Gundam Wing Model Kits

Gunpla Build - Real Grade Tallgeese Followup 2021-01-02

In 2019 and 2020, I built a number of model kits without finishing my writeups on them, and without doing any photo shoots. I got a whole bunch of new kits for the holidays, and one of my short term New’s Years resolutions was to go back and revisit these older kits before building anything new. I decided to tackle them in the order I built them. Here then is my followup on the Real Grade Tallgeese, which I built way back in Feb/March of 2020.

I really didn’t have any fun with the Tallgeese build. Even though I never took photos of the finished model, and even though I never properly reviewed it, I actually did write a final post for it, where I flat out stated that I was too demoralized to do any of that. There was a lot about the model (and the build) that I was frustrated with, most especially the fact that I broke a key part.

But hey, it’s been almost a year since then. Let’s see if time healed old wounds. Just wait here while I pull the Tallgeese off the shelf shoot some poses:

Gunpla Build - High Grade Gundam Sandrock Followup 2021-01-01

In 2019 and 2020, I built a number of model kits without finishing my writeups on them, and without doing any photo shoots. I got a whole bunch of new kits for the holidays, and one of my short term New’s Years resolutions was to go back and revisit these older kits before building anything new. I decided to tackle them in the order I built them. Here then is my followup on the Gundam Sandrock, which I built way back in November of 2019.

On November 25th, 2019, I wrote a post about building the High Grade Gundam Sandrock. The final line of the post is as follows:

In the next post I will show you all the final assembly. Trust me, you’re in for a treat.

I never got around to writing the post. I had (and still sort of have) a problem about procrastinating any time I have to pose and photograph a Gunpla. I like the end result, but I hate the process. I decided to punt until December.

Then December 2019 passed by, and I still hadn’t gotten around to it. In January and February, I got a bunch of new Star Wars and Gundam kits. I told myself I had to write that last post about Sandrock before building them.

Then I proceeded to ignore my own advice. For all of 2020. Five Star Wars models, eight Gunpla, and one global pandemic later, I still hadn’t finished writing about Sandrock.

Gunpla Build - High Grade Wing Zero Part 1 2020-12-13

Let’s get this build started. Or as Heero himself would say:

Mission Accepted

Yellow to Gold

The first thing I did in this build was paint all the yellow pieces gold. I am pointing this out now so that I don’t have to call it out multiple times.

Runners

Let’s look at all those beautiful runners:

There are nine total, though that doesn’t mean much. Take away the runner with the beam saber blades, the polycaps, and the one with the chest crystal, and you’re really looking at six runners for the weapons and the body.

Gunpla Build - High Grade Wing Zero (Intro) 2020-12-09

I did not expect to start this build so soon after the last one, but I’ve been having a rough couple of days, and every fiber of my being told me that this was the best way to let off some steam.

This time around I’ll be taking on the High Grade Wing Gundam Zero. Considering that I just built two Grandaddy Gundams in a row, I guess you can say this is the third time (in a row!) that I’ll be building a kit of something I already have a model of:

Gunpla Chronicles - HGAC Maganac Final 2020-03-12

Now that the Maganac is assembled, let’s talk a bit about it.

I really like this design. It vaguely reminds me of a Zaku, what with the monoeye, the Heat Hawk, and its fairly bulky shape.

On a whole, however, it doesn’t really look like most mobile suit designs. For one, you don’t see many mecha which use so many earth tones. The closest I can think of is the Gundam Local Type North American version, but that’s a case where the brown parts look more black (or dark grey) under certain lighting conditions. Case in point:

It is almost as if the Local Type is ashamed of being brown, and tries to hide it. The Maganac, however, is brown and proud.