OLD Char's Counter Attack 1/144 Jagd Doga (Quess)

Release 1988.4

Price ¥800

BANDAI BANDAI Japan product info

OLD 1/144 Jagd Doga (Quess) - Box side view (1/3)

Box side view

OLD 1/144 Jagd Doga (Quess) - Runners (1/4)

OLD 1/144 Jagd Doga (Quess) - Runners (2/4)

Runners

System injection runners are used.

Newly added parts for Quess's unit

OLD 1/144 Jagd Doga (Quess) - Parts diagram (1/3)

Parts diagram

OLD 1/144 Jagd Doga (Quess) - Manual (1/4)

OLD 1/144 Jagd Doga (Quess) - Manual (2/4)

Manual

Straight build + Stickers

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Weapon lineup. A beam Gatling gun not included with Gyunei's unit has been added.

OLD 1/144 Jagd Doga (Quess) - Same issue as Gyunei's unit — the mounting point inside the shoulder armor moves up and down fo

Same issue as Gyunei's unit — the mounting point inside the shoulder armor moves up and down for no good reason, so the shoulders wobble around quite a bit.

OLD 1/144 Jagd Doga (Quess) - Rifle shooting pose (1/2)

OLD 1/144 Jagd Doga (Quess) - Rifle shooting pose (2/2)

Rifle firing pose

OLD 1/144 Jagd Doga (Quess) - Two-handed beam Gatling gun firing pose. The articulation is so poor it's hard to get a decent

Two-handed beam Gatling gun firing pose. The articulation is so poor it's hard to get a decent pose...

Beam saber pose

Together with the HGUC Jagd Doga (Quess) released in 2007.

OLD 1/144 Jagd Doga (Quess) - Together with the 1/144 Jagd Doga (Gyunei). Just a color variation with a different head and we

Together with the 1/144 Jagd Doga (Gyunei). Just a color variation with a different head and weapons.

Together with the 1/144 Sazabi.

The seventh kit in the old Char's Counterattack lineup is the 1/144 Jagd Doga (Quess). It's a color variation of the previous 1/144 Jagd Doga (Gyunei), and aside from the swapped head and the addition of the beam Gatling gun, the rest of the kit is identical.

Since Gyunei's unit wasn't great to begin with, Quess's isn't much different. Overall it's one of those old kits that just doesn't feel great to handle — loose joints all around, arms that only bend inward, and mediocre articulation. On top of that, the newly added beam Gatling gun is big and heavy, making it even harder to pose. And thanks to the red molded color, the whole thing ends up looking a bit more like a candy toy, so the overall quality actually feels a step down from Gyunei's unit.

Anyway, it's a variation kit that had to exist at some point, but just like Gyunei's unit before it, this is still a hard old kit to recommend. :-)
[ Updated at 2017.8.13 ]

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