Guniki Musha Crossbone Gundam: Runners Review

Hi there, now that you've seen the instruction manual of the Guniki Musha Crossbone Gundam previously, think it's time to see the runners right?

Note: I mainly snapped photos of the Musha Crossbone X1 while for X2, i only snapped some photos of the different runners.

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Runner A [Left] & Runner E1 [Right; and exclusively for X1 only]

Runner B [If you noticed from the instruction manual showing the runners + numbers, in the X1 box I got, no.13 and 14 is not present in it..strange...]

Runner C0

Runner C1 [exclusively for X1 only]

Runner C3 [this particular runner seems like is for assembling the Crossbone X3]

Runner D; Runner F[X1's is white while X2's is navy blue & it's PVC i guess since it is soft] & Runner S1 [Polycaps]

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Some close up shots of the runners to see the details.

The rubber hand.

The face plate.

Interchangeable eye.

Front skirt armor.

Side binder inner armor.

Head crest.

Upper body.

Forearm guard [which are actually the beam marker for the Crossbone Gundam] and the katana.

Shield for X1 only.

Chest emblem details which I believe is supposed the Crossbone Vanguard emblem, but..doesn't really look like it. ^^;

Again, chest emblem & shoulder armor part.

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We'll be looking at Musha Crossbone Gundam X2's runners now.

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Runner B: [Notice part no.13 & 14 is present in both runners, while in X1, these 2 parts are not present in the runner]

Runner C2 [Exclusive for X2 only]

Overall view of the runners

Close up shot of the interchangeable eyes. Should be clearer here on the details. :)

Runner B [the missing part as I mentioned from X1's runner B; odd enough, these 2 parts came in X2's box, looking as if it was chipped from the original white coloured Runner B for X1.]

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Now, as for the..stickers. Not foil stickers it seems..

Musha Crossbone Gundam X1's

Musha Crossbone Gundam X2's

The bad news: You have to cut the stickers out individually out to paste them.. Though I'd rather colour it than use the stickers but I have to say they are nice and the surface is not rough like those seen in pirated/3rd part kits

The back side of the sticker there is this "TRADEMARK PAPER" naming there..Any idea what is it? a type of paper..?

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And now, for the box.

Here, I'll do a size comparison with the SDX Superior Dragon.

Top view

Side view [not sure what's the deal with the SD Gundam BB Senshi logo.. ^^;;]

Front view

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The real box. The other box is actually thick cardboard to protect the actual box that stores the runners and everything else.

The actual box size front view comparison with the SDX Superior Dragon.

Top View

 Other angles

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Thoughts:

1. The runners & the parts seems pretty clean, with some good amount of details.

2. Remember I mentioned that Runner B from X1's kit is missing part no.13 & 14? I found out that one buyer bought the Guniki Musha Crossbone Gundam X2 and has the extra Runner B in the X2's kit.

The only possible reason is that I could figure out why mine and this fellow buyer's 2 Musha Crossbone Gundams are having different runner Bs is the QC when packing the items all together. Maybe for mine they just cut them off from a white coloured runner with part no.13 & no.14 and chuck it into the X2's box to pack.

Below are images from this fellow user and do check out his reviews too as they are painted!

Another buyer's X2 runners [with Runner B being the extra with part no.13 & no.14]

Same buyer's X1 runners [notice his Runner Bs also do not have part no.13 & no.14]

3. As you can see, there are very little coloured separated parts [only the silver and gold colours cought my attention] as compared to MC Model's SD line, the EX-S Gundoom and its variant, the Deep Striker Gundoom, but for an SD, there are good part separations. So, paint this kit and it'll look awesome.

4. Like the SDX line, Guniki's SD Musha Crossbone Gundams have interchangeable eyes, which I personally think is quiet good so the user could change the eyes to his/her liking, rather than using foil stickers with 3 different variants of eye styles and getting to choose only 1 style in the end..

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I will assemble the X1 first, just a straight build to see how the joints and everything are like.

