>>10895775>>10895945Damn, yeah GM Custom/Quel and the GM Kai(or at least my Kai Space-type has) do suffer from this issue unfortunately. Possibly too tight a designed tolerance with the after-injection material shrinkage I think, could be wrong though as I didn't see splits around the spring-pins on mine; those can be even more prone to cracks/splits depending.
Only 0083 GMs I've so far haven't had this happen to is the GM Cannon II and GM Powered. Though believe that's because Bandai made new ankle parts for the former, and had enough time to use them on the latter
Also new heads up to GM Kai Space-type owners. Found I had one buried in my collection(though suddenly missing my 0079 GM, likely assuming the kai was it...) with the ankles utterly broken on it, and a split on a joint part for the left-elbow. Bad damage was the ankle ball cups had completely cracked apart, versus the single-crack-but-holding situation I noticed on my GM Customs. Applying my fix was a little tougher as well, as the internal stick 'frame' in the lower leg was crumbling some when I used my my pin vise to make space to glue in the new ball joint... Made me think they used bad materials or something when I also noticed some worse than usual QC on this Kai Space-type.
Somewhat glad the 0083 Zeon RDs have the thicker though kinda annoyingly tight joints, as they'll hopefully not suffer these problems. Would absolutely be bawling my eyes if my Gelgoog Marines broke like this, even with the fixes I could possibly apply.
>>10896083Unfortunately the issue has been noticed on the Quel as well, and I wanna say both versions of the GM Kai(though I think some Kai Space-types might crack worse than the others...) now. Unknown if it was fixed on the GM custom reissues really, as we'll only know if other anons like Monitor-Anon see the cracks appear on their reissues a year or so from now sadly.
