PLAMAX Adds Aura Battler Dunbine's Gitole As Assembly Kit
PLAMAX keeps drawing mecha from older Sunrise catalogs, and the Gitole sits outside the lead Aura Battler lineup that usually gets kit treatment.
Key Facts
- Max Factory opened preorders for the PLAMAX Aura Battler Dunbine Gitole assembly-type plastic model.
- The PLAMAX Gitole has a reference price of 9,799 yen including tax and a Rakuten Books sale price of 8,134 yen including tax.
- Genzo Ihara and Max Factory handled the prototype sculpting for the PLAMAX Gitole.
- The Gitole is described in the listing as an enhanced prototype of the Vierres with an organic, aquatic-creature-like form.
- The PLAMAX Gitole images are CG renderings with paint applied and differ from the finished product.
Reporting from 1 source: Dengeki Hobby Web.
Max Factory opened preorders for a PLAMAX plastic model of the Gitole from Aura Battler Dunbine. The kit is listed as an assembly-type plastic model at a reference price of 9,799 yen including tax, with the Rakuten Books sale price at 8,134 yen including tax. Preorders are live on Rakuten Books. Genzo Ihara and Max Factory handled the prototype sculpting. The Gitole is described in the listing as an enhanced prototype of the Vierres, designed with an organic form that recalls aquatic creatures, and the model is presented as expanding the worldview of Aura Phantasm. The product images are CG renderings with paint applied and differ from the finished product. The kit is sold by Max Factory and carries a Sunrise copyright notice. Dengeki Hobby Web notes the listing may sell out by the time readers reach the product page, a standard caveat on its preorder posts.
Prototype sculptor Genzo Ihara worked on the Gitole master alongside Max Factory. The listing calls the machine an enhanced prototype of the Vierres, rebuilt with a more organic silhouette that recalls aquatic creatures.
The kit carries a reference price of 9,799 yen with tax, while Rakuten Books lists it at 8,134 yen with tax. The product shots are CG renderings with paint applied, and the listing states they differ from the finished model. Max Factory is named as seller, and the packaging carries a Sunrise copyright notice. Dengeki Hobby Web adds a standard caveat that the listing may already be sold out by the time a reader opens the product page.
Max Factory has paired the Dunbine release with another PLAMAX preorder drawn from a Sunrise catalog: a 1/24 scale Diving Beetle from Armored Trooper Votoms. That kit is molded in eight colors, uses snap-fit assembly with adhesive, includes water-transfer decals, a Midas Machinegun, and a same-scale seated Kan Yu figure, and is listed at 9,900 yen with a Rakuten Books sale price of 8,217 yen with tax. Both kits are assembly-type plastic models sold by Max Factory.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.