#Lfrith Gundam

[or-fi-s]

Wing-it for Bluedraconic

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[demilypyro]

Don't talk to me or my daughter or my daughter's daughter or my daughter's prototype

[athena-gunpla]

trans and lesbian

[lapsedpacifist]

And the Lfrith Anavata is finished. I essentially kept the original colour scheme for this one, but replaced the flat blue with a metallic and added an additional shade of grey for the rest of the body. The shell units were painted with a reverse wash, black base, then white, then Fluro pink.

[gundamfight]

[retro-friki]

Eri didn't get much character development, but it's quite telling that when she got frustrated over a perceived injustice against her, this four year old went directly to pick a fight with the giant robot.

[lin-squiggly]

I still find the prologue for witch from mercury one of the most fucking emotionally distraught things I've ever seen.

seriously, i've not cried harder at basically any other show other than maybe one episode of doctor who, anyway spoilers, kind of poetry also i guess?

a young girl sits in her mothers lap, an attack has occurred and their friends and family are dead, killed without mercy to destroy what they had made for political gain on the part of their attackers.

the girl is four years old, too young to understand, indeed sheltered enough from the death and chaos by the machine the people who cared for her made that she cannot understand that those she loved are gone.

she sits in her mothers lap, interfaced to a machine of which the interface tears through her mind and body. she doesn't realize it is killing her.

she sits in her mothers lap and controls the machine with her mind, navigating through the void of space and utilizing the many tools of the rubris, the weapon of war she pilots. she doesn't realize her actions are killing others.

she sits in her mothers lap and listens to her father, piloting another such machine and fighting for his life, sing her happy birthday, she does not realize she will never see him again.

she sings to finish the song he would never. she sits in her mothers lap. her mother knows everything, but she cannot stop because she knows if she stops they both die.

she doesn't realize what she is doing, she doesn't know shes dying, she doesn't know she is killing.

she sits in her mothers lap.

[purseownervolatile]

Just got an HG Lfrith!

Fantastic kit :)

[kaxtwenty]

My demons won.

[pastelraccoons]

Finally finished up Lfrith Ur!

Loved putting this kit together- especially the legs. Something about how chunky they are was super satisfying to put together.

And of course, I had to get a shot with both of the Earth Witches!

[argumentalist]

I'm building another Witch from Mercury kit this week - the Gundam Lfrith Ur.

Out of curiosity, how are folks pronouncing "Lfrith"?

Elefrith? L-F-rith? Lifrith?

Seems to me that it sounded something like "rubris" in the anime.

I'm slowly working my way through my HGWFM backlog. These are all truly fantastic kits. I haven't honestly been disappointed by one of them yet.

I decided, right off the bat, to use the stickers in this kit. I wasn't very happy with how my attempt at painting the Lfrith Thorn went. I didn't want a repeat of that frustration.

The good news is that if you do a halfway-decent job of debossing the stickers they actually look pretty good. I used a wooden cuticle-pusher and it's great for pressing the stickers into all the little recesses. Here on the chest, for example, there's some actual depth and dimension to those stickers in the shell.

The head is just impressive.

There's 10 separate bits of plastic in there. The eyes and that front head camera are green plastic - they would've been very easy to paint if I wasn't using stickers. That tiny bit of red for the chin - also separate plastic. There's a bit of black plastic around the eyes too, not the usual black sticker.

And I love how everything layers-up with the bits of white showing through the teal.

The arms are another example of the fantastic color-separation.

Remember that Thunderbolt Full Armor Gundam I built a couple weeks back? How there were all those tiny color-correcting stickers for those little thrusters everywhere? The thrusters in the shoulders here are separate bits of plastic. No stickers needed.

In fact... Basically all the stickers are shiny foil stickers for the shell effects. No color-correcting stickers at all.

This kit feels a little light on the accessories... There's the phased array cannon on the back, the beam gatling gun with its shield, and a couple beam-sabers.

I like how the beam-sabers store on the shield. And the shield can be attached either to the beam gatling gun or right to the arms. The weapons are all completely ambidextrous - they're not stuck on any particular arm.

And, even better, the kit comes with a couple open/expressive hands in addition to the closed/holding hands. Always a nice bonus.

While there's obvious similarities to the Lfrith Thorn... Unlike something like the Gundvolva the ties back to the Lfrith aren't real obvious. I haven't looked up a lot of info about this suit... But I wonder if that's because it was developed from the Pre-Production model, rather than the actual Lfrith.

Like I said at the start - this is a fantastic kit. It feels nice and sturdy. Despite its bulk, it's well-articulated. Poses well and stays where you put it. Despite the size of that beam gatling there's absolutely no problem holding it.

I'm going to be sad when I run out of new HGWFM kits to build.

[demilypyro]

Why are you me, I'm me

[athena-gunpla]

HG 1/144 P-Bandai Gundam Lfrith Anavata

My second ever P-Bandai!!! Lfrith Anavata looks so cool and I've wanted it since I saw the announcement. It has a really distinctive style, and it was designed by Ippei Gyoubu, who did the designs for Iron Blooded Orphans.

The kit was great to put together, although unfortunately due to the color of the blue plastic, sprue marks stand out a little. It's really poseable, and holds poses quite well like other WFM kits.

Lfrith Anavata has two GUND-bit swords stored in the shield on its forearm, which can glow with lightning effect pieces, as well as two beam cannons on its back. All of the wing shapes give the kit a distinctive and aerodynamic silhouette.

Really love this kit, it has to be one of my favorites from the WFM line.

[lapsedpacifist]

All ready for decals.

[gundamfight]

[amalgamasreal]

So unless we get a surprise in the last episode of the season we've seen all the Gundams that G-Witch has to offer (so far):