How do you feel about Barbatos's sexy new heels upgrade, /m/?

What the fuck is that weapon even

>>13781355
Looks like some sort of blunt weapon or something, unless it opens up to reveal missiles.

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>1/100 Gusion comes with parts for BOTH forms

holy shit that 5000yen kit is the best value.

>>13781370
You sure it's not just another kit?

>>13781381
The name of the kit is "1/100 Gundam Gusion and Gundam Gusion Rebake"

>>13781340
Barbatos is fucking ugly

>>13781361
Looks like it's just a big club.
I wonder if those things on its waist are more weapons or some sort of thrusters.

I think I like it, but where's the face?

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>>13781419
Waiting until the on screen reveal.
I hope it reveals more of the unarmored face.

Then whats Barbatos 5th form?

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>>13781340
>still no waist armor

>>13781370
>2000 yen of useless frog Gundam parts
Bandai, keeping me from having nice things since 2003.

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High Grade Graze is my favourite Gunpla line.

>>13781509
God, ANOTHER one?

>>13781514
What do you expect? They are reusing assets like crazy in this line.

>>13781514
Well of course since it's in the OP and presumably used by the new character, although you could barely tell because it's Doven Wolf teal with red highlights there. So the massive fucking stickers on the new shoulder parts should be great.

>>13781509
>it ain't teal like shown in the op
well fuck me for wanting a teal gunpla out of the box I guess

>>13781340
Sexy ass bitch. WHERES MY MG BARBATOS FUCK

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Oh, I just noticed that Barbatos' new shoulders come off the new Graze.

>literally introducing new MS just so they can job immediately and make new Barbatos parts

>Introduce a meteor rip off
>It gets used once

This shit right here.

>>13781340
Maybe if I find a good enough 'female' body unit, I will swap out the feet.

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>>13781552

>>13781556
I even forgot that shit existed
I didn't even do anything in the show other than "mika goes fast"

>>13781370
>those swords
are they going to use heat swords ?

>>13781565
there doesn't seem to be a deactivated mode in black or gray so maybe not
>inb4 made of super rare space metal folded over 1,000 times

>>13781414
those look like smaler man rodi legs so maybe thrusters to counter Kimaris supposed insane thrust

>>13781340
>Make a point of Barbatos attacking the unarmored joints to defeat Gusion
>They never fucking cover the Barbatos's own fucking waist

Will it get covered by the end of the series?

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>Gusions directly share literally no runners but the frame
>make them one kit
I forget, did they sell the 1/100 Gundam frame separately to even slightly offset this enormous jewery?

>>13781509
>dat crest
Wait a moment, did they just reuse R-GyaGya parts?

>>13781589
it's not entirely the same piece
I checked my own because I thought they looked too similar

>>13781340
Why would you have the high heel point inwards or down? That makes it less stable

Also new top section makes it look plain but I like the general look of it

>>13781340
> heels
GODDAMNIT

>>13781802
Deal with it. If men can crossdress and wear heels and be trannies irl why can't gundams. Gunpla is freedom.

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>>13781340
>How do you feel about Barbatos's sexy new heels

IBO: Literally a joke.

>>13781370
Wait, so the brown gundam is the Gusion with all its armor reworked? A secondary Gundam making better use of the main gimmick than the main one, nice.

>>13781509

There'll be more HG Graze in a year than there's HG Zakus, if they keep this up.

>>13781340
(Wait, what was the 5th form?) Liking the shoulders but I'll probably just grab my regular feet off my barbatos and shove them onto this one. Loving the double sided gauntlets as well. And more melee beatsticks are always welcome.

>>13781340
ITS TIME FOR L GAIM

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I just got this delivered yesterday, its pretty good. It doesn't come with the Mace, though. I'm most likely going to get the Graze next, but if the Gusion comes with parts for both armor types then I'm fucking sold

>>13781340
Barbatos was jealous when everyone lobed Kimaris's folding feet so he went to Reborns and got heel foot surgery.

