SD Jagd-Doga Review

excuse the horrible piktar quality D:

Yay, my first Gunpla Review (and Anything review)!

What lies before you is the SD MSN-03 Jagd Doga (supposed to be the Quess Paraya custom...but...yeah, I'll get to that in a second) also known as my first Gunpla (yaaay!...sorta).

Sadly, this isn't the awesome quality product I expected from Bandai. The first big problem is the coloring, which is actually two problems in one. The head REALLY should have been done in 2 parts, since the head of the actual Jagd Doga is Grey and Red, but Bandai decided to mold it as one object so now it needs paint to match what it should look like. Additionally, you are supposed to be able to customise it to look like Gyunei Guss' Jagd-Doga, so Bandai added an extra runner with the proper head in yellow, so it's not just a recolour. While I like that they did that, they also put the Shoulder armor on the yellow runner, which is fine if you wanna use the Gyunei colors, but it isn't fine if you just want to use Quess' colors, so now, you need to buy Red and Grey paint.

The next problem ise the fact that this (and most other) SD Gundam models require paint to look very good at all (the picture above is what it looks like without paint). While this is ok if you already have paints ready, but I personally don't really want to spend an extra $6 (about the price of 2 Gunze Sangyo paint...things) to make a single model look moderately better (then you need an AirBrush if you don't already have one...like me D':)

Problem 3 is the Bazooka. They tried to make it shoot little red balls and failed pretty miserably, I think I can get mine to shoot about...2cm! and the red switch thing for shoosting the balls kinda makes it look ugly (it'd look fine if they just didn't try the old ball shooting gimmick...it's old and I hate it!)

Problem 4 is the joints. Because SD Gundam are meant to be customizable, the joints sorta "plug" into the sockets. This makes it so it's arms are constantly falling out of their sockets (and when I try to put them back the shoulder plates fall off, and as I try to catch thost, the sheild falls out of its hand and---yeah, you get the point)

All of these problems make it seem more worthy of a dollar store than a model-type shop, but, while it has a ton of bad points, it not like it's the worst purchase I've ever made (see my last 2 posts)

2 Zaku out of 5