GUNDAM
SENTINEL thread
>>15848535
Why did Sentinel get so popular?
I've read it, it was okay, I thought the different approach to a Gundam story and protagonist was interesting, but everything else was fairly flat- not bad, just bland. Was it the first original Gundam prose story, or...?
>>15848565
people just love the mechanical designs that much
Was this Katoki's first Gundam work?
>>15848642
yes
>>15848535
Has the whole manga been translated?
>>15849433
There's a Sentinel mango?
>>15849433
>>15849516
>Sentinel will never get an anime, or a mango
>Not even a translation
>>15849584
That strikes me as odd considering how the Sentinel designs sell out in model and toy form very fast and the toys especially skyrocket on the aftermarket. A manga, or especially an anime, seems like it'd be a license to print money by reissuing loads of toys and models with slight cosmetic changes and minor tooling improvements.
>>15849584
Is the LN not already fully translated?
>>15849516
Sorry, for some reason I thought it was an manga.
>>15849598
iirc Sunrise/Bandai doesn't have the rights for the story nor the characters
Just for the mobile suits
One day, I'll buy and build the MG Ex-S.
Probably not this year, though.
Remember when the Ex-S Gundam was in 08th MS Team?
>>15848535
Holy shit, there's Gundam roleplaying games?!
Charlie Sheen is a pilot of the Z Plus C1.
>>15849708
They based the character on his Platoon look.
>>15849584
It's been translated forever.
>>15849681
Yeah, there at least 4. The Sentinel one and Gundam Senki are both based on Mekton Zeta, and the 3rd one (who's name I can never remember) was same weird tabletop where you play 8 missions in a tabletop campaign. The last one was some development simulator game.
>>15849681
Also the table top games like Newtype, Jaburo, and.. I think one was called White Base.
Lots of mecha anime got tabletop, L-Gaim, Ideon, Xabungle, Dougram.
>>15850183
>>15850185
Damn, that looks so much better than the Unicorn.
What am I looking at here though, Photoshopped model? CG render? If it's a model it's amazingly realistic.
>>15850336
Looks like the MG model to me
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>>15848547
What are the blue flaps next to the arms supposed to be?
>>15850274
And the Dougram one is why Battletech exists.
>>15850336
I say CG, but no idea.
>>15850623
they cover up the arms when its transformed and have hardpoints to carry extra equipment like the fuel tanks in the EX-S configuration.
in one of the exploded diagrams they are labeled as "Side Jackets".
>>15850336
It's Josh darrah 's GBWC 2017 entry. He's the GBWC 2014 winner. The dude took pics of his zeta and then Photoshopped it in front of the gundam cafe.
>>15850886
Oh my bad, Australia 2015 GBWC winner
>>15848547
>>15848549
We have to go back bro's. Seeing actual animation models, we have to go back and make Sentinel OVA!!!
>>15850979
>>15850972
it could be done
>>15850972
Could only work with 80s/early-90s shading, a bitching 80s synthrock OST, and Hozumi Gouda as Ryo Roots
>>15850886
Man, he did an amazing job. Those safety markings look like real 1:1 applications.
>>15848547
>tfw MG is either price-scalped or out of stock
>>15848547
Is this the 'Chad' of Gundams?
>>15849413
And, boy, does it show! I guess he's really toned himself down over the years.
>>15849433
>>15849584
>>15849600
>>15850194 is right
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>>15851527
"Ouch!"
Not enough sentinel gundam grunts and Mk. Vs
>>15848547
God damn its so rare to see a s gundam design not riddled with panel lines feels good
>>15848547
>>15852087
I wish the Damashii EX-S and Nero had these proportions/curves. Sometimes Katoki even Katoki's himself.
>>15851169
>>15848554
Naoki's MG S-Gundam is the best build I have ever seen of that kit, beautiful work, my only gripe is that huge block of white text on the shoulder.
>>15852316
>>15852327
when tha fuck are they going to make a mass produced Mk-V kit instead of these time exclusive ones they keep putting out?
>>15852353
It's weird... Bandai CAN make Sentinel models anytime it wants, this has been proven. But for some reason, Gundam Sentinel expensive toys sell better than Sentinel Gunpla.
There have been 3 Gundam MK-V toys released:
New Decides color
Federation color
New Decides Marking Plus color
yet no MK-V gunpla ever made
plus 3 different Nero toys, yet no Nero gunpla ever
>>15852117
What's the point of buying Katoki merchandise that are not Katoki proportions?
>>15852481
I really don't understand why they do that, but I'm almost considering buying the toy models but that kinda defeats the purpose.
Kinda want to say its just one of the many licensing issues Bandai has with Model Graphix's. Seems like most suits in Sentinel were green lite for gunpla models while mostly everything from Gundam Wars seems to be stuck in limbo
Mk V included since that premiered first in gundam wars before it did in sentinel. Shits gay either I pay $100 for a p-bandai gunpla or for an action figure
>>15852481
>>15852666
RDs are generally limited run, with production stopping after like a year, which is why stuff like the Wing RDs inflated in price after being discontinued, there's little to no chance of reprints. And P-Bandai is small batch limited run.
Modern gunpla at worst get reprinted like every 2 years unless it's P-Bandai. Hell they even reprint those Silhouette Formula kits and old F(1 kits like once every 5 years.
>>15852666
>>15852481
>Ka Signature line
>huh I wonder why Katoki would want to turn his own well liked designs into figures in his personally supervised line
A mystery, honestly.
The answer is simple, who ever is the head designer for the HGUC line isn't into Sentinel.
I wish the guy who loves ZZ would come back, I want Desert Zaku HGUC
Gaza-E merchandise when?
>>15852726
Katoki designed like half the hguc line and still works on many MGs. Ver Ka means he's the supervisor of the project and not just the mecha redesigner. He could probably do it if he wanted to
>>15855440
>Virgin Plus v. Superior Chad
>>15856426
>only reply/pic with a Refined Barzam in it.
Y NO Love?!
>>15852040
looking like the Chad of gundams here
>>15856801
>>15856806
>>15856810
>>15856813
>>15856815
anyone know the name of the artist who did most of the sentinal gundam artwork? I really like his shading technique and I'd like to study this guys work to make my mecha art look not shit like
>>15859001
Illustrations are by Katoki himself. Watercolor has always been his trademark even in his current 2D art.
>>15859013
No way the MkIII is that goddamn big
>>15859059
Wasn't Sentinel the first Gundam Katoki worked on?
>>15859125
MkV, my bad
Still, I didn't imagine it dwarfed the FAZZ
>>15859059
Damn son that gook is pretty damn good at everything, guessing his love life isn't as good. Thats how it usually goes, but now I'm off to go find some of his artbooks
>>15859143
Wiki says the Mk. V is 25m and the FAZZ is just 22m
The book said it was ungodly huge but quicker than it looked and could cause bodily harm to its pilot in high Gs like it did to Brave Cod
>>15851138
this is hot
>>15859132
>>15849413
Never knew about Sentinel until now, I just bought the S Gundam MG, thanks for the cool art anons.
>>15855440
you vs the guy she tells you not to worry about
>>15862721
le-least I can tranform into a waverider and take her home, oh wait...