Review – M.S.G Weapon Unit 01 & 02 (Renewal Project)

You all don’t need an introduction by now, both Weapon Units 01 ‘Burst Rail Gun’ and 02 ‘Hand Bazooka’ are the 15th-anniversary M.S.G renewal project replacing the retired Rifle/Machine Gun and Bazooka/Hand Gun. The latest designs implement universal 3mm connection points, allowing more room for combination and improved compatibility with the existing M.S.G products. Let's take a look at these two how much the design has improved since.


Weapon Unit 01: Burst Rail Gun

The Burst Rail Gun was definitely a great design upgrade from Machine Gun/Rifle. It comes with additional parts with changeable gun barrel type, extension rail with 3mm connection point connectors, blade-like shape rail parts and two different length ammo clips. With these, you can configure different weapon styles to match with any of your plastic kits mecha theme.

Painting is now much easier and less requires using masking tape when you can separate into pieces especially those who like to applied surface primer first before painting. Check out the pieces I separated.

For comparison, I can only throw in the Rifle (non-renewal version) because the Machine Gun was taken apart during failed kitbashing. Hehehe...

One of the most notable detail is it small projectile tip can be seen clearly when both top and bottom rail slide open. Some of you might prefer to paint the projectile with metallic color for extra detail. For me, there is room for some modification.

This one reminds me of the resemblance weapon found from limited released Zelfikal/NE that can switch between gun or blade mode.

Personal Rating = 5/5
The more you play around, the more you enjoy Burst Rail Gun. I spent quite a long hours exploring its configuration and thinking about adding more parts. But the weapon itself looks complete except one minor thing that bothers me is the targeting scope.

I feel that Kotobukiya should have provided extra different design scope part in this released. Yes, there is a universal 3mm connection point. But not many existing M.S.G weapons with targeting scopes come with 3mm round and made compatible so you need involve some modification work. I do hope in the future, we will be seeing targeting scope option parts.

*Weapon Unit 01 - Burst Rail Gun is available at Amazon. Looking for more M.S.G weapon units? Click here!


Weapon Unit 02: Hand Bazooka
The new version looks completely different than the older sibling. It has a simple modern and sci-fi style mixing with 3mm connections points on both sides. It can be taken apart easily for customizing into different weapon styles. You just swap around or exchange the connector pipes front and back. You can see the configuration I played with on the next photos what I mean.

There is one thing I am unable to try, is verify if the end rocket magazine part (highlight below) connection is compatible with the new version. The existing Bazooka I use for comparing is already painted and glue. I will update this post once I buy a new one. The old version bazooka is incompatible with the new version connector.

Personal Rating = 2/5
This new Hand Bazooka is quite a letdown. I feel that Kotobukiya has done poorly with this released. Not even ammo clips or some kind additional parts to convert anything. You only get an attachment holder for Hand Bazooka, nothing else. Adding to the insult further, it even cost double compared to Bazooka/Hand Gun in the market.

I do hope that this year we will be seeing more M.S.G compatible to help out Hand Bazooka in the customization area. Otherwise, this is easy skip not unless you have a creative idea or in need its part for something.

*Weapon Unit 02 - Hand Bazookz is available at Amazon. Looking for more M.S.G weapon units? Click here!