MG FAZZ Sentinel version review part 2

So, here I will mention about the potential of this gundam kit in terms of it customization. I will divide it into few sections.



Articulation

Customizing the articulation (improving) is not easy especially for amateur (even myself have not try to improve or modify any articulation for my gundam kit before). But recently I found some manufacturer similar to kotobukiya that provide MSG part is making some part for improving articulation so we don't need to make or re-make joints from resin to make the kit pose better. I will try to check it out what brand the take some image of it but if anyone of you have the information related to it, you may share it and put the link in the comment. Back to the articulation customization for this kit, I feel it is not a suitable customization for this gundam kit since there are so many bulk part (arms, legs, torso, etc..) unless you plan to trim the entire proportion of the kit but it can disastrous because the originality of the kit will be spoil.  

Adding details

If you plan to add massive pla-plate, MSG part, massive drilling to expose the inner armor and scribe out lot of panel line, this will be the best kit for you to do something crazy without worry much about the weight and reduce the flexibility of the articulation (since this kit have not much). Plenty of large surface for you to add from the armors for you to add details.  If you study from the pictures, potential area will on the chest, waist armors, legs armors, arms armors and back pack. Almost everywhere of the kit is a potential area for adding details but if you plan to add anything beneath the armors, I feel it will be quite pointless.

Color Scheme or Paint

It is depend on you that what color scheme you want, go for the traditional yellow, blue, red and white or something crazy with shiny glossy pearl style or extremely matte coat style to weathering. Even though this kit is huge and come with lot of part but one good thing is most of the part can be easily paint without disassemble it into individual parts which will crush lot of your crocodile sticks. Masking this gundam kit for painting will not difficult too. I paint the MG ZZ before, most of the parts are hard to disassemble especially the legs with its complicated structures but what I do is using masking method to apply different color onto the same area. This gundam kit will a lot more easier with its armor since most of the armors come with large flat surface. 

MG 1/100 FAZZ Sentinel version Review part 1

First post for September and yes I’m back again. This will be the first month of collaboration in between Seven6398 and iShop2go. And the first kit in our collaboration is.. The MG FAZZ Sentinel version. Boxart, manual, runners and other part will be show in this review .Part one of the review is done and hope you guys enjoy. 

So, the MG FAZZ Sentinel version.. I don’t have much knowledge or information about this kit. All I know is it was from the Gundam S or Sentinel series. I thought that series was aired out in Japan but it only available in Manga if I’m not wrong and the MG FAZZ Sentinel version is another variation of ZZ or FAZZ gundam and it also consider as the mass production type of FAZZ.

Box Art

The box size is slightly thicker than the MG ZZ. If you own any armor messiahVF-25, the box size is quite similar to it. As what the box art show, the kit can’t pose much and it is not a very articulated kit.

Content

It come with 31 x runners, 2 x wires, 1 x mesh pipes, decal, foil stickers and 2 x screws. If anyone of you planning to own this kit, the runners that come in this kit will not follow the sequence of ABC which means some of the runners is actually replace by the new runners such as the B runners is not include in this version but replace by other runners with additional parts and label as X or Y runners. So, don’t worry if you found some of the runners are not following the ABC sequence label. There are not much decals includes in this kit but it got more foil stickers compare to the normal MG ZZ.  

Snap and fit

First of all, most of the parts from this kit are large. Don’t scare by the size of the gundam cause it is not come with tons of small little tiny parts to build all the detail in this huge kit. Even though it is a full armor version but most of the armor parts are come in one large piece. The only assembling process that is quite challenging will be the legs and the mesh pipes. In order to fit the screw into the legs, the hole for the screw must be drill to increase the diameter of the hole so the screw can be easily fit it. The screw can be fit in to the hole without the drilling process but it will be a lot harder because the screw is not made from the hard or tough metal material which the screw head can be easily spoil (the shape of “+”). It is same to those MG Strike series. In terms of the mesh pipes, the most challenging part will be fitting the end of the pipe. It shouldn’t be a problem for experience modeler who deal with mesh pipe before but if this is your first time using mesh pipe, remember don’t over cut the mesh pipe and cut it properly.

Articulation

Again, from the box art already indicate this kit can’t pose “much” even without the armor. This kit is not meant for better articulation or creates a lot of dynamic post. The origin of this kit was design for the ZZ transformation and also combination of all the mobile armors. And this sentinel version wills emphasis more on its armors and its huge hyper mega cannon. So, do not put much expectation on its articulation and please don’t hate this kit because it can’t pose because every kit have it own design concept.

Proportion

In terms of its proportion, I can’t compare it with the manga version because I haven’t read this series yet. Sometime, the real kit has better proportion from the anime or manga such as MG Freedom. What I can say about the proportion for this kit is, it look quite dynamic (not aero dynamic) in term of a armor bulk MS. I do prefer the chest armors slim a bit because this original chest armors make it look a bit too bulky. One thing that I will pick this kit which was a mass production version (FAZZ Sentinel) than the main charater version (normal FAZZ) is gundam’s face. The head design for this FAZZ Sentinel version is different than the normal FAZZ or ZZ version especially the V-fin which longer and sharper.

Gimmick

It is an old kit, we cannot expect it have gimmick like lock mechanism, LED lightning effect or other super cool inner frame detail with super dynamic articulated structure. But this old kit have it own specialty such as the structure of the cockpit and have both MS cover and MA cover at the same place when the whole thing in MS mode. The other gimmick of this kit will be the full transformation to separate individual MA mode but I think the most special gimmick of this kit will be a bulk gundam still able to plug in with a lot of huge armors.