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>>13781915
Progress so far, I'll more than likely finish it tonight. Some of the instructions are weird though, but that's only because it takes you through an armorless build first, then has instructions for putting armor on the frame, which involves taking the arms and other pieces off.

>>13781340
Won't make him move any more.

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Never expected that

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>>13781940
MY FLAG IS RAISED!

>>13781940
>We want the thunderbolt audience

>>13781920
Man, they really should have Ippei Gyoubu design the next main Gundam.

>>13781340
so... white devil?

>>13781340
AHaAHAHAHAHAHAHAa
;__;

>>13781940
cool idea but it looks fucking stupid

>>13781892
best post

>>13781361
>>13781414
I see hinges on the front end. Looks like it can unfold into something. Or just unfold into bigger blunt weapon

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>>13782045

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>>13782046
>extra arms

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>>13782066

>>13781940
>>13782045
HOLY SHIT

>>13781940
I swear this bastard just keeps on getting better and better.

HJ Gunpla spoilers:
-1/100 Gusion can be made into 1/100 Rebake, comes with long range rifle and halberd too. Rebake has a face covering gimmick and hidden sub-arms in the back verniers that can hold weaponry. 2/18 release
-1/144 Grimgerde comes with rifle, 2 shields and 2 yellow blades. 2/10 release
-1/144 Barbatos new form: new large melee weapon, 2x waist boosters, new feet, new chest, arm attachments from OP2 and new shoulders(from Blue Graze Graze). 2/25 release
-1/100 Grimgerde, April release
-MS F is actually a variation of Doven Wolf Graze from OP 2 but it's colored blue here with some armor differences so it must be a non custom version. New chest, upper leg armor with side boosters(not present in the OP 2 version), new shoulders(top exterior piece is different from OP2 version) and a new sword different from the Option Set 4 one. They trolled us with a Grimgerde silhouette. March release.

No info yet on the other March 1/100(must be Barbatos new form) and MS E(Kimaris upgrade).

The Doven Wolf Graze from OP2 will likely be a p-bandai release.

Rebake retains the ASW-G-11 model number, official description: renovated by Turbines, uses Barbatos parts and Man Rodi's AV System

Barbatos 6th form, new chest and new shoulders(seem to have thrusters inside) from the Blue Graze(outer part is shorter though). Comes with an extra armor part too.

Blue Graze has new elbow armor too

Rebake's face covering is an aiming mode, the sub-arms are Graze's, Long Range Rifle caliber remains 120mm:

>>13782069
It has different upper legs and chest in addition to its shoulders.

>>13782066
no thanks

GRAZE YOUR FLAG!

>>13781340
Finally it doesnt look like a bag of shit

>>13782089
>Rebake's face covering is an aiming mode, the sub-arms are Graze's, Long Range Rifle caliber remains 120mm:
sitting back and doing nothing confirmed

>>13782066
What the fuck are those weapons supposed to be? And what's the purpose of heels?

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>>13782046
Reminder. Also
>Graze's arm attached on Gusion's leg

>>13781370
i wasnt expecting anything out of the no-grade valkyrie and i'm still dissapointed with the colors
I mean i'd still paint it but i'd like to have the option to be lazy

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>>13782046

>extra arms

That tears it, Gusion is the best MS from this series.

>>13782205
they are trying to attract nagano

>>13782221
Kimaris is still a better design

>>13782209
that is an insane amount of stickers

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>>13782225

I actually hope Gaelio doesn't job super hard, but we all know it's coming when they even depict the acting captain of his family's ship as smarter than him.

>>13782267
So is he going to get his family ship and Gundam destroyed

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>>13782209
>that stickerfest

>>13782066
I kinda like it.

>>13782066

those legs are so close to chicken walker

they should have gone all the way

>>13782066
Jesus has there ever been an upgrade this bad?

>>13782364
Yes, the mk.ii into the zeta

>>13781509
its just a graze with a thing on its head, why?

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>>13781509
>>13782391
KAIGAN MUSASHI!

>>13781340
So it wasn't a new sword but a new club thing from the OP.

>>13781340
That new club thing looks pretty shit after the fucking based design of the mace.

