Monday 29 February 2016

Metal slug kit

One of these beauties (well 4 actually) landed on my doorstep this morning.
Billion Spark 1/35 metal slug tank
Havent seen unboxing pics anywhere else so this is a first :)

First off the box art is REALLY well done, nice and vibrant.
The manual is colour front and back but with the instructions themselves in greyscale.

The waterslides are some of the best I've seen outside bandai, with some printyed in gold that really pops.
Oh and there are stickers for the kids (into the trash they go)

Runner A molded in blue, details are crisp, tiny bit of flash on some parts, but there is a slight texture on them.
gues they couldnt afford to pay someone to polish the molds, no biggie though.

Runner B1 looks to be a SLIGHTLY different shade of blue, but this could just be variation between plastic batches.

Runner B2 in a lighter blue, nothing much else to say. Some parts have twisted on the runner so will probably have stress marks, but I'll repaint anyway.

Runner C1 then moves onto the inner frame, nice bit of detail on those.

Runner C2 is a darker grey than C1

there are 2 D runners. and those bits on the outside? clips for treads, oh this is gonna be fun.

Runner E is where the actions at. 44 identical tread parts

Runner F is pre painted bright silver, gonna strip that before I paint.

Runner G is pre painted gold, Again, will strip that shit before I repaint.

Runner SP has the weapon pickups, fuel canister and IN effect. all in white

Now the part I didnt expect.
Along with having the stand and effect parts in clear, theyve included ALL of the armour runners in clear too.
Bonus.

Okay its a frosted clear, but completely unexpected.
Probably to show off the inner frame if you wanna pour detail into that.
Theres also a bag of screws for the stand, but I dont need to take a pic of a bag of screws do I?

Inner frame is a neat feature



Snapfits together pretty well, some parts don't wanna stay on tight like the turret, but some glue will sort that right out.
The firing effect is a nice touch and it comes with 2 different sized rounds.