Zaku and Zaku inspired designed are objectively the best.
>>11766640
God, the F2 type is sexy as fuck. Easily my favorite. Too bad the Gunpla version isn't that great, I'd love if it could get a 2.0 makeover.
>>11766724
what was wrong with the gunpla version?
>>11766724
Read my mind. Or a MG FZ. With a LED.
>>11766734
Nothing. Really. Its damn good for its age. But a 2.0 of it would be heaven.
And a MG MS-06FZ would be so nice. Can you imagine how big that heat hawk would be. Man.
>>11766640
Fuck yes.
Mono- eyed monsters are love. Mono-eyed monsters are life.
>>11766750
>didn't know there's a zaku II kai HG
I want one but I already have 5 kinds of zaku HG, wut do
BAWOOM!!!
>>11766767
Yea but you dont have that Kai. You gotta chop up gundams. Ya just gotta.
Who Doga here?
"Pl-please be gentle."
What about Goufs?
Buy a version 2.0.
>>11766736
>>11766750
Dat B-type Stahlhelm though, imagine that in MG scale
>>11766797
This is a Zaku thread. That right there is NO ZAKU BOY!! NO ZAKU!
>>11766791it's a doga eat doga world out thereI'm more of a geara zulu guy
>>11766813
GearaZulu4Life
>>11766808
That would be so bad ass. A Stahlhelm with a command antenna i just creamed my pants a bit
No really buy a 2.0 (i made the busted arm out of spare gouf parts)
>>11766812
Well I just found a new wallpaper, thanks anon. Also, that hunched-over Zaku with the Heathawk on the far right reminds me of a Super Mutant from Fallout.
SIEG ZEON
The old MG F2 is not bad at all really. And you get a lot of weapons with it.
>>11766724
Bullshit.
>>11766853
You're very welcome brother. SIEG ZEON!!!
And now that you mention it. It cannot he unseen.
>>11766862
It says file no longer exists try to re upload it. I really want to see
>>11766836
>>11766801
Those look great. I've built several MG Zakus, but I haven't yet progressed to the level of painting mine and attempted battle damage.
>>11766870
Are you on mobile? That's been happening to me lately as well.
Bump. For the glory of Zeon.
>>11766881
Yep. I sure am. I wonder why. MOOT STOP BREAKING SHIT!!
>>11766862
Interesting paint scheme, were you going for Ballarant colors from Votoms?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR1IfZK8kZQ
>>11766963
Mmm hey girl.
Good one.
![[HorribleSubs] Gundam Reconguista in G - 10 [720p].mkv_snapshot_24.13_[2014.12.03_18.24.16].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/zRIqvV2.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Gundam Reconguista in G - 10 [720p].mkv_snapshot_24.13_[2014.12.03_18.24.16].jpg")
SOON.
>>11767030
That almst makes me regret dropping it.
>>11767030
>>11767040
Sorry to hear about your shit taste, anon.
>>11767114
Why the hell did it blink?
>>11767149
lens cleaners are actually really common in high speed operations, though they usually just rotate a clear cover over a brush. I'd imagine animating clear moving parts is hard
>>11767174
They couldent do a thinner part? You are loosing your main camera for quite a while there. A thin curved part could run over it much faster.
>>11766889
Was my GF's idea. Came out nicely for Rustoleum spray paint. Want to try a Gelgoog Marine next.
Weeeeeee
>>11766736
Those DOMs in the background
>>11767197
But would it look as cool as a giant robot blinking?
>>11766640
Tallgeese>*
Qubeley>*
Elmeth=Apsalus>*
Sure the Zaku is okay but it's not that great.
Turn A is just a Zaku in disguise.
>>11766750
Fritz is too cool for school.
>>11766791
My favorite Zeek MS, if not my favorite MS period. Too bad the MG's shield is so heavy I can't pose the left arm if he's holding it.
