My son's Christmas present went from SD last year to HG this year.
For some reason, my son loves Banshee, even though he's not familiar with the movie.
In fact, I wasn't able to buy the HG last year, so I gave him the SD and a pair of nippers. After that, I saw the HG in the store and hid it until this Christmas.
When my son came to me for help because the parts wouldn't fit, I told him to read the instruction manual carefully, and that those kinds of things are part of the fun of plastic models, so he put it together himself.
Even though I wanted to get in the way while he was assembling it so messily, I resisted the urge to intervene.

HG in the second year | pokio's Gunpla works