MG Mk II A.E.U.G (second unit)

Hate it or love it.

That is how I can describe my gunpla building time now. Either make it quick but the result will not as good as expected or be patience, take some time and make it close to imagination. As for this post, I really hate myself for hanging too long as I actually had everything completed with the photos few months ago and I really don't have the mode to write anything. I forgot what I work on this kit. Damn!!!

Alright, the second unit.

The main different from the first unit I have before can be said the painting. No pla-plate or additional panel line added for both unit but the first unit is the semi-painting unit which means only certain parts are paint such as the inner frame, main body and other part that not in white color. At the end, i sold it for half price. As for this second unit, fully paint with removing all nub marks (that's the part the killing most of my time). As usual, the paint list:

-Mr.Surfacer 1000
-Mr.Color White
-Mr.Color Super White
-Mr.Color Metallic black
-Mr.Color Black
-Mr.Color Blue
-Mr.Color red metallic
-Mr.Color orange yellow
-Panel line and decal.

Similar from the previous work I done on the MG Blitz, not going to pose this kit much to prevent scratches to the paint. May refer to the first unit for the pose and this for the paint job. That's all about for this kit.

MG Blitz Gundam Custom

Screw me up, I can't remember how many month I took to complete this kit. All I remember i build it, keep it back in the box before sanding it, build the PG Wing and paint it, built couple of HG kit and keep back in box, until really I can't stand to see the box of this kit lying on my table for too long and finally, I decide to took it out, sand it properly before painting and "vowla!!!", here we have it complete.

One of the Seed Gat-X series mobile suit that really impressed me. It got shield, mount with beam rifle, beam saber and some sort of missile equals to deadly. I guess GN Sword one concept was from this because this come FIRST!!! (for Seed haters) Just kidding and no offend for that. But when it lost it right arms, that's too bad. As for the hook on the left hand, I still don't have any idea why they need a "hook" weapon mount on the high tech mobile suit in that era where they can just aim and shoot "target lock down and eliminated", as simple as that. Why not the left arms have the same weapon as the right arms I was wondering. Mirage colloid, damn this is the coolest technology that I think every mobile suit should have it but I guess if everyone fighting using this technology in the show, we might just watching a beam effect show "Lol". The design of this kit was awesome actually, it balance up everything from the chest, arms, legs, backpack, and even the head unit. It will be a base foundation for any modification especially the back pack but the original one was just too nice to be sacrifice and the design just close any possibilities for backpack modification without sacrificing it.

21st century MG kit, no worry about the technology or design on this MG kit. Articulation, best but no perfect as there are still some plate armor blocking the movement. Design wise, no heavy backpack but the right arms seems a bit heavy which might cause slight imbalance on the kit but don't worry, slightly tighter some joints and it will stand and pose well. As usual, I can said no masking is require since all parts with difference colors are molded separately. As for the detail, nothing to worry on the inner part and as for the outer part you may add on some spices to make it more nasty. I like the way of some of the sliding armor that expose the inner frame which it use as the release of mirage colloid mode. As for the customization, that leave to your own imagination and now I will let the picture speak for the rest of the story.

Gunpla Mid Year Challenge 2014 Malaysia at Sungei Wang Plaza

Well well well, its good to be back here, Jarvis (alright, just stop all the Ironman 2 dialog nonsense).

Again, its been a while that i'm not here. Its feel quite lazy to update things since I change my job but life still goes on and gunpla life will never stop. I'm still following up with most of the gunpla news but nowadays include transformer and other mecha as well. Guess that what make me slightly busier than before. So lets start with the Gunpla Mid Year Challenge 2014 Malaysia at Sungei Wang plaza. My apology for the missing competition post from last year which held in Ikea PowerCentre and I will update it soon cause there are some related detail to this post.

