Japan's BANDAI SPIRITS Company HOBBY Division, which offers the most diverse range of 1/144 scale Gunpla in its 'HG (High Grade)' series, today announced the latest product from the animated film "Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island": the "HG 1/144 Ground High Mobility Zaku (Wald Custom)", scheduled for release in August 2023.
The MS-06GD Ground High Mobility Zaku, which appears in "Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island", is a ground-use mobile suit operated by the Principality of Zeon's elite "Southern Cross Team". Its design is based on THE ORIGIN version and was redesigned by Kunio Okawara. Its most prominent feature is the addition of several powerful thrusters to the lower body, allowing it to perform hover movement like a Dom, gliding at high speed across the land. Each Ground High Mobility Zaku used by the Southern Cross Team is painted in a sand-colored camouflage and carries different armaments according to their respective combat styles.
This particular Ground High Mobility Zaku, which utilizes various long-range combat weapons, is the mobile suit piloted by Wald, known as "The Hunter" in the Southern Cross Team. The kit largely reuses the design of the Egbert Custom, adding nearly 90% new parts based on THE ORIGIN Zaku series' joints, including a right shoulder shield, waist and leg hover system, and knee articulation mechanism. It also includes a standard head without an antenna.
For armaments, in addition to reusing the Heat Hawk and Anti-Ship Rifle from previous kits, it also reproduces this unit's characteristic "Short Barrel Anti-Ship Rifle" with new parts, including a magazine replacement mechanism. The kit will also include water-slide decals to reproduce the desert camouflage and markings on various parts of the mobile suit.
HG 1/144 High Mobility Zaku Ground Type (Wald Custom)
Reference Price: 3,080 Yen (Tax Included)
Scheduled Release Date: 2023/08
Product Specifications: 1/144 Scale Assembly Model
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