From the second kit ever released for the Megami Device line of Kotobukiya’s mecha musume kits, Grapple Girl here comes from the Megami Device WISM Soldier Snipe/Grapple kit, which featured a Sniper Girl as well, but the kit being as it was, only had enough parts to construct a single complete figure, so a lot of spare parts were inevitable left over. This was the last time that Kotobukiya released a kit like this, and subsequent Megami Device kits would later be released as single girl figures with “armored” and “unarmored” body parts instead.

So I chose the cat girl this time around, and the only feature she came with were the feral Wild Hands, sold separately as a MSG add-on kit. No way was I gonna leave her without at least one significant weapon, I chose to equip the MSG Beastmaster Sword, which I think, is quite appropriate. I painted the entire kit in a tiger stripe pattern - starting with a yellow-orange base color, hand drawing the outlines of the stripes with a brown Gundam Marker, then handpainting the stripe patterns with Vallejo Model Color acrylics, and finishing the paintjob with a flat coat.

The result is my personalized jungle cat girl: the Terrestrial Interception-Geared Radical Environmental Shock Striker (T.I.G.R.E.S.S.). I’m considering giving her a beast to ride, maybe repainting an old HMM Zoids Saber Tiger I have in storage with a matching color scheme.