Iron Blooded Orphans Model Kits

Gunpla Build - High Grade Gundam Hajiroboshi (Iron Blooded Coating) - Photos 2024-11-17

First things first - this is a pretty typical parts layout for an IBO High Grade:

Secondly, that sticker sheet is considerably large, and is compromised almost entirely of color correcting stickers. Initially, that gave me pause.

But let’s talk a little bit more about that metallic coating. It’s much nicer than I expected it to be.

Gunpla Build - High Grade Gundam Hajiroboshi (Iron Blooded Coating) 2024-11-16

Let’s take a look at another LIMITED ITEM from the Gundam Base Tour:

This is a the Gundam Hajiroboshi, from the mobile game Iron Blooded Orphans: Urdr Hunt. More specifically, it is a special version that is covered in a metallic coating (AKA the “Iron Blooded Coating” as Bandai likes to call it).

I’m curious to see how this coating looks in person, so let’s dive in and find out.

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.