>>11766819
>>11766813
It's too skinny for a zeek suit, not as cool without the Doga's bulk.
>>11766791
At lest it's better than the "totally not nazi pandering" Zulu.
>>11766877
Thanks man. And you need to try it.
>>11767786
Fuck yea he is. Turn A is mah nigga.
Speaking of gunpla: is it possible to disassemble a kit for painting it? I sure as fuck know that's something impossible to do with planes.
>>11767988
Gunpla isn't assembled with glue, it's possible, just be careful and don't break off pegs or stuff while taking apart pieces
Original MS 5-7 line of Zaku one and two best, gouf is definitely good and arguably the Dom also. Hi-zak and Zaku three are just shitty imposters.
It might be some Zeon branding but the Gouf really is just a Zaku three, it builds on the designs of the zaku two, like the zaku two did on the zaku one. Efreet also builds on the gouf in a way similar to how the marasai built on the Zaku two. I just want to spend all day studying Zakus and just going on about it how it looks in both a design and a practical way.
Hizack custom anyone? (Or just Hizacks in general)
>>11767137
>hurr hurr you don't like another gundam rehash you have shit taste
Shut up.
>>11768066
Do you even know what "rehash" means?
G-Reco so far isn't anything like most other gundumbs.
>>11768031
Speaking of Hizack's, it was one of the first Gunpla I ever built on my own without help from my dad. It was ok, but that motherfucker was unbalanced as shit, if I set the speed on my ceiling fan too high it would get knocked over like a sheet of paper.
>>11768002
Is it hard? Can you do that (I mean, disassembling) without any tools?
>>11766640
What if we build a real one?
>>11767030
Anyone notice that aside from them fucking, they both wear each other's colors?
Green mech, blue pilot suit,
Blue mech...
Kind of the equivalent of a girl wearing her boyfriend's shirt.
Face it, A Zaku will never be popular as THE LEO!
>>11766812
Not even for a Zeon Ace?
>>11769817
>>11769824
hey guys, check out my Leo!
>>11769819
>>11769845
I know he was going straight for the pilots, but I'm still not sure if that's supposed to be blood or oil.
>>11766812
>>11769850
Oil, it's just done in a very dramatic sense to emphasize the brutality of combat.
Or something like that.
>>11768057
>>11768605
Gud to see some fellow Feddies in a Zaku thread.
Hizack is mah fav.
Tieren best NotZaku.
>>11770347
GODDAMN COMMIES
>>11770347
Isn't that from Gundam 00 or something? That might just be the worst Zaku clone they ever rolled out.
>>11770374
>worst
Let's not exaggerate now. I dismissed it at first myself, but it's design really grew on me. Of all the starter mook mechs, it's the one that looks the most outclassed and left behind, which always ends up appealing to me.
I like the different aesthetic is has to a lot of the gundam mechs. The track shoulders and eye. The bulky cannister containers on the space versions. More than any of the other suits, it looks like a tank that grew bulbous limbs. The tanky looking armor bits are pretty bitching too.
That said, I'm still more of a Flag man. I love cyclops, but tv/visor-heads are my favorite.
>>11770446
My favorite part of the Tieren was those VR goggle thingies. Who needs flashy expensive 360º cockpits when you can just use an Oculus Rift and get the exact same result, perhaps even better?
>>11770446
Wasn't it already serving for more than a decade when 00 S1 started? I love how to keep up with the Union and AEU's state-of-the-art MS, they just kept strapping stuff to Tieren.
>>11770477
What else would you expect from the Uber Communist faction? Why keep making brand new shit if the old stuff can still cut it with a few tweaks?
Hell, I'm surprised they didn't say fuck it to the GN-IX's, strap the drives to old Tieren frames, and just call it a day.
>>11770501
They did. They called them A-Heads.
>>11770511
Wow, I just checked. Those really were designed from a Tieren base. The actual kit looks fine, but the official art is god awful. Didn't like them in show either, now that I even recall them. They were only a round for an episode or two before everyone that mattered upgraded to cooler shit.
