MG Crossbone Full Cloth Part 20

Bloody cut & paste II
Back to MG Crossbone Gundam Full Cloth, and a new round of introduction of Gundam's body components.

As mentioned in the last posting about the final assembly of this kit, I lost the images taken when I was actually assembling the kit, so like that previous posting, I'm actually taking apart the completed model to review on the various components. Not too useful in showing the various parts designed for the various components, but it does allow the showing of the parts' gimmicks and features.

[Legs]



Front and rear views


Lines painted using a normal marker at the edge of the armors work out well as panel lines.


Articulation, pretty much the same as MG Gundam F91.


The movement of the ankle could be much wider if not limited by the ankle guard.


The twin spikes behind the ankle guard are movable.


Gold and silver hydraulic pipes.


Heat dagger handles are stored behind the calf.


Using the handles from behind the calf, the heat dagger can be used as a hand held weapon. It's quite versatile for action pose for its lightweight, but can be hard to put on and adjust because of the handle guard.


The blade part of the heat dagger can also be attached to the bottom of the feet.



Lower body completed


Can kneel pretty well, but ...


... with it requires one of the front skirt armors to be flipped high up. ^^;
Not possible when the upper body comes in.
[Shoulder armor]


Front and rear view can be a bit confusing to differentiate at first glance. ^^;


The tab on top and the armor can be lifted.


Some mechanical details can be seen from the top view.
Those 2 gray spots are pretty ugly I know. What I did was painted Gundam Marker Gray over the white spot created by the cut mark at the very beginning when I was working on the kit. I had a dark gray normal marker at that time, which would be a way better substitute for Gundam Marker Gray I used. I'm just to used to Gundam Marker for such task.

[Body]


For the skull emblem on the chest, I picked the supposedly unused Ver. Ka design, as it's more intriguing in looks, and somewhat more sinister-looking as well with that smirk.



Views from various angles.


Chest hatch can be opened.
[Head]


Again, I picked the Ver. Ka type skull emblem for the forehead.


Front and rear views


Mask lifted.


Putting all components together.



MG Crossbone Gundam completed. ^^


The pilot cockpit is pretty impressive to me. After docking with the body. The chest hatch opens, but there's enough room for the Core Fighter's cockpit hatch to be opened as well.


All the leftover parts from the kit.


There are 2 "buttons" that are supposed to be inserted on the side of the chest hatch. The parts (supposedly unused ones) are included but I didn't actually put them on so that it would be a lot easier when the cloth armors are up next.
I like the very simplistic feel of the appearance. No excessive details on the armors (actually the inner frame is pretty much the same story too. ^^) makes the overall design is very clean, even though there are quite a few different colors used on the various parts of the kit. I think even without the cloth armor and its various unique weapons, this is already a very good looking model. ^^

More images of this completed kit in the next posting.