Kit Review

Straight build

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Frame Arms Girl Greifen - Detail shots (1/4)

Frame Arms Girl Greifen - Detail shots (2/4)

Detail shots

With weapons removed

Base body

You can swap between 3 different facial expressions.

You can also configure the head in a hatless form.

The clear helmet can be placed on the head or mounted at the back of the head.

Weapon configuration and articulation gimmicks

The knife can be folded and mounted on the back.

Included stand

A total of 4 hands are included.

Frame Arms Girl Greifen - Articulation with and without weapons. Attaching the weapons significantly reduces the range of mot

Articulation with and without weapons.
Attaching the weapons significantly reduces the range of motion.

Frame Arms Girl Greifen - Like recent Frame Arms Girl kits, you can drop the hip joint down slightly to increase the range of

Like recent Frame Arms Girl kits, you can drop the hip joint down slightly
to increase the range of motion in the thighs.

Sub-arm articulation behind the robot arm

The fingers on the robot arm articulate down to the middle knuckles.

Frame Arms Girl Greifen - Base body poses (1/4)

Frame Arms Girl Greifen - Base body poses (2/4)

Base body poses

Frame Arms Girl Greifen - Various poses using the robot arms (1/5)

Frame Arms Girl Greifen - Various poses using the robot arms (2/5)

Frame Arms Girl Greifen - Various poses using the robot arms (3/5)

Various poses using the robot arms

To transform into the ride vehicle, first detach the weapon unit inside the robot arm.

Join the two robot arms together, then add parts to the front and back.

Reattach the weapon unit and rotate it to the rear.

Frame Arms Girl Greifen - Transform the auxiliary legs as shown on the right, then attach them to the main body to complete t

Transform the auxiliary legs as shown on the right, then attach them to the main body to complete the transformation.

Frame Arms Girl Greifen - Transformed into ride vehicle mode (1/3)

Transformed into ride vehicle mode

Frame Arms Girl Greifen - Riding the ride vehicle (1/3)

Riding the ride vehicle

Together with Frame Arms Greifen.

Together with Frame Arms Girl Architect equipped with robot arms.

This kit is the Greifen released as part of the Frame Arms Girl series. It's a girlpla reinterpretation of the original Frame Arms Greifen, combining a bishoujo-style base body with Greifen-themed weapons and armor.

First off, the base body has a noticeably different style compared to previous kits, so it'll probably be a love-it-or-hate-it situation. The body proportions and face shape look somewhat more childlike than what we've seen before. Build quality on the base body is decent enough, with solid articulation and joint strength. That said, once you load on all the weapons, there are so many moving parts that getting a good pose can be pretty tricky.

Even just trying to nail a clean standing pose takes a lot of fiddling — you'll be nudging things around by hand for a few minutes before everything settles into a stable, good-looking stance. That's kind of the fate of any kit loaded with stuff hanging off it. The joints aren't weak per se, but the balance of tension across the connection points is inconsistent, so when you push on one thing to get it into position, some unrelated part ends up popping off — which gets annoying fast.

On top of that, once the weapons are on, the articulation is pretty limited, making it hard to pull off really dynamic poses. Still, if you arrange the big robot arms and sub-arms well, you can get some pretty unique and characterful poses out of it. The weapon parts can also be detached and reconfigured separately into a ride vehicle, which the base body figure can then mount.

All in all, this is definitely a unique and personality-packed girlpla — but it's also one that demands a lot of fussing around, which made it quite a workout to review.. That said, the overall joint strength and stability are pretty good, so once you do get a pose locked in, it holds well. If the style appeals to you, this seems like a girlpla that'll give you a satisfying build. :-)

Frame Arms Girl Greifen | 2018.11 | ¥6,400

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.