The Scarlet Phantom

The Phantoms

The Scarlet Phantom (a.k.a. Red Phantom) was one of the more elusive MHs in the Five Star Stories Series. The phantoms are a breed of MHs of mysterious origin known to first appear during the Great War of Magi in the FFS manga series. There are a total of three phantom models which are differentiated mainly by their colouration of red, white and black. As such, they were appropriately (or rather uncreatively) named as the Scarlet/Red phantom, White Phantom and Black Phantom respectively.

The Phantoms from the FSS series
Source: http://www.gearsonline.net

The phantoms all share identical physical characteristics with each other with only minor variations (as far as the GK figures are concerned) in the design of the shields they carry, their horns, their stabilisers (the tendrils sticking out of the back of their heads), their weapons and obviously their colour.


Hence, in order to fuel my addiction for the robots from the Five Star Stories series, I had to get myself one of those phantoms! Not just because they're mysterious and look extremely awesome, but also because I have a strange and dark affinity to skulls and all things bony... d(>_<)b


This time I decided to go for a 1/100 scale model instead in hopes that I would have to deal with fewer super small & fragile parts (lesson learnt from my 1/144 scale Yen Xing). The kit took just under 2 weeks to arrive from Hong Kong and cost me a heavier price tag of $75 plus delivery. The kit was manufactured by G.K. Factory in Hong Kong and I highly recommend their mecha kits as they have rather excellent casting quality.

Scarlet Phantom 1/100 Scale Resin Model Kit

I have long adopted he habit of always checking the parts list whenever I fix anything. Providentially, the habit paid of today as I discovered that a rather important piece was omitted in the kit. It was just a minor inconvenience as I contacted the seller and he delivered the missing part to me via post at no extra cost 2 weeks later.

The missing chest piece that arrived 2 weeks later

The individual parts of the kit packed according to their respective sizes

The Parts...

The parts list. The circled piece was initially missing.

The stabilisers were the most fragile parts of the kit

The body and lower leg armour

The shoulder & forearm armour and the feet

The skirt armour and the horns

The arms, heels, hind leg and shoulder parts

Other smaller miscellaneous parts

The head upclose

Overall, I'll have to say that I'm very pleased with the casting quality of this kit. It had minimal clean up (for a mecha kit at least), only a few pin holes & voids to fill and all parts fit rather perfectly. Pinning, however, was still a pain as the kit contains a total of ~90+ parts and I still use a manual pin vice for drilling the holes as it provides better control.




(-_-)...zzZ