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If you are interested to know what is the best built DOM ever amongst the High Grade kits, then read on

Ladies and Gentlemen, please meet the MS-09R-2 a.k.a. Rick DOM II. Nothing really special can be said about the box the kit comes in. The original drawing was made by BEE-CRAFT (also known as Junichi AKUTSU) and all you can see is this:

But believe me — this model, once assembled, is far from a walking kettle with bazooka

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There is no point in repeating myself about this particular kit’s shortcomings as this is the exact copy of 2000 release with some additions and different colouring. By the way, the plastic was still quite fragile even though this kit was made 2 years after the other (or was it really?). Let us concentrate on what is unique about it now that you can actually see it:

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Here we go… Let’s have a look at these assembled but not painted MS-09F Doms. Coming first is the oldest one — released in 2000 — just to remind you :)). I do not know if plastic can age over time, but that is exactly the impression I got while putting both 2000 and 2002 versions together. I already mentioned that some kits’ dark blue molds are somehow more brittle than details of other colours, but in case of these Universal Century models everything seemed to be rather fragile… Go figure. Anyway, this is how its front and rear look like (to view the picture in more detail click on it):

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For those of you who are wondering whether I got my MCSE 2000 upgraded or not — well, there is one more MCSE 2003 on this planet since mid-April

Let me begin my review of various Doms available from BANDAI in 1/144 scale with this 2000/2002 version of UC High Grade MS-09F Domtropen kit, just because it is the oldest I was able to find (more…)