Kit Review

Straight build

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Megami Device Assualt / Scout - First up, the Assault armed mode with brown hair (1/6)

Megami Device Assualt / Scout - First up, the Assault armed mode with brown hair (2/6)

Megami Device Assualt / Scout - First up, the Assault armed mode with brown hair (3/6)

Megami Device Assualt / Scout - First up, the Assault armed mode with brown hair (4/6)

First up, the Assault armed mode with brown hair

Megami Device Assualt / Scout - Detail shots (1/4)

Megami Device Assualt / Scout - Detail shots (2/4)

Detail shots

The Assault base body

To switch from Assault to Scout, you need to swap out the head and skin-tone parts.

Megami Device Assualt / Scout - To swap the skin-tone parts on the torso, you basically have to go through the tedious proces

To swap the skin-tone parts on the torso, you basically have to go through the tedious process of disassembling and reassembling everything.

The Scout base body

A separate replacement face is included for each head.

Megami Device Assualt / Scout - To switch from the base body to armed mode, you share the parts inside the red box above and

To switch from the base body to armed mode, you share the parts inside the red box above
and swap the rest — but again, it means disassembling and reassembling, which is a bit of a hassle..

Armed mode with helmet on.

Megami Device Assualt / Scout - If you prefer, you can also just swap the arms and feet to armed mode parts while keeping the

If you prefer, you can also just swap the arms and feet to armed mode parts while keeping the base body.

Megami Device Assualt / Scout - Different hand parts are used depending on whether you're using the armed mode arms or the ba

Different hand parts are used depending on whether you're using the armed mode arms or the base body arms.

A total of 9 rank insignia are included.

Megami Device Assualt / Scout - The rank insignia can be attached to the sides of the helmet and the shoulders, and officer a

The rank insignia can be attached to the sides of the helmet and the shoulders,
and officer antenna are also included as a separate attachable option.

Weapons loadout.

The scout unit attached on top of the handgun

The knife and entrenching tool are both foldable.

When holding the knife, a separate fixing part is added to the underside of the hand.

A stand and two joint parts are included.

The Scout armed mode with yellow hair

The base body has excellent articulation.

Assault base body poses

Scout base body poses

Action poses combining Assault + armed mode arms and feet

Action poses combining Scout + armed mode arms and feet

Armed mode with helmet action poses

Assault armed mode poses

Assault armed mode action poses

Shoveling pose..^^;

Scout armed mode poses

Scout armed mode action poses

Together with Frame Arms Girl Materia White.
The WISM Soldier is slightly smaller.

Kotobukiya, riding high on the success of the Frame Arms Girl series, has kicked off a new girlpla mecha lineup — the Megami Device WISM Soldier series. The first release is a kit called Assault/Scout, which comes in a pretty complex configuration that includes two hair colors (brown and yellow), two skin tones, an armed mode body, and a helmeted head.

The overall construction is pretty much identical to Frame Arms Girl — the body and limb layout, articulation, joint strength, and assembly feel are all nearly the same, just scaled down a bit to around 14cm. Apparently this size is meant to be 1:1 scale in-universe, going for the concept of a tiny girlpla figure soldier, kind of like Hoihoi-san.

This series seems designed from the ground up for lots of variations — you can build two different hair/skin-tone characters, and between the bare base body, armed mode body, and helmeted head, you can mix and match into roughly 7 different figure configurations overall. The catch is that some base body and leg parts are shared between configurations, so instead of a simple swap, you have to fully disassemble and reassemble each time, which gets pretty tedious. -_-

With so many body parts included, it's a shame they didn't throw in a few extra shared parts — that way you could have at least two configurations built simultaneously. As it stands, you can only have one configuration at a time, which feels a bit inefficient. (There are way too many leftover parts;;) Kits with this many random combination possibilities are always a bit tricky to review, so I just put together a few of the more representative configurations and shot those — hope that's helpful.

That said, the articulation and joint strength are both pretty solid, making this a fun girlpla figure kit to mix and match in all sorts of ways. If you're into this kind of kit, it's got a different kind of charm compared to Frame Arms Girl :-)

Megami Device Assualt / Scout | 2016.12 | ¥4,800

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.