Gframe

GFrame Build - Efreet Custom (Part 2) 2024-05-06

Let’s crack this sucker open and see what’s inside:

Like any other GFrame, you’ve got an assortment of accessories, armor parts, and two different inner frames. And like other GFrames, there are some parts that are nicely colored, and others that are extremely plain and color innacurate.

Let’s put it together and see what what a straight build looks like:

GFrame Build - Efreet Custom 2024-05-03

Note: This post was original published in July 2022, when I started - but didn't finish - this build. It then sat unfinished for almost two years before I finally completed it this week. I decided to move the post into the present so that all the posts related to this build would be grouped together.

Also, I updated some of the wording accordingly.

During a Target Run back in 2022, I discovered a then-new series of GFrame figures on the shelves. Unfortunately, the pickings were far from ideal. The Blitz Gundam was a nonstarter, since I’m not a fan of Gundam SEED. The GM Space Command is great, but I’d rather get that as a High Grade model kit than a GFrame (Note: I finally did it!).

There was also the Blue Destiny Unit 1, which looks cool, but also looks a bit too much like the Gundam Ground Type.

That left only one other option: the Efreet Custom. And after mulling it over, I realized this was the clear best choice:

Gundam Gframe - Hi ν Gundam 2021-09-26

Mrs. Wolfe found this G-Frame figure at Target and thought I might like it. It refused to ring up at the register, and somehow she and the cashier agreed that it was worth $12. So I guess I got it at a (very) slight discount.

What we have here is the Hi ν Gundam (the ν being the greek letter, so the name is pronounced as “Hi Nu Gundam”). It’s … an interesting choice for a GFrame. Let’s talk about it.

Gundam Gframe - RX78-1 2021-07-19

I got some new Gundam merch from Target. Today I present to you a Gundam Gframe action figure.

As you can probably tell from the box, the Gframe is a figure that comes with a fully built, articulated inner frame, alongside armor pieces that snap right on. I guess it isn’t quite a Gunpla, (since you aren’t building it from scratch), but it looks a lot more like one than a standard action figure.

I’ve seen these figures before, at both Target, and for many years prior at Barnes & Noble, but this is the first time I ever wanted to get one. All the ones I saw previously were of common mobile that were easy to buy in model kit form. This one, however, is the RX78-1, which is a somewhat obscure variant that ’ve never seen sold in any form. I figured this might be my only shot at having one, Gunpla or otherwise, and it would be an opportunity to put one of these Gframe figures through its paces. Is it a win-win? Let’s find out. But first, a bit if history.