Answer: Model / toy shops.



Seriously, there's HG, 1/100, and PG... which one do you want?

And look through the forum mah.... it's pinned on the top:
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/392450



This post has been edited by StarGhazzer: Oct 11 2009, 07:48 AM

Give it Nadleeh's hair and it shall be complete !!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3472/400064...8f6b03f2b_b.jpg
Another category for Unicorn? Hm.... hard to tell which one though. Maybe Robot Damashi but if that's the case they would have called it as such anyway. Ah what the heck, more important is the MG scheduled for March. Banshee perhaps?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3406/365227...c16460bc4_b.jpg
And comparing the schedule to the old one back in August... looks like the red ovals refer to the G collection, but we're still missing one MG in Feb

http://www2.moeyo.com/img/09/10/12/4/422.jpg
http://www2.moeyo.com/img/09/10/12/4/424.jpg
Wonderful articulation for the SHCMPro Unicorn, but for that price I could easily get an army of HGUC Unicorns.

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/ossan-obahan1-2/e/65...a66ad82c0509cbd
And I was wrong about the V... The runners show 2 red caps for the cockpit and 2 sets of blue chest pieces, which means 2 separate core fighters.

More Unicorn...

And my new wallpaper...
http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/2208/1255412249498.jpg

This post has been edited by StarGhazzer: Oct 14 2009, 01:35 PM

Badass...
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/2825/c2dec157.jpg

It's huge.
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/7034/sssrs.jpg

Not the biggest though
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/1769/im...17511202148.jpg

It has a rotating hip/thigh joint like the 30th Anniversary HGUC Gundam. Along with the knee joint, this dude has much improved leg articulation compared to the Sazabi.
http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/3735/wwwwwk.jpg

http://blog.livedoor.jp/hacchaka/archives/51365034.html
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/taka421jp/51120214.html/

The Kshatriya is larger than the typical MG thanks to the massive wing binders, hence the expensive price.

Whoa... the Kshatriya's head is so puny that the Sazabi's small head looks big in comparison. Hopefully the Sinanju won't have a squished head.

Hm... looks like the Blue Frame got a 1/144 action base to support the sword. Maybe it's included in the 4800 yen price tag
OOB version : http://ruliweb2.nate.com/ruliboard/read.ht...plamodel&left=e

Mr Bushido should have been piloting this instead of ugly-feet mechas.


This post has been edited by StarGhazzer: Oct 18 2009, 06:12 PM

hehe, later you also kena turn a syndrome and get the PG 00.

Anyway, will Bandai release MG FA Unicorn? With the basic Unicorn costing 5000 yen, adding on 2 more shields, 6 gatlings, 1 more bazooka, and various missile pods and boosters will surely jack the price up, possibly to Sazabi level.

Lots of tiny joints for the exaggerated action poses... fingers crossed that they won't wear out otherwise the whole body will sag badly. The graffiti decals are absolutely horrendous - who the heck designed them?

Puny gatling becomes uglier with the nipped off noozles, and still looks puny compared to giant gatlings of the Gundam 6th unit and Gouf Custom.

NG proportions > MG, but loses totally in articulation.

Blue Frame became severely emaciated, tak cukup makan...

This post has been edited by StarGhazzer: Oct 21 2009, 03:06 PM

Unless you are aiming for Code Geass/00-like poses where the mecha does leg splits, the NG Blue Frame's articulation isn't really too far off from the MG. Having said that, my 1/100 Blue Frame's ankles are very loose that it'll collapse spontaneously. The upper limb and backpack joints are far too weak to support the backpack, so hopefully these are issues that the MG would have resolved.

But of course, aesthetics are subjective. Many people loved the MG Impulse for the sleek design and extravagant poses, but for me I still prefer the chunky look of the original lineart.

MG Hi-Nu's redesign invited loads of flak as it shed the bulkiness for Seed-like proportions, and although I prefer the old Izubuchi design I couldn't care less for the Hi-Nu because I prefer the asymmetrical look of the Nu plus I couldn't afford the MG HiNu

The lesson is, if you like the design, go for it... Don't bother about what we say. After all, Bandai can't please everybody.

This post has been edited by StarGhazzer: Oct 21 2009, 07:20 PM

Just to add more fun

The HGUC seems closest to Izubuchi's lineart.

More red stuff.
This is modded from a PG Strike Frame.



Attached thumbnail(s)

For some reason, the rifle of the MG Victory has become ugly bright blue instead of the typical grey shade. Both HJ and Gundam Ace magazine has pictures of this unexpected change. Hopefully the end product will still come with grey rifle instead of blue.
HJ:


Gundam Ace:


This post has been edited by StarGhazzer: Oct 23 2009, 01:21 PM

More OOB pics of the Blue Frame.
http://schizophonic9.com/secondrevise.html

Crazy extravagant poses which is on par with the Exia, if not better.

MG Red Frame... I'll be surprised not to see it.

