Advance of Zeta Model Kits

Gunpla Build - HG Woundwart Psychoblade Custom (Final) 2023-10-15

This is it. After five dense posts, this is my final word on the Woundwort Psychoblade Custom.

Equipping the Rifle

The Woundwart’s rifle is the very definition of a boomstick. It completely changes the way she looks. Without it, she still looks good, if a bit small and slight. But with it she looks like your worst nightmare:

Granted, that makes sense when your mobile suit’s primary weapon is bigger than the MS itself.

Gunpla Build - HG Woundwart Psychoblade Custom (Part 3) 2023-10-10

Our last post was all about a single weapon. With any luck, this post should cover the rest of the model.

Head

The kit comes with all the parts needed to build either the original Woundwort head, or the Psychoblade Custom version. Unfortunately, they share one part in common - namely, the red “core” of the head which contains both the eyes and the chin. Because of this, you have to choose one - and only one - head to build:

To the left, the parts of the Psychoblade head (sans the Psychoblade crest itself). To the right, the original head

Gunpla Build - HG Woundwart Psychoblade Custom (Part 1) 2023-10-08

Sooooo it’s been a while since. Eighteen days, give or take.

That’s because this build has been a real trip. At the time of this writing, it’s now complete, but we have a lot of ground to cover. So much so, in fact, that this post isn’t going to cover the build itself, but rather pretty much everything surrounding it. Trust me, it’ll make the actual build post go much smoother.

(Also, I’m going to frame this post as a conversation/FAQ between me and some hypothetical reader. Please just humor me)

Okay, here I am, your friendly neighborhood reader. Where do we begin?

Where we always begin: with the runners: