Kit Review

Straight build

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Head section

The torso has painted details, which takes care of a good chunk of the color separation.

D Style ARX-7 Arbalest - By swapping out the cheek parts on either side of the mouth, you can also recreate the pose with the

By swapping out the cheek parts on either side of the mouth, you can also recreate the pose with the anti-tank dagger clenched in its teeth.

There's a hole in the rear end..

Weapons can be equipped.

Articulation.
The arms bend about 90 degrees, but the legs are solid pieces as expected.

D Style ARX-7 Arbalest - Shotgun pose (1/3)

Shotgun pose

The back of the shotgun is... full of holes;

Anti-tank dagger action

Close-range weapons, mono-molecular cutter + anti-tank dagger action

By swapping out the parts on top of the shoulders, the open duct configuration is also recreated.

You can pull the connecting pin between the upper and lower body toward the back to get a bend, but...

Thanks to that, you can recreate a prone pose like this.

Crouching~

Together with the previous D-Style Ingram Reactive Armor.

D Style ARX-7 Arbalest - Together with the Aoshima Guren Mk-II — wait, the Aoshima Gauron — the Aoshima Grungust — the Aoshim

Together with the Aoshima Guren Mk-II — wait, the Aoshima Gauron — the Aoshima Grungust — the Aoshima Guncannon — the Aoshima Gerbera — the Aoshima Gunzback from the same Full Metal Panic series.

The ARX-7 Arbalest has arrived in D-Style from Full Metal Panic. Aoshima has released the Guncannon — the Gunzback in several versions before, but in D-Style, the Arbalest came out first.

First off, true to D-Style form, it pulls off a pretty impressive proportion with a minimal parts count, and just like previous releases, a straight build already gets you a decent level of color representation thanks to some well-placed painted details and smart parts separation. The limitations are also similar — some of the weapons have hollow backs, and the legs are solid pieces so articulation has its limits — but overall, it comes together as a nicely solid-looking kit.

As for weapons, you get a shotgun and two knives in different sizes (anti-tank dagger and mono-molecular cutter), and both the shotgun and mono-molecular cutter can be mounted on the rear end along with their sheaths. On top of that, the Arbalest's signature anti-tank dagger-in-the-mouth pose is also recreated via parts swapping, so despite being a small kit, the overall package and level of recreation feels like more than you'd expect.

It's obviously a must-have for Full Metal Panic fans, but it also seems like a solid, easygoing D-Style kit that anyone who just likes the design can have a good time building. :-)

D Style ARX-7 Arbalest | 2011. 12 | ¥1,800

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.