Non-Gunpla: GFF Metal Composit RX-78-2

Bandai, as we know is the company that presents us with the Gunpla. In fact, IMHO Bandai is the major working force behind promoting the Gundam. Beside the plastic model kit, Bandai did come out with a few other line-up for the Gundam series, i.e. Gundam Fix Figuration, MS in Action, and HCM-Pro. Yet, none these line-up really attract/persuade me to invest because i.e. HCM-Pro is too small for my taste, Gundam Fix Figuration is very nicely done but it's still too small for my taste and too many parts, and MS in Action is also too small although it's rigid.

However, I did make an exception because I did buy a Gundam Fix Figuration. Yes, the small size but very detail Gundam Fix Figuration(GFF), but unlike the normal GFF, this is a 1/100 scale GFF Metal Composite series, meaning it has die-cast metal part and it's 1/100 scale! My favourite range. The GFF Metal Composite that I bought is RX-78-2 Ver. Ka. I don't think I need to explain what it is since you can google it yourself, so let's see how this thing looks like.

Here we are we have the GFF placed nicely in a poly styrene box. I must say that this reminds me of the first ever Gundam RX-78-2 die-cast toy that I got from my dad when I was 8 years old, except this one doesn't come with the G Fighter and it looks very detailed.


Overall, this GFF feels very solid and obviously heavy because of the die-cast metal. However, I did notice that the legs are the only parts that uses die-cast metal; the rest are still plastic. What a shame, they could have put in more metal. As expected, the articulation is not a flexible as compare to the Gunpla, but at least the arms and the legs can bend.


As expected out of Katoki Hajime's design, this GFF looks great. Above is how it looks like from the front, and the picture below shows the back.


Below is another close-up picture from the front.


As I said previously that this kit can't really pose much action, so the best pose that I could think of would be something as shown in the following picture.

As with the GFF counterpart, the GFF Metal Composite line does come with numbering as well, and this one is GFF Metal Composite #04. GFF Metal Composite #01 is a combo of this Gundam together with the G Fighter. The price of ths GFF Metal Composite is about RM 298, whereas the GFF Metal Composite #01 is about RM450++. I bought mine from XL-Shop, and they are the only one so far that I noticed to brought in this GFF Metal Composite line-up.

Is it worthy to get this kit? I would say yes because of it is well designed despite the fact that it can't pose much. Yet, the main reason that I bought it is because of nostalgic reason that I mentioned earlier.