>>5245223I also think the Astray is legitimately ugly. No matter how nice the kit (even the PG), the red inner frame (plus how much of it is exposed) always ends up looking chintzy and cheap to me. The head shape always struck me as bizarre, looking simultaneously fat and malnourished. The V-fin is ugly to me as well.
I simply don't care for the overall shape language used when designing the Astray. Nothing on it really looks good to me aside from maybe the vents or boosters or whatever on the back of the shoulders. This is a weird thing to say, but the feet always reminded me of ugly hiking shoes or like...tennis shoes a dad would wear.
I also never liked that it had a big samurai sword. Like
>>5245807 said, that always really seemed to me like something a total edgelord would think was cool. It just seemed kinda lame to me, a lame weapon for a lame design.
I'm honestly not trying to troll or shit on it arbitrarily though. I have actually tried to gain an appreciation for it over the years. I haven't succeeded yet, but the RG is the closest I've come to actually being able to like it. I've even been toying with the idea of buying it lately! In the end though, I just think the Astray rubs some folks the wrong way, and I am one of them.
