Thanks! I believe the kit comes with stickers, pretty much all modern Bandai kits (except for premium Bandai) come with stickers and those don’t really look good. I got these decals off of Aliexpress. I usually try to get g rework or delpi decals for my kits but when I can’t find any in my country I buy decals on Aliexpress.

@@skhobbies This is great, thank you! I just ordered mine off of Delpi. I would love if you do a video on applying water decals.

@ thank you for the suggestion. I will look into maybe making a series of how-to videos.

hello, i am not sure tbh. it seems they still havent published it for android unfortunately. i have it on my iphone. also, i was able to find it for desktop, apparently, sj.qq.com/appdetail/com.Tianlai.light

Thank you for sharing your opinion

@@johnconstantine635 thanks! Bet it will be fire 🔥 !

It depends on the country but exia has been generally one of the more available kits as of late. Kosmos sets are quite a bit more scarce. But overall, I’d always recommend caution against FOMO. this hobby drives people to buy stuff now or miss out later and it’s not always the case, but often, unfortunately.

It is a great kit indeed! In era has been doing pretty good things so far. I’m about to start the lizard. The runner holder (horizontal) like a box - runner in dock from Japan. The little individual runner clips - from gunprimer. They make a base set and extensions. They’re quite nifty for smaller to medium sized runners.

Yes! Good call. That’s what I meant. Hobby Mio makes some. I have it on the way :)

Thanks!!

Thank you for the kind words :)

Heyo. That’s odd. There are 2 power plugs at the circuit board from the control box. Are you sure you have both plugged in? Also, there’s one on/off button for the drive and another one for the main led set (top left of the remote).

@@skhobbies yeah! I plugged both cords in and the remote isn’t turning the body on, only the GN drive.

@@DragoLogo interesting. I’ll check my own kit later today and will see if I can find anything. For sanity’s sake - double check all soldering points. This kit has a lot of articulation - I, for example, broke a wire when building mine and had to resolder it.

Ok, thanks. Update:I’ve only finished the upper torso so far so I don’t think the limbs are part of it, I made sure no wires were snapped and inspected everything carefully, and the main box is working correctly, so I don’t know what’s going on. Now I think it might just be the remote.

If you got an iPhone, you can use the link in my Video description to download the app and test out. You don’t need remote with that. I’ll be sure let you know once have a chance to check my exia out to see if there are any tricky connections for the torso.

thank you very much for the kind words! i am glad you liked the video ;)

for the beam rifle (right hand) i was able to hide the wires in forearm (it is not fully snapped in place but you cant really see it, which is good), and the little circuit/connection board i hid inside the arm armor, as the beam rifle has a little flap that covers the arm. for the VN arm (left), i did the same for the forearm wires but there's not easy way to hide the circuit/connection board so i actually have it attached to the outer palm with a little bit of blue tac. if you look really closely - youll be able to see it, but it doesnt stick out.

hey, sure. thunderbolt is 1/100 so a bit smaller, and quite a bit simpler, than the defender. though both have complete inner frame that you put together. aurora, on the other hand, has a pre-built metal inner frame and you only build the outer armor layer. thunderbolt is a decent kit and i enjoyed building it - you can see my detailed thoughts in my review for that kit, but its color scheme. out of the box is rather not very usual. aurora is also a great kit in its own right. the gold metal inner frame is cool but there were some fit issues. and the pre-painted blue parts were very high quality plastic. nevertheless, sky defender is extremely hyped for a good reason. it is an absolutely stunning kit. it easily rivals anything the bandai ever done, including their MGEX's and the PGU, and raises the bar for the 3p mecha kits and mecha model kits in general. to me, these 3 do not compete. they are in completely different leagues. even Thunderbolt and Aurora dont even compete with each other as they are vastly different build experiences and packages overall. One focuses on the inner frame construction and more of an OG building experience, while the other delivers a stunning bling with shiny inner frame and pre-painted armor parts (blue and gold). hope this answers your question.

@@skhobbies thankyou

cool, he is great!

Nope. This kit came with a fair number of runners pre-painted out of the box (deep blue and gold) as well the metal inner frame that was painted gold.

yes, these kosmos leds (just like the original bandai ones) require complete disassembly of the kit to install them as the kit has lots of internal channels throughout the body to route the wires.

@@skhobbies time to get to work then,,hahaha!!thanks for the quick response..appreciate it

always! Bandai did well with exia, it is actually fine to work with to disassemble and cable routes are spacious.

If it’s a copy, then the design is ok? Or do you not like the original version? In any case, to each their own.

lol. It’s a hobby knife from olfa. I use 2. One with a regular hobby knife blade and another with a needle attachment instead. The little stands come with the knives and make it super easy to store and access them on your work desk :)

thank you! im glad my video helped you make an informed decision about this product. i was too very disappointed by the quality of this release from heatboys. their leo and mikey mechas are absolute fire and great value, while this - i am keeping it in the van form tucked away :))

It is! What do you think about the manual?

i know what you mean, i have the same regret with the collector's edition of elden ring - the statue they got there is just bananas. w/r to the weta statue - i saw that one a few times - absolute masterpiece but, as you said, it is waaaaay too big. if they made a scaled down version - id consider most definitely. for now, im happy with this knock-off (compared to Weta lol) version of Titus.

oh man, sorry to hear that! unfortunately, 3rd party kits can be like that sometimes - not always consistent quality control. Even the like of In Era+. i hope the rest of the build goes well for you as the final result is definitely spectacular.

