Gundam & Mecha

The following notes are intended to help Gundam builders understand the impact of our new Open based judging scheme and how it equates to the world of Gundam competition.

In many Gundam only competitions, you may be used to seeing the terms "Straight Build", "Repaint" and "Custom" used to describe entry categories. For ScaleACT-25 we've adopted these terms to align with the Gundam world, so please look for;

• Gundam - Straight Build.

• Gundam - Repaint.

• Master = Custom

Mecha:

This category has been added due to the increasing popularity of Zoids, Transformers kits etc, which would be out of place if put in the sci-fi category, alongside Star Wars or Macross kits. Mecha category will open up other unique entries for third-party Gundam-like kits, that are not Gundams but not sci-fi as well. A good example of this is the Zero Gravity Judge model kit.

Full resin Gundam kits should be entered into the Mecha category. This is because they do not use a BANDAI inner frame, and thus do not fit the Gundam category even though it may be a full resin rendition of a Gundam kit.