Iron Blooded Orphans Model Kits

Gunpla Build - High Grade Barbatos Lupus (Part 1) 2023-11-26

As always, let’s begin with the runners:

There are only three of them, but to be fair, they’re all pretty dense with parts. In fact, the “C” Runner (the one with all the white parts) is so cramped that at times I struggled to find enough space to fit in nippers and make a cut.

In other words, it’s not a ton of parts, but it’s more than you might think.

Gunpla Build - High Grade Schwalbe Graze (Part 1) 2023-11-11

Here are the parts to the Schwalbe Graze:

Sometimes you can get a good feel for a how a build is going to play out just by looking at the runners and stickers. But I feel like this shot is deceiving. At first glance it doesn’t look like a ton of parts, but I can tell you that there’s more going on here than you might think. It’s a bit of an optical illusion; the Schwalbe Graze uses so many different colors of plastic that the parts are spread out among multiple smaller runners, rather than a few large sheets.