[ShiShiLeo]

Painted up the Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger ZyuohKing!



I've been a Gunpla builder for many years but in the past year I think I've built more Minipla kits than Gundam.

I can't say I love the ZyuohKing design but as always happens with these kits, building them makes me more fond of the designs. Minipla uses some clever engineering and sometimes compromises. But the end result is something that has the potential to look like the DX toy but with much more articulation.

Perhaps the biggest culprit of bad design in the ZyuohKing is found in the Cube Lion. First it does the cardinal sin of using a sticker in a place where a color coded part could have easily gone- but to make it even worse, the surface beneath the sticker is not molded at all. So even if you decide to paint it, you'll lose out on some detail. Second, the entire "face" of the cube with the 3 side is completely hollow using a giant sticker to cover up the area. Basically a sticker sits on top of a grid of plastic. This means no potential to paint and its possible to the sticker will fail or get punctured because its not holding onto a large surface.





I didn't bother painting up the Giraffe. It still looks cool with the foil stickers and I do not wish to paint more brown!

One last nitpick about the Zyohger Robo is that the video game theme requires very very straight paint. You're essentially painting geometric pixels and even I struggled to hit that mark.

Overall ZyuohKing has really grown on me. I generally like the chunky aesthetics of the older Sentai mecha, but ZyuohKing takes blocky to a new level!