High Grade 00: GNW-20000 Arche Gundam

At the end of Season One of Gundam 00, the mercenary Ali al-Saachez hijacks the Gundam Throne Zwei. Promptly afterward, he is hired by Ribbons Almark, who has initiated his plans to control the fate of humanity. Ali accepts, and Ribbons phones up his buddies at the newly created Earthsphere Federation peacekeeping force "A-LAWS" and they begin reverse-engineering the Gundam technology. The result is Ali's new machine in Season 2, the Arche Gundam.



The kit turns out to be a little larger than the others in the line, but assembly is still pretty simple. Despite the Arche Gundam's lanky proportions, poseability is strong. The kit is molded in all the correct colors, and transparent pieces are provided for the GN Particle Condensers. All that needed painting were the tan parts of the GN Buster Sword and the white tips on all of the wings and fins.

Features include the transformable escape pod on its back and the transformable GN Buster Sword which can switch to rifle mode. In addition, the pods for the GN Fangs can open and the Particle Condensers on the legs can open up revealing way more details than I feel like painting.

If you have a base, the model can do some decent kicking poses with the foot beam sabers, but I have a feeling those will stay in the box. The sword is, of course, pretty heavy, and you have to be very careful about how you pose it, because otherwise it'll just flop over from the weight.

Overall, an excellent representation of one of the more unconventional designs from the series.



Mine is in the crappy cell phone picture. The one right above is some Japanese guy's.

He didn't really get much accomplished there, other than growing some fierce muttonchops.

This post contains House spoilers. But not until the final paragraph.

Rgh, do you really think you can get away with pre-empting Castle tonight, ABC? I don't care who the Packers are playing, I needs me some Captain Reynolds being smarmy and solving crimes. Argh. Another TV show sacrificed at the altar in the name of the horrific and writhing deity that is Monday Night Foot Ball.

I put together the Arche Gundam. Mine doesn't look quite as pink as that, though. A fairly quick build, took about three hours over the course of two days between the snap-fit and the detailing. There may be a post devoted to it later.

Hey! I got accepted into an online Play-by-Post game of Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition! That is to say, my character Dagarth Crossroad did. The game will be the Scales of War adventure, something I'm not really familiar with, so it should be rad.

Also! Look what Roommate the Second bought! I'll let you know how they taste.

So listen, dude who sat near me in Meteorology today. Don't read over both versions of the test that you were given, because one of them is supposed to be passed to me. The professor did not decide to give you the opportunity to compare the two and decide which test you would rather take, he decided you would be competent enough to merely TAKE ONE AND PASS THE OTHER TO YOUR NEIGHBOR, who is waiting very patiently, even though he studied and could probably deal with either version perfectly well. I'll be way interested to know how you did, though.

What else? House tonight. Epic.

If, back when the show started, you had told me that Chase would ultimately be responsible for the fate of a nation, and that the episode that this occurs in would involve James Earl Jones guest-starring? I'd have said there's no way that this show could get that cool. However, if you had told me that Thirteen would be angry at Foreman and their relationship would be boring and lame, I would've believed that completely 100%.

In which our hero makes a bad financial decision.

And here's what it looks like.



(Not pictured: a bottle of Pepsi Wild Cherry and a bottle of orange Juice.)

Two model kits for about $50. I didn't really need to eat this week, after all.

And it has transparent effect parts!!! Pretty!!! And the Cherudim's GN Rifle barrel snapped off the tree in transit!!! No biggie!!!

I hadn't counted on Lost World of Wonders in Milwaukee actually restocking anything (because they never do), but welp, here they are. On the plus side, I drove through downtown Milwaukee with more or less complete confidence and didn't get lost once.

So OMG, Brothers Bloom is finally out on DVD this week! I have not been so completely sure of a film's quality in quite some time. I'll let you know how it is. (It'll be awesome.)

Meteorology test tomorrow, but not terribly worried about it. Taking it for the accursed Natural Science requirements. I wonder if they make all the Engineering Majors take classes about poetry and the ramifications of "being". Fortunately, I can satisfy that requirement by taking stuff that 7-Year Old Alex was way interested in, like dinosaurs, space and weather. Also, you can't really take practical Lab courses for any of those things so the Lab sections are way easy and way short.

I'm eating a Nestle Drumstick for supper right now. But there's a pizza in the oven, too, so I guess that's... dessert?