Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Bandai Spirits 1/144 30MM Option Armors, Weapon 1 sets for Portanova.

OPTION ARMOR, WEAPON 1 FOR PORTANOVA
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Click below link to see the open box, assembling video of the Option Armor/Weapon video.


The plastic runner of Special Squad armor, in dark bluish-gray color.

One Portanova plastic model figure needed for assembling this armor, in this case, I am using the Red Portanova. Click HERE to check out the original Portanova figure.

The upgraded Special Squad Portanova.

The armor on Portanova looks not bad, even the chest armor looks like a monster face. The things I don't like of this armor sets are, the mask looks weird, by I mean the roll-bar on the upper part of the mask, the lower part looks like Geara Zulu from Gundam Unicorn series. I would prefer they use the bill of the original mask as the top part and remain the lower part of the mask.

The round shield. Not much special things on the shield.

The back of the shield.

The plastic runner of the Close Fighting armor. It is deep dark red, almost like black color.

I use the Close Fighting armor on Gray Portanova.

Armored Gray Portanova.

The mask looks like a goat skull, and the chest armor got an eye in the middle of it, is this imply the armor is evil...?

This look like a scarab beetle to me, kind of cool, or maybe this the is 'kabuto'? I would like to call it Kabuto Shield.

The back of the shield. The back part is actually using the same part as Special Squad armor.

Serial no. W-02 Option Weapon 1 for Portanova plastic runner #1.

Serial no. W-02 Option Weapon 1 for Portanova plastic runner #2. This contained most of the rifle parts.

This is all the parts of the rifle(except for the top machine gun), one Gatling gun barrels, one drum magazine, one long rifle barrel, and one long magazine.

The Gatling gun barrels and the drum magazine are needed in this assembling.

The completed Gatling gun.

The other side of the gun.

With Portanova holding up the Gatling gun.

The Gatling gun and long rifle comparison.

Alto's rifle vs the Portanova Gatling gun.

Sniper rifle vs long rifle. Which one looks better?

This is all the parts for the close combat weapon.

The machete and long machete.

Long and normal machete hand.

Axe combinations.

Great axe.

This is how the axe looks with the guard on.

The spear combinations.

A mace? Using the handguard as a weapon.

Alto knives vs Portanova machete.

Alto and Portanova axe comparisons. The Alto one is more like a modern style pickaxe, but Portanova one looks like a heavy battle axe.

"Engineer sir, I need a weapon that looks awesome and..." #2
This is what I made with all the parts in this box I could use.

"D..d... Death...? Is that you...!?" with Alto's hilt extension parts, this could be done, the great scythe.

The Elite Army.

Green Portanova holding the long rifle.

Dual wield for the Special Squad Portanova seems not bad.


"Don't move--! You won't get the chance, clown..."

Full-armed Death in the battlefield.

The Grim Reaper.

Grim Reaper vs the Swordman.

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Monday, August 19, 2019

Bandai Mobile Suit Gundam Micro Wars 2.

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM MICRO WARS 2
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Click below video link to watch the Open Box, Assembles and Review video.


The top side(lid) of the box. This is actually a candy toy sets, each box contains a Mobile Suit (or vehicle) toys.

There are 5 types of candy toys, two boxes for each type, a total of 10 small candy box in one big box.

Type no. 1, the RX-79(G) Gundam Ground Type, the box written 'Ground Battle Type Gundam'.

The back of the box shows the cockpit function and other types of toys in this series.

Box no. 1 contained the main figure, arms for the figure (in plastic runner, uncut), one small forearm shield, one sub-machine gun, and dry transfer decals.

360 GIF of the SD size Gundam Ground Type.

Head height of the figure is around two and a half-inch.

Close up on the figure. Head sculpting is very nice, and so as the torso, very nice sculpted details for SD size figure. And the upper body of the figure is well painted too, except for the grayish-white color.

The backpack is simply in original plastic color, not painted, it is actually the hinge joint for the cockpit system.

The legs are well sculpted, feet are not painted, there are stickers(decals) for covering the feet(red area), but I hate how the stickers do after a long period, so, I painted the feet in red paint.

The back of the legs is hollowed, some of the people will not accept this kind of things, but this is a candy toy, what could you do? (my paint job is crappy...)

I also painted the bottom of the feet, not much detail, but it looks way better with the red paint.

The selling point of this Micro Wars series is this cockpit system, the chest can be open to putting a small figure in.

Really rare to see cockpit thing of robot toys, especially on SD size. (this micro-size figure is not included in this box)

There are sculpted details in the cockpit too.

The Ground Type Gundam compare with the micro-figure.

