It’s February 22, 2023. Today marks the 7th anniversary since I started getting into Gunpla, Gundam and anime. My life has been ruined for 7 years now. It all started with this HG Justice, which has aged terribly, to now doing High Grade kits with panel-lining, paint and decals all by my own. Anyway, let me talk about this kit because I don’t have time to write a sob story of my 7 years as a Gunpla addict.
This Jegan kit came out back in 2011, and it shows. There’s a ton of color correction needed, the articulation is subpar, and the gray armor on the knees aren’t actually secured in place which really makes the kit feel cheap. However, with building 4 HGs over the past month or so, I gotta say, having ABS plastic for the inner frame is something Bandai shouldn’t have strayed away from. I usually don’t like HGs because over time, they tend to become really floppy, which I always blame on the polycaps because that’s where the kit is weak, but older HGs with ABS plastic and polycaps, don’t suffer the floppiness as much. I wish newer kits kept ABS to keep the rigidity, making it less of a pain to move it around the way I want them to.
Anyway, painting—there’s a lot of it. Like last time, I used Air Model Gunmetal, Steel and Navy Blue, and a lot of Tamiya Lemon Yellow and Red. Like again, it’s very messy, especially in the shoulders, I know, but if I don’t look at it too closely I think I did a pretty good okay job. When I did the initial paint job, there was a lot of excess paint, but I used an x-acto knife to clear it all up, and while that did clean it up, now there’s just a lot of shaved plastic from using the knife. Disregarding my terrible clean-up job, the colors really add a lot to the Jegan, especially if you compare it how it looks out of the box. I also added quite a few details in the weapons, particularly the rifle, and yeah, I’m quite happy how it turned out. Now we’re finally able to recreate the iconic opening battle of Unicorn with my dad’s HG Kshatriya and my Stark Jegan.
I am HG’d out. While it’s not coming until April, I’m excited for the MG Stark Jegan which I pre-ordered. Yeah the price was steep, but it’s tough to find a good price for Gunpla anywhere these days.
Ranking: ={orange}A=