RG RX-78-2 + MS Hangar

Patience has never been my strong point. Couldn't wait. Even when I got there shortly after lunch time there were only a couple of kits and magazines left. I know there's a chance that I could win this in the HLJ Contest but it's a long shot and you can't live your life thinking "maybe" all the time. If I do end up winning it by some miracle I'll still be happy. And I know I could probably buy this kit later after the contest results have been announced but that's a long time from now and... I can't wait to see how this new RG series holds up.

There are tons of reviews out there already so I won't bother but I will be posting my thoughts about it later.

Right now I'm currently on the fence on whether I should paint it or not. I kind of want to build the kit as is and use all the things provided just so I can finally have a proper finished un-modded RX-78-2 but... that's just so boring to me... So like most things I'm probably going to put my own spin on it. Change the colour and leave some of the decals off. Oh I'm excited about this!

The MS hangar isn't really anything special but I'm going to use it. I like having extra 1/144 scale goods for sake of comparison.

Best Zeon MS Design!

Hundreds of votes and a bunch of different polls have finally taken us to this point!

MSN-06S Sinanju_06
Originally uploaded by cyruz13

AMA-X7 Shamblo 3 (2%)
AMS-129 Geara Zulu 10 (8%)
AMS-129M Zee Zulu 0 (0%)
YAMS-132 Rozen Zulu 1 (0%)
NZ-666 Kshatriya 24 (21%)
MSN-06S Sinanju 74 (66%)

The people have spoken! And they have chosen the current 'flagsuit' of this blog...

MSN-06S Sinanju

wins the top prize of best Zeon MS design EVER.

Now to do it all again for the Feds but I think I can predict the winner right now...

Pretty sick paint job in this pic though eh? Frame was done in a nice bright metallic silver. Very well done.

So what do you think makes it so popular? I have a bunch of reasons myself. Way too numerous to list here... again but I'd like to hear all of your thoughts on this.

One thing that I like about it is that no matter what colour you paint it in... it's ALWAYS going to look good.

Here are some examples.

Flag Fighter?!

Last but not least

Era with the Best Zeon MS designs!

Back in early April this year, I asked whether most of you were Feds or Zekes. It turns out that most of you are Zekes.

Then, starting way back in early June I asked this question and I've been whittling away slowly and patiently trying to get to this final era.

Finally, after hundreds and hundreds of votes it's been decided.

Char's Counter Attack - 34 (27%)
Unicorn - 91 (72%)

U.C. 0096 is the BEST era for Zeon MS designs
*according to the readers of this blog.

Can't say I'm surprised. When I polled to about what the best Gundam series was, 00 won by a significant number. It's the popular things! So because of that... I'm pretty sure I can predict what the answer is going to be for the next poll. That said... I have been surprised before while doing this! I could happen again. But that's not likely :)

Customary pics of the winners!

Damn this pose is sick! I'm totally stealing it.

OK! Zeke's win!

Damn I thought there would be more Feddies out there. I'm changing the banner to a Zeon suit.

Official numbers out of 131 people polled:

60-71 Zeon. 45%-54% respectively. It's been pretty consistent... Fed's never really took over. Not once.

Here are some pics of different stages of Zeon MS evolution (albeit slight ones concerning the Zaku's).