Resin Kit: 1/100 MSN-04II Nightingale - Unboxing and Dryfit Build

This is the last of the three resin kits I recently got, the 1/100 MSN-04II Nightingale from SMS Workshop. Its one massive Gundam kit for a 1/100 scale and is pretty heavy.

The box is made of heavy duty cardboard and has a large SMS Workshop label and a picture of the Nightingale.

Resin Kit: 1/100 AGX-04 Gerbera Tetra - Unboxing and Dryfit Build

A few weeks after getting my first resin kit, the 1/100 Kshatriya, I got another resin kit. This time its the 1/100 AGX-04 Gerbera Tetra from SMS Workshop. This is the full kit version and SMS Workshop included the conversion parts for the AGX-04A1 Gerbera Tetra Kai. SMS Workshop earlier released the Gerbera Tetra Kai as a conversion kit and has a few differences with the Gerbera Tetra's body design.

The Gerbera Tetra is a pretty small kit and the box it comes in is about half the size of a standard MG kit's box. No box art and the only indication of what you are getting is a label on the side of the box. 

Resin Kit: 1/100 NZ-666 Kshatriya - Unboxing and Dryfit Build

What I have here today is a 1/100 NZ-666 Kshatriya full resin kit.

It is one of three resin kits I have and this is the first time I am building resin kits. The Kshatriya's resin kit was originally done by NeoGrade then later recast by G-System and SMS when NeoGrade stopped producing the kit. G-System still makes some through G-System-Best while SMS no longer recasts the kit. The Kshatriya is one of the most popular resin kit I have seen and there are a lot of recast from less know manufacturers. The kit I have is one of them. I got this Kshatriya from gkgundamkit.com. They're a Hong Kong based online store that sells a lot of Gunpla and resin kits. From what I understood after ordering from them, the kit was "produced" after the order was placed. I was expecting the kit they have might be from the more well-known manufacturers but it seems that they recast the resin kits they sell themselves. With this in mind, the first thing that comes up is the quality of the resin. Companies like G-System or SMS require a minimum number of orders before they recast an kit that's no longer in production. How will gkgundamkits' single order recast fare against more popular manufacturers? We'll see that later.

Painting: LM-HG 3rd Angel Sachiel

After completing the straight build on the LM-HG Sachiel, I decided to keep going and paint the kit since there very few parts that need painting. I only painted the plastic parts and left the rubber body alone.