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Sirbine from Aura Battler Dunbine

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Plamax 1:32 Sirbine from Aura Battle Dunbine plastic model build photoset July 18th, 2022

The Sirbine is from the Aura Battler Dunbine OVA series, which I have not seen and it is not commercially available in English. I imagine that there must be fansubs out there somewhere. This is a plastic recreation of a sofubi kit that Max Factory made back in 1988, during the garage kit heyday. I’ve never seen the OVA, but after seeing a build-up review of this kit in Model Graphix magazine, I knew I had to get this kit. The beautiful nude sculpture on the shield is so cool-looking.

The main body color is Gaia Notes AM-06 Aura Pale Blue from their Dunbine paint line. The woman sculpture is Gaia Notes 122 Star Bright Gold, set onto a background of Mr. Color 76 Metallic Blue. I hand-painted much of the details with Mr. Hobby Aqueous acrylics. The instructions give several ways of painting this kit, sometimes with a silver nude sculpture, sometimes gold. Well heck, I just painted this robot how I wanted it to look.

I employed high-powered magnets from HiQ parts in the hand and the shield so that the shield can be removed easily. It would be a shame to have glued the shield into place, only for it to break off. This way it can be easily removed and not disturb the paint. Two right hands can be chosen, one with an empty hand and one holding a sword. The kit comes with a sword hilt to place into the scabbard. This works great, rather than trying to put an entire sword into the scabbard, only for the silver paint to wear away.

This is just a handsome kit, and a fantastic subject. I love the bio-mechanical appearance to the mecha in the Dunbine universe. Cool.

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Oh my GORSHNESS, an order I had placed some time ago with a third party seller who deals in p-bandai stuff randomly showed up today (which makes two p-bandai deliveries that have bookended my holiday time), and it was my nearly forgotten order of the assault booster and high speed equipment expansion for the Geminass 1, but more importantly, this guy!

This is the Aura Battler Sirbine, from the anime, Aura Battler... Dunbine! I know right? This is, if I remember right, the powered up unit that replaces the dunbine later in the story or some such, standard mecha stuff. I haven’t actually watched Dunbine but I friggin LOVE the insectoid mecha designs, like, a lot. Bug aesthetics are my jam, especially on robots.

This guy is yet another in a current ongoing slow and steady release of HG non-gundams that I am personally gonna be referring to collectively as the HG SRW line, cuz... well its all stuff that is iconic of the genre and as a result ended up in SRW many times. Also they’re literally doing SRW OG units so there. And this guy looks great crammed shoulder to shoulder on the SRW shelf with all the other bots! That shelf is way too full and I still have another kit to build that needs to join them.

Nice kit, nothing mind blowing, but all good looking and stable... except for one weird thing, the shoulder joint that connects into the chest isn’t really protected by the chest armor (possibly for range of motion) and pops out easily from inside the chest on both sides. But they pop back in no problem, so its no big deal.

Magic swooooooooord.