CT Chin
Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:13:26 -0700
Boaz MyTurnASpace wrote: > The reason is quality. Kind of like buying a European sports car or a > "Ford POS" (quote from Men in Black if you have to ask). The EX models > of Musai and Salamis/Mangellan is full of details vs. the old models' > anime styple. I like my 1/144 MS anime-accurate but not any vehicles.
I've picked the EX Musai box up and then put it back on the shelf several times. If and when I see a good discount I will definitely buy it. I wasn't attacking your choice of kits, we've beaten the EX pricing question to death and beyond. I was just saying something peripheral to segue to the size question. If it's 13.7cm long (234m) it's much more reasonable than if it were 10.9cm (186m). At 13.7cm is barely smaller than the old kit. Of course I like the EX ships details. I was _also_ pretty sure I would get the EX Musai, along with those White Baseish class ships. But then at US$50+ per model I tend to find faults with them, as per SOP. Model Graphix's UC ship feature is mainly on the EX Musai, Salamis and Magellan. All very fine quality models. The moment EX takes on a 0079 ship that hasn't been sitting on my shelf (mostly half finished) I am jumping all over it. Say the Doros, at 6000-10000 Yens. I would also go for a EX Big Tray. I am actually waiting for an oppotunity to acquire/re-acquire the EX Gundam Transporter, Dodai II and Seed Mechas. BTW I think Musai is smaller than any of the White Base class ships (except that dinky boat in V Gundam). Isn't it listed as a cruiser class? > You can detail up the old one, but will you spend the time doing it > now with a baby? guess not right? me neither. Bah... I'd be lucky to keep up with the (slow) pace of HGUC releases. I also have two unopened boxes of Musai along with my finished one. Plan (from 3-4 yrs ago) was to build an attack group of 3 Musais with Char's as flag ship. > Overprice for sure, but the GC Queen Mansa seems even more over the > top -- it's a sub-model per se. But you've bought it right? same > reason I got the EX Musai. Yeah I will definitely not stick with GC line unless they do interesting subjects. If GC releases a, say, Psyco Gundam II, I won't go for it. (Bandai may think it's easier to pre-paint the details at 1/400 then to mold them at 1/144) Speaking of possible (not probable) EX Big Tray, there are so many cool landship designs out there, why don't we have more (or some?) injection kits? I can't even think of one single injection kit of landships. -- Dr. Core -------------------------------------------------- The Gundam Mailing List MK-II list@gundam.com Archives: http://www.gundam.com/gml Help: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this in the BODY: help list