Kit Review

Straight build + Stickers

Top / Bottom view

Side view

The head and tail sections move flexibly thanks to their multi-joint construction.

HGBF Ballden Arm Arms - Nearly every connection point on both sides is a movable joint, so you can twist and rotate it in jus

Nearly every connection point on both sides is a movable joint,
so you can twist and rotate it in just about any direction.

HGBF Ballden Arm Arms - You can disassemble and reassemble various parts from the flight form to transform it into backpack f

You can disassemble and reassemble various parts from the flight form to transform it into backpack form.

Joints repositioned into backpack form

HGBF Ballden Arm Arms - There are a ton of leftover joint-related parts ;; Depending on your taste, there's plenty of ways to

There are a ton of leftover joint-related parts ;;
Depending on your taste, there's plenty of ways to put them to use.

Mounted on the Petit'gguy Burning Red

Together with the HGBF Crossbone Gundam Maoh.

Mounted on the HGUC Dom.

The 22nd Build Custom kit is here — the Ballden Arm Arms, a multi-function weapon pack. It's a similar concept to the previously released Powered Arms Powereder, being an accessory kit that has its own flight form and can transform into a backpack to be mounted on other MS.

The biggest feature of the Ballden Arm Arms is that it's a multi-joint unit where every fixed section is actually a movable one. It's built by stringing together a series of small movable parts one after another, resulting in over 30 articulation points. Thanks to that, it can freely switch between a compact flight form and a fully spread-out backpack form. And thankfully, the joints hold their position pretty well, so once you get a pose set, it stays put.

That said, with so many joint points to deal with, getting everything balanced into a good pose means fiddling with a whole bunch of spots for quite a while — which can be a bit of a hassle. And with so much freedom in how it can be configured, it actually makes it harder to decide which shape looks best. On top of that, a fair number of joint parts end up as leftover parts, though you could always find creative uses for them depending on your preferences.

Either way, it's a fun accessory kit to mess around with alongside your HG kits, and if you're a Build Fighters fan, it's definitely worth picking up. :-)

HGBF Ballden Arm Arms | 2015.5 | ¥800

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.