SD Gundam Force Musha Gundam Bakunetsumaru

Release 2004.1

Price ¥300

BANDAI BANDAI Japan product info

Runners

Parts diagram

SD Musha Gundam Bakunetsumaru - Manual (1/3)

Manual

Straight build + Stickers

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Front view of straight build before stickers

SD Musha Gundam Bakunetsumaru - After applying seals (1/2)

SD Musha Gundam Bakunetsumaru - After applying seals (2/2)

After applying stickers

Hollow undersides on the inner thighs and feet

SD Musha Gundam Bakunetsumaru - Cut out the 12 images along the right edge of the manual pages, stack them in order, and stap

Cut out the 12 images along the right edge of the manual pages, stack them in order, and staple them together —
then flip through them with your thumb for a fun flipbook animation effect!

Super basic articulation — arms rotate and legs move just a little

Action pose

Together with SD Captain Gundam & Zapper Zaku.

<Common notes for the SD Gundam Force series> --------------------------------------------
SD Gundam Force is an anime that aired in 2004, and since it was aimed at younger kids, the model kit lineup was also released in a simple 300-yen format.

Overall, the part count is kept to a minimum, and color separation is handled with a basic 3-color molded color scheme plus a few seals. It's quick and easy to build, but the straight build visuals are relatively underwhelming. The hollow undersides are limited to the feet and inner thighs, which is less than you might expect, but most of the kits have a fixed neck with only the shoulders and feet rotating — pretty one-dimensional articulation. Weapons are also kept minimal at just one or two, and there are no extra accessories to speak of.

As a bonus, if you cut the right corner of the manual into 12 strips and stack them, you can flip through them with your finger for a flipbook animation effect — just like those old comic strips that used to come inside gum packs!
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This is SD Musha Gundam Bakunetsumaru, released as kit No. 3 in the SD Gundam Force lineup. It comes together simply with just 12 parts and has a decent sense of volume, though the overall color scheme does feel a bit plain — which is hard to avoid. It comes with two swords as weapons.

Given the nature of this lineup, there's not a whole lot to say about this kit — it's really just something you can sit down and enjoy building quickly and easily. :-)

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.