#RX-79 G

[therosecrest]

[thatbitchfrommercury]

Ez8 🤝 Optimus Prime

Megs and Gouf are unimpressed

[alphamecha-mkii]

[cultofthewyrm]

by Olympia Sweetman

[ephemeral-builds]

Grabbed a quick picture of my two 08th MS Team kits up on the shelf. I definitely need to pick up more to build-out the collection.

[kaelor0409]

I will pay any amount of money to hear Erika Ishii explain why the US government should build them a Gundam.

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[douchewiththeshades]

RX-79[G]Ez-8 Gundam Ez8

Just a fun little gijinka design

[darkeangel]

Some inked Gundams.

1: RX-79 [G]

2: RX-87NT-1 ALEX

3: Hy-Gogg

4: Crossbone X1

5: V-Dash Hexa

6: Dragon Gundam

7: Gundam X

8: Kapool

9: Red Frame Astray

10: Atlas Gundam

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

I’m working on more gunpla! This time I’m building and actually painting an RX-79[G] Ground-type! I’m gonna make it look beat up as hell; after all, a mech fighting in the mud and jungle would look terrible after a while.

My test for what I’ll kind of do to the rest on the storage crate it wears on its back.

And here it is again. The ground-type is very interested haha

[ominoushominid]

Took advantage of the great lighting in my kitchen this morning for a little photo shoot ft. My brother's RX-79[G]

[studioagogo]

HG RX-79 [G] 1/144

[dragon-snoots-a-boopin]

Okay guys, ONLY tell me if your vote is for something NOT ON the poll here. If you like Exia, vote for it on the poll.

Edit: Here's the current list of write ins for the other category:

GF13-017NJII God Gundam

GF13-017NJ Shining Gundam

Gundam F91

Turn A Gundam

RX-93 Nu Gundam

GX-9901-DX Gundam Double X

RX-0 Unicorn Gundam

RX-78NT-1 Gundam NT-1 "Alex"

YG-111 Gundam G-Self

RX-79 [G] Gundam Ez-8

[gremoria411]

So I’ve been seeing a lot of people chatting about the new Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance trailer, and there’s a part of it I’d like to throw my two cents in on.

Honestly, in regards to there being a billion Gundam’s running around the OYW, I made my peace with that fact years ago, so it doesn’t bother me. Yeah, yeah it’s a little silly from an in-universe perspective, no matter how many times they pull the “secret prototype” card. But from an out of universe perspective, Gundams sell, and they want it to sell. It’s a rare thing in the UC series that doesn’t have a Gundam in it.

But just for the sake of it, how many Gundams are (at present) running around in the One Year War?

Note: I was originally going to ignore things like Thunderbolt, The Origin and the Sidestories, since they all have a somewhat weird canon state. Then I realised that “Gundams that Canonically existed in the OYW” ≠ “Gundams that you see marketed in OYW sidestories”. So, I’m going to lead with the suits that we know existed, then move on to the other ones. I am, however, ignoring Manga, because I haven’t read everything and we’ll be here all day.

Alrighty, so we start off with the original RX-78 series as built in Operation V (sometimes called the “Vinson Plan”). We have:

RX-78-1 “Prototype Gundam” - As its name suggests, the prototype unit to the entire line. Never deployed to my knowledge, I’m honestly not sure what happens to it. I usually read it as being destroyed during the attack on Side 7, but I’m not certain of that.

RX-78-2 “Gundam” - you know this one. Amuro falls into the cockpit at Side 7 and proceeds to pilot it from then until the end of the One Year War.

RX-78-3 “G-3 Gundam” - apparently recovered from Side 7 and used as a test bed for magnet coating technology. Beyond that we have absolutely no idea what happened to it, since there’s a bunch of conflicting accounts. My usual headcanon is that it was used as a basis for all the MSV suits, but we have absolutely no idea if and where it was deployed.

RX-78-4 “Gundam G04” - deployed alongside unit 5 at the Battle of Solomon.

RX-78-5 “Gundam G05” - deployed alongside unit 4 at the battle of Solomon.

RX-78-6 “Mudrock Gundam” - deployed in the defence of Jaburo and the re-taking of California base.

The other two units are part of the series, but were not (as far as we know) deployed during the OYW:

RX-78-7 “Gundam 7th” - completed and deployed after the war.

RX-78-8 - we know nothing about. There may have been an 8th unit, it may just have been design data, and we have no idea if it was deployed or what it looked like.

Next; The Gundam Ground Types. There were 20 (-ish, some sources say 28) Gundam ground types produced during the One Year War from spare parts of the RX-78 series. This includes:

The units seen in 08th MS Team - 12 Gundam Ground Types were deployed to the Kojima Battalion.

The Ez8 - Deployed, as above.

Blue Destiny Unit 1 - Deployed

Blue Destiny Unit 2 - stolen by Zeon Ace Nimbus Schterzen.

