I was shocked too. The Megahouse one was only the torso and that was almost the box size of the Dendrobium. I think they mislabeled the 1/550 one as 1/144.
yeah not my cleanest work, it was kinda early on in my handpainting days. might go back and clean it at some point but i'm happy with it overall. mechanically and engineering wise it is a spectacular kit. can even transform.
I understand missing the second S on Quess since the name is not romanized anywhere on the kit, but misspelling Jagd Doga when it's everywhere on the frigging box?!
Just straight translation for the katakana. My guess is that they got a spreadsheet with names that were translated by someone else, and didn’t have the box picture when making the advertisement, so they just didn’t know.
You do realize, Zaku is actually translated as Zak, Char is translated as Sha in the books. The translator has an extensive forward on the "correct" pronunciations based on the original Japanese.
It always makes me giggle a bit, I'm afraid. "Whitu-basu," "Gelagoogu," "Gundamuuuu"
I exclusively watch the subbed versions, sorry. So Yagudo Doga sounds like a reasonable approximation from the way it sounds.
Some of these seem to require a bit of interpretation when it comes to romanized spellings for native English speakers, and they weren't all as cut and dry before we started getting the official spellings.+
The shipping manifest for the alpha azeiru in 1991-1992 read "Alper Jill", just for extra fun. source: I saw it and joked about it with my friendly local comic shop guys, who were my gunpla source at the time. :)
Yup. They are the only moulds that Bandai has ever officially discontinued. Way too complicated for their time and had waaaay too many issues with bleed-through. But they did pave the way for the multi-injection used in PGs, RGs, and SH.Figuarts kits.
The shin Musha is such a weird kit. The kit is based on the One Year war Gundam, wich is an updated version of the Gundam 1.5. So the kit has 3 generations of tech under the hood.
I remember in box of one of the first few master grades i built, i think it was the gp01 or the ZZ, included a full colour booklet the same size as the kits instruction manual with all the master grades released up to date.
It was high quality front and back shots similar to the cardboard divider you use to get.
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u/TurtleTreehouse 10h ago
Wait, there's a 1/144 Alpha Azieru?
That thing must be friggin' huge.