Gunpla (plastic model kits) are designed to be built and displayed without the need for painting. Kits are molded in different colours replicating the colours of the actual mecha from the Gundam series. A technique called colour separation, where multiple parts of the model are molded in different colours on the same sprue is also used. Gundam kits often include stickers or water-slide decals that can be applied to the model to enhance its appearance. Some Gunpla kits come with pre-painted parts or parts with pre-applied details, such as metallic or translucent finishes. Many modelers still choose to paint their kits to customize and add further detail. Painting allows for more creativity and personalization, enabling modelers to achieve unique effects, weathering, and colour schemes that may not be available out of the box. However, the kits are designed to be enjoyable and visually appealing even without painting, making them accessible to a wide range of hobbyists. Lets take a look at the revived version of the Gundam Mk ii in the Titans colour scheme! Despite the dark coloured plastic, the nubs were surprisingly easy to clean. For stickers, you get the front and back cameras, the eyes and two more for the chest sensors. Decals include numbers from 01 to 03 depending on your preferred unit. Note that the Titans Test Team decals were added on separately and do not come along with the kit. We just went along with it to make it stand out more :D  Front View:Rear View:Articulation:Its actually quite impressive on this kit. The neck has two joins, above which connects to the head, and one at the base of the neck so it allows the head to be tilted really far up! You can get some great flying poses with that! The arms can go really far out and the elbows are well designed double joints allowing for great flexibility! The fist can touch the shoulder. The waist can go all the way around. The Legs can go out really far as well! The knees are double jointed as well, but due to the design cannot bend that far. The ankles have ball joints so they can rotate and swivel side to side. The whole structure of the kit though is really solid :D Nice subtle details. The ankles has visible pistons and the hose pipes on the back knee have ridges to simulate bends. Accessories:The Gundam comes along with a plethora of weapons. Starting with those on the mobile suit itself, mounted on the backpack are two Beam Sabers! A rotatable shield that can be mounted on either arm.. A really cool Beam rifle with an extra movable handle that can swivel out. The Bazooka, sadly no extra ammo clips :/ The rear skirt of the Gundam has a hatch that can be opened out to mount the Bazooka And finally, though the Gundam's design did not include head vulcan guns, you do get this piece for the external Vulcan pods. Surprisingly detailed! To sum up, this kit is really well designed and a lot of fun to put together. Its sturdiness combined with its great articulation and weapon loadouts give a lot of options for a wide variety of action poses! This is the High Grade 1/144 RX-178 Gundam Mk-II Revive. •DETAIL• The first thing I’m going to say about this kit is that it looks awesome! No matter which of the two versions you get, this is just an awesome looking mobile suit! It’s a really great representation of the Gundam Mk-II as it’s seen in the anime. Depending on which version you get, the amount of panel lining needed on this kit will be either very minimal or just minimal. One of the good thinks about the Gundam Mk-II is that it’s never had terribly many panel lines. Because of it’s brighter coloring, the A.E.U.G. version needs more panel lining work than the Titans version does, and both kits require very minimal paintwork to get them looking the way they do on the box. Both kits include the same sticker decals for the eyes, head cameras, body cameras, and weapon sights, however, only the Titans version includes a separate set of unit number decals to let you pick the unit number for it you want. •ACCESSORIES• Whether you buy the Titans or the A.E.U.G. version of this kit, you’re going to get the exact same accessories since both kits have all the exact same pieces, just in different colors. With this kit, you’re going to get one beam rifle, one hyper bazooka, one vulcan pod that attaches to the head, two beam saber hilts, two beam saber blades, one adapter to attach the shield to the bottom of the arm, one adapter to attach the shield to the side of the arm, and one shield. The shield can be attached to either arm, and both the beam rifle and hyper bazooka can be held it either the left or the right hand. The beam rifle is mainly designed to be held in the right hand, but again, it will fit in the left hand, too. •ARTICULATION• To start, how good the head articulation is depends on whether you do or don’t have the vulcan pod unit attached to the head. The head can rotate a full 360 degrees whether it has the vulcan pod unit on or not, however, the head is much easier to rotate without the vulcan pod unit on because there’s less fiddling around with the head you have to do. The head can also look down, and thanks to a hinge on the neck, can look up quite far. Each arm rotates a full 360 degrees at the shoulders, and while they don’t swing forward, they do swing upward (similar to the HG 1/144 RX-78-2 Revive). The arms move all the way outward, rotate a full 360 at the biceps, and get a full double bend at the elbows. The hands are on ball joints, so they each rotate a full 360, tilt up and down, and tilt side to side. You get a good forward bend at the abdomen, but not much side to side rotation at the waist. The legs move all the way forward, all the way outward, and a little bit backward. The knees are double jointed, however, because of the shape of the legs, you only bend at the knee just a little past the halfway point. The feet are on a polycap hinge and balljoint, giving them a really good range of forward backward movement, and a decent side to side tilt. •GIMMICK• This is a pretty straight forward kit, so it doesn’t really have many gimmicks. The beam sabers attach to the backpack, and the back skirt has a section that flips out to attach the hyper bazooka to the back skirt. Also, the shield can replicate the collapsed form by pegging the lower section of the shield into near the top section of it. •MY ISSUES WITH THE KIT• This is one of those kits where it’s actually difficult for me to find things to nitpick about. The vulcan pod unit can make posing the head a little difficult, and I don’t like the limited range of rotation at the waist. I’m also not crazy about the bend at the knees, but being High Grade kit, there wasn’t too much Bandai could do to avoid that, given the design of the legs. •FINAL THOUGHTS• All in all, this is a really well done kit, and I really like both the Titans and A.E.U.G. versions of it. |
