The Jesta was developed as an escort unit for the Unicorn Gundam to create circumstances for it to fulfill its anti-newtype purpose and to protect it after its five minute Destroy Mode limit. It is developed from the mint green Jegan, going back to looking more like an upscaled GM.
Aesthetics:
The theme is pretty obvious, it's meant to look like a spec-ops tactical mobile suit that operates in the dark, hence its dark colors, grenades, servo-arm mounted shield and tacti-cool beam rifle with a red dot sight, silencer, front grip and straight magazine.
There are an absolute TON of nub marks and while most of them are hidden under other panels, some of them are quite obvious and they mark the dark plastics easily.
The kit comes with a foil sticker for the head camera, a dry-transfer decal sheet and a sticker decal sheet that I recommend you don't use, since the borders show up clearly on the dark plastic - No color correction stickers.
Mechanics:
This is a totally original model kit that uses a handful of polycaps, which means its limbs and inner frame are totally unique to it, unlike something like the various MG GMs that are amalgamations of kits since 2008.
Unfortunately it is unstable on its feet, as the entire model rests on polycaps inside of its toes, so it wobbles just from blowing on it. That being said, the articulation range is pretty good, with the head being a bit limited, while the ankles have a large range of movement.
The legs can both drop down at the hip and also extend from the calf which makes it significantly taller, but the purpose is to give it a more dynamic range of movement and knee bends.
It has a chest cavity for an LED (NOT included) and light-piping through the neck and out of its visor and head cameras. Left arm has a beam saber slot and right arm has a tray for three extra magazines.
Equipment:
1 Beam rifle with detachable magazine and 3 extra magazines (4 total) - Rifle is storable on the back of the waist
1 Beam Saber Hilt - stored on left forearm
2 Pink Beam Saber Beam Effects
1 Servo-arm mounted Shield
2 fully articulated Hands - Nu Gundam style hands with individually articulated fingers and fingerjoints, no other hands.
1 1/100 pilot mini-fig
Conclusion:
It's okay. It can pose well, but it doesn't feel natural, you're always adjusting for the spongy and wobbly feet and the rifle-butt gets in the way of proper gun poses.
Visually it's a little LEGO-like, full of edges and angles with a bobble head, versus the much rounder and smoother GMs and Jegan. It's cool, but in a kid's idea of cool. Anyway, considering it's a mobile suit from the Unicorn show, it's surprisingly solid, whereas the other kits from the same range often have something wrong with them.
