[FormerTitanium]

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Originally Posted by Sentai

I always wanted to ask this. Can someone please explain what the various grades mean in terms of how hard the model is put together, what's involved, how detailed the models are, and the quality? Because I have absolutely no earthly idea other than the 1/144 scale GW sets usually suck.

HG, MG, PG are the grades in terms of how hard they can get There is also RG.

HG - High Grade (1/144 scale), Most often your typical figuarts sized toy and fairly easily to build with out any experience needed prior. HG also contains no inner frame, like a skeleton of sorts. The inside the kits are most often hollow. On top of that some times HG kits has you using decals/stickers on the kit to provide the major paint details the actual mobile suit has in the show

MG - Master Grade(1/100), a big step up above from HG kits, if you think your ready for a lengthy build then go for it. Master Grade kits are more gimmicky and adds tons of more feature, such as cock pit which opens and closes, weapons tend to have more functionality to it, a inner frame which the armor goes on top of, and stickers and decals are rarely used since the pieces when put together usually brings out the most details, also they might even add LED. Their height are a bit taller, but their size is what usually trumps the HG kits.

PG - Perfect Grade(1/40), the grand daddy of all. The Perfect Grade is everything you wanted, as if you took the mobile suit from the show and place it on your shelf, PG does everything what a MG can but takes it and just goes 10x a step above, I believe most if not all PG contains LED lights all the time. PG While not super hard, due to the larger pieces, you have to have a lot of patience and time which makes these scaled kits time consuming. Their height and size trumps all.

RG - Real Grade (1/144), another 1/144 scaled kit, it is essentially a PG kit that's been shrunken down to 1/144 scale, these kits can bit a time consuming due to the amount of small pieces that goes into them.

There is also other grades sizes and scales, such as the mega size, SD(super deformed), and non grades.

Right below I provided pics showing a more compact explanation of what I said above, also shows difficulty and other tid bits.