Most of the joints on the figure are ball joint, there are neck, shoulders, biceps, wrists, hips, and ankles, but joints on the arm can only swivel. The figures in this series, the joints are all the same, not much different on each figure.

Submachine gun, it is the gray-ish white plastic painted with gunmetal paint, look really nice.


The lower part of the shield is painted, the numbers '08' is a sticker you need to apply on the shield.

Box no. 2, the RGM-79 GM, box written 'GM'(JIM).

The back of box no. 2.

Box no. 2 contained the main figure of GM, arms on the plastic runner, EFSF shield, shield handle, spray gun and dry decals.


360 GIF of RGM-79 GM.

Gm without shield and weapon.

Close up on GM. The painted eye look so nice, it is metallic paint. The detailed design of the GM looks different, doesn't it come from where or which type, but it looks really good.

The backpack looks really nice, but sadly the beam saber is not separated, and the shield can be stored on the backpack by the peg hole.

The feet are painted by me, the whole leg sculpting looks really good. Just... Not everybody likes the plastic gray-ish white color.

Yeah, the back of the legs is hollowed, same as the other figures in this Micro Wars series.

The bottom of the feet is also painted with red, but this GM got more sculpted details than the Ground Type.

Same as Ground Type, the cockpit can be open.

GM's pilot is the yellow space suit pilot that comes from the Hover Truck box.

Same as Ground Type, the cockpit is sculpted with details.

GM compare with the yellow suit pilot.

The pray gun and shield looks really good, they are gray-ish white plastic painted with colors.

Come to box no. 3, the M353A4 Hover Truck (tank). The main vehicle that appears in "MSG: The 08th MS Team". The box is written 'Hover Truck and Earth Federation Army Pilots'

The back of the box.

The long plastic bags contain the main vehicle, back nail parts, Gatling gun turret, two hover truck crews, and one spacesuit pilot.

What this box contained, one truck, two truck crews, and the GM pilot. (assembled)

Hover Truck in 360 GIF. (I prefer it calls hover command tank)

The top of the tank. There are many sculpted details on the tank.

The bottom of the tank. There are sculpted details under the tank too.

The whole front end of the tank can be open, it is spacious for those micro figures.

Let's check out the micro figures. The yellow MS pilot is full of small details, helmet crest, suits details, etc.

Side. The whole figure is in yellow color soft plastic, the only visor is painted, the rest is not painted.

The back is sculpted with minor details too.

The limbs are all articulated, shoulder swing forward 360 degrees, can be wing out a little bit, elbow joint can fold 90 degrees (both way, scary...), hips joint can swing out a bit, it can swing forward-backward 90 degrees angle, the knee joint can fold 90 degrees.

The Hover Truck crew (or use as Gundam Ground Type pilot). It is sculpted with full soldiers uniform details with hats on(I forgot that's a hat or helmet...?), the face is painted in flesh color.

Side of the figure.

Back of the figure.

The articulations work the same as the yellow MS pilot, it is well articulated for an action figure that small.

The height of This micro-figure only stands around one and a quarter-inch high, this is how small they are.

Back to the tank. The tank can actually fit in two micro-figure in the cockpit.

And the middle of the turret is hollowed that allowed the tank crew to fit in, this is really fun to play with.

The turret can swivel around except there is a censor piece blocking the way in this angle.

This is how it looks under the turret, hahaha.

Compare the micro figure's size with the Headmaster. They are nearly the same scale, or same scale(because sometimes the Headmaster is an armor).

The micro-figure can be played with Scout class vehicle. (I think they are thinking to buy the car...)

The Earth Federation Force is ready to battle!

Next, box no. 4, the MS-07B Gouf. Box wrote 'Gouf'.

The back of the box no. 4.

The long plastic contained the Gouf main figure, arm parts, shield, the heat sword, shield attachment parts, and the dry decals.

Gouf in 360 GIF.


Gouf without the sword and shield.

The head unit looks almost like the 1/100 scale Gouf, almost hard to tell it is SD size from long distance, seems the Gouf looks no different whether it is normal scale or SD scale.

The back MS-07B Gouf.

Shrink down Gouf legs looks nice, the black color on the knee is pre-painted, you only need to paint the feet in black.

Same as other MW2 figures, the back of the legs is hollowed.

The bottom of the legs is painted, not many sculpted details.

The cockpit door is a little bit smaller than the other figure in this series.

The Gouf is piloted by Rambal Ral, the figure is bigger than the normal micro figure, I think this figure is Rambal Ral.

The cockpit looks a little bit narrow than other figures, but the control panel look very details.

The micro-figure stand beside Gouf.

The heat sword looks really nice, the metallic paint looks really cool.

