Sigur in Space! - Update: GM Command Space Type!

[Ultravanillasmurf]

More cool mechanical.

Excellent paintwork.

[Battle Brush Sigur]

@Herbert Tarkel: Thanks very much!

@Ultravanillasmurf: Cheers! To be honest, I'm very much looking forward to this weird fascination ending again. I need to get back to proper wargaming.


But until then....


Tee-hee-hee. Swoosh! Blink-blink! Ka-pow! Biff!

[Battle Brush Sigur]

[Battle Brush Sigur]

Heyhey, hope you all had a lovely start into 2025!


Here's two mode gundam models, one of which you've already seen in its not-quite finished state, if you had a look at my Battle Suit Alpha review and battle report ( https://tabletopstories.net/language/en/2024/12/battle-suit-alpha-review-and-test-game/[/b]]https://tabletopstories.net/language/en/2024/12/battle-suit-alpha-review-and-test-game/ ), the other one's new.



MS-07B-3 Gouf Custom:





If you wanna read something "fascinting", read up on the development histories of the Gouf vs. the MS-08 Dom. Two ever-competing arms developers/manufacturers trying to out-do one another for the follow-up mass production type of the MS-06 Zaku II. Visually, I'm more 'team Gouf', but I really like the Dom's cross-shaped face.



Anyway, this one's a lovely kit. The Gouf looks like a really mean boss Zaku (which he basically is). Look at those spikes! In Ork terms, he's like the Goff among the Zaku suits. What I changed from the kit as it comes in the box is that I did the usual adding of some details, I added some panel lines, gemstone lenses and painted the fella. The kit is still fuilly posable (and you can almost fully disassemble the chap too! I actually had to take the whole upper torso apart in the end to put the orange clear plastic bit in his chest in.


Next we have the MSM-06 Z'gok Commander Type (which basically became the mass-produced type after a short while):



Again, super interesting development history and pretty much the only successful Mobile Suit type developed by MIP. But a success this one was. The Z'Gok was an excellent heavy MS (albeit complicated to pilot due to the mass and having to learn to steer the thing under water and on land).



This is the second Real Grade kit I did. It's an early RG kit as well, so has some of the engineering problems the Gundam had, but due to this one being a more ....robust design bits don't come off and it holds poses a bit better. On the plus side, it's got more detailling than the High Grade Z'Gok. It comes with a little Char Aznable figure as well as the sometimes seen 4-claw configuration option, which is rather cool. Nobody knows where that comes from; I read that sometimes it was an animation error that made certain Z'Goks have 4 claws, but others claim that's not true. Who knows.

As far as customizing the chap goes, I added panel lines, extra riveting and details and a gemstone eye lense.

To contrast the gumball-machine aesthetic (it's designed for underwater/amphibious use), I used an extra-militaristic looking colour scheme (very loosely based on some of the few submarines with camo paintjobs) and chipping, scratches, rust and water marks.

This is what the Z'Gok looks like swimming! (or being shot out of a cannon)





I just enjoy the look of that chap. Very fun, very cool.



Hope you like them!



Btw, Bandai just announced a tabletop wargame featuring Gundam models at a much smaller scale. I presume 1/400th.

[Gargobot]

I have to say I really like your (relatively) recent infatuation with Gundam stuff and what paint jobs it yields.
Incredible stuff!

(You gonna get into that smaller scale game?)

[Ultravanillasmurf]

They look very good.

Btw, Bandai just announced a tabletop wargame featuring Gundam models at a much smaller scale. I presume 1/400th.

Tell us more.

[arshak]

Wow, these are just great, always had a soft spot for Goufs, and Zeon mobile suits, such as the Zaku, are for me the real iconic ones, more than the Gundam itself (a bit like imperial stormtroopers in Star Wars...)...

[HerbertTarkel]

Those are simply spectacular!

I opened up my first box, and … I can tell you, there’s a long way from the inside of that box to where your work ends! I like a challenge, and this one is going to be a good one.

[Battle Brush Sigur]

@Gargobot: Thanks very much! Not sure if I'll get any of that game. I got the big gundams, I'm not sure I need any more rules for sci-fi stuff, especially since these here appear to take place on a very small hex board. Nothing against hexes, but I don't like small.

@Ultravanillasmurf: Thanks very much. Well, even Bandai themselves haven't releasedmuch info so far: https://global.bandai-hobby.net/en-us/site/gundam-assemble/

@arshak: Thanks very much! Yeah, I dig them as well. I think that 50% of their appeal is simply based on how great they contrast with Earth Federation mobile suits too.

@HerbertTarkel: Cheers! Cool, I'm sure you'll enjoy the voyage.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Thanks for the link.
They look interesting.
It is then the question of cost.

The sprue shot shows them as fairly simple.

[syrinx0]

A tabletop wargame featuring Gundam could be interesting. Seems like it could be a competitor to Battletech?

[Daeothar]

https://youtu.be/MTd6T-mUZHI?si=TXT_7x_21rq7Na3s

[syrinx0]

Thanks for the link.

[Battle Brush Sigur]

As far as I know there aren't any news on the Gundam tabletop game. Not sure if it's supposed to be a competitor to Battletech because I think that the history of the latter in terms of wargaming is so vast. I believe that the Gundam thing will be more akin a boardgame like Warhammer Underworlds? But  let's see what they announce.

Anyway, I built myself one more kit - the lovely HG XR-77-2 Guncannon (Doan Cucuruz Island version).



As always, lovely to build and very relaxing. Then it lay around for a few weeks, and then I finally got to add some bits, scrape some panel lines, etc.

The Guncannon was Earth Federation's first combat-ready mobile suit, developed in conjunction with the RX-75 Guntank and the RX-78 Gundam. The Guncannon's job was medium fire support, so they bolted two 240mm cannons to its back (or missile launchers, but those never really made it into combat. It's included in the kit though!), put additional sensor stuff into the head and its crotch (the round yellow thing), and armoured it up, to the cost of mobility. It was still about as mobile as a Zaku II, then the main mobile suit of the Principality of Zeon. Other than the Guntank, the Guncannon's reactor was strong enough to power a beam weapon, so many units got a beam rifle to carry around as well, technically making the Guncannon the first mobile suit of the One Year War to use beam weapons.

Hope I get to paint it soon!

[robh]

Home page for the Bandai Gundam game is:

http://global.bandai-hobby.net/en-us/site/gundam-assemble/

First releases scheduled to "pre-launch" in July this year. Game looks to be playable with the lovely looking minis (50mm high) or without as a card game.  With models option is pretty pricey though.