HG 1/144 Gundam Lfrith

This is the High Grade 1/144 Gundam Lfrith. 🙂 The Gundam Lfrith comes to from the prologue episode of Mobile Suit Gundam The Witch From Mercury. The Gundam Lfrith is a prototype mobile suit developed by Ochs Earth Corporation, a company that was established in Earth. The most prominent feature of this unit was the implementation of the GUND FORMAT, where "GUND" or innovative body function expansion technology based on artificial limb welfare engineering was refined for Mobile Suits. The Mobile Suits that incorporated the GUND FORMAT and gained cross-disciplinary fighting abilities are collectively called GUND-ARMs, and people across the world soon came to call them "GUNDAMs."

I have to say, I really like this kit! It incorporates assembly techniques I’ve never seen before in a High Grade kit, making it both an interesting and fun build. Being a newer High Grade, this kit uses no polycaps whatsoever. Honestly, it doesn’t really need them, anyway. Everything fits together pretty well and moves pretty smoothly as is. The color separation on this kit is really good, and even if you chose not to use any of the stickers, and not to use any paint, you’ll still end up with a really great looking Gunpla. There are some spots that need metallic green and dark grey paint since the kit doesn’t come with stickers for those bits, but even if you don’t use paint, this kit still looks great. My only issue with this kit is that the hips fit into the lower but a bit loosely. Not too loosely, they’ll stay in whatever pose you put them in, but the more you move them, the more they loosen. It’s not really that big a deal, though, as you can just push them back in.

All in all, this is a really nice kit! It’s a shame that it doesn’t include the stand to display the GUND-BITS deployed, but it’s still a nice kit. Definitely worth getting if you can find it for $15-$20.