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Grimgerde confirmed to be have been developed at the end of the Calamity War, so it must be the base for Graze.

>>13782066
>completely blank chest
I hope this isn't the final design, for the HG and the show

>>13782442
Looks like it has a hinge on the end. Every time I see it I think of one of those shell crackers for eating crabs.

>>13782449
>another ancient MS
It's terrible now.

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>>13782066
looks worse than tis

>>13782451
The chest looks blank cause they haven't put the stickers on it; same for the shoulders and the mouth.

>>13782463
>The TRY upgrades didn't combine into the super robot looking thing someone posted that one time
My dissapoint couldn't have been greater.

>>13782449
Wait, so it's literally the Tallgeese?

>>13782066
FA Barbatos? That's some heavy looking armor.

>>13782492
haha If the was doesnt need armour why does the barbatos even need armour at all let alone a full armour upgrade?

>>13782496
*waist

>>13782449
So does it have the twin reactors as well? Also was it ever explained why they can't or don't do that now?

>>13782091
looks like the legs are the only parts carried over from the original.

>>13782513
They don't do it anymore because it was supposed to be extremely difficult to make that reactor set up even during the peak of technology (which is why only the gundams had it and less than 100 even then) and the method has since been lost.

>>13782091
Upper legs are unchanged. Same shape and if you look you can see the same panels, it's just unpainted.

>>13782474
Yeah the same thing I thought

>>13782537
nope, thigh is completely new and now has side boosters

>>13782532
>the method has since been lost.
How did they lose it? It was only 100 years ago and there are 26 left (I believe). Plus they are still really fucking advanced and it isn't like the gundams break out crazy stuff, they even have schematics for them as they were able to retune the Barbie. It shouldn't be that hard to figure out. Like compared to turn a they are sent back to the 1800s and the turn a is so crazy it makes sense they'd struggled to understand it.

>>13782554
director already said that if the vanilla Graze had a good pilot it would defeat the Barbatos.

all the twin reactors give is high output

>>13782554
Because IBO has shit writing that's how they forgot it.

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>>13782449

So it's the new Tallgeese.

>>13782570
>vanilla Graze had a good pilot it would defeat the Barbatos.
but Mika held off two upgrade Grazes with two good pilots

>>13782571
>Because IBO has shit writing
ooooooooohhhhhhh, that's why

>>13782583
McGillis is the only good pilot in the show besides Mika and he nearly killed him

>>13782554
It was actually more than 323 years ago, apparently the calamity war fucked up everything so bad that a lot of tech was lost

>>13782554

Pretty sure it's 300, not 100 and while they may have the schematics the schematics only tell them where x and y goes, not explains how or why x and y work, how to put them there and so on.

>>13781340

That gun looks like a beam rifle to me.

>>13782590
>It was actually more than 323 years ago
Thought it was 100 for some reason. Still now they have a very high tech level

>>13782593
They don't need to know why if they have the plans how to do it, but if they do have those and gundams lying around there is no reason with there level of technology they can't figure it out. If the gundams had some crazy Turn A level stuff I'd accept it but not as they are

>>13782554
I don't think we've seen the characters pull up anything but a rough schematic of the Barbatos' dual reactor setup.

Also, while tuning some kind of nuclear/fusion/pixiedust reactor may be a lot more complicated than tuning say an old school Lamborghini engine, which are a massive pain in the ass to tune and have to be re-tuned every few years, I can't imagine a full schematic being actually required for tuning. There's got to be some educated trial-and-error way to tune those things the same way tuning of old school Lamborghini engines is.

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>>13782551
Thighs are the same as before. The detail is exactly the same. Those booster things are attached to the side skirt mount.

>>13782554
Calamity war ended 300 years before the series, not 100.

>>13782603
>I don't think we've seen the characters pull up anything but a rough schematic
The mafia had enough to tune and rebuild parts of it and we see Char bring up information on it

> I can't imagine a full schematic being actually required for tuning.
They would be somewhat if they as tuning would need them to understand it. Even if not 100% full with that and actual models around (even pirates in the middle of no where can get one) they should be able to figure it out

>>13782606
we're talking about the new blue Graze...

