an IP or other form of media attached to it, if its just another design with no attachments, its considered 3rd party kit
It's not 3rd party by any definition of the term. It's a licensed kit from a (shitty) manhua. Many current-gen mecha designers in China watched seed and/or 00 growing up and built kits from those shows, so they are often inspired by seed/00 design elements.
damn i thought the drones were thrusters. but really, 3rd party brands seems more worth to buy than bandai nowadays. the sinanju looks cheap compared to this when placed side by side
Not trying to be a Bandai fanboy, but the Sinanju Stein that's shown is the very first SS which is a kit from 2013, so not a fair comparison. Still, the newly released one shouldn't look that much better which is a fkin shame since it's the THIRD!! Sinanju Stein and the FIFTH!! Sinanju overall 🤦♂️ Too bad Bandai's income comes mainly from the HG line so they can afford to be lazy with the MG line no problem 😞
Hard disagree, and I even own both a Sinanju AND this kit The Bailu is great but I had to put in quite some effort to make it look good (Sanding down mould and sink lines, breaking in the 1st batch inner frame, correcting the god awful nubs on the plated parts, trimming flash, ect) Whilst the Sinanju was only hit with topcoat and accent liner and nothing else Say what you will about bandai but they do have quality
@@snowy9587 ur saying as if bandai havent done awful nub placements and visible mold lines too. and Zaku here puts both out of box comparison. sinanju just looks as if its hg beside an rg. yeah its old but its a company with several decades experience vs a literal newbie company
@razrafz if you've built any recent releases within the last year or so, like actually recent and not a reprint, you'd know bandai is getting really conscious about the OOB appearance of their kits Besides, the keyword here is "LOOKS" correct me if I'm wrong but usually plated plastic is undergated if the nubs aren't trying to be hidden in the first place, and whilst it does have some undergating, there's also a baffling amount of awfully placed nubs on that plated gold that aren't at all hidden or well designed
why do you call it a 3rd party kit ? you want a bootleg ? get the physalis from solomon. or the night hawk from red soul they are the best 3rd party kits. because they are bootleg, this one is just a mecha. from a company. no bootleg. no 3rdparty.
This is basically a budget version of a Motor Nuclear kit. Having built the Baiqi and Nezha, I'd say Motor Nuclear kits have a more robust base, more complex finishings on the plastic (the plastic quality itself is about the same, which is good for both), pre-painted parts, clear effect parts with gradients molded within the part (!!!), and more complex gimmicks. That being said, this retailed for less than half the price of your average Motor Nuclear kit, and is very good for that price. It's also much less spikey and hurts your hands less when handling it lol. Personally, I also prefer the way the plastic frame builds around the metal frame for the Bailu. With Motor Nuclear kits, you often plug metal parts into plastic directly, which can sometimes be too tight.
![[REVIEW] ROBOX ANIMATION - TEST-70 ARMORED COLOSSUS - BAILU](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/y5bAAls72-Y/mqdefault.jpg)
The first batch of this kit also came with a clear purple runner in addition to the clear orange and clear. However, ppl reported issues with the metal joints being loose. For kits in the second batch onwards (which should be the only version of this kit you can realistically obtain outside of China, or even within China, at this point), they improved (or at least they promised to improve) the metal joints and threw in a vial of rather strong super glue. It's not oil.
Anyway, I used mine to tighten the waist joint. Applied a few layers and made sure to continuously move the waist joint as it dried and it more or less worked out.
BTW, this only cost 158 RMB (~$23 USD) on release, which was a major selling point that the company advertised. That's an insanely cheap price, even among other Chinese kits in China. You can't realistically obtain it at that price even within China nowadays bc it sold so well. A friend of mine found it at a local hobby shop in Shanghai for around $50 USD just last month.
This design is actually from a manhua called Tales of Armored Colossus. I tried reading it. It's kinda ass ngl, tropey characters and not much of a plot. The mech designs are the only worthwhile thing from it lol.
Thanks for the info!
1st batch also comes with some kinds of square ruler i think? i dont really know whats that..
That white bottle is actually tightening solution. If your inner frame is too loose, you can apply some to get it tighter.
How the hell is this thing 60 dollars once again OMM's having amazing pricing while having metal innerframes?? Thanks for sharing this with us I feel like getting this as a gift for a friend!
It retailed for 158 RMB (~$23 USD) in China, which was a major selling point bc that's actually absurdly cheap, even by Chinese standards. It's gone up quite a bit in price since then due to demand, to the point that a friend in Shanghai found it for like $50 USD at a local shop last month.
because bandai is ripping you off.
they are still using old tech, old machines. and they dont care because they think they are the one to go too.
extra accessoires ? bandai says nope
more weapons, backpack ? bandai usually says nope
need a base ? buy it extra says bandai.
color seperation ? please no says bandai.
new 1/100 kits every year ? bandai doenst give a f
and nope . bandai shouldnt be more expensive because of ip issues. you are just paying more because you think its special
iam really glad that there is a real market.
i started 2021 with collecting and building mecha kits. and the first year was kinda painful.
but 2022/2023 it all exploded. and in a good way.
