Its good to see you are still keeping up with the channel

This kit is $200+ for a box full of ABS plastic...IMO for a PG kit, they could have done better. For starters, undergated attachment at the sprues.

Your nails are super cute!

why do all gundam youtubers have nailpolish? i mean, it DOES looks cute and all but still, i wasnt expecting that.

Is the smaller marker that comes in the set a panel liner?

hey! building this kit as of the moment. Your simple detailing with the markers made me buy a set! damn it feels good to detail, even if I'm the only one that know those details were ever there 😂 much love!

Detailed internals can be neat, but often those details only get noticed once during the build and are never really seen again. Personally I respect a solid kit more than a pretty hand grenade. Jegan was my first MG, and to this day it's still my favorite because it's been absolutely rock solid. Hasn't shed a single part (even after almost 2 years of JoJo poses, a few falls and other shenanigans), and can hold nearly any pose it's put in with complete fortitude! I don't think Jegan or zaku gunner are bad MGs for being basic, they're just grunts after all. Mass production suits would also be by default less focused on details anyway.

M'lord any chance you might stumble the PG Unleashed?

Seed Astray Series is have many desgin Mobile Suit look awsome for example: Astray Blue Frame Third, Astray Red Frame Mars Jacket, Astray Out Frame D (Camera Giant Robot)… so sad so many desgin Bandai don’t have work release Model Kit

It was your original review of this kit that got me into gunpla and gundam. That also means the rg zeta was my first kit tho 🙃

31:00 - I made almost the exact same mistake with the 1/100 Sword Impulse ... except I was in a local store, and I definitely should have known better :,-) I saw the 1/100 badge, said "Cool box art, it must be special or something," and then took it home. I started to build it anyway after I realized what I actually had because I didn't want it to go to waste, and it was kinda garbage. Who saw that coming?!

It’s not the legs that broke, it the hip piece where the leg attach to. The piece snapped in half when I transformed the figure back to robot mode. I will say the figured does look cool. Although I had to glue the hip piece back together so I don’t pose him anymore.

Yeah the kit feels fine until you get to the torso and then the instability starts to become apparent. It's not a hand grenade though, just super finicky

Still the coolest looking bandai Zeta kit

I also love this rg z gundam

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Why yes my mobile suit is red much like that incredible handsome pilot Char Aznable who i am not i am Quattro Bajeen as you can see i wear sunglasses

Hey, Citrus! I'm not sure if you've seen it yet, but that old Xeku Zwei MRD prototype just recently re-appeared in a hobby magazine labeled under [PLANNING]; whatever that entails for the future. I was wondering if you could confirm if these MRD Sentinel toys are truly, or at least really close to 1:144. I'm sure you've mentioned it somewhere along this and the Ex-S video you made, but the MRD Advance of Z line seems to have scaled their releases about a head or a head and a half taller than their HGUC counterparts which make me a little weary of getting into this line as I'm a total scale obsessive. I've been enjoying your recent videos a lot! Hopefully you keep sharing your collections and life treats you well.

Take the mg all day!!!! Hg's are too small 😂

I am now a fan of whatever the hell kind of design Z'gok is called.

Unfortunately when I was clipping the wings for the core fighter. The handle chipped off a piece as well. I don't think I'll be able to build it now.

The proportions are ass, bandai did it better

what about a pbandai blue zeta :P

Hah, that video also left a similar impact on me. I still remember 2Old4Toys being flabbergasted at the notion of "pre-ordering a model kit" lol. Personally, I won this kit from the 2015 mid-year gundam info campaign cards, so I probably received mine around the same time as you. It's in its box 10 feet away from me, unbuilt. While I love the Astray Red Frame, and I do prefer the PG's proportions over the MG and other newer takes, I'm kind of just really happy with the 2013 HG version with the flight unit. That's probably the definitive Astray kit for me, at least in terms of sculpt. My main complaint with it is the grey sword, but I recently gave it the sword from the Mighty Strike Freedom and am more or less satisfied with its presentation. I'll get around to this kit... eventually.

