Nerd Builds: HG Gundam Exia Dark Matter

Today we're featuring the 1:144 HG Gundam Exia Dark Matter from the Gundam Build Fighters series. The third mobile suit for Meijin Kawaguchi, this model was developed by PPSE for the express purpose of defeating Sei and Reji in the Build Fighters final bout. Let's dig in.

The box art makes it look invincible.

the manual

chest unit

They give you two different face options...

I went with this one

the head unit

head and chest

arm units

upper body

feet and legs

waist unit

beam sword and shield

there is a heat sword and a ice sword

the dark matter booster

who needs rifles when you have 2x giant swords?

close up shot

rear view

He's ready to handle business.

This was a pretty standard build. The colors may necessitate some painting due to just the massive amount of red to gray. The first time I've built and exia so the frame was interesting. It didn't give me too much trouble in any aspect. Just the booster has so many small pieces and half of them go to one side and half to the other so it got kinda tedious towards the end when building the booster, but even with that, the fact that Bandai was able to make the booster look like a bat (or a hummingbird?) is quite impressive. Does anyone understand what the one point technique that is given in the manual is talking about? Usually the point techniques are pretty easy to decipher through the pictures but with this one (which I really wanted to do because I gather it has something to do with making the ice sword more...icy) I was clueless. Comment below. Once again, standard build.

Blessings~!