#lfrith ur

[cardrabitt]

turns out the wfm gundams are modular lmao

Beefy Calibarn

[therem-harth-rem-ir-estraven]

Oh my stars I finally got best girl Sophie Pulone's Lfrith Ur!!!

[stupidfuckingdeer]

I built some Gundams; I’m cool now, right?

So the other day I was at Hot Topic of all places when I noticed they had Gunpla model kits; they were like $16 each since everything in the store was on sale, and my initial thoughts were “oh, cool, I’ll build these and then they can be used in stop motion”… and then I ended up watching The Witch from Mercury and started Iron Blooded Orphans, and…

shit. I’m one of those tumblr Gundam tgirls now.

The first kit I bought from Hot Topic was the HG Rouge Strike + I.W.S.P., and… yeah. It was definitely a first model, lol.

I dunno if you can tell in the pictures, but… I didn’t use nippers for this thing. I started out cutting the pieces off the sprues with scissors, but by the end I was just punching them out with my hands xP . Miraculously, none of the parts snapped, but there are a LOT of nubs left on this thing, even after I tried cleaning it up with an xacto knife and nippers when I got some.

It’s a so-so kit. Definitely my least favorite of the three I’ve built so far, but not bad at all. It’s a rerun of an older kit, apparently, and it definitely feels that way. It’s a little flimsy.

My next kit also was done without nippers, but this time it was okay since it was an EG kit which quite literally requires no tools. This is the Build Strike Exceed Galaxy, to be specific, and to be honest I couldn’t find what anime it’s from.

I vibe with this thing heavily. It’s sturdy, the articulation is great, and its accessories are top-notch. Not only does it come with a gun, but another gun that can turn into a sword and a shield that can turn into a sword. That’s not even the best part; it’s got a backpack that’s actually a spaceship!

This was also the first kit I did that had color-separated eyes as opposed to the Rouge Strike’s annoying eyes sticker, so that was also a plus. Finally, last but certainly not least, we have my third kit; The HG Gundam LFRITH Ur, from The Witch From Mercury .

This thing is a beast. It’s big, it’s heavily armored, and it comes with a giant Gatling gun. It was pretty much what I thought the Rouge Strike was gonna be when I looked at its box… I LOVE it. It also helps that Sophie was one of my favorite TWFM characters and this is her mech :P

Not much else to say about this one, tbh. I bought nippers along with this thing when I got it online so it’s much cleaner looking than my first go at an HG kit.

here’s all three of my kits side to side. It really shows the size of the LFRITH Ur, lol.

This… is not the last I’ll be talking about Gundam. I have two more kits to be assembled, after all; the sister of the Ur, the LFRITH Thorn, and the Barbatos from Iron Blooded Orphans. Please excuse me while I go do that.

[darkeangel]

You can try running, but you’ll only die tired.

HGTWFM Lfrith Thorn and Lfrith Ur

[argumentalist]

I'm building another Witch from Mercury kit this week - the Gundam Lfrith Ur.

Out of curiosity, how are folks pronouncing "Lfrith"?

Elefrith? L-F-rith? Lifrith?

Seems to me that it sounded something like "rubris" in the anime.

I'm slowly working my way through my HGWFM backlog. These are all truly fantastic kits. I haven't honestly been disappointed by one of them yet.

I decided, right off the bat, to use the stickers in this kit. I wasn't very happy with how my attempt at painting the Lfrith Thorn went. I didn't want a repeat of that frustration.

The good news is that if you do a halfway-decent job of debossing the stickers they actually look pretty good. I used a wooden cuticle-pusher and it's great for pressing the stickers into all the little recesses. Here on the chest, for example, there's some actual depth and dimension to those stickers in the shell.

The head is just impressive.

There's 10 separate bits of plastic in there. The eyes and that front head camera are green plastic - they would've been very easy to paint if I wasn't using stickers. That tiny bit of red for the chin - also separate plastic. There's a bit of black plastic around the eyes too, not the usual black sticker.

And I love how everything layers-up with the bits of white showing through the teal.

The arms are another example of the fantastic color-separation.

Remember that Thunderbolt Full Armor Gundam I built a couple weeks back? How there were all those tiny color-correcting stickers for those little thrusters everywhere? The thrusters in the shoulders here are separate bits of plastic. No stickers needed.

In fact... Basically all the stickers are shiny foil stickers for the shell effects. No color-correcting stickers at all.

This kit feels a little light on the accessories... There's the phased array cannon on the back, the beam gatling gun with its shield, and a couple beam-sabers.

I like how the beam-sabers store on the shield. And the shield can be attached either to the beam gatling gun or right to the arms. The weapons are all completely ambidextrous - they're not stuck on any particular arm.

And, even better, the kit comes with a couple open/expressive hands in addition to the closed/holding hands. Always a nice bonus.

While there's obvious similarities to the Lfrith Thorn... Unlike something like the Gundvolva the ties back to the Lfrith aren't real obvious. I haven't looked up a lot of info about this suit... But I wonder if that's because it was developed from the Pre-Production model, rather than the actual Lfrith.

Like I said at the start - this is a fantastic kit. It feels nice and sturdy. Despite its bulk, it's well-articulated. Poses well and stays where you put it. Despite the size of that beam gatling there's absolutely no problem holding it.

I'm going to be sad when I run out of new HGWFM kits to build.

[sauloldmin]

Gundam Lifrith UR straight build(without stickers)

[4k60]

Lfrith Ur x Thorn vs. Aerial Rebuild

[transientmelody]

Lfrith Ur is done! starting on thorn