For this year, things have become more interesting as there are a lot of improvement compare to last few years, I mean the event and not just entries. I came in here second day of the event, there might be more entries putting here later but it might not because there is another similar event held in Johor Bahru which is too far for me to cover. As what we can see here, one of the improvement that i feel its the best will be the display shelf. We can see more poster decoration, better lighting and design which make us easier to take photo especially the dark background really helps a lot. There are some activity such as one of the activity which i participate and won the HGUC unicorn with display head on the first round. What we need to do in the activity is building the AG Genoace and the fastest one who complete will win the prize i mentioned. Other activity include Kinrara cosplay? er, i miss this part. As you scroll down from this post, you might found there is one counter where some are the judges and might be other pro-modeller building kit as the live showcase for building gunpla. And as usual, we able to meet one of our previous international Bakuc Champion which is Eric over there. I'm not sure are we allow to ask some question to them but they do answer us quite friendly on how to create certain effect, diorama and other skill which is great.

One of the major difference in between mid year challenge and year end challenge will be the number of entries. As you can see from the photo or even in the event itself, there are lesser entries during the mid year and most of the big gun will normally target on the big show in the year end but still, there are lot of great work in mid year challenge. I capture most of the amazing work and i skipped those that try hard but not that succeed in this post. I'm sorry to said that and not mean to bash anyone. It just if we going to create something, why not we just have all the best, like what i'm going to show in this post. So, as for now, enjoy the picture and you may give your feedback if you want to.

PG Wing Zero Custom

Wow, almost 8 months i'm not updating anything here except from the fb page. So, what I did for the past 8 months? This? nope. There are more than this actually but this is the only one project where i paint. I'm not going to post like the usual post i did previously such as the background story of this model kit, personal opinion or review but just photos.

About the paint i use for this kit, maybe will update here later. So, as for now, let the pictures tell the rest.

Malaysia Gundam Mid Year Challenge 2013

I guess i should call this post of the month since i only create one post per-month. Alright, the wait is over but i guess its not excited than the warehouse sales which start today. These picture was taken on Monday, there might be more entry coming within this week. So, this is it "The Malaysia Gundam Mid Year Challenge 2013". I guess the BAKUC should be held on end of the year but if i'm not remember wrong, it no longer called as "BAKUC". Well, we can't expect much on the Malaysia Gundam Mid Year Challenge as most of the big player is actually focus more on the Year End contest. This round is slightly better because last few rounds was held in MIECC which is under a book fair. Well, the Malaysia Gundam Mid Year Challenge is finally back to Sungei Wang. As for the rules and prizes, it will be similar every year with some minor changes. As what i know, there is a HG category which i had participated without realizing there is such category. So, let the pictures explain the rest of the story now......

MG Force Impulse Review

Another kit from Seed Destiny again. I always like to review kit from this series as it is my favorite series which i'm more familiar with compare to UC, Wings or others. Previously i have review the MG Sword Impulse version which have most of the parts same with this except the silhouette parts.

Since i have review the Sword Impulse, in this post i will more focus on the Force silhouette pack but it gonna be short. So, the force silhouette pack that form Force Impulse, as what we know this pack is serve the same function as the Aile Striker from Strike. Compare to Aile Strike, the force silhouette is more smaller which didn't come with two large thruster at the back. The design is more sleek and sharp compare to Aile Striker pack. Come with two beam saber which make the Force Impulse still able to fight for medium and close combat. The wing is foldable which doesn't require much space to store it. The detail of this Force Silhouette is pretty great too. Compare to other Silhouette such as the Blast and Sword Silhouette, those are more focus on the weapon that it can carry but as for this, it greatly improve the overall performance of the MS. Therefore, what we can see it's more focus on the individual silhouette unit compare to the weapon it can carry (only two beam sabers)


The actual kit here is actually quite accurate for this Force Silhouette pack compare to the anime. On top of that, it come with one of the sword from Sword Silhouette ( but its slightly different) to form some of the "Excalibur" scene.

 

Mobile Suit Gundam Arein : The Awakening of the Earth

For the part two of Mobile suit Gundam Arein, its actually doesn't related much to the Gundam Arein itself. The series was call "Mobile Suit Gundam Arein : The Awakening of the Earth". It will be a single episode and from this episode, the ending of the first series will be review here.

