Hard to say since I've never seen the 2019 stamped parts. Here's the earliest picture I can find of mine from 2015 when I first got the model. EDIT: I see now, it looks like they're identical but maybe they had to repair/retool the mold since those are the same hands used since the PG Strike. Now I did repaint mine because they were almost two clearly different colors of plastic.
These hands are making me think of the little reconfiguration dance the hand on the first boss from Deus Ex Human Revolution does when it turns into a machine gun.
Oh man! That reminds me of an all diecast Gundam RX-78-2 model figure I had as a kid. Love that thing. It was nowhere near as complicated as this but had basic arm and head articulation and was easily completely disassembled and reassembled. I used to play with that all the time and use the chest cavity to hide little things like bbs.
Today's random musing.. Wave H-Eye for the MG Fenices' rifles. I just need to scrape out the cement bubbles.
I'm almost done the MG Kyrios. Wonderful kit. Only the main body and rifle completed but it's just as solid and fantastic as the Dynames. Only issue I have is the tilting joint for the neck (that you have to insert at an angle before pressing down) doesn't go back down without me removing the head and pressing it down itself. I'm surprised how much of the Dynames actually is reused, and I'm excited to see not only the Virtue but hopefully an Exia 2.0 from this frame. I mean it's so clearly designed to be used for Exia. Yup. The connections are as good as they can be, but I really hate the design of the fin funnels. And that's not the kit's fault, it's the Nu Gundam's fault.
I had an idea tonight for my impulse epiphany for the Fenice rifles.. Instead of scribing the cement bubbles around the WAVE sensors, I used some canopy glue (hindsight, should have used it from the beginning to set the clear parts and not Tamiya cement), diluted it slightly since it is water based, and filled the void. Think of it as caulking in a seam, canopy glue restricts when it dries which worked out as I had hoped! So I applied a little panel accent and will paint the framing later. I started painting these parts to give the Buster Rifles the two tone color pattern based on the original Wing Gundam's with the barrel, sight, and battery canisters painted in a darker color. Engine Gray in this case.
Finally, real photographs of the TryAge Magnum that gives you a better perspective of it. It isn't just a cobbled together mash of AGE Gundams 1 to 3, and more of a fleshed out amalgamation. HGBD:R 1/144 GUNDAM TRYAGE MAGNUM: many images | GUNJAP New details we didn't know about before, it's like the Nu Zeon in that it has, like the Tactical Arms, a giant beam saber that it carries on its back, only it becomes a beam cape! It was much too big to be called a sword... Massive, clear, not heavy, and actually not too rough. Indeed it was like a heap of raw plastic. Also, the shoulder binders act like Bits too. I really like the look of this, even before the beam parts were revealed.
it was probably just as you surmised, as indeed mine are identical to yours, save for the copyrighting on the runner...
ok i did NOT know that zeromaru has an inner frame like the ones of the SDCS line... i wonder if its compatible with the bigger cs frame....
Looking at photos of the different SDCS frames, I think this is already the big one. It's got both knee and elbow joints, though it does seem like there is an option for slightly taller upper arm and leg joints. You'd probably have to paint them to match the colour though.
Making progress. Will be looking for a shop to make a metal version of this prototype, as well as the folding handguard.
the inner tube is a placeholder from a different saber, the actual one is currently being milled elsewhere.
I don't know why people are so hard on the MG Kyrios. This kit is solid and fantastic, every bit as good as Dynames. I have them both together and it makes me want Virtue and Exia even more. MGs have been so solid and fantastic lately, between the Barbatos and the 00 kits I feel like they've finally settled into a standard of quality they've been creeping up towards after a growing period. They're just as detailed and intricate, but feel dead solid. And now that we're more or less guaranteed to get all the CB Gundams in MG, I'm really anxious for Bandai to announce another IBO Gundam that isn't a Barbatos form, just to know we'll get mileage out of that frame the way we are out of this one. Gusion Rebake please.
