Bandai Hobby HGUC 1/144 Sinanju Stein (Gundam Narrative) "Gundam UC" Model Kit

This HG is considerably tall and big compared to other 1/144th scale Gunpla. There’s a great level of surface detail and articulation too. It was a fun and involved build with more than the usual amount of runners. Modern Gunpla like WfM kits use less runners to achieve a build that is well-articulated and detailed like this, but I have even more fun with a kit with more runners. No really small annoying parts like RG either.Getting into the kit itself, besides being big, it has good surface detail too. The inner frame on Gunpla is usually a shade of gray, but this kit has a unique brown-chocolate kind of inner frame color that is shared with other parts that would usually be gray like the gun frame, thruster bells on the backpack and stuff. It was unusual at first to me, but with the majority of the armor being different shades of gray, it does look good and break up the color uniquely.The build of the body reminds me of a MG body, where you build a base and attach multiple armor plates on the sides and front separately. The HG Hi-Nu also has a similar build-feel for the body where it feels like they were trying to replicate the MG build design on a smaller scale. Similar to MG, it also has unique shoulders that can pull straight away from the body itself to allow a larger range of movement. Speaking of which, the elbows and knees both have a good range of movement too. It can pull off the one-knee crouch and the elbows can bend more than 90 degrees.The accessories with this kit are awesome! The shield is great and you can plug a grenade launcher attachment into the back of the shield or the bottom of the laser gun. The shield can also go on either arm. The laser gun is huge and awesome-looking. It can get even bigger and more powerful-looking by attaching the barrel of the included rocket launcher into the bottom of the laser gun. This is how I have mine displayed. If you don’t want to do this, you can instead have two gun options to chose, or give one of them to another MS instead, Oh yeah, and the beam saber handles can be stored away in the forearm armor. The only thing that could make this a more complete package is an included action base. You even get some leftover axe parts from the regular Sinanju. You can build a bonus twin-headed axe! If you built the HG Livelance Heaven, you’ll have a leftover laser effect part that can be used with this axe.The decals on the chest and wrists are just like the ones on the HG Geara Zulu Angelo Sauper Custom. Essentially: black plastic parts that have included stickers to stick over the whole part that replicate the white lines that form the emblem. The trick is that they have the lines and emblems and decals all raised in molded plastic. These parts will look much better if you just lightly paint these parts with white or silver paint markers. I used the same fine tip chrome marker for both kits and the result is great. I recommend this over using the stickers if you’re confident in your ability to do it.My only complaint is that the knee bend feels a little weak. I hope it doesn’t get more loose over time. It has no problem standing up or posing, but I might need to tighten that PC part for the lower knee bend. It’s strange that the hips use ball-joints and that the shoulders use peg joints. A lot of kits use the opposite setup. The HG Hi-Nu has the same setup I think. Also when posing and rotating the arm, the arm-shoulder connection starts to wiggle off slightly and might need to be pushed back in. if the peg was a little longer into the arm I don’t think this would be a problem.All in all this is a highly recommended HG.

Good kit, easy stickers, no problems.

I would be great if the kit came In another color schema

This kit was an amazing build! the articulation on it pretty decent for its size. Speaking of size this is by far my largest High Grade kit in my collection. Love the color of mobile suit and there or barely any color inaccuracies. the only problem this kit has is the sticker sleeves. The stickers are really annoying but if you don't mind that it is not a problem. I do recommend painting the sleeve. All in all this is a great kit and i highly recommend getting this kit, it is worth it.

This is an awesome high grade. It's even better than the original HG sinanju. Some parts are used from the original hg sinanju, but the rest are completely new. The articulation is very rock solid. It comes with the right amount accessories of the sinanju stein including 2 beam sabers, beam rifle, shield, a bazooka and 6 different hands.There is no red part separation on both the back and side leg thrusters, but a little bit of red paint would make it look better. Although the beam rifle has a little bit of color inaccuracies, it's still looks awesome.Sadly the kit still uses the same waist ball and socket joint from the original hg sinanju, they suck. It doesn't give good legs split. The color separation on the sleeves iconography is pretty lacking, and the seelve stickers doesn't look very good on kit especially on the wrists which you have to foil around, so it's better to paint those molds instead.Other than the flaws I mentioned, this is still an awesome kit to build. I'd give this kit an 4.4/5

Fun build. Looks amazing straight build out the box. It has a strong presence on the shelf among my other build. Really cool color. It’s sick. You’ll be psyched you got one.

Great fun kit. Had it put together and painted in about 5 hrs total. Nice size kit for a hg. About an inch taller than the normal 51/2 hg kits. Would definitely recommend this kit.

I enjoyed building this gunpla and overall it looks great when finished. Had to glue a couple spots, and lots of panel lining, but overall a well designed kit. My only complaint is some of the polycaps collapse easy during assembly.