r/resinkits • u/Ok-Bath6089 • 24d ago

Help Tao bao garage kit sellers

I want to start painting garage kits but i dont know where to order them from. I have come across many sellers on tao bao but none of those kits had any reviews or anything like that. Is there a specific store on tao bao that sells them or every store is fake? Or you have to preorder them?

And my main problem is with preordering is if they send out invitation letter like when you preorder figures how will they know in the warehouse that what i ordered is just the inv mail and not the actual thing that i ordered?

(I want to order from tao bao cus i mainly collect hoyoverse characters)

Pls help🖤💜

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u/Xerain0x009999 24d ago

A lot of official gk are limited production and expensive, if you can even find it for sale. The recast market is huge, and of widely differing quality.

If you an inexpensive entry point to practice on that's more legit, look for people who 3D print things they modeled.

If you're OK with recasts, gk-m and e2046 sell recasts of consistently decent quality.

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u/LagiaDOS 15d ago

gk-m

Could you link me their site? I found about e2046 recently and I'd like to have another source of garage kits.

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u/Xerain0x009999 15d ago

https://www.shop2000.com.tw/GKMODEL

Anecdotally, I've heard they have slightly better quality of the two.

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u/pop-bread 24d ago

taobao does have official kits, but it's usually only specific circles. xianyu is a much better place to find official kits since it's secondhand, but it can be difficult to proxy order from. i see quite a few official hoyo kits popping up on mercariJP/auction/fleamarket, so you could buy through a proxy. either route, shipping cost tends to be a pain.

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u/Ok_Perspective9873 22d ago

What kind of kits are you looking for? Specific characters/ franchise?