Building the Gundam HG GQuuuuuuX 1/144 Gunpla Kit (A More Difficult Kit)

March 23, 2026

Building the Gundam HG GQuuuuuuX 1/144 Gunpla Kit (A More Difficult Kit)

Last year, I picked up the model kits for the Gundam GQuuuuuX and the Aerial. I'm going to call GQuuuuuX Gux from now on as I still can't believe they'd name the anime and the Gundam such a long and silly name. As an author, it is downright hostile for your readers. I built the Aerial first and it wasn't too bad, but I will say the Gux was a challenge on another level.

I started building the Gux last year and finished building the heads before I stopped. Just assembling the head and torso took an afternoon. I stopped after that and took a really long break before picking it up again. The Gux kit has really tiny parts and lots of teeny weeny stickers to apply. This is one of the more challenging kits to assemble with more than one place that has gotchas if you don't interpret the assembly instructions correctly. This kit is also harder to assemble than the Aerial with more parts as the mobile suit is much more complicated from a design perspective. I'm pretty sure no one would have animated this without CG with this design!

The two kits I really want to build as they were sold out when I first looked for them.

When I first opened the boxes I realized that the Gux would be more difficult from the number of steps and from the number of parts on the stringers.

Construction for Gunpla almost always starts with the head. I think it is a nice way to start the model as you get a something substantial to build that is complete when assembled. The head on the Gux had quite a few steps. There were plenty of tiny stickers to apply.

Some of the assembly instructions for the head and the sticker application. You can see how tiny the head is compared to the tweezers. The stickers are even tinier. I had to use a magnifying glass as my older eyes aren't cut out for this teeny detail work. Don't sneeze either. This model kit needs to be built on a white surface so you don't lose pieces and/or they're easier to find. This means no carpeted flooring below you either!

Closeup of the head. S-M-ALL. I had a terrible time trying to put the sticker for one of the eyes in the proper position. This kit has quite a few stickers (still better than water slide transfers) without marked zones to place them on, so you need to estimate! This is repeated for the shoulders, and legs for some of the decals. It takes just as long to put the stickers on as it does to assemble the plastic pieces.

Head and torso done. This is an afternoon. You will need a pair of fine tipped electronics tweezers to apply these stickers!

The torso and the two versions of the head in active or dormant mode.

This is the assembly for the shoulder pads. The stickering was tough.

Those are all the construction steps I documented. The legs had some pretty intricate steps for assembly and stickering, too. This model kit took a full day to build so you are getting plenty of entertainment / skill testing entertainment for you money.

Torso closeup. These model kits are more detailed than they used to be and there are plenty of coloured components to assemble. It does make for a pretty nice looking model afterwards.

The model from a top down perspective. You get a beam cannon, a couple of swords, and a nifty shield.

Offset top down from the side. The feet of this robot are interesting. They're actually really narrow and much less complicated than the typical feet on other Gundams, but the legs are more complicated to build.

Offset top down from the side rear. Nice jetpack on the back. One thing about building the models is that you see things in the robot's design that don't necessarily stand out when you are watching the anime. The jetpack, shoulders, and feet were another unusual, but I never noticed before.

Full front view, looking slightly down.

Front view. See how the lower and upper legs both have additional levels of detail in their assembly.

Finally, here is the Gundam Aerial compared to the Gux. Both are are relatively recent kits and they show a much higher level of detail than some of my older kits. I never realized that the Gux was one of the smaller mobile suits until you see them compared side by side. The Aerial has to be 25% or more bigger than the Gux. I have a newer RX-78 kit to be built still and it'll be interesting to see them all compared. The Gux is an really interesting mobile suit to look at visually. Plenty of form to it along with colour.