this Gundam is actually just a GM with a Gundam style head. so if you have the Thunderbolt GM kit what you can do is swap the heads between the kits and make a Space Gundam and a Ground GM.
yes! that's exactly it. the EFSF troops actually refer to the Gundam Head GMs as imposters because they know that they're not really Gundams. they just exist to scare the shit out of the Zeon soldiers.
when the Gundam Head GMs first showed up in Thunderbolt you could definitely tell that the Zeon Royal Guards got freaked out when they saw a whole squad of Gundams attacking A Baoa Qu.
Ez8 in 2013, GM ground type, Blue Destiny, and Thunderbolt ground gundam this year. I wish they'd stop teasing and just release a Ground Gundam Revive ver.
Wasn't interested in a gm... But after your review.... I'm considering it. I always get inspired by you to do gunpla. Thank you Zak! For all your passion and work into the gunpla and these videos. Just a hello from Canada!
I feel like the javalin NEEDS you to do a set up with the subarms holding shields and maybe the gun. It provides a nice visual balance that offsets how much you are putting forward with the arms. It also looks practical. Have a shield and gun on stand by, and this gundam can drop that spear and switch to any other standard combat style at the drop of the hat- Something it actually uses in the show where it switches to a beam saber and a gouf catches the spear.
Love this Gundam, I was on the fence about getting this guy, but u have convinced me. It'll be my first HG, I'm still a very new to Gundam kits and I've only been getting MG kits. And thank u, u have helped me so much. I wanted to get in to it for a while. And because of ur channel and tutorials I dove in, head first. Keep doing what u do. Bye buy🙂
Lee Gallop I suggest getting HGUC GM Striker sometime (use the stickers they are pretty good surprisingly), Döven Wolf, HGUC Byarlant custom, HGUC GM ground type, HG origin Marine type Gundam
It's a little more realistic, in line with Thunderbolt as opposed to the normal Universal Century universe. You didn't think that two tiny thruster bells could let a heavily armored ground suit jump, did you? Most normal space suits in UC lack a realistic RCS implementation as well.
I'm sold on this kit! It looks well balanced for an HG and that backpack. Just love the look of this gundam. Haven't seen it in action yet but liking it a lot!
Made a zanny with parts of this kit. And chars revive zaku and thunderbolt gm plus a origin act zaku . Let's just say I had to destroy the waist balljoint in order for it to work.had to clip a thick runner stick and shove it up the action base hole. Rest of it I used for a space gundam. And the rest of the parts are in a ziplock
Unexpected advantage- the handles for the subarms make a perfect addition to your toolkit. Seriously. I am sure everyone here has had a time or two when you were trying to get a polycap into its holes, but you felt you couldn't get your fingers in there at the right angle to both apply pressure and line it up at the same time. this handle comes with a standard peg, which means you can have an additional grip on that poly cap from a different angle. And if the other side of the arm/leg doesn't line up quite right with the polycap, you can use this handle to wiggle things around to try to get a good fit. This advantage is somewhat unit to this kind of handle, since the typical clip to put shields onto arms is more asymmetrical, and it was not designed around being a 'grip'. This is literally shapped like a grip, and that helps to make it more easily grabbed and controlled.
The original Ground Type Gundam is still my favorite design to this day, and I'll be damned if I don't pick up on every variant out there... but for this I'll probably wait it out a bit. It's a good design in it's own right, but it just barely has more than a passing resemblance to the original, and the blue and white color scheme just doesn't do enough for me like the grey and brown would have.
Jetfire48 I already knew that, despite what some I've come across have argued otherwise. I am excited for the new Blue Destiny too, but I'm also anticipating the P-bandai announcement of units 2 and 3...
I would do the space legs, mod the main back pack to use the extra arms to hold a second set of shields, mount gattling gun barrels at the bottom underside of all shields and thrusters to make then also work as funnel / dragoons like how the unicorn gundam has the gattling shields as a optional weapon, and hip rail guns with extra underarm mounts for spare beam sabers and a second beam rifle and paint it in the rx 78-1 or rx 78-ntx color scheme and maybe use the strike or grandpa gundam head cause better sensors on the head.
Really liking this kit, will have to wait a while since its still in my private warehouse. I really dislike the yellow tone though.. seems like a simple repaint is not hard though. Thanks for the review. this is a good video length for an in-depth review for this type of a kit. I know some people have mentioned videos being too long..don't agree at all. Neat outro but I would have like it better if you kept swinging and never jumped off.
Genma Shiranui yeah, If you wanna use the sticker and never wanna paint it. Personally I'm gonna sand off the crest and paint the kit just without that detail~
It might be a hovercraft. It is a ground type- it works against gravity and the ground often. It wouldn't be unusual. The Dom's big stupid legs are hovercrafts too.
