The Provedel is the Earth Alliance exo-mech, aka 'baby carrier' that can be piloted by another mech, or act on its own in two other modes. The model is about 19,5cm tall on straight legs, or just over 20 if you extend the midsection. 1:1 it would be nearly 29 meters tall.
Despite being a large kit, the parts are simple and somewhat comparable to a regular 30MM kit - It's certainly not a Master Grade in any other way than size.
"Provedel" is an Italian surname, which comes from the Latin word probatum and means "proven", in the sense that it's been tested and has proven itself.
Aesthetics:
The color scheme matches the Alto Flight Type (Navy), with primarily navy blue plastic, grey frame and clear green (UV reactive).
The primary mode shares a similar head shape as the standard Alto, with a clear visor framed by armor, albeit scaled up and elongated.
It would be fair to say that it is a highly aggressive design with bestial traits, as evidenced by its mouth, claws, clawed feet, digitigrade legs (reverse legs - kind of) and clawed tail.
The mouth doesn't look convincing, but it does have connection points, giving you options for improvement.
The "ride-on mode" has a front cover placed in front of the head and the seat extended, while the REX mode has the torso turned and the seat head attached to the now-front-facing back, which is meant to look like a hunched T-rex head.
The kit comes with a large decal sticker sheet, that also includes numbers and various rectangles (for generic accents) in both yellow and white. However, since the plastic is primarily navy blue, the sticker borders are very visible, so I recommend finding alternative waterslide decals.
Mechanics/compatibility:
Overall articulation is simple, but good, with the main limb joints being plastic-on-plastic pegs (no loose knees here).
All the modes are parts-forming, you don't seamlessly go from form to form and the rex form in particular requires the 'seat head' to be moved from the front to the back (which then is turned to face forwards).
The tail has five segments + the claw at the end of it, but there is a sixth segment, that you need an additional round polycap for. These are fairly common to have in excess from other 30MM kits, so you can make it one step longer quite easily.
While the tail and hands use polycaps, all other joints are plastic-on-plastic.
There are two sets of hands - Open and holding hands. The former have an opposite claw on a polycap ball joint and the latter are sandwich style hands, however they're so big that you can't fit most things into them, but any handle that can be slid into a regular hand, can also be slid into these giant claw hands. Handles with guards on them, even big ones, will not fit into the fists.
You can fit most 1/144 style kits into the seat, provided they're around the Alto, Gundam or 30MS girl height, while something like a 30MF Silhouette is a tad too big. They sit on a peg (removable), hold onto handles and place their feet on foot pegs (all of which is optional). There's also a twin peg backpack with covered wires that you can plug into the Provedel, wherever you want.
There are a lot of 3mm hard points dotted onto most of the kit, as well as a few C-clip points, so you have plenty of opportunity to decorate and change it.
There's no real limb compatibility, due to the kit's peg sizes, but there are options to rearrange things on it and take advantage of other connection points to redefine its silhouette.
It's not truly modular, but you can remove the "crotch head" and the tail entirely, while also replacing the hands, if you have alternatives on 3mm pegs (such as the white large arm/hands option kit).
Equipment:
1 large Beam Cannon - Barrel is on a standard tab and can attach to the REX mouth
2 pairs of Hands - Open + holding hands
1 Head Cover - For the REX and Ride-On modes
1 Backpack adapter for a rider on twin pegs, with cabling (2 wires + nylon tubes)
2 Handles and Foot Pegs - Optional, they slot into 3mm hard points
1 Extra Tail Segment - As noted above
17 various 3mm hard point options - 8 of these are for filling/hiding the holes with an additional 4 for adding decorative anchor points and the rest are peg-to-hole and peg-to-peg connectors
Conclusion:
The Provedel is very versatile and great for conversions.
Looks much more impressive in real life and is comparable to the MG Geara Doga in bulk.
