OLD Victory Gundam 1/144 Zoloat

Release 1993.7

Price ¥500

BANDAI BANDAI Japan product info

Box side view

Runners

Clear runners, background card, and polycap frame runner.

Some runners can be stacked and assembled all at once.

Parts diagram

OLD 1/144 Zoloat - Manual & design specs on the back of the card (1/3)

Manual & design specs on the back of the card

Straight build + Stickers

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Clear stand, beam shield, and beam sabers

Limb articulation

Shoulder beam strings & open gimmicks for the beam shield

OLD 1/144 Zoloat - Aerial shooting poses (1/2)

OLD 1/144 Zoloat - Aerial shooting poses (2/2)

Aerial firing pose

Beam strings + beam saber + beam shield pose

With the background card.

Background card action

Together with the previous release, the 1/144 Tomliat.

The 5th kit in the 1/144 V Gundam series is the Zoloat — the second Zanscare Empire mobile suit to get a kit release, following the Tomliat. Just looking at its design, it screams "enemy unit," and it does a pretty decent job of capturing the intended color scheme with just two molded colors: yellow and red.

That said, the molded colors do have a bit of a candy-toy feel to them, especially the red — which is pretty rough. That's probably just a limitation of the technology back in 1993, but at least the color separation is fairly well done, so that helps.

Still, it's worth giving credit for managing to recreate the unique shoulder beam strings and beam shield gimmicks even at 1/144 scale. Overall articulation and joint strength are decent enough too. The one annoying thing is that the front skirt tends to pop off during posing, which gets a little frustrating.

On top of that, a good number of clear parts and a background card are included — same as the previous releases. This time around, a new space-themed background card is used, and it's designed to pair up as a set with the three kits that followed.

The molded colors alone make it look very much like an old-school kit, so unless you're a die-hard V Gundam fan, it's hard to give this one a strong recommendation. :-) [ Updated at 2017.11.3]

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.