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This kit’s mold has aged like milk. Most of the copy I received was fine, but the skirts were slightly misshapen to the point they would not sit together properly on the kit, to the point I had to throw all the skirts away and have my Dom Tropen running around without its skirt. Top half of the kit is great, bottom half really needs work to shine.

I've seen some rough reviews for this kit, and they're not fair takes. Yes, this is an older kit, but anyone doing customization should be able to overcome most of the kit's flaws. For example, the pegs for the arms can easily be replaced with a ball/socket set from the Ballden Arms set, or using the chest-mounted arm sockets of the Galbaldy Beta. The head is also quite spacious for mounting a smaller version of the HGUC's Dom monoeye socket. Now, why this is better than the sand brown Tropen? The weapons runner. To date, I've seen four sand brown Tropen kits, two of which I own. Each kit's weapon runner is warped so that when you assemble the Rakaten, the 90mm, all four fausts, you will quickly notice that one side sits higher than the other. For anyone who plans to customize (paint) such a kit, your work time to make those weapons halfway decent will balloon in such a way that you'll quickly lose all motivation to finish the kit, or throw out the weapons and use replacements from either the Purple Tropen or HGUC Zaku F2. I suspect the warping issue was caused by trying to do too many narrow/complex parts on the same sprue (because the purple Tropen doesn't have this issue.) That said, I will always recommend this kit. It's got alot of room internally and externally for upgrades, and even stock, it's solid for the price.

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an older HGUC Dom featuring a bazooka and a heatsaber missing the submachine gun and the panzerfausts from the sand brown version