Should You Buy An RG Zaku? Probably Not! - RG Eric Manthfield's Zaku
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2024
- Eric Manthfield's grey on white version of the Zaku II is an awesome take on a classic mecha, but does the RG Real Grade Version do it justice? Not really...
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Ah yes this truly is the renaissance of mechagaikotsu. P-Bandai kits...and the prophetic full armor gundam part 2
They release more P-Bandai then regular kits now, It's madness!
@@MechaGaikotsu it's gundam heresy
@@MechaGaikotsu Does seem pretty counter productive. At least one isn't a complete new mold. Completely new P-bandai kits, now that is madness.
Mecha Gaikotsu very true, mourn my wallet... I’m planning on getting the f90 time to bin 100 bucks
Imagine caring about over seas customers
I’ve always wondered why Bandai hasn’t released any RG Gm’s
I would pour my money into every RG GM that Bandai released but I guess I'll shamefully keep my money
Maybe the gm is soooooooooooooooooo poor is performance and didn’t receive a chance begging for an RG...seriously though Bandai pls make an RG gm I love gm building army stuff
Probably because the master grade is already good
@@snackboxone364 Then they just need to make a master grade GM in 1/144 scale.
Hopefully they do it soon. It would be a good business decision since they can milk the suit for all it’s worth between standard releases and p-Bandai
id love a quick video of you talking about each real grade showing the ones with "ERS" and the evolution away from it.
Well the retail ones lol.
Eh, I think I'll still buy one of the RG Zakus. I can't really fault the engineering of the kit considering the Zaku II, in general, was the second Real Grade. I'll just glue the trouble parts on.
Did you do it?
Hope it worked out well
A friend of mine bought me a real grade Zaku II years ago as my first gunpla, imagin my frustration as I struggle to put the thing together lol....
rg Zaku II was also my first kit and boy was it not a pleasant first experience. Thank god i pushed through and bought some regular hgs.
NEVER start building gunpla with early rg kits. Mine is the rg rx-78-2 gundam and it sucks. The articulation is good especially with the armor split gimmicks but the build sucks, the parts falls off all the time, the foil decals are a real pain in the butt (probably the worst are the ones in the elbow, whenever you bend it they will peel off). In short, it’s a hand greenade.
Surprisingly, the old hguc zaku 2 Is pretty solid except for its hands, I wasn't that bad to build as my first model kit, and as far as I can tell it's actually more solid than the rg and hg origin zakus.
@@Skrall-Slayer Yeah most old HGs might not look that great but are suprising solid builds for their time, while early Real grades are fucking hand-grandes ready to explode in your hands lol
@@Sunnyboy-ob4xz yeah, I have the hguc zaku 2 and chars z'gok, surprisingly they are very solid. My hguc chars z'gok is practically solid as a rock. I even have a hg 1/100 gundam maxter from when they still made hg's in 1/100, 1/60 scale as well as 1/144 scale, and surprisingly even though its over twenty years old and may even be 25 years old, its pretty solid.
as someone who did glue parts when building, i have to say this is my favourite kit i own & im going to buy at least 2 more RG Zaku.
it’s a real shame there is no RG gouf. that kit would be amazing for sure
Totally agree with you, sadly bandai doesn't give as much love to zeon as it should, though its even worse for my favorite series mobile fighter g gundam, it seems that bandai really hates g gundam.
Buy a HG and scribe your own panel lines :)
@@Skrall-Slayer I'm still waiting for a tequila gundam
Bonee Chan so am I.
My RG Zaku II was a difficult build with one problem after another. I had to glue some parts like those two little front torso panels. The tiny little eye took lots of patience to get in place and I was lucky to find it as it popped off and flew across the room while pushing it on. The hoses are fiddly and tricky to attach. Still, it is doable and looks quite nice when completed.
That weak ball joint arm is very easy to fix. Either you top coat the ball joint part or apply a proper amount of any quick dry super glue so that the ball joint can be stiff when attached.
I recently did the RG Char's Zaku. The early RG really are not fun to build and pieces fall off and joints are loose. They look fantastic, but I did not find them fun. If you want them for your collections then go for it, but it you want a good quality RG, then go for the ones from the Unicorn forward. They keep improving in my opinion and are loosing the complete pre-molded inner frames which makes their joints so much better. I totally agree with you Mecha Gaikotsu.
I like the skeleton though
Still not sure why Bandai is stubborn enough not to make ratchet joints in their kits. It makes a stronger joint and make poses more permanent. Hopefully they step out of their comfort zone and improve them
Honestly with the plastic they use it would probably shred and be a mess
I'd only expect it on a pg with diecast
Ratchet joints can degrade after a while, even more than normal friction joints
They had a sort of ratchet joint system on the PG 00 Raiser. It didn't really work all that well.
