Bandai NAMCO Entertainment Gunpla High Grade HG/144 Gundam Aerial, Clear (2593849)

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It can be connected to various parts of the Gundam, and if you use the Witch of Mercury Weapon Display Base (sold separately), you can display the Gundam Aerial with Gambit deployed! The arms and hands are a pretty standard HG setup with a single bend at the elbow and a 360-degree swivel at the shoulder connection. Kits of this latter type require a degree of engineering common sense on the part of the modeler, as well as extensive test-fitting, to properly assemble.

The box art is very nice, with the white theme helping to show off the Gundam in all its glory, and I definitely appreciate the mix of Japanese and English in all the text descriptions. Now, I've owned a lot of mecha over the last 30 years and rarely have issues, but this design choice scares me. The legs feature slide joints, where the knee and thigh parts can be moved to follow the movement of the knee joint; the toe parts also have a split structure to reproduce natural ground contact. To counteract the the Gundam Aerial's abilities the Grassley House's CEK-077 Beguir-Pente' would use their Antidote systems to disable the Gundam Aerial's GUND-Format, preventing it from using its Bit Staves.

The colours are all sharp and crisp and there are no colour correction stickers, which makes putting this together as an out-of-the-box build really satisfying. While you get a spare crest in the box, the rear mounted antennae has no backup, and to make matters worse, the tip is separated by a very thin piece of plastic from the main extension, so it's incredibly vulnerable to even a slight knock. This power level is traditionally found on “upgrade” Gundams in prior series, so I am very excited to see what sort of weapons and powers Aerial’s successor might have! After Suletta takes to the field to reclaim the Gundam Aerial, she uses its Bit Staves to destroy Guel's Dilanza, winning the match.I’ve been really enjoying the show’s mix of school drama and heavy war topics, and as the protagonist, Suletta Mercury has proven to be an awkwardly dorky breath of fresh air as compared to our typical oblivious or hopelessly edgy main leads of the past.

The shoulders work great, with a ball joint design mounted on a swiveling socket from the torso that allows for a very wide range of motion. The build in the shell unit produces a luminous effect with three-dimensional unevenness, mechanical shaping and plated parts. Aerial to me stands out for her (given all of the theories about Aerial online I’m sticking with she/her pronouns) bulky yet elegant design. As the lead Gundam in G-Witch, the XVX-016 Gundam Aerial is an awesome design that stands out among the series’ various mobile suit factions.and a GUND-Bit “shield”; however, the shield’s flexibility adds a ton of customization and replay value. The biggest one for me: the ankle is on a C-clip so there is only forward and backward movement; the front part of the foot is on a ball joint which helps somewhat but it limits any ankle rotation which helps make ground poses more interesting to look at and easier to work with.