#ZGOK

[zazagundam]

"Don't worry, 2nd Lieutenant, your Captain brought enough for the entire squad" 😎

[virtual-vaporeon]

scrunkly made

[otakulion000]

My favourite character MS in gundam series

[idiotfactory]

Hello I am back lol HG Z’Gok done and dusted! Back again with another Zeon mobile suit and even better another Char custom. This was also my first attempt and spraying the kit with a matte top coat which I think came out really well! Now for real this time I’m actually gonna build heavyarms next lmao

[bumbleinmyrums]

Took my dog out for a walk :)))))))

[epicocat]

Hey Gunpla nerds, I have a question, if anyone is willing to shine some light that would be awesome!

Recently I’ve taken to trying to collect every single Char Custom suit, by that I mean one of each per available grade (i.e. a HG, RG, MG, PG, and Mega Size Zaku; a HG and MG Gelgoog; a HG Nightingale; etc)

After finally cleaning off a shelf to put the collection near each other I’ve noticed something… something rather odd.

For some reason each Char suit has one of two different color pallets.

Exhibit A. The Zaku II Brothers

Now my lighting isn’t great but I think this displays my point quite well. The RG and MG Zaku both have a light pink-salmon as their main color, with a saturated crimson for their vests and skirt armors. The HG on the other hand, is starkly more… well red. Granted that was also hot off the runners, the red has cooled to a salmon color, but still not as pink as it’s more detailed counterparts

Exhibit B. The Z’gok Brothers

Here the Z’goks have almost the exact opposite issue. The MG and HG have the redder salmon color, while the RG is a lighter pink. Of course the colors are everywhere with the RG so I am just referring to the upper body

Finally Exhibit C. The HG Rick Dom and HG Gelgoog

Now the lighting is worse here because they’re both on a lower shelf, but as you can see by their baggy leg armor thats right next to each other, the Gelgoog is, again, a darker salmon compared to the pink Rick Dom

I had noticed these differences while doing work in my room and absolutely not while drifting off, staring at and thinking about my model kits

One last piece of evidence I have come across is the age of the kits. The youngest 2 red salmons are from 2023 (Zaku Revive) and 2006 (Gelgoog) while the oldest Pink suit is from 2007 (MG Zaku II 2.0), And even the Rick Dom is actually from a 2015 kit. Assuming the Revive is simply replicating the plastic color of the original 2000s kit, so…

What’s up with that? Why did Bandai just decide to make Char’s suits more saturated in 2007? This is the question I have been pondering for a while…

And yes it’s kinda petty to look this far into “why my plastic different?” But at the same time it’s just a bizarre and petty change too. Why not keep the red? Why switch plastic colors after 2006 and only switch them back for recreating older kits? It’s so mind boggling …

[anhedonyan]

It has been raining today, so I've built another one.

[bringmygunplatolife]

[hirokin]

(via GIPHY)

[zazagundam]

only z'gok i want is that Z'gok-gok on my cock-cock

[spacecadet2k]

MSM 07s ZGok

[the-turts]

Z’gok built

Definitely an old kit, but I don’t think it needs a revive

What even is a z’gok? I dunno

[yeeticusdeleticus]

Master Grade Acguy and Z’Gok. Thought I’d try like a Zeon Submarine thing with this.

They’re both really good kits especially given their age. The lil rubber bits in the zgok are probably my favorite part of that build.

[youreaclownnow]

Teamwork makes the dream work! It snowed a lot so zaku II and z'gok went outside and attempted to build a snowman

[bumbleinmyrums]

My most recent paintjob, got a lil goofy with the color scheme (it looked way better in my mind) but I'm still really happy with how it came out!

Took him outside for a stroll :)

Eventually got the idea to sculpt lil barnacles on the base of the leg to make it look really old

[epicocat]

Finally, the RG Z’gok

Man did I hate this one. Early RG with all the early RG problems (and more!!) [rant ahead]

It has that god awful pre-molded inner frame, signature of any pre Unicorn Real Grade, but not only that, the Z’gok has such unique proportions and body shape that they had to make a NEW inner frame from scratch for it. And it just… sucked.

Like it was so bad.

The elbows and knees required pressure on a part of the frame itself to bend right, which gets covered by armor which makes them impossible to move on the finished assembly.

Worst of all the armor sliding gimmick on its right arm

BROKE

Which now means I cannot bend that elbow, reducing my poses significantly

Of course it’s not like I’m going to pose this thing often lol, I’d rather it not get super loose

But gripes aside this is probably my second favorite Z’gok out of the 3, only barely beaten out by the MG, I adore it’s design so so soooo much. Now that RG 2.0 is a thing, I pray the RG Z’gok gets its well needed upgrade (and one for the RG Zaku II but that’s for a different post)