Alright, after a brief and quick assembly, here is the review for the 1/144 Gaogaigar kit with dividing driver from Aoshima company. I have to say this kit is quite ok for being a 10+ year old kit I presume. Sure you need to do a full paint probably to get it anime accurate. This kit also kinda suffers a lot in the polycap department. For starters, the ball joints for the head and the lion head parts are really small and also seems easy for it to fall off especially the head. A slight touch and it falls off. Chest part also suffers from it being heavy on one side if you decided to touch it a bit. In terms of it being back heavy, it does but if you know how to balance it, it won't be a problem. like I said the only part you'd need to be careful is the chest part. There are 2 fun gimmicks that should have been used in toys and not model kits but it's all up to you if you intend to use it. Construction of this kit really beings an old nostalgic feeling of building old kits like the 1/144 gundam wing kits. In terms of panel lining, there's not much to it in this kit, mostly on the thighs and the backpack, and if you've watched this anime, I don't think it's necessarily.
This kit is pretty big for being a 1/144, as a scale of the small F91 and the TR-1 for scale. Wished I had a large scale 1/144 to scale it but alas not yet. (I'm looking at you 1/144 The O)
Elbow joints are a bit over 90degrees but the giant forearms are bringing it down easily. Probably due to the loose polycap to the parts.
Knee movement is also above 90 degrees. But you won't be using it since it will conflict with the backpack. And also this kit won't be doing poses since it's nearly a brick.
The Galeon's head has a movable lower jaw to make it's mouth open. Although it might be slightly off set a bit to the left or the right instead of it staying in the middle. not much a problem.
The front skirts are attached to the hip instead of the crotch part like the usual gundam front skirts. It won't move much above.
Well, this is as much as it can do to do a split, s I've said you are not gonna get much posing capability with this kit.
The extra hand parts for the heaven and hell, 2 open first and an elbow joint for you to use broken phantom gimmick. Sure it's fun I guess launching a giant fist at random kits, and yes it works and flies quite far. Also they give an open palm for the left hand for you to perform Protect shade. But yeah you are going to have a problem keeping his hands straight up.
And here is one of the gimmicks, The ability for it to shoot it's right hand, called Broken Phantom. Nothing much detail to say here. You get what you see.
And the all time favorite finisher move, Heaven and Hell. This is the only pose that the arms have no problem keeping it on
This kit also gives 2 changeable vents to be used with the stealth Gao. you are probably better keeping it with the open vents.
Here are the accessory for this kit. The Dividing Driver. The other gimmick is in this weapon, although not much of use personally, it is a quite nice touch they give with this. It's spring loaded so you can push in the lower half of the weapon to compress it and it'll expand when you release it.
And well, as I've said earlier, this kit suffers from balance on the chest and as you can see it will tilt it's body towards the left whenever you equip the dividing driver. Although with a bith of tinkering, you could get it standing straight up.
And here is the kit with everything equipped on, and it feels quite menacing as it should and pretty much this is the only thing you could get it to do. A standing brick. Pretty much a good kit for you to have it on display as it is.
Another thing about the stealth Gao is that it has pegs for you to attach the turbine arms for fun.
Well that's all for my review and I have to say it's pretty much what you would expect from an old kit. I will be doing a repaint for this kit and will post it up when it's done.
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