SD BB Senshi Guren Gundam

Release 1998.9

Price ¥500

BANDAI BANDAI Japan product info

Runners

Parts diagram

Manual

Straight build + Stickers

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Front view of straight build before stickers

SD Guren Gundam - After applying seals (1/2)

SD Guren Gundam - After applying seals (2/2)

After applying stickers

Armor and weapons removed

Light armor form

Hollow-backs on the weapons and rear of the arms

Typical SD-grade articulation — head, arms, and feet rotate.

Action pose in light armor form

To get into the Phalanx Mode, you can remove the chest armor and open the shoulder hatches in two stages.

SD Guren Gundam - Slide the Armstrong Cannon from the back into the hand, then rotate the high-mobility sniper cannon on the

Slide the Armstrong Cannon from the back into the hand, then rotate the high-mobility sniper cannon on the shoulder forward and you're done.

Phalanx Mode action pose.

Together with SD Comet Gundam

This is the SD Guren Gundam, released as part of the Shin SD Sengokuden Tensei Shichinin-shū series. It's got big head antennae reminiscent of Double Zeta, and shoulder missile hatches that look a lot like Gundam Heavyarms. True to the Tensei Shichinin-shū series, the basic build uses two soft-material frames and solid color separation. That said, there's a relatively large number of seals, and hollow-backs show up not just on the rear of the arms but on parts of the weapons as well.

The highlight of this kit is definitely the Phalanx Mode — you remove the chest armor to expose the gatling gun, then unfold the shoulder hatches in two stages to deploy the weapons. The Armstrong Cannon that was mounted on the back slides into the hand, and the high-mobility sniper cannon on the shoulder swings forward, giving you a pretty impressive full-weapons-blazing pose. Outside of this mode, though, there are no separate weapons or accessories to speak of — the kit really goes all-in on this one pose.

Either way, the Phalanx Mode is genuinely unique and looks fantastic, so if you're into this kind of aggressive, all-guns-out visual, this seems like a kit worth having a go at. :-)

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.