Still, they're even more separate from their Zaku-esque base than the Doms ever were, so I wouldn't really count them. Besides, I was thinking something much more like that fanart. Almost literally just cutting out the old engines and slapping the GN Drives in. But oh well.
>>11770455
That's something I find perplexing about 00, at least S1, why is their MS tech so advanced yet they don't use panoramic cockpits?
>>11767786
>>11770347
>>11770347
truth
>>11768345
Clearly it's the superior titans engineering at work.
>>11767355
I need to try this with my kits now
>>11771144
>superior Titans engineering
>implying it wasn't AE jewing, giving them inferior suit to weaken them
>>11771203
AE gave them the fucking Marasai.
>>11771203
>Defending the titans
>>11767030
>>11767114
USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
>>11773982
I like how usually, when a mecha pilot has really long/poofy hair, they don't bother to explain how it manages to fit inside a helmet. But for this design, they just made holes in the helmet for her hair... that shit can't be airtight.
>>11774012
Isn't she an android? Detachable pigtails?
>>11774012
I find it more interesting that she appears to be in a microgravity environment and her hair hasn't distributed itself about the cabin in a huge mess
>>11774012
>>11774082
>>11774089
What you nerds SHOULD be concerned is with is the cockpit. I don't think Zaku 2s ever had panoramic cockpits.
Unless there's aren't Zaku 2s and instead some variant that do have them
>>11774111
Maybe they're refurbished? Maybe they're oldsmobile fucks' Zakus?
>>11774012
>they don't bother to explain how it manages to fit inside a helmet
You'd be surprised how much hair you can cram into a helmet. It'd still be silly for any military organization to allow for it, much in the same way that it'd be silly to have human-piloted space battle things in the first place, but it's certainly doable.
Seed Zakus are best Zakus.
>>11774111
IIRC there were Zaku IIs with panoramic cockpits in ZZ.
>>11774563
I don't really dislike them, but Fukuda done Goufed!
>>11766791
Geara doga is best 10/10
>>11769842
No sacu! Boy
HiZack works for me.
>>11773982
is that Hatsune?
Didn't Syd Mead praise Zaku's design?
>>11774883
good taste.
>>11777874
>>11777878
>>11777883
>>11777894
>>11777894
Exia Zaku?
>>11774120
>It'd still be silly for any military organization to allow for it, much in the same way that it'd be silly to have human-piloted space battle things in the first place
Do you even suspension of disbelief?
>>11777874
>>11777878
>>11777883
I really like the griefer, it's a nice 'what if' mobile suit of a psycho-frame super gouf for Marida in unicorn. Shame there's no pictures of it holding it's sword or any whip, as they are two of the goufs main weapons.
>>11777906
The sheer size of operation british suits are always impressive.
>>11778017
I might as well dump some Zakus and Goufs for a bit.
>>11778027
>>11778033
>>11774111
She's in the Kshatriya.
>>11778044
>>11778048
>>11778056
>>11778059
>>11770501
Gundam 00 would have been much better if rather than just bearing a superficial resemblance to him Aeolia Schenberg was literally just Vladimir Lenin reborn. No dumb eliminating war plan, no stupid crap about communicating with aliens at some point. Just leading the world in revolution, destroying all existing forms of authority with the ultimate goal of establishing a stateless society for the benefit of the people. Using violence and terror (and GN drives) as the primary tools of course.
>>11774563
Not with that head sculpt.
The body is fine though.
>>11778100
He couldn't be Lenin because he was too busy being anime Hari Seldon. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
>>11778377
Gotta pander to nazifags.
>>11770501
Didn't they just give some Tieren Taozis GN weapons and called them all Terrain types?
