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EB-06 Graze Standard Type/Commander Type

Gjallarhorn's cheap, disposable grunt suit turned into one of the best-engineered budget kits HG has ever produced.

MechaGrade Score

4.0/5

Graze Standard Type/Commander Type · 1/144 · 2015

GradeHG

Scale1/144

Released2015

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The verdict

I think this is one of the best value HG kits Bandai has put out, full stop.

You get a real inner frame at grunt-suit prices, and the articulation punches way above what a suit this cheap has any business having. It is not flawless, the shoulders and wrists are loose enough to worry me during posing, but for what it costs and how fast it builds, I keep coming back to it as a benchmark for what an entry kit should feel like.

Best for: builders who want an army of mass-production suits or a first taste of inner-frame engineering without MG money

The full review

What it is

This is Gjallarhorn's mainline grunt suit from Iron-Blooded Orphans, and Bandai built it around a genuine inner frame instead of the usual HG shortcut of hollow limbs and simple hinges. That alone changes how the kit feels in hand. The double-jointed knees and the ball-jointed torso give it a stance quality I do not expect from a kit this size and price, and the two-in-one build (horned Commander head or bare Standard head) means one box gives you two distinct looks on the shelf. I built mine in under an hour and walked away genuinely impressed that a suit this disposable in the show got this much engineering care in plastic.

The catch

The looseness is the real complaint here. The shoulder joints can pop off with surprisingly little force, and the wrist and gauntlet joints move a bit too freely once you have posed the kit a handful of times, so dramatic weapon poses do not always hold. Color separation leans on molded plastic (dark green, a lighter green, and two grays) which is genuinely good, but the faction markings and a few small details still come down to foil stickers, so precision there is on you. None of this is expensive to fix with a drop of glue or a rubber band trick, but out of the box it is looser than I would like.

Who it's for

Buy this one if you want to build a squad of grunts without draining your wallet, or if you are curious what a proper inner frame feels like before committing to an MG. It rewards builders who do not mind a little joint-tightening maintenance and is genuinely satisfying to knock out in a single sitting. Skip it if you need rock-solid pose retention straight from the box with zero fussing, since the shoulders and wrists will test your patience there. For everyone else, especially anyone building a Gjallarhorn fleet, this is close to a mandatory pickup.

The build story

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

The build itself is quick and low-stress, most of the parts are small enough that color separation happens naturally without needing much panel lining, and only the fin pieces really benefit from extra detail work. Nub placement is standard HG fare and cleanup is minimal, so this is a comfortable kit for someone still building confidence with a hobby knife.

Where it earns its keep is the frame. The elbow bends past 90 degrees, the double-jointed knees let it kneel and lunge convincingly, and the head has a working cockpit-hatch gimmick with a ball-jointed internal structure. For the price band this sits in, the part count and the accessory loadout (rifle plus a waist-mounted battleaxe) make it feel like more kit than it should be.

Lore & trivia

01The Graze is Gjallarhorn's mainline mass-production mobile suit in Iron-Blooded Orphans, built as a cheaper alternative to Gundam Frame technology that does not require dual Ahab Reactors or Alaya-Vijnana pilot compatibility.
02It traces its lineage back to the Calamity War-era V08-1228 Grimgerde and its Valkyrja Frame, succeeding the earlier EB-04 Geirail in Gjallarhorn's lineup.
03The kit's two-in-one design lets builders swap between a horned Commander Type head and a bare Standard Type head from the same parts.
04Its head features a working opening cockpit hatch with a ball-jointed internal structure, an unusual gimmick for a grunt-tier HG kit.