HGUC Gouf Flight Type (21st Century Real Type Ver) Review | 08th MS Team Gunpla and Gundam Model
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- From The 08th MS Team comes the Zeon Gouf Flight Type's HGUC kit exclusively sold in Gundam Base stores. This kit is loved by many and yet so difficult to buy, this review compares it against the P-Bandai version, the HGUC Gouf Custom, and then its 1998 HG Counterpart!
Referenced Websites:
HGUC PBandai Gouf Flight Type Review by Schizophonic - schizophonic9.com/re4/hguc_gou...
Robot Damashii Gouf Flight Test Type Review by Hacchaka - hacchaka.net/archives/5206936...
Hobby Search:
Zaku II Real Type Kit Listing - www.1999.co.jp/eng/10005612
HGUC Gouf Custom Listing - www.1999.co.jp/eng/10126361
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Time Stamps:
0:00 - Introduction
1:00 - Release Info
1:57 - Box Contents
2:40 - Real Type Color
3:37 - Gouf Custom
5:51 - Hands
6:35 - 35mm Gatling Gun
7:03 - Sword
7:23 - Shield
7:52 - Gatling Shield
9:07 - 1998 HG Gouf Flight Type
9:50 - Articulation
12:12 - Size Comparison
12:38 - Three-point Verdict
15:01 - Thank you so much! - บันเทิง
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Man you really know how to choose the most interesting kits to review. Thanks!
You're very welcome:) This kit is such a nice kit but so hard to buy...
You know it always amazes me how popular the MS08th team is and how neglected it is in terms of kits. None of the MG are 2.0s and HG kits like this are like beyond rare. I've always loved Goufs and this kit especially but ever getting it is very slim. Great review as always and I love the comparisons between new and old versions of a it!
Thank you as always:)
I think the stories showing them all as grounded machines gives the MSes so much character, it's hard not to love them - so much so that people don't notice the Gouf Flight Type was only in the show for a few seconds (I used all the footage in the review already...)
nahh
The real type colors schemes are really good looking. Especially that mk ii which literally has a jet like paint job.
I really wanted that Mk-II as well for reviewing but they were all snatched up by stores that imported it... I'd love to paint a G Defenser to match it
I’ve just built this kit, and you actually can get a full rotation on the waist if you pull it up on the ball joint a bit or tilt the torso as you rotate. Not even the Gouf Revive can boast that because this particular variant doesn’t have hoses linking to the backpack.
There's something about this box art as well as all the Real Type boxes from all eras that just makes me want to collect all of them and display them on a shelf. They're just so awesome and a piece of Gunpla history!
It really is quite cool how the new Real Type boxes mimic the old box layout so they go really nicely together
@@HobbyClubhouse Oh, absolutely. Gotta love that!
Man, there was a manga story by Kazuhisa Kondo about a Gouf Test Flight type in Odessa with a giant sword and other swords who fought against lots of GMs before being sniped by a gm sniper or something. It was one of the coolest things I ever saw in Gundam.
Hm, makes me really curious. Gotta go find that to see because things featuring the Flight Type is so rare
@@HobbyClubhouse it was in volume 4 of the vanishing machine series
As a big Dom fan, I always appreciated the lower leg design on the Gouf Flight Type. Many similarities in both form and (to a degree) function. As always, thanks for putting together another fantastic review!
Always good to see you here in the comments:)
The designers seem to like the legs too and did the color separation on them so nicely. The bell-bottom legs are really classic-Zeon
FINALLY GOT MINEE really glad!
I always leave the top part of the shield structure on to help keep the shield on without the gatling
Gouf is life, Gouf is love. You're not crazy and don't let anyone tell you otherwise!
It's already easier to explain to people compared to Zaku collections :')
So thorough!! Thanks for creating such great quality videos!
You're very welcome! Took a bit of work but always glad to know it's worthwhile:)
someone mentioned that the cover is an actual model photograph, edited to emulate the feel of the old real type box art - don't ask how/where I extracted that info...
i get the exclusive treatment for something like the daughtress, but for this - it doesn't make sense to me, it already has an old regular release, and ms 08 is not a niche series - it can even be argued that gundam weathering is synonymous to the ground type.
