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I got the Gundam calibarn!
Here are my thoughts on it; Finally, I'm making a Gundam review. Although this isn't even close to the oldest one I've been meaning to do, I'm doing it first anyway because I simply LOVE this kit; Please note that the open hand parts I use in this review are borrowed from the Mirasoul flight unit I got for the Gundam aerial. I'm thinking of getting another just for this; I've been pretty excited to get this kit, but I just kept forgetting until now, and after having built it and spent 4 hours panel-lining it... I can confidently say my excitement was justified! As you can expect from something that's almost completely white, it is a little plain before you panel-line it, but even then it still looks REALLY good. I'll put a comparison with pre and post panel-lining in comments. Anyway, articulation is pretty good just like the aerial and aerial rebuild which this is a little similar to, but the broom rifle as I'm nicknaming it can be a little inconvenient at times. My method for difficult poses with the broom rifle is to disconnect the little arm that attaches it to the backpack, then put it into position, then mess with the arm until it reconnects and looks right. Inconvenience aside, there's also an extra feature with this that kinda goes with the feet. The back of the broom rifle can open up to act as a MASSIVE booster, and if you point the toes and line up some grey parts on the back with them it enters the "high mobility" mode, which I imagine is pretty self explanatory. With both of these you can achieve some pretty interesting poses; One of the only things that disappointed me about this is the shield. It uses the EXACT same shield as the aerial rebuild, so it has ALL of the same slot connection points. Because of this you're limited to having it face the same way the arm is pointing ALL the time, unlike the original aerial who's shield can rotate. It may not seem like a big deal but sometimes it can vastly improve any guarding poses you try to make; I got the wfm weapon stands after I put the aerial rebuild in storage, and I honestly feel lucky that I did. These things were a nightmare. I'll mainly use these in armor or shield mode, but I did that with the original aerial anyway and that didn't even need 20 different adapters like this did. Speaking of armor, tha bit-on form is actually pretty nice! One of the things that I disliked about the aerial rebuild was that the bit-on form added almost nothing to the hip armor, but this fixed that and still added some bulk to the backpack. I think it's better than both the aerial and the rebuild's bit-on forms; The shield may not have been the best, BUT these shell units are really interesting. Just like the aerial and aerial rebuild there's a pre-molded one for the top of the chest unit (you still need the sticker for the bottom/front), but there's also a pre-molded part for the V fin. There is of course still the option to use the dark transparent pieces and black stickers, but who would want that when you can have the RGB Gundam? Jokes aside I really like the shell units, and especially the V fin, it's one of the more simple ones but the translucent rainbow colors make it one of the more unique ones; Definitely one of my favorite G-witch kits so far, 9.5/10
