Kit Review

Straight build + Stickers

Basic components

HGBC Ptolemaios Arms - Views from various angles (1/4)

HGBC Ptolemaios Arms - Views from various angles (2/4)

Various angles

A variety of joint parts are included.

Leftover parts

GN Ptolemy Cannon pose with the rear handle and front barrel cover opened, applied to the HP Leo NPD

Parts separated and mounted on the HG Jim Jim

GN Claw Container reconfigured from the parts and applied to the HG 00 Diver

Ptolemaios Arms is the 39th kit in the Build Custom lineup. It's the same armament that was included with the HG Seravee Gundam Scheherazade released a month ago — the runners and molded colors are reused as-is, just split off into a separate kit.

The Ptolemaios is the battleship from Gundam 00, and the overall look of this kit feels like that ship's design shrunk down into SD style. It's small, but the detail and sculpt are pretty solid — definitely something that'll hit the nostalgia button for 00 fans.

Just like with the HG Seravee Gundam Scheherazade, you can open the handle and front cover to set it up in Ptolemy Cannon mode and pair it with an HG Gundam. On top of that, you can separate the individual parts and attach them to an HG kit's body, or reconfigure them into an armament called the GN Claw Container.

Anyway, it's a cute and fun little item in its own right, but at ¥900 it does feel a bit pricey for what you get volume-wise. If you've already built the HG Seravee Gundam Scheherazade you probably won't need this, but if you're into small, quirky battleship-style armaments, it seems like a fun kit to put together. :-)

HGBC Ptolemaios Arms | 2018.6 | ¥900

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.