This kit suffers from all the problems 2007 unicorn family variants, although having previously put together the Unicorn and banshee, these quirks were not really a problem for me. Unique to this kit, the armed armor DE can be hard to work with. The way they are put together seem a bit flimsy, and make the kit very back heavy. An action base 1 is almost a requirement, and using one of the action base's included stand attachments is a must, as the included stand attachment is the same poor design from the normal unicorn. Even then, posing is limited, to keep the center of gravity reasonable. I don't understand why they didn't make a custom action base attachment like they did for the full armor unicorn. The gold coating looks amassing and requires no panel lining, for me the gold seems to draw out the details like plastic can't. However, the lack of under gating is frankly annoying, leaving big white chunks of plastic. A metallic gold marker of some kind is needed to fix this. And the gold really holds onto fingerprints, making me have to wipe the whole thing down once built and pose wearing gloves to keep it looking good. The mostly makes it something you pose once and leave on your shelf to look at and not 'play' with, even more so then the other 2007 Unicorn kits.

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Love the color(bling bling of pure gold plate), but everything else has issues. 1. Water decal actually ruins the gold shining effect by mile. This, I would say depends on you, but even I tend to do very few key decals on still it looks ugly. Also don't use decal setter because it leaves very visible residue for some reason and it won't come off for me. Very disappointing either by my poor technique or poor idea by bandai. 2. Joints on waist is too loose. When you put two wings on the back pack, not only it can't handle the weight it just tilts back in weird angle. Display stand is a must and this kit don't have it and you have to purchase one for yourself even though it's highly expensive for MG kit. 3. Almost entire plates are gold plating and there's no undergate. Even you cut evenly, you can't sand it because of gold plating and for the worst part of it, it will leave white cut off part. This needs to be painted or have gold marker to somehow mend it. I don't know if anyone would go through painting again from buying this kit which only reason for it was gold plating.... If you don't have much of experience then this isn't really a kit I would recommend. I do like the gundam once I displayed it along regular unicorn and Vanshee in NT mode.

i did not buy it off newtype i bought it at my local hobbytown. and yes it still is not a good kit if we compare it to lets say the MG rezel or MG zeta 2.0 but i still enjoy it. but this version was shockingly better because it looks amazing and you don't really need to get that much other than it holding the beam magnum doin a pose like the aile strike. so yes its not good but it is a joy to look at so i rate it 5/5 for being a gorgeous kit

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