@@matthiaszapf1171Being someone who started in 2011, Bandai isn't ripping you off all the time here.
Keep in mind that they produce kits as cheap as possible so that Gunpla for the most part can stay affordable, that always has been their tactic ever since they did kits and they introduce new tech a lot so I don't know what you mean by "old tech".
There is also that Japan's economy is really bad now so it isn't like they can willy nilly release 1/100 MG kits all the time either.
@@matthiaszapf1171 wait, there was a worldwide gunpla shortage in 2021. Bandai wasn't charging high prices, resellers were. Gunpla has always been relatively cheap compared to other non-Chinese model kit brands, and Bandai has continuously pioneered new model kit molding techniques. That kind of R&D costs money, but such labor is more expensive in Japan than China. Even then, these original Chinese kits are made by people who grew up building gunpla and probably still do - they're mainly good because they're designed by people with an actual passion for the hobby, unlike older Chinese bootleg kits. Bandai paved the way for this new generation of high-quality, original Chinese kits but the Chinese do have an economic advantage when it comes to costs for both labor and materials, which translates to lower prices.
@@matthiaszapf1171talking mostly nonsense there.
Just finished building mine. Felt like I was making a metal build given the heft and the gray look of the plastic. A real bang for your buck. Was a breeze to build as well given its undergated and the plastic material so clean to cut with my godhand nipper.
I love the design and pre ordered the Bailu, had some trouble building the chest but my main hand only half works so I think that was on me. I usually lie metal frames but after a week the base couldn't support it and the mech fell off, snapping the connection peg off the base and leaving it attached inside the model :(. I'll be trying an action base that cups the machine to see how that works.
One other problem I had was the end cap for the left shoulder just... split in half O_o. I just look up from doing something and the two halves fell apart. Maybe I looked at it to hard. I mostly fixed it, but its not in great alignment anymore. I'm thinking of painting that shoulder black and adding a special marking to it to hide the flaws. Wish me luck!
really love the look of this kit, was my first original kit I built.
had some problems with the head antenna not holding on had to put in some glue. The sniper mode for the gun is also supported only by a single plastic part for the bottom and a bit of the carbine nozzle in the center, and yes the scope, I had to put glue on it as well.
overall, a nice kit to start branching out to original gunpla kits.
got the same kit a few months ago, it's pretty good build, simple but good looking, my only issue, tried to use flow type marker and I cant clean it easily with alcohol, so be careful with that
its like a flag from gundam 00 and a gundam had a baby
edit:
looking at it. its like waist down very gundam 00
waist up is very seed with the gat-04 windam build with a more pointed out chest and head.
the head looks a bid like it came from gundam wing with a bit of astray flare but with a mask on
The torso and legs feel very witch from mercury. Some changes but the main design aesthetics are there. Especially the Gundam Calibarn.
Amazing price for something with a metal frame. Gives me hope for the already announced Mecha Break model kits. I forget what company is doing it I just remember they said it’ll have a metal frame and I was dreading the price tag being over $100 USD
Mecha Break Falcon from Moshow Toys
I'm also waiting for that model kit
itll most likely be 100+ usd because its moshow toys
@@Astatos-Lota yeah it's Moshow after all
Amazing unboxing, love the detail and accessories! 😍👍
For a second there I thought I was seeing an MG sized armored core kit that doesn't suck
Let me add: Decals are shining in ultraviolet, also you probably install "back locking" tab in wrong position. But even then itmakes kit stay only a little bended, not locking it in full bend. In my kit i also got problems with drones falling off too easy from their stands.
Really cool kit. Sleek and simple color scheme, and just the right amount of detail for my taste. Also it's not absolutely covered in spikey bits like so many of these Chinese kits tend to be!
That big cannon was nice! Same with the flight pack.
Amazing review as usual! Curious if you will be doing a review on the In Era Lizard?
Can you also check the In Era Aurora? Nice video!!
looks kinda like a mix of a SEED type Gundam and ALBA from Armored Core 6
This kit was delayed a long time so its both old and new. Mines coming by boat, so I've got to wait even longer.
Another Awesome Review 👍👍👍👍
I really like the colors of this kit
Looks cool reminds me of a white version of Union Flag from 00.
Awesome design!
Did you paint already the gold parts or is it the original color from the runners?
It’s a played gold runner. I didn’t paint that
@@ZakuAurelius Thank you. It's nice.
Try TENGU, it is also good and original
Cool design mecha model kits 😮😊❤
the design reminds me of a Personal Trooper (a type of mecha class) from the Super Robot Wars OG series.
nice build 👍
Speaking on articulation
Can you make a list of the most poseable kits we gotten so far? That be cool
I see the eclipse gundam in ti's kit
wohoo ...keep the 3rd party kits coming....i was planning to buy this kit, you sold it to me after watching your video XD
its not a 3. party kit. and bandai is not the first party.
its just another company that is producing mechas.