I agree with OP
>>11778059
Is that part of a fucking Cannontortoise
>>11778451
But ZAFT are gommies
>>11770347
the Tieren is cool as shit
zaku enough to be identified as a zaku clone, but not-zaku enough to be completely different
Gimme a kit already.
>>11774883
HiZacks never get the recognition they deserve
>>11779401
>we got tasked with the creation of the army for the incoming Zeon revolution, but thanks to that hack Full Frontal, we were left only with enough bucks for the single unit
>>11779426
Zaku 50 has nothing to do with Zeon remnants.
>>11779432
Anon, I'm disappoint
>>11766819
>>11779172
>>11766813
My brothers!
>>11779447
How so?
>>11779401
What the fuck is that thing
>>11781636
>filename
>>11766812
That middle Zaku! Haters gonna hate.
>>11779401
Move the stabilizers to the back and give it actual arms. You can keep the leg-claws and get an absolutely amazing mobile suit. If this thing was a 1/100 resin kit I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
>>11779200
>>11779204
>>11779225
That's a Burglary Dog-tier MS
>>11782068
NOw we need a Zaku on a skateboard
Who Tri Star here?
it's SD time baby
>>11784506
>>11784509
>>11784510
>>11784506
Rip in peace Jilpoong.
No Prototype Zaku love?
Does anyone else not like the R-whatever Zakclones in G-Reco? They don't seem very similar at all except for the general color scheme, and they appear far less prominently than the Grimoire. What is that supposed to be? Dom or Gelgoog?
>>11787920
Where is that supposed to fit into the Zaku line? It can't be before the Zaku I as it has the external power wires, but it can't be after it as there are some common Zaku line looks it doesn't use, such as the lower leg design and gas mask looking head.
I never really got what the tubes on the zaku were for
>>11788836
The Prototype Zaku (MS-04) came before the Zaku I(MS-05). The blue one I posted is YAS's version from the Origin. The original design(pic related) has no external power wires. YAS pretty much changed the design completely.
>>11788915
To make building and painting their gunpla a fucking headache everytime
>>11788915
Long story short, mobilesuits were supposed to be power armor, not giant robots. The tubes were actual breathing tubes. This is also why MS are generally limited to the functionality of a human wearing advanced armor, like only being able to see what they turn their head to look at instead of being studded with cameras, or why a weapons platform designed almost exclusively for work in space considers legs to be mandatory.
>>11789945
>or why a weapons platform designed almost exclusively for work in space considers legs to be mandatory.
They're working around colonies. They need the legs to move around inside the colony as well.
Or for invading colonies as combat mobile suits. Either reason warrants the inclusion of legs.
>>11789900
So it's an origin design then, thanks for telling me. It is redesigned a fair amount from the regular prototype. Have we seen the origin zaku I? I don't recall it, but it would be interesting to see, seeing the MS line take a different path to the zaku II as the regular and origin II version are much more similar that the regular and origin prototype .
>>11790152
The Origin Zaku I is pretty similar to the original design. The main change I see is the torso and sholders being more similar to those of the Zaku II. It and the prototype appeared during the same volume. I couldn't find any pics of it online, so I only have the pics I can take with my phone (sorry for the crap quality and terrible lighting).
>>11790386
Found another panel from a different angle.
>>11790386
>>11790396
Thanks again, I couldn't find any pictures easily online of it. I do need to get round to reading the origin.
The design of the zaku I, much like the other origin designs are very interesting to look at. Seeing Yas' slight variation on the classic designs in both a practical and aesthetic way, like the vulcans and belt fed gun, is nice.
DOM-ination
>>11770741
How do you call anons that like the Zaku and Zaku inspired suits ?Borjanons
>>11790272
You're still having Faggotron roll in the FA Gundam? Why?
I loved these things. That snowboard was retarded and awesome at the same time.
>>11770534
this model kit looks awesome, the art design for the show made them look retarded and short/fat
>>11766640
Does Gundam 00 have any Zakus in it? Other than Seed and Age it's the only series I haven't watched and I'm considering not checking it out if the designs/plot are dumb/if there are no Zakus.
