1/6 AK47 from Red Horse

Wow, look what just came in today. A pair of customized AK47.


Such a big box for two guns? what a waste of space. Well, at least they took good care of the guns by wrapping it in lots of bubble wrap.


Oh, crap, it's broken !


The very thing that I've should've done first, consult the instruction manual.

I've manage to purchace a pair of customized AKs manufactured by Red Horse from my regular store at XL-Shop. Judging from the pictures at the internet and the XL forum, it looked good. But pictures could be decieving. Here's reasons why these guns don't worth RM98 for both.

Some assembly required.
When I notice that the scope wouldn't attach to the rifle, I knew something was wrong. After flipping through the instruction manual, only i realize that it need to be glued (note the blood drop icon on the lower left of each picture in the manual). WTH do i need glue for 1/6 military stuff? I'm not playing with Gundam. If compared to other 1/6 weapons like Dragon make and bbi, all gluing and assembly of weapons are done at the factory and not the user.

Is it 21C?
Frankly speaking, i'm disappointed at the build of these rifles. It's moulded as a one piece with additional addons. If you are clueless what i'm talking about, take a look at 21st Century or Hasbro GI Joe and you'd get the idea. Although the quality for a one piece weapon looks much better than 21C and Hasbro, yet it's no excuse not to follow the foot steps of Dragon which utilized multiple pieces and parts to make it look as real as possible especially when i'm paying almost to a hundred ringgit for this most hyped weapon set.

They could've given more
At RM50 a piece, that's amost double the price for a loose weapon salvaged from boxed figures. Even the rare Dragon G36 don't even cost that much. If Red Horse have improved in the quality of the rifle and strap (i can't believe they use cheapo strap that comes loose) then i might accepted it, but since they did a shitty job, it can only be compensated if it came in a set of 5 rifles instead of just 2.

And the irony is that i've already paid for the 50 caliber bereta sniper rifle which is due for collection on Tuesday. Hope that one don't sux that bad or else i'd really boycot Red Horse.