My brother came over last night toting a purchase still sealed up in its shipping carton. After dinner he slices open the carton revealing what he purchased–the recently released Bandai 1/5000 Star Wars Star Destroyer model kit. We start looking through the kit and I was blown away at the quality of it.
Check out this incredible detail.
Look at the panel line detail, it is crisp and clean.
More detail…
It came with a power assembly, hookups, and LEDs.
All the assemblies have the light ports opened.
One of many clear pieces that go behind the light ports.
All the above are just a few of the pieces, there are many more.
I could see no flash, the sprue connections are small and well thought out, and the detail is phenomenal. This is a snaptite sort of model, so pretty much anyone can build this out of box, (possibly no paint), and it would look dang cool. As to the buildability, at this point, we can only go off of YouTube videos that seem show really nice fits.
He paid around $119 not including shipping, and in my honest opinion, it is worth every penny.
Yep, the unlighted version just lacks the clear duplicate sprues, the reference booklet, and the lighting system.
Word on the street is that if you can light kits yourself, you are better off with the basic kit. If you are a beginner at lighting, the full boogie version will provide easy trouble free lighting.
Bandai kits are INCREDIBLE! I have several in my stash.
I built the 1/12 scale K2SO droid no paint, used the stickers instead of waterslide decal option, the wife loves him. I enjoyed building it as it was a nice break from AMS.
That being said I REALLY really wanna paint and weather my other kits…choices choices.
I may be persuaded to pick up this kit as well as the Zvesda kit is hard to find. Wait I’m armornut, finding hard kits to stuff in my stash is what I do. Lol
I heard this too. I am tempted to buy the basic kit and do my own lighting. The problem is, I already have too many irons in the fire. Too many cool kits, not enough time. It might be worth adding to the stash though, it’s just too good to pass up.