Yellow marker on white plastic should work fine. I’d still recommend letting the paint out of the marker and using a brush to apply it to the kit though
This doesn't really apply to anything and you may not like the series, but is there any way you could do a review on the 1/100 no grade kits from the second season of Gundam 00? Especially the lead suits like Seravee, Arios and Cherudim. The latest review is possibly 7 years ago for those kits and I would kinda like to see a review in your format. Those reviews are fine but boy oh boy would I like to see them in HD. Thanks!
Jetfire48 Agreed... I love Gundam... I just don't buy a lot of kits because they're so expensive and I don't have a store near by were I live that sells them... I live in Murray, Kentucky
FullArmourTracksuit it means that I'm showing you the kit exactly how it looks straight out of the box with nothing extra done to it (ie. no painting, modifications)
I know I'm gonna get some hate but I miss the intro already and the outro is kinda good as a one-off and kinda gets old right away 🤔 just saying but I'll get used to it.
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this Gundam is actually just a GM with a Gundam style head. so if you have the Thunderbolt GM kit what you can do is swap the heads between the kits and make a Space Gundam and a Ground GM.
Jango The Blue Fox If i remember reading something correctly in the series they placed gundam heads onto GM bodies as an intimidation method
yes! that's exactly it. the EFSF troops actually refer to the Gundam Head GMs as imposters because they know that they're not really Gundams. they just exist to scare the shit out of the Zeon soldiers.
when the Gundam Head GMs first showed up in Thunderbolt you could definitely tell that the Zeon Royal Guards got freaked out when they saw a whole squad of Gundams attacking A Baoa Qu.
Jango The Blue Fox “Are you alright, Gundam head?”
Agree i read it in gundampedia
Ez8 in 2013, GM ground type, Blue Destiny, and Thunderbolt ground gundam this year. I wish they'd stop teasing and just release a Ground Gundam Revive ver.
LordDeathkeeper Thundrrbolt ground gundam is barely a ground gundam it really should be called a gundam head ground type
Can't wait for BD unit 2!
guess what, ground gundam revive incoming
we need an Ez-8 Space Type
I want this as a MG 1/100 so badly... Hell, I'd settle for a RE/100 of this.
Wasn't interested in a gm... But after your review.... I'm considering it. I always get inspired by you to do gunpla. Thank you Zak! For all your passion and work into the gunpla and these videos. Just a hello from Canada!
i think the feet are landing gears,used for support when jumping off the ship to land on the ground
I feel like the javalin NEEDS you to do a set up with the subarms holding shields and maybe the gun. It provides a nice visual balance that offsets how much you are putting forward with the arms. It also looks practical. Have a shield and gun on stand by, and this gundam can drop that spear and switch to any other standard combat style at the drop of the hat- Something it actually uses in the show where it switches to a beam saber and a gouf catches the spear.
Love this Gundam, I was on the fence about getting this guy, but u have convinced me. It'll be my first HG, I'm still a very new to Gundam kits and I've only been getting MG kits.
And thank u, u have helped me so much. I wanted to get in to it for a while. And because of ur channel and tutorials I dove in, head first. Keep doing what u do. Bye buy🙂
Lee Gallop I suggest getting HGUC GM Striker sometime (use the stickers they are pretty good surprisingly), Döven Wolf, HGUC Byarlant custom, HGUC GM ground type, HG origin Marine type Gundam
no
Love the new version of this. Kudos, Zak.
for a Ground type Gundam has unusually amount of thrusters for space?
its actually aquatic
Manuel Fernandez Well it is a modified Gundam head which is just a high preformance gm with a different head
i dont think so, mobility purpose maybe ?
It's a little more realistic, in line with Thunderbolt as opposed to the normal Universal Century universe.
You didn't think that two tiny thruster bells could let a heavily armored ground suit jump, did you? Most normal space suits in UC lack a realistic RCS implementation as well.
I thought that's what the AMBAC system was intended to compensate for.
i like how the ground type kits are always solid kits. I really should get this one and the GM.
lol gundam products update are pretty late in Jakarta so cant get this kit yet
I'm sold on this kit! It looks well balanced for an HG and that backpack. Just love the look of this gundam. Haven't seen it in action yet but liking it a lot!
blaze084 wanna know something funny its technically not a gundam believe it or not
Swingin into action there at the end. Its Super Dynamic!
i've seen another reviewer, but you did a nice job to build this kit. it looks better!
