#heindree

[gundamfight]

[ephemeral-builds]

I've been slowly chipping-away at my backlog... And, amazingly, I'm running out of main-line Witch From Mercury kits to build. I've only got a handful left.

This week it's the HGWfM Heindree - a fantastic little grunt suit from the series.

This is a fairly simple kit... There's five runners in the box, but two of them barely count. And it's clearly a variation on what we've seen with the other Grassley suits I've built like the Michaelis and Beguir-Pente. That inner-frame looks almost identical to what I've built before.

There's a tiny little cockpit in the chest just like the Michaelis and Beguir-Pente... But this one is completely hidden by the chest armor.

I kind of love this head. I love the purple/pink visor... But it's got such a derpy look to it. Some little bucket-headed thing.

The arms and legs are very reminiscent of the Michaelis and Beguir-Pente... Just a little simpler. None of the shiny shell-unit pieces.

There's not a lot of accessories in this kit... There's the backpack, a shield, and then the weird shield/gun/lance weapon.

I'm really liking the simplicity of this kit - it kind of reminds me a bit of the Graze grunts I've been building. Very no-nonsense.

A benefit to a simpler grunt suit like this is that I don't have a lot of spare accessories to store away.

I really like the neat, goat-y feet... But they do make posing a little difficult. They've absolutely got enough surface-area to balance nicely, but they don't articulate in quite the ways I want them to.

That gun/shield/lance weapon is kind of awkward. The lance gets in the way in a lot of poses... And I really kind of wonder at the decision-making behind it. I would love to see the meeting notes that led to that thing being approved for production.

It can pull off some fantastic poses though.

[deazmonius]

It’s been a bit, but here is the next installment of the Gundam Witch from Mercury model kits. The HG CFP-010 Heindree, a grunt Mobile Suit Developed by Grasslyey Defense. An uniqueMS with a big round shield on a pivoting arm mounted on the left arm. On the right arm the is a smaller shield weapon called the ‘lantern Shield’ which has electromagnetic lance, a beam pistol and shield all in one.

As for the kit itself it was a fairly simple build over all, and came together nicely. I decided to go the extra mile and paint everything instead of using the provided stickers seeing as I also had decals for it. Which I think really make this kit look superior good. The build over all while quite solid and has some decent mobility. It does have some glaring issues in the hips the upper most part of the thigh is a two part socket with pegs that go into the waist and another that goes into the upper part of the leg where both parts can rotate around but the only bend is at the hip. And with the way that is situated you have to do some really awkward twisting to get any kind of wide stance. That coupled with he feet also having a poor range of motion it takes a lot of fiddling to get any dynamic positions.

[selkieshark]

Oh yeah I forgot to show you all the absolutely massive gunpla order that came in the other day. Almost done with collecting all of the WFM kits!

[kurayamineko]

[cradlestar]

G-Witch gunpla announcements (Hobby Next Phase Winter 2022)

[cyanendoskel]

Rising Heindree