The g gundam master grade speigel used screw in its joints. Honestly I think the reason few models do that is becuase you have to build it just perfectly so you can move the joint without breaking anything on the model.
1. Degrades easily
2. Have to build perfectly for it to work properly i.e PG 00 Raiser
3. Overall plastic quality can be shredded
4. It's honestly not worth it on smaller grades (from physics class, the smaller the gear/ratchet less overall strength)
The original zaku was my first rg and it turned me off the entire scale until I ran across the z'gok and I was like "oh, some of these aren't misery, cool"
Badeeyaa. Say do you remember.
Badeeyaa. Zakus in September.
Happy 21st night of September y'all.
Damnit lmao
This is giving me flashbacks to the fragile but beautiful mess that is my RG Zephyranthes
Same
The Zephyranthes is the only RG I have experience with and it's beautiful, but so flimsy. Do other RGs have that issue?
Been thinking about snagging a Tallgeese III.
@@rimjobledouche5201 tallgeese is pretty solid RG, but with limited lower body articulations because of it's waist design. P
I love these reviews, the videos are so clear all the time and it feels like you're right here lol. Keep up the great work
Also the side skirts can pull out slightly and slip bakc over the butt plate to get a bit more out of the hip (but looses so much knee articulation because of the high mobility lower legs)
Just got one 5/12/2022, and can confirm, the front skirts fall off, the balance can be difficult, and for me, no undergating of the nubs had me sweating. But it's a kit I loved building and posing!
I found that with the earlier rg kits you make friends with good ol super glue lol.
I have a base RG Zaku and I never had any problems with it, though I did tighten up the ball joints with nail polish and I glued the small parts in place.
Yep same, just use glue. I pretty much do this on all my kits preemptively for parts that i think will be problems, Like almost all Zaku antennas.
@@ShiryouOni always a good idea bro. Even on MGs I glue bits that look iffy. Thunderbolt comes to mind in my collection
XB3 Gaming, you should be careful, some nail polish can actually corrode plastic doing severe and irreparable damage to gunpla.
@@Skrall-Slayer yea, I keep it pretty light.
@@XB3Gaming I think the best stuff is paint and superglue, but if your going to use nail polish, make sure to check that it's a type that won't corrode the plastic of your gunpla.
Thanks to this review, I don't feel bad about missing the RG Shin Matsunaga Zaku and getting the HG version instead.
Love your videos!
This is the best gunpla review channel on TH-cam by far!
Thank you!
I agree
@@MechaGaikotsu by the way, have you ever personally watched jojos bizzare adventure? Because I know you reviewed some jojo figures in the past.
@@haydenandersen9937 and he poses some of his figure using jojo pose
That snout is supposed to be somewhere between the grey and the black of the armor, leaning more heavily towards black. Probably the best match is the zaku black marker from the full set, that comes with the standard and char colors
Hi. I have always enjoyed all your videos. Keep up the good work!
However, I do have a request though. Would it be possible to have a video focusing on that "early RG syndrome"? I enjoyed building the RG Unicorn and Astray and am thinking of getting more RGs. But I am cautious. So I would be grateful if such a video would be there to guide me through.
Much love from Malaysia.
"That's DAF" and that frase instantly stuck with me.😄
I have the RG Mass Production Zaku and yeah, you need abit of a feather light touch when posing it around, but i did glue the grey wrist pieces onto the forearms, didnt see much purpose for it to be free floating between the hands and the forearms
I appreciate the suffering you go through for all of us for telling us about these kits
0:45 ime a bit new to the hobby, but would the use of superglue to ensure loose parts like that be frowned upon? I come from 40k where almost all of our kits require superglue with the exception of some of the most recent easy build kits and even then the hobby store recommends you glue it to strengthen the joint.
Yes you can, nothing wrong with that. Then when you go a little deeper you can start looking into certain glues for certain jobs. SG is just fine.🙂
How did you get the shoulder shield and pad on there so well? Can't even rotate mine without it popping out, let alone try to extend it.
I TOTALLY agree about the HG Origin Zaku! that is my first and only Zaku at the moment and it is AMAZING!!!
You were supposed to use the clear lense on the hyper bazooka but either way they should have both been clear pink or with pink stickers like tou mentioned. I ended up just painting both of them using a metallic pink gundam marker
Lmao mate, the same happened to me with the chest parts of the JR Custom Zaku RG... I'm glad I'm not the only one !
I am new to gunpla but could you use aittle super glue to get those tiny parts to stay?
