Dragon Momko's Sword Strike is complete, took me a few weeks to build me because I didn't want to be burn out.
This kit is advertised as MG with the detail of PG, it ended up just a Strike gundam with more panel lines and better color separation. I am not complaining, he is very handsome.
There are also a huge number of detail in the interior, but unless you plan to display it with half of the armor stripe off, no one will ever notice the details. It has movable fingers, the knee and shoulder joints are simplified copy of Rx-78 3.0. Now the problems of this stupid kit:
This pose took me 15 minutes to set up, 15 frustrating minutes.
-The wrist are too weak: movable finger is great and all that, but all the mechanic made the wrist weak, and there are no way in hell he can hold that giant sword on the air. The Rx-78 had the same problem, I wish they came with the old hand instead. it is funny seeing gundam throwing the peace sign and middle finger, but beyond that I don't really see the point of movable fingers.
-The ankle and thigh still use the old ball joints. He has no problem standing, but everything start falling apart when you want an action pose. The leg keep snapping of lower body when you move it. The ankle ball joints can't take any weight in a wide angle. Also fuck the wrist.
-Undergate, why? It is not even metal build, the undergate just double the number of sanding per pieces.
-To remove the sword pack back to normal strike, you need to disassemble the entire shoulder, because both the normal and sword shoulder shared the same parts. WHY
This is the only sensible pose, I guess he will stuck with that forever, I don't want to move him
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I am building the launcher packs, but I really don't want to set it up. I think I will just take the photo of the launcher itself.