At the end of the Mobile Suit Gundam Arein, VF main base was being attack and damaged heavily. Eneuf take the entire VF and its new developed weapon of destruction called "Mirror" to take down WU. With the limited number in VF, it strike directly to the heart of WU in the center colony of The Ark and break down the entire WU defense system. Leon and WU forces retreat into Second colony of The Ark. RS take this opportunity while both WU and VF was exhausted in the war. RS try to attack and destroy the remaining of WU forces but VF knew it and try to protect the WU remaining forces as he know Leon is there. Due to the forces of RS was too huge, Eneuf lure the main forces of RS to Mirror which make the RS forces stay linear back to its RS space Headquarter. During this operation, Leon MS was damaged and save by Arein but both stuck at the Mirror's target as the RS keep on pursue them. In order to save his friend while make sure the RS main forces stay linear with it headquarter, Eneuf push Leon MS away just before the Mirror fire. The entire of RS main forces was destroy together with its space headquarter near Earth. At the end, all three forces which are the RS, WU and VF was suffered heavily in this war and finally call the end. These three nation then signed a new agreement to stay peaceful in the space near Earth. Leon survive as the representative of WU while Leana became the representative of VF with Eneuf's son call Rident. These three nation were declared as the Space Alliance (SA) as they are no longer able to go back Earth due to the radiation.

The story of this episode start when the refugee of the WU in Earth who was left behind by the RS starting to attack the space colony from SA near Earth. These people called themselves the Origin (of the WU or Earth). They have suffer a lot from the Earth radiation. With the scrap from the WU and RS left on Earth, they build themselves a very strong forces on Earth and begin to assault and capture the space colony near Earth. Leon piloting its prototype Gundam from his friend (Eneuf) which called the "Vanator" lead the old forces from VF to stop this madness. Vanator was a project develop in WU by Leon and Eneuf before Eneuf knew his real identity. With the technology from the VF, Vanator are quite similar to the Arein but performance was slightly lower.

Although the SA technologies was far more advance but they never thought the Origin forces was not small too. This series will be the beginning of the true battle in between nation from Earth and nation from Space Colony. The leader of the Origin was only review on the next Episode ( The Legacy Return) while this episode is focus more on the rising Origin and the main focus character will be Leon.

My Gundam Story (MS Gundam Arein)

Alright, this is how my story is. It going to be divide into four parts which two should be movies and the other two will be in episode. The first episode will go with the main character which will be the prince of the colony that revenge for its colony, second will be a OVA version which is a movie which was about his best friend defending the Earth Space Colony called "the Awakening from the Earth", third one will be the second OVA which will be "the Falling of the Ark" and the last one will back to the long episode called "The Legacy Return".

Background (Western Union "WU" and Rising Sun "RS" and Viscous Fleet "VF")

The timeline will set at 500 years from now where all the countries on Earth have decided to join in a project which build a large space colony in space. This large space colony was develop with the highest technologies which it even can expand itself and able to harvest material from the asteroid belt for different material. While the colony is keep on developing without the support from the Earth, the resources of the Earth was running out where most of the big power taking over the small one and fighting for the territory just to harvest resources until it reach one point where the Earth was split into two different big nation with very strong military power separate as east and west. Due to the imbalance of the the Earth power, this large space colony called itself The Ark decided to separate itself from the Earth and declare itself as another nation in space (about 100 years after it deploy and develop). With the both nation on Earth struggling to harvest more resources such as petroleum or nature gas, both nation highly rely on nuclear power as energy and also the power to destroy its enemy. Due to both nation are highly rely on this power for destruction, the Earth was highly expose to radiation and in order to stop this mess go further one must end this war as soon as possible by destroying another side. With the amount of man power and the left over of other resources at the Eastern side which called as RS, the Western side which is WU was in disadvantage position where it try to get help from the space colony, The Ark. The Ark doesn't want to involve in this mess and therefore refuse to provide any aid which trigger the anger of the WU as they are the one who provide the most of the technologies to this The Ark during the development. Having itself at the disadvantage point where the power is not strong enough and limited resources, the WU decided to focus and launch a full scale assault on the The Ark in objective to dominate the colony and the resources of the colony. The reason WU try to capture The Ark is the because the technolog of The Ark that able to harvest mineral and other resources near the Asteroid Belt. The assault was successful as the The Ark was more to a peaceful colony with lesser development on its military strength ( but not technologies) but it take few years for the WU to achieve its objective and take over. Although the WU won the war and conquer the space colony but at the same time, it lost the war on Earth to the RS where the whole Earth was under RS control now.