>>11779475
heh, I dont remember any of this when I went to this
>>11791718
It has two, the Tieren and the Fantong/Anf.
Reminder to everyone that the G-Reco Zaku comes out this month, make sure you preorder!
>>11791776
Already have, my good anon.
Would the Rick Dias count? It's technically just a build off the (Rick) Dom suits.
>>11791776
Are they still called? Even with the space parts?
>>11791816
>Your name will never be as cool as Ricardo 'Rick' Dias
>>11778490
>>11778490
What's gonna do about it, nerd?
>>11779475
Where were you standing during the parade?
Since there was no float for the anime/cosplay section of the parade, I had to settle for just walking the last two blocks in front of JapanTown. I almost died of exhaustion even from that.
>>11793476
>>11791740
woops, quoted the wrong post
Minigun zaku is best zaku.
>>11766640
I never understood what's up with all the exposed cables?
>>11795962
Definitely ,the classic heavy, gritty, belt loaded, physical ammo gatling works well with the zaku because it also has room for semi realistic look as it is already fairly heavily armoured and those aspects can be really built on and shown off with some good shading and even slight weathering. I think the gouf custom loses some of the 'heavy' look as it keeps the ammo and the gatling together on the arm, making it seem lighter, if it had the same separation as the pictured zaku it could have looked much more intimidating.
>>11769419
>really like Leos
>there aren't any gunplay I know of whatsoever
living is suffering
>>11795962
why do they call it a minigun when it's clearly fucking huge?
>>11796337
Because it's based on the larger, aircraft-mounted Vulcans
>>11795962
That looks really.
>>11795962
>>11799698
>That looks really
That looks really good
>>11777874
love it
>>11766640
>>11766640
>217 replies
>Still no mention of superior mono-eye unit
I thought you were supposed to be cool, /m/.
>>11803275
The Kampfer is one of my favorite suits, but it desperately needs a 2.0 makeover, as do many other zeek suits :-\
>>11803275
Kampfers are cool and all but
>>11796238
AW SHIT, SPACE NIGGA.
5 star post.
>>11803941
By the way, is that axe a custom? Where is it from exactly? Some 1/6 action figure?
>>11803275
Is there still only a HGUC of the Kaempfer? I would kill like, three people for an MG.
>>11803979
There is an mg, it's really dated though, but still not terrible
>>11803979
Nigga wat
Kaempfer is one of the older MGs (pre-2005 I believe). It's actually not that great from what I hear. The main thing it has going for it is a shit ton of weapons.
>>11803986
>>11803991
Ka-Derp.
Still, I'd have to ask if the MG is worth it as a display piece, or something to idly pose, or if the HGUC is better for the price. I've only made MGs so far, but I'm not a scalefag, I can handle a smaller figure if it looks and poses better.
>>11803998
Just double checked, MG is 2001(!) and HGUC is 2008, I think if you disregard/account for scale, they'll probably both look pretty good, but the HGUC is probably more bang for your buck and less of a headache than the MG. Then again, I usually find MGs to be so much more satisfying to build/look at.
why does Zaku derivative always looks like a giant armored warrior/orc and feddies MS looks more tacticool?
like that one time when they created hizack and it looked kinda off
>>11804014
What about the HGBF Kaempfer Amazing? Does it have any advantages of modern engineering? No chance of an MG of that, I assume...
>>11804040
Answer's kinda obvious. Zakus = bad guys, so they tend to look more monstrous/fantastical
GMs = good guys, so they tend to get based more on IRL police/military, hence the tendency towards tacticool
>>11804047
I used to do a lot of gunpla painting and mods (had just started resin kits before I quit) until it got replaced with a stronger, more potentpony-based form of autism, so I haven't kept up to date. My guess would be that the HGBF kits are mostly just modifications of HGs, so I wouldn't expect it to be particularly better than the regular HGUC. I took a look at some pics, it looks like they just parts/color swapped the HGUC.
