Gundam

Super Dilanza Bros - Dilanza Sol (Photos) 2024-07-16

So - how does our symbol of Earthian suppression fare?

Let me put it this way - there have been plenty of times where I’ve thought to my self “this kit looks great, and looks even better in the lightbox”. But this is the first time I can remember where I’ve thought “this looks just okay …

” … but it looks amazing in the lightbox”

Super Dilanza Bros - Standard Dilanza/Lauda's Custom Dilanza (Photos) 2024-07-14

So far, the pattern with GWitch kits is that they look surprisingly bad as out of the box builds, but look quite good with a little bit (or a lot) of TLC. We already established that the Dilanza looked cheap and toylike out of the box, but how does it look up with some panel lining, color correction, and a truckload of decals?

Pretty darn good I’d say!

Super Dilanza Bros - Standard Dilanza/Lauda's Custom Dilanza (Build) 2024-07-12

This kit follows the same pattern as all the other GWitch kits I’ve built. They may look pretty good when they’re done, but they require quite a lot of extra work to make them color accurate, and both the build process and the engineering feel weirdly dated.

Anyway, let’s look at some of the more notable parts of the build.

Super Dilanza Bros 2024-07-10

In Gundam: The Witch From Mercury, all the mobile suits are manufactured by a handful of specific in-universe arms dealers, with each company being assigned its own real world mecha designer who was solely responsible for all their designs.

In the case of Jeturk Heavy Machinery, all of its MS were designed by Ippei Gyoubu, who is quickly becoming one of my favorites.

So I suppose it’s no surprise that, after buying Jeturk’s flagship mobile suit last summer, I’ve since gone ahead and bought all of the other Jeturk kits as well: