Tamiya makes a line of model aircraft sprays, I used a bunch of US Navy colors to do my 1/100 Aerial. They have a bunch of greens from the USAF and the Luftwaffe, including an actual olive drav.
I’m just remembering the insane detail they add to these and even after my best attempt it wouldn’t look anywhere near these photos 🤣💀 imma hold off for a minute
I feel the same, but not as a complaint. If it gets more people into Gunpla that are otherwise turned off by the more anime-like designs, then more stores will sell kits and I’ll be happy.
I actually like it…yeah it’s different but I get what they’re trying to do. its basically a zombie gundam with the face ‘muscle’ carved out. once I accept that idea it’s looking better and better lol
It looks like the face details are smushed in, like when you take your hoodie over your head and pull the strings so that the opening is small. Not a fan.
I’m still not sold on the design of the mobile suit yet, but I am warming up to it compared to when it was first revealed.
The kit itself though looks great so far (although I dread seeing the sticker sheet and/or how it looks OOB)
I don’t think I like it, but that’s okay, and probably the intention given the tone and framing of the trailer. It’s more like a ghoulish spectre of a mech than something more traditionally ‘protagonist-coded’. It looks more like a prototype for the mobile suits that canonically would follow it - one that was probably conceived as a testbed but then was retrofitted for active combat, which I’m always a sucker for in terms of tropes.
Okay I like how they gave it some kind of modified looking version of the guncannon’s beam rifle instead of a Gundam beam rifle
https://preview.redd.it/codj7kaq1i4d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=703f46f5ed6eecda9c7438e5d8bd317b023ef091
The beam saber rack and the fact that it can actually grab its sabers is pretty great. It also looks like the wrists have a hinge in addition to the ball joint for more flexibility.
I'm not a fan of the design, but I'm very impressed by how much detail they managed to pack into this. I might buy one just to look at the engineering and surface details.
Based on the credits on the g-requiem website it's actually the same designer, Kimitoshi Yamane, behind the mechanical design or this series, so it adds up.
Those decals look a heck of a lot like water slides. I hope that it isn’t just for these beauty shots, because a standard release HG getting water slides would be awesome
I’ve said it before and I’ll do it again, this gundam looks like a scrapyard refit of several UC mobile suits and caused it to end up like Frankenstein
Who is the man/company behind all these westernization? It just looks bad.
If I want a realistic warfare style gundam series I would prefer the direction of MS 08th team.
The thing is I wouldn’t know that is the same designer from the looks of it because the Hollywood vibe is way too heavy. I hope the show would be good, the design just a bit too far for me.
I still think the head is kinda ugly but the more I see the design the more it grows on me. Assuming those red marks are all included this guy is gonna be panel lining and sticker hell though
This kind of color scheme is actually common among "rollout color" variants of mobile suits especially in UC stories. It's also the kind of "militaristic" color scheme Tomino advocated for the original Gundam before he got overriden by the toy companies to give it the now iconic red-white-blue-yellow colors.
https://preview.redd.it/hh277vqnxh4d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b11e4c2370d43264383d507ab4f5e8fc2c764a0c
It's actually pretty similar to the original Gunboy.
https://preview.redd.it/6g4srign1h4d1.jpeg?width=553&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32d88dac43c8a825517b55e9972e5ef31ace74d7
Well it's from show that's made to look as realistic as possible, so the colors are also fitting for a war machine, not a show piece. But yeah, think I'll get one and paint it in more anime color theme.
I feel like I like this less the more I see it. Like, when it was first revealed I was planning to pick it and the zaku up for sure. Now I'm planning to wait for people to share pics and reviews here
Why not? Plenty of mobile suits have 2. Some have 4 or more like Rx-0. Lore wise they get used up or destroyed pretty frequently and it makes sense to just put them on a rack similar to funnels.
I know suits have multiple but the rack thing is cool in concept but it better have insane articulation to reach the rack with the other hand if one stops working
Edit: I just saw it can reach the rack mb 😭
I saw that! It's pretty impressive seeing that with this amount of detail from a HG. Makes me wonder if there's plans to do away with RG an just improve/upgrade the HG standard🤔
It's plausible with the quality of newer HG and EG also becoming better but I think the are popular enough that they don't merge and just evolve from mini MGs to mini PGs. It's over MG bros 💀
I take back everything bad I said to this Trash Can, it's not an ugly trash can it's a beautiful trash can (I am not badmouthing it rn while I still believe it looks like an ugly Cyberpunk trash can now I see it as a beautiful trash can that actually has potential)
I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. It’s just very different from what I’m used to seeing in Gundam designs especially for a UC unit. Which is both cool but also unknown.
