One version is the generic version, the other is a desert type. Both come with loads of weapons to use, but slightly different weapons and colors. These are older kits, circa 2000, so not long into the High Grade line of kits (which is now up to 200):
As an example, a brochure for a contest included in one of the boxes runs through 2001
I expect the articulation and details to be decent, but not nearly up to modern standards. Still, it's one of my favorite designs and I can't wait to build these some 16 years after I bought them! I'll do one at a time, probably, or at least get one up to priming before I start the other. First, the space version:
You can build the kits up with no painting if you like, the parts are molded in nearly the right colors and Bandai includes foil stickers to use. I won't be, I'm going to paint this one and glue joints to hide seams.
The Dom itself in-universe is a sort of tank mobile suit used by the Zeon forces. Slower but heavily armored and armed, it carries a "Raketen" (rah-keh-ten) bazooka capable of taking out a space battleship on its own. It also carries a heat rod that can slice through enemy mobile suits with ease. The Tropen version was the final version to be produced before the Zeon were finally put down by Federation forces and not many were made. They were equipped with massive jets on the ankle binders that allowed them to operate in gravity surfaces with a great deal of speed (on Earth or in orbital colonies):
These will be the first Gundam kits I've built since the 1990s, and the first with the many techniques I've been trying to learn in the last year. Should be fun!
Hopefully once this crazy week is over I get get back to business here!
I'd say they actually a little more easy to deal with in terms of finish than acrylics and dry equally quickly. Again, though, the smell...whenever I take my mask off I am reminded why I prefer to use acrylics for most of my work.