Thanks! Just a regular hakko iron and solder wire. The LEDs were fine out of the box, it was my carelessness that led to me ripping one wire off. Whether it is easy or not - I can’t say as it depends on your comfort level with the soldering iron and the kind of damage you’re trying to repair. You can see more soldering on my MG narrative build Timelapse.

@@skhobbies Thanks checked the video out and what was that orange tool you used with the solder iron in the mg narrative build? Is it a similar tool to what you used in this one? Also damn the solder iron is expensive, hopefully I can buy a decent one without needing to spend too much

the little tube? thats the soldering wire. it melts easily and bonds your wires together. i didnt have to use it on PG Exia as it had a wire detached from pin (which already has solder on it, so i just warmed that up and re-attached the wire), i think this hakko one i got was like 50 canadian, so not too bad.

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@skhobbies Ahh those silver bits are the solder. So if I were to accidentally break a wire where there isn't any solder I'll need that stuff and damn you got for a nice price. Also just two more things are whats that black looking pen when you solder here and do you wear a mask or anything for the fumes?

yeah, you will need solder to repair a wire or connect 2 separate wires. when you solder, you dont melt the wires themselves you melt the solder which is a softer materials that binds the wires you want to connect. black pen? i think thats the plastic spudger. just a prying tool i use to disassemble or manipulate parts. its a prying kit from ifixit. very cheap and handy. and yes, i always have my ventilation running full blast, a window open, and wearing 3m full facepiece respirator with appropriate vapor filters. i do that when i use thinner or soldering or other activities that generate acrid smell or vapors. id strongly recommend doing that as lung damage is not something you can recover from.

Congrats! The box is massive, innit ?) yup, reg grey on white. Black on darker plastic. If I top coat I only do it on parts disassembled, as a whole kit. It takes more time and require care when assembling but it’s worth it.

@@skhobbies Yeah its a lot bigger in person that I struggled to find space for it 😂 Definitely want to build some of my backlog so I can keep it somewhere. Looked at the decal guide and its pretty well done. Did you just have to recognise each piece for each decal before applying? Also need to get that thing that holds your parts to apply decals on seems like a good investment.

yes, the manual for this kit is exceptional. i truly hope bandai and other brands pick up from it and do the same. when i do decals - i cross the numbers off the page with a pen, and i use a moisturized box (off of aliexpress - decal moisturizier box, goes for like 5 bucks), or simply a wet palette. and i use 2 dspiae vises: Dspiae AT-TV (bigger) and AT-MV (smaller). other than that - its just a bunch of precision cotton qtips off of amazon, mr mark setter and some thin dspiae tweezers.

@@babynuget1591 lol thank you for watching!

it sure is and thank you for the kind words! my opinion so far remains unchanged - it is a fantastic figure. nothing has broken off yet and ive been meddling with it on my shelf changing the poses here and there on the daily. on the contrary - i think the smaller finicky parts of this model are executed rather well and hard to break off unintentionally. but of course it depends on how gentle or rough one is with their figures. i tend to be very, very gentle with my stuff.

@@kirbymarchbarcena it is indeed quite a disappointment especially given how good their mechaheat series has been so far. It took my hours to transform mine into the van mode and as I mentioned in the video I ended up going by touch rather than instructions as those are crap. And even though I didn’t break anything, there a lot of scratch marks and I will definitely never transform it into the mecha mode.

You probably still can!

Showzstore for 280. I just got my in… wow.

congrats - im sure youll love the figure!

@@skhobbies you definitely still can. I just ordered one from Japan (using eBay) 3 days ago and it already arrived here in the US.

awesome! mine works fine as you move it around. so it might be a loose connection on your unit seems like. the way the head LED is executed is like a part of the ball join to which the head is attached. so you can actually take the head off and see the LED itself at the top of the neck sticking out of the ball joint. so it should not matter if you turn the head as the led is not part of the head (rather the neck) and as far as i can tell the neck has no sideways movement only back and forth and once again - on my unit the led stays on. PS: appreciate your view and comment :))

@@skhobbies ah. It seems that my unit is somewhat faulty, which is a shame but I still love this figure regardless. Thank you for the response.

always! and sorry to hear that. i dont think that leds are user-replaceable in this one so it might only be fixed through replacement maybe. but tbh, at least for me - though they are cool looking unless you plan to wire them with USB power, the batts run out quickly anyway so you cant leave them on for long.... the figure is indeed absolute fire!

This kosmos set does have a manual included. But it only covers the remote functionality and the apps. Entire installation is same as the original LED kit from Bandai. They published the manual on their website too.