Tuesday 11 April 2017

Completed Kits #20: RG Heavy Zaku

I had a lot of fun building this for Zakuaurelius' Contest, It was really cool to see all the completed entries earlier today.

Anyway my idea for this build was to modify my RG Zaku II into a what if? scenario of what a Zaku would look like if after the first conflict with Operation V in Side 7 Zeon modified a group of Zakus specifically for the task of killing the Gundam.

So to begin I had the idea to remove a lot of the weak points of the Zaku, remember the first Zaku kill in the series?? a Zaku got its nose torn off, the energy pipes got torn off of others, and the armour was not particularly strong by comparison with the Gundam. The shoulder spikes did nothing, and the Zaku machine guns were completely useless on the Gundam. However heat and later beam weapons would work on it, and it was shown by Char on White Base's leaving Side 7 that a Zaku II S could hold its own with the right pilot.

So this Heavy Zaku is the result of that, a high mobility close quarters MS for tackling the Gundam head-on with support from two other heavily modified Zakus serving as gunners.








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