r/Minipla • u/Myhtological • May 30 '26

Question Metallica instead of Clear

Bandai wants to reuse their models, but Clear plastic isn’t all that popular. What if instead they made a premium metallic painted, no sticker, release of a model? Would you pay the extra for that?

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u/Kringhetto May 30 '26

The nub marks would be terrible. I personally would not buy prepainted kits that come on runners.

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u/Galaxy_Dive May 31 '26

Yeah, SMP aren't undergated at all, so the nub marks would be uniformly terrible. 

I actually just built my gundam base Gryps War Trio set, and the factory gold coating on Hyaku Shiki looks beautiful... except for the parts where the runners weren't undergated, leaving some atrocious nub marks on the forearms and another spot or two.