Quick access to the completed MG Exia Review:
Introduction: Rant and Awe
Part 1: Formal Introduction & Pre-Build
Part 2: GN Drive & Torso
Part 3: Head
Part 4: Arms
Part 5: Waist
Part 6: Legs
Part 7: Weapons
Part 8: Overall Impressions
Part 9: Exia Repair
Part 10: Oh Thank the Lord, My Batteries Have Arrived
Updates/Corrections:
- I realized later that the green parts on the head also have laser etching. Nice!
- The clear decals are just stickers, NOT waterslides. (Thanks KeviinX!)
I got these yesterday, which is actually waaaay sooner than I expected. Kudos to Amazon.
GLOWING LETTERS YESSSSSSS.
So my overall opinion of this kit?
Fantastic.
Out of the box, this the best kit I have ever built. I don’t get the chance to build plenty of MG kits, but the last one I had the pleasure of building was the Sinanju, and that was one hell of a kit as well. The proportions are amazing, and just EVERYTHING reeks of sharpness and detail.
Legs
The foot has a rather ridiculous amount of joints in it that allow for a pretty impressive amount of movement given its design. I rather like it’s subtle side-to-side pivot.
Waist
Not a whole lot to say here other than everything is just very clean and sharp. The grey pieces on the front skirt armor are the same piece as the under-armor detail on the skirt armor’s rear, which I couldn’t help but think was pretty clever.
Arms
The GN Condensers in the arms are actually two clear pieces. Below the transparent green piece is a clear piece, which really aids it having a lens-like look. The picture on the left is the arm assembled with just the green piece, whereas the right shows it assembled with both pieces.
Nice and short part this time around…
Head
Okay. Wow. This is an absolutely amazing head to have built out of the box. The attention to detail and part separation is somewhat absurd.
Everything on the Exia’s mean face just reeks of sharpness.
Also to note is that there are of course GN stripes on the head as well. The effect created by them being semi-transparent is quite nice.
Arms are next up!
Update: I noticed later that there is also laser etching on the green parts on the side of the head. Very subtle but hot damn it’s nice.
GN Drive
As I mentioned, some of the chrome parts are on the inside of the GN Drive to aid in light reflection.
With the flywheel, as shown above, you get one of the problems that occur with chrome parts, which is the nubs from taking them off of the tree. I just fixed this one up by a quick dab with a silver marker.
