I finished building the Guntank few months ago but I couldn't get a proper photoshoot to showcase how simple and yet how old this kit is compared to my previous gunpla post. Even though, I gotta create the photos before GunEvo gets shutdown (as that game is the motivation of making me buy the kit lmao) to give a proper honor of how rad this suit is!
Once I get my desk/layout sorted, I'll continue to go back making photoshoots of the other kits I've built! As for now, enjoy Guntank in all its glory!
And we’re done with this cute HG! The unbeatable, invincible one and only GUNTAAAAAANK!!!!
Everyone and their grandpa gets a kit of Grandpa so I didn’t as this beast is more to my preferences. Just like the other HG I have waiting. The panel lining turned out real nice here. Used brown for the red/yellow as standard since the suggested full black lines seemed too harsh on those and the wheel hubs which I did in grey. But the arms/cannons/backpack needed the black.
I still think it's really cool how Amuro starts as the shittiest pilot alive (because he's a 15-year old) that only gets carried because he's in the biggest, fattest stat stick in-universe at the time (a few retroactive additions made in the future notwithstanding), enough that even its crappy vulcan guns are tearing Zaku IIs apart, and when he starts getting a bit too cocky, Char and Ramba Ral show up in objectively inferior pieces of junk and absolutely deliver his pizza, they just drag his face across every available surface in Planet Earth like he's a Yakuza mook, all because they are simply that much better at piloting, and the thing is, Amuro takes that very seriously.
He goes from shitass kid in an unfortunate situation that doesn't want to get in the robot to the most unwell child soldier in the war, which is really saying something, but most importantly, becomes so good at piloting the Gundam that the Gundam physically cannot handle Amuro's piloting. They need to apply "Magnetic Coating" to its joints so they don't fucking snap away from the main frame because Amuro, one, moves too damn well but also in too extreme a way for the frame to handle it, two, despite being equipped with two sabers, a shield, a beam rifle and vulcan guns, Amuro is a stern believer in introducing most everyone in thagomizer range to his Rated Z for Zeon hands, the single most official pair of hands in the business, tax free. He KEEP going Ip Man on these dudes, he does NOT need to do a Jamestown on these mother fuckers but he INSISTS. Somehow even the Gundam Hammer, which is a giant Hannah Barbera cartoon flail-- Ok, look at this thing, words do not do it justice
Even this god damn Tom and Jerry prop is less savage that whatever Amuro decides to do the moment he's done throwing his shield to get a free kill on someone and it officially becomes bed time forever for the unfortunate sap at the business end of his ten-finger weapons of mass destruction.
The RX-78-2, "Gundam" for its friends and family, even has a top of the line cutting edge Learning Computer that 'learns' alongside the pilot and their habits. This data extracted from it was so absolutely fucked up that it completely revolutionized Mobile Suit combat afterwards, which is a wholesome thing to think about when The Best Combat Data Ever came from a really angry, really stressed 15 year old that doesn't even like piloting. He was 15! He made Haro with his own hands! Amuro literally just wanted to make funny cute spherical robofriends! Amuro was out there trying to make Kirby real, but fate had other plans for him. His cloned brain put in a pilot seat is one of the setting's strongest 'pilots'.
They made fucking Shadow the Hedgehog with his brain, god damn.
By the end, Zeon is rolling out Gelgoogs out of its mass production lines. These things are in the Gundam's ballpark in terms of overall specs (or "power level"). Amuro is bodying them as if they were episode 1 Zaku IIs.
AND THEN HE GETS FUCKING PSYCHIC SPACE POWERS. Not that he needed them, he bodied a couple Space Psychics without any of those powers before awakening to them. But heaven's most violent child was not done evolving, whether he liked it or not.
Char bodied him in a souped up Zaku II at the start, a machine objectively inferior to the Gundam. Amuro more or less one-sidedly beats the shit out of Char when he's in a custom Commander-type Gelgoog that you could consider to be equal spec-wise to the Gundam. Amuro is the embodiment of Finding Out. He is Consequences. You tell him he better make it hurt, better make it count, better kill you in one shot, buddy, he needs half a fucking shot. The complete transformation. One could consider the central 75% of the show as long drawn out training montage turning a kid into the Geese Howard of giant robots.
RX-75 Guntank, the first federation prototype mobile suit and arguably closer in design to a tank. Where the Gundam was more suited to close quarters engagements, and the Guncannon with medium range, the Guntank rounds out the trio as a dedicated long range fire support platform.
The primary armament of the machine is a pair of low recoil 120mm cannons that can be fired both directly for field battles and indirectly for striking at enemy installations. In each hand sits a 4 barrel 40mm missile launcher for short-medium range combat and air defence. Although heavily armoured with Luna Titanium, the reactor is primitive, preventing the use of energy weapons.
On the topic of mechs, are there any one's you know of that are just horrifically & impractically designed, but you still can't help but love in spite (or even because of) of their shortcomings?
YEAH YOU KNOW THERE IS
The RX-75-4 Guntank babey!!! This is an OG gundam design and MAN does it show! They pretty much just put a mobile suit upper body on some tank treads, which certainly isn't unheard for in mech media, but the way its executed is just so jank and so very 80's I can't help but be endeared by it.
I finally got a prescription for testosterone patches and then found out that even with my insurance, it’s going to cost me $150/month out of pocket to get them. I called around and I can’t get this number down any further, and it may even be MORE expensive than that (the insurance agent and the walmart pharmacist told me two different things). I’m getting my rx changed to injections, which should be cheaper, but this first month’s patches have already been ordered, and I don’t want to wait another week for insurance approval on the shots to start my long-awaited transition. so have some fursona designs!
Cherry Cheetah / Chromatic Canine / Celestial Cat
For each of these designs:
$75 will get you a simple reference sheet that shows the design you see here, plus a back view. It also, of course, includes the rights to use the design however you see fit!
Another $50 ($125 total) will change that simple reference sheet into a bigger, more complex one, showing the designs above complete with any ““bits”“ you want on them, a back view, and a clothed version with your choice of fashion.
If you’d like alterations to the designs themselves, please let me know and I will do my best to accommodate them, for a small extra charge (variable depending on the level of alteration).
If these designs aren’t to your liking, I also take commissions and can design a custom character just for you!
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