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 Mousemuffins wrote:

...and a quick size comparison. 144th is perhaps a tad big, but will do at a pinch.

Were is that model from?

Gundam Unicorn. It's a customized Geara Zulu.

SD Neo Zeong will be mine, just like every single other gawd damned SD that Bandai has released in the last 20 something years.

I thought I'd seen artwork of a non- scale version of it, like the Gundam Mechanics line or whatever it was called that had the Quinn Mantha and Alpha Azeal.

That line's been dead for a few years now, I thought. It's possible you saw the lineart for it from Gundam Ace though.

 Barzam wrote:
Gundam Unicorn. It's a customized Geara Zulu.

Thanks . Now I have the urge to make a nurgle themed CSM+Tau army. Good thing FFG came out with the 40k card game so I can spend my money on that instead.

But for use in a wargame a toy model is better suited because it will survive the transport more easily and it looks damn cool!

Well, I can't argue with you there. The fully poseable hands on the Blodia are really nice. I'm now kicking myself for passing up the really cheap player 2 version I found at Mandarake. Now if I could just get a cheap Detonator Orgun...

While not quite hobby related, Bandai has just announced the next two Gundam projects. The first is a new show, Gundam G in Reconquista, which looks very much like Eureka Seven. I'm quite certain it's using the same character designer. The Mobile Suits look like a cross between Eureka Seven, Turn A, and Votoms Code: Irving. They're funky looking. I'm sure we'll be seeing some kits based on that.

The second project they announced is finally the Gundam: The Origin anime. It looks like it'll probably be a movie though, rather than a tv series. The first movie is set in 0068 and deals with the assassination of Zeon Zum Daikun and a young Char Aznable. The preview trailer shows early Mobile Suits in action, particularly an early Guntank. I imagine we'll be seeing somemodels from that as well.

A new G series? Huh.

Post some pics up so I can be lazy and not look for them myself.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
A new G series? Huh.

Post some pics up so I can be lazy and not look for them myself.

gundamguy.blogspot.com/2014/03/gundam-35th-anniversary-new-gundam.html

Still, gonna use the Leynos with the Kotobukiya weapons on left arms attached while main guns in right hand used. at 6" they are Knight sized

Eh, I wouldn't bother with the chainsaws at all. Just give it a sword.

I mistranslated the new Gundam show's name a little. It should be Gundam: Reconguista in G. It isn't part of G Gundam continuity. Though, if the press release I read was translated correctly, this show is actually set in the far future of the Universal Century after another calendar change. That seems like an odd thing to do though.

It definitely doesn't look very UC. That kind of has me worried.

 Barzam wrote:
Eh, I wouldn't bother with the chainsaws at all. Just give it a sword.

I mistranslated the new Gundam show's name a little. It should be Gundam: Reconguista in G. It isn't part of G Gundam continuity. Though, if the press release I read was translated correctly, this show is actually set in the far future of the Universal Century after another calendar change. That seems like an odd thing to do though.

I like the other weapons a bit, But have to see if the chainsword can work. But the Kinetic fist and knuckle blades look good

Oh yeah, I forgot about the piston fist. That would be pretty cool. Hey, that would even work somewhat. I could swear that they Leynos had a piston-driven melee attack in the games.

I am interested in the origin story, the new one looks to funky for me
this gundam tank?

Well, it's a guntank prototype. Not a gundam. The guntank can barely even be considered a mobile suit.

Essentially a stepping stone during the Earth Federation's development of a proper mobile suit, it was a rush job after the Feddies learned about Zeon's mobile suits, and the subsequent domination of Federation forces at the Battle of Loum.

Up until the development of the GM (essentially a mass production version of the original Gundam), the feddies were sorely lacking on a technological level, with the Guntank and Ball (a modified civilian pod mounted with a gun and directed explosives in leu of proper thrusters) being their only answer for a long time.
In the end, the Gundam/White Base didn't actually do a whole lot to contribute to the ending of the OYW (they were more important for morale purposes and propaganda, really), and the war itself was won thanks to the Federation's superior resources and the horrible infighting going on in Zeon, which ended up delaying the production of some very important units. It's suggest that, had the production of the Gelgoog been expedited by just two weeks, Zeon could have stood a good chance of winning the war.

 Fafnir wrote:
Well, it's a guntank prototype. Not a gundam. The guntank can barely even be considered a mobile suit.

Essentially a stepping stone during the Earth Federation's development of a proper mobile suit, it was a rush job after the Feddies learned about Zeon's mobile suits, and the subsequent domination of Federation forces at the Battle of Loum.

