Did an interesting bit of repair work today. Building the MG 2.0 of the RX-78-2, an older kit with some fairly soft plastic. I death gripped an important piece too hard while putting it together and ended up with ugly, prominent stress marks:
Was pretty mad about it because they’re super noticeable and right on the front of the robot. Did some research and apparently heat can fix these, so I grabbed my partner’s hair dryer and after a minute:
Totally gone! Like magic!
The human musculature gimmicks for these kits are so fun! The spine bits are also great.
Kinda hope we get kits of the rebuild original designs. To my knowledge we haven’t gotten any and a kit for the sick unit 02 that shows up in 3.0+1.0 would be a dream.
RX-78-2 MG 2.0!
I love the aesthetics of this kit, I gravitate much more toward the more anime accurate/inspired designs vs the more mechanical real robot stuff they’ve been doing more of. Like the MG 3.0:
or the RG 2.0:
It’s an older kit so the build isn’t anything too special but I think the end product is fantastic looking