One of the possibilities that funnels are not popular in Victory era could be due to the demise of newtypes. The only prominent ones in V are Queen Maria who seems to have Jesus-like healing properties, and her daughter Shakti.

Another possibility could be the influence of Unicorn now that it has been made official into the UC timeline. The Kshatriya's funnel system were overridden by NTD and used against Marida instead, and coupled together with EF's usual mistrust of newtypes, costs, and complexity of the psycommu/frame technology, all factions decided that newtype weaponry might not be so effective after all. We don't really see any of them in F91 so it's not surprising that Victory lacks them as well.

Well you can say that Usso's newtype powers allowed him to sense the position of the enemies without requiring sensors/radars and therefore enabling him to react faster and perform outrageous (and wasteful) moves with the Victory parts.

Man... Kshatriya IS POISON.


Virtually no visible seamlines, neat locking joints to support the wing binders, fairly wide range of articulation despite its bulk. And whoa, the Gundam 2.0 looks puny beside this HGUC.


Even Aegis's sotong mode doesn't look as badass as this... Once kena grab, there's 24+4 beams shooting straight in your face.

Antidote... ANTIDOTE !!

This post has been edited by StarGhazzer: Oct 27 2009, 02:49 PM

Not a fair comparison I suppose. The Kshatriya might appear a slightly less bulky, but it retains the same chunky parts as the original lineart. The skirt armours looks smaller than the lineart suggested, while the tip of the forearm armours are not as long. Other than that it's still the chubby bulky brute that looks absolute badass.

For what it's worth, the 1/100 resin Kshatriya, not the HGUC, is the one that underwent some body-shaping.


With such a detailed and well-designed large-sized HGUC, I am looking forward to the Nightingale... if Bandai decides to give the Hi-Nu some companions that is. Here are some mods mainly based on the HGUC Sazabi.


This post has been edited by StarGhazzer: Oct 27 2009, 07:23 PM

I believe the changes are much more subtle compared to the Blue Frame, and most people are more comfortable with the green monster and hence less complaints. But of course as with any other gunplas, one's own preference is the main reason why one purchases it - other people's opinions are merely for reference and seem less important.

Resin casts often have exaggerated proportions which look nothing like the original. The B-club Sazabi deviates further from Izubuchi's design and yet it doesn't stop it from becoming one of the more popular resin kits amongst modellers.

Anyway, there are more and more reviews on the green monster popping up all over the net. The more I look at it, the more I understand the pricetag... but it doesn't make it more affordable though
http://www.toy-world.com.hk/forum/viewthre...page%3D1&page=1

Since we're on monoeye poison...

http://www.first-jp.com/topic03/pla_view/m...ver2/custom.htm
The eye, THE EYE !!


This post has been edited by StarGhazzer: Oct 28 2009, 04:15 AM

We'll never know until Bandai releases an MG Kshatriya.

MGs often get revised designs where some look better than the lineart (mainly the v2.0s) while others look totally different (Hi-Nu). Early Seed MGs such as Strike and Freedom gained more appropriate proportions, SF HAS to be redesigned after the HG and 1/100 abominations, but the models after that tend to get exaggerated, skinny, lengthy limbs which made them look out of sorts; albeit with superior articulation.

Unicorn stayed fairly true to the original lineart (although the forearm sabres were a late addition compared to the very first design released), while the Sinanju got additional gadgets like the shield and beam axes that weren't present in the first place. For what it's worth, Katoki made subtle changes to the Sinanju such as redesigned rear thrusters, rifle, and tons of decals, which made it look much more refined. If Katoki gets his way in the Unicorn MG line, he'd stick to staying true to his lineart rather than send everything into the slimming centre and I expect the same case with Kshatriya.



Then again, the Victory loses the oversized feet in the upcoming MG to look less cartoony. Judging from the pictures currently available, there are significant flaws with the Victory such as the absence of rotating thigh joints and old tech palms. It's hard to understand why Bandai decides to go ahead with these shortcomings when they can be easily fixed with current MG technology without compromising the transformation mechanics.

Maybe it's a deliberate decision by Bandai. After all the 00S2 mechas lose much detail and became plain janes compared to their predecessors.
But the selling point of the PG00 is the fancy spinning GN drives, not outrageous details and panel lines like the Strike and Astray.

The price is a killer.... That's just too much cash to spend on one gunpla...

This post has been edited by StarGhazzer: Oct 28 2009, 08:17 PM

Agree. It would be even sweeter if Bandai could incorporate early design sketches for some of their mechas that got rejected.

Like a winged RX78. Or early Zeta conceptual sketches.

Well just to be anal, X's and DX's satellite plates at the rear are just for show. The satellite beam relay focuses on the green chest piece instead to charge the cannon, although you may imagine the plates to be used as heat-dissipating purposes.

MG DX you mean.

Let me see whether I have any good X and DX pics... I do.

Probably the most famous MG X picture... based on the MG Freedom frame.




This post has been edited by StarGhazzer: Nov 1 2009, 08:54 AM