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komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Review] Bandai HGUC 1/144 RX-93 Nu GUNDAM
The MG Ver.Ka of the same machine came up earlier. That one was 1/100 at 7,350 yen on release; this is the 1/144 HG. What was taken out and what was kept is how to read this kit. P...
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Review] Academy Gasshin Robo Mechander V
A Korean manufacturer releasing a Japanese robot anime design under a proper licence is not a common thing. Academy's Mechander V has (C)2024 Wako Production printed on the box. Th...
+1komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Review] Bandai PG 1/60 GUNDAM ASTRAY RED FRAME
The Astray is a machine whose own fiction has its internal frame exposed. Build that machine at 1/60 and the frame stops being decoration and becomes structure. Product details Man...
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Review] Bandai PG 1/60 GUNDAM EXIA
Released on 2 December 2017. Perfect Grades kept coming after it, and from 2020 PG Unleashed starts a separate line again, so this is not the most recent generation. What is worth...
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Review] Bandai PG 1/60 W-GUNDAM ZeroCustom
There are four wings, in two pairs: large main wings, and sub-wings carrying thrusters. Each main wing is then built up from many separate feather blades. What looks like a lot of...
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Review] Bandai PG 1/60 RX-78 GP01 / GP01Fb Gundam Zephyranthes
The RG 1/144 GP01Fb came up earlier. This post is about how far the same machine goes as a Perfect Grade. To put the conclusion first: the box holds outer armour for two machines a...
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Review] Good Smile Company MODEROID Hyper Granzort
In a series standardised at 135mm, this one alone is 190mm. It is the largest of the MODEROID Granzort line, the strongest Mado King, and it comes from Mado King Granzort: The Last...
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Review] Good Smile Company MODEROID Black Granzort
A limited edition from the same tooling as the standard Granzort, with nothing changed but the colour. And changing the colour makes it look like a different machine. A figure that...
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Review] Max Factory PLAMAX MS-02 RYUJINMARU
Ryujinmaru is the lead machine of Mashin Hero Wataru. This kit is not MODEROID but Max Factory's PLAMAX line: the same Good Smile family, a different way of thinking about design....
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Review] Good Smile Company MODEROID Hydoram
The Jado King built on green and orange. At 140mm and 5,500 yen it is bigger and dearer than a lead Mado King, and what the extra buys is a third form, Beast Mode. Hydoram opens th...
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Review] Good Smile Company MODEROID Harbyzan
140mm, 5,500 yen. Five millimetres taller than a lead Mado King and 1,300 yen more, and the money goes into a third form, Beast Mode. Harbyzan's Beast Mode is a bird, and the overl...
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Review] Good Smile Company MODEROID Wybust
The Jado Kings are what the three lead Mado Kings are up against. Set beside a lead machine at 135mm and 4,200 yen, these go to 140mm and 5,500 yen, and the difference buys one mor...
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Review] Good Smile Company MODEROID Queen Cideron
If King Squasher is gold, Queen Cideron is navy. They are a pair out of the same NG Knight Lamune & 40, and they share the approach of transforming without swapping parts. What the...
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Review] Good Smile Company MODEROID King Squasher
King Squasher is the golden guardian knight of NG Knight Lamune & 40. That show aired in 1990, the year after Mado King Granzort, and unlike the Granzort kits this one transforms w...
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Review] Good Smile Company MODEROID Super Winzert
Upgrade a machine that carries a bow and the bow gets bigger. Super Winzert carries out that simple conclusion exactly, which gives it the widest silhouette of the three Super mach...
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Review] Good Smile Company MODEROID Super Aquabeat
Where the standard Aquabeat was sky blue, Super Aquabeat is a deep navy. It is the upgraded form of the same machine, but the weight of the colour is different enough that the impr...
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Review] Tomica Limited Vintage LV-183a Bluebird Patrol Car, Metropolitan Police
A police car in miniature is all about the paint. One boundary where black meets white, off by a fraction, and the car is a toy; get it right and it reads like the real thing even...
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Review] Good Smile Company MODEROID Super Granzort
The same 135mm, and it looks like a different object. Super Granzort is the upgraded form of the standard machine, and in kit terms the difference is made by the colour breakdown a...
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Review] Good Smile Company MODEROID Winzert
The third Mado King is green and carries a bow. Unlike the two before it, which hold close-quarters weapons, this one is a ranged silhouette, which makes it the kit in the series t...
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Review] Good Smile Company MODEROID Aquabeat
If Granzort is red and a sword, Aquabeat is blue and water. Second of the three Mado Kings, and as a kit it is nearly identical to Granzort, with one weapon doing the work of telli...