>>11766640
>>11796177
>I never understood what's up with all the exposed cables?
Yeah I'm sorry Zaku, but those respiration tubes knock you down from Best Grunt behind my boy the Leo >>11769419 and on par with the Tieren >>11770347.
>>11770455
>>11770683
Uh, because a Dynamic Helmet Mounted Display is far easier and cheaper to do than a huge panoramic static one?
>>11789945
>Long story short, mobilesuits were supposed to be power armor, not giant robots. The tubes were actual breathing tubes.
That makes a lot of sense, what with their Jin-roh styling...
>>11790000
>They're working around colonies. They need the legs to move around inside the colony as well.
>Or for invading colonies as combat mobile suits. Either reason warrants the inclusion of legs.
EXACTLY!
In fact I had an idea for a Gundam setting uses both of these concepts to explain having Mobile Suits in the first place; Due to projectile weapon use in or at a Space Colony being branded a War Crime (Because you do NOT want to render a several TRILLION Dollar piece of Space Real Estate uninhabitable by puncturing the hull!), War quickly reverted to Power Armor enhanced Melee.
To increase their intimidation factor to cow the locals into compliance, the size of these "Mobile Suits" quickly escalated til they reached the piloted-mecha Gundam norm.
>>11768002
>>11768384
Yes, as a Lego Maniac, I too am interested in the reassemblilty of Gunplas...
>>11795962
>>11803941
>>11803953
>By the way, is that axe a custom? Where is it from exactly? Some 1/6 action figure?
Honestly I'm digging the Ax mounted more than the Chaingun, those that's probably because I thought of something similar for one of my Characters (Who is pretty much a normally human sized Zaku II) and his Vibro-heat Bat'leth...
>>11804762
>Cont.
>>11804040
>>11804050
>Answer's kinda obvious. Zakus = bad guys, so they tend to look more monstrous/fantastical
Indeed, plus they are Cannon Fodder, so the dehumanization helps distract from them dying in droves to the main character.
Fun fact, the name "Zaku" itself is diverted from the Japanese word for Mooks, "Zako."
>>11804050
Zack = sounds like a stoner hoodlum
Jim = sounds like a nice neighbor
>>11804832
>Zack
Obligatory reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiTosK80Wfk
Here is my desert zaku.
Whatcha think?
I intentionally made certain parts look worn with plaster and sanding.
>>11769419
Poor Leo bros. no MG for you
>>11804868
Nice, I've always had a thing for desert Mobile Suits. I used to have an MG Dom that I gave a desert paint scheme, but my cat knocked it off the shelf and broke it :(
>>11804874
Meh, we can always use Master Chief...
>ctrl+f
>"sniper"
>no results
Disgusting
>>11807448
Kirk's custom
>>11807454
A desert diorama with the spent barrels is a project I'm saving for when I have more free time.
>>11804040
because most of the titans designer is a former zeon mechanic, that's why they has unique ms for each episodes just like zeon during OYW
>>11804868
here is another
>>11783064
We got a Juracg on a snowboard.
>>11766640
love the Slash Phantom Zaku. cheesy as hell name but love that blue, beam axe, gatling guns, and those little wing/shield things.
>>11766674
>>11768031
>Hi-zak and Zaku three are just shitty imposters.
Are you me?
>>11768031
/m/ah nigga
I don't hate the titans/axis derivatives, but I definitely think OYW and OG 5-7 Zaku line is best gendum
>>11818407
Some of the later zaku derivatives just seem lacking in something that the original designs have, such as the hi zack with the obnoxious power cables and the zaku III and it being too angular.
>>11812704
>snakes on a sudoku
>>11766640
Of course.
Sieg Zeon
>>11768031
Isn't a Hizack pretty much just a Zaku that fights for the Feds anyway?
