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Originally Posted by Sunred

True. Come to think of it, Bandai does seem to use less chrome paint in general for kits these days, unless a kit was originally released that way and said kit is a re-release.

Chrome is something that doesn't jive with model kits too well. Nub marks and gate placements will always spoil it, due to chrome being applied in layers, and you can't clean up nub marks without obviously ruining the finish. And because it's applied in layers it tends to render sculpted details softer than the rest of the kit. Plus if you want to customize a kit you'd have to remove the chrome entirely, which is tedious and time-consuming.

So yeah, Bandai tends to avoid it on their plamo.