What is the best designed Gundam, and why is it Heavy Arms?

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>>12364459

>>12364502
15 years later and I can still read that.

>>12364459
I don't know I think it needs more dakka.

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Sorry bub Heavyarms isn't the best, Sandrock is

>>12364675
Literally the edgiest Wing Gundam

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/thread

>>12364675
What makes sandrock unique, fucking nothin.
What makes sandrock's pilot special, fucking nothin.

"Ima kill myself like that cool guy"
>cockpit opens.
"Are you tellin me to get out?"
>....
FUckin BullShit

>>12364690
>Sandrock
>Edgiest
>In Wing
...u wut mate?

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>>12364459
First of all that's not the Zeta, Proto-ZZ or Exia. You didn't even post the right Heavyarms. Try to apply yourself next time.

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>>12364704
>everyone trys to out edge heero
>everyone fuckin fails

>>12364459
ew no

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>>12364459

>>12364459
>Nobody ever makes Heavyarms with Murrican flag motif

Meanwhile, Freedom got one and it looks like shit

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>>12364724
EW yes

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>>12364713
>Exia
>Best design
Think you meant to type overrated design.

>>12364690
You misspelled Deathscythe

>nothing personnel, kid

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>>12364733
Freedom looks fine without it

>>12364730
It's always nice to see an image I introduced to the board get reposted

OP, try not to have maximum pleb tier taste.

>>12364700
Gunpla engineering wise, the RX-78-2 ver 3.0 is pretty kickass.

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>>12364459

>>12364704
>>12364769
it was a joke about the swords
but i guess it still has competition from Deathscythe

>>12364780
I actually just finished reading that chapter when you(I think) posted it.

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STILL THE BEST 1973

>>12364807
well if you would have said "Sandrock is the sharpest gundam in wing." I'd believe that....Edgy is pretty much Death Scythe's MO.

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Only showed up for like an episode but it's one of my favorite designs still, definitely in the top 5 in zeta

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Ya'll trippin.

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Serpents had a cooler design than the heavyarms imo

>>12364750
>>12364713
>>12364459
Every version of Heavyarms houses gatling cannons directly over the cockpit

how is Trowa not deaf?

>>12365678
>muh gundamnium

>>12365678
Maybe he is.
Is there any scene where he does a perfectly normal conversation with another human being, at all?

>>12365706
>Gundam Wing
>normal conversations

>>12364875
The hell do people see in this chunky fucking thing?

>>12365656
OP did say "Gundam," anon.

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>>12364875
The Mk 2 is superior in every way. Damn AEUG had to ruin it with that shitty paintjob.

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>>12364459

Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope

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>>gatling guns above pilot
>>literally has explosives stored in every single place on the robot

naw. this better.

>>12365758
Exactly.
It's a whole new level of autism if the dude comes off as a defective robot even in the universe of Wing.

>>12365656
>Tallgeese
>Piloted by a woman
Explain yourselves Tallfaggots?

>>12367120
What do you mean?

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>>12364459
You're incorrect, the best looking gundams are:
- Nu (any version, but I favor the mass-produced one with INCOMs)
- Deep Striker
- MK II
- GT-Four
- X Divider

The best looking zeons are
- Zaku II
- Efreet
- Kampfer

and then there's the Tallgeese

>>12367143
Everyone knows the best machines are never piloted by women, God Gundam, Exia, 00, Nu Gundam, Double X, Wing Zero, Epyon, V2, Crossbone Gundams, F91, Freedom, Justice, etc.

>>12367482
>>best machines
>>not piloted by women
Imma buster beam your ass

>>12367482
In fairness
Exia IS best woman.

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Gundams a shit.

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>>12364459
Deathscythe Hell TV of course.
>all that Grim Reaper classic image in its construction
>that detailed paintjob on the head liner

>>12367700
>Edgemaster Gundam
>well designed
More like worst designed with a shit gimmick

>>12367482
What does that even have to do with anything in this thread?
Zechs and Treize are women now? Because I'm totally okay with that.

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>>12367700
My fellow negroid brother.

>>12367738
> Anything with any black is MUH EDGY
Kill yourself.

>>12367795
I dunno man, having a death/grim reaper motiff with bat wings and a fucking beam scythe sounds pretty tryhard and chuuni to me.
That was somewhat balanced by having its pilot be the most level headed guy in the cast, well as level headed as one can be in the Wing universe, anyway.

>>12367795
Yeah its the fact its black, not that its whole motif isn't completely edgy. For fuck's sake it even uses a scythe, a weapon so impractical that it's entire purpose is to look edgy.

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>>12364459

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RX 78-2 and Guncannon

>>12367882

>Wing Zero
>No Stargazer

5/10 still kinda want the poster.

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For better or worse, I'm pretty sure Red Frame is the best design to hit the franchise.

It's certainly not my favorite, no should it be anyone's favorite suit. But goddamn if it doesn't strike that nice chord between "realism" and full on super-robot.

>>12367959

no

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I don't understand. Doesn't everyone know that the best Gundam is the Nu Gundam?

How can anything compete with such perfection?

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just kidding most gundams in G sucked

>>12368111
How can Okawara look at the knees he draws and think "Yes. This is a good drawing. Time to send it in."

>>12367959
tips fedora
Nice katana

>>12367959
what is the advantage of a katana over a beam saber?

>>12367700
Yeah this was great. . . when I was a fuckin babby

>>12368233
It doesn't require a power supply.

What's the advantage of a beam saber over a beam rifle?

