>>8161761Here’s my review: Solid, well-articulated, great materials. Shows that this is the Gashapon’s first attempt at making a full action figure, though. Double-jointed knee design is unnecessarily overcomplicated and requires you to push the upper knee against itself to raise the drop-out sections in the calves back into position. Elbow pads like to fall off if the joint is over-extended, but I guess it’s better than them breaking. Paint is decent, the airbrushing is the highlight. Metallics, detail accents and tampography are workmanlike and unspectacular. Helmet and scope lenses could have benefited from being transparent parts with a metallic backing. Not having the sprue gates undergated or hidden where they wouldn’t be seen on the finished figure is the kind of amateur mistake you haven’t seen from the Figuarts or Robot Damashii divisions in a very long time. Has a few odd blemishes on the surface of the figure if you really look for them that, again, you’d never see on a modern Figuarts or RD release. All the joints are nice and tight.
The figure is a lot thicker than it looks in photos. Really captures those inhumanly broad Spess Mehren proportions well. It also has a charm about it, I certainly own better-made figures but they don’t exude as much personality as this one - it’s exactly what my six-year-old self wanted a 40k action figure to be.
Worth the £75. Not sure if I’d pay the £150 people on ebay are asking, though.
