Gunpla from Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

This is the page with the G-Witch plamo kits I've made!

XGF-02 Gundam Lfrith [HG]

A picture of the high-grade Gundam Lfrith plastic model kit. It is a humanoid mech which is mostly white with pink accents. It is holding a shield composed of multiple parts in its left hand and a futuristic, boxy gun in its right. It is on a raised display stand and posed dynamically so that it's covering itself with the shield.
The Gundam Lfrith on an Action Base 2, posed similarly to the box art.

I loved the Lfrith from the moment I saw it in the prologue, and that's stayed true: it's still one of my favorite mobile suits from WfM. It's mostly due to the color scheme: imo, the tricolor lets most Gundam designs down, whereas this keeps it simple with good color blocking. Also the bit staves are just very very cool. And it's piloted by a trigger-happy 4-year-old! Gundam is a happy series.

A picture of a plastic model kit of the mech Gundam Lfrith from Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury. The mech is arranged on a stand to appear as if in flight: behind it are the 'GUND Bits' that make up its shield spread outwards in a fan. The picture is head-on. The assembly manual for the kit is behind it, taking up the entire background.
The Gundam Lfrith, with bit staves arrayed behind it in a fan.

The biggest thing I probably did was print some custom display stands for the bits. The first design used simple, 2D arcs, and then the second design had some 3D curved 'fan' shapes once I figured out how to do lofts in FreeCAD. Personally, I think it looks pretty good! Pro tip: most parts of the plastic runners in Bandai kits are 3mm diameter, which means you can use them as 3mm pegs for mounting modern 1/144s and sticking together 30MM stuff.

A close-up picture of the Gundam Lfrith model kit head and upper torso. The head is sharp and angular, with a pointed chin and two long, swept-back antennae. It also has a pair of recessed cavities for the vulcan cannons, highlighted in pink (only one is visible from the camera angle). The chest has smoky plastic effect piece with orange-red effect piece to appear like active Permet parts from the show.
The Lfrith's head, with vulcans in pink.
A close-up on the back of the Lfrith's thighs, showing the main leg boosters. These are colored grey with pink highlights around the nozzles, and are set into panels on the thighs which have a metallic gunmetal effect. There are also green indicator 'lights' (just green metallic paint) either side of the panels on each leg.
The rear leg thrusters, with gunmetal panelling, green sensors, and pink nozzles.

I didn't do anything particularly fancy in terms of the build, but it was the start of me feeling more comfortable with painting HGs for color correction purposes (or at least color improvement purposes). I added gunmetal, sensor green, and bright pink detail to several parts of the kit, which I think make it really pop without looking too busy. Oh, and of course I panel lined it - just grey on the white parts and black everywhere else.

CEK-040 Beguir-Beu [HG]

A picture of the Beguir-Beu high-grade model kit. It is a mostly-humanoid mech with white and purple coloring, as well as transluscent purple panels in the shoulders, hips, head, and chest. The head is very non-humanoid, being composed of pointed triangular shapes and a cross-shaped optical unit. It also has clawed feet. In this picture, it is missing its winged flight pack and 'antidote' pods. The manual for the kit is in the background.
The Beguir-Beu, missing the flight pack and pods.
A picture of the Beguir-Beu kit, complete with its flight unit and 'antidote' pods, one of which is attached to the kit via a wire and suspended on a clear transparent stand.
The complete Beguir-Beu, with a pod on a stand in the foreground.

Of course I have to put the Beguir-Beu right after the Lfrith, but I didn't actually build this kit until much more recently. It's a really good design, much better than most of Grassley suits in the rest of the show imo.

A picture of the Beguir-Beu model kit's head unit being held by tweezers beneath a lamp. The lamp is shining through the translucent optical window, showing off the saturated purple color.
The Beguir-Beu's head visor, showing off the purple.

Apart from a bit of detailing, the big task for this kit was fixing all the transparent purple parts, which for some reason unknown to science Bandai decided to make a horribly light nothing shade of 'purple'. Sharpie to the rescue! I also covered the areas behind the transparent parts with the EX chrome silver marker, which shows up really nicely in direct lighting.

XVX-016 Gundam Aerial [HG]

A photo of Gundam Aerial, the protagonist's mecha from Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury. It is a humanoid moblie suit colored mostly white, witha blue chest, red accents all over, and a few sparse yellow accents. It is on an elevated base, holding a beam saber in front of it. Around the perimeter of the base are the 'bits' that make up its shield arranged in a swirl pattern. It holds a beam saber across its body in its left hand, and is holding its beam rifle at its side in its right hand.
Gundam Aerial, with bits swirling around.

It's Aerial! As mentioned above, I think the tricolor makes it looks worse than it otherwise would, but it's still a really great design. Lots of little detail without looking too busy. Of course, I made a bits display stand for this one as well - a lot easier than the Lfrith, since the bits on the Aerial are actually designed to fit into a Bandai-made display kit.