Heels are for girls.

>>13782615
Well then I have egg on my face.

>>13782613
>The mafia had enough to tune and rebuild parts of it and we see Char bring up information on it
The pseudo-mafia people slapped on the sword and the shoulder armor along with some other simpler armor parts, nothing more complicated. We don't know what the Barbatos looked like during the calamity war so they may have just guessed as for the armor and added on one of their swords for good measure. Also, all the pseudo-Char pulled up was a very rough schematic completely void of any real details and it could very well be based on guesses rather than the actual blueprints.

>>13782613
>They would be somewhat if they as tuning would need them to understand it. Even if not 100% full with that and actual models around (even pirates in the middle of no where can get one) they should be able to figure it out
Not sure what you're trying to say, but with a lot of cars using carburetors you can just manually adjust the fuel/air-mixture as the car is running and come close to the optimum mixture just trough trial and error rather than any real know-how on fuel combustion and engineering.

>>13782635
According to the model manual they retuned it To its original performance levels (the frame at least) and the new parts were made from dedigns pulled from the barbatos itself.

However, having the schematic for something like the reactor is different then having something like the manufactoring process, especially for something like a reactor. Moreso if it requires techniques or materials that have also been forgotten.

>>13782045
>>13782046
I wasn't going to get the 1/100 Gusion...but now I might have to.

>>13782635
nope, 4th is Barbatos original form from Calamity War. It regained the appearance but not yet its perfomance back even with the reactor adjustment

>>13782635
>nothing more complicated
No they retuned it. They were stripped it all down, were fiddling with it and said they were restoring it . We had a whole scene and in the gunpla manual just on that they didn't just slap a sword on.

>was a very rough schematic completely void of any real details
How do you know it was rough? He was able to have some detailed exposition on the quality of the suit with it

>>13782651
Are you actually saying all they did was change a carburettor on the gundam? They still have the schematics, the technology level and the units to be able to do more

I feel like all this reuse of parts has just given us really bad mobile suit design for the second half of the series
like the first half had all these interesting unique ms designs and the second half looks like they couldnt be bothered and just mashed all the previous ones together

>>13782687
I feel it was thought of as a cheap way to do gunpla first and as a story idea second. It doesn't feel very integrated into the show, they just decide to slap a hook shot on or totally re design the Guison for no good reason. Another problem is most of the kits end up needing unique parts for it to work anyway

>>13782045
>face guard

How is the best MS in the show a second stringer?

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>>13783271
Gusion has been great, I like him when it was fat and now it seems he will continue to be awesome

>>13782707
I think the problem is that they hired more than three different mech designers each with their own distinct style and expected something good to come out when they mashed them all together

>>13782066

That weapon looks like a greatsword from monster hunter or maybe a switchaxe

Gundam comparison

Tallgeese to Leo
Grimgerde? to Graze series.

Muv Luv comparison

Type-94 Shiranui - Type-97 Fubuki(previous failed candidate redesigned as training machine)

Graze - Schwalbe Graze(previous failed candidate redesigned as high performance model)


Blue/Teal Graze - just a high tier Graze, but may be limited to commanders.

>>13781361
Looks like it's going to open up in some Bloodborne fashion. I hope it opens up and heats a blade...I mean otherwise what's the point of all that random bulk.
>>13781572
Gusion had all that bulk armor because the pilot didn't have the AV system. With the Whiskers the kid pilots have the reaction time to make up for lowered defenses by avoiding attacks.

>>13781849
I like it except for the coloring. Too bland. They isn't need to make it parade colors but beige is so boring.
>>13781940
Ohhh so they aren't jets and a chunk of weird ass armor but a shield and extra arms. Awesome.
>>13782205
They look like feet from a Man Rodi, so at a guess the point is improved thrust and vector control rather than functional bipedal movement.
>>13782598
Sure hope not.

