Wednesday, July 8, 2009

XN Raiser

As a lot of you know, Hobby Japan is shipping the XN Raiser (pronounced ZAN RAIZA in Japanese) kit with it's October issue which is coming out next month. This seems to be a 00V design.

So here is the question I have for you. Are you feeling it or not?

In my case, I'm not. I think the 00 Raiser is already way off balance with that space ship on its back and now this... I think it's over kill but some of the poses do look cool.

Another thing is that it was made to connect with the 0 Raiser but you can also connect it with almost any other 00 1/144 scale kit. Take a look.





I much prefer what Dengeki Hobby did with it's GN Sefer/Rasiel kits. Stand alone kits that, while having almost no points of articulation, didn't require another kit for it to be used.

That said... I actually like the design sketches of it as I'm a big fan of these kind of space ships (like the Vic Viper, R-9 etc. from video games.)

As I have a subscription to Hobby Japan I'm going to be getting this automatically... I'm wondering if I should pick up the 1/144 0 Raiser just to make it work. It might be nice to work on a space ship instead of a robot just for the change of pace. Also, I could just get the 0 Gundam that I've been looking at for I don't even know along and just attach it to that. God knows it's plain enough and could use a bit of sprucing up.

But to be honest, from the pictures above, I think it looks best on the Susanowo. Too bad I think the Susanowo design sucks @$$.

Oh well, maybe I'll be struck by lightning and get an idea for what to do with this thing.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Beauty and the Bot


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Originally uploaded by Busterbeam

I think I'm going to un-officially change the 'theme' of this blog to suit that title more. I mean I've been doing it off and on for a while now so I might as well just make it 'my thing'.

Other ideas.

Women and Weapons.
Gals and Gundams.
Madames and Machines.

I don't know, I think I like this posts title the best, but you get the point.

Anyway... semi-massive picture dump at my flickr. About 130 mecha related pictures. Actually some of you guys might be familiar with a lot of the content I just posted but I'm sure there's some new stuff in there that you haven't seen yet. Hope you enjoy.

Monday, July 6, 2009

U.C. 0087 and onward... best Zeon MS designs?!

After just over 100 votes here are the results for era with the best Zeon MS designs.

Before Zeta Gundam (UC 0079-0086) 40 (37%)

Including and after Zeta Gundam 67 (62%)

Once again the public has shown just how out of touch I am when I comes to this stuff... Although after watching ZZ, I can kind of see why. GREAT mecha design! Next poll will be a bit tougher, but I bet I can predict which way it's going to go this time!

That said here are some pics of the winners courtesy of MAHQ



Eh? Saki? Why are you...


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