The build starts with the head of the Phase I and then you build the body and the weapons before finally building the Phase II head so you’re only swapping heads.Īfter completing two heads the assembly of the body went quickly. They also have new icons that indicate you are not to cut certain areas off with your nippers. The manual follows up with what we saw with the A Wing, namely some areas you need to ‘Check’ which are indicated in English. I thought these lonely gray parts were kind of cute.Īdditional interesting little gimmick is the macro-binoculars. Runners look just like what we are used to seeing. Bandai, to their credit, did try to make it interesting by having both the Phase I and Phase II Clone Troopers in this kit. I’ve assembled the 1/12 First Order Stormtrooper and both the 1/12 Stormtrooper and Sandtrooper from the originals (need to get those up) so the idea of a Clone Trooper didn’t really excite me much. I was hoping for a 1/12 Darth Maul but instead for the first prequel kit we get the 1/12 Clone Trooper. Bandai having the rights to make models of anything from Star Wars meant that,sooner or later, we would see something from the prequels.