Up until the development of the GM (essentially a mass production version of the original Gundam), the feddies were sorely lacking on a technological level, with the Guntank and Ball (a modified civilian pod mounted with a gun and directed explosives in leu of proper thrusters) being their only answer for a long time.
In the end, the Gundam/White Base didn't actually do a whole lot to contribute to the ending of the OYW (they were more important for morale purposes and propaganda, really), and the war itself was won thanks to the Federation's superior resources and the horrible infighting going on in Zeon, which ended up delaying the production of some very important units. It's suggest that, had the production of the Gelgoog been expedited by just two weeks, Zeon could have stood a good chance of winning the war.

Reading Gundam history like this always makes me happy! Nothing says fun hard sci fi like the one year war.

Interesting looking prototype guntank. Except we already had a Okawara designed proto-tank, didn't we? My Gundam Encyclopedia isn't handy (and it's terribly out of date, considering I don't think it even had Seed in it).

It should probably be noted that Gundam The Origin doesn't actually use the same continuity as Gundam 0079. It's mostly the same, but the writers made a few changes here and there, chief among them being that Mobile Suit development occurs years before the OYW. The Guncannon and Guntank were actually supposed to have been the earliest Mobile Suits produced. I haven't had the chance to read all of the comics, but I believe that Zeon even used Guntanks and Guncannons. So, that's not a prototype, it's probably an actual production Guntank.

There's also differences between the various MS and their 0079 counterparts. They're mostly cosmetic, but they're there. For instance, the Guncannon has very rudimentary hands, the Prototype Gundam actually sees action early on and has a shoulder cannon, and the Zaku's have vulcans mounted in their chests and arms and their rifles are belt-fed.

 Barzam wrote:
Oh yeah, I forgot about the piston fist. That would be pretty cool. Hey, that would even work somewhat. I could swear that they Leynos had a piston-driven melee attack in the games.

Nice! the normal fist/hand seems a bit under sized for a "D" class weapon, so the Over the arm Kinetic fist and also dual blades look good to me. The drill/Piston puncher, I will order the chain-blade for the size check, if ridiculous, I likely will avoid attempts to mount it on the arm.
The Leynos kits do have plenty of hydraulics looking pistons Legs and arms, so happy there with them. They are not too pricey, and I will be ordering a Balgrey kist as well to justify the shipment as I am still also collecting Garmillas fleet ships as soon as I can.

Well, rumor has it now that there will be another HGBF release in June. It hasn't been officially announced yet (that I know of), but word is that the kit will be the recently revealed Gyan Gatling. Hopefully it'll actually be a brand new kit and not just a modification of the existing (and old) HGUC Gyan kit.

Also, apparently I was wrong about Bandai not making a 1/144 HGUC Neo Zeong. They are. And it's fething huge! We're talking HGUC Dendrobium huge. The thing is going to retail for over $200.

 Cyporiean wrote:
Something I've wanted for some time now..

1/100 MG Turn-X:


http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN989508/Gun

Comes out in June for ¥6,000

Where can I get that Turn X? That's my favorite show there.

But I've wanted to use a Tau dex as a IG army but they look like Zeon soldiers. Paint the uniforms and banners as Zeon and use a Zaku as a riptide.

 MWHistorian wrote:

 Cyporiean wrote:
Something I've wanted for some time now..

1/100 MG Turn-X:

Spoiler:

http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN989508/Gun

Comes out in June for ¥6,000

Where can I get that Turn X? That's my favorite show there.

But I've wanted to use a Tau dex as a IG army but they look like Zeon soldiers. Paint the uniforms and banners as Zeon and use a Zaku as a riptide.

There is a link in the post you quoted.

I don't think anyone has mentioned it, but the MG Turn X will have the separating bits feature. Here's some scans from recent hobby mags that I swiped from another site.

Spoiler'd for size.



Mao's Crossbone Kai apparently has all of the features of the regular Crossbone Gundams, even the foot blades. From the looks of it in the show though, that skull on its chest has a mono-eye and the binders retain the Gundam X's solar panels.


Neo Zeong is going to be BIG

He might even be able to stand in as a Titan.

Looks like it'll be even bigger than the Dendorbrium Orchis.

Revenant count as?

@Shaso, I saw some chainsaws at the Kobe Volks for about 520yen a piece just in case you can't get them online.

M.

 Miguelsan wrote:


@Shaso, I saw some chainsaws at the Kobe Volks for about 520yen a piece just in case you can't get them online.

M.

If Hobby Search is out, I will let you know as standby. I discovered a way to hold me some models with the wish list which works well.

I don't think its been expressed enough just how big the Neo Zeong is going to be.

Price is apparently going to be Y27,000.

That's no moon...

Neo-Zeong=Titan!