Gunpla Accessories

Action Base 7 2025-02-05

In the spring of 2024, I bought a pack of Goodsmile’s Simple Stands. They came highly recommended by multiple online sources, and I figured they’d be worth giving a go after having some issues with Bandai’s Action Bases.

Having used them for a few months now, I can tell you that they are, in fact, pretty useful, but they have some weaknesses. The simplest way to describe it is that they’re much less finicky than Action Bases, but they’re also much less configurable and articulated.

Eventually this got me wondering what a Bandai-esque take on the Simple Stand would look like. And as it turns out, I don’t actually have to wonder, because they actually did it:

Gunpla Accessories Build - Marsfour Weapons 2022-08-21

Gunpla accessory packs are not all created equal. For example, many of the Iron Blooded Orphans Arms are engineered to work with very specific models. Try and use them with another IBO kit - or worse yet, a non IBO model - and you may not get the results you want.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this booster works with no other models

On the other hand, the packs that were made as part of the High Grade Build Fighters line were meant to be more generic. The boxes show the accessories being used on all sorts of non-Build Fighters models, likely to encourage you to go wild and experiment.

That’s quite the spread of different models from different shows

Anyway, I’m assuming the same thing is true of the accessory packs made for Gundam Build Divers, which is why I picked up this Marsfour weapon set way back in December:

Simply put, it’s a pack of swords. I figured I’d be able to re-use them with any kit that happened to look good carrying melee weapons. Unfortunately, I never got around to cracking it open and painting them, so they sat on the backlog.