Club G HG

Char's Zaku I (Limited Model)

Kit Review

Straight build + Stickers

HG Char's Zaku I (Limited Model) - Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

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Detail shots

HG Char's Zaku I (Limited Model) - Weapons loadout

Weapons loadout

HG Char's Zaku I (Limited Model) - Mono-eye rotation gimmick and stand joint parts (1/2) HG Char's Zaku I (Limited Model) - Mono-eye rotation gimmick and stand joint parts (2/2)

Mono-eye rotation gimmick and stand joint parts

HG Char's Zaku I (Limited Model) - Similar to the existing belt-fed MS machine gun, a new drum magazine-type MS mach

Similar to the existing belt-fed MS machine gun,
a new drum magazine-type MS machine gun has been added.

HG Char's Zaku I (Limited Model) - Leftover parts

Leftover parts

HG Char's Zaku I (Limited Model) - Excellent limb articulation

Excellent limb articulation

HG Char's Zaku I (Limited Model) - Hip and shoulder articulation (1/2) HG Char's Zaku I (Limited Model) - Hip and shoulder articulation (2/2)

Hip and shoulder articulation

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Action poses

HG Char's Zaku I (Limited Model) - Alongside the standard release HG Char's Zaku I.

Alongside the standard release HG Char's Zaku I.

This kit is the HG Char's Zaku I (Limited Model), released as a Club G (Premium Bandai) online exclusive. Essentially, it's a color variant of the standard release HG Char's Zaku I with a changed molded color, plus a newly sculpted drum magazine-type MS machine gun added to the lineup.

This kit features a new colorway based on design materials by Kunio Okawara, with box art made up of a full-color illustration drawn by Okawara himself — making it a commemorative limited edition in his honor. The result is a faithful recreation of Char's signature "sausage color," and that soft, pinkish sausage tone alone gives it a pretty unique feel.

The newly added drum magazine-type MS machine gun is quite similar to the belt-fed MS machine gun included with the standard release, but the difference is that it's based on the original Zaku machine gun fitted with a round drum magazine. It might not be a huge deal, but it does make this kit stand out with a somewhat unique weapon. Everything else — the basic configuration and build quality — is the same as the original kit, so it comes together as an exemplary HG Origin Zaku kit with excellent articulation and joint strength.

So for this review, the main things to check out are the updated molded colors and the new weapon. If you're after a high-originality sausage-colored Char's Zaku, this limited edition seems well worth picking up. :-)

HG Char's Zaku I (Limited Model) | 2019.9 | ¥2,100

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.