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>>13782449
What color is this thing, in the the OP it looks like a violet pink

>>13783691

Digging the fact the swords can be attached to the shield both for storage and for deployment. Not digging the Zaku machinegun though, because it in no way fits with the rest of the design.

>>13783691
they always do that with edgy units, look at the Dark matter exia for example,in the show it had this purpleish red color, but the kits are either straight red or slightly tinted. The Legilis R and Justice were the same deal (although the justice's color changes a lot based on which version it is)

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>>13783702
Yeah the rifle does not fit the Valkyrie theme of the MS. Overall the range weapon designs of IBO are quite lackluster.

Also, Rebake back.

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Gay boy painting his man's MS pink.

>>13782069
>>13782066
Looks like shit honestly.
>>13782045
Is the only one worth a shit, and its color composition is also shit.

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Another color variant?

>>13783774
>color composition
>shit

I bet you're the kind of person who'd call it the Gusion Rebukake and think they're clever.

>>13783774
>my vocabulary consists of no words but shit

>>13783780
Now I'm definitely going to hotglue my Gusion Rebake and upload a webm of it.

>>13783780
Nah, there's just nothing interesting about it.

>>13783777
Yes
Standard Graze in the the Earth sphere color.

>>13783766
That's Ride. You cans see Takaki in the background. There isn't Yamagi here.

>>13783780
I'd honestly prefer it if they stuck with the original frogman-green, even if they have to keep the white. The white on tan just isn't doing much for me.

With that said, I think it would be a fun concept to try with an extra kit.

>>13781940

So they took the Gusion's frame, some thruster parts from the Brewers' Gusion armor, some Graze Kai parts, and some bits from a Hyakuren and slammed them all together into one Gundam?

>heels Barbatos
I don't dig it. I'm one of the people who actually likes the base ("4th form") Barbatos and this FA (?) upgrade takes away almost everything I like about it.

>Gusion Rebake
I like it to a point. The extra arms and face gimmick are pretty neat. Not a fan of the paint job though and the people who build out of box are going to have a field day with all those stickers.

>Doven Wolf Graze
Please, enough with the Graze variants already. Not even the Tallgeese-esque centurion brush fin thing can make me care.

>Grimgerde
I like it, even if it is basically bunny-Masurao-Tallgeese. It even looks like it has the Flag's helicopter blade shield thing.

>>13783985
Am I the only one planning on painting the Gusion Rebake in base Gusion colors? Or some mix of the two.

>>13784002
Should be M1 Abrams desert tan.

Fits the knight-meets-MBT feel of the IBO mobile suits.

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>>13784012
I think the problem a lot of these new suits have is that so far IBO's suits have only been either or in terms of medieval and MBT design as well as there being many different designers with too distinct styles working on them, so just mashing them together the way the shows done at least doesn't really work

>>13781340
>>13782066
>CROSSDRESSING TRANNY FAGGOT - THE GUNDAM

>>13784162
OI, the closet gay who has to see gay in things that aren't gay is back.

>>13784171
>i-if you say this is gay u must be closet gay
Fuck this elementary argument.

>>13784182
There's a study that shows a correlation among homophobic people and actually being homosexual. In other words, it actually is likely that you're in denial.

>Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8772014

>>13784171
This is homophobic, stop it

>>13784208
The irony.

>>13784012
Well I like the orange and white highlights, but that beige needs a little oomfp.

So does the 1/100 Gusion come with everything to make a Rebake or will I have to get another kit to make it?

>>13784250
everything including the Halberd which is separate for the 1/144

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>>13781940
We muv luv now

>>13784171
>High Heels
>Not gay
Choose one.

>>13784310
Weren't high heels men's fashion in like the Victorian era? Kinda like pink was perfectly acceptable on a man

>>13784310
Mobile suits don't have gender/sex you dumbass.

>>13784382
>Victorian
>Victory
>Tomino
>Gundam
it comes full circle
deepest blood iron lore

>>13784276
So if I want to have both, I must buy it twice? That sucks

>>13782066
Looks like it's going to be sticker heavy.
That weapon looks pretty bad. I don't really mind the heels.

