Runners & Parts diagram
Manual
Straight build
Straight build
Size comparison with a cigarette pack
Gatling unit articulation
Action pose
Together with the 1/144 Blaze Zaku Phantom (Heine custom).
-- Series Overview ---------------------------------
The Gundam SEED Destiny 1/144 No Grade series followed on from the original SEED 1/144 line, with a total of 14 kits released between 2004 and 2005, priced between ¥300 and ¥600 — making them entry-level Gunpla. The basic layout is similar to the SEED 1/144 series, but you can feel a step up in detail, and they use an evolved dumbbell-shaped ball-joint polycap. Each joint moves on both ends, so articulation has improved, though the fixed elbows and knees still limit the poses you can pull off.
That said, the proportions are solid and on par with HG kits, and while color separation is limited, the molded colors look pretty decent. Each mobile suit also recreates its own transformation gimmick or key feature. The parts count is more complex than the SEED 1/144 kits, pushing the average price up to ¥500, but overall quality has gone up along with it. As a No Grade kit, it's a good entry-level Gunpla for casual building on a budget or for painting practice.
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<Individual Kit Notes>
This is the 12th kit in the series — the 1/144 Slash Zaku Phantom. Like the Blast Impulse Gundam, it's never been released as an HG, so it's a bit of a rare find. It's essentially the Zaku Warrior with the molded color changed to light blue, plus the addition of the Slash Pack (complete with gatling beam gun) and beam axe weapons.
Outside of the movable gatling beam gun, there isn't much else going on — and just like the Blaze Zaku Warrior, the weapon pack is molded in the body color, which still creates a noticeable mismatch. The Slash Pack is on a separate runner, so changing the molded color would've been easy enough, making it all the more frustrating that they went with such an odd color choice.
That said, this kit holds its own simply by being the only Slash Zaku Phantom kit out there — if you've been wanting to build a Slash Pack, you really don't have any other options. :-)
AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.