The Bonkurasu Brigade

They look displeased….

What happened!?

Got these off the Chiana Square Central flea market early this month. Humable Model is a series of prize item (I suppose for those UFO catcher and prize machines at the arcade) poseable figures by Banpresto. The two are God Gundam and Master Gundam from 1994-1995 Gundam work, Mobile Fighter G Gundam. Past designs include RX-78, Zaku-II and GM.

Pretty weird name, wonder whats to hum about :P
(”Humable” probably relates to “human” as the katakana “ヒューマバル” suggests)

Packaging


Sides of the box

The figures come in a similar simple printed box. The 2 sides of the box have perforated half-circles perhaps used to fit in some prize machine?

The packing inside. Master Gundam is packed similarly, see gallery for pictures

The packing inside comes to me as minimal but thoughtful. Rolled up pocketed plastic bags of the pieces separated by a folder cardboard, nicely minimizing knocking and rubbing of parts. As you see in the picture they require minor assembly.

Figure

Both figures are about 14 cm tall. Bigger pictures at the gallery.

The paint job is not as impressive compared to the upper class poseable figures as expected but it is neatly done. Don’t want to mess around with paneling it or painting it as I not sure if the material will react to marker and paints (My painted SD Gundam gachapons seem absorb the panel line and the painted area becomes sticky T^T).

God Gundam could use some panel line but I rather not.

The hole at the heads are small, I had to force them into the neck ball joint. The neck joint has a pretty nice front-back tilt, of course with the must have left-right twist. Nicely scuplted heads, no twisted face, big small eyes whatsoever.

Both figures have a nicely articulated waist, bends forwards, back, left, right and does a nice twist.

Single-jointed eblows, acceptable for me as they bend up enough. Both come with another set of open fists but it quite hard to switch the fists. The hole at the fist is smaller in order to cup onto a double ball joint piece that connects the fist to the arm.

Nice articulation for the legs too. Does squating and half kneel fine.

Master Gundam’s joints are looser and smoother compared to God Gundam’s but God Gundam’s joints hold better. Master Gundam also has better details compared to God Gundam. The red part of God Gundam’s “wings” is not in line with the white parts, it angled out forward. Master Gundam becomes pretty unstable when you spread out the wings.

Overall these Humable Models are fun to play with and they handle quite a variety of poses too.

Some Fun

Do check out the photo gallery for more pictures.

Epilogue

What happened: