Coming Soon - MG Strike Noir, 1/100 Akatsuki

The hottest news in the Gundam modeling world straight from Japan is the announcement, by Bandai, of their March line-up. First up we get the MG Strike Noir from C.E.73 Stargazer. Yea, yea, yea, I know.... Its another Strike, the 4th MG Strike to be precise. If you look at Bandai's record lately, you'll notice that most of their releases are just re-hashed versions of previous models (i.e. Blue F91, Strike IWSP, GM Sniper) but the Strike Noir was a cool design in my opinion and well worth the MG treatment. Look at the bright side of it, there won't be any more MG Strikes since there are no more Strike designs.

The other big March release is the 1/100 Akatsuki. I wish this would have been the model that was getting the MG treatment but something is better than nothing. The 1/100 Akatsuki will come with both packs, the SHIRANUI & OOWASHI packs. Hopefully this one will be mirror gold plated like the Hyakushiki and not the MG Strike Freedom's version of gold plating. The only downside of the 1/100 Akatsuki is the price. It will retail for 6000JPY which is the highest I have seen for any non-MG kit. I'm sure it will be well worth it since it is coming with both packs. Bandai has now paid attention to what the SEED fans really want. Nothing will ever top the Universal Century but we need a break from it from time to time when it comes to modeling.

MG Strike Noir

1/100 Akatsuki