In mid January I made an impulse buy after browsing through Ebay looking at various anime figures. That purchase was the a Gundam Exia figure. The 00 Gundam version of Exia is a very new figure and was only recently introduced in the now ongoing series 2 of Gundam 00 (pronounced double o).
00 Gundam Figure on my Desk at home beside my miniature Air Jamaica
This is my first ever anime/manga figure and my first surprise was I had to assemble it and it doesn’t help that all the instructions were in Japanese. Luckily there were pictures accompanying the text and I think I managed alright (took me 3 hours!) although I forgot all about adding the stickers that came the eyes and a few more areas, but those will be added at a later date. I mumbled random Gundam building crap on twitter before picking up my package at the post office which came all the way from Taiwan. After picking it up I mumbled even more on twitter while putting it together and while taking photographs. If you haven’t already done so please follow me on Twitter!
I sucked at taking pictures of my Gundam figure
There is room for lots of improvement when it comes to me posing and taking pictures of this and future (hopefully) figures. I might have a followup shoot when I have added the stickers and try to get the “flying though the air” effect in a few on my pics. I welcome tips.
Do you have a anime figure collection? Thinking about starting one? I welcome comments and feedback.
My Favourite Shot from the set
There is a new figures and toys section on my blog where I will post more….you guessed it..post about figures and toys. View all my pics of my 00 Gundam Exia Figure in the Figures and Toys section of the Gallery.
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(omg! a Gundam Smiley…i think I need professional help ^_^)
Congrats on making it. Some of my friends (both here and back home) love making models from the different Gundam series so I know a bit about the hard work that goes into it. I’ve only got a few anime/manga figures, but they’ve all been pre-assembled.
Congratulations on building your first Gunpla! I used to build a lot of Gundam model kits back in the day during the Gundam Wing popularity here in the US. It’s been a very long time since I last built one and I’m looking into building them again…including the battleships, like the White Base from the first Mobile Suit Gundam. <3
LOL. It could almost pass for a Air Jamaica Transformer!
Excellent! Nothing with ever be as good as gundam wing, but 00 comes close. Are there any figures of them in trans-am mode?
Nice ^^. Great pose for the second picture. It looks like you cut the parts off the grid very well ^^.
hey congratulations, join us in the gunpla world! ^^; I’d like to note here that Gundam 00 is not another version of Exia, it’s a new gundam itself that was derived from Exia.. maybe if u watch the first season you’ll see what happens to exia.
best wishes,
Matsuo.
thanks for the comments guys!
@ Stunner, now that you mention it, the colours are very similar!
@ TC, I think there are a few trans-am figures from season 1
@ matsuoamon…I have watched season 1 and know what happened to Exia, I guess with the design similarities and having the same pilot I look at it as the successor to Exia in many ways. Thanks for your welcome, I am already addicted and I have ordered my second figure!
Ah, I had one of those! Not sure what I did with it, though. I do remember it being a bugger to put together, though, like yours. 🙂
Please, could you say what is the scale of this Exia?
I want to buy one, but I want to know the scale…
Thanks!
1/144 scale (sorry for my late reply!)
Nice 😉