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Post by Maethius on Jan 10, 2019 17:39:44 GMT -5
Yeah, I get that impression, too. The Rex XL should be closer in size to Deathsaurer than a Genosaurer. And Grachio should be more like Ultrasaurus rather than Bigasauru.
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jul 14, 2019 10:36:40 GMT -5
"Proudly hosted on photobucket"...NOT. That site blows so I made another account on another site.
A lot has happened since the last post here, I won't do long reviews on all the kits, so here's a lot of pics.
Mini reviews on the missing kits since last time:
Gusock: Nice build, especially for a kit so small, good color choice too, crawls nice, WB is...well throwing the Zoid
Stegosage: Looks good, color looks good on him, WB is ridiculous and won't use it often. Sadly as with Rex the part that holds his spikes flops when stationary, but alltogether a nice kit
Wild Liger Awakening: Nice pearl white parts, the blue is also different (darker and shinier like Gil), gold parts for the feet and such (like the red "faster" (not that much faster) motor.
Catalga: Molga 2.0 indeed, really big, holds his own when lugging around Zoids on his carrier part. WB mode meh, but nice kit for sure and huge for a Molga
Hunter Wolf: Well I like him, his WB is stupid (although you can appreciate it a bit more if you watched the anime), but if you keep the flaps down he actually looks way more armored than most ZW kits and that's good. He is larger than Wild Liger (higher up on his feet). So yeah I like him.
Spideath: Nice little kit, some people don't like the color (and it is a somewhat valid point, black or something would look better, but it's a bit of lavender and as I have said before, if you see all ZW kits together it looks nice that there are some variations in the blue-green tones). WB is okay I guess (when using him on a thread, not when he's "walking". Walking would have been nicer if the legs moved seperately but not possible in a small kit (looking at you dancing Scorpear..
Dimepulsar: looks okay but could have been better (mainly the head) but better in hand than I thought. WB is awful though.
Ankyrox: like the kit, like the color, don't like the WB so on mine the tail will stay down
Fang Tiger: you either like him or you don't, but I really do. I like this one way better than Liger (still looks like a rabbit, floppy manes, buckteeth and not so pretty front view). Like the color, like the WB (that's a first, even thought it is similar to Liger, it just works better), so yeah love this one.
Dilophos: well it's a Raptor retool, kind of works, but just not that amazed by Raptor in the first place, so this still has a much too naked look with that small amount of armor parts. And was just hoping for an actual Dilophosaurus for once. This was disappointing at best. Big nose included..
Gilraptor Commander (or what's it called Emperor?): if you thought Tricera had ugly yellow (actually not so bad in hand in my opinion) this takes the cake. I thought (even though the anime was going for yellow, I thought they meant gold, as earlier pics suggested). But no it's really really yellow and not in a nice way like Fang or even Tricera. But I like the purple black combo. And liking this model for reasons I will show later.
Hunter Wolf Command: nice that white, bought an extra one to try and remove the orange part to have an all white one.
Wild Liger Guren: really like this version (because of the clear red), I combined him with an Awakened Liger to make an actual Guren (the boxed version had normal gold feet, teeth and blade parts, so swapped it out of my extra Awakened to make it accurate.
Pachycedos: I didn't think I would like this one (way too underarmored again...) and even though it is a Gil retool, it really looks different in a good way. It's a solid looking kit, nice color and caps. Just don't like the WB (would have really been better if not his crest but his whole head thrusted forward.. But surprised to see how I liked this against all odds.
Well there is some more stuff but for those ones I will let the pics speak for themselves.
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jul 14, 2019 10:48:28 GMT -5
So I combined some GilRaptors to make this (it was the obvious way to go, with those kits, I wanted an all Black one and I thought the purple/red one came out really well, because I did not want to use the yellow parts and same caps, but the silver fits so much better, I like them!