The left arm is different from the right arm, the shield pegged on the forearm, the hand is machine gun fingers.

Really nice Gouf shield.

Gouf 'skull cap' is removable, because the mono eye is adjustable.

With the adjustable mono eye, he looks more fierce. Gundam Ground Type and Gouf are my favorite box in this series.

Last box, no. 5, the Zeon Cui tank. Box wrote 'CUI and Zeon Army Pilots'.


The back of the box.

This box contained the main body of the tank, the side threads parts, the two gun barrels, two Zeonic soldiers and one MS pilot.

The CUI tank, the tank crews, and the pilot.

CUI tank in 360 GIF.


The back of the tank is full of details.

The tank gun is adjustable. (in my video, the anti-roll bar is in the wrong way)

To put the micro figure in the tank, the anti-roll bar has to be removed.


How the cockpit look.

This is how the micro figure looks in the tank, tank control is sculpted in the cockpit.

There is a hidden gimmick for the CUI tank, but you will need two CUI tank to do the hidden gimmick, the needed parts are are the side armor panels.

Using the armor panels, the tank can extend its side threads longer. What is this for? It is used as an armor panel for protecting army personnel in the battlefield, and soldiers can shoot their weapon from the gap between the armor panel.

The left out parts can be combined into this form. This look like a robot from those old movies...

The micro-figure in this box sets. This is supposed to be Rambal Ral, because of the design of the helmet and the 'wide' body.

Side of this micro-figure.

Back.

Zeon soldier with weird helmet, what kind of fashion is this? Until now, I still can't accept the design, nooooo~~~!! (hahaha, overreacting)

The side of the figure.

The back.

"Gundam is on the battlefield, let's hunt!"

Mobile Suit Gundam Micro Wars 2 one completed sets. (total of two sets)

No. 1 Gundam Ground Type, No. 2 GM, No. 3 Hover Truck, No. 4 Gouf, No. 5 CUI.

(without the box)

BONUS

MSG Micro Wars (1) MS-06 Zaku II and Magella Attack Tank.

Same as Zaku II, Gouf is using the same method for adjusting the mono eye, removing the skull cap.


The back of the Zaku II figure. The backpack thrusters, the elbow 'pad' and the feet are painted by me.

I am using the red micro-figure for this Zaku II 'S', this figure is supposed to be in the '3 times faster' Zaku II S, but I use on this Zaku II.

Weapon for this MW1 Zaku II, machine gun and heat hawk axe.

Magella Attack Tank, very nice tank to get, well-sculpted and well-painted mold.

The cockpit can be open to reveal the pilot, the turret can swivel to a certain angle, tank gun can move up and down, even the machine gun on the lower tank body can move left or right.

Just like in the O.Y.W. anime, the tank turret is removable and become a jet fighter with a tank gun. And this is how the pilot gets into the tank.

There are two handles behind the tank turret, that is for Zaku II to hold it, like in the anime.

The hidden feature for this tank is, Zaku II can combine with the lower tank to become the Zaku Tank.

You will need one more Zaku II to make the Zaku Tank fully complete because the shoulder of Zaku Tank needs two shield shoulder. (I got more than two Zaku II)

This hidden feature is awesome, this is why Magella Attack tank is a 'must get' item.

The three micro-figure in this Magella tank sets, two normal MS pilots and one Char Aznable figure.

The back of the MS pilot. (the red one is same on the back)

The normal Zeon pilot compare to Rambal Ral figure, Rambal Ral figure is obviously thicker than the normal one, and the helmet is different too.

The back is the same, only the size of the torso is different.

"What!? You really think your pea shooter can defeat me!?" Zaku II.

"Not so fast, Zeon scum!" an RX-79G come out from nowhere and stop the Zaku, "What!? This is a trap...!?" Zaku II was shocked.

"Go down, you green cyclops!" Ground Type finished Zaku II with a heavy kick.

"Finally, Gundam!" the small MS team encounters the blue MS, he is waiting to ambush the team.

"Prepare to be destroyed, Gundam---!!" Gouf shout, "We need to retreat, this guy is so strong!" Ground Type doesn't want to fight Gouf.

"You can't run, Gundam!" apparently, Gouf has his man surrounded the area.

GM was attacked by the Zaku II S!


Gundam Ground Type is surrounded by enemies!

"We are outnumbered, Sir!" they managed to destroy few enemies, but still outnumbered!

"Reinforcement has arrived---!", "We come to help!", luckily the other team has come support.

"OPEN FIRE---!!" they return fire towards the Zeon army.

"Retreat! Retreat--!!" Gouf yells to this teammates.

At last, the small MS team is safe. "Thanks for your help, Karen!", "No problem, Shiro!".

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