RE100Universal Century

LM111E02 Gun EZ Ground Type

A dusty field mod of a background grunt suit, and honestly one of the friendlier RE/100 builds you can put on a shelf.

MechaGrade Score

3.6/5

Gun EZ Ground Type · 1/100 · 2019

GradeRE100

Scale1/100

Released2019

Runnersn/a

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The verdict

This kit does not try to be the star of Victory Gundam and that is exactly what makes it work.

It gives you the bones of a Master Grade at High Grade effort, and for a suit most people have never heard of, that is a fair trade. The articulation surprised me more than the looks did. It will not blow anyone away in a display case next to an MG, but it earns its spot without a fight.

Best for: RE/100 curious builders who want an MG-adjacent silhouette and easy assembly without hunting down a rare Master Grade of an obscure V Gundam suit

The full review

What it is

The Gun EZ Ground Type is Bandai's RE/100 take on a field-modified version of the plain Gun EZ, a mass-production suit from Mobile Suit Victory Gundam that never got much spotlight outside the RE/100 line. Building it feels like a scaled-up High Grade with a little extra ambition. The parts count stays low, the runners are simple, and the whole thing goes together in an afternoon without a single moment of confusion. What won me over was how much personality the ground-type tweaks add. The re-molded head with the extra antenna, the dust-proofed leg thrusters, and the added shoulder armor over the multi-launcher all read as real field gear rather than a reused mold with a new sticker sheet.

The catch

The joints are the honest weak point. Several builders flag looseness at the hips and knees straight out of the box, the kind that lets a pose slowly sag if you leave it standing for a while, and tightening it means a little friction sauce or a shim rather than expecting factory-tight tension. Bandai also leans hard on decals here. The marking sheet is enormous and covers a lot of the panel and warning detail that a pricier kit would mold or print, so if you skip the stickers you are skipping a real chunk of the intended look. Nothing about this build is fiddly or frustrating, it just is not going to wow you with engineering.

Who it's for

Buy this if you want an MG-sized Gundam on your shelf without an MG-length build session, or if you are chasing the deeper cuts of the Universal Century timeline and want a V Gundam suit that most casual builders have never touched. Skip it if tight, no-sag articulation matters to you more than build speed, or if you are not willing to spend real time with the sticker sheet, because a decal-shy build of this kit looks noticeably plainer than the box art. For anyone who already likes the RE/100 line's whole pitch, more scale for less hassle, this is one of the easier, more satisfying entries.

The build story

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

This is a straightforward build from start to finish. Gate placement is clean, nub marks land in places easy to hide, and there is no test-fitting puzzle at any stage. The RE/100 line's whole design philosophy shows here, a simplified inner joint assembly that the outer armor just clips onto, so you are not wrestling with a full skeletal frame the way you would on an MG.

Where it earns its keep is articulation for the effort involved: a 360-degree waist, a hip joint axis that swings fore and aft, double-jointed elbows and knees, and shoulder armor that lifts out of the way so the arms can actually reach up. The loadout is generous for the price too, beam rifle, beam saber, beam bazooka, and a beam shield with a molded effect part, which is more hardware than most kits at this scale bother to include.

Lore & trivia

01The Gun EZ Ground Type is a local-forces field modification of the standard Gun-EZ, given fins on its nozzles and dust and sand proofing for ground combat rather than a new official model number.
02It originates from Mobile Suit V Gundam New Mobile Report Variations (MSV) material rather than appearing as a suit in the Victory Gundam television series itself.
03The kit was released as a P-Bandai exclusive in 2019, keeping it out of general retail and making it a pickup mostly for Universal Century completionists.
04Its beam shield includes a molded clear effect part rather than a plain flat panel, a small touch reviewers single out as better than expected for the kit's price point.