Kit Review

Straight build + Panel lining

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

1/100 Trojan's Gundam Astray Green Frame (1/6)

1/100 Trojan's Gundam Astray Green Frame (2/6)

1/100 Trojan's Gundam Astray Green Frame (3/6)

1/100 Trojan's Gundam Astray Green Frame (4/6)

1/100 Trojan's Gundam Astray Green Frame (5/6)

1/100 Trojan's Gundam Astray Green Frame (6/6)

Upper body close-up

Head

Back and backpack

Arms.

1/100 Trojan's Gundam Astray Green Frame - Legs (1/2)

1/100 Trojan's Gundam Astray Green Frame - Legs (2/2)

Leg section

1/100 Trojan's Gundam Astray Green Frame - The Green Frame's signature weapon, the Twin Sword Rifle, can be mounted on t

The Green Frame's signature weapon, the Twin Sword Rifle, can be mounted on the left hip.

Shield and knee seals.

The Twin Sword Rifle has articulation gimmicks in several places.

Includes a 1/20 scale figure of pilot Trojan.

Articulation is pretty good for a No Grade, as expected.

1/100 Trojan's Gundam Astray Green Frame - Shooting pose (1/4)

1/100 Trojan's Gundam Astray Green Frame - Shooting pose (2/4)

1/100 Trojan's Gundam Astray Green Frame - Shooting pose (3/4)

1/100 Trojan's Gundam Astray Green Frame - Shooting pose (4/4)

Firing pose

Drawing pose.
The drawing pose looks more natural than most MGs.

Beam saber action.
Easy to get the leg stance just right.

1/100 Trojan's Gundam Astray Green Frame - Twin Sword Rifle action. (1/4)

1/100 Trojan's Gundam Astray Green Frame - Twin Sword Rifle action. (2/4)

Twin Sword Rifle action.

1/100 Trojan's Gundam Astray Green Frame - Kneeling poses? No problem! (1/3)

Kneeling poses? No problem!

The flexible joints make it easy to hold the beam saber with both hands.

1/100 Trojan's Gundam Astray Green Frame.

Together with the HG Trojan's Gundam Astray Green Frame.

1/100 Trojan's Gundam Astray Green Frame - Together with the 1/100 Astray Red Frame, once hailed as the crown jewel of n

Together with the 1/100 Astray Red Frame, once hailed as the crown jewel of No Grade kits.

The Astray RGB trio, now complete with the Blue Frame Second L.

1/100 Trojan's Gundam Astray Green Frame - Just when you'd almost forgotten about it... a SEED-series 1/100 finally show

Just when you'd almost forgotten about it... a SEED-series 1/100 finally shows up after all this time.

After a two-year gap, the Astray Green Frame has arrived as part of the SEED-series 1/100 lineup. The reason is pretty obvious — with the PG Astray release, the Astray series kits that probably should've come out ages ago are finally seeing the light of day, better late than never.

The Astray itself is from the original SEED era, before Destiny, but the product number follows the Destiny 1/100 series numbering. Since it's a side story anyway, it doesn't really matter where they slot it in — but you can't help getting the strong feeling that it was put out as a filler release. ^^;

As you probably know, the Astray is a series with a ton of variations — Red, Blue, Green, Gold, plus all sorts of additional armaments and design changes. After the Red Frame and Blue Frame Second L, Amatsu came out, and now the Green Frame has finally made its appearance too. To be precise, though, this Green Frame is Trojan's Green Frame from the Frame Astrays line, which came out a bit later in the side story continuity — so it's a little different from the original Green Frame in the early lore. But hey, it's all just lore-juggling anyway, so...

Since the old 1/100 Red Frame was so well-received, the Green Frame likewise stands out with excellent articulation and decent color separation for a No Grade 1/100. As Trojan's personal unit, it also comes with a unique weapon called the Twin Sword Rifle — and adding that weapon bumped the price up by a whopping ¥500. That feels a bit steep for what amounts to a single small runner... though since this kit comes five years after the Astray Red Frame, I'd guess some of that is just inflation catching up.

Anyway, it's definitely a very late-to-the-party variation kit, but there's still something meaningful about finally getting a proper 1/100 Green Frame. For Astray fans, it's a chance to get a pretty solid kit at a reasonable price. ^^

1/100 Trojan's Gundam Astray Green Frame | 2009. 3 | ¥2,500

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.