This is the worst kit I have ever built. So bad that I thought it was possibly bootleg, but no, it’s just terrible. The face snapped in half with very little force putting it into the helmet. All the panel lines are too shallow for much capillary action, so scribing is a must if you want to panel line. The joints got loose after just a few poses. The kit is 20 years old and not worth the trouble or the money. This was supposed to be my wife’s first build, and I’m glad I looked at the runners before letting her try. If it was my first Gundam, I wouldn’t have ever bought another kit. I’ll get her a HG Lfrith instead whenever I can find one or they reissue.

The build itself is good, and there are no complications or surprises, but the color separation out of the box is poor. There are no gray parts around the shoulder armor, or the chest, unlike the Strike Rouge with the Aile Striker pack. In fact, when it comes to the box photos, I suspect they used a HG Aile Strike Rouge, then swapped the striker packs.. There are a lot of color correcting decals in white, but after that you're on your own The standard shield is in white and pink, and the black shield shown in all the pictures is nowhere to be seen. That said it's not a *bad* kit. It just suffers from a lack of color separation, and there's no indication of such on the box.

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