20 years after the take over of WU for the space colony and lost of war on Earth, the war stop but never resolve. WU always wanted to take back Earth while the RS still facing high radiation on Earth although it dominate all resources on Earth and looking for a alternative place to live. The story start here where the main character will be a teenage (male) called Eneuf (bare in mind, there are no character with any special power such as Newtype, Ultimate Coordinator or Innovator, it all just base on skill, strategy, experience, a little bit of luck and talent), born during the war in the Ark (the space colony). He was live together with his guardian called Alex and study about fusion power core for mobile suit. He have two best friend which are Leon and Leona (twins, Leon was the male and Leana is the female which is younger). Three of them was study in the same university. Leon and Leana were the children of the latest Ark government Prime minister Alexander Minnoth which formerly known as the Defense Minister of WU.

On the 21st birthday of Eneuf (which 21 years after the falling of the Ark), his guardian gave him a box which reveal his real identity. The original name of Eneuf was Hyuga Ark which have the same last name of the Vicous Ark, the former Leader of the Ark. This means the Eneuf was the descendant of the previous Ark's leader's son.  It was order by Vicous for Alex to pass the box to Eneuf when he reach 21 years old. The box contain the coordinate of a hidden stealth colony (call the Soul) contain the Ark's most advance technology and military strategy that it automatically updated, revise and develop. The technology from Soul was far more advance than the current technology which at least  take 300 years for RS or WU to catch up. The Soul also contain the clear background of the Ark and the future of the Ark. On top of that, the "Soul" also able to summon all the remnant that loyal to the Ark from other hidden colony which use to be Ark's allies but become independence after the Ark fall onto WU and they all was disappear in order to prevent from being attack by WU. With realizing the true identity of himself, Eneuf became aware of what he is and he should do next in order to bring back the old Ark which had conquered by WU. At the same time, he also struggled due to he had just start his relationship with Leana while she was the daughter of his enemy who destroy and conquered the Ark.

Although Enuef have the dilemma of revenge for his father's legacy from the family of his lover. he know that what must he do and that should be the only option for him to stop the war by creating the advance forces from the Soul. Guided by his guardian Alex, he approach to the Soul and reveal everything from the Soul. From there he discover one of the most advance unique design mobile suit which called "Gundam" which means the "the Gun for Freedom" (lol). Only the inner frame with its fusion power core were build. Other than that, Enuef also discover some design for mobile suit, battle ships, space fortress and weapon of mass destruction. From there, he summon the remnant of the Ark to help him build his own forces in his father's name called the Viscous Forces. The main battleship was called Damien which is also the flag ship of the Damian Fleet and the Gundam he found in half build was completed called Arein (specification of the Gundam will be discuss later). The Gundam come with two special features which is self-learning system where it will record the data from every single combat, self-adjustment and development to upgrades its agility, fire power, defence and match up with the ability of pilot. With this system, the pilot and the Gundam itself will keep on evolve to its best for different battle. The second features will be it's power core which is the Nuclear Fusion Reactor. This power core was able to provided the Gundam Limitless power while the it equip with the reactor was cover with "RE" (radiation eliminator) to prevent the Nuclear Fusion Reactor to release any radiation. The first assault of Viscous Force to the WU in Ark happen 1 year later.