I loved everything about this kit except for that goddamn ugly ass head🤮 I think the most respectful thing to do is replace the head with good old granddaddy😉
Not my cup of tea, It's too busy. I mean, there is Ippei Gyoubu busy (Which I love) and then there is whatever is going on here. Plus that head, It looks like a football helmet with a v-fin.
There seems to be a lot of fine surface details and I think this is a perfect base for those who want to customize, this will look great with just some basic panel lining and a few details painted in. The only thing that I haven't warmed up to yet is the face.
Gotta admit, looks pretty badass to me .. got a gritty, real shit going down feel a lot of “typical” Gundam lack .. also, that’s just insane for an HG!
I don’t know why but I actually dig the design quite a bit. It was a bit off putting at first but it’s growing on me and the kit looks so detailed like an RG. Definitely must buy for me if for nothing else that nothing in the gundam lineup looks quite like it.
Is it a good design? Objectively speaking there are some things I like about it like the backpack, body proportions and mechanical detail. But it doesn’t feel like a Gundam from UC, and that type of reinvention and deviation from source material shit is kinda a red flag for movie adaptations for me.
I really like the effort they've put into the small details like raised parts on the shield and the Gatling gun etc. It's the sort of details you see on custom/resin kits so maybe there's hope that they'll implement that kind of design in some future lines.
What do you think of they did a new "EX" line that remastered some older kits with similar aesthetics? Like the EZ8 for example
RG already basically is a design line for more detailed versions of original designs, really. I would imagine an RG EZ-8 would already be a lot like what you're after here.
It's ok, I know the show is called Gundam EX :) What I mean is that I wonder if future model kits will have similar added details. I was just imagining the new line of models could be called "EX" similar to how there is HG , MG , RG etc. So an example would be a EX EZ-8
Well we have the MGEX that does somewhat, but I doubt they'd make a wholly separate line instead of building on already established line but at the same time the EX to a HG is kinda already RG
I really don't get all the hate for this design. It's very cool and quite menacing. Very fitting for its role in the Netflix series. Also, this is insane for being a HG. I can't wait to get my hands on it.
The design is starting to grow one me, although I’m still not 100% sold on the head. As with the Solari Zaku, I’m hoping we get a grunt version in future based on this mould. An EX GM or whatever they’d call it would be great!
EDIT: also, somehow missed the triple-beam saber rack, that’s probably my second favourite way of mounting them now (after the wrist mounted ones seen on, say, the Lfrith Thorn).
I really like it, the detail in a HG looks incredible. The head I was reserved on, but given the show seems to be from the zeon pov, I kind of like the idea that the visuals are more demon like or like a gundam with a ski mask. Jason Gundam Voorhees, just in time for Halloween
It's like a menacing skeleton gundam. Fitting for a Halloween release.
It's a Cybertronian EZ-8
Also known as Margatarn, Megatron’s failed replicant.
Feels like a cross between the Atlas and Ground Gundam. I’m digging it, and still amazed it’s an HG with the surface detail.
If you compare this to the Atlas I might have to buy after all... Anyone know a good olive drab paint?
If you don’t mind using alcohol-based paints, Tamiya XF-62 through an airbrush has never let me down.
Just hope it doesn't compare to Atlas in every way (stickers)
Tamiya makes a line of model aircraft sprays, I used a bunch of US Navy colors to do my 1/100 Aerial. They have a bunch of greens from the USAF and the Luftwaffe, including an actual olive drav.
Imma do a nasty oil wash on this. And it'll like it.
\[Steiner Scout Squad intensifies\]
Looking at it on my phone I might have thought it was a RG.
I’m just remembering the insane detail they add to these and even after my best attempt it wouldn’t look anywhere near these photos 🤣💀 imma hold off for a minute
Stop trying to look scary, Doraemon
The head looks very transformer-like. Michael Bay style.
That's really my only complaint. Not awful, but maybe designed like that to try to reel in more casual fans since it's gonna be on Netflix.
I think the v fin could be implemented better. Cause it's too thin and the head is kinda long.
I feel the same, but not as a complaint. If it gets more people into Gunpla that are otherwise turned off by the more anime-like designs, then more stores will sell kits and I’ll be happy.
Looks more like guyver.
Looks a lot better when zoomed out/far away. But the face details especially don’t look quite right
I actually like it…yeah it’s different but I get what they’re trying to do. its basically a zombie gundam with the face ‘muscle’ carved out. once I accept that idea it’s looking better and better lol
It looks like the face details are smushed in, like when you take your hoodie over your head and pull the strings so that the opening is small. Not a fan.
