30MF Liber Holy Knight

The 30MF Liber Holy Knight kit contains the Liber Knight model kit and the Holy Knight 'Class-up' expansion set, which is a couple of runners extra to replace a few things and also add onto the Knight and his equipment. This is my third 30MF kit, that I've built.
By far most of the MF kits across both Liber and Rosan use the Silhouette 1 body, so it can freely equip the Archer, Assassin, Lancer and Priest armors too, although none of these armors come by themselves, they all have a Silhouette 1, but in different colors, with one exception: Priest, which has the same grey body and purple rings.
Fighter and Wizard use Silhouette 2 (shorter and wider) and 3 (taller and slimmer) respectively and not all things fit the same across all bodies. Likewise, not all 30MM and 30MS equipment fit onto them or vice versa, though you can generally expect 3mm pegs to fit in some way.

Aesthetics:
The Silhouette is grey with purple and transparent blue on it (eyes and chest gem). The Knight uses fa lighter grey plastic for its armor parts which cover most of the model in a medieval/Dark Souls style knight armor and the Holy Knight adds more of a high fantasy look with more gold and more blue gems.

The gold plastic is injection gold which looks cheap and ostentatious on the model.
Besides replacing the front visor with a golden antenna, it also replaces the wrist rings and wrist armor with gold parts and two parts on the pauldrons of the Knight with larger parts, with gold trim. It adds golden shins, a gold emblem on the chest, gold parts on the front and back skirt, a gold plate on the back of the model for more 3mm holes, a huge golden crest on the shield and a clam shell golden blade around the Knight's sword. The gem on the shield is different from the ones on the sword and misapplying it can crack the gem, which I did.
While these can all be painted up, as it stands I prefer the simpler Knight look.

Mechanics:
The Silhouette has a single arm bend (bends most of the way), 180 double knee bend, dual peg disc ankles (double swivel) and 30MS style hands, only much larger. 30MS comparable articulation with somewhat human-like movement/posability, which is more advanced than most Bandai kits in some ways and then have other limitations in others (like the single arm bend).
There are no special gimmicks or functions, the main draw is the modularity of equipment.

Equipment:
1 set of Liber Knight armor (covers everything apart from shins and calves)
1 simple Knight sword
1 beefy Knight kite shield and assorted grips
1 'Class-up' Holy Knight set of gold layering and replacement parts
6 hands - Holding, fists and open palms
Assorted purple rings with and without pegs

Conclusion:
I bought this kit because the Knight was sold out and personally I like displaying it without the Holy Knight upgrade. It's not just that the gold looks cheap, but the Knight just has a more interesting look to it and the simpler medieval armor gives the model more visual weight. I've tried using some of the gold parts on other models and it looks okay, though in general the lack of compatibility in 30MF is a little odd and you'll frequently come across double pegs having different lengths between them, so they don't fit at all, such as the Holy Knight shield crest not fitting onto the Fighter buckler, despite it having two holes like the Knight's kite shield. It's such an odd oversight.