Kit Review
Straight build
Size comparison with a cigarette pack
Size comparison with MG.
It's waaaay bigger. We're talking MG Sazabi territory.
Upper body
Head
The back, with color separation all the way into the vernier interiors.
Those beefy shoulders.
The triple machine cannon and revolver on the arm.
Leg section
Maybe it's because of the larger scale, but even the red parts of the triple machine cannon have color separation.
Look closely and you can see that even tiny details that would be impossible to pull off in 1/144
have been carefully color separated.
The cockpit opens too, but... you can't really see inside — just the inner cover.
The revolver actually spins too...
Even the bullet portions have color separation.
The shoulder Square Claymore opens up.
Look closely and you'll notice there's also a double-cover gimmick on the black inner section that opens to both sides.
Push in the back of the shoulder and the inner black cover automatically opens — a neat built-in gimmick.
Befitting a big-scale kit, it even comes with an LED.
The LED is located in the center of the head.
Two LR44 button cell batteries are loaded into the backpack.
The button cell batteries in the backpack supply power to the LED in the head via a connector on the back.
There's no separate switch — push the backpack fully against the back and it turns ON,
pull it back slightly and it turns OFF.
Trying it out in practice, toggling it on and off is a bit fiddly and frustrating...
They really should've just included a proper switch. Bleh.
The center head antenna comes in two versions — a regular plastic one and a clear soft-material one —
with the clear version used when the LED is lit up.
For hands, you only get two options: a fist and a poseable hand.
On the poseable hand, all five fingers move individually.
Leftover parts.
Just like the 1/100 Huckebein Mk-II, a pilot figure of Kyosuke Nanbu is included.
The figure quality is really impressive, as expected.
Articulation is just average.
Though given the size, it's actually not bad at all.
There's a special hip joint gimmick similar to Bandai's approach...
Each hip joint can be moved forward and backward independently.
It works like a lever, stepping along a fan-shaped locking pin... but the locking isn't all that solid.
The shoulders can swing forward quite a bit.
The upper rear ankle armor moves independently to give a bit more range of motion.
Something that wasn't on the 1/144.
The ankle and foot articulation itself is good.
The front of the foot moves on multiple joints too...
Though in practice when you're actually posing it, you don't really end up using it much. ;;
Triple machine cannon action pose.
Square Claymore open action!
The sheer size of the kit makes it incredibly imposing.
LED on!
Since the light reaches all the way to the clear head antenna,
the color combination gives off a more dazzling glow than you'd expect.
Mm... looks great.
LED on action!
Together with the Kyosuke figure.
Together with the 1/100 Huckebein Mk-II.
The Alteisen looks considerably more massive.
Pilot figure comparison.
Kyosuke's figure looks a little more refined too...
Together with the 1/144 Alteisen.
They may look similar at a glance...
But the difference in presence and quality due to the size gap is pretty significant.