Kit comparison: 1/100 RE Nightingale and 1/100 SMS Nightingale

Ever since the announcement of Bandai's 1/100 RE Nightingale kit, I wanted to compare it with my 1/100 SMS Nightingale fulle resin kit. The Nightingale is one of the most popular mobile suits that Gunpla modellers wanted to see realized as a 1/100 Gunpla kit. For years the unit only came in full resin and resin conversion kits until the release of a plastic model kit by Regulation Center a few years ago. Unfortunately, not a lot of modellers work with resin kits and the plastic kit was full of quality issues. This year saw the release of the first official 1/100 Nightingale from Bandai through their new 1/100 kit line called Reborn. This will be a simple comparison between the 1/100 Reborn Nightingale and the 1/100 SMS Nightingale full resin kit, one of the most popular and well known of the Nightingale's resin kits.

The most noticeable difference between the two is larger and bulkier features of the SMS kit.

Painted Kit: 1/6 Misato in plugsuit

This is the second of the two resin kits I painted this week along with a 1/3 Kanu Unchou. This is a 1/6 Misato in plugsuit. Its from E2046's Ori series of kits, original sculpt figures by E2046. It is designed to match Shunya Yamashita's Rei and Asuka in plugsuit resin kit figures.

Painted Kit: 1/3 Kanu Unchou

Had two kits in the process of painting in the past week and this is one of them. Its a 1/3 scale figure of Kanu Unchou from Ikkitousen. It is the largest figure I own, in scale and in height, coming in at just under 18 inches.

Painted Kit: Asuka Langley in plugsuit.

Following my 1/6 Rei Ayanami in plugsuit is its partner figure which is also from Shunya Yamashita's illustrations. This is Asuka Langley in plugsuit. Kit is also 1/6 scale and follows the same style as Rei.