>>12368233
Pleasing weeaboos

>>12368245
more maneuverability in close combat

it's always been a backup weapon anyway

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>>12368111
I for one think G has the best designs in the franchise

>>12368256
What's the advantage of a beam saber over a beam spray gun? The weight difference can't be very much.

>>12368245

I always had more of a fondness for heat weapons in the UC universe. Seems like it would be more practical to use those for melee and beam weaponry + missiles for range.

>>12368314

To further my point, later UC series have anti beam coating and capes and other shit. Having a mix of ballistic/e plosives and beam seems ideal. Plus you can fire and forget missiles, and missile spam actually looks cool if Macross taught me anything.

>>12368308
The same thing that makes a beam saber better than a beam rifle at close range

>>12368314
>>12368337
Heat Weapons weigh a lot more than a beam saber when not in use, and even things that are beam resistant aren't beam proof and a beam saber is always going to cut deeper and better than a heat weapon.

>>12368308
It looks cooler. It also is sometimes more effective to cut off pieces of a mobile suit than to spray bullets at them

>>12368378

UC should have invested in monofilament or vibration tech for weapons.

Ah well, pink lightsabers for all

>>12368378

I admit I like beam axes and when they are green. I just find the heat weapons to be more aesthetically pleasing.

>>12368396
There are more Gundam shows outside of the Universal Century, like 00 that actually uses vibro-weapons early but like heat weapons they're inferior to the cutting ability of a beam/GN weapon while offering no advantages

>>12368433

What makes beam swords so good? What is the in-universe explanation?

>>12368433

Cost and energy efficiency. Granted, they really should be using stabbing weapons, or some kind of bayonet.

>/m/ likes Gundam Wing and hates Zeta Gundam

I hate you new /m/.

>>12368508
>not liking wing

I'll agree that hating Zeta is dumb though

>>12368508
new /m/ hates everything

>>12368517
They took Amuro and split him up into five different people who all have one note personalities. Everybody is a super special snowflake. I don't like 00 either for the same reason.

>>12368472
They have superior cutting ability

>>12368486
>Cost efficiency and energy efficiency
That's hard to animate, besides in 00 there are GN Blades which are the best of both worlds its a physical blade with the cutting ability of a beam saber, or Cosmic Era's Anti-Ship Swords. Fuck even Wing has a Gundam that uses Heat Weapons almost exclusively

>>12368517
I'm pretty sure the zeitgeist here is that Wing was great when we were 13~ years old and it came out on CN. Then we all realized it was a pile of shit.

If you're still 13~ years old or close to it, it's acceptable to like Wing

>>12368508
Hating is cool. Makes you sound smart and cultured.
Who the fuck wants to be the one dumb faggot who likes a thing in a world where everything can be (and therefore is) objectively shit?

>>12368535
Of all the reasons to hate Wing, that's kind of a weird one.

>>12368605
I like Gundam for the characters. The series has well written male and female characters with dynamic personalities. The Mecha's are second to me and I look at the Mechs as vehicles to tell the characters story, rather than the central focus of the show. It's the human element that attracts me to the franchise.

If I feel like the characters in a show aren't dynamic, I won't watch it.

Unless it's Build Fighters, which is just too fun not to watch. I also love camp.

>>12368589

>Wing

Are we talking about Sandrock or Epyon?

>>12368643
Both actually, Sandrock uses Heat Shotels, with a mecha sized Uzi and missiles for ranged options for the Custom TV version, and Epyon has both a beam saber and a heat whip that get used equally

>>12368508
Well if it makes you feel any better I consider Wing the worst Gundam series ever made (outside the ms designs which were rad).

>>12368629
Well, when you put it that way, more generally about characters, yeah I can agree with that. One complaint I have about Wimg is that most characters are unlikable dickwads who don't act even close to human beings just so the show can use them as mouthpieces for its boring heavy-handed views or muh pacifism, muh honor, etc.
What I considered weird was how you said Amuro's character was split between the boy band, you don't see it everyday, and I don't really see it.
And it is par for the course in MC team shows that each member has a more general personality type to differentiate them between each other. Which Wing doesn't really execute well for that matter.

>>12368698
Not him, but I actually didn't mind Wing's characters at first. But the fact that most of them never developed past their stock stereotypes bothered me more and more to the point they became irritating, rather than interesting.

And no, I don't care about side material giving them development/backstories of questionable canonicity.

>>12366438

What the fuck is this clusterfuck monstrosity?

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THIS Gundam

>>12370950
What is this, a picture of a gun someone slapped a Gundam on to?

Bring us a picture of the Gundam itself, them maybe we'll talk.

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FAFW F91 FTW

Very much unrelated to the topic at hand, but does someone have those "F Gundam" designs, which were the normal designs with x-acto knives or something stapled on the side?
I lost my collection of images a while and haven't found those things yet.

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>>12364459
You have a funny way of spelling Deathscythe Hell Custom op.

Goddamnit I can't find the image of a beam rifle shoped onto a dam.

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>>12371054
>Liking anything involving Jesus Yamato

>>12372419
I couldn't possibly care less about le ebbin jesus maymay, the Freedom is an awesome design.

>>12372419
>having a character or even the series itself interfere with your love of a design

Okay, anon.

>>12371868
It is a pretty cool suit.

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F91 is the best designed gundam. It is like having a F1 car.

>>12364703
ESL?

>>12365678
... soundproofing?

>>12372901
Do you remember the part in Wing where quatre needs to buy time for the shuttle to launch into space, so he engages the ground forces there?

He is so fuckin cringe inducing every time.

>>12366417
What about "Turning into a shitty-looking airplane"? The Zeta wins on that front.

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>>12365675
Serpent is just a Leo with mad Armor Gains...

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That's not an Exia.