Kit Review

Straight build + panel lining + partial paint

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

HG Ginn Type High-Maneuver 2 - There aren't that many spots that need partial painting. The red parts on the shield and the g

There aren't that many spots that need partial painting.
The red parts on the shield and the gray areas on the shoulders can be handled with stickers, but I just painted them anyway.
The white parts on the side skirts have no stickers at all, so I did partial painting there.

The inside of the shield also got a partial paint in gray

The inside of the rear leg verniers painted red.

HG Ginn Type High-Maneuver 2 - The sword — the highlight of the Ginn Type High-Maneuver 2 — basically needs a near-complete p

The sword — the highlight of the Ginn Type High-Maneuver 2 — basically needs a near-complete paint job..

Both the sword and scabbard got a full paint job.

The Ginn line still has solid articulation.

Action pose

Draw!

Kneeling pose? Easy. ~

All 4 HG Ginn series assembled!

HG Ginn Type High-Maneuver 2 - Of these, there are actually 3 distinct base kits: the standard Ginn, the Ginn Type High-Maneu

Of these, there are actually 3 distinct base kits: the standard Ginn, the Ginn Type High-Maneuver, and the Ginn Type High-Maneuver 2.

Comparison with the Ginn Type High-Maneuver 1. There's barely any shared armor between them.

The vernier styles are quite different, aren't they.

HG Ginn Type High-Maneuver 2 - Comparison with the standard Ginn. The Ginn Type High-Maneuver 2 actually looks more like the

Comparison with the standard Ginn.
The Ginn Type High-Maneuver 2 actually looks more like the standard Ginn than the High-Maneuver 1.

From the back, they look almost identical except for the center backpack vernier.

Leftover parts. A few parts from the Mobile Ginn — shoulders, sword, etc. — are left over.

One glamour shot!

Straight build shot — front

Straight build shot — rear

The Ginn High-Maneuver (Ginn Type High-Maneuver), which existed only as an MSV and never appeared in the anime during SEED, made its animated debut in SEED Destiny as the Ginn Type High-Maneuver 2. That said, this Ginn Type High-Maneuver 2 feels less like a successor to the original High-Maneuver and more like just another high-maneuver variant of the standard Ginn — its overall style and appearance are much closer to the standard Ginn than to the High-Maneuver 1. Anyway, it was released as an HG kit of an official anime-appearing unit rather than an MSV.

Since it's a variation built on the already solid HG Ginn base, it comes with sturdy joints and great articulation right out of the box — a quality kit overall. The color scheme is a combination of dark gray and slightly muted white, and compared to the High-Maneuver 1, there are far fewer spots that really need partial painting. The shield and shoulder areas even come with stickers, and honestly the only thing that really seems to need painting is the sword. The sword and scabbard pretty much need a near-full paint job before they look the part.

The joints are solid so it pulls off action poses well, and with just a bit of paint the sword looks really cool — it's a quality HG kit in its own right… but the price is a bit out of nowhere;; The standard Ginn was ¥1000, and the High-Maneuver 1 with its significantly added armor was ¥1200 — but this Ginn Type High-Maneuver 2 comes in at ¥1500. And it's not like it has more parts than the High-Maneuver 1 — it actually has fewer;; So the fair price should've just been ¥1200, yet it suddenly jumped to ¥1500, making it one of the pricier kits in the HG lineup.

It's hard to see this as anything other than a pricing mistake by whoever was in charge of sales, or a sneaky attempt to quietly push prices up. It's the moment where the price-to-runner/content ratio that held for previous kits suddenly broke down… Not exactly great news for consumers! If you set aside the sudden price hike though… it's not a bad kit at all. ^^;

HG Ginn Type High-Maneuver 2 | 2005. 7 | ¥1,500

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.