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Rants. Robots. Random Shenanigans. • Hobby Photography: https://mechacatalogue.com • Find Me: http://linktr.ee/cvphased • @pwguinto everywhere else.

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · Jul 14

Newtypes and Multiverses: My Unsolicited Thoughts on "Mobile Suit #Gundam #GQuuuuuuX" – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#ガンダム #ガンプラ #ジークアクス

Newtypes and Multiverses: My Unsolicited Thoughts on “Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX”

The following will contain spoilers for Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX. Director / Kazuya TsurumakiScreenplay / Yoji Enokido & Hideaki AnnoProduction / Studio Khara & Sunr…

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · 4d

Today's Robits: October 2025 Premium Bandai Drop – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#ガンプラ #ガンダム #HG #HGUC #G_Witch #水星の魔女 #プレミアムバンダイ

Today’s Robits: October 2025 Premium Bandai Drop

It’s been a while since my last “Today’s Robits” post so here’s a quick one after a couple of separate Premium Bandai arrived at the same day. First is HG Gundam Naion…

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · 6d

Those are some Wide Shoulders: HG Gundam AGE-3 Fortress - Work in Progress #1 – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#Gunpla #GundamAGE #g_AGE #ガンプラ #ガンダムAGE

Those are some Wide Shoulders: HG Gundam AGE-3 Fortress – Work in Progress #1

My backlog journey has once again made a stop on the front porch of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, and today’s agenda is to complete the Gundam AGE-3 variants. I’ve built both the AGE-3 Normal…

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · 13d

They're Okay, I Guess? HG #GundamZirius - Double Build Complete – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#GundamEight #Gunpla #ガンプラ #ガンダムエイト #ガンダムジリウス

They’re Okay, I Guess? HG Gundam ZiRius – Double Build Complete

I was supposed to post this yesterday, but AWS did its thing and impacted a whole chunk of the internet, including Flickr where I host these blog images. Anyway, I was able to finish the double bui…

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · 15d

Still Waiting for a Proper HG Prototype Gundam: Premium Bandai Exclusive HG 01 Gundam – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#ガンプラ #プラモデル #01ガンダム #ジークアクス #GQuuuuuuX #Gunpla #01Gundam

Still Waiting for a Proper HG Prototype Gundam: Premium Bandai Exclusive HG 01 Gundam

I’ve been in the hobby of building Gunpla and other mecha model kits for 20 or so years. And I am well aware of how companies would really want to make the most out the steel molds being used…

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · 16d

Zoids Battle Films! New Zoids Realize Model Reveals! – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#全日本模型ホビーショー #ゾイド #ZOIDS #リアライズモデル #プラモデル

Zoids Battle Films! New Zoids Realize Model Reveals!

Taking our sights off the Bandai Spirits reveals, we have a couple of interesting new Realize Model kits for Zoids. As far as my more limited knowledge of Zoids go, these are new, or at least inspi…

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · 16d

Looks Like They Pivoted: New Reveal! HGAC Gundam Sandrock Custom EW – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#全日本模型ホビーショー #ガンプラ #プラモデル #ガンダムW #GundamWing #EndlessWaltz

Looks Like They Pivoted: New Reveal! HGAC Gundam Sandrock Custom EW

Every once in a while someone would bring an image of that one hobby show where potential RE/100 kits were shown, only to be crushed by the reality of not a single one ever coming into fruition. Th…

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · 17d

Quickie: More Neon Genesis Please! #Blokees Legend Series Evangelion Unit-01 (Neon Genesis #Evangelion) – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#BlokeesCTE #ChinaToyExpo

Quickie: More Neon Genesis Please! Blokees Legend Series Evangelion Unit-01 (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

If you’re an Evangelion collector, specifically of the mecha (I know artificial human, what have you), then you must have noticed that we’ve been bombarded by kits and figures from Rebu…

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · 17d

This Took 16 Years: Premium Bandai Exclusive HGUC Gundam G07/7th – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#バンダイ #HG #ガンダム戦記 #ガンプラ

This Took 16 Years: Premium Bandai Exclusive HGUC Gundam G07/7th

In 2009, the Playstation 3 game Mobile Suit Gundam Battlefield Record U.C. 0081 was released and along with it, Bandai Spirits also released the HGUC Full Armor Gundam 7th. I’m not sure if ot…

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · 18d

Megatron-armed Optimus is Official: #Transformers Studio Series #OptimusPrime ( #EnergonUniverse ) – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#Skybound #NYCC

Megatron-armed Optimus is Official: Transformers Studio Series Optimus Prime (Energon Universe)

While I’m not religiously following Skybound Entertainment’s current Transformers run, one of the more popular elements coming out of the comic books is Megatron-armed Optimus Prime. Li…

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · 19d

Is the Sentinel Buster in the Cards? Marvel Legends Iron Man Mark/Model 72 – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#MarvelLegends #IronMan #MysteriumArmor #Hasbro #NYCC

Is the Sentinel Buster in the Cards? Marvel Legends Iron Man Model 72

2025 has been light for those collecting 6-inch or 1/12 scale Iron Man figures, thanks to his absence in the MCU and the lack of comic book-based figures outside of the slightly updated Extremis Ir…

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · 20d

I'm Not Just Curious: #Gaianotes Original Plastic Model Kit - #PaintGear [Gaia Type] – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#ガイアノーツ #ペイントギア #プラモデル

I’m Not Just Curious: Gaianotes Original Plastic Model Kit – Paint Gear [Gaia Type]

