Kit Review

Straight build + Panel lining + Seals

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Upper body

Head

Arms and shoulders

Launcher backpack + rail bazooka mounted on the back

Legs

The two weapons from the original Duel Gundam are each mounted on the sides.

Extra parts added at the ankles make it taller than the original Duel.

Interestingly, the beam sabers are mounted on the knees.

Leftover parts.

Limb articulation is a very honest 90 degrees.

1/100 Regen Duel Gundam - The added front skirt has a pretty limited range of motion, which puts a fair bit of restriction on

The added front skirt has a pretty limited range of motion, which puts a fair bit of restriction on thigh movement.

1/100 Regen Duel Gundam - 350mm rail bazooka in action. This weapon was also included with the 1/100 Astray Gold Frame. (1/4)

1/100 Regen Duel Gundam - 350mm rail bazooka in action. This weapon was also included with the 1/100 Astray Gold Frame. (2/4)

350mm rail bazooka in action.
This weapon was also included with the 1/100 Astray Gold Frame.

1/100 Regen Duel Gundam - Dual guns! (1/3)

Dual guns!

1/100 Regen Duel Gundam - 57mm high-energy beam rifle and 115mm rail rifle in action (1/3)

57mm high-energy beam rifle and 115mm rail rifle in action

That distinctive draw pose, as always

1/100 Regen Duel Gundam - Beam saber action (1/4)

1/100 Regen Duel Gundam - Beam saber action (2/4)

Beam saber action

1/100 Regen Duel Gundam - Rail rifle and rail bazooka combo. (1/5)

1/100 Regen Duel Gundam - Rail rifle and rail bazooka combo. (2/5)

1/100 Regen Duel Gundam - Rail rifle and rail bazooka combo. (3/5)

Rail rifle and rail bazooka combo.

With the backpack from the Nix Providence Gundam, released at the same time.

Together with the Duel Gundam Assault Shroud.

Together with the base Duel Gundam.

Thanks to the extra ankle joints, the Regen Duel is noticeably taller.

Compared to the Duel, the outer shoulder armor has moved to the heels..

And the knee armor has gone to the shoulder pads.

The beam sabers that were on the back have moved to the knees..

1/100 Regen Duel Gundam - And the ducts from the Assault Shroud's leg armor have gone up to the shoulders. It's a bit of a ju

And the ducts from the Assault Shroud's leg armor have gone up to the shoulders.
It's a bit of a jumbled remix, but it somehow works..

1/100 Regen Duel Gundam - It combines the bazooka that came with the earlier Gold Frame and the backpack from the 1/100 Launc

It combines the bazooka that came with the earlier Gold Frame and the backpack from the 1/100 Launcher Strike.

1/100 Regen Duel Gundam - Straight build (1/2)

1/100 Regen Duel Gundam - Straight build (2/2)

Straight-built state

The third kit in the out-of-nowhere SEED Variation 1/100 lineup is the Regen Duel Gundam, based on the Duel Gundam. The original Assault Shroud armor has been removed, and the existing armor pieces have been redistributed around the base Duel Gundam frame, along with a number of additional parts thrown into the mix.

Looking at the design, as you can see in the photos above, the knee armor goes to the shoulders, the shoulder armor goes to the heels — it's that signature parts-recycling spirit on full display, cleverly repurposing existing pieces. On top of that, one extra runner's worth of new parts manages to create a design that looks quite different from the original Duel. And then they throw in the backpack from the 1/100 Launcher Strike and the bazooka from the 1/100 Gold Frame on top of that — truly the pinnacle of recycling.

If you look at the runner for the bazooka that came with the 1/100 Gold Frame, it's actually stamped as a bazooka for the Duel Gundam — so it seems like it wasn't the Gold Frame borrowing from the Duel, but rather the Gold Frame had borrowed it from the Duel in the first place. Either way, thanks to all this complex recycling and kitbashing, the design itself feels surprisingly fresh in its own way.

The overall articulation and characteristics of the kit are the same as the existing 1/100 Duel, with a standard ~90-degree range of motion and decent joint strength. However, one added downside is that the front skirt added for the Regen has a strangely narrow range of motion, which significantly limits how far the thighs can swing up. Even setting that aside, this is a fairly old 1/100 kit, so the leg articulation is on the limited side overall — keep in mind that pulling off a wide variety of action poses will be a bit of a challenge.

At ¥2500, the low price for the scale, easy assembly, colorful looks, and the flashy charm typical of variation kits are its strong points — beyond that, this isn't really a kit that'll wow you with any standout features. ^^; It's a kit that's fundamentally designed to be a casual, fun build, so it's a perfectly solid~~, no-fuss recommendation for beginner modelers who just want to enjoy the assembly and end up with a nice finished model. :-)

1/100 Regen Duel Gundam | 2009. 9 | ¥2,500

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.