>>6334184From my experience, Frame Arms are okay. First thing of note is that they're much bigger than your typical HG: think HGUC Nu or Unicorn Destroy Mode.
I got pictured, which is about midway through the line. It's technically a tuned up re-release (Kotobukiya loves doing these) of like the fourth Frame Arms kit so I can't say for sure if it's indicative of the most releases, but considering they're all supposed to use the same frame I'd have to imagine so. The base frame is very articulated, but also sort of a hassle: it's pre-assembled, which is to say that some minimum wage worker had to put together as many as they could as fast as possible. So there are nubs everywhere, and they interfere with the frame's stability and range of articulation. So the very first thing you're going to have to do is take the frame apart and clean it up.
As for the actual kit, it was... okay? Worst I can say is that the plastic quality didn't feel as nice as Bandai's. Koto kits typically have a hard-on for parts separation (to overkill extents, jesus christ the HMM line), but Frame Arms is like, high end HG tier. Assembly should be simple, and I don't think you need to paint anything.
As for the Zephyr, a) nothing in the manual indicates you need plastic cement and b) even if you did (for seams I guess???), cementing isn't fucking rocket science. It was god damn mandatory for the longest time, Bandai is the one who pushed the "you should just be able to snap fit it together!" thing. Don't talk about "over your head" until you at least get into the grounds of reshaping pieces.
