#gerbera tetra

[gundamfight]

[alphamecha-mkii]

Arsenal Base: Unitribe Season 04 - Gerbera Tetra by Yukishiro Chifuyu

[plastic-addicted]

bandai hg 1/144 agx-04 gerbera tetra, was given a great deal on this kit so I bought it, might paint it later but not sure.

[yeeticusdeleticus]

Thought I’d share my gerbera tetra custom kit:3

[gremoria411]

I would kill to know the context here.

[gremoria411]

With all the things you've posted looking at the mobile suits of various series, I wondered if you had any specific tastes in mecha design. Are there particular details or design cues that you're especially fond of?

@wordsandrobots, I fully expect to follow this up at sone point (and likely run out of pictures/want to ramble even more), so I’m going to pull it out as a proper post:

That is an *excellent* question, actually, since I hadn’t considered my tastes in such a broad scale before (and well-timed too, since I’ve got a post talking about Gusion in the works). It’s why I typically like talking about design series, since I can compare and contrast within that scope.

I typically focus on Gundam, since I generally like it as a series and there’s a massive variety of designs to appreciate, with a broad range. I’m largely influenced by the Anime, model kits and occasionally videogames, though in a lot of cases I can like a character, and that can lead to a greater appreciation of their mobile suit.

Specific design notes…. I tend to notice them more in the context of an artist - I adore a lot of Ippei Gyoubu’s design touches, from the bright colours to the detailed hands to the panel lines and little touches that you’d never notice. Kazuhisa Kondo has the organic shape and uniquely rounded weaponry and it’s styled in such a way as to apprear blurry, almost ephemeral, like you’re glimpsing it through a haze of smoke and gunfire and dirt, while frantically turning to get away, get away from the conflict. And yet the designs are still recognisable, and in a lot of respects draw from contemporary sources.

I’m similarly fond of Makoto Kobayashi and Kuino Okawara, though I typically struggle to explain how (Makoto Kobayashi tends to have really good composition? I think. So they look simple and detailed all at once, and they’re part of a scene, so it’s what you choose to focus on? And Okawara just makes it look so…. Effortless)

Hajime Katoiki I do like as well, I just struggle to nail down why. I suppose it’s because of how clean his designs look.

Moving away from the preference of artists (and honestly, it’s only that some of their design hallmarks are very distinct), I often have a preference for specific “types” of mobile suit. I talked about this a little in regards to the Code: Fairy designs, but I often find myself drawn to specialist mobile suits over generalist ones. From a modelling perspective, I often like each one to be distinct in a lineup in some way (unless they’re similar models, then I just put them together so the differences show). Often this can just be a distinct weapon, but it’s just as often the form of the mobile suit (the Gusion’s a good example here, since it draws the eye due to its heavyset build, understated colour scheme and giant hammer) or even the colour (see: the Infinite Justice being bright pink). This tends to encompass a lot of close-quarters units (like the Pixy and the Efreets) simply because there’s a lot of ways to do that well. Another reason is that whereas generalist suits tend to show up in large roles throughout the series, specialist ones tend towards “monster-of-the-week”, typically being an obstacle to be defeated or just having one or two cool scenes (like the Efreet Schneid). So I find they stick in my head a lot better.

I can like a lot of designs from a series as well, but of course I tend to have a lot of different criteria as to what designs I like, depending on the suit’s billing and purpose (what makes a great grunt suit and what makes a great protagonist suit are quite different after all). I do very much like a lot of the UC Grunt suits (though I’ll probably touch on that in more detail at a later point), for example, but I only really like one from Anno Domini, the Tieran (since it looks so much like a walking tank as opposed to the spindly nature of the Flags and Enacts). That said, I don’t think that the Flags, Enacts and GN-X’s are bad designs, they’re just not really the sort of thing I like.

In fact, I reckon that’s why I’m particularly fond of Iron-Blooded Orphans’ Aesthetics, since a lot of the units from that series would be close-quarters specialists in any other series. But because melee is so common in Post Disaster, virtually everything carries a nice solid sharp stick. The only exceptions I can think of are Gusion Rebake (which is more of an all-rounder), Flauros (and even that has hatchets that leave cqc a viable option) and Dainsleif Grazes (which only have one arm, so….).

[winonaparadise]

LIVE NOW!! building the HG GERBERA TETRA!! it's a hot suit with an even hotter pilot. cima simps can cut the line. COME HANG!! >>> twitch.tv/winonaparadise <<<

[quattro-bacheema]

WIP of my current custom build. Cutting off the Gerbera Tetra's muzzle was nervewracking but I managed to it just right so that I could slap on the Quanta's facemask.

Went ahead and painted the chest parts ahead of the rest since I've ran out of free time to work on this today. In hindsight, black probably wasn't the best color for the chest.

Will probably work on the arms tomorrow. I have spare shoulders from the Galaldy Rebake so I might use those over the ones the Gerbera comes with.

