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MORE Entry Grades!
Meant to post these a few weeks back after I’d built them – the Entry Grade RX-78-2 (Snow) and the Entry Grade RX-93 Nu-Gundam. Shockingly these are more excellent kits.
Frosty!
The RX-78-2 is no real surprise as I’ve built one before, but this special edition version with it’s crisp silver and shades of icy blue replacing the yellow, red & dark blue of the regular colour scheme is very nice indeed.
The main event though is the Nu-Gundam making it’s debut as the 3rd Entry Grade Gundam kit, and it’s a bit of a stunner. Colour seperation remains excellent, and the Nu even has a set of quite excellent stickers for the shield and left shoulder featuring Amuro Ray’s personal insignia. The only thing the kit is missing is a blade for the main beam sabre (the Nu’s second blade in the forearm is here just a dummy piece), and the suits iconic “wing” of fin-funnel drones. I have the Real Grade Nu Gundam kit in the build pile and it’s tempting to pull it to the front to compare with the EG version (and to see if the beam blades& fin funnels are compatible between the 2…..
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