Kit Review

Straight build + Stickers

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

HGBF Crossbone Gundam X1 Full Cloth Type.GBFT (1/6)

HGBF Crossbone Gundam X1 Full Cloth Type.GBFT (2/6)

HGBF Crossbone Gundam X1 Full Cloth Type.GBFT (3/6)

HGBF Crossbone Gundam X1 Full Cloth Type.GBFT (4/6)

HGBF Crossbone Gundam X1 Full Cloth Type.GBFT (5/6)

HGBF Crossbone Gundam X1 Full Cloth Type.GBFT (6/6)

HGBF Crossbone Gundam X1 Full Cloth Type.GBFT - Detail shots (1/4)

HGBF Crossbone Gundam X1 Full Cloth Type.GBFT - Detail shots (2/4)

Detail shots

This kit comes loaded with a massive arsenal of weapons and accessories.

The Full Cloth's signature weapons — the Peacock Smasher and Muramasa Blaster

The Core Fighter is reproduced just the same.

Only 2 leftover parts.

Displayed on a separate 1/144 stand.

HGBF Crossbone Gundam X1 Full Cloth Type.GBFT - Peacock Smasher action (1/3)

Peacock Smasher action

HGBF Crossbone Gundam X1 Full Cloth Type.GBFT - Muramasa Blaster action (1/3)

Muramasa Blaster action

HGBF Crossbone Gundam X1 Full Cloth Type.GBFT - The feature of detaching the skull heads from both shoulders and attaching th

The feature of detaching the skull heads from both shoulders and attaching them to the hands is also reproduced.

HGBF Crossbone Gundam X1 Full Cloth Type.GBFT - Action poses using the original Crossbone X1's weapons. (1/4)

HGBF Crossbone Gundam X1 Full Cloth Type.GBFT - Action poses using the original Crossbone X1's weapons. (2/4)

Action poses using the original Crossbone X1's weapons.

Together with the MG Crossbone X1 Full Cloth.

Together with the HGUC Crossbone X1.

Together with the HG Crossbone Gundam Maoh.

This kit is the Crossbone Gundam X1 Full Cloth Type.GBFT released as part of the Build Fighters HG lineup. It's technically a Build Fighters version, but the overall contents are identical to the original Crossbone Gundam X1 Full Cloth — the main difference being that the base white color is molded in an opaque, milky white with a gloss injection-style finish.

It's a shame there are no newly designed parts that really scream "Build Fighters," but the kit does offer freshly included Full Cloth parts in 1/144 scale that were never released before, so there's still something new to enjoy. I expected the gloss injection-style molding to make the plastic feel hard and stiff, but it's actually softer than I anticipated, which makes cleaning up gate marks surprisingly easy. It's probably not true high-hardness gloss injection material — more like they just replicated the look of it.

The newly added Full Cloth mantle is put together simply with a small number of parts, but a generous amount of sticker application does a solid job of capturing the intended color scheme. The Peacock Smasher loses its left-right extending function and is only provided in its fully spread-out form, but thanks to that, the proportions look decent and it holds its position well, so I'm pretty satisfied with it. The Muramasa Blaster has no color separation and no stickers, so it does look a bit bare, but it does come with a solid set of dedicated beam effect parts.

Since the base Crossbone Gundam body itself is a clean, well-made kit, it holds poses nicely and has good joint strength even with all the weapons hanging off it. The MG Full Cloth in particular was a kit where the sheer size and number of gimmicks made parts retention a real headache — but stepping down to HG scale simplifies the assembly and cuts the weight significantly, making it much more enjoyable to handle. That said, the mantle does get in the way a bit due to the design, and the shoulder sections of the cloak tend to pop off when posing... (though it's still way better than the MG situation)

The real significance of this kit is that the Full Cloth has finally been done in HG scale, following the normal X1. A standard white HGUC Crossbone X1 Full Cloth will probably show up eventually too, and given that it'd only differ in molded color with no changes to the kit's actual contents, that seems like a safe bet. Compared to the existing MG Full Cloth, this kit stands out for its impressive stability, and it's an easy recommendation not just for Build Fighters fans but for Gunpla enthusiasts in general. :-)

HGBF Crossbone Gundam X1 Full Cloth Type.GBFT | 2015.4 | ¥2,200

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.