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The High Grade Gundam SEED (HGGS) MBF-P02 Gundam Astray Red Dragon is a 1/144 scale kit released in 2022, as an exclusive for The Gundam Base.
Includes[]
- Gundam Astray Red Dragon
- 2 Beam Sabers
- Gerbera Straight
- Beam Antenna
- Manipulators
- Weapon-holding (1 pair)
- Open-palm (1 pair)
- Angled weapon-holding (1 pair)
- Beam Rifle
- Shield
- L-shaped adapter
- BuCUE Tactical Reconnaissance Type head
- Flight Unit
- Regular flight unit wings
- 3 Caletvwlches
- Sub-arm units
- 3 Connectors for Double Bladed Build Cutter/Knife or Ambidextrous Halberd Mode
- Shield/Rifle adapter for Flight Unit
Kit Features & Gimmicks[]
Articulation[]
- The head can swivel/tilt on a double-sided ball-jointed neck.
- The torso can tilt frontward, or backward in some extent.
- Shoulder joints can slightly tilt frontwards/raise upwards.
- The arms can...
- Swing on a peg and socket joint.
- Raise horizontally.
- The upper arms can rotate.
- The elbows are double-jointed.
- The manipulators can swivel on a ball-and-socket joint.
- The waist can turn 360 degrees.
- The side waist armors can pivot.
- The hip joint axis can swing frontwards/backwards on one side.
- The upper thigh joints can...
- Swing frontwards (and backwards in some extent) on a peg joint.
- Raise horizontally.
- Rotate on each piece.
- The legs feature double-jointed knee parts.
- The ankles can tilt/swivel.
- The Flight unit's binders are poseable.
- The Caletvwlch's sub-arms are poseable.
Weapons/Other Gimmicks[]
- The hands are swappable.
- Each of the weapons must be wielded by their respective hand parts.
- Beam Rifle foregrip can swing left or right.
- Beam Sabers can be optionally removed from the backpack as handheld weapons.
- Beam Saber/Backpack combo can collapse down to the rear waist.
- The shield can mount onto...
- Any of the forearms, though the default position is on the left.
- Either of the L-shaped adapter's two pegs depending on your preference.
- The shield can rotate on the adapter's pegs.
- Flight unit can attach onto/detach from the Gundam Astray Red Frame.
- The Beam Antenna piece can mount with the included normal V-fin.
- Caletvwlch can...
- Convert into G (Gun) Mode or S (Sword) mode via minor parts rearrangement.
- Be separated into Build Cutter, Build Knife, and Build Torch.
- Mount onto the backpack for storage via the sub-arm units, where it was placed onto the Flight Unit backpack replacing the wing parts.
- Connect to form an Ambidextrous Halberd Mode when in S (Sword) Mode.
- The BuCUE head can optionally attach onto the right arm.
- Shield and Rifle can mount onto the left binder with an adapter.
- Gundam Astray Red Dragon can mount onto any Action Bases.
Tips & Tricks[]
- For better results:
- Some or most of the details are needed to be applied/panel-lined with Gundam Markers and/or Mr. Color paints.
- The backpack's red polycap parts must be swapped with grey colors.
- Topcoat (Mr. Hobby recommended) can be used to protect applied stickers/marking decals and if any, painted details.
Notes & Trivia[]
- This Gunpla is the first 1/144 scale iteration of the Gundam Astray Red Dragon unit.
- Despite initial impressions of a kit possibly reusing the ones from the HG Gundam Astray Custom Kit, the Caletvwich weapons, and the head parts is entirely a new mold.
- The parts separation used for the weapons are mostly identical with the Master Grade kit, with little omissions due to parts limitation.
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