WU realize the existence of Soul and Viscous Forces after the they lost some of their outpost which use to monitor the movement at the Asteroid belt. WU ordered Captain Dino together with its fleet to search and destroy the Viscous Forces but the strength of this fleet was away weaker than the Viscous Fleet which suffer heavy lost when they try to enter the Old Ark war colony debris. WU now realize that they are facing two different enemy at the same time. Leon later join in the WU military forces and assigned to fight against the Viscous Forces.

While WU was under attack, RS also realize the existence of VF. After they watch the defeat of RS to the VF, they acquire some combat data about VF which is far more stronger than themselves as well as WU. Since they are facing insufficient of resources and radiation on Earth, they decided to negotiate with VF and they take this opportunity to attack WU together in The Ark. The negotiation with the VF was fail as VF realize the motive of RS will be conquering the Ark same as WU. Through the negotiation, RS has discover the real identity of the VF was from the old Ark. Therefore, RS made a major move by shifting most of main forces and headquarters to the front line (space) to attack whenever the opportunity come which wait till WU and VF exhausted in the war. At the same time, RS also move lot of it's people to the new space colonies and moon to stay out of the radiation on Earth. Most of the refugees from WU on Earth that live under RS was left behind (Awakening from the Earth).

With three forces clashing in the Space while the Earth was being left behind to recover from the radiation, the story will fully focus on the consequences of war, vengeance and greediness which had cost a huge lost to the humanity.

(Basically the story was inspired by many gundam series such as Gundam 00, Gundam Seed/Destiny, Gundam Age)

HGUC FA-78 3 Full Armor Gundam 7th Custom paint complete

Alright, finally i got this finish. Its been a while that i didn't paint any kit and only focus on building OOB kit. After this kit, i will be going back on building another 2 OOB kit before move into another painting project. As for any project with additional detail or modification? I haven't think of any since last few modify project was not really up to some basic requirement, it really think of where are the mistake and what i should really focus before starting any. As for this, i guess its another trial to improve my painting skill and masking skill but there are still some part that i didn't do well. Its all because of IMPATIENCE.

HGUC FA-78 3 Full Armor Gundam 7th review

Damn, i delayed this post again. Its was supposed to be here by the end of December but it ended up being upload now, mid of January. The pre-build was completed few weeks ago and it already under painting process now. Too bad that this project was held during the hand over for my previous job and i'm in another job which is in another field now. Two days off on weekend, i can spend one day for gunpla and post it on the coming weekend (Great).

So, FA-78-3 (instead of RX-78) Full Armor Gundam 7th, i don't know why it goes by number 7th but i guess this should be the 7th variation from RX-78. If i'm not wrong, it was from one of the Gundam game series and its not from any gundam anime series. As read from our best friend or you can called it as "gundam wiki" a.k.a MAHQ, this thing really come from many version or generation. The origin was from RX-78 till it develop to FA-78-1 to 2 to 3. And the best part of it was this 3rd generation can be said the combination of the FA-78-1 or 2 with using the NT-1 as the platform. This kit was actually re-design from the Mr. Katoki and the original of this FA-78-3 was carrying a lot more weapon than this. There is another heavy armor of this FA-78-3 which something look like Gundam Double X with its add-on flight "jet". From what i read, this should be the strongest RX/FA-78 series as the with more weapon and additional armors while maintaining its agility. If this come in MG version, which using the original design concept of this MS, it really can store a lot of weapon as MAHQ stated on its design concept. What a small kit with a lot of story.

Let check out the box and the runners.

MG Astray Red Frame Kai review

First, i'm really don't know why it call as "kai" but i just realize "kai" is something means upgrade but whatever is it, it doesn't have the flightpack, normal Gat-x series shield and the Astray Beam rifle. If anyone of you think that the articulation will definitely better since the NG 1/100 version already have great articulation, there is a price to pay for that. Alright, should start it with some introduction instead of complain.