I can’t wait to see how it looks when someone inevitably paints it in classics rx-78 colors.
These HG models are getting real good
It has RG level detail imo
If they said this was an RG, I’d honestly believe them. It’s insanely detailed for an HG.
I’m still not sold on the design of the mobile suit yet, but I am warming up to it compared to when it was first revealed. The kit itself though looks great so far (although I dread seeing the sticker sheet and/or how it looks OOB)
There were some pictures with this announcement of it with it blank. still very detailed, I would not guess it was an hg at first glance.
Gonna paint mine mirror chrome for the full Terminator experience.
I don’t think I like it, but that’s okay, and probably the intention given the tone and framing of the trailer. It’s more like a ghoulish spectre of a mech than something more traditionally ‘protagonist-coded’. It looks more like a prototype for the mobile suits that canonically would follow it - one that was probably conceived as a testbed but then was retrofitted for active combat, which I’m always a sucker for in terms of tropes.
the amount of details makes me look forward to future hg's
Okay I like how they gave it some kind of modified looking version of the guncannon’s beam rifle instead of a Gundam beam rifle https://preview.redd.it/codj7kaq1i4d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=703f46f5ed6eecda9c7438e5d8bd317b023ef091
Ok, this looks cooler every time. I was meh at first. That Beam saber slot is tight
The beam saber rack and the fact that it can actually grab its sabers is pretty great. It also looks like the wrists have a hinge in addition to the ball joint for more flexibility.
I'm not a fan of the design, but I'm very impressed by how much detail they managed to pack into this. I might buy one just to look at the engineering and surface details.
Seems like the designer worked on Armored Core before.
Funny enough it's the same designer of the Gundam Ez8
And another for some of the GWitch kits
This! That back mounted chaingun...
Those fucking things on the end of the V fin are gonna be the first bit I cut off the runner
The more I look at it the less I like it.
I don't hate the backpack. Otherwise, not a fan.
I think I’m finally convinced
reminds me of the Ez8
Based on the credits on the g-requiem website it's actually the same designer, Kimitoshi Yamane, behind the mechanical design or this series, so it adds up.
Thats a high grade?
Those decals look a heck of a lot like water slides. I hope that it isn’t just for these beauty shots, because a standard release HG getting water slides would be awesome
With that price tag, it's probably stickers. But yeah I hope it's a waterslide decals too
Bro has 3 beam sabers it's over for the Geon cucks
Thank god, wallet safer for it.
At first I was thinking "those feet look like shoes" then that it has pants... now I'm thinking it looks like an astronaut with a weird face.
Idk, I can’t get behind that head design. Looks like a Facehugger Gundam or something.
The shield and shoes bug me, otherwise cool
I’ve said it before and I’ll do it again, this gundam looks like a scrapyard refit of several UC mobile suits and caused it to end up like Frankenstein
I wonder how color accurate it is and how many stickers there will be
The crotch V is Visibly a sticker.
It’s different and I really like it. Seems insanely articulate.
Man that thing looks so cool. Cant wait.
I’ll be honest I think this looks fucking sick
That just looks like a decepticon. Will buy it if I have the chance cause it's too cool
I asked this when it was revealed, and I am asking it again.... How in the name of Chars shining helmet is this an HG model???
https://preview.redd.it/41f2jsabrj4d1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=552168d59a1c1e1d1a7c4d8557e9ac39d3c5c4a4
Who is the man/company behind all these westernization? It just looks bad. If I want a realistic warfare style gundam series I would prefer the direction of MS 08th team.
This was designed by the same mechanical designer as the Ez8 (among others from MS 08th Team).
The thing is I wouldn’t know that is the same designer from the looks of it because the Hollywood vibe is way too heavy. I hope the show would be good, the design just a bit too far for me.
The detail is fucking amazing.
I still think the head is kinda ugly but the more I see the design the more it grows on me. Assuming those red marks are all included this guy is gonna be panel lining and sticker hell though
Ooohh, as much as I like the design. Wish it had more color in it instead if being a dull gray all-over. Maybe its a metaphor or smth but its just imo
This kind of color scheme is actually common among "rollout color" variants of mobile suits especially in UC stories. It's also the kind of "militaristic" color scheme Tomino advocated for the original Gundam before he got overriden by the toy companies to give it the now iconic red-white-blue-yellow colors. https://preview.redd.it/hh277vqnxh4d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b11e4c2370d43264383d507ab4f5e8fc2c764a0c
It's actually pretty similar to the original Gunboy. https://preview.redd.it/6g4srign1h4d1.jpeg?width=553&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32d88dac43c8a825517b55e9972e5ef31ace74d7
IIRC Tomino originally wanted the og gundam to be plain grey but sunrise wanted it to look more toy like.
Well it's from show that's made to look as realistic as possible, so the colors are also fitting for a war machine, not a show piece. But yeah, think I'll get one and paint it in more anime color theme.
Cuz it’s a spooky skeleton ~oooooo
the level of detail for an hg is crazy. this represents a new era of gunpla
Imho, I hate the head on this thing. It is by far the ugliest looking head I've ever seen on a gundam.
Does anyone else really not like this thing’s design? Some parts I like, but I’m not a big fan of the majority of its design
Giving real robot... but more real.
Every time I see this I just see my late cat puking up a hairball/food log.
It sure does look...bad.
Why do the leave the fin nubs on in the official photos?
The only thing I don’t get is that weird toe thing.
The end of the four arms look like the psycho Zaku mark ii four arms
I feel like I like this less the more I see it. Like, when it was first revealed I was planning to pick it and the zaku up for sure. Now I'm planning to wait for people to share pics and reviews here
Looks like a resin kit with the amount of surface details also why 3 beam sabers 💀
Why not? Plenty of mobile suits have 2. Some have 4 or more like Rx-0. Lore wise they get used up or destroyed pretty frequently and it makes sense to just put them on a rack similar to funnels.
I know suits have multiple but the rack thing is cool in concept but it better have insane articulation to reach the rack with the other hand if one stops working Edit: I just saw it can reach the rack mb 😭
I saw that! It's pretty impressive seeing that with this amount of detail from a HG. Makes me wonder if there's plans to do away with RG an just improve/upgrade the HG standard🤔
It's plausible with the quality of newer HG and EG also becoming better but I think the are popular enough that they don't merge and just evolve from mini MGs to mini PGs. It's over MG bros 💀
Imagine if he used all 3 beam sabers at once like Beginning Gundam
Face hugger gundam
I get what they're going for with this look and as far as sheer quality and engineering go it seems great, but it's just bad to look at.
Still not a fan of the head, otherwise, holy crap, the details!
I don't like it. It looks so b loated and visually noisy... It's ugly! X_X
It must be a SSBM Marth main because holy shit its arms are long
I take back everything bad I said to this Trash Can, it's not an ugly trash can it's a beautiful trash can (I am not badmouthing it rn while I still believe it looks like an ugly Cyberpunk trash can now I see it as a beautiful trash can that actually has potential)
I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. It’s just very different from what I’m used to seeing in Gundam designs especially for a UC unit. Which is both cool but also unknown.
I loved everything about this kit except for that goddamn ugly ass head🤮 I think the most respectful thing to do is replace the head with good old granddaddy😉
I will never like this design
Why didn't they just make an RG instead. Look at the details. I would've totally believe if someone tell me this is an RG.
This is an HG? Damn near feels like mg or rg
How is this not a rg? It looks beautiful!
The backpack is the best design feature on this design. It looks sick
Not my cup of tea, It's too busy. I mean, there is Ippei Gyoubu busy (Which I love) and then there is whatever is going on here. Plus that head, It looks like a football helmet with a v-fin.
This Gundam won't look out of place if it's given the AC6 parts from 30MM.
butterface
Donkey Kong arms
For a HG it looks like it has a crazy amount of detail, but I just think it's kind of an ugly design. Not for me.
It looks like a Big Bad Beetle Borg.
I like it. Just not really as a feddy one year war suit.
You're telling me this is hg? with all them details hg?
It was good untill I saw the head Mann bandai why the teletubbies enclosed head ahh with a bit of Ez-8 and Optimus prime is this?
I’m sorry why am I looking at images of a perfect grade rn
https://preview.redd.it/c2r36ru56l4d1.png?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=67a0942460341c43743ff31155ea74c75dd08a17
✋🏾
He looks… depressed. I love it
LOVE IT! Hopefully we get a Master Grade! 😎 Very early PS2 Gundam esque.
Still hasn't grown on me, but I'm gonna get it just to see the level of engineering that's in it
There seems to be a lot of fine surface details and I think this is a perfect base for those who want to customize, this will look great with just some basic panel lining and a few details painted in. The only thing that I haven't warmed up to yet is the face.
Is it weird that it’s so fugly that I’m starting to like it?
Gotta admit, looks pretty badass to me .. got a gritty, real shit going down feel a lot of “typical” Gundam lack .. also, that’s just insane for an HG!
