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Post by Vorbote on Oct 17, 2010 3:18:35 GMT -6
As the title suggests, it's a lightly frankened and re-colored GM [G] type. My next project is a completely new MS, and will involve more Franken than before. MS-06T Zaku Terminator It's gonna be ugly. After that, I'll be working on a modified Kämpfer/Kämpfer Prototype, and it will be a Franken/Recolor project too.
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Post by Hectator on Nov 29, 2010 19:25:58 GMT -6
That is a bitchin' Zeke GM. I like how the suit itself is repainted, but the ammo mags are still the normal color. Also, the added shoulder just screams "fuck you feddies, my not-a-gundam nao!". I think my favorite part though is that the visor is retinted to match the color of (most) mono-eyes. Though the torso is a little funny-colored like it doesn't match, unless you were going for that. :/ My suggestion would be to get that sucker a beam rifle ASAP though, since it was one of the few GM variants shown to use a full-out beam rifle where it wasn't an animation error or modification/upgrade* Also, would it be possible to do something similar with a regular GM or GM Cannon? The angle I was going for with my personal ZR crew was that they started out extremely light on Zeon-built MS, and therefore had to borrow/steal/salvage most of their machines; at first they'd mainly be salvaged franken Zakus and captured GMs (that had been brought back into service using gratuitous ammounts of Zaku parts to make them properly "Zeonic"), but once EFF starts building copies/clones of Zeon MS and the RMS line of suits the GMs will likely disappear entirely in favor of Hi-Zacks, Galbaldys, Dowadges, etc *personally I think they were upgraded with RX-79 type reactors prior to the assault in the next-to-last episodes, since you never see GMs using beam rifles prior to the attack on Ghineas' base, but since everything else including our mechlist contradicts this opinion...
As for the Zaku idea, well the only issue I have is that the designation MS-06 T is already taken by the Zaku Trainer, which exists in at least three (possibly four) different forms; - the version from MSV that's said to have twin mono-eyes/cockpits (said to be identical to the regular other than these two features)
- the MSV-R "remake" of it (where they added litter bumpers across the machine but seem to have forgotten its supposed to have two mono-eyes)
- the Kondo version in MS Senki that (similar to the Trainer version of the GM Kai in Ecole du Ciel) has reinforced armor and shock absorbers so newbies can master the controls without ruining the thing
- Another (which might not be official in any way, iunno) that that looks more like a Zaku Worker (i.e. a stripped down, non-combat Zaku II painted in bright hazmat colors) crossed with a Zaku II A (i.e. twin shoulder domes)
Though considering that the Gouf A-type was used as a "trainer" due to it having reduced combat capabilities compared to the B-type (and I think inferior armor, considering the altered the design of the torso/cockpit), this last one might just be an A- or C-type Zaku (or even a F/J-type) relegated to training duty instead of being put on the front lines, but that could still be given real weapons and repainted to serve in combat if need be (and considering that even Zaku Is were dragged back into service, they probably were too).
However..... there is the fact that Zaku Trainers are one of the machines in MSV that are referred to as never having an official ZEON designation (the Zaku Worker and Tank are the other two I can think of), and that these are actually POST-WAR EFF designation they give them when classifying them to tell the machines apart. Similar to how a lot of German WWII machines are called things nowadays that the German military never referred to them as at the time, due to that being what the Allies either referred to them as during the war or names they came up with post-war when cataloguing them. Anyways... this would mean that the door is open for Zeon Remnants to make a machine they refer to as the "T-type Zaku". Also, there are other cases of multiple machines sharing the same designation, and Zeon had a thing for this since it had so many manufacturers (both private companies and military bases) coming up with designs - often that competed with one another - and when one wasn't adopted it's designation tended to be given to another machine* ; also if one design bureau was unaware that another had come up with something So there's several ways of explaining having a Zaku II T that isn't a trainer I guess. * Ex: - The "MS-07" designation was originally meant for a new space combat mobile suit that would have taken the place of the S-type/R-type Zaku II; when this was rejected in favor of simply improving the Zaku the designation was given to the Gouf (this is according to a couple old-old sources including MSV)
- The YMS-08A High Mobility Prototype & MS-08TX Efreet both share the same "MS-08" slot, despite one being a Gouf competitor made by Zimmad based on the Zudah and the other being a Dom competitor built by Zeonic based on the Gouf
- Originally the Gelgoog was "MS-11" (and was basically just a MS-06R on steroids), which was later given to the Act Zaku while the Gelgoog was redesigned to incorporate beam weapons
- Both the Xamel and Zeong started out with the designation "MS-16", and at the same time no less; one was being developed on earth at Cali Base and the other in space by the Flanagan Institute for completely unrelated reasons, probably why they both took the same designations
- "MSN-01" is both the designation of the Psycommu Zaku, and of another NT MS (Kikerogo I think it was?) that originally was meant for Char; basically think Gelgoog Hi-Mo/Cannon upgraded with Psycommu Zaku parts (like the wire guided MPC hands) and that's essentially what it's described as.
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Post by Vorbote on Nov 30, 2010 1:19:45 GMT -6
I chose the teal color on the torso and feet because it struck me as a Zeonic or perhaps even AEUG color.
That's a lot of great data, too. Thank you, I'll keep all that in mind and figure something out.
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