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G Structure [GS03] Last Shooting

A pre-painted slice of A Baoa Qu that turns your RX-78-2 into the last shot of the One Year War.

MechaGrade Score

3.7/5

G Structure [GS03] Last Shooting · 1/144 · 2022

GradeHG

Scale1/144

Released2022

Runnersn/a

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The verdict

This is not a mobile suit kit, it is a display base, and once I stopped judging it like a gunpla and started judging it like a diorama it clicked.

The GS03 recreates the shattered launch tower where Amuro fired the final shot at Char's Zeong, and it does that one job with real style. I would not call the build satisfying in the way a good MG is satisfying, because there is almost no build, but the payoff on the shelf is genuinely better than I expected for the price.

Best for: UC Gundam fans who already own an RX-78-2 and Zeong and want to stage the actual ending of the show

The full review

What it is

The GS03 is part of MegaHouse's Realistic Model Series, a line of pre-painted, mostly snap-together display bases built to recreate iconic scenes rather than iconic mobile suits. This one is the A Baoa Qu launch tower from the last episode of Mobile Suit Gundam 0079, the exact spot where Amuro's Gundam takes its final shot at Char's Zeong. You get the broken tower structure, molded fire and thruster effects, translucent beam-burst parts, a posable support arm to hold your own 1/144 figure at an angle, and a small decal sheet for panel markings. Snap it together, drop your RX-78-2 into the arm, and you have the actual finale sitting on a shelf. It photographs far better than its size and price suggest.

The catch

Because it comes pre-painted, there is no color-separation puzzle to solve and almost no cleanup, so if you come to gunpla for the building itself, this will feel like assembling a toy rather than a kit. It does not include the RX-78-2 or the Zeong, those are sold separately, so the sticker price is misleading if you are starting from zero. The support arm holds one figure at a fixed set of angles rather than free posing, and because it is designed around 1/144 HG-scale figures, larger or non-standard kits can look off-scale or fail to seat cleanly in the mounting point. It is also a shelf hog for what it is, taking up real display footprint for a single-scene piece.

Who it's for

This is for UC Gundam loyalists who already have (or are about to build) an RX-78-2 and a Zeong and want to display them as the actual final battle rather than as two kits standing side by side. It is also a good pickup for anyone who wants a low-effort, high-impact diorama base without learning weathering or scratch-building a scene from scratch. Skip it if you want a traditional build experience with gates, nubs, and panel lines to work through, or if you do not already own compatible 1/144 figures, since buying this alone gets you a broken tower and nothing to put in it.

The build story

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

There is very little traditional gunpla build here. Parts snap together with minimal gate cleanup, nothing needs painting since it arrives finished, and the whole thing goes together in well under an hour. The decal sheet is small and mostly cosmetic, adding panel and warning markings to the tower rather than fixing any color-separation gaps, because there are none to fix.

The real engineering is in the sculpt, not the joints. The broken launch tower, the molded flame and thruster bursts, and the translucent beam-burst effect parts are what carry the piece, and they carry it well for a display base this size. The support arm is the one functional part worth noting, it lets you angle your own RX-78-2 into the classic firing pose, though the range of adjustment is limited rather than fully articulated. Value comes down entirely to what it does for your existing collection, if you already have the figures to put in it, it is a cheap way to turn two separate kits into one scene.

Lore & trivia

01The GS03 recreates the climactic scene from the final episode of Mobile Suit Gundam (1979), where Amuro Ray's RX-78-2 Gundam fires the shot that ends Char Aznable's Zeong at the space fortress A Baoa Qu.
02It belongs to MegaHouse's Realistic Model Series, a line of display-base dioramas designed to be paired with separately sold 1/144 scale HG, RG, or EG mobile suit kits rather than depicting a suit of their own.
03The line includes companion scenes such as GS02 (Ruins of New York) and GS05 (Archangel Hangar, from Gundam SEED), each targeting a different iconic UC or alternate-universe moment rather than a specific mobile suit.