Machine Messiah Yen Xing

My first resin kit finally arrived! Woohoo! :D

Delivery itself cost $10 and the package arrived in ~10 days

This is a 1/144 scale model of the Machine Messiah Yen Xing from the Five Star Stories (FSS). It is a resin garage kit reproduction by Super G. It cost me $55 USD plus shipping directly to my doorstep from Hong Kong.

Machine Messiah Yen Xing from the FFS manga by Mamoru Nagano

The box of the resin kit

The parts of the kit were packed in separate compartments according to their respective sizes. I have to say that the parts were smaller than expected and were rather hard to handle. I would most likely stick to 1/100 scale FSS kits in the future.

The resin parts. Highly intricate and fragile...

The kit did come with a surprising number of pieces. Some of which were extremely small and fragile. Clearing off all the gates and flesh will require substantial work and caution in future.

Some of the parts were really tiny and super sharp!

I'd have to say that I was rather pleased with the quality of the casting for this kit. Despite their small size, the resin parts retained most of the crisp detail from the mould and also appear to fit rather well together.

In addition, the kit also came with several aluminium cast parts (for the 2 heels and the sword blade). However, I'm not too sure I'll be using any of them as the resin parts will be easier to work with and painting them a metallic silver wouldn't be all that difficult.

I'll be cleaning the parts, removing the gates and flesh and test fitting the resin parts next...


(-_-)...zzZ