Gundam Xi complete per @ask-the-toy-box ‘s request. This version of the Xi Gundam was featured in the Netflix exclusive Gundam film Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway (Hathaway’s Flash in Japan) based upon the novel trilogy of Hathaway’s Flash. The big difference between this version and the version in the novels is that the novel version has a red and blue colored chest.
This is a beefy kit that looks really cool but is let down by the lack of articulation. The ways in which I articulated it here in these photos is about the limits of its articulation. Not sure why Hathaway Noa would get a mobile suit that can only turn its waist about 20 degrees.
Size comparison time! All size comparisons use the same 1/144 scale. Here it is with the OG RX78-2:
Here it is with the Nu Gundam:
And here it is with the Unicorn:
Do not zoom in too much on the Unicorn. It was one of my earliest kits and I made almost every first timer mistake with it.
I also tired my hand at painting details in by painting the thrusters red for accuracy.
Now, should you buy this kit? Maybe. If you really think it’s cool and really want it on your self go ahead, but the price tag is ridiculous for what the kit can actually do. I got mine for 40% at Hobby Lobby and even then felt like I overpaid when I built the kit and tried posing it. Maybe I’ll change my mind when the other two movies come out if they are good enough to create an emotional attachment with the suit.
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"The Gundams from Hathaway's Flash aren't real and they can't hurt you".
The Gundams from Hathaway's Flash:
These guys aren't friend shaped at all. But the designs really bring home the idea of giant mechas as something monstruous, it's fascinating, actually.
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Time for another 30MM boi I am happy with! With more then one picture even!
We goin for a chonky short boi this time. Originally I had used four (yes FOUR) of those three-piece shields to give this orange guy a huge set of shield wings. An idea I've had for a long time, and I really like... but it didn't end up really working out on him like I hoped. So I took him to the desk, tore off the backpack, and started the good ol' process of fiddling.
I recommend the 30MM line to people who like tinkering with things. It's not a totally blank canvas like generic lego blocks can be, but its also pretty open ended thanks to the modular nature of the line's design. So if you liked, say, going through different body/weapon combinations in oh I dunno Armored Core or something, it feels a lot like that when doing the most typical level of customizing with this line.
Oh also Bandai may have announced that their AC6 model kits are actually gonna be part of the 30MM line and not like, the regular HG line of gundams or something so like... not saying my comparing 30MM to AC since the line existed was objectively correct but also it was totally objectively correct.
Melee weapons with guns either strapped to them or built into them are GOAT, btw, and always the correct choice. Even if I clearly did connect the guns both upside down and by the magazine/clip to the super sized blade.
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Well since she was ease dropping. Let's get Mikan opinion, Mikan how do you fill about your whole life being lost. Than having it called "not that good"?
Umm.......about that...u-uh, um...
Was...was I a bad person...?
Huh...?
I...I briefly heard you speak of m-my life before... A-And you were all so....c-cautious when you looked at me when I woke up...
S-S-So.....i-is it true...? W-W-Was a bad....wh-what was I like before...?
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Well....w-well, um....
Tell her.
Huh? B-But-
We can't keep dancing around this subject forever. She has to learn sooner or later, may as well be now.
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Okay then.....
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Xi Gundam vs Penelope by ryan_syan
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