Great review as always!
Thank you so much! :)
Woo! It's finally here! 🎉 And man that was a great review, Thanks once more to the lad who gifted this kit to you and It's really a shame this kit is so damn rare
Let's hope Bandai makes a Revive Version of the Gouf Custom at some point and we can hopefully have this Bulky Bird be a Retail release
This Real Type is 'slightly' easier to get but costs so much... Bandai needs to stop being stubborn and letting so many middle-men take our money
I really thought they'd do a Revive Gouf Custom from the plain Gouf, which they sadly didn't...
@@HobbyClubhouse Yeah, P-Bandai should really just be for color variants like that OG HGUC Gouf you review a few videos back, and Yeah I really thought they would do more with the Revives like Making those Gyan Variants from Ghirens Greed or making the Guncannon Heavy Type but seems we aren't getting them any time soon since the people at Bandai are probably working hard on the kits for the newer stuff like Witch from mercury or Urdr Hunt
One good thing about the zeon hands from 2005or so onwards is that most of them can swap out the hand covers,and another thing is if you want a "stored" look on the Gatling shield is removing the barrel and plugging it into the vulcan sensor, it's not really meant to but it does fit.
It's quite annoying how there's more hands than hand covers no matter where you get the hands from. I have way more than I can ever use, but it always bugs me it isn't 1:1...
You were playing around with the Gatling shield when you discovered that fitting compatibility, weren't you? :)
@@HobbyClubhouse yeah,it works as well with the mg too
Yeah, can't bandai be a little more generous with the hands?
Ideally I'd want almost every kit to have trigger and open hands for every arm, only one actually doing this is the HG Origin RX-78. HG High Mobility Zakus, the Thunderbolt Zakus, and the recent new HG Char Zaku have almost this, but only 1 open hand. Still glad they do at least.
I wish i could have those GB Limited kits and also i am big fan of arm mounted weapons mobile suits hehe
For Gundam Base kits, I really really want their all-white Painting Models. I want all of them.
I was thinking of MSes with arm-mounted weapons and there's surpringly not that many
If ms where real this would probably be one of the most fun to pilot. Great vid btw keep up the work
Thanks as always! The in-universe settings say they malfunction a lot so maybe it's quite a gamble to actually fly in these...
I always found Bandai's treatment of the MSV line (and conceptually similar MSs) weird.
Many people have shown love for those alternative versions of loved Mobile Suits (my favorites being the Desert Zaku, GM Cannon, and the Mass Produced Hi-Nu with INCOMs), and yet they are rarely available.
The Origin kits are a step on the right direction, but still weird since it gives us "incomplete" MSVs, leaving the proper ones as P-Bandai. I wonder what are they thinking.
Anyway, does no space version of the Gouf exist?
Yeah, the Gouf was specifically made for atmospheric use, so the Gyan is sorta kinda almost a space analogue of it. I doubt it's a good idea to rely on the heat rod in space anyway...
@@HobbyClubhouse maybe the gouf custom variant of the rod, given that it works more like an "harpoon" of sort
@@HobbyClubhouse Bro, when are you coming back?
Missed this video since I’ve been busy starting a new job. Looks like a nice kit! I might go for the Gouf Real Type instead though. Heat Sabers are so cool!
Thank you so much and hope things are going well in your new job! The Real Type Gouf is super popular and I keep seeing it pop up in Twitter. It's not easy to find though, so I wish Bandai would just make Real Type kits simpler to purchase...
@@HobbyClubhouse Thanks! And if you can, I’d look on Mandarake. They usually have a few of the new Real Type kits in stock.
i like that the new kits have a slight matte finish on the surface. it makes them look less toyish and more premium
I wonder if it's just an illusion but that plastic usually feels softer to cut too
Wait, wait, wait, wait, you mean that the original Gouf Flight Type kit was based on the 1998 Gouf Custom kit? Damn, i thought they used the new Gouf Custom mold.