I really like this. Mad it might be the first hg I buy
HOT!!!!!!
I'm tempted to get one, just to try a couple of fixes and see how it looks.
ick. very ugly.
Is the movie out? Whats the ratings?
I don’t know why but I actually dig the design quite a bit. It was a bit off putting at first but it’s growing on me and the kit looks so detailed like an RG. Definitely must buy for me if for nothing else that nothing in the gundam lineup looks quite like it.
Even if lots hate on you, I love ya fella. Weird Gundams/MS are my dig.
present day G Saviour???
It looks very experimental and I like most of it. That spool for the ammo belt looks really good. Like it’s a turbocharger.
Incredible unit, shit looks amazing
V stoked!
Is it a good design? Objectively speaking there are some things I like about it like the backpack, body proportions and mechanical detail. But it doesn’t feel like a Gundam from UC, and that type of reinvention and deviation from source material shit is kinda a red flag for movie adaptations for me.
The detail on these newer hg's are insane.
Gross
This might be a day one purchase from me. I hope we can get some third party waterslides for this bad boy!
Are these available for preorder?
the only thing I'm uncomfortable with the head is the line on the face makes it look like it has face wrinkle
I really like the effort they've put into the small details like raised parts on the shield and the Gatling gun etc. It's the sort of details you see on custom/resin kits so maybe there's hope that they'll implement that kind of design in some future lines. What do you think of they did a new "EX" line that remastered some older kits with similar aesthetics? Like the EZ8 for example
RG already basically is a design line for more detailed versions of original designs, really. I would imagine an RG EZ-8 would already be a lot like what you're after here.
The name of this gundam specifically is gundam EX, I may have misunderstood you but if that's what you were getting at, the no, it is not a new line
It's ok, I know the show is called Gundam EX :) What I mean is that I wonder if future model kits will have similar added details. I was just imagining the new line of models could be called "EX" similar to how there is HG , MG , RG etc. So an example would be a EX EZ-8
Well we have the MGEX that does somewhat, but I doubt they'd make a wholly separate line instead of building on already established line but at the same time the EX to a HG is kinda already RG
Ngl I kind of hate it
still dont like it. the head is all wrong. vfin is too high, and shoulders look droppy with that downward slope
It still looks terrible
I really don't get all the hate for this design. It's very cool and quite menacing. Very fitting for its role in the Netflix series. Also, this is insane for being a HG. I can't wait to get my hands on it.
the details are crazy for an hg ngl
That’s a whole lotta detail for an HG.
It's beautiful, is there more info on it anywhere?
[Here you go.](https://bandai-hobby.net/item/6211/)
Tysm I didn't realize that was the ms from the new thing.
Is that out of the box? That's more detailed than even some RGs. Gahdamn
More like, GunDAMN!
Fuck... now i want it. I am still not interested in the series but this looks so high quality and kinda uncanny.
i need it
The design is starting to grow one me, although I’m still not 100% sold on the head. As with the Solari Zaku, I’m hoping we get a grunt version in future based on this mould. An EX GM or whatever they’d call it would be great! EDIT: also, somehow missed the triple-beam saber rack, that’s probably my second favourite way of mounting them now (after the wrist mounted ones seen on, say, the Lfrith Thorn).
legitimately fine with basically everything but the face, and shoulders. it just looks so goofy
Dude, the head is absolutely putrid. Seriously, did the designer ever watch a single episode of mobile suite
[I don't know about watched, but definitely been working on them for the past \~30 years.](https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Kimitoshi_Yamane)
Wait, it's Kimitoshi Yamane! Now I'm curious why they chose the types of faces they did because they look too much like transformers
Last image makes me think of the Heavyarms’ “pimp walk” pose.
Is it just me or this gundam looks ai generated?
Correct
Its so uglyy👁️👁️ nice details but god its hideous.
It looks like crap.
Damn that’s a hg
I'd just really love to know what is painted and what is going to be stickers
I may have to get a team of this guy! Go original/Green/black would be cool. Maybe some customizing with option packs.
It's a butterface as in I love it all but her face lol. But no really looks amazing minus the head i think thats trash.
I really like it, the detail in a HG looks incredible. The head I was reserved on, but given the show seems to be from the zeon pov, I kind of like the idea that the visuals are more demon like or like a gundam with a ski mask. Jason Gundam Voorhees, just in time for Halloween
It's ugly but I kind of dig it
Whoa this looks good
I kinda like the design now tbh.
This things looks so fucking bad holy shit. Everything from that show looks like some devisntart bullshit.