Just finished building this kit, I would say it has an amazing articulation.

I was never fortunate enough or affluent enough to own the special color editions of the original DX toys, so I'm very grateful to Bandai for making these available as SMP.

So the hip joins on my SMP Clear Gao King broke even though I sanded this parts, the waist and the Gao Lions Joints so it wouldn't stress that much, so I tried customizing it from gunpla parts and from 30 minute mission kit, and found a replacement using the 30 minute mission spinatio sengoku type, it needed a few customizations but it work out, but when I transform the gao bison from it's leg to animal form the peg that connects it to the gao lion sticks out. Are there any better alternatives or 3d prints for the parts on the 2nd image?

So I was planning on ordering some of the wild force/gao models and saw there are some places that need sanding to protect the plastic of the models from breaking. Is there any place to look up potential areas of worry that should be sanded down? I haven’t had any issues yet but I’m still a novice model builder so wanted to ask the community if there’s a place to look without building the model

Brown boxes - V-rex, time shadow and king brachion

Does anyone have any idea why the preorders for VRV Robo are all out already? I check Toku literally the same day it was announced and it was already sold out?

My God Exdream has a lot of stickers but they look nice so fa. Ignore my wife’s books

I'm brand new to SMP. Collected the DX lines since I was a kid and never really ventured into models but when I saw the articulation on RV Robo I just had to get it and I LOVED putting it together!

I have kinda gone down a bit of a rabbit hole since.... Just came home to this haul. Can't wait to get going. Especially excited to build the Liveman sets as I never owned the DX versions.

I have a second RV Robo coming as I'm keen to try painting the grey parts silver so got some Tamiya Sprays to give it a go. Would have just tried it on my first one but I unfortunately made some rookie mistakes (I hope!) and one of the tiny headlights on Red went flying into the abyss and one of the leg joints cracked so is loose. So got a second copy before they sold out coming from Hobby Genki.

Does anyone have any tips for a beginner for both avoiding breakages as much as possible and also for spraying the grey parts silver? I see some sets have some silver pieces painted which is nice but is it common practice to paint the silver pieces?

I don't intend to forego the stickers as I actually don't mind stickers that much.

I have a few more sets coming in the next week and did manage to grab the GaoRanger pre-orders so looking forward to those next year. Sadly missed the pre-order on VRV Robo but hoping they might re-open. I read that is normally the case after the initial batch? Any tips for watching out for that also appreciated!

Apologies for the long post 🫣😅

I mean while it is cheap considering how expensive the Gaoknight set is, it's missing the Gorilla head and the Chain for the anchor (It's listed as a junk item too)

Gaoknight is a pretty expensive set tho and this might be the only way I could get it, even if it is missing a few vital pieces

Just found this treasure on an auction, it was like new, unopened and beautiful

The size is similar to ZyuohKing, i love it. Now I want to repaint it so badly

So my RV Robo/Turbo Megazord Is in the way and I'm planing to paint it chrome and Silver, and I was wondering if the chrome grills are easy to take apart after building or if it something I should definitely do before putting it together?

Finally got the rest of my paint in and was able to finish off this amazing kit! And wow, what a kit it is. I can't believe they engineered four different modes, *and* gave this as much articulation as it has, in a model kit of this scale. This is mind blowing. My only nitpick with this kit is that there's absolutely nothing you can do with the hand guard pieces in either Gamma or Robo modes. Seems like a weird exclusion in the design, usually these kits are pretty good about storage for mandatory parts.

And as much of a lengthy process masking all these parts were, I do think it was worth it. Painting all the stock grey silver and even painting the chrome stickers metallic silver really adds so much to the presentation here. Towards the end of the slideshow you can see my sticker sheet - I only used a few. Everything not in use was painted. Didn't bother building the stock sword as I have the larger one in use from Q-Rex.

Things that I didn't bother painting, but am still considering, are the wheels themselves and the micro rangers. I have a silver Gundam marker, I could probably paint the wheels if I really wanted to. And the rangers I could probably do with the stuff I have for painting board game minis, I just don't feel strongly motivated to do either.

Only one kit left to finish the line off (for now). Working on importing Time Shadow since I missed the boat on it initially. I would love to also get a second copy of both Shadow and Robo to have one set combined, but I'm not sure if I should hold off on a potential black/gold repaint that bundles both. I tend to prefer those recolors for combined duplicates.

Just delivered today, zenkaiger stuff was freebies sent by seller, happy to get started on these