does your red frame get loose hip joint over time? I'm intending to buy the new red frame kai but I have seen multi reviews that said it's will get loose easily. If so is there anyway to fix the loose joint ?
The hips on my Kai with Tactical Arms were ridiculously tight. I was worried I was going to break the damn things at first, if anything.
I don't have issues with my Astrays' hips, but I do notice that their toes have been a little looser than the rest of the joints straight out of the box. This is for both my (first issue) Red Frame and Blue Frame. The stand fine, but it's definitely easier to get them to lean/topple forward than any other direction. They haven't gotten any looser over the years, though; they're still around the same level of tightness/looseness since the day I first unboxed them.
Looks like this will be my last shipment from Japan for a while (due to COVID-19), so decided to go out with a bang. And a bang on the wallet indeed...thanks DHL. Got the recent MB Astray Red Frame Kai: Alternative Strike and the older Powered Red + 150 Gerbera Straight Option Set as my favorite combo for Astray, and took a few photos. Enjoy.
From my experience and what I heard from other forums, Metal Build joints do tend to get loose over time (but vary case by case), some with hardly any posing (stayed in box for years unopened), others still pretty tight, but wear out very fast after some fiddling. But there are also cases that they remain fine like posts above mentioned. The metal joints are hard to fix, since they are not meant to be taken apart, and often held together by metal pins and rods that are assembled by machines without using screws. I have success using liquid super glue to fix some simple metal joints before, seeping some glue through the joint gap and keep moving the joints every minute or two so that the glue doesn't lock up the joint for good, but enough to dry and build up something hard to cause more friction between the gap. But the glue residue won't be a pretty sight. With Metal Build engineering pretty complex and the finish is quite high-end, that simple trick may not worth using or even work if the joint is too complicated.
Nail polish don't stick well on diecast. Peels off easy after some rubbing. Better for plastic joints.
Fair enough. I figured there'd be less chance of paint damage that way, is all. I haven't really tried using it on a metal joint so far.
would you do some marking for this one, I will give mine "107" mine still on the way though, should arrive next week I really hope bandai will do the black tri star version some day
FINALLY took the time to unbox my Metal Build Astraea High Mega Launcher. Packed up my Astraea Type-F; never even opened the Avalung Option Set for display. Admittedly, the Type-F has more personality on its own, not to mention a cooler masked face option; but the regular/white Astraea looks better in my lineup of 00 evolutions.
You can use floor polish, I have done it on my 00 raiser and the legs were quite loose, and yeah it is tight now!
Ah the purple gold and black is a great color combo on the Crossbone X2. Btw did Bandai tighten up in the inner plastic on metal shoulder joint that helps lift the arm more laterally? On my X1 that is joint quite weak.
When you open this, can you take a pic of the extra backpack joint in the Flight Unit set to allow the Metal Build Strike to use the Astray backpacks? I'm curious to know if it's the same part as the one that comes with the Caletvwlch set. Can't seem to find any pics of that.
