Title: RX-121-2A Gundam TR-1 [Advanced Hazel] (High Mobility Type)
Scale: 1/144
Brand: Bandai
Grade: High Grade Universal Century (HGUC)
Overall Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Kit No.: # 57
Series: Advance of Zeta: The Flag of Titans
Release Date: 09/2005
Suggested Price: ¥ 1,600
No. of Parts: 120 plastic + 55 ABS + 23 polycap
Plastic colors: light gray, yellow, blue, black, gray, translucent red
Gimmicks: upgraded Hazel Custom
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Infomation of RX-121-2A Gundam TR-1 [Advanced Hazel]
The RX-121-2A Gundam TR-1 [Advanced Hazel] is a mobile Suit from the Gundam Universal Century timeline. Appearing in the Advance of Zeta: The Flag of Titans manga.
General and Technical Data
Model number: RX-121-2A
Code name: Gundam TR-1 [Advanced Hazel]
Unit type: prototype mobile suit
Manufacturer: Earth Federation Forces (Confeito Arsenal)
Operator: Titans Test Team (Black Otter Team)
First deployment: June UC 0087
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: overall height 18.1 meters
Weight: empty 39.5 metric tons; max gross 78.6 metric tons
Armor materials: alloy ceramic composite, lunar titanium alloy
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 1420 kW
Propulsion: unknown
Performance: unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments: beam saber, mounted on backpack storage rack, hand-carried in use; shield, mounted on left forearm; 2 x shield booster, mounted on backpack; enhanced shield booster (mounts 10 x diffuse beam gun)
Optional fixed armaments: multipurpose launchers
Optional hand armaments: 90mm machine gun; beam rifle, power rating unknown
Technology & Combat Characteristics
The RX-121-2A Gundam TR-1 [Advanced Hazel] is the remodeled RX-121-2 Gundam TR-1 Hazel II, with leg enhancement parts and a multi weapon latch installed to match its specifications to those of the RX-121-1 Gundam TR-1 Hazel Custom. A high-performance optical sensor unit like that of the RGM-79SR GM Sniper III has been added to its head, and supplemental thruster units to the soles of its feet. The movable booster pod on its enhancement backpack has also been replaced with a new type, tested on the RMS-117 Galbaldy β, which can be fitted with two shield boosters to increase its performance still further. The enhanced shield booster has ten diffuse beam guns installed on its surface, which increase the mobile suit's defensive capabilities by shooting down missiles and other projectile weapons. However, the shield booster's propellant capacity is reduced accordingly, giving it lower performance as a booster. All the test results of previous option parts were used in the creation of the Advanced Hazel, which could be considered the current "completed form" of the Hazel.
Testing of the new booster pod with two shield boosters was originally meant to be conducted with the RMS-117 Galbaldy β High Mobility Type. However, this Galbaldy β was lost when Lt Maxim Gunar defected to the AEUG. The tests were thus performed with the Hazel II, and their results are reflected in the Advanced Hazel. The new booster pod lacks the generator and thruster equipment of the previous version, and consists of little more than latches for the shield boosters and an optional propellant tank, acting as a multi-connector pod. Meanwhile, the sub arm unit was also adopted due to the good results of its testing with the Hazel Custom.
Armaments
60mm Vulcan Gun - A standard armament of the Earth Federation Forces's Mobile Suits is a pair of head mounted 60mm vulcan guns. These shell firing weapons have a high-rate of fire but have little power. Because of their low caliber the weapons won't damage a mobile suit's armor by much, though it is still commonly employed as a tactic to keep an enemy mobile suit from getting too close. The weapons are ideal for shooting down small, fast moving, lightly armored targets such as missiles, small land vehicles, and attack helicopters.
Beam Saber - The standard armament for melee combat for Earth Federation mobile suits is the beam saber. The beam saber is a small cylindrical device held in the mobile suit's hands when operated and is powered by an energy capacitor that is recharged from special racks. The beam saber emits a blade of plasma contained by an I-field and is capable of cutting through any metal alloy. The only way to block a beam saber is to counter with another beam saber or to use armor that has been treated with an anti-beam coating. The RX-121-2A Gundam TR-1 (Advanced Hazel) mounts one in a recharge rack in the backpack behind the right shoulder.
90mm Machine Gun - The Machine Gun is a simple shell-firing machine gun that is based on older technologies, making it a weapon that can be cheaply produced and can be used by just about any mobile suit. The weapon has no where near the power of a beam rifle, thus its attacks can be stopped by a healthy layer of armor. The bullets is stored on magazines that can be replaced when they are used up.
Beam Rifle - Beside from the Machine Gun, the Gundam TR-1 (Advanced Hazel) can also equipped with a Beam Rifle. The particle beam fired from a beam rifle can penetrate almost any armor that has not been treated with specific counter-measures. Like most beam weapons of the period, it is powered by a replaceable E-Pac. If the beam rifle runs out of energy, the current E-Pac can be replaced by a new one.