>>13784452
If anything it might alleviate the sticker happiness of the "regular" Barbatos, unless there's big fuck you stripes on the shoulders like the Graze.

>>13784382

Not only were they men's fashion, men were the ones who made them fashionable in the first place. Women began wearing them not because they were sexy and emphasized the curve of the leg, but because powerful men wore them and so if they wore them, they would appear powerful too.

do people really like the graze enough for bandai to be whoring out its body this much? Even the new barbatos has graze parts and the hidden arms of the rebake look like they belong to a graze. I thought the design was just okay, this is just too much though

>>13781340
>How do you feel about Barbatos's sexy new heels upgrade, /m/?
Tbh senpai they look dope af. I love UC Gundam the most, but this IBO is pretty sweet, and has amazing mobile suits. I like high heeled mecha, and feel secure enough in my heterosexual masculinity to enjoy things I like.

>>13781340
reminds me of FFS designs

>>13784529
Based on 2chans yearly gunpla compilation thread it has been really popular for customizing. Being dirt cheap also helps.

>>13784560
>gunpla

I mean plamo compilation thread.

>>13784529
>really like the graze enough
Can't speak for everyone, but I like it quite a bit. I build mostly 1/144 and have 3 grazes and the rebake on the way. I'll probably pick up the 1/100 Gusion/Rebake kit as well.
The graze kits are cheap and quite nice, but if you don't like the design I could see why it's reuse would get bothersome.

>>13782066
ok this is really looking like a Mortar Headd, with the coil tubes on the legs, the shoulder armors, the waist exposed., and use of melee weapons only.

I don't get the whole gay robot argument, so here's my irrelevant opinion.

The Barbatos was already a skinny design. The high heels makes it look like it's got even longer legs, and more feminine or royal to a degree. I don't see how this would be gay, considering Barbatos isn't really assigned a gender to begin with. I also don't see why it's not allowed to look feminine, I mean sure giant fighting robots and all, but it's from a show with fujo pandering and JRPG beastmen, so this amount of stylization is somewhat fitting.

>inb4 I suck dicks
>inb4 tumblr

>>13784529
It's supposed to look like Graze limbs, shoulder armor, thigh thrusters. For the same reason that new Barbatos has Man Rodi feet. They keep modifying the frame as the series goes on with parts from captured suits. Side effect of this is they can make lots of kits without doing any real work.

>>13784784
IMO it looking feminine isn't the problem. The problem is the clusterfuck of bad and unfitting proportions with dumb armor designs.

This is hands down the ugliest lead suit in gundam history.

>>13782066
>
Loving the ZII feet personally but I feel like the upper half doesn't compliment them very well. I think the chest and skirt armor could've been made a bit pointier or something. Who knows, I might love it if I get a better look.

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>>13784784
The whole gay argument is just shitposting, but Barbatos's entire new design doesn't sit with me because it's thematically empty. There is nothing that the heels add to the design that wasn't already there, and all the Graze armor swaps are meaningless at this point.

Heels work well with Mortar Headds because the designs are very ornate and feminine to begin with, and look like they're wearing gowns and corsets and such, so heels flow very well with the overall look. With the Barbatos, the heels are there just -because-.

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>>13784882
>>13784940
it kinda reminds me of a person wearing a large thick coat but skinny pants, don't really know how to describe it and google image isn't too helpful.

I don't know if this style is considered ugly or not but that's what I think it looks like

>>13784784
>The Barbatos was already a skinny design
No it isn't, the only skinny part is the non-existant waist, everything else is pretty bulky round or square-like.
imho all barbatos's non-original form feels much more like a shitty gunpla custom made by kids glueing parts on it, which it totally is in the show.

>>13784784
The heels doesn't make it looks any more feminine, the entire feet is way to big, i mean the front part is thicker than it's calves. Also it has that 2 claw-like toes in the front, which completely kills the royal or feminine part for me.

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>>13785382
The legs are skinny as shit since they took the Ahab Drives from the earlier design concepts out and replaced them with nothing Feet are pretty small even by modern standards too and the forearms are pretty naked and gangly without extra equipment. But sure the upper torso is actually fairly beefy, although that just makes everything else look skinnier than it even is.