As much as I keep tabs on Gunpla releases, and most from Bandai Sprits, there’s just so much out there that I discover some right during release or a little too late. Fortunately for me, I di…

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · 20d

I Guess the Timelines are more Literal: Samurai-themed #TransformersTimelines #OptimusPrime & #Starscream – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#Transformers #NYCC

I Guess the Timelines are more Literal: Samurai-themed Transformers Timelines Optimus Prime & Starscream

New York Comic Con 2025 happened over the weekend and for the Transformers side of things, we got the usual announcements. That said, a couple fell right into my collecting wheelhouse, one of which…

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · 27d

Confirmed, the Hips are Fragile: HG #GundamZirius - Double Build Work in Progress #2 – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#GundamEight #Gunpla #ガンプラ #ガンダムエイト #ガンダムジリウス

Confirmed, the Hips are Fragile: HG Gundam Zirius – Double Build Work in Progress #2

When I posted my first work in progress update for this HG Gundam Zirius double build, someone over at Threads commented regarding the potential issue with the hip joints, referring to a YouTube vi…

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · Oct 4

Another G-Self Getting the 1.25 Treatment: HG G-Self [Atmospheric Pack & Space Pack] from "Reconguista in G the Movie" – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#ガンプラ #Gのレコンギスタ #Gセルフ #HG #g_reco #GSelf

Another G-Self Getting the 1.25 Treatment: HG G-Self [Atmospheric Pack & Space Pack] from “Reconguista in G the Movie”

It’s been several years since the release of the last Reconguista in G compilation movie, and last year saw The Gundam Base Limited G-Self Perfect Pack, which is a version 1.25 at best of the…

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · Oct 3

I am aware of this from MG's video but I won't take that as gospel. Regardless something to note when handling the kit. Thanks!

cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · Oct 3

Excellent Parts Separation, So Far: HG #GundamZirius - Double Build Work in Progress #1 – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#GundamEight #Gunpla #ガンプラ #ガンダムエイト #ガンダムジリウス

Excellent Parts Separation, So Far: HG Gundam Zirius – Double Build Work in Progress #1

Following my allusion to this double build a couple of times previously, I have finally started with the HG Gundam Zirius from Mobile Suit Gundam Eight. I am doing a double build to have separate k…

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · Sep 29

Thank Goodness it's not Minty Green: Premium Bandai Exclusive HGAC #GundamGriepe (Gundam Wing Dual Story: G-UNIT) – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#Gundam #Gunpla #GundamWing #GUnit #ガンプラ #ガンダムW #ガンダムグリープ

Thank Goodness it’s not Minty Green: Premium Bandai Exclusive HGAC Gundam Griepe (Gundam Wing Dual Story: G-UNIT)

While we’ve been getting a steady stream of Gundam Wing Dual Story: G-UNIT kits, folks seems to be really looking forward to the Hydra Gundam. Today’s not that time though but what they…

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · Sep 27

Thirteen Years for the Namesake: Introducing the #ThunderboltGundam from "Mobile Suit #GundamThunderbolt" – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#機動戦士ガンダム #ガンダムサンダーボルト #サンダーボルトガンダム

Thirteen Years for the Namesake: Introducing the Thunderbolt Gundam from “Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt”

Yes, there’s a pair of monoeye rails on the top of the head unit. Yasuo Ohtagaki’s crazy take on the events of the Universal Century as seen in Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt has finall…

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · Sep 26

Got it, thanks!

cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · Sep 25

Would you need to buy tickets this early for the exhibit? I will be in Tokyo in late November and I am looking at checking this out.

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · Sep 22

Perfectly-timed for My Upcoming Japan Trip! IMS 1/144 Knight of Gold [Delta Berunn 3007] – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#FSS_jp #ファイブスター物語 #FiveStarStories #KnightofGold

Perfectly-timed for My Upcoming Japan Trip! IMS 1/144 Knight of Gold =Delta Berunn 3007=

Volks has been releasing kits from The Five Star Stories under their IMS or Injection Assembly Mortar Headd Series brand. Most of them are 1/100 scale but there have been a few in 1/144. In 2023, t…

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · Sep 19

Cool! I'll be in Japan by the last week of November and will definitely check this out!

cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · Sep 19

We're Getting More Mazingers: MODEROID G, Armor of God (MazinSaga) – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#Mazinger #MazinSaga #MODEROID #永井豪 #マジンサーガ #メカスマ

We’re Getting More Mazingers: MODEROID G, Armor of God (MazinSaga)

My main bread and butter for Mazinger Z and adjacent collectibles has always been Tamashii Nations’ Super Robot Chogokin line, providing a perfect balance between the appeal of die cast figur…

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · Sep 18

Bulky is an Understatement: UA Zi-Kron - Work in Progress #2 – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#SheikMainland #Plamodel #プラモデル

Bulky is an Understatement: UA Zi-Kron – Work in Progress #2

At the time of posting, my two copies of the HG Gundam Zirius have arrived so I’m contemplating on whether to just finish the UA Zi-Kron or pivot to doing the double build. Contemplations asi…

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cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE @mechacatalogue.com · Sep 16

I'm Getting Another Exia? GBC Workshop 1/144 Gundam Exia (Metal Build) – cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

#Gunpla #GundamExia #Gundam00 #g_00 #ガンダム #ガンプラ #ガンダム00 #ガンダムエクシア

I’m Getting Another Exia? GBC Workshop 1/144 Gundam Exia (Metal Build)

I recently built the HG Gundam Exia Repair II, and got another HG Gundam Exia to be built as the Gundam Devise Exia using the third-party set from DDB Corgi. But with the current practice of expens…

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