J’aime

This kit is mostly based off of the HG Strike Gundam. If you’ve built that kit before as I have, you’ll recognize most of this build. The head, shoulders, forearm armors, side skirts, and ankle armors are new. Everything else is the same as the HG Strike. I do like the look of the kit though. The new shoulders are flashy instead of tactical-looking, and I actually prefer the new ankle armors compared to the HG Strike. I also particularly like the head. It’s already mostly based off of a great kit so this kit has great size, articulation, and is very solid. It makes sense why there are so many Strike variations around as it’s a good base.If you’ve never built a Gundam model kit before, this is also a good beginner Gunpla. It was not hard to build and I completed it in a few evenings and then another session adding decals and trying out poses. It’s a standard build but I do have a complaint: the poor color separation. There are a lot of color correcting stickers in this kit. I’m not the biggest fan of these, so for the kit I only used the small blue ones for the forearm guns. I did use all the ones for the shield and plane though. There are more stickers for the mobile suit, but if you don’t care about color accuracy to the anime or don’t have patience for stickers, The kit will look good completed anyway. The plane however is all solid blue. I think that using the stickers on it improve the aesthetic. The stickers on the Aile Striker Pack and the Astray Pack look great and these do too. It’s not a big enough complaint for me to actually knock it down a star because it’s optional to use them and it looks good either way. My choice was to use some of them.The accessories for this kit are very good! The shield is nice and has a gun in it, you get two beam sabers that can be stored on the side skirts, and three different gun options! Most kits only come with one, but this one has a cool little pistol, a typical beam rifle, and a large beam cannon-like weapon. I enjoy the fact that you can dual-wield two weapons with this kit, but it would be cool if there was a storage option too like on the backpack. Speaking of which, this HG definitely has one of my favorite backpacks. When detached, it can transform into a plane. In this form, it already looks so awesome and can be displayed on an action base. Then to attach it to the Gundam, there’s a seamless transformation into a backpack with wings. In this state, it’s hard to tell it was a plane at all! The wings can be rotated vertically and spread out too look like a bird’s wings - similar to the Freedom wings. They can also angle backward in this position. I like that they are not so big and over the top as to tip over the model kit backwards all the time like certain other flight packs. The wings can also be adjusted to a horizontal position on the back and even angled upward in this position. When displayed like this it looks similar the the Aile Striker or Astray pack - Just instead of angle-able thrusters below the wings it has articulated cannons. Even in backpack mode, these can swing around to the front to be fired or stored away in the back. All in all, this backpack is the star of the show here with so many ways to display it that all look awesome. If it was color separated it would be better, but the design is well engineered for a HG. I have mine displayed on the Age-3 Action Base in plane form alongside the Gundam.To sum up, this is an excellent HG whose only flaw is color separation. To someone like me, this is not a big deal as this kit has it where it matters. I’m also aware that there is a RG version of this kit so it’s like there is that. What I like the most though is the great solid build, the good articulation, the cool accessories and the awesome flight pack. There are many ways to display this kit so I feel as though I’ll be back again and again to give it a new pose.

This is my second gundam built and the first one was much more durable than this one. This hardly stays in posture.

Great kit with tons of extras.Easy to build without glue or paint.

great quality..delivery fast too

Era la primera vez que me hacia con Gunplas y la verdad es que ha sido muy emocionante. Además el servicio ofrecido por la tienda ha sido muy bueno. No dudaré en repetir

Schnelle LieferungQualitativ gutNicht schwer zum zusammenbauen obwohl ich es das erste mal machePreis ist auch okDas einzige was mich stört ist das der Ständer für die Figur nicht dabei ist und man es für ca. 5€ dazu kaufen muss

My son loves assembling Gundam figures, and was super excited to order this one. Shipping from Japan took about three weeks, within the estimated time frame, and we put Build Strike together in about two or three sessions. The decals are tiny, in some cases, and require some care to place accurately. Also, if this is a first Gundam project, it may be worth considering snippers for detaching the pieces from their frames, and a file to remove rough points.The assembly is a little more fiddly (with smaller connection points) than Lego, and it's not set up to be dissassembled afterwards. The figures are also fairly delicate in the joint areas. The result, however, is an impressive and heavily-armed and -accessorized Gundam, and my son absolutely loved the building process, and he was thrilled to find a glossy Build Strike trading card inside, which wasn't included in another similar set.

Der Bausatz hat Mal wieder richtig Spaß gemacht.Mit der Lieferung hatte ich ziemliches Glück, da der Bausatz bereits eine Woche nach Bestellung bei mir war. (Es kann sein dass eine Bestellung schon Mal bis zu 2 Wochen oder mehr beim Zoll rumgammelt.)Wie von einem HG Bausatz zu erwarten, war nicht alles so Farbecht, wie es im Orginal ist, aber das ist Okay, dafür gibt es die Gundam Marker, Pinsel und Farbe oder die teureren RG Bausätze. (Als Beispiel, die Kanonenläufe des Flyers sind normalerweise grau, einige Teile an dem Flyer sind normalerweise rot oder weiß und nicht alles kann man mit den Decals grade biegen.)Der Zusammenbau war sehr interessant und ich bin voll auf zufrieden.Insgesamt ein toller Bausatz und eine Bereicherung für meine Sammlung. :D