#the o

[gundamfight]

[eyesareforlosers]

drankin...smokin...smokin...drankin

Anyways! Haven't posted this piece to the ol Tumblr.. So that's what I'm doin!

I'm shit at painting with any medium but digital has gotta be the easiest (still was a pain in the ass).

[reindeer-spotting]

The O & gONNA gET gOT

[zairaalbereo]

Nile — Lugano safe house

After London Series (3/4)

[seashellisinmyheart]

The artwork from Pya Parr from Petrol Head is top notch!

[clicknboom]

thumbnail toonz via the-o.tv

[maxisdahades]

A Celebration

[omegamechanicum]

Late birthday present from the misses.

[mitersaw]

gifs of nepo from the o in "now" and "anal thermometer" music videos, saved and edited by me

[zazagundam]

why are Gryps mobile suits so cool

[buggernaut-kal]

1 AM ramble here we gooooooooooo

So with Char’s Counterattack essentially being a novel (High-Streamer) and a movie and ANOTHER novel (Beltorchika’s Children) you get some version differences, the big ones being the Nu Gundam and Sazabi being replaced with the Hi-Nu Gundam and Nightingale, respectively. I wanna talk about the aesthetics of the Nightingale.

To begin, let’s take a brief look at how it looks next to the Sazabi

At face value the Nightingale is a more monstrous Sazabi, hunched with all sort of protruding parts, but it’s like a stretched-out Sazabi in some regards. Both even share design cues from Char’s helmet in 0079. Sazabi is clearly meant to harken back to bulky Zeon suit designs with its legs and pipes around the waist, it’s got Char’s signature color like his Zaku II, and the cockpit/escape pod is in the head just like the Zeong. I believe the Nightingale was purposefully meant to harken back to the “final boss” suits of each prior Gundam series.

As mentioned, the Zeong had a cockpit in the head which doubled as an escape craft and the Sazabi built off of that idea with the escape pod being inside the head, which Nightingale carries over as well. On top of that, the Zeong has a stupid amount of thrusters in its lower torso, so many that the skirt extends back and gives the suit a centaur-like appearance from the side. Nightingale ALSO has an elongated back-skirt packed full of thrusters. (You could also argue the chest mega-particle cannon in the Sazabi and Nightingale could be referencing the Zeong’s waist cannons but I think that’s a stretch.) The Zeong is also a massive suit even without legs, and while Sazabi is a big boy, the Nightingale is a goliath compared to other suits. The Hi-Nu is even slightly smaller than the Nu Gundam to emphasize this height disparity just like the Gundam vs the Zeong in 0079.

But another Zeon MS that Nightingale draws from is the Qubeley. The giant shoulder binders are a dead giveaway, with the Qubeley’s main thrust coming from those shoulder binders and the Nightingale ALSO having massive shoulder binders packed with thrusters. The Quebeley is based off the Elmeth and compacts its bit weaponry down into funnels, which become THE weapon for Newtypes in combat, and the Nightingale stores funnels on its shoulders. The extra tie all the way back to the Elmeth is kind of poetic given Char’s hangups about Lala, and ironic given his relationship with Haman. Both are Zeon MS so it’s not a big surprise, but what I find particularly interesting is how The O fits in.

Far bulkier than nearly any Zeon MS, Scirocco showed that suits from Jupiter were weird. The O has pipes around the waist like the Zaku did, but importantly the skirt armor is super thick and has square thrusters built into their sides, along with the legs and feet being very bulky and bulbous. Both Sazabi and Nightingale draw from that, but Nightingale also sports a set of sub-arms in its front-skirts just like The O did. Not entirely sure what this means in-universe (maybe that Char embraced a bit of Jupiter’s design sensibilities through Scirocco as a fellow Spacenoid?) but it’s a clear homage at the very least.

But yeah, Nightingale is like a chimera of the Zeong, The O, and Qubeley to create this kind of Ultimate Final Boss of a mobile suit while also warping the aesthetics of Sazabi in the process. Interesting to note that all of these suits were designed by Spacenoids for Spacenoids, even if a Jupiter design is an outlier. A very neat design and I quite like that visual aspect of it. It also helps that all of these suits look cool (I have a soft spot for the Zeong, okay?)

[gundamfight]

[majestikvisuals]

Oceanside Sign

📍Oceanside Harbor, CA

A mid-night walk with my siblings, down from our Hotel balcony onto a short ‘breakwater’ across from the OCEANSIDE sign on an overcast night ☁️ 7.22.23

[truestgear]

Built the HGUC The O today.

It's hefty and older than some of the people in this hobby, so its articulation isn't particularly great, but it's serviveable. Same goes for the accessories, though the rifle is a bit loose in its dedicated hand and the skirt-claws can be a bit finnicky. My biggest complaint is honestly that some of the joints aren't tight enough, but that might only be a problem on my copy for all I know.

With that, my HG Federation shelf is, for all intents and purposes, done. Been a fun collecting journey, Zeon's probably next.

[dangus-doo]

I draw a pen doodle every day until I forget

Day 236: PMX-003 The O (Zeta Gundam)

Man, I’m bummed. I stayed up late last night finishing Zeta Gundam. I can’t spoil it for those who haven’t seen it, but my god. I do really like Scirocco’s mobile suit “The O.” As a fellow “O,” I thought it would make for a good daily drawing. But I beefed it. Especially if it’s supposed to continue on from yesterday’s drawing. I should have put more time into today.

Ah well, there’s always tomorrow!