If you mean the 1998 Flight Type then yeah, just like this new HGUC pair, that 1998 one was also a retool of the 1998 Gouf Custom
Your tagline is basically "what the hell bandai?!"
It really is, and Bandai makes a lot of boneheaded decisions...
I love your stuff, but can you please put the eye or mono eye decals on? They add so much life and don’t really count as color correcting stickers. It’s the bare minimum of making your kit look more full of life.
interesting, my old MS 08 gouf flight is extremely sturdy - maybe luck of the molding draw. But I just have to ask, do you always keep your kits without decals?
If that's true then I feel super bummed, I was really disappointed by my 98 Flight Type's weak elbow because I love the kit so much...
And yeah, I usually don't use the decals because of the feeble hope that some day I'll paint the kits... there's always that empty hope
@@HobbyClubhouse I may have figured it out - One thing I often always do with polycaps is that I trim them with an excess nub from the PC runner.
this way, there is extra friction on the flat sides meeting the plastic cylinder insertion - otherwise it will just rely on the cylinder sides for traction
but your kit may still have an easy fix - by spraying 2-3 layers of primer into the insertion point for stronger traction. just make sure to properly mask, but you knew that.
I normally do this for kits that I know I'm painting - because I sand the pegs beforehand ( for easy disassembly ), then primer to get back the traction / without risk of breaking the pegs. most of the disassembly/reassembly stress is absorbed by the primer.
In the lore of gundam both the Gouf Custom and the Gouf Flight Type swords are heat activated like heat hawks but unless your Ramba Ral. the pilots of both Custom and Flight Types NEVER activated the heat feature.
Yeah, I've seen that discussed before too how it's a bit ambiguous if this style of sword can heat up at all. If it could, that poor brown Flight Type really should have used it...
I'm convinced that this body color was the original intended color for the GM in the original anime series which was limited by the technology of its time, and it would probably look great instead of its toothpaste color.
wonder if there's a back story for that spanish flag decal on the shoulder
"toothpaste color"... Now I can't unsee that...
You know, I wonder a lot about that red/yellow/red thing on the shoulder too. I'm guessing it's some sort of reference to fighter jet livery? I'm not a military buff so I'm not sure...
I regret not getting this kit sooooo much when it was on US p-bandai just recently
I wonder if the US release was swarmed by bots. They sell out in seconds here online...
It sold out within a minute. They even had staggered releases and everything sold out in minutes except the coated hyaku shiki hg.
Lies i told myself when i bought this : well, atleast it came with water decals! That's gotta count as a win, right?
As for the kit, its another great kit that is gated by 'artificial' difficulty, WTH Bandai indeed. (Also, the Mk.2 RT is proving to be another level harder to get what's with the flight and travel restrictions)
I wanted that Mk-II as well both to have and to review but the nutty people bought them all even with imported prices... Bandai is allergic to money sometimes.
Which specific right tigger finger hand fits it?
The hands it uses are the common Zeon-type round hands that are used on many kits like the Origin Zakus, the high mobility ones, the F2, even the Geara Doga has them so you see them a lot
@@HobbyClubhouse Thank you!
Is there a chance for you to review third-party kits?
A lot of Supernova and Daban ""Original"" kits are pretty good.
Sure, there's definitely a problem with the licensing, but some of the kits are genuinely great.
I'm quite curious about them though I never see them much here in Hong Kong, even though China's just next door.
There's also the pitchfork mob online that really really hate non-official kits to deal with...
I have already
I tried buying from the gundam expo sale but it was gone in seconds 😞
Sure hope it wasn't scalpers and it was at least fans who would enjoy them
@@HobbyClubhouse seeing how they use bots for everything they target these days, i would not be surprised if that's what happened 😞
Flightu typeu!!!
Gatoooriiinnnguuu shiiiiiruuuudooo!!!
Why this no P-bandai MG
I would like that too... if I could get one