Kit Review

Straight build + Stickers

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - Size comparison with a cigarett

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - Various angles (1/8)

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - Various angles (2/8)

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - Various angles (3/8)

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - Various angles (4/8)

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - Various angles (5/8)

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - Various angles (6/8)

Various angles

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - You can remove the Zaku Head fr

You can remove the Zaku Head from the rock stand and place it on a regular head stand.

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - 1/35 Char's Zaku II Head (1/4)

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - 1/35 Char's Zaku II Head (2/4)

1/35 Char's Zaku II Head

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - The Zaku Head frame is the same

The Zaku Head frame is the same as the original.

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - You can also put a cover over t

You can also put a cover over the rock stand after removing the Zaku Head and use it as a clean two-tier stand.

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - In addition to the pink one, yo

In addition to the pink one, you can also use a clear mono-eye part meant for painting.

Leftover parts

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - 1/144 RG RX-78 Gundam. (1/6)

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - 1/144 RG RX-78 Gundam. (2/6)

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - 1/144 RG RX-78 Gundam. (3/6)

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - 1/144 RG RX-78 Gundam. (4/6)

1/144 RG RX-78 Gundam.

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - Detail shots. A marble-effect m

Detail shots.
A marble-effect molded color has been applied.

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - The weapons and accessories are

The weapons and accessories are the same as the original.

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - Action poses (1/6)

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - Action poses (2/6)

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - Action poses (3/6)

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - Action poses (4/6)

Action poses

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - Alongside the mass-production Z

Alongside the mass-production Zaku II Head included in the 1/35 UCHG Ramba Ral's Guerrilla Set released as a standard retail kit.

Club G Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) - Alongside the standard retail R

Alongside the standard retail RG RX-78 Gundam.

This kit is the Mobile Suit Gundam 35th Gundam & Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.), released as a Club G (Premium Bandai) online exclusive. Based on the mass-production Zaku II Head included in the 1/35 UCHG Ramba Ral's Guerrilla Set released as a standard retail kit in 2006, this set combines a Char's Zaku II Head built on that base with a color variant of the 1/144 RG RX-78 Gundamreleased as a standard retail kit in 2010. It's a unique hybrid-scale kit mixing 1/35 and 1/144, put out as a premium display model.

The 1/35 Char's Zaku Head takes the original mass-production Zaku Head and swaps the molded color to Char's colors, with newly sculpted head antenna and top-of-head parts added. It still shows off excellent frame detail and a great sense of depth, but the parts layout and assembly feel more military-model than Gunpla, so it might not be for everyone.

If you're used to the comfortable snap-fit Gunpla assembly experience, this one might catch you off guard — glue is pretty much required during the build. And even with glue, the fit between parts is a bit iffy, so you'll need to handle it carefully even after it's done. On the flip side, it delivers incredibly precise detail like a military kit, so you really have to go into it thinking of it as a military model rather than a regular Gunpla.

The RG First Gundam has the same overall configuration as the original, with only the outer shell molded color changed to a marble-style finish, and it still shows off its innovative parts layout and gimmicks. That said, being an early RG, the durability is a bit questionable — it's even unstable just standing upright, and getting it to look sharp overall isn't easy. In particular, the fit on the included dedicated stand is pretty shaky, so unless you stick double-sided tape to the feet or something, it feels like it'd topple over in a light breeze. -_-

Combining these two kits together, a newly sculpted rock stand has been added, letting you display both kits together in a pretty convincing way. As long as you can get the RG Gundam secured properly on the stand, it does look like a genuinely premium display model. Either way, if you like the style, it's quite a unique and fun display model. :-)

Mobile Suit Gundam 35th 1/144 Gundam & 1/35 Char's Zaku Head (Premium Ver.) | 2014.8 | ¥5,500

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.