#Hathaway's Flash

[marulki]

[retro-friki]

Gundam UC + The Onion Headlines

[vihra]

normal guys are always saying this

[screamofdespair]

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★ 【JasonKim】 「 Gigi 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me! insta • x • bsky

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[siodam]

June bride💐

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RX-105 Ξ Gundam by ncots666

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Decisive Step

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Gigi by JasonKim [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

[marulki]

[hath-e]

So why is the Federation using the fat ass Gustav Karl for urban combat when they have the Jegan?

Like we see them use Jegans at Davao. But they use the honest to God heaviest grunt to exist.

The Jegan is significantly smaller and lighter than the Gustav which would allow for easier hit and runs on the Messers, firing a few accurate shots in between bounces would make the fight take longer sure, but not only would it cause less collateral damage but it would make it easier to drag Mafty out of the city.

There are two possible answers but both lead to the same conclusion:

They don't care whether the people die, as long as they survive, the ministers would kill thousands so long that they get to build another golf course on the land of the people they've killed.

Something something capitalistic oligarchy something something

And I mean it's a bonus that they get to lie and claim that Mafty is killing all of them.

(For the record, according to Vol.2 Davao was one of the first Mafty strikes on a heavily populated area)

But you know, I'm sure if the ministers weren't using people as human shields knowing they had a target on their head, none of this would have happened. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[athena-gunpla]

HGUC 1/144 Anaheim Electronics Prototype 5th Gen Minovsky Flight System Mobile Suit RX-105 "Ξ Gundam" ("Xi Gundam")

Xi is here!!! I was lucky enough to get this as a birthday present last week and had to get going on it immediately.

The Xi is a really hefty kit, with a gigantic box and over 17 runners (many of which are duplicates for right and left sides). It's incredibly detailed, with great colour separation, however there are some major omissions.

Several orange colour correcting stickers are included, as well as some red and grey ones for the back skirt. I also had to color in some of the vents with my grey gundam marker. Usually I'd paint colour inaccuracies, however I didn't have the right shade of orange, so I let it slide. There's also a large white sticker for the shield's hidden particle canon which feels pretty egregious. There are also the usual eye and sensor stickers, and I did paint the inside of the thrusters red.

Xi comes with plenty of extra parts, including two beam saber effects for each saber, a large beam rifle, two open fist options, two open hand options, and a trigger finger options, as well as a shield and a connector for an Action Base 1. There's also a convertor part to transform the stabilizer wings into flight mode.

Flight mode is achieved mostly just by rotating and sliding parts of the shoulder armour, creating two large triangular wings. The feet rotate downwards, although you do need to parts-form some of the ankle stabilizers.

The wings are removed, and reattached with a separate part to create the final form.

The kit looks just as cool in regular mode, with the fight armour rotated down. The large beam sabers and shoulder armour really accentuate Xi's unique silhouette, as does the cockpit section, resembling Xi's face.

Inside the knees and elbows, as well as the back skirt, you can see moulded-in funnel missiles. There's a separate set which allows them to be displayed in a fired mode, but it unfortunately wasn't available.

The kit is pretty flexible, although it's difficult to rotate the arms due to the shoulder armour. All the joints feel pretty secure as there are no polycap parts so the kit's weight never gets in the way.

The beam sabers are both double-sided, with a smaller blade that can extend from the bottom. They're moulded in Bandai's usual fluorescent green and look really nice. I think the larger one is reused from the Kshatriya, another equally large kit.

Overall I had tons of fun building this, and it was really cool seeing how big it was, almost reaching the size of a MG. It's got a super unique looking design, breaking a lot of the tropes of previous gundam designs that make it pretty refreshing to build. Despite the size everything goes together really quickly.

If you can find it, I recommend giving this one a try!

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[bells-chaotic-brain]

Daily Bracket Day 10

Gundam Ariel V.S. Gundam Mk II