Bandai Hobby RG 1/144 Full Armor Gundam Unicorn "Gundam UC" Model Kit

This is one of the coolest Gundam Unicorns out there, this big boy is full to the brim with weapons and shields. two things about this though: the back boosters keep falling off every once and awhile, and if you want to fully put on stickers, you have to use a sticker page at the back of the book. (it's really confusing) those are really the only bad things about this model. It has two modes, it's huge, and everything works without falling off.(btw destroy mode is better than full armour)

This is my second Unicorn and I was skeptical about buying it since I already have the Red version of the regular Unicorn. I am 100% satisfied with how this kit is made. It can actually stand up fully straight with feet close together without the use of the fuel tanks on the back for support. This is due in part from the copious amount of weapons it can hold in its hands and forearm. The weapon weight from the arms counter acts the weapon weight of the backpack which once again has a copious amount of weapons that look dope AF. With almost any gunpla kit I say anyone can make it if they are patient enough but this one I wouldn't recommend for a beginner. Even with the pictures the shoulders and the backpack were a little confusing for me. I literally went online to view a completed kit to understand how some things went together with color photos. The other reason I'd that this will take quite a while to build to look anything like my attached picture of my completed kit. I personally spent a solid 3 weekends working on this and I know when I first started building I wanted to see results fast and cut corners to complete my early kits. Nowadays, I appreciate the process and the virtues building a model gives. It's a test of patience. Giving this 5 stars with 3 stars for ease of building

Oh man, I've built real grades before but this one is quite the build, there's enough weapons on this for an entire squad of MS! The joints are really strong and will hold up the arms fully loaded! Only complaint is the boosters fall out easily

The kit itself is a very easy step-by-step assembly, and even someone who just started on the Gundam building band wagon will have no issues with it. With that being said, the articulation, detail, and proportion are as good as you may think. However, there are a couple if downsides. For starters, there's the posing. The cannons on the arms can make the arms heavy to move in certain positions. Not only that, but the kit is limited in some action poses if it stands by itself. With the help of a 1/144 action pose stand, however, then some poses are possible. Lastly, some parts just like to come off, especially, the thrusters. All-in-all, I say it's worth having in someone's collection regardless of if you are a beginner, or expert in Gundam model kit building.

lots of nice weapons, detailed, great articulation, fun to build and a pleasure to pose and look at

The RG Full Armor Unicorn is a truly tremendous model kit, fitting a full transformation gimmick, impressive mechanical details, a truly awe-inspiring amount of weapons on some 15-20 odd runners. All in all, it took me almost 20 hours to fully assemble, panel line, and decal out this kit. That's a lot of bang for your buck.Fully assembled, the model is beautiful, both in Unicorn and Destroy mode. The bits of Psycho-Frame peeking out from underneath the white is really impressive, and the entire model looks great. Plastic quality is high, most non-white parts are well undergated to hide nub marks, and all the weapons and accessories are well detailed.So why 3*? In terms of sheer spectacle, this is one of the best Gunpla kits I've ever seen, and the density of its details is second to none. The problem is that the build process is the worst I've experienced as a relatively intermediate builder (previous kits include the RG Sazabi and Nu, MG Wing Zero Ver Ka and Barbatos, and probably a dozen of various high grade kits). I know that the Master Grade Unicorn has a reputation as a bit of a hand grenade model (part of the reason that I ended up opting for the RG), but my experience is that the RG is just as bad. There's a section of the right inner thigh that seems pathologically incapable of staying attached to the rest of the suit, the arm-mounted beam saber holsters are floppy and struggle to stay open, theHowever, by far the worst quality that the Unicorn has comes from the pre-molded inner frame components found on the B runner. This is my first model that comes with pre-built inner frame components, the rest using true inner frames instead, and I was not prepared for just how stiff all the joints were. Even after following the instructions and making sure to bend and work them little by little to ensure nothing snaps, I've had three parts break on me during my build. Both shoulder joints (which are, I have to stress, absolutely APPALLINGLY poorly designed) snapped while I tried to rotate the arms in their sockets several days apart (the second break happening after I had to make a concerted effort to apply more gentle pressure for fear of breaking the socket). The left back leg flap also is secured to the leg by one of the pre-molded inner frame components as well, and while pulling on the leg flap to pop out the psycho frame near the knee for Destroy mode, the pre-molded inner frame component sheared clean in half.I understand that sometimes this can be chalked up to user error; I wasn't delicate enough when putting this kit together and some stuff broke. It happens. Problem is, with how stiff the joints are, you need to apply considerable force in order to do something as simple as raise this model's arm in order to pose it, and in doing so your risk of causing the kit permanent damage is REALLY dramatically increased, and that's a failure of engineering and design as much as it is a failure of the end user. The fact that I've never had this many failures, difficulties, or frustrations with any other kit that I've built in my fourish years in the hobby makes me confident in saying that this design is just bad, as impressed as the end product is.

Is sturdy (with or without the accesories), but its more for fine looking rather than posing. Still great tho