Shield - A basic optional arm-mounted defense armament for many Federation mobile suits. The shield is a thick sheet of armor designed to take severe punishment that would normally destroy a mobile suit. Since the introduction of beam weaponry, shields have been treated with an anti-beam coating allowing it to withstand several beam shots before the coating wears off. Typically physical shields can only take so much damage before they succumb to the pressure and break. A shield can be equipped to either arm of the Gundam TR-1 (Advanced Hazel) in order to increase defense against both beam and physical attacks.
Special Equipment & Features
Shield Booster/Enhanced Shield Booster - Two Shield Booster are attached with the back of Gundam TR-1 (Advanced Hazel), which contains propellant tanks and a single thruster with an output of 22,000 kg. This device is a further evolution of the sturm boosters (a device which contains thrusters for increasing propulsion purposes) used by earlier mobile suits, but unlike its ancestors the shield booster is retained as a shield after its propellant supply is exhausted, rather than being discarded when empty. This device would then be upgraded into the even more powerful Enhanced Shield Booster.
History
The Advanced Hazel was deployed during the final days of the Gryps Conflict piloted by both Eliard Hunter and Audrey April in pursuit of Carl Matsubara.
Variants
- RX-121-3C Gundam TR-1 Hyzenthlay
Miscellaneous Information
Pilot(s): Eliard Hunter, Audrey April
Appearances: Advance of Zeta: The Flag of Titans; Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
Original mechanical designer: Kenki Fujioka [Source: wikia & MAHQ]
HGUC RX-121-2A Gundam TR-1 (Advanced Hazel) Color Guide
1/144 HGUC RX-121-2A Gundam TR-1 [Advanced Hazel] Scale Model Kit Reviews
This suit is pretty beastly; the Hazel High Mobility Type is another one of those crazy Titans experiments, and it looks awesome. Painted in Titan's signature "dark purple" color and packed with unique accessories. It comes with a beam rifle and beam saber, and has a few cool transforming gimmicks for extra kicks! It’s not one of the Titans’ better-known endeavors, but it’s certainly a good-looking display piece. Of course it’s pre-colored and snap-together, so no paint or glue is required to complete it.
Video Review by Side7reviews
Review by Skwuidzilla
Value: 5/5
Quality: 2/5
Design: 1/5
This cool looking gundam should not deceive anyone else, it did deceive me, however. Bad design flaws; Loose arms and legs, Hands don't fit (i had to use spare hands from the Zaku 1 kit) the stickers are way too big for where they're supposed to go. The only good thing i can give this kit is that it has a REALLY cool appearance when you can pose him, IF you can pose him. Cool looking but insanely bad flaws. WORSE gundam i have.
Video Review by meadeslemicah
Review by John
Value: 4/5
Quality: 4/5
Design: 5/5
I just recently got into the Advance of Z series, So its neat to build some stuff from it as I read the Manga. The kit its self at the core is just like the The TR-1 Hazel custom Only in Titan Colors. But with this one you get some neat gimmicks. First you Get a special "Snipers Visor" that you can put on in place of the V fins if not you can ditch the Visor and keep the V fins. Next is the Sub arms that do fold out and can grip things. Like beam sabers or other weapons. Now the Cool thing with the Hazel Line, is most of the parts can be interchanged with them. The Only think I have to say bad about it is the Heal things that are on this kit. It makes posing this one a tiny bit of a challenge but its possible. I Also have not had problems with the Hands not fitting.
Video Review by Matthew Costa
Video Review by VagabondZero
Review by Clem-Master-Janitor
So, time for another kit in the flavor of Advance of Zeta’s RX-121-2A Advanced Hazel. This odd looking bird is the amalgamation of various ideas and designs (GM Sniper III Head Part, Booster Shields, The-O’s skirt manipulators, Quel’s body parts, Hazel Custom’s legs) into one very bulky package. Is this Titan suit really worth all the neat gimmicks? Or will it turn out to be just a fancy way of concealing a recolor model?
Using a standard Hazel head, you add on an enhanced sensor package via the GM Sniper and you get this bird like design. It can have an odd look with the dark color and white tip but will grow on you if you paint it up. Head is very flexible and includes the pieces of the standard Hazel ‘V’ fin antennae if you don’t like the feel of the design.
Much like that of the Hazel Custom, except blue instead of white. Good movement in the joints. Typical of this recurring flaw, the hands ABS plastic doesn’t hold at all. The beam rifle often pops the pegs, sending the tiny thumb flying off. You’ll end up gluing it or buying the aftermarket Manipulator Upgrade from B-Club, which you also have to glue. Painting of the nails is necessary to give that proper Titan Test Team look in the hands.
