Guan Yu was a warrior during the three kingdoms conflict. He was noted for his loyalty and was venerated as a diety. Typically he is still worshipped today in triads as a patron god of honour and brotherhood.
That's a pretty neat kit, maybe even better than MG-02 Zhao Yun from the same MS General line. I love that it actually includes the empty face parts; I'm currently in the process of building+painting my Zhao Yun kit, and I had to use a pre-painted face to do any modification work on it. Also, I noticed that some parts on my Zhao Yun kit, especially knee cap parts, didn't seem to fit exactly right, so I actually had to do some cutting for them to fit properly. I wonder if there were any issues like that with the Guan Yu kit? Also, it's kinda funny that the instructions from both Zhao Yun and Guan Yu kits don't mention the metal parts. I guess mystery metal parts are a running theme in this line of kits?
Seeing your wet manual reminds me back then when I got the Kotobukiya SRX, the manual is even worst than yours. The entire box is wet and the manual is soaked in rain water then it's completely dry I can't even open the paper XD Ended up downloading the manual from dalong so it doesn't really matter that much....
The 6 identical dragon heads end up feeling lazy and not very fun to build. Some slight variation would make this much better. The massive butt-backback seems to have a different design language going on. This DX version is like a factory-kitbashed kit. Just more stuff.
You think it has same plastic quality as Bandai gunpla? I'm considering buying this and scribing it, but afraid it's gonna cracked or smt. Also, the armored mode limbs are longer than model mode for some reason.
That’s pretty usual for the armored for to be longer/bigger. But as for the plastic quality it’s a bit soft so be gentle, but it doesn’t seem likely to crack, no
I do not like the look of this kit at all. It looks way too "overdesigned" to me. Like those kitbashes where people add too much parts/details and it just looks like a mess. I understand some people do specifically like that haha but im definitely not one of them.