#sol sigma gravion

[reversemoon255]

Moderoid God Gravion, SolΣGravion, and GodΣGravion

Another series I’ve never seen, but bought a bunch of model kits for when I was on a Super Robot building kick. I somewhat regretted the purchase until I started building them, and the build ended up being pretty fun. I ended up buying all 3 because of the premise of combination, which is its own thing we’ll get to later.

The Good: Unlike many other Moderoids I’ve handled, which use a lot of replacement parts and cheating, these guys don’t require much of it at all. You remove the head wings and horns so the helmet will fit, and a single piece from one of the flyers, but that’s all that’s required. Yes, they each come with a replacement torso, but it’s hardly necessary. Apart from that, Sol has cannon extensions, and the transformation hands are smaller, but that’s all they require individually to transform.

The combination is also pretty solid. It requires a lot of adapters, but has ok posability, and won’t easily fall apart.

The Bad: So these builds require a lot of replication. Both ΣGravion are exactly the same apart from the color of their chins, and both Gods have the same auxiliary vehicles apart from the legs. And you’d think that owning just God and SolΣ would be enough to make Ultimate Gravion, but GodΣ has all the required adapters, so you need to own all 3 even though only 2 of them combine.

Speaking of the combination, when I said it required adapters, it requires a lot of adapters.

The Details: For the most part I stuck to standard panel lining and using the included stickers. The one additional detail I added was I repainted the scar on ΣGravion’s cheek red to make is stand out more, as well as the small bit of scarring where the left eye used to be since that was left blank.

Overall, It’s a good collection of kits, but GodΣGravion is entirely repetitive pieces if you’ve built the other two, but is also required if you want to make Ultimate Gravion. It’s a weird conundrum, and one I’d recommend you mull over yourself to determine if it’s worth it or not. I like Ultimate Gravion enough as a design that I’m ok with it now that I’m far removed from purchasing it, but I’m not everyone, and mileage will vary.

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Sol Sigma Gravion joins the family

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obari has been doing this shit for 20 years............

screenshot of touga's page on the SRW wiki saying that obari sees eiji as the "hero" and touga as the "heroine". and apparently SANDMAN is the main character? he says this on twitter too but the SRW wiki was more clear abt it hence why i picked it

idk if this really makes sense but basically the 紅 and 牙 characters for the zwei OP and also the title of ep9 come from eiji and touga's names respectively. so in addition to "kurenai no kiba" meaning "crimson fang" it also probably means smth along the lines of "touga of eiji"

(bravern spoilers) touga literally just straight up ASKS eiji to be the chest piece/heart of sol gravion. no wonder ppl had the bravern twist figured out after episode one cause touga literally did that shit in 2004 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! love it when two dudes are gay and the robot is like their weird third but also representative of them

grand kaiser -> god gravion -> sol gravion literally goes from being a fully blue robot (touga's color and i believe implied by the 空 character in his last name - "sora" as in "sorairo"/blue sky) to incorporating more and more red the more essential eiji becomes/the more touga is changed by eiji (red being eiji's color and also seemingly from his own last name 紅, as it is the "crimson" part of "crimson fang")

apparently obari interprets the god-sol sigma double attack as touga and eiji's ケーキ入刀シーン (cake cutting scene) like from a wedding. as evidenced by the literal proposal LMAO. also he spells touga's name wrong

obsessed w the fact that he brought back all these tricks 20 years later and ppl actually noticed them w bravern, truly gravion was ahead of its time LMAO