OLD 1/20 Character Collection Garma Zabi

Release 1981.7

Price ¥100

OLD Garma Zabi - Group shot of all 10 Chara Collection boxes released together (1/4)

OLD Garma Zabi - Group shot of all 10 Chara Collection boxes released together (2/4)

Group shot of all 10 Chara Collection boxes

The runners come without any plastic bag packaging.

Box back manual and parts diagram

Straight build

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

OLD Garma Zabi - Views from various angles (1/4)

OLD Garma Zabi - Views from various angles (2/4)

Various angles

Face close-up

You can choose between 2 different arm styles.

OLD Garma Zabi - With the second arm style attached (1/3)

With the second arm style attached

Together with Char Aznable.

OLD Garma Zabi - Group shot of all 10 Chara Collection figures (1/3)

Group shot of all 10 Chara Collection figures

This kit is the Gundam Chara Collection (Character Collection) 1/20 Garma Zabi, released in 1981. The Chara Collection is a series of injection-molded figure model kits molded in a single ivory color and assembled with glue. There's no real articulation to speak of, but it's a fun little series where you get to build figures of Gundam's main characters with a simple assembly process.

The 7th entry in the series is Garma Zabi, the youngest son of the Zabi family of the Principality of Zeon — a tragic character famously known for his heroic death alongside the line "Glory to the Principality of Zeon!!" Like some of the earlier kits in the series, Garma Zabi comes with a choice of 2 arm styles, and the one elegantly holding a wine glass really does bring his in-show image to mind. Anyway, the sculpt is a bit chunky as you'd expect from a 1981 kit, but there's still something meaningful about having such a bold, larger-than-life character included in the Chara Collection set of 10.

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.