>>7395765I'll put up some pictures of my Aaliyah for this. Please excuse the dust I'm still in the process of cleaning all my shit.
So the kits don't tend to have different shades of the same color. You'll end up with a lot of blocks of just one color, typically with any different colors being trim, rather than, say, poking through the center of the leg or something. The whole kit isn't going to feel as solid as most gundam kits, if I'm remembering right it lacks anything resembling a frame. The Rayleonard aesthetic is very much a pointy jet. So you might end up being worried about things like the spikes from the chest snapping, or the skirts spikes snapping off should it take a tumble. That being said the caps used in it seem to be completely fine even after years, he still very solidly stands so Once I've got him in a pose I feel safe. The only other problem areas are things like the little diamonds on it's shoulders, the antenna that isn't there, and the back part of the "skirt" are all held on by simply being pushed into the slot, there's nothing really locking it in. That may need some gluing.
tl;dr: If you're not ham handed like me and take the time to correctly move the joints of the thing, rather than just expecting it to move how you want, the lack of a frame shouldn't affect you much. While I feel that the color blocking for the kits is good, and pretty accurate to the games, you may get tired of seeing a solid block of dark grey and instead want to spice it up with some paint. Accents tend to just be placed on and might need gluing.
If I were to say what the star of the show for the Aaliyah kit is though, it would be the vents and vanes that the kit has. The chest, shoulders and knee spikes look great with all three colors coming together.
