Kit Review

Straight build + Stickers

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Like recent SD kits, you can rotate the eye section 180 degrees to give it a smiling expression.

Articulation is, as expected, pretty much limited to just a slight bend at the elbows..

Starting off poses with that smiling face~

SDBF Winning Gundam - Rifle shooting pose (1/2)

SDBF Winning Gundam - Rifle shooting pose (2/2)

Rifle firing pose

Buzz Saw attack pose — the one mounted under the radome shield

You can also attach the head antenna on top of the rifle to turn it into a beam bowgun.

You can remove the head and deploy the cockpit and wings.

Just the head alone can be configured into a core fighter.

To transform into the core booster, you first disassemble the body like so..

SDBF Winning Gundam - Lower the nose on top of the head, rotate the lower body 180 degrees, then plug the wings and head ante

Lower the nose on top of the head, rotate the lower body 180 degrees, then plug the wings and head antenna back into the rear.

Next, combine the arms and backpack and attach them under the wings..

Mount the shield and rifle on the underside of the body and the transformation is complete.

Transformed into the core booster.

You can remove the center section of the rear skirt from the body and attach it to the side.

SDBF Winning Gundam - Add a ball joint gimmick to the lower body with the legs removed, and it can be attached to the arm of

Add a ball joint gimmick to the lower body with the legs removed, and it can be attached to the arm of the HG Build Burning Gundam.

SDBF Winning Gundam - Attached to the HG Build Burning Gundam. As the Winning Knuckle weapon, it takes on the shape of a gian

Attached to the HG Build Burning Gundam.
As the Winning Knuckle weapon, it takes on the shape of a giant fist.

Next, attach the wings and head antenna to the core fighter made from the head..

SDBF Winning Gundam - Line up the arms, backpack, and legs in a row and slot them under the wings, and the remaining parts ca

Line up the arms, backpack, and legs in a row and slot them under the wings,
and the remaining parts can be combined like this.

SDBF Winning Gundam - A combined form using the head, limbs, and backpack — everything except the main body. (The manual does

A combined form using the head, limbs, and backpack — everything except the main body.
(The manual doesn't give this form any particular name ^^;)

And using just the head and torso, you can also put together the form shown above.

SDBF Winning Gundam - You can also combine the legs and backpack parts onto the HG Lightning Gundam's rifle to create the Win

You can also combine the legs and backpack parts onto the HG Lightning Gundam's rifle to create the Winning Launcher.

HG Lightning Gundam + Winning Launcher in action

You can also combine the parts in the way shown above to create your own original weapon.

Original weapon combined with the HG Lightning Gundam.

This kit is the SD Winning Gundam released as part of the Build Fighters series. In terms of construction and form it's a full-on SD kit, but it doesn't belong to the BB Senshi lineup — instead it's categorized alongside the Build Fighters HG lineup. In other words, it doesn't follow BB Senshi numbering; it goes by the somewhat awkward "BFSD" label and uses the same numbering as the BFHG series.

You might wonder why they made it so confusing, but since this mobile suit appears in the Build Fighters anime in SD form from the very start — rather than as a normal MS — it seems like they had no choice but to throw it in with the original lineup.

Anyway, it's an SD kit, but true to the Build Fighters lineup, it comes with a wide variety of ways to use it.

1. Remove just the head section Core Fightercan be configured as
2. Disassemble/reassemble the body Core Boostercan be configured as
3. Reconfigure just the torso Winning Knucklecan be configured as
4. Can be configured into a flight form without the torso
5. Using the legs and backpack Winning Launchercan be configured as
6. Can be configured as an original weapon by adding the arms to the Winning Launcher
7. Can be configured into another flight form using the parts minus the Winning Launcher

As shown above, you can mix and match the parts like LEGO to put together over 7 different variations — it's truly an SD kit that stays faithful to the Build Fighters concept of being fun to play around with.

All in all, it's a standard SD-level kit in terms of quality, but it's got some real value as a kit that adds the variety unique to Build Fighters on top of that. It's definitely an interesting one worth recommending to anyone who already owns other Build Fighters HG kits. :-)

SDBF Winning Gundam | 2014.12 | ¥1,000

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.