SD Sengoku Hero Musha Gundam Gai

Release 1996.12

Price ¥300

BANDAI BANDAI Japan product info

Just like Musha Gundam Shin, this is a slide-out style box.

Runners

Parts diagram

Manual

Straight build + Stickers

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Front view of straight build before stickers

Musha Gundam Gai with seals applied (yellow eyes)

Seals are included for eyes in 3 colors and weapons.

Built as Musha Gundam Gin (green eyes)

Built as Musha Gundam Gou (red eyes)

The drill on the head can be rotated to change its direction as shown.

Point the head drill forward and lay it face-down to get the Tsukomi (charge) drill form.

SD Musha Gundam Gai - Just like Musha Gundam Shin, you can pull out the connector pin located below the hip joint and plug it

Just like Musha Gundam Shin, you can pull out the connector pin located below the hip joint and plug it into the front or back of the body.

Connected front-to-back with SD Musha Gundam Shin using the connector pin

SD Musha Gundam Gai - The articulation is pretty basic — just the neck, shoulders, and feet rotating — and as you'd expect, t

The articulation is pretty basic — just the neck, shoulders, and feet rotating...
As you'd expect, there are so many parts in the way that the range of motion is quite limited.

SD Musha Gundam Gai - Action poses in each form (1/3)

Action poses in each form

Together with SD Musha Gundam Shin.

This is SD Musha Gundam Gai, released in 1996 as part of the SD Gundam Sengoku Heroes series. Like the previously released Musha Gundam Shin, it's part of the Sengoku Heroes lineup — and it's also a bit of an unlucky series, with only two kits ever released.

The overall concept and layout are similar to Musha Gundam Shin — this time around, you can rearrange the shoulders and head antenna, and swap out the eye and weapon seals to build any of the Drill Musha Triplets: Musha Gundam Gai (yellow), Musha Gundam Gin (green), or Musha Gundam Gou (red). You can also point the head drill forward and lay it face-down to get the Tsukomi drill form, though calling it a "transformation" feels a bit of a stretch ^^; And just like Musha Gundam Shin, there's a hidden connector pin below the hip joint that you can plug into the front or back of the body, letting you chain multiple kits together in a row.

So really, it's like a fraternal twin of Musha Gundam Shin — same overall concept, just with a different design and color scheme. The molding is a little on the soft side, but for 300 yen, it packs in a surprising amount of fun features with simple parts. All in all, a pretty solid little SD Gundam kit. :-)

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.