It was quite a bit of work to make this GK look as good as the sample picture, but I enjoyed working on the figure and slowly seeing the transformation from a very plain mostly colored GK to a beautiful detailed figure. The GK itself is very well made and requires some finishing but the details are all very well represented and all the pieces fit well together. Im really happy with how it turned out and this being only my 2nd Garage Kit ever I was a bit worried I might not do a decent job building this Makinami Mari. However; the kit is very well made and the manual was easy enough to figure out even though it's all in Japanese.