Blue Destiny Unit 3 - Deployed in pursuit of Unit 2.

Slave Wraith - Questionably Canon, assigned to and deployed by Slave Wraith team.

I’m also gonna quickly call out that we have no idea on the various Full Armor units (the FA Gundam, the Heavy Gundam, the FA Ground type, the FA type B etc). Some sources say they were built, others that they were only simulation data.

And finally we have everything else:

Gundam NT-1 “Alex” - Developed at Augusta Base, then moved to side 6, where it was deployed against the Cyclops Team.

Gundam NT-1 “Prototype NT-1” - apparently an entirely separate suit to the NT-1. The prototype to the above. Presumably not deployed.

RX-78XX “Pixy/Pixie Gundam” - Questionably Canon, three units built. Unit 1 deployed in Belfast, Unit 2 in the Gobi Desert (and planned to be deployed at Odessa) and Unit 3 in Africa.

RAG-79-G1 Gundam Marine type - Sometimes known as the “Gundiver”. An underwater-spec unit. Unknown amount produced, primarily because it’s essentially a modified Underwater GM as opposed to a “true” Gundam unit.

And that’s about it for mainline UC. Gundam The Origin intentionally keeps things very vague as to how many Gundam’s exist there, so I’m not going to bother.

Gundam Thunderbolt is a bit of an odd case, since at first glance, it adds three:

FA-78 Full Armour Gundam (Thunderbolt ver.) - deployed by the Moore Brotherhood at Side 4.

RX-79[GS] Gundam Ground type S - produced by the Federation during the One Year War and after, presumably deployed.

RGM-79/GH Gundam Head - a GM with a Gundam-style head in an attempt to reproduce the psychological effect on Zeon forces.

But that last one illustrates Thunderbolt’s position on the matter, which is later made clearer in the manga in regards to the Bull-G, a unit built postwar. The Bull-G is a prototype unit contending for the position of the Federations new main unit. However, it’s actually an upgraded GM, fitted with a Gundam-style head to make it more appealing.

And this seems to be thunderbolt’s position on the matter - after a certain point it comes down to a suit’s performance rather than it being a Gundam. So yes, it adds a bunch of Gundam-style suits, but it also deconstructs that just because a suit looks like a Gundam doesn’t make it special.

Which is honestly a pretty interesting position to take.

[alphamecha-mkii]

RX-79[G]Ez-8 Gundam Ez8 by kuri_giepi

[cultofthewyrm]

RX-79[G] Gundam Ground Type (Project M) by Jeff Allen

[ephemeral-builds]

After spending the better part of two weeks on that last build I wanted something quick, easy, and relaxing. So this week I'm building the RX-79[G] Gundam Ground Type from 08th MS Team.

So... When I started on this kit I figured it'd be pretty similar to the Ez8 I built a little while back - they're both from 08th MS Team after all. But I didn't realize the Ez8 was HGUC155 and the RX-79[G] is HGUC210. There was something like four years between those releases and it shows.

There's a weird, murky transparent green runner for the eyes. It's not the normal vibrant green I'm used to seeing. Not that it really matters - those eyes are getting covered with a sticker.

My first instinct was to reach for the paints instead of the stickers... But I wanted something quick and easy this week - so, stickers it is!

And, honestly, the stickers aren't bad in this kit. The only sticker I'd really call "color correcting" is that yellow 'v' in the crotch. Everything else is shiny foils for the eyes or cameras... Or some little triangles here and there.

There's some surprisingly good color separation in the chest. The only sticker on there is the white triangle.

Good assortment of accessories in this kit... The two closed/holding hands, an open left hand, and a trigger-finger right hand. Shield, beam rifle, machine gun, 180mm cannon, beam rifles, and the backpack.

That backpack is a huge upgrade over what we got with the Ez8. The clampy bit that the backpack hooks into is actually articulated.

While we only get the one trigger-finger hand, the machine gun and beam rifle can be held in either hand.

The beam sabers can store in the legs again, just like the Ez8. And the 180mm cannon breaks down for storage in the backpack.

There's also a simple sheet of marking stickers... Just a few numbers to indicate exactly which unit this is.

This kit is fantastically poseable. Great articulation. Nice and strong. If anything it's too strong. It felt like I was fighting some of the joints to get things positioned the way I wanted them.

Unfortunately that trigger-finger hand is pretty fragile. It kept popping apart while I was trying to pose the kit. I think I'm going to have to tighten that hand up a bit. But you only really need to use the trigger-finger hand for the 180mm cannon.

Overall this is a really, really solid kit. Great fun. Superior to that Ez8 in pretty much every way. It makes me want to pick up the Master Grade version. And another couple HGs too... And a couple of the GM Ground Types as well, so I can properly-replicate Karen's "GM Head".