these chinese kits are getting better and better every quarter of the year! cheap price, great color separation, metal effin frame!!! and it does not have the bandai plastic shine! it looks like it pre-coated/painted out of the box!
@@myogetsu666 Yeah, they truly been serious about building their own identity, even incorporating storylines into some kits as a way to promote them. And what makes me want to experience more is the smothless building process (most of them got undergate, warter decal, metal parts) Hower, there are still have several issues that need improve: their designs copy a lot from Gundam model and the missing parts is a huge problems.
@@skyswipe058 yeah, i am reusing my leftover Mr Hobby Thinner from when i used to work with my gk resin. When it finished, ill change to eraser like you suggested to avoid this issue. Many thanks for your sharing
So... Let me get this straight: full inner metal frame, posable hands AND fixed pose hands, clear AND gold armor options, armament that'd make John Wick himself blush (if it had more detail)... Shut up and take my money! Also: Bandai get a grip, you're losing market!
@@elementxxrider Honestly, I feel that Bandai seems quite hesitant in releasing new model kits, especially with the surge of third-party models from Chinese manufacturers. It’s hard to say for sure, but I truly hope that in 2025, Bandai will bring something that excites and ignites the passion of model enthusiasts even more.
@Hobbyjourney while that's my desire too, at the same time I can understand where they're coming from, even if not agreeing with it. To me it seems that they're so invested in injection molding that they reserve metallic parts for their top of the line models to play it safe. Think about it for a second: the 2 great pioneers of injection molding that gave birth and perfected the formula are Kotobukiya and Bandai and, for a while, that was the only thing it existed they reigned supreme. But then one day someone figured a metal frame could be put into place or figured out a way to cheapen metal etched parts to a point they were quite rentable to include in a model kit WITHOUT quality loss and they placed their models once, none of which were Kotobukiya or Bandai. This coupled with the fact that some great designs came from other places gave way for other companies to probe into innovation and, eventually, succeed in the market. This filled in a niche that until then neither consumers nor enterprises knew it existed. Or if they knew, they thought they'd arrive before their competition. But this also meant that in those specific details and requirements, both Bandai and Kotobukiya were not the pioneers and their models would be directly compared to those that made it first (deliciously ironic considering that nowadays, a full runner-based plastic-injected Mecha model kit was and is directly compared to both Kotobukiya and Bandai).
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these chinese kits are getting better and better every quarter of the year! cheap price, great color separation, metal effin frame!!! and it does not have the bandai plastic shine! it looks like it pre-coated/painted out of the box!
@@myogetsu666 Yeah, they truly been serious about building their own identity, even incorporating storylines into some kits as a way to promote them.
And what makes me want to experience more is the smothless building process (most of them got undergate, warter decal, metal parts)
Hower, there are still have several issues that need improve: their designs copy a lot from Gundam model and the missing parts is a huge problems.
@@Hobbyjourney OUCH!! the missing parts is definitely a huge problem, but at least we got metal frames no more worrying about joints breaking hahaha
Did you topcoat it after applying the decals?Or is it mark setter and mark softer only?
@@faizzamir4788 I only use setter and softer
I usually just use an eraser to slowly rub off panel line marks on painted parts, sure it can be a lot slower but hey, it's cheap.
@@skyswipe058 yeah, i am reusing my leftover Mr Hobby Thinner from when i used to work with my gk resin. When it finished, ill change to eraser like you suggested to avoid this issue. Many thanks for your sharing
So... Let me get this straight: full inner metal frame, posable hands AND fixed pose hands, clear AND gold armor options, armament that'd make John Wick himself blush (if it had more detail)... Shut up and take my money!
Also: Bandai get a grip, you're losing market!
@@elementxxrider Honestly, I feel that Bandai seems quite hesitant in releasing new model kits, especially with the surge of third-party models from Chinese manufacturers.
It’s hard to say for sure, but I truly hope that in 2025, Bandai will bring something that excites and ignites the passion of model enthusiasts even more.
@Hobbyjourney while that's my desire too, at the same time I can understand where they're coming from, even if not agreeing with it. To me it seems that they're so invested in injection molding that they reserve metallic parts for their top of the line models to play it safe.
Think about it for a second: the 2 great pioneers of injection molding that gave birth and perfected the formula are Kotobukiya and Bandai and, for a while, that was the only thing it existed they reigned supreme. But then one day someone figured a metal frame could be put into place or figured out a way to cheapen metal etched parts to a point they were quite rentable to include in a model kit WITHOUT quality loss and they placed their models once, none of which were Kotobukiya or Bandai.
This coupled with the fact that some great designs came from other places gave way for other companies to probe into innovation and, eventually, succeed in the market. This filled in a niche that until then neither consumers nor enterprises knew it existed. Or if they knew, they thought they'd arrive before their competition.
But this also meant that in those specific details and requirements, both Bandai and Kotobukiya were not the pioneers and their models would be directly compared to those that made it first (deliciously ironic considering that nowadays, a full runner-based plastic-injected Mecha model kit was and is directly compared to both Kotobukiya and Bandai).