Ah ShenX Tech, Shenxing Azure Dragon... you were looked forward to and such a disappointment. I feel kind of terrible for this guy. The box was absolutely huge and was a priority this year because frankly, I could fit about four girl kits in the space it was taking up on my backlog.
He took me from early February through May until I was done with him. It started with me making bins of all the pieces needed for each of his identical 20 body pieces (only the head, tail area, and leg-attach spaces are different) and working on cutting, sanding, cleaning, and assembling them like a one person assembly line. It took weeks. And the plastic felt awful, of all the kits I did this year this kit's chunky plastic was about as annoying as Apex, but at least Apex has significantly fewer parts and connection points to deal with. Every time I pushed pieces together, my fingers ached from all the spikes and points and the sheer pressure needed to put him together. In the end, the pegs holding on the leg joints are so small and bad that any amount of posing just pops them off. He's spent the time since just in a box instead of on display. Absolute waste of a fantastic design. It completely felt like it'd been designed in a virtual space and no one had put together samples of it and really put it through it's paces when it was done. I really wanted to have fun posing him with some of my other kits and the joints fall off at the smallest touch.
Just an absolute misery time of a kit, and I worked on it daily to get it done. I can't advise this guy unless you're either really into difficult to build kits or REALLY into dragons. And I mean REALLY into them, enough to get past the utter misery that was this guy.
Biggest disappointment for me this year.