Boaz MyTurnASpace
Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:42:56 -0700
On 8/24/05, CT Chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Now I'm telling you all this so you can visualize it next time you pick up a EX Musai box... the box is only half filled; that's why it's so light in weight. THere's only 1 full-size sprues and 2 smaller ones, and then a clear plastic sprue with 3 tiny parts and the photo-etch. None of the parts are thick so it's really only a thin layer of parts in the box. The first time I opened the box I thought Bandai missed a sprue while packaging. EX has low cost-vs-plastic rate; Musai has the lowest rate I'm sure. So make sure you use the photo-etch parts as they're a hefty portion of what you paid for. > > 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. Wow, Big Tray. That's something worth looking into as well. But there're many other UC vehicles in line before it probably. Wonder if anyone still has the promotional silhouette vehicles image from the hobby show? I'm planning to have someone in Japan to find me the C3 Hobby special HGUC Gundam with EX Transporter special plated ed.. While Bandai seems to be re-release the ships they haven't re-release the older EX line, I wonder if it's sales number problem. For Dodai II, I think they still have it at House of Anime. www.hoaoutlet.com > > 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? I believe so. Maybe I'd say it's a small small model for the box size. > > > 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) GC models (as opposite to the small GC figure) has a very limited line as it's only for oversized MA and there's not many after OYW (for UC timeline). Worst, it overlap the "retired" mechanics line so they probably won't redo the GP03D etc. 0083 MAs. I can only see, for UC pov, Aspalus III and Bigro to come out as GC (Zakerello is possible but far-fetched). G/W/X lines doesn't have many to offer in 1/400 scale neither. Zeta series is hard to say, we got these 30m transforming MSs that's too big for HGUC (probably MG price/size range) but too small and complex for GC line. We'll get a Messala in HGUC I'm quite sure though. > > 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. -- Boaz http://myturnaspace.blogspot.com -------------------------------------------------- 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