Gundam Breaker Battlelogue Model Kits

Gunpla Build - High Grade Command Quan[T] (Part 1) 2022-05-02

It should be no surprise that the Gundam Breaker Battlelogue models reuse lots of old runners from existing kits. What is surprising is just how many parts from the original HG Quant[T] are not used in the Command Quan[T].

By far the trickiest thing is keeping track of which of the clear yellow lenses you need to keep, and which you need to ditch. They’re all very specific sizes, and some of them have their tops flattened off. You can’t just swap them all willy nilly.

Gunpla Build - High Grade Gundam Helios (Final) 2022-02-17

It’s time for the Helios to fly. But first, a few bits of housekeeping …

While the model can stand up on its own, it's not easy with those wings on its back. That's why most, if not all the photos in this post are going to be done with the help of an Action Base. (And not just any Action Base, but a clear green one that I bought it just for this occasion)
Embarrassingly, for most of these photos, the wings aren't properly assembled. The individual wing segments are layered incorrectly, a fact that I only discovered when taking the last few photos. To be fair, I think they're still in the correct order, so the photos shouldn't look off perse. But I wanted to be upfront about this, as I know that many Gunpla fans are extremely eagle-eyed.
After a successful test of the new lightbox, I decided to go with an appropriately colored background.

I’m not sure that was such a good idea …

Gunpla Build - High Grade Gundam Helios (Part 4) 2022-02-16

Backpack

The backpack is huge. I would have taken a photo of all the loose parts, but I was afraid I’d end up losing something in the process. Instead, I broke them up into two sets. Here are the pieces for the “core” backpack and the satellite cannons:

And here are the wings:

It’s a lot, but as I found out, it’s not so scary if you tackle it all in sections.

Gunpla Build - High Grade Gundam Helios (Part 1) 2022-02-07

The Blazing Gundam was such a simple, painless build. I could spend as little as thirty minutes on it and feel as if I made some progress. Let’s see if the Helios follows suit.

First, the runners:

I am quite positive this is reusing runners from previous models (there is both an F and an F1 runner), so this doesn’t really tell us all that much. For all I now, a quarter of these parts may end up going unused.

Gunpla Build - High Grade Blazing Gundam (Final) 2022-01-31

The Blazing Gundam is now complete, and just in time for me to use it with one of my new birthday gifts - a brand new lightbox for taking Gunpla photos:

I can’t say for sure how it compares to what other folks use, but it sounds like this one is almost identical to the one covered here by the folks at Gunpla101. It has pretty much all the same features mentioned there, including the colored background inserts, the light diffusion cover, and the side panels (black, white, and reflective).