Hi. What's the background you are using? Great videos btw
Thanks
best RG iv built is the tallgeese and the wing zero EW.
both have held their poses for some time.
my wing zero is in the pose where it shoots the 2 buster rifles for over a year now and the tallgeese iv had finished for a few weeks and it still fells solid
Im wondering if you are still going to get the pbandai rg perfect strike despite of this ERGS thing.
Now that the RG line is turning 10 years old, we now need an RG 2.0.
You sir, are a prophet.
hey mecha will you be getting the hazel part packs and other advance of zeta kits
Will there be a review on the RG RX-78-2? Or maybe the high grade O gundam or high grade Astrea? I already have them [astrea being rather well build in my opinion] i just want to hear your take on them.
I glued the antenna on my hg zaku1 sniper because it kept falling off also, but no more problems now
I lost both of those two pieces for Char's Zaku. Ive got the putty to put in the chest piece and the paint to go with it. It definitely disappointed me. Also the right upper thigh armor ball joint that goes into the inner frame snapped. I had to glue it in place. 😞😞
Having too built the RG Zaku II as well, I can agree about the RG syndrome. Building that and the Nu Gundam -even setsuna’s (sorry for the bone apple tea) mobile suits- are certainly night and day in terms of the build and feel. Anything before the the release of the RG exia should be avoided unless you REALLY want to build it. But avoid the RG zeta gundam at all costs UNLESS YOU WANT TO PULL THE PIN ON A HAND GRENADE. Hopefully- maybe never - Bandai will do a 2.0 of the very first wave of the RG line.
That’s not even true. Just because you built the rg exia and you liked it doesn’t mean their wasn’t great early real grades before it. The RG MK II, Freedom, Strike Freedom, GP01, and GP01 FB all came out before it and they’re all much less finicky than RG Exia. RG exia is a good kit but you’re doing a disservice to the line by saying it was the first good real grade.
I know about those RG problems but I keep buying them anyway .☹️they look all so nice .
Damn, and here I was wondering if I should get the Shin Matsunaga RG.
Will you be doing a review of the MG F90?
Do they (bandai) use the same plastic material for their rg's, hg's and mg's?
Almost every kit named a part grenade that I also happen to own, I don't have any problems with...
I do have to say I broke the hip of my RG johnny riden kit, but that was because I was stupid and didn't notice the excess of topcoat on there after painting and the joint is engineered too small imo.
The thing about ace pilot RGs is that they are made for certain fans only. Honestly, Bandai needs to have a RG 2.0 for the early RGs especially the Seed series.
I had a problem with my RG Zaku II where one of the balljoints for the head got snipped when trying to get it off the runner. tbh poor sprew location placement on Bandai's part.
Easy solution: glue on the parts that keep falling off
*glues a joint
Oops
TinyBudgetFilms it’s not hard to be careful
@@neogamer3383 ik its just a joke
Theres problematic parts in many RGs that can't be glued or it messes up the articulation. Its a stupid fix for a useless item considering there are better and its ok to not like RGs. But yeah... FaNbOyeeeeZzz!
I love me some Zaku. I've built plenty of them myself. Only 1 RG. JRHM. It looks nice but its the only kit I've ever had buyers remorse for
I dont know about those chest parts. When I assembled my RG Char's Zaku, when I popped those parts in, I can't get them out any more without disassembling the whole chest first. Tho if those were loose, I think I'd chalk it up to nub removal, because those parts are flush to the hole, and the nubs are on its sides, which can affect the fit.
I'd suggest you try out the zaku 2.0 MGs they're really nice and sold in most ways
Do you have video review on gundam wing grunt suite aries?
Never lost a single RG Zaku chest panel piece ( I have 5 RG Zaku's). I just touch them with a drop of tamiya extra thin cement. Problem solved
Yeah... Early RGs... Some glue is often necesary if you want to fiddel them around, i had to glue the shoulderpads and the skirt armors of my RX-78'
so far I've built the rx 78,green zaku,mk2 and the zephyranthes rg kits and I'm loving the challenge I've got the unicorn on its way and I'm looking forward to that but I'm wondering what rg kit to get next any ideas ?
Try Moon gundam.
Those RG Zakus are amazing monos.
Looking at the bright side, this isn't as bad (and cursed) as Satan Fumina.
have one and you will know the shit, i once build rg Johnny ridden, after 4days the arms get loose, the leg to waist connector is suck and so many loose part, build was fun cuz it RG after a week i sell it.
Excellent rewie
I think you swapped the scopes for the bazookas. The big bazooka should be using the clear one while the puny vanilla bazooka should be using the gray one. Nonetheless, yeah, not having clear scopes for both bazookas is a major gripe I have for the High Mobility Zaku RGs. I'm currently building this one and it already feels old having built every P-Bandai RG Zaku to date.
