HGUniversal Century

ARZ-124 Gundam TR-6 [Wondwart] Psycho Blade Custom

A rabbit-proportioned oddball that somehow still poses like it means it.

MechaGrade Score

3.6/5

Gundam TR-6 [Wondwart] Psycho Blade Custom · 1/144 · 2023

GradeHG

Scale1/144

Released2023

Runnersn/a

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The verdict

This kit is a genuinely fun weirdo, and I mean that as a compliment.

The big head, narrow torso, and heavy lower body look wrong in the box art and then click into place the second you start posing it with that oversized Composite Shield Booster. It is not a kit for someone chasing a clean, iconic silhouette, but if you want a P-Bandai curio with real engineering thought behind its strange shape, it delivers.

Best for: AOZ Re-Boot fans and HG collectors who want a genuinely different silhouette in their case, not another RX-78 riff

The full review

What it is

The Psycho Blade Custom is the P-Bandai variant of the RX-124 Woundwort, swapping in a newly molded head with the titular psychommu antenna and locking the kit into its humanoid Gundam form rather than the mobile armor mode the base kit can transform into. Everything about the proportions reads odd on the runner, that squat lower body and small chest, and then the kit surprised me once assembled. The single weapon, a Composite Shield Booster that folds between a long beam rifle and a beam claw, is the visual anchor, and the arm holds it one-handed without sagging, which is the detail that sold me on this being a real design exercise and not just a reskin.

The catch

This is Ecopla, Bandai's recycled-plastic runner, and it behaves a little differently than standard styrene. It is softer, which is generally fine, but the dark grey and black parts show nub marks and gate scars more readily, so cleanup needs a bit more patience than a typical HG. The waist has a slightly loose lower armor piece that will not hold a deep twist as firmly as the hip and leg joints do. And because this variant locks out the Woundwart's mobile armor transformation, anyone hoping to get both forms from one box will be disappointed, you are committing to Psycho Blade Custom only.

Who it's for

Buy this if you already like the AOZ Re-Boot design language or want a mobile suit in your collection that does not look like every other HG on the shelf, the proportions and single big weapon give it real shelf presence once it is built and posed. Skip it if you want a first kit or a straightforward beginner build, the odd body plan and Ecopla cleanup make it a better second-or-third kit than a starting point. It is also not the pick if you specifically wanted the mobile armor transformation, since this release trades that mechanism away for the new head.

The build story

What the build is actually like, and the engineering worth knowing about.

The runners feel a little different in the hand thanks to the Ecopla recycled plastic, softer than standard HG styrene, which is mostly a non-issue but does mean the black and dark grey parts reveal nub scars more readily, so slow down on those specifically. Fit across the frame is solid for an HG, with the shoulder armor tracking along with the joint underneath instead of blocking it, a small touch that pays off once you start posing.

Articulation is the pleasant surprise here. The hip and leg joints push in deep enough to get real dynamic stances out of a body plan that should not allow for them, and the shoulders move with the oversized armor rather than fighting it. The single weapon, the Composite Shield Booster, converts between a long beam rifle and a beam claw and is held convincingly one-handed thanks to sturdy elbow and wrist engineering. Color separation on the newly molded head captures the psychommu antenna detail without relying on stickers for the important bits.

Lore & trivia

01This kit is a parts-and-color variant of the HGUC RX-124 Gundam TR-6 [Woundwort], released as a P-Bandai exclusive in January 2023 with a completely new head sculpt except for the twin-eye piece.
02The head-mounted blade antenna, the 'Psycho Blade,' is used in-fiction for transmitting and receiving psychommu waves, tying the suit to Newtype command-and-control tech rather than pure combat hardware.
03The suit appears in Advance of Zeta Re-Boot: Gundam Inle, set in U.C. 0091, where the Mars-based ReZeon forces under Alicia Zabi field TR-6 variants including this one and the related TR-6 Queenly.
04The kit is molded in Ecopla, Bandai's recycled-plastic runner material, which builds a touch softer than standard HG styrene but otherwise assembles the same.