Made a zanny with parts of this kit. And chars revive zaku and thunderbolt gm plus a origin act zaku . Let's just say I had to destroy the waist balljoint in order for it to work.had to clip a thick runner stick and shove it up the action base hole. Rest of it I used for a space gundam. And the rest of the parts are in a ziplock
Whats funny is this technically is a gm since this is a land type version of the thunderbolt gundam head
Unexpected advantage- the handles for the subarms make a perfect addition to your toolkit. Seriously. I am sure everyone here has had a time or two when you were trying to get a polycap into its holes, but you felt you couldn't get your fingers in there at the right angle to both apply pressure and line it up at the same time. this handle comes with a standard peg, which means you can have an additional grip on that poly cap from a different angle. And if the other side of the arm/leg doesn't line up quite right with the polycap, you can use this handle to wiggle things around to try to get a good fit.
This advantage is somewhat unit to this kind of handle, since the typical clip to put shields onto arms is more asymmetrical, and it was not designed around being a 'grip'. This is literally shapped like a grip, and that helps to make it more easily grabbed and controlled.
I can foresee this kit and the barzam being in the top kits of 2017 😆
the backpack makes it look like a taxi...
Jack Sack Its a shuttle service
crazy taxi DLC?
I would love it if there was a Gundam version of the Fake Tax-
I thought its more like nasa shuttle marker
Joeie Rivera I see what you did there :3
@the swing, Zaku Aurelius, Launching!
The original Ground Type Gundam is still my favorite design to this day, and I'll be damned if I don't pick up on every variant out there... but for this I'll probably wait it out a bit. It's a good design in it's own right, but it just barely has more than a passing resemblance to the original, and the blue and white color scheme just doesn't do enough for me like the grey and brown would have.
Devasia Mentality Yeah the thing is this technically isn't a grpund gundam its a modified gundam head (a high performance and modified gm)
Devasia Mentality So you excited for the blue destiny revive?
Jetfire48 I already knew that, despite what some I've come across have argued otherwise. I am excited for the new Blue Destiny too, but I'm also anticipating the P-bandai announcement of units 2 and 3...
I would do the space legs, mod the main back pack to use the extra arms to hold a second set of shields, mount gattling gun barrels at the bottom underside of all shields and thrusters to make then also work as funnel / dragoons like how the unicorn gundam has the gattling shields as a optional weapon, and hip rail guns with extra underarm mounts for spare beam sabers and a second beam rifle and paint it in the rx 78-1 or rx 78-ntx color scheme and maybe use the strike or grandpa gundam head cause better sensors on the head.
It looks good definitely going to buy it and do a 8th ms team custom version. Or a US navy version. Thanks for the review bro.
It looks like it has moon shoes on it's feet. Also digging the panel lining for reviews.
Really liking this kit, will have to wait a while since its still in my private warehouse. I really dislike the yellow tone though.. seems like a simple repaint is not hard though.
Thanks for the review. this is a good video length for an in-depth review for this type of a kit. I know some people have mentioned videos being too long..don't agree at all.
Neat outro but I would have like it better if you kept swinging and never jumped off.
If you don't like the seem lines, check out Ghost of Zeon's tutorial on how to turn seem lines into panel lines.
Neon Wave that's another way to go about it!
I think sanding the embossed crest in the head before applying the sticker would also be nice.
Genma Shiranui or cutting away the white of the sticker....
Genma Shiranui yeah, If you wanna use the sticker and never wanna paint it. Personally I'm gonna sand off the crest and paint the kit just without that detail~
how about reverse wash? would be nice?
I hope that a 1/100MG copy of this and the GM ,is in the near future.
the feet look, more like a hovercraft.
It might be a hovercraft. It is a ground type- it works against gravity and the ground often.
It wouldn't be unusual. The Dom's big stupid legs are hovercrafts too.
so it would seem that the actual name for this mobile suit is RGM-79/GH Gundam Head, make better sense, the chassis is different
the pose you had when talking about the hands, put a skirt on it and a mic in it's hands for idol gundam
zellcrs that's what I was going for! ;)
why no more thunderbolt though? thought it was actually pretty popular everywhere, wishing for the agguy and gouf
maybe the abs joint is meant to be extended so that it can be used
the hg ground gundam type s is the only anime accurate thunderbolt kit besides the p-bandai bandit flower ver atlas gundam
Can a yellow Gundam marker work on the Gundam’s head for the Federation’s logo?
Yellow marker on white plastic should work fine. I’d still recommend letting the paint out of the marker and using a brush to apply it to the kit though
@@ZakuAurelius understood. Thanks! :)
i hope we get model kits for the acguys in the most recent episode of thunderbolt along with the different attachments of course
muhd darwis I agree but I feel like we'll get a dahle and aqua guncannon and thats it
Would've been great if it came with the GM head and the chest vents
Nice video! 👍
Forehead sticker aside, this of a great looking high grade!
Should I get this or the Gundam-Mk II?
This doesn't really apply to anything and you may not like the series, but is there any way you could do a review on the 1/100 no grade kits from the second season of Gundam 00? Especially the lead suits like Seravee, Arios and Cherudim.
