Kit Review

Straight build
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MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish (1/8)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish (2/8)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish (3/8)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish (4/8)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish (5/8)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish (6/8)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish (7/8)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish (8/8)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - Upper body. Depending on the angle, you can see deep, rich shimmer that looks complete

Upper body.
Depending on the angle, you can see deep, rich shimmer that looks completely different.

Head

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - Backpack section. The white on the propellant tank parts has the same marble-like coat

Backpack section.
The white on the propellant tank parts has the same marble-like coating as the Unicorn Titanium Finish.

Arm section

Leg section

The three-dimensional shimmer radiating from those rippling, muscular thighs..

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - Action pose (1/5)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - Action pose (2/5)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - Action pose (3/5)

Action pose

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - Flight pose using Action Base 1. Enjoy it from every angle! *^^* (1/6)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - Flight pose using Action Base 1. Enjoy it from every angle! *^^* (2/6)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - Flight pose using Action Base 1. Enjoy it from every angle! *^^* (3/6)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - Flight pose using Action Base 1. Enjoy it from every angle! *^^* (4/6)

Flight pose using Action Base 1.
Enjoy it from every angle! *^^*

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - Firing pose (1/7)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - Firing pose (2/7)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - Firing pose (3/7)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - Firing pose (4/7)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - Firing pose (5/7)

Firing pose

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - Action with the shield beam parts (1/4)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - Action with the shield beam parts (2/4)

Action with the shield beam parts

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - Double beam tomahawk action (1/4)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - Double beam tomahawk action (2/4)

Double beam tomahawk action

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - Beam saber action (1/4)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - Beam saber action (2/4)

Beam saber action

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - The so-called "Gunbuster pose," oozing that cocky attitude.. (1/4)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - The so-called "Gunbuster pose," oozing that cocky attitude.. (2/4)

The so-called "Gunbuster pose," oozing that cocky attitude..

Together with the Unicorn Titanium Finish.
Both show top-tier coating quality.

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - The coating on the Unicorn's white base color and the Sinanju's white propellant tank

The coating on the Unicorn's white base color and the Sinanju's white propellant tank parts looks virtually identical.

Together with the standard Sinanju.

Both of them are just incredibly cool~

We just have to compare it with the MG Sazabi metallic coating version.

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - At first glance I thought the coating quality would be similar, but comparing them up

At first glance I thought the coating quality would be similar,
but comparing them up close, the Titanium Finish is clearly superior.
The difference isn't huge in photos, but in person the Sinanju's coating is noticeably more even and the color is much richer.

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - Together with the HGUC Sazabi metallic coating version, which had been showing the bes

Together with the HGUC Sazabi metallic coating version, which had been showing the best coating quality of any recent release.
It's better than the MG version, but it still gets completely outclassed by the ultra-high quality of the Titanium Finish.

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish - The red coating trio.. All three are great as plated kits. Though of course the Titani

The red coating trio..
All three are great as plated kits.
Though of course the Titanium Finish is in a league of its own..

Following the MG Unicorn Titanium Finish, the MG Sinanju has now gotten its own Titanium Finish version (nicknamed "Gwang-anju" — the "shiny Sinanju"). The Titanium Finish, first introduced on the MG Unicorn, is a coating method where titanium is mixed into the topcoat — the final step of the coating process — to boost the level of gloss.MG Unicorn
Titanium Finish reviewfor a full explanation of the process in Korean.)

Basically, with metallic coated products, the process goes: first lay down a silver base coat, then apply a clear coat in the desired color on top, and finally finish with a topcoat (gloss finish). The problem with this process is that it's very hard to achieve white — the silver base ends up being the closest thing to white you can get with this coating method. Since the color behind the clear coat is silver, there's no way around it, which is why Nu Gundam and other Gundam-type plated kits all ended up coming out in silver.

The Titanium Finish was developed to solve this problem. Instead of laying down a silver gloss base coat underneath, you lay down white or a primary color as the base, and then incorporate a glossy material — titanium — into the topcoat itself to create the shine at the surface level. It's essentially the method Bandai came up with to achieve the white coating on the Unicorn. The results are truly outstanding, delivering a level of luxurious gloss unlike anything seen before.

And now this top-tier Titanium Finish coating has been applied to the greatest MG of all, the Sinanju. The quality of the MG Sinanju speaks for itself — as its all-time high score shows, it's a kit that's been recognized as a masterpiece in every respect. When a masterpiece kit gets a masterpiece coating, the synergy is something else.

First of all, the quality of the red coating under the Titanium Finish name is in a class of its own — nothing else comes close. It's not a cheap, flashy gloss, but rather an incredibly deep, rich shimmer with real depth to it. At first glance it looked similar to the MG Sazabi or HGUC Sazabi metallic coatings, but putting them side by side made the difference in quality immediately obvious. There's no bleeding or blotching anywhere — the coating is perfectly even all over, and that deep, mellow color just gives it a genuinely "premium" feel.

One thing I will say is that compared to other plated kits, the Titanium Finish really doesn't photograph well. I think it's because the gloss flows across the surface in a way that's tied to the special surface material itself, making it hard for a camera to capture that characteristic shine. The same was true of the MG Unicorn Titanium Finish — most people who've seen it in person are always surprised by how much more lustrous and marble-like it looks compared to the photos. That's just how difficult it is to photograph the titanium surface gloss.

Natural light is probably what you'd need to really capture that prismatic, rainbow-scattering quality of the Titanium Finish coating, so please keep in mind that the real thing looks far better than the review photos suggest. (That said, the presence it has even in photos is pretty impressive..) Also, as with most plated kits, the tighter tolerances mean the joints are even sturdier. The joint strength on the standard version is already good, but given the kit's size and weight, there were moments where more demanding poses felt a little unstable — with this Titanium Finish version, whatever pose you put it in, it just locks right in and stays there. ^^;

And of course with a plated kit, gate marks are always a concern. This kit doesn't use undergates, so gate marks are unavoidable. But unlike the Unicorn, where they were quite noticeable in various spots, the gate marks here are surprisingly unobtrusive — probably because the base color is matched well. As you can see in the review photos, they're visible if you look closely, but they're not the kind of thing that jumps out and bothers you. (Though that may vary from person to person.) It might also be that the intense red of the coating just swallows them up visually.

I have my own personal rule of not applying decals or seals to plated kits, so this review was done with just a straight build and the gold stickers — but even so, I think this is hands-down the greatest kit you can build straight out of the box. Plenty of people have always painted their Sazabi and Sinanju in metallic coatings, but honestly, no matter how skilled a painter you are, replicating the depth of the Titanium Finish — made with actual special metallic materials mixed in — is not going to be easy.

In the end, the meeting of a masterpiece kit and a masterpiece coating is a resounding success, and I think this kit will go down in history as one that radiates incredible presence straight out of the box with no extra work. It feels like when Yuna Kim set an unprecedented world record at the 2010 Winter Olympics — a record so extraordinary that even she herself would struggle to top it. I don't think we'll be seeing another fantastic combination like this in a special coating kit from Bandai anytime soon.. :-)

MG Sinanju Ver. Ka - Titanium Finish | 2010. 2 | ¥12,000

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.