Kit Review

Straight build + Stickers

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

HG Gundam Gusion Rebake - Detail shots (1/4)

HG Gundam Gusion Rebake - Detail shots (2/4)

Detail shots

The inner frame is almost identical to Barbatos.

Long Range Rifle

The inside of the shield has a joint part that can be fixed at various angles.

The shield can be mounted like a rear skirt, or attached to the arm in the normal way.

In addition to the normal head, an aiming mode head (left) is also included.

Left is the normal head, right is the aiming mode head.
Quite a lot of seals needed!

The sub-arms hidden inside the backpack can be pulled out.

Articulation is pretty good except for the hip area.

Aerial pose

HG Gundam Gusion Rebake - Shooting pose with the aiming mode head swapped in (1/3)

Shooting pose with the aiming mode head swapped in

HG Gundam Gusion Rebake - All sub-arms fully deployed (1/4)

HG Gundam Gusion Rebake - All sub-arms fully deployed (2/4)

All sub-arms fully deployed

Together with HG Gundam Gusion.

Together with HG Barbatos.

Gundam Gusion Rebake — the unit that Tekkadan rebuilt by overhauling Gundam Gusion — has been released as an HG kit. The look is drastically different from the chubby, all-defense Gundam Gusion, and you might wonder if the gap is just too wide, but either way it's a unit reassembled using the Gundam Barbatos frame.

This kit uses a shared frame runner under the new name "Gundam Frame 3." Just like frames 1 and 2, it honestly feels like the Gundam Barbatos frame parts have just been rearranged rather than being a newly shaped frame. If that's all they're doing, it's a bit puzzling why they keep putting out runners with new shared frame names instead of just reusing the same frame runner as-is. I suppose that'll only become clear as more IBO HG kits get released. ^^;

Since it's fundamentally based on the Barbatos frame, the build feel and joint/articulation characteristics are very similar to the HG Barbatos. That said, the large backpack, rear skirt, bigger rifle, and some of the armor pieces do make the joints feel a little less sturdy. It's not so much that they're loose — it's more that getting a clean, precise pose is tricky. Ironically, it's actually easier to throw it into an action pose than to stand it up neatly. ^^;

As for special gimmicks, sub-arms are built into the large, round backpack, and pulling them out gives you a four-armed configuration. You also get a long-barreled Long Range Rifle along with a separate aiming mode head that swaps with the standard one. And the big, beefy shield — which almost feels like a leftover trace of Gundam Gusion — can be mounted on the rear skirt like a butt-pack or attached to the arm.

In the end, true to the frame-based HG series, this is a kit that builds up with a feel very similar to the HG Barbatos since they share the same frame. But the exterior design is completely different, and the special gimmicks — the sub-arms, aiming mode head, and oversized shield — give it a distinctly unique flavor. Either way, it definitely looks a lot more like a proper Gundam than Gundam Gusion ever did. :-)

HG Gundam Gusion Rebake | 2016.1 | ¥1,400

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.