@@matthiaszapf1171 i know its not an accurate description specially if you follow the proper term, its spawned with the battle of bandai vs bootleg, zakuaurelius has a video explaining it.....its like a vendiagram, 1st party (bandai) vs 2nd party (same design with or without permission like bootleg or resin kits) then here comes 3rd party (where some designs are heavily inspired and whether or not its considered a copycat)....some people can see it as an original design but some see it as a copy then edit then paste, thats why the term 3rd party was more or less formed for easier grouping....from what i see most of the time, its an original design if it has an IP or other form of media attached to it, if its just another design with no attachments, its considered 3rd party kit
Will this be available to buy again?
That gun looks nice.
It have many part.
While bandai keep making sandwich gun for gunpla 😅
even the nub marks on this kit are so easy to sand off, except maybe for the gold accents
i just sold mine...😭, btw you only get 1 small barrel ends so you cant really makes 2 carbines..
Looks like strike for the legs 00 qant for the hips strike freedom for shoulder..
Looks like Gundam 00`s Flag.
looks like a flag mixed with an astray with an aile stiker pack
Can you use a standard 1/100 Bandai action base with it?
👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥
aw man its sold out. i would've bought it
If BANDAI won't do it someone gotta give us Master Grade styled kits right?
Not bad for non bandai model kit,
Gundam Ex please !
Finally a 3rd party kit that doesn't look like a spikey SEED rip off
The first thing I thought of this kit was seed lol.
It's not 3rd party by any definition of the term. It's a licensed kit from a (shitty) manhua.
Many current-gen mecha designers in China watched seed and/or 00 growing up and built kits from those shows, so they are often inspired by seed/00 design elements.
paint it up like Rusty from AC6
damn i thought the drones were thrusters. but really, 3rd party brands seems more worth to buy than bandai nowadays. the sinanju looks cheap compared to this when placed side by side
Not trying to be a Bandai fanboy, but the Sinanju Stein that's shown is the very first SS which is a kit from 2013, so not a fair comparison. Still, the newly released one shouldn't look that much better which is a fkin shame since it's the THIRD!! Sinanju Stein and the FIFTH!! Sinanju overall 🤦♂️ Too bad Bandai's income comes mainly from the HG line so they can afford to be lazy with the MG line no problem 😞
Hard disagree, and I even own both a Sinanju AND this kit
The Bailu is great but I had to put in quite some effort to make it look good (Sanding down mould and sink lines, breaking in the 1st batch inner frame, correcting the god awful nubs on the plated parts, trimming flash, ect) Whilst the Sinanju was only hit with topcoat and accent liner and nothing else
Say what you will about bandai but they do have quality
@@snowy9587 ur saying as if bandai havent done awful nub placements and visible mold lines too. and Zaku here puts both out of box comparison. sinanju just looks as if its hg beside an rg. yeah its old but its a company with several decades experience vs a literal newbie company
@razrafz if you've built any recent releases within the last year or so, like actually recent and not a reprint, you'd know bandai is getting really conscious about the OOB appearance of their kits
Besides, the keyword here is "LOOKS"
correct me if I'm wrong but usually plated plastic is undergated if the nubs aren't trying to be hidden in the first place, and whilst it does have some undergating, there's also a baffling amount of awfully placed nubs on that plated gold that aren't at all hidden or well designed
Ah yes, the OverOverFlag.
Boleh kah saya bertanya?
I think this is the best 3rd party gundam-ish kit , the design is so cool and clean
why do you call it a 3rd party kit ?
you want a bootleg ? get the physalis from solomon. or the night hawk from red soul
they are the best 3rd party kits. because they are bootleg,
this one is just a mecha. from a company. no bootleg. no 3rdparty.
Try motornuclear model. They re amazing, and literally have really unique design.
This is basically a budget version of a Motor Nuclear kit. Having built the Baiqi and Nezha, I'd say Motor Nuclear kits have a more robust base, more complex finishings on the plastic (the plastic quality itself is about the same, which is good for both), pre-painted parts, clear effect parts with gradients molded within the part (!!!), and more complex gimmicks. That being said, this retailed for less than half the price of your average Motor Nuclear kit, and is very good for that price. It's also much less spikey and hurts your hands less when handling it lol. Personally, I also prefer the way the plastic frame builds around the metal frame for the Bailu. With Motor Nuclear kits, you often plug metal parts into plastic directly, which can sometimes be too tight.
Bandai is done😂
They are
@@MatthewLoh-ru1mw they gave up since 2022
People still buy bandai anyway
@@somechinesedude5466 I know🙄
Delightful likes love and care for you awe.
Hate losing my 5050 to Bailu. 🥲
They're even written the same way!