>>13782066
>>13784909
I'm of the latter. I really like that they've finally armored up the skinny waist, plus the new armor is nice. Its just that waist below feels weak. Its very top heavy, and now that is has those dumb heels it looks even more unbalanced. Wished they could have bulked up the skirt and the leg shin armor.

>>13784882

>worst lead gundam design
>when clusterfucks like the AGE suits or the ZZ gundam exist

/m/ everyone

>>13781370
But why are the Grimgerde's swords yellow?

>>13781355
>

its the rifle

>>13787351
I figure they are Heat swords like a Gouf has. Though if beam weapons are reflected wouldn't a heat weapon be as well?

>>13783758
>Valkyrie theme of the MS.
Shouldn't it have a spear, then?

>>13787374
If it's a beam sword/saber then yes

If it's a hunk of heated up metal then it'll probably be able to melt through the armour

>>13787380
If the armour can be damaged by heat the the heat from a beam would have the same effect

>>13787381
He's still swinging a physical sword though, it'll do damage regardless. It's not like the actual blade would be repelled because it's hot. The outer armour just wouldn't take any heat damage

>>13787393
Then what's the point of having a heat blade?

>>13787393
But then it being a heat sword is mostly pointless as most of the damage is done by it being a big sword. The inside should also have some coating to protect it anyway

What even is the beam coating stuff anyway? Like is it just a paste they slap on?

>>13787401
>>13787401
>What even is the beam coating stuff anyway? Like is it just a paste they slap on?
Nanoreactive paint

>>13787381
>>13787393
>>13787400
>>13787401
During the ship fight between the Tekkadans and Turbines they mention if they take too many hits from the incendiary missiles the nano-laminated coating will melt off.

>>13787412
So McMaskman is just going to start whacking Mika the Murderbot to wear down the coating so he can kill him easier? That seems like a really bad plan.

>>13787411
>Nanoreactive paint
Okay so kinda bullshit, I can roll with that

>>13787412
>too many hits from the incendiary missiles the nano-laminated coating will melt off.
That is interesting, but seeing don't really have to worry when no one has beam weapons anyway. It does mean Char's swords make more sense though at the same time wearing someone's coating down seems less effect than just a big mace

>>13787374
>>13787351
what bothers me is that the swords are yellow even when storaged in the shield, in model kit form and the front/back view line arts.

Does it not have a deactivated/off mode in another color? Does it change color at all? If not does the yellow actually indicate it's a heat weapon?

Or is it some rare metal that just happens to be yellow?

>>13787439
>what bothers me
Calm down, take your meds, wait for the episode.

>>13787439
I'm willing to bet that is just cause they are being cheap with the model. Or maybe his swords are just yellow and not heat powered, the more recent ones like that have it translucent

Would be an odd colour though especially to go with the red. It isn't like IBO really thinks this stuff out though

>>13787449
it's just a thing I can't figure out at the moment, but yeah I am just gonna wait for more episodes and fast forward to the fights where they explain their stuff, kinda stopped caring about IBO at this point.

>>13787455
>It isn't like IBO really thinks this stuff out though
>new Graze model just so Mika can steal it's shoulders
You may have a point there, anon.

>>13787458
I was more thinking about how a show with melee based chunky mechs has tiny girders for waists but yeah

>>13787458
>blue/teal knight Graze kit revealed
>Barbatos wearing its armor also revealed
>official spoiler

Well I guess the Pilot looked like a disposable character anyways.

>>13787411
nice meme

I really like the look of the Barbatos where they showed it with just the new arms and feet.

I really like the subtle knight motifs on the Gundams.

>>13787439
Could be a cheap model choice or it could be just that color. Wasn't Rick Dom's heat saber yellow-green all the time and orange-red when in use.

>>13786535
if you mean the Age FX, I'm fine. if you mean the REST of Age, I would like you to kindly fuck off.

