I may be enjoying the second season of most current Gundam series called Gundam Double O but the Gundam Wing Series is one of my favourite anime series of all time with the movie based on the series Gundam Endless Waltz a classic. Heavy Arms is my favourite suit from the series piloted by the coolest pilot Trowa Barton. I acquired the remodeled and upgraded Heavy Arms Custom used in the Endless Waltz movie.
This Gundam is called “Heavy Arms” for a reason
This one was a bit more difficult to put together than Gundam Double 0, as expected the instructions were all in Japanese but it was helpful to have had previous experience. I love my two figures who now stand guard to greet anyone who enters my room. To be the first to know when I acquire a new figure as well as to follow my babbling while I put them together and take pictures of them follow me on twitter.
I struggled with the stickers but I think I got them right
Code name: Gundam Heavyarms Kai
Unit type: mobile suit
Dimensions: head height 16.7 meters
Weight: empty 8.2 metric tons; max gross weight unknown
Armor materials: gundanium alloy
Powerplant: ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 3190 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 73750 kg total
Fixed armaments: 2 x vulcan gun, fire-linked, mounted in head; 2 x machine cannon, fire-linked, mounted in torso; 4 x Gatling gun, fire-linked, mounted in chest; 4 x 9-tube homing missile launcher, mounted on legs; 2 x 22-tube micromissile launcher system, mounted in shoulder armor; 2 x 4-tube micromissile launcher, mounted on hip armor
Optional hand armaments: 2 x double Gatling gun, can be stored on backpack storage racks
Double 0 with his new sibling Kai
Although it doesn’t look that way Heavy Arms Kai is a very agile mobile suit
More pictures of Heavy Arms Kai in the Figures and Toys section of the Jamaipanese.com Gallery or view higher quality pics on my flickr page.
Specs via – Mecha Anime HQ
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My cousins are fans of this show! I more into Naruto and Ruroni Kenshin. Nice figures though! ^^v
Awesome! I have that model kit as well. It’s one of the first Endless Waltz kits I built. The stickers were difficult for me to put on too, lol. I’ve always wanted buy another one just to paint it. Gundam models are hard to find in Brick-and-Motar stores nowadays. 🙁
Hi – BBC Four http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/ have a Japan season coming up – I read some of the preview material and thought of you … from Jamaica Salt blog
Many things say Japan – kimonos, temples, sushi…
Yet it’s the image of a girl in a cardboard box that BBC Four has chosen to trail its Japan Season. Using an animation, the trail explains that ‘girl in a box’ is a Japanese expression given to a girl with over protective parents. Have a guess at the origins of another idiom in the trail, ‘bar code bald’. That one describes the comb-over job used by balding men. Oliver Harnett from Red Bee (who made the trails) describes the thinking behind
it all. ‘Language is the key to any culture, and in the course of our research, we discovered that the Japanese have an amazing array of words of which there is no equivalent. They’re weird portholes into how Japanese people see the
world.’ Channel controller Richard Channel controller Richard
Klein agrees. ‘The trails are a way of saying Japan is just different.’ They certainly give an enigmatic introduction to a season on a country that Klein
describes an enigma. Inspiration for the season
came off the back of Japan: A Story Of Love And Hate, where
filmmaker Sean McCallister meets a businessman (salagirl in box ryman) who lost everything when the bubble burst in the 90s. ‘It offered the chance to
look at Japan through a different lens… I thought if we could find other ways to show that it’s a difficult place to understand, we could have a season,’
says Klein. What followed were two other commissions: Fish! A Japanese Obsession about the country’s cultural and culinary connections. And
Japan: In Search of Wabi Sabi With Marcel Theroux, about
the wabi sabi philosophy, (which Wiki describes as ‘a
Japanese world view or aesthetic
centred on the
acceptance of transience’).
In among the commissioned
programmes, trails,
and archive footage about the
country, Red Bee has created
15 mini ‘Japanese words of
the day’ films. ‘You should be
aware that there is something
Japanese going on on the
channel,’ says Harnett.
You’ll probably come away
with a better Japanese vocabulary
and insight into the country,
but it won’t be the complete
encyclopaedia. You’ll recognise
that Japan is still mysterious,
but that’s part of its charm. You
could probably say the same
for England really…’
Clare Dyson
That’s funny, I liked Gundam Seed much more than Wing (the model is very cool though), but as Sanjo-chan wrote before, many Gundam fans didn’t like it. Endless Waltz is great though, as you say a classic ^^
In fact, a Japanese gal was pretty shocked when I told her I loved Seed, she hated it and preferred other Gundam series
Aaahhh this brings back memories “Gundam Wing” one of my preferred Gundam series to date Heavy Arms is pretty good but if you can force him to use up most of his arsenal it becomes disadvantageous even though it is equipped with that melee what I would describe as a “cutlass” under one of its hands its still not suite for melee combat well against another mobile suite of its standards I’m sure that Trowa would make quick work of any Leos or Ares in his general vicinity I remember the first time he cross Quetra (I think the spelling is) in his “Sandrock” Gundam Mobile Suite of Desert Melee warfare. My preferred Gundams were the “Zero”, “Shenlong” & “Deathsythe” other from that I also liked the Talgesse Series preferbly the Talgesse II which was piloted by in my opinion one of the most talented pilots “Treize Khushrenada”, Epyon and the Mercurius yes yes I know basically I liked the whole series but I think that Gundam Seed was exceptional perhaps my most preferred series of Gundam family.
memories that takes me back!!!!!! the king of death lives again… by any chance do you have the deathscythe gundam model [gamer]