The origin of this MS was from Orb, one of the five prototype unit. Pilot by the Lowe Guele, appear in the side story of Seed. I actually read some information from MAHQ and i just learn that Astray doesn't have phase shift technology? and as a highly develop country, it need to copy the technology from the alliance for the beam rifle and beam saber? Alright, this sound quite ridiculous but it might be true. The original weapon for it was a one beam rifle, 2 x beam saber, Gatx shield and vulcans but due energy limitation, this unit also equip with "katana" which called as Gerbera Straight. I don't have much information about this MS as i didn't follow its manga story and only few short clip anime showing this unit. I do saw some of it manga story appear in the Dengeki hobby magazines but its seems the story is quite boring (no big scale battle and lots of talking).

As for the kit, I'm really don't understand why Bandai slot in the tactical arms which can transform into a "bow" while there are many other better options such as only offer the MG kit with its basic weapon, then the MG flightpack version comes later. Similar to the PG version that this MG version will get two gerbera straight Katana but no beam rifle, beam saber and shield. There are lot of spare parts which come from the MG astray blue frame second L but those part are insufficient to transform it into second L and a lot of spare part left after the completion. So, lets check the box art and the runners.

MG OO Raiser Review

Damn, i started to get use to what adult collectors are doing, piling up the back log and took few months to complete one own custom gunpla project. It almost 4 month after i customize my own MG Destiny and till now i don't even have any clue what to start. Getting in for the November competition and try to have some fun over there, I think this is not going to happen this year. So, lets focus on this review kit now.

What we have here is a MG OO raiser, man we have waited this long time and finally i get my hands on it but unfortunately its not mine and i still going to build the best out of it. It was part of my "ex-boss" project and this is the sixth MG gunpla that i build for him. There is another MG OO seven sword, MG Astray Red Frame Kai and MG Force Impulse, after that it will be the time for me to build my own project ( its great to enjoy this addiction without paying a single cent while i can save some money for the future project). I forgot when was this release but if i'm not remember wrong it released last year and few month later, the seven sword version came out too. The MG version was released later than the PG version and that was the time for RG take place in the market, i guess the designer sure headache about this which want it maintain the "not overly done" look, better and worth more than a normal RG while it won't exceed what we have from the PG, quite tough isn't it.  

Alright, some brief introduction of this MS. It was from the Double O gundam series season 2 which airing around 2008 and first appearance was on 2007 ending of the Double O gundam season 1 (only the upper torso and the head unit were show). I though this is it, the best gundam in the Double O series, nothing can be better than this but the ending of the series was, quite disappointed for me as such brilliant design MS will end up with it "soul" being separate back to its predecessor and the worse part is, although it did appear back in the " the Trailblazer" movie but it got destroy by some sort of alien call ELS and the OO Qanta was replacing it? I don't care, this is the best gundam in the Double O series no matter from which season or movie series of it. Instead of those "quantum brain wave power" or what ever special power of the pilot, the only thing make sense to me is machine is a machine, machine will not bring superpower (that is why i hate this MS sometime when it use the so called "burst" more where everyone get naked and able to talk to each other through again, "quantum brain wave"). I do admire that it is a MS that using twin drive system which sound like a twin cam engine that able to double up it power, with the O raiser attach on it will make it even more stronger (and of course it look better) but operating it seems a bit complicated since it need two pilot where the pilot of the O raiser need to support to maintain the stability of this twin drive system. Another thing that i like most about this MS is the weapon system. When the GN Sword 1 from the Exia, it was amazing, it feels like the old WWII Rifle with a knife in front of it. It can use as a melee weapon or it can shoot the enemy from the far side, as for this.... large sword that going to slice the pity Enact apart from Mr. Patric and transform into a small GN Beam Pistol to shoot the rest. And when it come to this MS, it carry 2 GN sword 2 instead of one, can be combine to become like a lance on what we have on the MG Infinite Justice, while it can become a high frequency "heat sword" it can also become beam swords and like it predecessor, it can transform into a rifle which something that can shoot the enemy down. The GN Sword 3 will be another nasty version of it as the sword is as large as the GN Sword 1 while it can create a very large beam sword that might even bigger than the bean from the Gundam Seed Meteor unit. Just the hand carry primary weapon is not impress you enough because the wing binder which is have a small cannon beneath it and also can become a shield like the Forbiden gundam, it also can generate a biggers beam "sword" that can slash down a "fotress". Two GN Beam saber at the back, that is the flying knife for Setsuna to cure his throwing weapon addiction on the battlefield. Enough for the MS and lets see what it have inside this kit.