The latest review is possibly 7 years ago for those kits and I would kinda like to see a review in your format. Those reviews are fine but boy oh boy would I like to see them in HD.
Thanks!
I wonder how easy it would be to put actual trash bag material on the joints.
Is this and the Thunderbolt GM the rarest HGs in all of gunpla?
hi Zaku!!!
u can make ground gundam thunder bolt version just paint it's colors. add v fin and good to go
17:49 New frames need analyzing? What's that about?
backstept used a stabilizing effect on that clip, which I never use, so I basically goofed up!
Oops! But I do like how it looks. Nice to see something different than a static tripod shot :)
Hi Zach, great review as always. May I know what is the stand that you are using for your HG reviews?
Thanks! Kotobukiya Flying Base.
Why you no shield backpackuuu !?!
thanks sir its very helpfull, im thinking building a suad of it
*PSSTTT bandai, im still waiting for my precious gelgoog TB....or acguy
I just wish Bandai didn't recycle the old HGUC Gelgoog and Acguy to make these kits.
itsrifahanif TB Dom still gots nothing too....
That outro tho
ok i just bought this one and all the yellow/gold parts are like GREEN! any one else have this issue?
when is the sisquede detail up video coming Zak?
Taylor McHone not anytime soon! I'm focused on the MegaSize Zaku
For you guys buying this kit the foot articulation is a bit bad but well that's my only problem
cool UC-ish design.
NJ A technically AU UC
I wish this kit was Master grade
found this at my local comic shopI wish I could put two shields o the subarms
shame this doesn't come with the bottoms of the feet. cuz that's the ONLY piece from the Thunderbolt GM I want for this Ground Gundam.
I really want the kit just so i can give my GM 3 a beam Javelin
The parts that are supposed to be grey in between the panels on the shoulders look like a nightmare to paint.
can you get Kit's from america
Nicholas Rodriguez You can get kits in america but they are basically only in hobby shops, comic book stores, book stores, and online stores
we'll there isn't any Americans anime fans support gundam
Nicholas Rodriguez thats completely false
Jetfire48 Agreed... I love Gundam... I just don't buy a lot of kits because they're so expensive and I don't have a store near by were I live that sells them... I live in Murray, Kentucky
Christopher Grisham and i live in San Antonio
the last kit you got from hobby store, and the last kit from thunderbolt, super super sad story
Is Mindfenix closing?
LiveforHM possibly at the end of the year~ they will decide at that time
ZakuAurelius will you be getting another sponsor or buying the kits yourself?
Why is this your final shipment from Mind Fenix Hobby Store?
mind fenix is going stop their business
Who's the pilot of that gundam? Is it Io?
Raymond Espera it's a grunt suit, not a proper gundam.
That's not a beam javelin. It's a beam colony laser reamer, that oversized thing.
"I'LL FORK YOU GOOD!"
if that too loose, just slip cotton in beetwen
This and the atlas gundam both need mastergrade treatment
Your comment at the beginning... are they going out of business then?
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*New frames need analyzing; Click analyze.*
David Leyva dammit... yeah I usually never use that so I didn't realize it would export with that in the video!
btw no more intro music? kinda missed that
is it me or is there only 360p?
Daryl Lee lol, wait for UA-cam to fully upload
if you give a gm head,wouldnt it be just a ground type gm?😉
Nitro Blaster Not exactly its technically already a modified version of a modified gm this is based of the thunderbolt gm heads look it up
Jetfire48 i see,but i was kinda making a joke on the fact that if it has a gundam head,its a gundam,if it doesnt,its a gm(prob)
thanks for the review. the design is wonky, but its a well detailed review!
26th
Cool... also, first!
Why do you always specify 'out of box' on your reviews? I've never seen a gunpla kit review that didn't show the actual model.
FullArmourTracksuit it means that I'm showing you the kit exactly how it looks straight out of the box with nothing extra done to it (ie. no painting, modifications)
ZakuAurelius Ah I see. I thought that was called a straight build.
I still think the javelin looks like barbatos mace
Nah not really
TheCludo BEAM MACE!!!!!
Renn Pang why do u need a heavy mass when beam can cut with heat anyway ?
Errorcutive Just to be sure.
hey zaku aurelius dont you think the head is based on the azing red warrior
11:00 Looks like he want to go to the bathroom.
10:44 is this a shy anime girl pose what the???
I know I'm gonna get some hate but I miss the intro already and the outro is kinda good as a one-off and kinda gets old right away 🤔 just saying but I'll get used to it.
Erwin Azucena still planning to have a few different outros but haven't had time to film them yet
I can't really look past those feet... looks like inflatable boat for me... 😑
I'm sad they haven't reprinted this kit, It's like 12,029 Yen online.