Dakka dakka dakka.

Here's a sneak peek of the big post this week:

Guns.  Lots of guns.   I have to apologize for the Zeon fans, as the Master Archive books don't cover Zeon units.. (Yet.)

So mostly it'll be Feddie guns.  Lots of feddie guns.

Haven't given up yet!

Rest Assured, I am still working on getting the Zaku Technical Manual pictures up, there's a great deal of work involved x many many pictures.

I also encourage you to subscribe or leave comments if possible, it really helps motivate me to get things done on time!

Also: Helldiver and Jesta: Separated at birth?

ARL-99 Helldiver

Helldiver
A very popular labor with the general public.

Type number: ARL-99
Manufacturer: Shinohara Heavy Industries, Hachioji Plant
Total Height: 7.95m
Total Width: 4.55m
Weight: 5.75t
Loaded Weight: 6.81t
Maximum carrying capacity: 3.10t
Minimum turn radius: 3.90m
Armor Materials: Fiber reinforced metal, Carbon fiber reinforced plastic.
Rollout: October, 1998
Equipment: 40mm rapid fire cannon, Combat Knife, Smoke Launcher x8, TOW Antitank missile launcher



Shinohara Heavy Industries’ previously mentioned AV (Advanced Vehicle) project did not only give rise to a law enforcement labor, the Ingram operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Special Vehicle Section 2, but another labor was born in the background.   Operated by the JGSDF’s airborne units, the ARL-99 Helldiver was also created from this project.  

So many pictures...

The MS-06R1A technical manual will get pictures!  There's a lot, and a lot of photoshop work is required to translate the captions.   I'm in progress now with these.

I have a couple other things backlogged as well...here's a teaser, and it's a little bit of a shift from Gundam.

GP-01Fa Full Armor Gundam Zephyranthes

The GP01 was built on various technologies pioneered by the One Year War-Era RX-78 (Gundam), and incorporates advances in many of these concepts and technologies.

While the RX-78 was highly adaptable owing to its high performance, the GP01 is designed to utilize changes in equipment to adapt to different situations.

Waterborne Insertion

The picture that inspired the design.... I liked this version of the head better than the OVA version.

Yes, I need a proper scanner.   All this glossy paper!

More Power!

The GP01fb ready for business with double RX-Vsh-023F/S-04712 Multiple Shield/Anti-MS shields, and two BOWA XBR-M-82A beam rifles.

(Though it may look like Gunpla, it is actually a CGI illustration.  The reversed lettering on the shield is evidence of this.)

The GM Machinegun

Following a recent discussion on Reddit regarding how poorly the MS-18E Kampfer fared against the Alex's 90mm gatlings... I thought it would be appropriate to see just how the standard weapon of the GM series may have fared... 


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The HFW-GMG-MG79-90mm GM Machine Gun was the essential anti-Mobile Suit machine gun deployed in the One Year War.  As a 'system weapon', different parts could be combined to create the GM Rifle, and the GM Long Rifle.  (TL: The HFW-GR·MR82-90mm GM Rifle and HWF GR·MLR79-90mm Long Rifle, respectively.)

When used against either Super hard steel alloy and Titanium-Ceramic alloy armor materials, the weapon has the power to easily penetrate either.

This weapon was also seen being used by the RX-78-GP01 during the Torrington base Gundamjack incident.


Source: Master Archive Mobilesuit RX-78GP01 Zephyranthes

Self control

I told myself data collections weren't even on my list of stuff I was looking for...But they were so cheap... :(

I'm going to need to sell a few books when I get back, some I just never look at for lack of interesting information that isn't duplicated somewhere else.  (Looking at you, Rapport Deluxe.)

The Dengeki Data collections were eventually translated as the 'technical manuals' for the US market.

The Data collections are usually pretty good at having good info, with the exception of the Macross one...That one is just a compact version of Perfect Memory.  

It'll be up for sale soon somewhere...

New stuff

Finally completed the UC Entertainment Bible collection plus another Master File.

The V gundam EBs aren't exactly hard to find, I had just not really been interested in them...But I watched V recently, so I figured why not!

Also...Wonder what this could be, hmm...Gundam wiki oddly doesn't have anything, not even something inferred from the photo, so I suppose I could translate some stuff from this book...