OLD Z Gundam 1/144 Nemo

Release 1985.8

Price ¥500

BANDAI BANDAI Japan product info

Box side view

Runners

Parts diagram

Manual

Straight build + waterslide decals

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Comes with 2 beam sabers and one right hand.

Just your average old-kit articulation.

Firing pose

OLD 1/144 Nemo - Two-handed shooting pose (1/2)

OLD 1/144 Nemo - Two-handed shooting pose (2/2)

Two-handed firing pose

Beam saber pose

Together with the 1/144 GM II.

Together with the HGUC Nemo released in 2013.

This is the old-series Zeta Gundam 1/144 Nemo. It only comes in two molded colors, but the color separation does a decent job of capturing the Nemo's color scheme. That said, it has that classic(?) candy-toy feel to the molded colors that you'd expect from an old kit.

The articulation is neither great nor terrible — just standard old-kit level. Thanks to the polycaps, though, the joint strength is solid, and compared to the First Gundam-era GM, the range of motion itself isn't bad at all. You can pull off a two-handed shooting pose, and poses with the beam saber and shield work fine too, so it's actually more poseable than you might expect. ^^

Proportions-wise, the shoulders feel a bit too wide and beefy. But if you've been frustrated with recent kits having overly slim, "celebrity" proportions, this might actually be a refreshing change. Maybe that's part of the charm of old kits — the detail isn't the sharpest, but the overall silhouette is solid enough that a good paint job without any major modifications would make this a perfectly respectable old-kit build. :-)
[ Updated at 2017.3.8 ]

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.