HG Enact Guest Review

Here’s another guest review by Brazen Folly. Enjoy:

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Summary:

Pros:

1. Better Durability than the Overflag
2. Minute details that count
3. Nice tiny details
4. Stickers given so little painting required
5. Commander and normal head given

Cons:

1. Bad balance due to height of the kit
2. Blade weapon unpainted
3. Joints wear out quickly due to lack of polycaps

AEU Enact Demo Collar

Finally. A New kit from the current 00 series. This version of the Enact, meant for a military demonstration, is in cyan instead of the drab green the enacts are later mass produced in. The Enact, according to Katagiri, is largely derived from Flag technologies, runs entirely on solar power harvested from the orbital elevator solar power panels. Though this unit is one of the most advanced at the time of its production, the GN drive equipped Gundam Exia quickly dismembers it when Celestial Being chooses to gatecrash. Much to their embarrassment the AEU military realizes that their best and newest unit in the hands of their most skilled pilot cannot compare with the Exia.

Design

This Enact. Hmmm. Contrary to the Overflag series it is vividly coloured in a bright shade of cyan. Like the overflag it switches between flight mode and mobile suit mode. The mobile suit mode has long and slender limbs like a girl I know and can scarcely stand upright. I’m serious. It looks thin and topples over often. I’ll elaborate on this later. The Enact sports a mere linear rifle that pales in comparison to the blade/rifle its Ali Al Sachez counterpart possesses. It comes with a defence rod meant for mounting on its left arm, and a plasma sword. No sign of that vibrating dagger we see in the show though.

By folding up the Enact collapses into a mobile armour meant for atmospheric maneuvering. Here its linear rifle slots into its waist armour to form the fighters nose, and its legs move back to expose 20 mm machine guns. Very nice.

Building

This kit strays from the normal gunplay builds. First and foremost it lacks the usual polycaps. Movable parts are molded in black ABS plastic and ball joints are a major feature in the parts on the trays. The kit snaps together quite well. However, upon completion one realizes that balance in the Enact is woefully inadequate due to its height. Its long legs cause a high center of gravity, causing the enact to topple over at the slightest nudge.

I was deterred from the Union Flag kit due to the horrible transformation. Apparently most of the time kits would just jam themselves in limbo halfway between mobile suit and armour mode. Ha ha ha. As for the Enact, I received intelligence reports that it would transform without glitches, and that the faulty collar armour present in the Flag was absent here. As my sources would have suggested, this was completely true.

The Enact can transform properly!

Other than this, it is rather posable and foil stickers give us most of the correct colours for unpainted parts. That is, excepting the defence rod and plasma sword, as well as the heels. There are yellow lights on the lower legs which I didn’t bother to mark.

As for the Head two different parts are included- the footsoldier one and the commander one, yes? Yes. They did include it. Mmmph.

Weaponry

The Enact has a linear rifle which looks quite dreamy. It curves softly and is essentially shaped so as to be aerodynamically compatible with the mobile armour configuration. Therefore the rifle deviates from the normal gundam rifle design. The handle should be secured with some tac since it angles back and forth.

The beam weapon, that plasma sword thingy comes in the same cyan. It must be painted. No choice. Bandai does not include the un-ignited beam sabre- the handle part.

The 20 mm machineguns are represented by two discs on the Enacts pelvis.

Posability

I would say the posability has been improved by the removal of polycaps from the build. This means a lot of incredible poses- especially with the versatile extra hand. The enact can claw at people, or do a two handed grip on its rifle. Very nice.

However the Enact’s extended posability won’t last very long. The plastic ball joints wear out far too quickly with activity.

Overall

I like this kit a lot compared to the Flag for its bright colours and good transformability. After all the bad press the overflag received I am pleasantly surprised by the quality of the Enact kit.

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