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jul 14, 2019 10:57:51 GMT -5
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jul 14, 2019 11:14:23 GMT -5
Next are the Liger swaps. Even though the Wild Liger is by far not my favorite Zoid of this line (Fang and Hunter are way better to represent dog/cat-like Zoids. As you allready read in my other posts about these kits, the Liger is.. not that great.. Favorites are Guren and Evil, that black and red is just soooo much better. But decided to make some more version nontheless so now have 7 of a kit that wasn't even amongst my favorites. - Normal Liger - Awakening Liger (Awakened Liger) - Guren (with parts from another AL to have the gold parts) - Wild Liger Blade Liger version - Liger all blue (as much as possible, as that one part is not available in blue). I actually had to use some Awakened Liger parts as the normal Liger blue is not the same as the Blade blue parts- Liger all white version (again almost all white, because of those blade parts, so used Fang blades to compensate for that) and something that was allready known probably, he will not go into WB mode, because the Fang blades don't have the extra plastic stub to be flipped by the lever thingy). So you can look at him, but not use his WB (because he will get jammed) - Evil LigerĀ The all blue needs his orange paint removed (have to contact Mai about that, because don't want to ruin it), or maybe someone else has a good way to do that?) So then he'd be more different than his original Blade version. Oh and Arashi looks really nice, TT should do a set of all characters (and no not an exclusive, but just a box with all the main characters to go with their Zoids) I mean way back when they announced this line there were some figsĀ next to the kits. It would be the logic thing to do, as it would look really nice..
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jul 14, 2019 11:19:44 GMT -5
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jul 14, 2019 11:26:18 GMT -5
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jul 14, 2019 11:29:11 GMT -5
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Post by dchan on Jul 14, 2019 12:53:41 GMT -5
Wow what a beautiful set of photos! Thank you for putting the time in to take these and post them here. I hadn't realized there were that many recolors of the Liger. The swapped Gilraptors are pretty neat to see, I like the red armor on the purple bones. It's funny too to see how many different unique molds Takara Tomy made, but so far have only repurposed a handful for recolors/parts swaps.
The limited Rex definitely deserves its own section as you've done. What a cool model. Sort of feel like that should have been its default look- Gallagher has the purple pants and the purple Gilraptor after all.
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jul 14, 2019 13:08:54 GMT -5
Thanks for the kind words Yeah I've always thought that some kits didn't hold up on their own but as a group they do look pretty cool. Yes the Gil versions were the first thing I thought of when Commander/Emperor was announced and the result was even bettef than I hoped. I didn't want to use the tacky yellow but with the silver and black it really works. Yes Rex is awesome, it should have been a regular release (as with other specials..)
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Post by Maethius on Jul 14, 2019 23:38:34 GMT -5
Fantastic photos; a lot of work just to put them together! Super glad you've shared them with us!
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jul 15, 2019 5:54:09 GMT -5
Thanks! But with the Beast and Cannon and some other stuff coming it will become difficult to get them all in one shot
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Post by Charlie on Jul 15, 2019 10:19:26 GMT -5
The pics are absolutely great. I like the Wild Liger pic the best (I do agree it is not the best kit, Hunter Wolf is better).
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jul 15, 2019 11:20:52 GMT -5
Thanks a bunch! Personally I think I could have done better (lighting, background and sometimes focus) but nice to hear that people actually like them
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jul 21, 2019 0:04:12 GMT -5
Some things I still don't understand though, from building the first kit up until the most recent one.
- The amount of plastic bags used per kit. There are A LOT of plastic bags per kit. And besides the fact that there are bags in bags, they use insanely huge bags for no reason (often for only a few parts). Literally a really big bag for 6 pieces of armor for Pachy.
- The nasty sprue marks and the location of said sprue marks. It's sort of a crapshoot.. Depending on the color of the kit some marks are better than others. I always check them and fix them where possible. But some are either nasty to begin with or even impossible to repair..
Some even are on positions where you can't quite repair them because of how they were cut at the factory, but even worse is that those marks are on the most visible part.. Take for instance the mark on all the Hunter chest parts. The marks are cut too deep and ugly, leaving a really visible scar in plain sight...
And on Fang Tiger it's even on the most visible part, his nose.. They chose to do it there instead of on the back of the part or even on the inside... And I think that could have been done much better..
- The random consistency of the instruction manuals. On the one hand they did a complete new one for Kabtor white (not the same as the blue Kabtor) but use the same for Kuwaga white and blue.
- The use of a "faster" motor for Awakened Liger but all other kits have the same speed. That Liger motor was speed 1.2 (which was only a tad faster than the normal one), but still somewhat noticeable. While most kits could have used a faster motor.
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