According to the guy who top coated his Tiga, it kinda worked. It's much harder to remove the paint now, but more strenuous poses such crossing arms very far will still cause it to chip, though.

Saw another guy spray Tiga with rubber protector, and man, I don't know if I should chuckle in admiration or be sad people are going to this lengths to protect their Tiga.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7yWFXCU...g&name=900x900

Also, uh you might want to be careful in spreading his arms forward. Some Tigas can have their gears stuck and crack.

ahahahahaha

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7idJgqU...g&name=360x360

I still don't understand the design decision to add gearing to the butterfly jointing at all...

I'm assuming it's to counteract any spring-back resistance the overlay causes when doing poses with the arms crossing over the chest, so it doesn't work against the joint, but it doesn't look like it was thought out well if it's so fragile that just the usage of the joint alone causes stress.

I mean I can understand, you can only make something so durable when working within these parameters. What I really want to know is why they spent four years overengineering this thing when they already had a perfectly good figure on display in 2017.

Amiami sucks! Seriously....I still can’t get Zero One at a decent price....

Your looking at the site WAYYYYYYYY TOO EARLY, they drop “new” stuff around 4-6 AM (Eastern Time zone here, for reference) I bought one for roughly 60.00….
Or try Mandarake/Jungle, they both have them in stock pretty decent prices

All these Tiga OC issues really make me wonder if Bandai got drunk on their own power to engineer high quality figures lol.

this exactly lol

Something tells me that someone from a team of sorts saw the trend of these seamless figures and thought it was a good idea. And it's how we get this.

SHF SS Black is on sale for $56 during the Bluefins Heisei Week II sale.

https://www.bluefinbrands.com/shinko...-figuarts.html

All sorts of other Rider stuff too https://www.bluefinbrands.com/kamenrider.html

Hooo this is interesting...too bad it’s for the US... I’m in Europe