Product Description
Includes
- Gundam Astray Red Frame
- 2 Beam Sabers
- Gerbera Straight
- Manipulators
- Weapon-holding (1 pair)
- Open-palm (1 pair)
- Beam Rifle
- Shield
- L-shaped adapter
- BuCUE Tactical Reconnaissance Type head
- Flight Unit
- Shield/Rifle adapter for Flight Unit
Kit Features & Gimmicks
Articulation
- The head can swivel/tilt on a double-sided ball-jointed neck.
- The torso can tilt frontward, or backward in some extent.
- Shoulder joints can slightly tilt frontwards/raise upwards.
- The arms can...
- Swing on a peg and socket joint.
- Raise horizontally.
- The upper arms can rotate.
- The elbows are double-jointed.
- The manipulators can swivel on a ball-and-socket joint.
- The waist can turn 360 degrees.
- The side waist armors can pivot.
- The hip joint axis can swing frontwards/backwards on one side.
- The upper thigh joints can...
- Swing frontwards (and backwards in some extent) on a peg joint.
- Raise horizontally.
- Rotate on each piece.
- The legs feature double-jointed knee parts.
- The ankles can tilt/swivel.
- The Flight unit's binders are poseable.
Weapons/Other Gimmicks
- The hands are swappable.
- Any of the weapons can be wielded by either of the default hands.
- Beam Rifle foregrip can swing left or right.
- Beam Sabers can be optionally removed from the backpack as handheld weapons.
- Beam Saber/Backpack combo can collapse down to the rear waist.
- The shield can mount onto...
- Any of the forearms, though the default position is on the left.
- Either of the L-shaped adapter's two pegs depending on your preference.
- The shield can rotate on the adapter's pegs.
- Flight unit can attach onto/detach from the Gundam Astray Red Frame.
- The BuCUE head can optionally attach onto the right arm.
- Shield and Rifle can mount onto the left binder with an adapter.
- Gundam Astray Red Frame can mount onto any Action Bases.
Tips & Tricks
- For better results:
- Some or most of the details are needed to be applied/panel-lined with Gundam Markers and/or Mr. Color paints.
- The backpack's red polycap parts must be swapped with grey colors.
- Topcoat (Mr. Hobby recommended) can be used to protect applied stickers/marking decals and if any, painted details.
Customizing-based tips
- The Caletvwich and the V-fin from the HG Gundam Astray Custom Kit can be used for this kit to build the Gundam Astray Red Dragon. (At least 3 Caletvwiches are needed)
- The angled weapon-holding hands from the HG Sengoku Astray Gundam can be used on this Gunpla.
- The ball-and-socket shoulder joints from the HGGBB Gundam Astray Red Frame Inversion can be used on this Gunpla. (Repaint required to match with the kit's plastic color)
Variants
- Current reissues of the Gunpla from 2019 onwards will bear the blue Bandai Spirits logo.
Notes & Trivia
- This Gunpla is second and all-new HG release of the Red Frame kit, and the first HG of the Destiny Astray R series.
- This release of the Astray mold has yet to be redecoed into the Blue/Green Frame variants.