Bulky and wide, like the head, also describes the body. It uses a bit of the Quel here and then adds the Hazel Custom’s handle bars for high speed moving. The ABS assembly for the booster pod on the back doesn’t slide the best. Versus the Custom’s booster pod, the Advance’s booster pod is much smaller with two holes for shields compared to one. The smaller booster pod holds the shields but a problem with the shields connecting pegs being too loose puts a damper on this being a nice fit. Often the shields will be bouncing off the head. It is slightly pointless that the booster pod can move since the shields slap the head in most places. Of course, since the shields only really work in one pose, the lack of movement from the pod is a good horizontally. Vertically, the pod slides nicely but does you only any good for finding that one decent spot for the pose. A lot of boosters all over this beast emphasizes the speed characteristics of this design, but you’ll find the Hazel Custom also has this exact same layout across its body.
The shoulder joints built into the torso flex nicely, which compliments the elbow flex for those over the shoulder poses of grabbing the beam saber (mounted in the back) or flexing for action poses with the beam rifle. You’ll need to do some fine detail painting for some of the back vents as they are molded in dark blue.
Again, identical to the Hazel Custom’s legs, except blue. A major difference here is the manipulator sub-arms that connect to the pelvic area of the kit. These arms are basically useless as the fingers are too small to properly hold the beam rifle. With a bit of patience, you can get the rifle to hold in these tiny fingers, but any interruptions from a bump or touch will cause it to tumble free. Getting them to act as stabilizers for the main hands to hold and aim the rifle don’t work the best, either. The joints Bandai implemented here don’t have a great deal of flex. End result is just to have it on as a conversation piece or to differentiate from the Hazel Custom.
The skirt armor also holds spare ammo clips for the beam rifle and a rear skirt armor reminiscent of the Gundam NT-1 with all the tiny little thrusters. If anything, you can argue this is the evolutionary bridge design between 0080 designs, 0083 designs and Zeta designs. These bulky parts don’t really flow well compared to some kits, but being it’s suppose to be research & development design, it can be forgiven. Lower legs are huge and the knee thruster housings hit the skirt armor of the sub-arms. The legs are very stable due to the heavy weight of the legs, which is good because the Booster Shields on the back can throw the kit off balance.
The second major difference between Advanced and Custom is in the feet. The standard feet are here from the Custom but surrounding them are bigger and wider armor. I’m not sure what purpose it serves in its functioning, but it does add weight to balance the kit. The joints in the ankles and feet make it super articulate, allowing for some great action scenes. The bulk of the skirt armor sub-arms throws this off, hampering many of the poses.
Two booster shields come with this kit. One is the standard booster shield and the other is the missile defense shield with the many beam weapons built in to intercept incoming missile fire. You will have to paint the details into both shields, but the interceptor shield requires the most paint. Also, there are a lot of voids left by Bandai in the shields’ tips for some reason. I’m not sure why exactly, but they are there. Another minor (or major) grievance is with the panel lines being too shallow, often resulting in you needing to dig them out. I had to do this multiple times due to painting flubs that forced me to strip the parts and repaint.
Beam saber is identical to the style found in the HGUC Gundam with the hollowed tube that you insert the translucent red beam inside and then hold in the custom hand. This hand made for the beam saber is more stable than its rifle counter part so you won’t need to glue it, but nail painting is required.
Two open fists hands are included for use with the shoulder grips. Odds are you won’t use these unless you’re going for an unarmed look.
Spare clips fit nice and are a great little detail, but they hamper the sides of the skirt armor. It makes the arms hang at a wide angle instead of at the side like most suits will have. In all, it’s just more bulk for an already bulky kit.
Standard GM shield is also included. You can swap it quickly out for one of the Booster Shields, but you can’t store the shield on the Booster Pod. It needs a lot of painting to look right, too.
Then you have the sub-arm skirt unit. I already grumbled about this useless piece of crap so I’ll save you another complaint rant.
It does come with decals, but I opted to buy the aftermarket decals because they work better with the heavy detailing all over this kit. The detailing is a problem as it is very fine and barely resists filling when painted. Another thing to note is the heavy use of blue. While I painted mine using a combination of color arrangements (seems there are a few variations on the official scheme, even a difference in the instruction manual itself), the standard model colors are almost too blue, concealing many of the fine details. As always, the ABS hands ruin much of the appeal of the kit since your weapons run away. The skirt armor is too extras heavy with the clips and sub-arm unit. It detracts from the poses and motions that the design is capable of achieving. I’d almost opt to leave them off. Finally, you’ll need to do a ton of tiny painting to make this look right. This can lead to some major headaches for anyone looking to just slap together this kit.
In the end, this is just a fancy recolor kit with a few little bells and whistles that really don’t add to the appeal. I’ve heard many comments about parts conflicting and just looking plain goofy. Get this kit if the Hazel Custom doesn’t do anything for you with its white and black color scheme. If you have the Custom and want some more AOZ kits, then get this kit. Otherwise, I’d pass on it.
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