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RX-93-ν2 Hi-ν Gundam Conversion Parts

A resin detour that lets you build the Gundam the anime never gave you.

MechaGrade Score

3.2/5

Nu Gundam · 1/100 · 2002

GradeMG

Scale1/100

Released2002

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The verdict

I'll say this up front, this is not a kit you build on its own, it is a resin conversion set that turns your MG Nu Gundam into the Hi-nu from Tomino's novel, and once I accepted that framing I actually had a good time with it.

It rewards someone who already loves the Nu Gundam frame and wants a second, rarer version out of it. It is not forgiving, and it is not cheap once you add the donor kit, but the payoff silhouette is genuinely distinct.

Best for: experienced Nu Gundam owners who want the Beltorchika's Children Hi-nu and don't mind resin work

The full review

What it is

This is a boxed set of cast resin parts from B-Club, Bandai's garage kit arm, meant to sit on top of an MG Nu Gundam Ver.Ka you supply yourself. The idea is clever, you keep the excellent Nu Gundam inner frame and swap the outer armor pieces so the finished model reads as the RX-93-ν2 Hi-ν Gundam from Tomino's alternate novel version of Char's Counterattack, the one where Amuro pilots this suit instead of the movie's Nu Gundam. Holding the resin pieces up against reference art, the shoulder reshape and chest vents really do nail that alternate-universe look Bandai wouldn't kit properly for years.

The catch

Resin is the whole story here. These parts arrive as cast blanks, not snap-fit runners, so there is mold-line cleanup, test fitting, gap filling, and paint required before anything looks finished, this is not a weekend project for someone used to modern MG ease. You also need to already own or buy a separate MG Nu Gundam Ver.Ka to convert, which stacks real cost on top of the conversion set's own price. Being a 2002 B-Club release, it is long out of production, so batch-to-batch resin quality and completeness can vary depending on which secondhand copy you land.

Who it's for

This is for modelers who already have a Nu Gundam Ver.Ka on the shelf, know their way around resin cleanup and airbrushing, and specifically want the Beltorchika's Children Hi-nu rather than the later Char's Counterattack movie version. If you have never worked with cast resin before, or you just want a Hi-nu Gundam to build straight out of the box, skip this and go get the RG or MG Ver.Ka Hi-nu Gundam instead, both are proper snap-fit kits built for exactly that suit. This conversion set is a reward for people chasing a specific, rarer silhouette, not a starting point.

The build story

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

Working with the resin means the build starts before you even touch glue, you're cleaning mold lines, dry fitting against the Nu Gundam frame, and shimming or filling gaps where the cast parts don't meet factory-tight tolerances. It is slower and messier than clipping plastic runners, and it leans on skills more common to garage kit builders than typical Gunpla assembly.

The payoff is that the underlying MG Nu Gundam Ver.Ka engineering, its frame, joints, and pose range, carries over untouched, so once the new armor is fitted and painted you get a Hi-nu Gundam with the same solid articulation the donor kit is known for, wrapped in a shape that reads clearly as the novel's alternate suit rather than a simple palette swap.

Lore & trivia

01The Hi-nu Gundam originates from Yoshiyuki Tomino's 1989 novel Mobile Suit Gundam: Beltorchika's Children, an alternate telling of Char's Counterattack where Amuro pilots this suit instead of the movie's Nu Gundam.
02B-Club was Bandai's in-house garage kit and resin brand, producing limited-run conversion and detail sets like this one for hobbyists who wanted variants official plastic kits hadn't covered yet.
03It took until years later for the Hi-nu Gundam to get dedicated snap-fit releases at RG and MG Ver.Ka scale, meaning this resin conversion set was for a long stretch the only way to build the suit at all.
04The Hi-nu's design swaps in reshaped shoulder armor and chest vents compared to the Nu Gundam, differences meant to visually separate Tomino's novel continuity from the theatrical Char's Counterattack.