Kit Review

Straight build + panel lining + partial painting

Size comparison with a cigarette pack. It's a bit bigger than other 1/144 kits.

HG Abyss Gundam - A few spots that need partial painting: the red section in the middle of the head antenna, the red on the s

A few spots that need partial painting: the red section in the middle of the head antenna, the red on the sides, and the gray on the knees.

The blue and gray sections on the backpack's weapon units also got partial painting.

The Abyss's only weapon, the Beam Lance, got a full paint job. ^^;

The face looks just like a Japanese samurai helmet.

Articulation is decent — not amazing, but not bad either. The joints are nice and sturdy!

The soft beam part at the tip of the Beam Lance can be popped in and out.

The impact of a full-open action pose!

The only weapon is the Beam Lance, just this one thing..

A stand is included for the MA transformation mode.

HG Abyss Gundam - To get into MA mode, you need to remove the inner covers on the shield-like parts on both shoulders. This i

To get into MA mode, you need to remove the inner covers on the shield-like parts on both shoulders.
This is to fold the arms inside.

Pull out the locking piece from one of the shoulder shields and connect it.

Then the arms tuck in like that... it looks a little sad, honestly..;;

HG Abyss Gundam - The locking peg on the top of the Beam Lance is supposed to be pushed down, rotated, and then plugged into

The locking peg on the top of the Beam Lance is supposed to be pushed down, rotated, and then plugged into the body..
But it's so stiff that pushing and pulling it just scrapes off all the red paint I put on. T_T
So I just left that part alone and did a rough transformation instead.;;

MA mode. Kinda looks like a spaceship..

Is this the successor to the Asshimar?? ;;

The side profile is pretty slim.

Looking at it again, it kind of reminds me of Grendizer.

A shot with the Forbidden Gundam, which has similar weapons. (The Forbidden is still in straight-built state)

A commemorative photo with Sword Impulse and Saviour.

Straight build

The blue-toned Abyss Gundam has gotten the HG treatment. I personally love blue, and the molded colors of blue, sky blue, and white blend together really nicely — it's a great-looking kit. The color separation is pretty well done too, so there aren't that many spots needing partial painting compared to other HG kits. The one exception is the Beam Lance — since it's a spear-shaped weapon, you basically need to paint almost the entire thing to get the white and red sections right. For the Beam Lance paint job, I followed the textbook approach: surfacer → base white → masking → red → brush painting the other sections → panel lining with a Rotring pen.

The Abyss Gundam's biggest feature is definitely those massive shoulder shields. They're large weapon units with 3 beam cannons on the inside and 2 protruding ones on the outside, and when you transform into MA mode, they wrap around the front of the body like a clamshell. These structures move on multiple joints with a pretty wide range of motion, and when fully opened, you can pull off some seriously dynamic action poses.

Like other recent SEED kits, it has decent articulation and appropriately stiff joints, so it holds its poses well even with those big shoulder structures. That said, since so much weight is concentrated in the upper body, if you don't balance it right, gravity will do its thing and it'll topple forward or backward.

Transforming into MA mode is pretty straightforward — just fold up the shoulder structures, bend the legs a bit, and rotate the backpack weapons into position and you're done. The front of the MA mode looks kind of like an Asshimar, or maybe Grendizer's spaceship, with that round shellfish-like shape. A stand is included so you can display it properly.

Overall it's a clean, quality kit, and if you like the design, it's definitely worth picking up without hesitation. ^^

HG Abyss Gundam | 2005. 4 | ¥1,500

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.