Bandai Hobby MG 1/100 Gundam Barbatos Gundam: IBO Model Kit

Love this gundam barbatos. Nice quality mg build. Fits nicely. The detail is great. Easy to assemble. Looking forward to purchase more gundam.

The Gundam Barbatos was a great build. I purchased this with a kit of tools to build it. the build process to about three days but thats because i made sure to space it out over a few days otherwise id have built it in a night and over indulged myself. clipping all the parts out and prepping them was fun and easy the instructions being very helpful though i will say that the arm joints are little delicate. be sure to purchase a small gundam tool kit to build it. the range of motions are great and posability is amazing. as this was my first gundam build in about 15 years it was a great experience. down side is that the armor on the back of the hands are easy to lose and pop off easy. that could be due to a mess up on my end i admit but it something to keep an eye out for. and the head crest definitely needs a small dab of super glue to keep it in place otherwise its a perfect model 9.5 outta 10 in my book.

This is an intermediate kit with piece that fit without any glue. Exquisite details from articulating pieces. NOTE: the hands/fingers are not as articulated as other models. Assembling this model was easy but to actually make the kit stand out, be prepared to spend the time to panel line, put on stickers, and paint. This kit is fun for kids that are into model building and okder

I've built 3 Gundams, and this is by far the most fun of them all. The pieces are sanely sized, the articulations and secondary movements are well designed. This is mostly due to how the Gundam was designed in the show, with exposed hydraulic pistons and a skeletal waist. The designers also avoided ball joints almost everywhere, instead opting to stack more reliable pin joints. This is especially noticeable in the wrists, and it makes them way more solid than other models.On top of all that, you get to build this Gundam twice: once for the internal skeleton, and a second time with the armor. I almost want to buy a second one of these and keep it in just the skeletal form, where you can see all the intricacies of the inner design.It's not perfect: the backpack is kind of a mess, and is very hard to articulate without it falling apart. The design of the cannon is accurate to the show but very dumb for posing, there's no real good way for the model to hold it.

Hands where kinda ehh and the back piece kept falling off, but other than that great kit in general

Awesome!!!! Love this figure

It looks amazing, has a ton of little moving segments, and even has a little Mika to boot. It is, however a pain in the but to pose, and for some reason they put a damn c-clip connection on the foot-toe section so it can come loose quite easily. Definitely a shelf piece and not for harsh play/repeated posing, hence the four stars. Honestly though id still fully recommend it even if it’s a bit fragile in some areas, the build was really fun and it still looks really, really good. Just be careful with it and it should be just fine.

This is simply one of the very best Master Grade Gunpla available. It is a solid build and the articulation is superior to most MGs. The build time is average but fun and involved and if you like working pistons on a mech then this is that mech! There are three main weapons (mace, long sword, cannon) mace and cannon also have smaller weapons gimmick for more display capability. The Barbatos does not have all the drama of other Gundam frames that sport huge wings or dragoons but it's simplicity is it's beauty. You can also add some stickers or panel line for more depth but the frame itself is already beautiful even without it. if there is one weakness the hands are a bit tricky to hold the mace due to its design but if you align it correctly it will hold the weapons well and strong. The articulation will allow for very dramatic poses like that of the anime. Highly recommended! Price was fair for this level of results.