HGGundam Build Fighters Try

Mock Army Set

A six dollar box of extra guns for the faceless army nobody remembers fielding.

MechaGrade Score

3.1/5

Mock Army Set · 1/144 · 2015

GradeHG

Scale1/144

Released2015

Runnersn/a

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The verdict

I like this kit for exactly what it is and nothing more, a cheap weapons top-up, not a mobile suit.

There is no frame to build, no articulation to test, just two runners of gray plastic that turn a Hi-Mock (or any 1/144 you want to raid for parts) into a proper armed Mock. If you already own a Hi-Mock or you are building a Gunpla Battle diorama, this thing earns its shelf space fast. If you were expecting a kit in the normal sense, you will be done building in ten minutes and staring at a pile of rifles wondering what just happened.

Best for: Hi-Mock owners and diorama builders who want a squad of interchangeable rifles and an extra blank dome head

The full review

What it is

The Mock Army Set is a Bandai HGBC (Build Custom) accessory pack, not a stand-alone mobile suit kit. For around six dollars you get two runners molded in plain gray plastic: four weapons and one empty dome head that recreates the blank, faceless look the Mock wears in Gundam Build Fighters Try. Bandai rates it skill level 1, no cement, no paint, snap together in minutes. I bought mine specifically to arm up a Hi-Mock I already had sitting bare-headed on the shelf, and it did exactly that job. There is nothing to review about posing or engineering here because there is no frame, it is pure loadout expansion.

The catch

Do not buy this expecting a kit experience. There is no articulation, no color separation to speak of (it is one shade of gray plastic, full stop), and no inner frame or joints of any kind. The set explicitly does not include the Hi-Mock body, so if you do not already own one or another 1/144 you plan to raid parts from, this is a box of guns with nothing to hold them. Gate marks are minor since the sprues are so small and simple, but there is genuinely little to clean up and even less to build. Treat it as an accessory purchase, not a Saturday afternoon project.

Who it's for

This is for Hi-Mock owners, Gunpla Battle diorama builders staging a Mock swarm, or kitbashers who want cheap, screen-accurate rifles and a blank dome head to stick on a spare body. It is not for anyone looking for a satisfying build session, a display centerpiece, or a first kit, there simply isn't enough here for any of that. If you want the actual Mock experience, buy the Hi-Mock kit itself and treat this set as the six dollar add-on that finishes the look.

The build story

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

There isn't much of a build here. Two small runners, a handful of gate marks, and you're done in well under fifteen minutes. Bandai's own skill level 1 rating is accurate, this is closer to opening a bag of accessories than assembling a kit, and the plastic is soft enough that cleanup barely matters.

The value proposition is entirely about what it lets you do with a Hi-Mock or another 1/144 body. Four weapons plus the signature blank dome head means you can outfit a squad of Mocks for a Gunpla Battle diorama for very little money, which is really the whole appeal. On its own, judged as a kit, there's nothing to score on articulation or engineering because there's no frame at all.

Lore & trivia

01The Mock is a mass-produced, unmanned Gunpla built by Plavsky Particle System Engineering and deployed as a computer-controlled opponent inside the Gunpla Battle system in Gundam Build Fighters Try.
02Its design deliberately borrows traits from classic mass-production suits like the Zaku, GM, and Death Army rather than being based on any single existing mobile suit.
03Hundreds of stored Mocks were accidentally activated during the 7th Gunpla Battle World Championship when the Arista went out of control, turning the faceless training dummies into a genuine swarm threat before the battle system was shut down.
04After that incident, Yajima Trading upgraded the design into the Hi-Mock, which is the kit this HGBC Mock Army Set is built to arm.