[aroacegundamalex]

[ID: digital art of the Gerbera Tetra from Gundam Stardust Memory, standing against a gray background, holding its gun. The mech is highly-detailed, drawn in a realistic style, with heavy parts separation, and warning labels scattered across it. It’s reflection is visible in the floor beneath it, and the words ‘Mobile Suit Universe Century Series’ beside it, and its name behind it in large letters. End ID.]

AGX-04 GERBERA TETRA by Hung Ping

[hattiestgal]

New HG I got 👍 (Ignore the Exia)

...In all seriousness, this is the Gerbera-Tetra from Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory! I picked it up solely because I appreciate its shape, so I'm not too knowledgeable on the suit itself, but I think it looks rad! Monoeyes are always good taste, ehehe

[bumbleinmyrums]

RE/100 GP04 Gerbera stickerless review!

Trying something new today~ got my hands on this guy after yearning for him for a couple of years hehehehe

Known for its huge sturm boosters and being "stolen" by zeon and turned into the Gerbera Tetra

Basic backstory is that Anaheim Electronics wanted to sell the federation another gundam but they went "isn't this just the GP01 but with a new backpack? We'll pass"

Not wanting idle stock AE concocts a devious plot to sell the suit to zeon remnants without alerting the federation by putting the deal under the guise of a heist,

So AE can go "oh no zeon stole this new suit we built oh noooooo this sucks so bad ;)"

It being in the RE/100 line it's essentially a big high grade and very much a shelf filler kit but it's still a killer design!

The line also has these strange ratcheting polycaps that in my experience have never lasted but still hold their joints enough, as long as it's a conventional suit design

If you think the design is sick then definitely pick one up!

[nukenai]

I've made 750 tweets and annoyed the shit out of my con roommates with my hysterical ranting but I fucking got the Fenice Rinascita Alba. Thank you everyone for opinions on the kits but this one has been my holy grail for years and I knew I had to have it. When I walked up to the guy's stand yesterday and saw the box my heart skipped a beat and I knew I had to have it.

I found Zeromaru too I'm hype. The guy had a lot of p-Bandai and he said he's happy to do meetups to sell stuff and that's very dangerous I'm in trouble he had like 4 other kits I want Uhoh help me UHOHHHHH

My brain rot is so bad that I actually wanted to buy Kirara's Gerbera Tetra despite having a law that no Gerbera Tetras are allowed in my home. But. So pink.

I'm so tired lmfao

[alphamecha-mkii]

Arsenal Base LinXTage - Gerbera Tetra by Taka-F

[buggernaut-kal]

UC Gundam is funny because the only qualifying statistic for whether something is classified as a Gundam is solely if it is named “Gundam.” The Gundam GP04 being half-finished, then finished and given a different aesthetic? Well now it’s called the Gerbera Tetra, so now it’s NOT a Gundam! Give a GM Quel a Gundam head? Well, since the Titans call it a Gundam Hazel, now it’s a Gundam! Anaheim develops a prototype called the Gamma Gundam that’s then renamed to the Prototype Rick Dias? Guess what buck-o, now that’s NOT a Gundam!

It’s even funnier when you consider designs that were meant to look similar to a Gundam that aren’t a Gundam. The Hrairoo looks the part for a Gundam, but I don’t see a Gundam in its name so not a Gundam! Yeah, it was developed from the Gaplant, which in turn was developed from the RX-78E Gundam GT-FOUR, which was a GUNDAM but whatever. Some suits like the Dijeh and the Gabthley would look pretty Gundam-like with the tri-color scheme, but no relation to any Gundam there.

All I’m saying is that this reminds me of Plato defining a man as a featherless biped and Diogenes running in with a plucked chicken screaming “BEHOLD, A MAN!” except Plato describes a Gundam as anything we call “Gundam” and Diogenes running in with a Zock.

BEHOLD! A GUNDAM!

[yeeticusdeleticus]

I was gonna do an “in this essay I will” bit for this gundam rant but I’ll give my lil speech. I’m probably not the first to think this but still. Anaheim is the main villain of the Universal Century. Not Char, or Zeon, or anything like that. Anaheim Electronics. Who supplied both the titans(up until Jupiter got involved) and aeug? Who supplied Char’s Neo Zeon and the federation forces fighting again him? Who happily gave The Sleeves the sinanju and all their mobile suits? Anaheim. Now these are all post Gryps conflicts where it’d be easy to say that they made connections with Zeon after partnering with the aeug and whatnot but here’s the thing. 0083 shows that they were doing this pre gryps. Now I could talk about how they just conveniently ignored the fact that they had multiple people working on the GP0# project with deep ties to known Zeon remnants. But there’s something more damning. The Gerbera Tetra. A unit based off the GP04. How would zeon remnants get the 04’s data and blueprints, and how would they have done so early enough to be able to manufacture a vastly upgraded version without Anaheim knowing about it? Anaheim at best was complacent in 0083 or at worst actively assisting in the matter; knowing either way that this would lead to a boost in the federation’s military spending and thus Anaheim’s profits. Anaheim is the main villain of UC. Anaheim is the Military Industrial Complex. Anaheim is capitalism.

[bagea]

gundam au where it’s the same but char gets a heavily customized gerbera tetra