Gunpla, Gunpla Everywhere
Real Grade 01 - RX-78-2 Gundam
This is the first kit released in the Real Grade (or RG) series of 1/144 kits realizing the most iconic mecha from across the storied history of the Gundam franchise in a more complex and detailed form than the “standard” High Grade (HG) kits, incorporating elements from the larger 1/100 and 1/60 scale kits in a smaller, more affordable but still premium package.
Being the first in the line it is only reasonable that Bandai started with the original, the iconic RX-78-2 from Mobile Suit Gundam. First impressions are good – The RG packaging is generally slicker and more modern in style than most GunPla kits, featuring an enlarged headshot of the mecha in question along with a full body shot of the suit at rest. You get the usual product shots around the sides but then inside rather than a simple card tray holding the sprues you instead get a glossy black finish on the outer edges, with some associated imagery relating to the specific mech you will be building. Nifty.
On the sprues themselves you have the now typical array of seeming alchemy as several sprues contain elements cast using differing plastics, some containing translucents, rubbery and hard plastics on a single runner. Overall fairly impressive, although the instruction manual seems more than a tad daunting at first glance given the sheer volume of parts, but lets give it ago shall we?
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