Honestly it is a beautiful kit and biggest and baddest but suffers from bad ...
345891
Honestly it is a beautiful kit and biggest and baddest but suffers from bad design considering that while i was assembling the model kit broke one of the pieces for the wing to connect to the backpack. ON closer inspection i see that literally the connector part has like holes in it instead of being a solid peg you would think considering its gonna hold a ton of weight like the 4 dragoons on one side. But no it has all these empty holes  for some reason which would in my mind make it more fragile and dissolve the integrity of the piece itself. Like Bandai skimped on the amount of plastic they wanted to throw down for this kit cutting out as much as they could to save. All in all be very CAREFUL with the wings when assembling and constructing them as they are very fragile .
2168810
Kit wasn't that hard to put together and now it looks great on m shelf right beside my wing proto zero 1/100. It looks beautiful and makes me reminisce about the gundam seed series. I only have three complaints. First, the wings are quite fragile and hard to put together with some parts refusing to stay together to the point that doing so would cause stress and harm to your fingers. Second, the hands are quite sub par as they cannot hold the gun and shield properly to the point they always slant. Also, the wings are so heavy that is has a hard time standing on its own unless you put it in the right position. Overall, this so far is my favorite master grade kit, and I will be putting more together in the future.
4768560
I like this bike as an end product, the 58cm frame is comfortably sized for a 6'2" rider, stick handlebars are a must, and the frame has a very solid feel to it.  I have to take off a star because while inflating the rear tire to its recommended tire pressure it popped like a cheap balloon.  And because the kit is such a mess of different sizes which required me to stop partway through installation to buy a set of metric allen wrenches.  Thankfully I did buy new tires and tubes beforehand because I'd read about the poor quality of the tires/tubes in another review... and because the blue and white tires look a little too "fabulouth" for me.

Additional items not in this kit you will need to correctly build this bicycle:
4, 5, and 6 millimeter Allen wrenches
10, 14, and 15 millimeter sockets
A narrow crescent wrench
two 700c x 32 tire tubes
two 700c x 32 tires, kevlar recommended
A bike tire lever (I installed without one, but my wrists regretted it!)

That said, I would buy this bike over again if I knew then what I know now.  I had 3 people comment on how beautiful the bike looks on the first day I owned it.
4579227
On the positive side, it looks great.  It is also larger than it really needs to be.

On the negative side as you put it together parts start falling off.  This is frustrating, more so in the dark.  Even after getting it all put together, should you try to move it, something falls off again.

Count on having to glue the parts together as well as using screws to secure the parts.
2734001
Not a bad kit overall, but there is flash (excess plastic) on almost every piece. And sometimes to an excessive degree. This is especially noticeable on all the railings, which are thin so sanding must be done very carefully. It can become quite tedious and try your patience, even that of a modeler. The detail on the pieces is quite nice, most notably on the hull, deck, and conning tower. There was a slight bend on my upper hull causing a small gap between it and the deck. If you enjoy this category and detail sanding is your thing, have at it, but I wouldn't spend more than $25-30 on it.
510965
The chips are simply beautiful. The colors altough all the denominatins are mostly black can be easily told apart from each other thanks to the stripes+  Middle sticker. Great weight, a bit difficult to handle if you like doing chip tricks though. Now for the bad part, the case is awful, a few stickers are poorly glued and the other extras are also sub standard but I would  buy 100 more if the manufacturer corrects these flaws
3247938
Pro:
- Well designed
- Well Built
- Great package
- Great price

Cons:
- TBD
2432454
Beautiful and well constructed, but the center console part was damaged due to inadequate packaging and had to be returned. It's too bad because it's really a gorgeous piece, and would have looked great in my space. When I returned it, they said that they weren't selling any more at this time because of the issues with damage. Really unfortunate. If they fixed the packaging issues so it would arrive unscathed, I would be very tempted to try it again because I really haven't found anything I like better.
1321777
yes, i was warned by other reviews of this toy.  it IS gorgeous, detailed, beautiful, and the 4-year-old grandson is ECSTATIC. hasn't put it down since he got it.  but it's sad but true-- almost every part falls off, over and over, and not because of rough play-- the parts just drop off.  it's a good thing he's figured out how to put most of them back on, but eventually his mom will superglue everything but the doors, i bet.
4365628
I like it because it has the makings of a good starter set -- I bought it to start experimenting with basic techniques, hoping to turn painting into a hobby.  But there are some downsides to this set, which is sad because it had so much potential........

