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THE GUNPLA PHILOSOPHY: THE MODEL FOR EVERYONE! "without glue or paint
All Gundam models are characterized by two essential properties:
- the parts are nestable
- and they're molded in color.
Gunpla are classified by ranges (called "grade") according to their quality and/or size. The main ones are :
- NG No Grade (1980), although the term only appears much later, it refers retrospectively to the first models released as early as 1980.
- HG High Grade (1990), first range of higher quality at a scale of 1/144.
- MG Master Grade (1995), of higher quality than HG High Grade with, for example, the internal mechanics fully modeled at a scale of 1/100.
- PG Perfect Grade (1998), the most technically advanced range at a scale of 1/60.
- FG First Grade (1999), the inexpensive clip-on range.
- HGUC High Grade Universal Century (1999), a popular re-edition of the Universal Century robots.
- EX-model (2001), range dedicated not to robots but to vehicles and related flying machines.
- MS Mega Size (2009), 1/48 scale range.
- RG Real Grade (2010), similar to the MG Master Grade with a pushed internal skeleton but at a size called 1/144 like the "HG High Grade".
- RE/100 Reborn One Hundred (2014), new range of 1/100 scale gunplays.
- Super Deformed Gundam or SD Gundam is a Japanese animation franchise whose works are parodies of the Gundam saga, adopting the graphic codes of the super deformed.