rico soul: Strange Work is the same brand as Nillson, which made a bunch of 1/60 scale Astray gundams. They also made the 1/60 scale Frosty Cat model kit which was essentially a Byakko Ryujinmaru.

This 1/60 scale model kit is called Monument, but obviously it's the Tallgeese from Gundam Wing.

Height: 30cm
Materials: ABS
Includes display base

If you look at the design, it definitely resembles they previous Frosty Cat kit aesthetically. However, the frame is fully redesigned from the ground up, with a focus on joint strength and articulation. They specifically wanted to design the kit for stability and so the backpack and shoulder equipment are redesigned to be better balanced. In other words, they made them slightly smaller so the kit would be less top and back heavy.

Aesthetically, I kind of prefer the original Bandai MG/RG Tallgeese designs with the big mechanical Dober Gun and the giant thrusters, but this still definitely has some of that goose charm, even if it does feel a bit too streamlined.

The physical photos are from an initial test print and are only for reference. The colors are not fully finalized yet. The TV Tallgeese colors looks good to me so far.

Currently, preorder price for this is in China 385 RMB without shipping, 435 RMB shipping included in China.
That should put it around 100 USD here, maybe 120 if the box is large. To give you an idea, it's pretty much the same price as the IN ERA+ Aurora but 1:60 scale with no metal frame.

More official news should come after Chinse new years but currently, people are estimating it to be available around May 2025

rico soul: I have to say it's good to see Gundamit put up a reasonable price for this Sky Defender.

$119 for shipping by sea for this massive box is pretty within reasonable ranges for this $55 msrp kit.
I'm glad gundamit isn't trying to take advantage of their international customers with this one and passing the value that Einta offered with the low price on to us rather than artificially gouging the price like on some other popular model kits.

For people that may be curious about how this compared to the Hi-Nu ver ka, we actually have some review images from China that shows just that lol. We can see that despite the claimed 1/72 scale on this, it is actually sort of the same size as the 1/100 scale Hi-Nu ver ka.

The Hi-Nu being a kind of shorter stockier body proportions and the sky defender really stretching the overall height. But the head is the same size and the Hi-Nu head doesn't look out of place at all on the sky defender.