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ASW-G-11 Gundam Gusion Rebake Full City

A Barbatos-frame cousin that trades brute simplicity for a pair of scissor arms and a whole lot of foil stickers.

MechaGrade Score

3.7/5

Gundam Gusion Rebake Full City · 1/144 · 2016

GradeHG

Scale1/144

Released2016

Runnersn/a

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The verdict

This is a genuinely fun HG built around one great idea, the transforming scissor rear armor, and it mostly delivers.

The frame is the same solid IBO skeleton that never feels loose or cheap, and the sub arm gimmick makes posing with the full IBO weapon lineup a real pleasure. Where it stumbles is presentation, since Bandai leaned hard on foil stickers instead of molded color for a kit that's otherwise mechanically clever. Buy it for the engineering, keep some patience ready for the sticker sheet.

Best for: IBO fans who want a second Barbatos-family frame with a genuinely different gimmick, not just a repaint

The full review

What it is

The Gusion Rebake Full City is Akihiro Altland's upgraded ride from season two, and the kit itself is a clear evolution of the standard HG IBO frame with two extra sub arms mounted on the shoulders and a huge rear unit that folds out into scissor blades. Building it, the sub arms are what won me over. They're not just for show, you can dock any HG IBO weapon on them and suddenly your Gusion is holding a rifle, a sword, and still has both main hands free for another weapon or a shield. The core frame assembly is identical to other Gundam Frame kits from this line, so if you've built a Barbatos before your hands already know what to do here, and the joints lock in tight from the first click.

The catch

The complaint that shows up in nearly every build writeup is the same one: this kit leans heavily on foil stickers to do the color separation work that molded plastic should be doing, especially on the head, chest vents, and scissor unit. Straight out of the box with stickers applied it reads a little flat and toylike compared to how sharp the frame underneath actually is. It's an HG at HG pricing, so the part count and plastic budget went toward the mechanism rather than color, which is a fair trade but one you should walk in expecting. The alternate head swap is a nice touch but easy to lose track of during assembly if you're not paying attention to the small parts trays.

Who it's for

If you already like the Gundam Frame HG line and want a kit whose gimmick is mechanical rather than cosmetic, the sub arm and scissor combo delivers something the standard Barbatos doesn't. It's also a good pickup for anyone building an IBO weapons diorama, since this kit becomes the display stand for basically every accessory from the line. Skip it if stickers are a dealbreaker for you and you're not willing to hit the chest and head details with paint or panel liner, because bare out of the box it undersells its own frame. For the price, it's a smart, characterful build, just budget an evening for sticker application and touch up.

The build story

What the build is actually like, and the engineering worth knowing about.

Runner cleanup follows the same pattern as every other Gundam Frame HG, small gates, minimal flash, and a build order that snaps together fast once the inner frame is done. The scissor rear unit is the one part that takes real attention, since the transformation hinge has to seat correctly or the blades won't fold flush against the back.

Articulation is the strong suit here, the shoulders, hips, and ankle roll all inherited from the Barbatos-line frame give it a full range for dynamic sword and rifle poses, and the sub arms add an extra layer of posing options nothing else in the line offers. Color separation is where it falls short, with stickers standing in for panel colors that a Master Grade would mold directly, so the value proposition is really about the mechanism and the weapon compatibility rather than paint-free good looks.

Lore & trivia

01The Gusion Rebake Full City is piloted by Akihiro Altland and first appears in Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans season two, deployed to defend the Isaribi and Hotarubi during the battle against the Dawn Horizon Corps.
02In the show's story, the suit was rebuilt by Teiwaz using data recovered from the Calamity War era to restore performance the original Gusion had lost after heavy damage.
03Its rear armor unit doubles as a shield and can transform into a pair of scissor blades capable of cutting through another mobile suit's frame, the signature gimmick the HG kit is built around.
04The kit's sub arm shoulder mounts are compatible with the wider catalog of HG IBO weapon accessories, letting builders load it out with gear from other kits in the line.