Thanks for looking through and enjoy. :)

Guniki Musha Crossbone Gundam: Instruction Manual Review

Hello again, now, we'll be looking through this new Taiwan base brand, Guniki.

And their products, the Musha Crossbone Gundam X1 & X2.

This round, we'll be looking at the assembling manual of the Guniki Musha Crossbone Gundams.

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Front Page of the manual:

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Page 4

Back Page of the manual:

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3 [Please note that the display stand as shown in the image there is not provided.]

 Page4 [Not sure why they compared it with the SDX Knight Gundam]

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1. The manual at first look, I thought they, Guniki, were showcasing very nice sketches and details of the Crossbone Gundams, but upon closer inspection, it is actually the instructions for assembling the Musha Crossbones. 

2. The tiny words stating the runner's alphabet/number along with the number on the runner.

3. There are parts where they show this icon which looks like a "recycling" icon. They actually mean that, you could assemble either parts or perhaps swap it around to your liking.

4. They actually cover the Crossbone Gundam X1, X2, X2 Kai, & X3.

The difference: 

- X1 and X3 is largely identical except for the forearm armor plates, the front and back skirt armor, & the shoulder binder.

- X2, of course is black, purple-ish in colour; has 2 different runners [in X2's case, it will be runner C2 & E2 instead of C1 & E1]

- In the form of X2 Kai, the back binders are replaced with huge blades & the head crest is a huge skull.

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Runners will be up next. Stay tuned. :)

The reason why I stopped buying pirated/bootleg gunplas from 2004-2011

Hi there, it's been awhile since my last post & update about the STK Barad's Command Wolf in July.. Sorry about not being able to update frequently.

So, for today, I'll be writing about the reason why I stopped purchasing pirated/bootleg gunplas from year 2004 - August 2011.

My very "last" piece of gunpla I got in 2004 as a birthday gift, was the MG Full Armor ZZ Gundam. I mean, a MG, Master Grade, at rm40. Where in the heck, could you get that even today?

With that said, let's see the photos. You could also see the quality of the product here.

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Front View

Back View

Head Shot: You could see some detail lost and teh super glue mark there..

Chest Armor Missile Rack

Had to use super glue to make sure the missiles stay where it is as they either pop out or can't fit in properly

Body without the arm: You could see the quality of the plastic and also nurb marks

Shoulder Armor

Arm

Arm Joint: Notice the joints don't really fit in well..

Forearm: Again, plastic quality and parts not fitting in properly

Double Beam Rifle

Pic 1: Plastic quality

 Pic 2: Fitting problem

Pic 3 & 4: Plastic quality, fitting problems & lots of super glue used.

Leg: Thruster

Side Armor and Thruster Unit: Details

Backpack

Pic 1: Plastic Quality

Pic 2: Plastic Quality + stress marks + nurb makrs

Pic 3: Missile rack, plastic quality & super glue..

Pic 4: Close up..

Pic 1: Close up on main thrusters.

Random Shot

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That's about it for the MG Full Armor ZZ Gun..dam..?

I don't know which brand is this one since I don't know where I placed the box or perhaps I have collapsed it ..Since the box is quite big.

While in the process of assembling this back in 2004, like i mentioned, super glue is needed and..I also hammered and even stepped on the parts to make them fit. Yes, hammered & stepped on it.

Despite going through all those, there were no broken parts or parts that have snapped, everything stayed as it is actually. The huge mega beam cannon was hell to build so I didn't assemble it and just placed this guy with the missile rack instead.

Plastic quality wise, it is thick, and as you can see from the photos above, has some quality problems like the bubble spots or very rough surface.

Plane-lining this one doesn't work that well as it is difficult to rub the ink off.

And yes, this, was my "last" pirated/china bootleg gunpla I had in 2004. Horrible experience with it..

As of now, I'm looking into pirated / 3rd party products as they have improved alot and there are some new companies merging every now and then.

Also, if anyone knows what brand is this from, do let me know, comment on it or..anything. So I could update the tag on it.

I'll call it a day and hope everyone stay tune to more reviews. Thanks for reading and hoped you've enjoyed it. :)