MG MS-06S CHAR'S ZAKU II VER. 2,0 1/100

The kit arrived really quickly and intact, really great service.
I was suprised by how solid the inner frame was, but I wasn't a fan of the salmon pink the armor was colored in so I painted it more red. Basically how I think Char's signature color should be.

I have one con with this kit and it's definetly the hands. The Zaku can barely hold onto it's weapons with the posable hands the kit comes with. So maybe some fixed pose replacement hands would be a good investment.

This is a biased review of someone who is a GIANT ZAKU II fan.

When it comes to building the kit, the only thing that gave me some gray hairs was the hoses. Everything else was smooth sailing from start to finish.

The kit might be somewhat old now, but it's a very good kit to get if you're in need of a MG ZAKU II kit. It compliments the MG RX-78-2 ver.2.0 kit nicely!

It's pink, it's ugly and it makes no sense, but what a fantastic beast it is.

I wish I could recommend this as a starter MG kit, it has so many good things going on for it - it's a joy to assemble (except the tubes), it's the most solid gunpla I own and it's so clean and has large surfaces. Assembly on this is an outstanding sample of how great an experience the assembly process for gunpla can be and it feels almost criminal to hide the wonderful under frame and all the technical details and inner workings under the pink panels. It's very solid and sturdy and all the joints have a great feel due to soft plastic joint sockets (poly caps) and all the usual fantastic poseability and detail of gunpla, but there are also some flaws here that would make a very bad early experience for someone looking into MG gunpla. The external tubing was a nightmare to assemble. Individual moving fingers is something gunpla have moved away from for a reason, they look very nice but don't really work and getting this otherwise super solid and stiff model to actually wield it's weapons is very challenging. Rubbing transfers were an interesting experience and they look better than stickers, but they are also flimsy, sensitive and much harder to apply and it's also very easy here to see why they are not used anymore in later kits.

Overall, I recommend this very much, it's my favourite chonky boi and overall a fantastic kit that I would love to 5 star, but the flaws on it are so noteworthy that I'd prefer to give it a 4.5 star rating instead. It was one of those builds you can't put down. 5 stars for a more experienced builder or a gunpla enthusiast, to be experienced after having first experienced a proper, more modern MG kit. You have to have a Zaku anyway, and this is Char's personal Zaku after all.

MG MS-06S CHAR'S ZAKU II VER. 2.0 1/100

Everybody must have atleast one Zaku in their collection and i highly recommend this kit. Its big and very easy to build and looks so cool.