#mobile worker

This kit includes the smoothbore rifle we see Barbatos using in the first season of IBO, as well as a gun/lance thing and a shield that I didn't really recognize.

The main reason I wanted this set, though, is the CGS mobile worker. I love getting little vehicles and figures like that to set the sense of scale.

Right away, this kit was pretty disappointing.

I know it's just a set of optional accessories... I wasn't expecting anything amazing... But I was genuinely disappointed that it's all molded in dark grey.

I really expected a multicolor runner or two. There's some obvious opportunities for color separation here - the mobile worker could've been molded in brown, the lance in white, maybe a couple separate green pieces on the shield.

But, no, it's all grey. And then we've got some ugly color-correcting stickers for the smoothbore rifle.

As you can see, these accessories look absolutely nothing like the box art. And I know that box art is typically painted... But usually it's close? Similar? And in this case they're just way off. I'm absolutely going to have to paint these if I wind up actually using them at all.

Again, I love how the addition of the mobile worker helps set the scale here. That's a fairly big vehicle. We routinely see a couple people riding around in/on those. They're something like tank-sized... And it's just about ankle-height on Barbatos.

The iconic smoothbore rifle actually looks halfway decent in this picture - as long as you don't look too closely at the white bits. And it actually attaches to the backpack arm things.

I do wish this option set had included some alternate hands though... An open/supporting hand would've been great for a two-handed pose with this rifle.