Tag Glossary

0079 The original Mobile Suit Gundam series of 1979 and other media pertaining to the One Year War.

30MM Bandai's 30 Minutes Missions line. Original mech designs meant to be easy to build and having heavy customizability with its plethora of add ons.

30MS Bandai's 30 Minutes Sisters line. Original mecha musume kits meant to be easy to build and having heavy customizability with its plethora of add ons.

30MP Bandai's 30 Minutes Preference line. Takes Bandai's 30MS design philosophy to make super marketable anime girls into kits. It's like Figure-rise Standard, but better and uniform.

Airbrushed Painted using an airbrush.

Arcanadea Kotobukiya's line of Science Fantasy themed girl kits.

Beltorchika's Children The alternate universe of Char's Counterattack known to feature the Hi-Nu and Nightingale.

Bandai A terrible company.

BIG It's a big fucking kit.

Build Divers The third season under the Build Fighters franchise.

Char's Counterattack Manchild who's haunted by teenage pussy decides to wipe out the earth so he can get noticed by the other guy who clearly got over it.

Chinese Original, very Gundam-inspired designs made by Chinese companies. These are NOT knockoffs.

Collaborated Kits that were modeled by multiple participants.

Commission Kits I've done for others, paid or not.

Custom Decals Supplemental decals bought separately are used.

Custom Paintjob Kits painted with multiple colors that deviate from the kit's original color scheme.

Custom Parts Additional kits not included in the box (excluding action bases) are used.

Cyber Forest The main lineup of musume kits made by Nuke Matrix.

Detailed OOB Kits that are panel lined, use included decals and are possibly topcoated. No additional paints or accessories are used.

Dual Build Reviews include two kits in one review.

Endless Waltz The sequel to Gundam Wing that's actually worth being nostalgic for.

FM Full Mechanics, Bandai's roundabout way of simplifying 1/100s so that kits do not have an internal structure, cannibalizing their non-existent MG line.

Frame Arms Girl Kotobukiya's line of making their Frame Arms mecha line into cute anime girls that I'm pretty sure more people know about than its source. Please abbreviate it to FA:Girl.

Figure-rise Standard Bandai's main brand of model kits of fictional characters.

fucking nightmare The experience was genuinely a terrible time.

G The anime where THIS HAND GLOWS WITH AN AWESOME POWER!

G-Witch An abbreviated term for Gundam Witch from Mercury.

GQuX Short for GQuuuuuuuX, the insanely weird UC fanfiction made by old men who really wanted Zeon and Char victorious for some reason.

GaoGaiGar A 1997 mecha series that I should really get around watching.

Gundam Breaker Battlogue Another subbrand of the Build line so Bandai could produce more reused kitbash slop.

Hand Painted Painted using a hand brush.

Hathaway A novel/movie trilogy about a really fucked up, horny terrorist with overdesigned mobile suits and Jollibee.

HG High Grade, the biggest Gunpla grade as they're small and easy to build.

IBO Stands for Iron Blooded Orphans, the Gundam show that most find endearing... and there's Japan just memeing its tragedies to this very day.

Kari The line from PR Production that only released 1 kit and the rest nowhere.

Kamen Rider The giant Tokusatsu show where its fans are Stand users, where they could be literally anywhere.

Kitbash Builds that use multiple kits that it becomes its own design.

Kotobukiya They make a lot of shit like Bandai, but they're king when it comes to mecha musume and blatantly releasing the same kits with different coats of paint at least 5 times.

Limited Kits that are released for a limited time. Like P-Bandai, but marketed as limited and much less likely to be reissued.

MG Master Grade, the once dominant Gunpla grade made of 1/100 scale model kits that somehow peaked back in 2008 and saw a major downfall by 2020.

MGEX Master Grade Extreme, MGs but to their extreme limits, like engineering and cost.

MGSD Master Grade Super Deformed, highly detailed chibi Gundams that have somehow become better than even modern MGs.

MMD Mostly My Dad's, meaning 90% of the build was done by my dad.

MS General A Chinese brand that specializes in making Girlpla most notably for their Seven Deadly Sins line.

Mecha BREAK A video game with mecha and gooner slop yet MS General was able to cook with their musume.

Megalomaria Kotobukiya's line of super articulate robotic model kits, including both feminine and masculine figures.

Megami Device Kotobukiya's line of Sci-Fi, modular Girlpla in collaboration with some individual sculptors apparently.

No-Grade Gunpla kits that don't have grades attached to them.

Nuke Matrix A Chinese brand that specializes in making Girlpla most notably for their Cyber Forest line and 'reusing' Megami Device engineering.

OOB Out of the box builds that have almost 0 extra detailing.

P-Bandai Premium Bandai, basically the Monkey's Paw for anything that hasn't become a kit yet.

PR Production A relatively new Chinese brand that speciallizes in making Girlpla. They haven't made much.

PGU Perfect Grade Unleashed, Perfect Grades on steroids with complexity and price.

RFV Requiem for Vengeance, a Netflix 3D animated Gundam series.

RG Real Grade, the experimental line where Bandai sought to make 1/144s as detailed as possible until they basically became mini MGs with modern SEED styling. This is not a jab, it's genuinely PEAK.

Refurbished Builds that have been completed before going through a complete teardown and are repainted to make it look new.

SEED The Gundam series that retells 0079 in a modern style, including teeenage angst, recycled digital animation and shit ton of boobies.

SEED Destiny SEED, but what after a few episodes of being really good it just shits all over itself due to petty production drama.

SEED Freedom The long awaited sequel that came out 20 years later that can only be described as a glorious trainwreck.

Sentinel Gundam Sentinel, a series with amazing mobile suit designs but Bandai is too pussy to make any kits as they don't own the rights to the characters.

Seven Deadly Sins MS General's line of Girlpla that include giant mecha companions you'll certainly have no space for.

Spray Painted Painted using spray cans.

The Origin A retelling of the original Mobile Suit Gundam, probably glazes Char Aznable too much.

The Whole Shabang Kits that are fully painted or kits that are airbrushed, spray painted AND hand painted.

Third Party Manufacturers that may or may have not made kits without the authorization of the IP holders.

Top Tier Shit Kits that are fucking glorious.

Transformers Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

Unicorn Universal Century fanservice, the show.

Ver 2.0 Usually MG kits getting an updated version of an existing kit utilizing newer engineering.

Ver.Ka MG kits (re)designed by Hajime Katoki that usually push the boundaries of Bandai's limits. They are also great for making recolor releases look special

Weathered Kits that have that dirty look using makeup or other tools.

Wing That 90s Gundam show everybody has nostalgia for even though the series itself is messy as fuck. MS designs are undoubtedly great tho

Yolopark Chinese brand that makes plastic models but is most notable for making Transformers products.

Zeta Transformers, but the robots are not sentient and are instead piloted by the most miserable people imaginable.