Review:
RC MSN-04-2 Nightingale: WIP.To buy or not to Buy…
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Is all true that what other forums said…worst kit ever buy and build. The box is huge, same length as any Bandai PG kit, but thicker box.
Once open, It does look like a TT HongLi model.
Took 1 day to fit the upper body. Lots of fitting error, so I cut all the joint part and cement it…
Arms:
The instruction is very ‘blur’, you need to figure out which to put first, and where to fit. =.=, and some error marked in the instruction sheet too.
hands and light saber:
Hands is crude, I suggest replace it with aftermarket hands (B-club Sazabi hands). This hands look like toy hand, or cast from resin kit hands. The light saber took me some time to figure out what is that… no detail on it show is a light saber…
decal is nicely printed, with pre-cut. As for the misc parts (spring hose, LED lights and clear parts) Not my kind of detail…I will replced the hose, throw away the LED as it does not fit on the head. You might want to sand the clear parts and respray color on it. As for me, I will throw it away.)
Inside the side skirt (see the arrow), big 1mm punch marked need to cut away. (there are alot of these big punch marked everywhere. Almost all the parts.) Some minor fitting error on it, but can be fix with some shaving and trimming.
Cut all the connection point to fit better. Pict shown that it cannot fit, as the hole is smaller than the connect grey parts. Infact, there are lots of other parts had these problem too. The ball joint will be replace by aftermarket parts.
Do not force fitting, I got a stress mark on one of the parts. Thanks to the wrong design on ‘grey parts’. Same, cut all the joint area and snap into it. Test fitting it before glued it, trim it to fit. Is a good start for people whose like to start detailing on gunpla…because there WASN”T any in this kit.
The claw is off shape, trim it sharp or putty and shape it. The claw cannot fit into the arms becaue there are punch marked there…DUH! who will mold the punch marking on fitting area…can see how bad is that. Dremel the hole to fit.
Is a very bad design on putting up all the parts. (4 big armor into 1 grey parts. suggest glue all the 4 red armor up. Big gaps everywhere, fitting also got alot of problem. If you like it, you might want to detail inside as some area could see through. I will do the detail inside…
inner parts of ‘lobster’ skirt, long front ‘johnny’ (dont know what that call…)
Inner skirt got no detail on walls and grey mechanical area…(seriously, the more I get on with this, the more I think is either RC mold this kit using a 20 years old resin kit or mold it from a toy aka MSIA.)
long ‘johnny’ (the long D*ck that between the front skirt.) marked with pencil, and I already mark it with pen knief. Need to shave a 0.5mm from it, to allow the top part fit properly.
This kit armor is super thick… most of the parts are 15mm thck. I thought only resin kit need so thick, why plastic also need?
Is huge and same here, fitting is bad, Saw the gap in between the armor? Is hollow, no detail inside. Better do alot of work inside before glue it.
The shield:
Fit problem (again!) no detail and so-call detail are all bloated. Very ugly if you ask me. At the same time, advance modeler will love it…scripting detail, pla-plating detail, add on detail..etc.
The muzzle break:
You don’t even know how to fit it? It actually to glue it…lolz. And the muzzle break given was not even look like one. I sand it round in front and drill bigger hole.
Complete with front skirt and big ‘jonny’:
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by rtuned
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