A zoomed-in photo of the Gundam Aerial's head, showing the head jewel detail. It has smoky black plastic covering a ridged part, painted with red metallic paint.
Red and black detail under the central piece.
A photo showing the back of the legs of the Gundam Aerial. The legs have white armor pieces over a grey frame, and the soles of the feet are red. Parts of the frame such as pipes and vents have been detailed in metallic gunmetal paint.
Metallic detail on the back of the feet and the pipes in the back of the legs.
A zoomed in photo on the shoulder of the Gundam Aerial. The white shoulder armor has been flipped up, exposing a grey frame underneath with some metallic gunmetal detailing.
Metallic detail under the shoulder.

This kit also has loads of great opportunities for detailing, even if it gets a lot right just via color seperation and stickers. I also did some bits in paint that had stickers, for better depth and effect.

MSJ-105CC Chuchu's Demi Trainer [HG]

A photo of the high-grade Chuchu's Demi Trainer model kit. It is a squat, humanoid mech with beige and off-white armor panels, asymmetric shoulders, and a domed head with a single central monoeye. It has an extremely large beam rifle attached to a hardpoint mount and with a power cable feeding from the backpack. It is standing with its arms at its side.
Chuchu's Demi Trainer.

Chuchu's Demi Trainer might be one of the best 'upgraded grunt' mobile suits in the series, although that could just be recency bias speaking. Still though, an asymmetric design with vectored thrusters, roller wheels, and a single, big gun? It's just very cool. And it's a great kit, too! I was suprised that the kit doesn't waste any parts despite sharing a lot with the normal Demi Trainer: I guess Bandai's gotten good at runner switches.

A photo of the Chuchu's Demi Trainer model kit, mounted on a raised stand so that it can be dynamically posed. It is tilting backwards and holding the beam rifle with both hands, with its head rotated in the direction the rifle is pointing.
Chuchu's Demi Trainer, posed similarly to the box art.
A photo of the back of the Chuchu's Demi Trainer model kit. From this angle, several things are more visible: the power cable snaking out of the backpack to the beam rifle, the large armor panel on its left shoulder, and the high-mobility wheels in the heels of the feet.
The backpack unit on this looks great.

My only complaint with it really is how hard it is to get it to grip the rifle 'correctly' - it's just about possible, but you really have to strain the arm and wrist joints to do it. Definitely a kit that pushes the limits of HG poseability imo.

MSJ-121 Demi Trainer [HG]

A photo of the Demi Trainer high-grade model kit. It is a squat, humanoid mech similar in appearance to Chuchu's Demi Trainer, although it has a more uniform appearance overall and a white-and-light-green color palette, giving it a cooler appearance in terms of colour temperature. The domed head has wide optical panel, and the cockpit hatch is colored bright red. It is holding a short, boxy beam rifle in its right hand and a chunky shield in its left hand.
The standard Demi Trainer, standing around.
A photo of the back of the Demi Trainer model kit. This angle shows the small, simple backpack with a baton in a side holster. It also shows the metallic-effect hexagon in the chunky wrist piece.
Yep, it's a Demi Trainer.

It's the normal Demi Trainer! It's a chunky grunt suit, and that's reflected in the construction of its kit as well: very quick and simple to put together. Don't have a lot to say about it really. It's good and I like it.

F/D-19 Zowort [HG]

A picture of a high-grade Zowort model kit. It's a humanoid mech with long, thin limbs and a thick torso that resembles the intakes of a fighter jet. It's mostly pale green with navy blue and grey accents. It's posed as if turning towards the camera, with its back foot raised on its toes and its weapon facing the viewer. The instruction manual for the kit is in the background.
The Zowort in an action pose.
A picture of a high-grade Zowort model kit from The Witch From Mercury. The model is face-down showing its back and the side boosters. All of the 'cavities' (insides of thrusters, intake alcoves, etc.) have been painted black on the inside to give an illusion of added depth.
Oh no, it fell over.
A picture of the Zowort model kit. It's standing in a neutral, stationary pose with its arms down at its sides.
It's back on its feet.

The Zowort. It's fun to say, and it gets a pretty cool moment in the show. And it looks really neat! It's one of the most fighter jet-looking mobile suits that doesn't literally turn into a plane (hi Flag), definitely fitting Peil's 'thing' of making suits with strong aerial capabilities.

The torso and back thrusters of the high-grade Zowort model kit, viewed from an angle slightly off from the front. Some parts, such as the panels on the 'chest', have been painted a metallic gunmetal grey. The head is attached and facing forward: it has some metallic paint behind the visor to give added depth. An effect of depth is also given via black paint in recessed areas, such as the backpack thruster recesses and gaps around the gest panels.
Zowort torso with the chest vents painted black on the inside.
A close-up photo of the knee of the Zowort model kit, showing a gunmetal grey exhaust vent with the inside recess painted black to give it the appearance of added depth.
More standard black inner detailing.

This design is covered in thrusters, intakes, and vents, so to give it the correct feeling of depth all these crevices need to be painted matte black. You can see quite a lot of it on the picture of the back above.