1/100 Saviour Gundam [Introduction]

Saviour Gundam, first m.s. of Athrun Zala in Gundam Seed Destiny and also my first plamo from this series. Saviour’s design is probably one of my fav. if it goes about Seed Destiny mobile suits. I still hope that some day Bandai will release a MG ver. of this kit. But to be honest the chances are probably low, especially since Infinite Justice came up first in the MG ver. so chances that less popular imo Saviour will get a MG treatment are not so high.  Anyway let’s start this first part of a review  after some time of my absence here ^^

M.S. data

M.S. full name: ZGMF-X23S Saviour Gundam              

Pilot: Athrun Zala

Operator: ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty)

In the postwar era, ZAFT unveils its “Second Stage” of advanced new Gundam mobile suits. One of these designs is the high speed transforming ZGMF-X23S Saviour Gundam. As with other Gundam designs, the Saviour Gundam is equipped with Phase Shift armor that blocks conventional weapon attacks. Because the Junius Treaty bans the use of N-Jammer Cancelers in mobile suits, ZAFT develops the deuterion beam energy supply system to replenish the battery’s energy on the battlefield. When the Saviour Gundam’s energy runs low, it can receive the incoming energy beam from its mothership Minerva and recharge its battery. In its mobile armor mode, the Saviour Gundam is fast and highly maneuverable in both space and Earth’s atmosphere. The Saviour Gundam is equipped with a wide variety of armaments for use in its two modes. Its main armament is a pair of “Amfortas” plasma beam cannons which can be used in both configurations. The Saviour Gundam’s other armaments include two beam cannons, vulcan guns, a beam rifle and two beam sabers.
When a new war begins between the Earth Alliance and ZAFT in October C.E. 73, PLANT Supreme Council Chairman Gilbert Durandal assigns the Saviour Gundam to Athrun Zala after reinstating him to ZAFT as a member of FAITH (Fast Acting Integrated Tactical Headquarters). Durandal gives Athrun free reign to act as he sees fit with his authority as a member of FAITH, but he requests that Athrun join the crew of the Minerva and help it play a role similar to that of the Archangel in the previous war. After a brief encounter with the Orb Union’s military, Athrun rendezvous with the Minerva at ZAFT’s Carpentaria base and participates in battles in the Indian Ocean and Middle East. The Saviour Gundam is heavily damaged while engaging Kira Yamato’s ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam in a naval battle near the Greek island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea. Following the battle, the damaged mobile suit is declared a total loss.

More mecha info on MAHQ

Plamo info

Scale: 1/100

Release Date: October 2006

Series: Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny

Price: 2080¥ at HLJ and Rainbow Ten

Box art

Standard looking box art for Seed Destiny kits. Nothing special here.

Instruction manual

These long beam canons remind me of these from the F91 Gundam.

Quite a lot of nice line art.

Runners & decals

There are 10 runners and a sheet of foil stickers for white and yellow parts of the wings (yuck…) and ofc a sticker  for the eye sensors.

For the pics  I recommend visiting Dalong.net since I don’t have photos of them. All the parts of my Saviour have been looking some time ago just like bellow. All of them washed and ready for painting.

Plamo out of the box

And here we have the completed plamo. This is how it was looking few years ago, when it was still standing in my Detolf shelf. I only made panel lines and added decals from Seed Destiny decal set that you can buy separately.

If it goes about the overall look of this kit then I have to say that it’s good, the color scheme for the m.s. is nice choosen(it’s always better than the pinkish Justice XD)  proportions are not bad. The only few things that I don’t like about it is the color of the beam rifle, too short wings, stickers for yellow and white areas of the wings,yellow sticker for V like insignia on the chest and few loose parts in the arm section(typical for transforming gundam kits).

Like you can see the beam canons are not only weapons they can also  be used to maintain stability of the plamo ^^ Also on this pic you can see these areas of the wings that need to be painted yellow/white or you can use stickers that comes with the kit.

I like this aerodynamic design of the shield.

Standard weapon set:beam rifle,shield and a pair of  beam sabers( lack of them on the picture,sry).

W.I.P. coming soon…

 

 

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