1) the carrying case and wood thumb palette are not made of a finished wood, so you have to be careful of splinters when handling them.
2) the drawer isn't big enough to hold everything in the kit.  The small color paints it comes with fit, but the tubes of black and white don't fit, nor does any other size paint.  Neither of the white mixing trays fit, the magnetic model man certainly doesn't.  So all I really have in my drawer is the color wheel, brushes, and pencils.
3) the hinges on the case don't stay closed very well so you'll frequently have the easel open up when you pick it up to carry.  The same hinges are used for the drawer and I would worry about that opening in transit as well.

The brushes, paints, and canvases seem to be good for starters, and the color wheel is good (though difficult to turn)....... but I think you might get better quality if you bought these items separately.
2004550
First the positive:
The 6 piece nativity  set is very beautiful. It's  very high end looking with subtle colors and not at all tacky like a lot of sets that I see everywhere. I love that their are add on sets.
Then the negative:
Joseph's staff  is kind of scary, I'm  always worried that his arm will be broken off when being taken out of the box or being put away. I also was a little disappointed  that the figures are hollow. Any of the other willow tree figures that I own are solid. I still would have  wanted to buy these but I do wish that I would have known prior to purchasing.
85383
My six year old son absolutely loves this and the design is very good, but the construction is not so good, as at least one other reviewer has pointed out.  Contrary to that person's problem, in ours the balls are a little too small for the cups so no matter how hard you squeeze, the balls still fall out.  So this trick cannot be done.  The sword through the box doesn't work very well either.  It's almost impossible to do the trick without giving it away.  If they improve the construction, this would be the perfect magic kit for kids.
3227450
Now, I haven't bought this on amazon, but you'll have to believe me on what I say:

This is a nice kit. Except, there's a lot of issues I had. It seems like one of the obvious 1/35 rescales Dragon has released. Basically, they take their 1/35 version, then just quickly lose some details. This is the one issue with this tank. The details are crisp, and flash is non existent. There are the famous DS tracks that are glueable with normal glue. It's a great kit, for anyone wanting this piece of history.

However, my gripe: Details. This tank has very low amount of details. Some of these details are historically inaccurate. For instance, the hull machine gunner port is not there. This means you'll either have to cut a hole in the front armor, and add it, or just put a piece of polystyrene on the front to simulate the door they used to conceal the gunner. Things like grab handles, periscopes, cable ties, and whatnot are molded on, rather than hollow, which takes away the realism, and this kit doesn't come with any PE parts, so no screen meshes over the engine and radiator.

On my build, I scratch built them all. But usually dragon should include this stuff.

Is this a good kit? Yes. I would give it a 3.5. But for Dragon standards, this is nothing like the rest. This is more like Trumpeter quality kit.
3416640
I like this kit for it's design once built, but there are alot of road bumps on the head. In the show the Winning has a very vibrant yellow that out right pops ! This kit however has a rather cream-ish dull yellow plastic. I ended up repainting the vibrant yellow I wanted it too be.

Aside from that I didn't really have much difficulty. The most difficult bit was painting the teat of her saw blade on her shield as the part is entirely orange . Would of loved it better if the saw portion of the radome shield separate and casted in a different colored plastic because atleast then the saw can actually spin and you wouldn't have to work so hard to paint it.
3774387
This kit is okay, but it could have been so much better.  The black beads are matte, which is ok, but there were so many beads that I had to toss because they weren't shaped right.  One end of the bead would be straight across, the other end would be angled, badly.  I finally put away the black beads (another project, another day) and bought some tohos online that I knew would be much better quality than the beads that came in this kit.  That's a lot of beads to replace.  I'm feeling pretty 'meh' about this kit.  I got one in white/gold as well and had the same problem with the white beads.  Seems to be a quality control issue.  I doubt I'll be buying any more of these kits.  If you're new to kumihimo, I wouldn't totally rule this kit out.  Kits can be a really good way of getting started in a new craft.  I got the kits (sorry, but true) out of laziness.  It's worth mentioning that maybe someone else might be ok with some 'not so perfect' beads, but I'm a beader and a perfectionist, so this kit was a bad buy for me....but I don't completely regret it.  You'll have plenty of s-lon left over when you're done, enough to easily make another necklace....so there's that.  :)
1539809
For an old kit, it is pretty solid. A few fit issues, but easily corrected by an experienced modeller. My main complaint is that the kit has been created as a "gear-down" kit. If you want to build it "gear-up," you are on your own, as there are no instructions to do so and the pieces to cover the landing gear bays don't fully fit or cover the gap. Lots of improvising there...
3220809
The kit is a medium level build, but once it's done it becomes worth the extra effort. The shield does have a bit of trouble when trying to have it close to the body, so left arm potability is slightly lacking but overall the model is fantastic and masterfully detailed.