>>11449353
Weathering is one thing I really really really still don't get, but I'm someone who, since childhood, have been inconsolable if I see a tiny defect or scratch on a toy I like. Trying to consider it as battle damage didn't help, because I liked things being pristine. However, I did have more fun building kits for things I don't care about, and I play with them more because they're cheap and expendable, the nub marks or mistakes don't really bother me for those, in comparison to the things I really treasure and therefore rarely handle. So I guess I could buy a cheap Zaku I or the even cheaper EG RX and give it a try. It's just that (severe) weathering never really looked nice to me. I'm aware it'll get banged up in the battlefield but I'd prefer that it get repaired and be freshened up before the next sortie, a lot of people like realism but I like the cartoon or video game look.
>>11434451
That being said, this looks really nice though, and I wouldn't have noticed the weathering unless you mentioned it. The tiny scratches on the skirt is tasteful and the slight amount of greyness/darkness/?? still makes it look like it's straight out of a video game (but apparently it's from IBO, I've just started the first episode)