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Tom Harris (MHBeergeek)
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Bandai PG Unleashed RX-78-2 GUNDAM
1st & Likely Only PG Unleashed I Will Ever Build

Scale:
1:60
Status:
In progress
Started:
January 7, 2025

660 pieces/parts per my count from the instruction magazine's sprue sheet diagrams. That includes the "etched stickers" (those are pre-glued metal detail parts after all), but not the beam saber tester tool, nor the decals/stickers.
PROS: Great detail, engineering and immersive layers of build! Reflective stickers! Light up saber!
CONS: Mechanism to light eyes/chest is finicky; Only 1 saber lights up & it must be stowed in backpack to light up those thrusters; without painting (especially the gimmick 'reveal' areas) it still would seem like an expensive toy IMHO; determining which 'reveal' areas to pain takes time & part assembly testing; stickers are nice but waterslide decals for the win; a few decals get covered by parts that cannot be revealed via gimmick hatches; confused by large number of decals & reflective stickers left over; prominent shield and Core Fighter parts are ABS.

Project inventory

Static model kits
5060765
Perfect Grade Unleashed
RX-78-2 Gundam E.F.S.F. Prototype Close-combat Mobile Suit
Bandai Spirits 1:60
5060765 (2530615) 2020 New tool
Decals
SIM06-60-D16
PG Unleashed RX-78-2 Gundam decals
SIMPro Modeling and Supplies 1:60
SIM06-60-D16
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Photoalbums

92 images
RX-78-2 GUNDAM Perfect Grade UnleashedView album, image #1
1:60
The most expensive kit I've bought, to date. If not for Adam Savage's "1 Day Build" Youtube video I may have just shrugg...
1:60 RX-78-2 Gundam (Bandai Spirits 5060765)1:60 PG Unleashed RX-78-2 Gundam decals (SIMPro Modeling and Supplies SIM06-60-D16)

Part of my Collection

Gunpla!
In progress 1×Completed 4×On hold 1×

Comments

23 March 2023, 16:31