…In addition on the Wing front, I might also be on the lookout for some Leos (MSiA or model). That’s quite an underrated grunt MS, in my view. But, GvGNP aside, I got my eyes on the TAG 1/144s, for now. And some HGUCs (such as the Zakus, at least).

Anyway I got my MSIA waaaaaaaaay back in December ’07 around the time it and the 1/60 kit were miraculously available at the same time from Hobby Link Japan. The MSIA’s out of stock at the moment, so I guess it’s not completely unobtainable right now if you’re lucky.

And while I’m at it, I got the 1/144 and 1/100 off of Tisinc99 from Amazon on April of last year back when they still had a ton of kits from the 90′s.

I was interested in tracking down the 1st edition MSIA Wing Zero for a while but I decided to only look forward rather than backwards in this hobby.

As far as the MSIAs WGZ, I have the EMSiA WGZ ver. EW, and it can barely hold the twin buster rifle together, and the last time I tested it (before I accidentally lost one of the triggers months back), it couldn’t even hold the TBR separately. I have a better chance of getting my GFF Wing to hold its buster rifle on its own again (though I never changed its pose from that). The TBR for EMSiA WGZ is probably more proportionate than the MSiA TV versions of Wing and Zero.
I also have the U.S., panel line-deprived, non-transforming (and pink beam saber-wielding) version of Wing Gundam. The wings can still spread out fine, it can easily hold its big buster rifle, though by now after much usage over the early and late parts of this decade, its knee “joints” might be a bit iffy (and definitely so for my Tallgeese II MSiA, and for my Heavyarms ver. EW, even though it can’t spread out its legs much for a combative pose). It doesn’t have much articulation, though. Earlier versions of MSiAs only connected from one part of the MS “body” to another with a single hinge (not sure that’s the right term) instead of the two you can see on newer versions, like your WGZ.

Someone out there has modded it to get better articulation (and maybe stability), though:

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/somewhereinthenight/e/ebaf9b7b9c020b9f8ff2d06794defed1

Now even though I know one can’t get that out of the box, I might still get it, after watching many GvGN videos and waiting for GvGNP to come out… (I’m a sucker for winged units, sometimes.) If the U.S. MSiA (second) version has better stability though, I’m sure I’d be hard-pressed to find it. Where did you get yours, if I may ask?

I think people should be able to see it now.