Oh! So the Mobile Suit Breakdown actually did some research on the Gabthley name back when they were covering Zeta Gundam. It seems most likely that they wanted to call it the Gadfly (representing Jerrid Messa being a pain in the ass), but the regular japanese spelling/pronounciation of the word Gadfly had already been used a few years before in Crusher Joe to name a vehicle. So they basically came up with an alternative spelling and went on ahead.

Thank you for this review. I bought this kit with the intention to make it the gold frame amatsu Hana but it seems like some extra sanding and modifications will need to be done. I love that you pointed out the flaws.

if you think this pg has some issues then I suggest you steer clear of the pg wing custom. that kit makes the original rx 78-2 look like the pgu in comparison even though it was released in 2000😅

First mecha gaikotsu, now citrus? I think its a sign

For the LED on the head, i’d recommend replacing the stock bulb with a new one since being idle for so long probably degraded it so a new one would work much better, because the Astray i have has a recent LED bulb and is pretty bright

It's somewhat bizarre to see some PG kits back then being surprisingly simple to build, given the whole reputation of PG kits, though that's not to say that this is a bad pg kit eitherway. But anyways, great video. I'm looking forward to seeing you tackle the rest of the backlog.

Damn, I'll be looking forward to my PG Astray Red Frame Kai with that knowledge now lol

As it happens, I actually DO have a huge soft spot for the Astray! Which is, coincidentally, why I enjoy having built this kit and having it on my shelf. And, yes, I do also keep it in a standing pose 😅

Great honest review!

I felt 100% of your critique when building mine last year. After painting it, it stands as the centerpiece of my collection and I admire it constantly. But I feel the MG's proportions are superior by far, and more fun to build.

Have the PG Red Frame Kai and man I feel you on how limited some aspects of this kit are. Particularly I hate how weak the toe bend is and how the crotch mechanism for leg movement in the waist just doesnt work. I ended up jerryrigging an action base to support it during a lunge because holy hell this thing cant do much more than stand.

Bandai was lazy when they made the astray. Sure the astray frame is based on the strike’s in lord, but it doesn’t excuse just reusing the whole frame while not adjusting for the changes in the armor

While there's definitely a truth that the 5 extra years would've helped, the carryover from the Strike really stings. Honestly it sucks that Bandai decided to cheap out and reuse runners on a PG of all things, at least we won't see something like this ever again in PG because of how they're handled now

I’m excited to get my first pg in September 😊

great review! thanks to you, now i do not want to buy the PG Astray. the explanation from 35:39 to 39:34 really helpful.

Thank you so much for the review! Its hard to find many critical and in depth reviews of old-ish pgs so its really refreshing to hear about the design flaws. Its sad that the kit has so many issues but at least the finished kit looks great! I think ill still keep an eye out for a good deal but in the meantime the mg seems like the best red frame representation for the price

Waiting this since the IG upload ❤️

Man, you make me want to build one of this

The PG is too chonky for my liking. I prefer the sleeker proportions for an Astray.

MG Victory need a 2.0 or an upgrade like Victory Buster on a Second V set, great vid!!!

PG work log, Day One - opening the package, cutting the runners out of the plastic bags, trying to keep everything arranged, dealing with the noise complaint from all my swearing and cursing as I find I don’t have enough room, getting back to organizing the parts. Day Two - clipping out all the parts from the runners, again dealing with noise complaints from all my swearing and cursing, I finger it all out. Day Three - I consider painting it, I drink several bottles of whiskey.. of coffee.. Day Four - It’s been a week, I think, uhh, gonna flip a coin. 🤣😉👍🎉🍺

mecha gaikotsu has the black goth fingernails, citrus got the cute glitter bunny fingernails, loving the diversity ❤

There are two sides to a citrus video: 1- Yeah man new upload 2- Now i wanna build too

thank you based Orange for uploading more gunpla videos! with the stupid overseas selling restrictions in place I've been in a state of withdrawal, gotta get my fix somehow

for pg, it's a bit underwhelming. look awesome though. but for me, I'm more to functionality of the kit. this is a pass for me

love the bunny nails