Bandai Ultimate Structure Set V2

My latest purchase was the Bandai Ultimate Structure Set V2. These are originally sold in Japan in those dispenser machines. Each piece comes in a round blue container. I was able to get this as a set so I got all the ones from this series.

The first thing to note is that they're small, more in scale with HG series or Bandai Shodo series figures. However, with creative camera angles, they still go along nicely with my S.H. Figuarts, Monsters and standard Bandai figures.

The sets in this are: 1 damaged building with a small truck, another damaged building with a construction excavator, a small white and blue building, a red and white striped smokestack, a regular building and a white fuel tank. The 2 damaged buildings come in 2 separate pieces that can be pegged together. You can also take apart the buildings to add some small lights to them if you wish.

As you can see, they make pretty good backdrops and/or diorama scenes with your kaiju figures. They go well along some of my Bandai Shodo and Godzilla pack of destruction buildings for a full cityscape. For being so small they're nicely detailed, too.

I definitely enjoy these and will use them for posing pictures with my various kaiju and tokusatsu figures, as well for cityscapes in stop motion shorts. The set cost me about $25 from Japanese ebay sellers. They also sell them individually, as well as selections from the first set. I may pick up some bridges from the first set to make a long bridge or so. Anyway, I like these, they're simple but cool.

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