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First of all, it is too old. Compared to later Perfect Grades designed more recently where Bandai really upped their game in design, engineering complexity and detail, this kit no longer lives up to the modern Perfect Grade standard. It's more of just a very large oversized High Grade that is Perfect Grade in size only. That was the Perfect Grade standard in the early 2000s when it first was released, but not anymore in the 2020s. Gunpla technology has come a long way and this does not keep up. Second, it could really use a stand. It does not come with one like the new Perfect Grade models do. And the wings are so top heavy that it falls over a lot and is impossible to pose. I had to go buy a third party stand in the 1/60 scale, which was not designed to mount this model that even with the stand I in the end had to resort to tying a string around its waste hold it up. The best I could ever do with this kit was make it stand up straight. But action poses, especially for photographing it for this site, was always out of question. It cannot maintain a pose at all. It's just pretty and cool to look at. And third, the circuitry for the LED is impossible to configure. I wound up having to cheat and reconfigure it using my own wires and parts from Evan Designs just to compensate for the kit's poor design, which in the end resulted in me having to super glue the battery box shut just to get it tight enough for the mattery to connect to the registry. Which means this is one time use only. Soon as my battery burns out, that's it, I wont be able to replace it. I know one of the perks and joys of Perfect Grades is the opportunity to get to (with Bandai's guidance) perform you own electrical work. Which the implementation in the Perfect Grade Strike worked flawlessly. But the electrical design for and its parts in the Perfect Grade Zero is just flawed that doesn't even complete the circuit. But despite its lack in standards, it is still a cool kit that looks great and I am still glad I built it and can add it to my collection.

Cool Mobile Suit. Only downside the backpack/jet plane is kind of janky and doesn't always fit well and the flight mode is kind of awkward but other than that great suit.

I love that there are still new installments being made in the Seed universe. This was a really cool new model of Gundam. Gotta admit the only defect is the feet just don't seem stable enough to carry the full weight of the rest of the suit. Like the thing is walking on high heels for Pete's sake. But luckily it comes with its own display stand so that problem is easily overcome. And besides, who doesn't like a little diversity in their gundam designs. But besides that one little engineering flaw, the whole Gundam just looks wicked cool. And you can totally make out traces of the Strike DNA embedded in the suit. Oh and the swords and beam shields, super awesome!!!

Okay so the new Gundam Virtue and Nadlee kit is just wicked cool and both modes look great. My biggest fear was that once I put the extra Virtue armor on top of Nadlee it would be too difficult to take it off without breaking it. Like I sort of imagined tiny little fragile hooks everywhere making Virtue mode permanent. But that was not the case. The engineers designed this kit so well that Virtue’s armor just slides on and off with total ease. This is definitely the best new MG kit in quite a while.

Really fun build. An awesome SD adaptation of my favorite suit from OO. It's honestly just darn cute.

It did not come with its own LED. You have to provide both your own LED and own battery. The LED it fits though is the same round model as all the other MG Gundam-OO kits.