NG 1/100 Akatsuki Review

I remember the first post for the Seven6398 was using NG 1/100 Akatsuki, I can't believe the first post about model kit in this Seven6398 ver.2 will be NG 1/100 Akatsuki. 

Although it's not pilot by main character or being the main character mobile suit but this still caught many attention from the audience i guess. It's the only gold plated kit in the Gundam Seed Destiny series even in gunpla. At the end of the day, the unit was pilot a man who also wear his mask during the combat really reminding Mr. Quattro as believe to be Char in its Hyaku shiki which also a gold plated mobile suit in Gundam Zeta series. The first appearance of this mobile suit was quite "deep", as it is the sword for the savior to protect Orb from burning again. Even a song that have the similar name with this mobile suit was played. The role created for this mobile suit and its pilot was quite great in my opinion. 

Back to the mobile suit itself, maybe i should let the information collected in Mahq explain it all:

Before his death in C.E. 71, Orb Union leader Uzumi Nara Athha commissions the construction of the ORB-01 Akatsuki to serve as the final defense of Orb, should the need arise. Developed in secret, the Akatsuki is hidden underneath the Orb mainland until C.E. 74. The Akatsuki's design is similar to the GAT-X105 Strike Gundam that Orb assisted the Earth Alliance in developing. Aside from visual similarities, the Akatsuki is capable of using several packs similar to the Strike Gundam's Striker packs. Perhaps the most unique feature of the Akatsuki is its "Yata-no-Kagami" anti-beam defensive reflection system, which is coated on the armor. Comprised of many tiny mirrors, the armor coating the Akatsuki allows it to reflect any beam energy fired at it. The armaments of the Akatsuki's main body include a pair of vulcan guns, a twin beam saber, a beam rifle and shield. When equipped with the "Owashi" sky pack, the Akatsuki can also use a pair of high-energy beam cannons. In addition, the "Owashi" pack can separate and function as a separate fighter. In space, the Akatsuki can equip the "Shiranui" pack, which is armed with a guided mobile beam turret system similar to ZAFT's DRAGOON (Disconnected Rapid Armament Group Overlook Operation Network) system. In addition to functioning as beam cannons, the units can be used to create a defensive shield. The Akatsuki is first used in by Cagalli Yula Athha to defend Orb from a ZAFT attack during Operation Fury. During the battle, the Akatsuki engages Shinn Asuka's ZGMF-X42S Destiny Gundam and receives minor damage. Soon after, the battleship Archangel heads to space, and Cagalli gives the Akatsuki to ace pilot Neo Roanoke (aka Mu La Flaga). In a battle between ZAFT and the Orb space fleet, Neo and Athrun Zala destroy the Requiem cannon that ZAFT captures from the Alliance. Soon after, the death of PLANT Supreme Council Chairman Gilbert Durandal and the destruction of the mobile space fortress Messiah mark the end of the war.  

Boxart, runners and manual

I think that explanation should be sufficient for this mobile suit. Personally, with its weapon system it can said that it might unbeatable or even as strong as Strike Freedom (which is my favorite mobile suit in Gundam Seed Destiny). A unit that have beam reflector to protect it from any beam attack and even a guided mobile beam turret system which can use to create a large "prism" as a energy shield, it can be said one of the safest mobile suit in the war if the pilot worry about getting shot by others.