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Bandai Gundam SEED 1/100 LH-GAT-X103 Hail Buster Gundam

Gundam SEED 1/100 LH-GAT-X103 Hail Buster Gundam
Release Date: February 2017

Copied from the Buster, Hail Buster aims to outgun the former!
 
Note:
First released in August 2009.

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