I’ve got the shin matsunaga ver. The two little chest parts on mine aren’t loose at all. Wait never mind. I glued them. 😝
It is not a matter of if there will be an RG Grandaddy Gundam Ver.2.0 (most likely to be based on the 2020 Summer Olympics statue), it's a matter of when.
EP Art I can't wait for gundam mania after the olympics, were going to for sure going to get some Olympic themed models and a whole lot of exposure for the brand, meaning more interesting kits
you might want to start putting the patreon shoutouts and the outro together there. it's not that bad but to me it does make the shoutouts seem like an afterthought than anything.
well i usually skip them at the end, but still
So I'm bad at building gunpla unless its one of the cs sd frame kits do you have any reccomendations for my next sd gundam
I've only built 2, but I really liked the Ground Gundam
Thanks ill check it out
I'd recommend the RX-78 with the CS frame, and then buying the CS expansion pack. I built the most awesome GM using them, and if you paint it on, it's beautiful.
Can relate. It's my first RG cause I got a discount, but it nearly turned me off of RGs until I built RG Qan(t)
I have the rg Johnny ridden zaku and I thought it was a pain in the ass. Looks good but it's delicate as hell.
i got the green one and that one works pretty well
I’m still a gunpla beginner but I still managed to finish the hi res gundam astray it took so long my head was spinning
Lol when I thought about which kit is gonna be my first, I had to decide between rg zeta and rg unicorn. Thank God I chose the unicorn.
Hey mecha. Can we please get an RG mk II review?? I'm planning to by one but I would like to see a review by you first :>
I think I'd rather get an hg high mobility Zaku and repaint it.
I almost got all the real grade rg zakus, was wondering if i should get this
So we're better off buying the FG Char's Zaku, and scratch-building the com-fin?
many underestimate the RGs, these have a HUGE potential, some are better in appearance than the MGs themselves (obviously nothing better than a PG) but the RGs with enough work can become a miniature PG (of course, any gunpla with enough work arrives at that point) what I am trying to say is that using an RG as a base you save a lot of paint and detail work, I mean, the inner frame is already build, I do gunplas customs and I like working with the RGs for that reason, the touches of paint to make the worn inner frame look coherent is only achieved when it is fully constructed and having the inner frame built saves work, since loose or fragile parts are easily fixable with a little work (and glue). in addition, the RGs have fewer parts and are usually less complex than the PGs (in addition to not having to deal with annoying lights) so it makes the job even easier and the RGs also have those functions of splitting the armor when a member moves and things like that, so... for projects (In my opinion) I like working more in RG than in MG or PG.
Got the MG of this, still need to build it. 2nd random P-Bandai I get and Mecha reviews it (or a grade variant of) ..... Next review would be Zeta Plus (Unicorn color variant) and it'd 3 on 3 for me and Mecha being the same person and/or having the same premium kits. This is getting weird :p
It's best to wait till the " RG-Nu Articulation Treatment " for all Zakus version reissued.
I got gabby. But missed this one. I still want it!
I had rg zaku 2 and in torso that armor parts fell of. The building is not that bad it is like hg but rg has many small parts and stickers... hard to put on eye.
Anyone know the song used in the background at the beginning
any chance they'll update this kit? QwQ
Do the real grade tri star zakus suffer from the same early real grade problems?
I skipped this RG because well.. stickers and much of what you say is valid. RG Zakus are for the die hard fanatics that doesn't mind all the short comings of these rehash old RGs.
waiting for RG perfect strike review
What does ers stand for?
I like the white and grey coloration however when the pilots are fighting outside of hte mech they have a tendency to miss all their shots
Thus exia also have the ERS issud?
The head needs to be pushed down more into the body, it'll click in to place, if you dont do it it'll fall off. Takes a supprising amount of pressure to do.
Who won the mg unicorn perfectibility?
do a review for the mg goog 2.0 pls
I don't know my char zaku II holds up really well even if it was built 2 years ago and went on a 1 year hiatus when I was not that into gunpla at the time
Please review RG wings or RG wing zero :)
Nice video
Can you review the hg exia dark matter,please
Is there an RG Shin Matsunaga HiMo Zaku?
Mecha pls give tier to your old reviewed gunpla pls!
Why dont they do a RG 2.0 for the zaku and rx-78-2? I would love to get the rx but ive heard its the worst real grade
I want a zaku 3 in rg I don't usually get rgs because I buy mgs but I need a rg zaku 3 or rg Dom troupen or mg would be nice.
When are you announcing the winner of the unicorn perfectability?
Monday night
@@MechaGaikotsu thanks
I got the Char's Commander version. Real Grade is just too small for all those tiny details...
Ah I remember the dark ages. I kinda liked them to be honest.
More old RG reviews please.