it's so far a great model kit, sadly mine came without two essential pieces to finish it, currently waiting for a response from bandai namco about the issue. I would recommend this kit for those who have already done some master grades.

This kit is indeed a challenge. Assembling it is tricky in some places, so here are several ideas to make it easier:
- Calm down and read the instructions twice before inserting arms into place, or one or both of them might get a broken peg and will slide out of socket when rotated. Eqsily fixed with modelglue or superglue
- Don't stack the joint wraps too much, or piercing it with pegs and getting it under the armor will drive you crazy. It WILL wrinkle and get between pieces you are trying to connect. Fixing one layer is plenty. It may not make sense in text, but you might figure what i mean out once you start applying the covers.
- Use the extra long black piece from base runner to wrinkle up the plastic covers. It's longer, so i found it more convinient
- Take your time to check the last pages of instruction book to use the gimmicks properly. You will learn how to open the cockpit in full armor mode and how to fix sub-arms folded out . Also the decaling map is there
- The included base is kinda bad. The model in its final form is very heavy and can barely be supported by it. I recommend you use standard 1/100 stand for this model, it works much better and lifts the kit a lot more, increasing the immersion.
- Probably watch other people assembling it on youtube. In general makes your life easier.
- You're better off glueing some parts, like the blue piece on top of heads V-fin, or knee thrusters, these come off too easily

The kit itself is great. It's definetly the most fun i experienced assembling a model. Its big (the backpack and shields on sub-arms do wonders to increase its presence), gimmicky, almost flawless in terms of general build (as said above, take time to attach arms properly), very posable and relies mostly on waterslide decals instead of stickers.
The biggest problem is that it's a bit awkward to handle with backpack and weapons attached because of the size and weigh, so posing it requires patience. And the size is also a huge pro, it does matter in terms of giant robots.
Minor issues i personally have with it:
- The biggest one - arm joints are not that tight. Complex shoulders and elbows cannot bear the weight of twin cannon with shield and disassembling thevelbow for tightening is going to be absolute aids, so i'll pass with loose elbows until it really pushes me.
- Lack of waist hinge/balljoint. It can't arch back or crunch. This is due to a corefighter which is actually put inside the hollow torso. I just think it would've benefited from having at least some kind of hinge, would've allowed to do more dynamic poses in its 'slim' mode with armor ditched
- Swappable hands. Just because i love articulated hands of zaku too much.
- Backpack can slide apart while handeling. Again, modelglue to thicken things up
- Primary weapons have "sledges" on top, to which the shields connect. On my kit the tiny notches on these sledges were weaker than sledge-to-shield connection and broke down, starting to come off too easy. One more time, superglue.

I loved this kit, and it sits in the center of my 100+ gundam collection as one of my favorites with the Sasabi ver ki and the freedom full burst. The only downside was there are several parts in critical joints that seem weak, I don't know if it was poor plastic or just too thin, I lean towards the latter, but you have to be careful and not bend or stress the parts or you can break a part like I did in the hip joint. That said, it was only one part that broke and I was able to glue it back and it now functions perfect again and is completely hidden so you can not see my sloppy repair. That said it is a great looking model and with the included stand holds an incredible standing pose with no signs of sag on this heavy kit. I love it so much I am considering ordering a second to display with all the extra armor off and laid out in front of it like in the included pictures on Amazon. Once again, great kit and I personally consider it a must have in any MG gundam collection.

This was funnto build very expensive but fun nonetheless. However this is definitely not for beginers or people just trying out model kits its a multiday/week peoject for most but ots worth it.

So first, I love the design of the Full Armor Gundam. It's fantastic, bulky, and by far my favorite head sculpt. This is one of those kits you gotta have patience and be very careful with, as there are many small parts.

The thrusters of the shoulders and a little blue bit on the head fell off the model as I was building and got lost in my carpet for a couple hours. Found then and glued them on.

The trash bag like fabric that covers the joints is a pain to get on, and if you rip them you're out of luck as the kit has no extras. I ripped 2 of them and had to disassemble the arms and cut off more to cover joints. Be very gentle with it.

The stand is pretty horrible, can't move at all and sticking the full armor on there for any pose is difficult, but that's also due to the weight of the build.

Over all it's a 8/10 for me. Very good looking kit and for the most part, holds together and the joints are stiff.