This isn’t the first Perfect Grade I’ve ever built, but it certainly will now be the first to be featured here. Last year at Anime Expo 2015, my buddies and I went into the Exhibit Hall with the clear and single-minded goal of picking up some of the highest-tier Gunpla we could get. While my friend got himself the latest…
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HGCE Aile Strike Gundam
It should be no secret by now that I’m a total Strike fanboy. It’s probably (read: definitely) my favorite mobile suit design ever, and I’ve come to own just about every model kit iteration it’s spawned. I had never really been into High Grades much before now, but if I were to choose any suit to kick off my HG…
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Real Grade Aile Strike Gundam
As the second Real Grade kit I’ve had a chance to build, and currently the only 1/144 Gunpla kit in my collection, the Aile Strike is the byproduct of a bulk buy for a RG group build with some fellow guntokas. As I mentioned in the initial post about our group build adventure, the memory of a botched RG RX-78-2…
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Real Grade Fever
It’s Spring Break from school, which means an excellent opportunity to say, “screw studying and homework, it’s time to ‘pla out.” The week before Spring Break, my buddies and I decided we would have a day of just building Gunpla. Naturally we needed the Gunpla in question to build, so we had initially eyed some HG 1/144 kits since they…
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MG Aile Strike Gundam Ver. RM
Wanna kick 2014 off to a nice start, so here’s the year’s first review: my personal favorite mobile suit in its latest incarnation. Ever since Duel’s first prototype rolled out, I’ve been waiting for my remastered Strike. Needless to say, much a pleasurable ‘plagasm was experienced at this kit’s first announcement. As the other G Machines slowly rolled out in…