...I'll give you the ZZ though, even if I am a sucker for bulked as fuck designs. when they aren't the Age-FX.

honestly, I've always had a hate-on for pretty much every protagonist suit in Seed and Destiny. it has a few good designs, but those are either MSV or are from Seed Astray.

I really thought Barbatos would be a mishmash of parts and colors to really show the scavenging aspect

Another white Gundam is pretty boring and they missed a good chance to really make it stand out

>>13789367
so far we only have a few pics to judge from, maybe it will have stickers on those huge white pieces, maybe it's still a prototype(kinda unlikely), maybe it will even be blue because the graze was blue.

who am I kidding every other kit on those pages are in their final colors

>>13789367
was the "universal frame accepts a wide variety of parts" gimmick more for kitbashing the models rather than something they said would be in the show?

>>13789443
neither

They never advertised a "universal frame that accepts a wide variety of parts." They only mentioned the Barbatos will upgrade weapons from its fallen enemies over the course of the show

>>13789443
>rather than something they said would be in the show?

It scavenged Graze's shoulders and axe for a couple episodes, then used the schwalbe's wire claw in another, than it got upgraded shoulders and a katana from Teiwaz nd that's what it's been using since. This new form looks to have the shoulders from the new graze and the new weapons may also be from something.

I love the base HG Graze kits. It can do everything RGs can minus being fidgety.
Are all IBO kits this good? I have McGillis' custom just waiting to be assembled, and my SO has taken an interest in building gunpla despite her having no idea about this shows, she just mentioned she liked the purple one.

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>>13789602
What other IBO kits?

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>>13789602
Barbatos's main flaw is that thanks to a ton of color apps it is sticker heavy (And even then it doesn't make it color accurate). Man rodi (And I assume gusion as well) is slightly less articulated than the others due to its bulk. Otherwise those two have been great kits, especially in terms of detail. I just wish that they came with an "Open" style hand.

>>13789602
The Hyakuren is pretty cool
Some other anon built this one
>>>/toy/5427505
>>>/toy/5427564
>>>/toy/5427581
and I just finished mine. Feels a bit meatier than Barbatos or the Grazes and I'm starting to like it more than them

>>13781451
If you buyed HG Gundam Barbatos (or Barbatos + Long Range Booster), Option Part 1, Standard Graze (or Barbatos + Long Range Booster) and Scwalbe Graze, you can build all forms of Barbatos 1 between 5

>>13789729
I think she just referred to Gayleo's custom graze.
Guess I'll get it for her, I like the image in my head seeing all Graze variants together with their unique weapons out.
>>13789687
I'm still not sure whether I actually like Barbatos or not. I like how he looks but the random red/yellow all over the place isn't my thing. Painting those grills with the same color as his inner frame would look really cool I think.

>>13782554

Dogg, you would be shocked at how easy it is for a modernized society to lose important information. The original design schematics for both the entire apollo program, as well as the A-10 Thunderbolt, are straight up fucking gone now and the US Government has had to spend millions of dollars reverse-engineering the surviving examples to fabricate parts, and that's in a space of less than a century.

>>13789822
Fuck man, it took us centuries to re-figure out how Damascus steel is made even with all of our improved technology, and even then it was rediscovered by accident.

And that's just a steel forging process, much less something as complex as a high end reactor.

Should I get the 1/144 Gusion or wait for the 1/100? If the 1/100 really can be made as Rebake...idk maybe after I see the Rebake in action I'll be able to choose. Right now I feel like I'd want classic Gusion as big sexy 1/100.

>>13789813
Out of curiosity, can you equip the Booster parts to the Barbatos's legs like you can with the Graze? It looks so much better arranged like that.

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>>13789865
It has special connectors for the graze's knee caps. So no, you can't.

>>13783777
Gundam Planet has been calling this the Ares color scheme for a while. Just now realized it was probably E-RE-SU and they thought Ares instead of Earth.

>>13789822
>lose original Apollo info
>no recordings of full moon landing
What the FUCK, guys. This isn't the future I wanted.

>>13781340
Heels do look a bit out of place but I'm sure they'll be justified by Mika clamping onto suits for space melee.