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OOhhh this is a good chat! So I started my collection of Gundam Models will the typical GM's. Then Zaku's lol All 144 Grade and stuff. I'm planning on like creating a Instagram account just for my creations xp

Figured we needed a chat for just chatting, and felt like telling someone about my lovely gunpla biggrin

Was sold the moment I saw 'gundam spare parts sold here', although it looks like they have a lot of sold out items from their stock...

if you say delta gundam is a gundam, then yes, in which we also have some other vague ones like sisquede and friends

if delta gundam is a gundam but hyaku shiki isn't, thus the name problem, zeta plus and some other gets it, sisquede, 2nd call.

if the argument shifts to the head design, Umon Samon's custom ball a.k.a. B Gundam is also a gundam

i myself consider em all to be gundam ( yes, even rick dias as gamma gundam ) if the canon designer labels them so, because they're the one who gets to label and name, not us.

At the early stages, 'gundam' is a design / word play of feddies to instill fear to those cyclops after the rx-78-2 'gundam' kicks a**, which then feddies used to instill fear into the zeeks, which gives us something like B Gundam

yknow the word 'gundam' only became vague when 3rd parties like Anaheim ( GP04G / Gerbera Tetra ) and SNRI ( Record Breaker / R Gundam / Crossbone X-4 ) started their thriving business lol. To the level where, well, to most customers, marketing them as 'gundam' has better prospect.

In my opinion it'd take more than changing the inner frame and removing the transformability parts to dethrone hyaku shiki from its delta gundam lineage. There's also the other way, like ReZel who ascended from methuss, for example.

I actually made an F100 Gundam based on the story from that page of the manga -- a what if S.N.R.I. managed to finish a Gundam-esque F99 Record Breaker with F90 Gundam/F91 Gundam/XM-X(F97) Crossbone Gundam design cues and start a "Century Series" of Mobile Suits. I had intended to use it in a Gunpla Builders RP that never got started. Would likely have managed to outperform the V2.


F100 Gundam (Century Gundam?)

I essentially made this as an endgame unit, and it became an exercise in making the most powerful Second U.C. Mobile Suit possible with the technology available. It is incredibly overpowered if properly mastered. It really needs a Newtype to shine, though. The test unit for this machine is actually an F91 with a single "Sail of Light", but it was never drawn. That's how the technology would have survived the destruction of the F99 project and have been built into a more F97-like form. Its head is inspired by the F90's.

The machine is largely modified to include the F97's integrated close-mid range combat strengths, including its Brand Marker, Heat Knives, Scissor Anchor, optional cloak for more stealthy defense, Beam Saber/Guns (which can use gun mode from the shoulders now) and other benefits. The X Thrusters, however, are replaced with four Wings of Light which allow the Mobile Suit unprecedented mobility and speed exceeding the V2 -- even when taking into account the F100's greater mass. The F100 also can project its Minovsky drive through thruster/vernier vents as well as the vents on its arms for even greater mobility and a stronger type of Beam Shield which extends out into a large Beam Saber Lance respectively. This also presents the unit with the ability to essentially generate a Beam Saber out of any thruster/vernier on the F100, increase the potency of its Beam Saber/Guns, or even make a spherical defensive barrier from the energy of the Minovsky Drive if the pilot is a Newtype and can interface with the unit with sufficient mastery. The Psycommu/Psychoframe (Pilot Motor Control) and Biosensor (Pilot Sensory Data) are combined into a duplex interface system for unprecedented pilot/machine interaction. The F91's M.E.P.E. cooling system is improved and integrated, granting afterimage capability. It also has a backpack/Core Fighter mount, a rear skirt armor mount, and hip mounts for assorted weapons and modules. This gives the unit an incredible close-mid range combat capability, while still having the flexibility needed for excellent long range armament using available ranged weapons.

The F100 has the most complex and costly systems on the Core Fighter, including four Wings of Light, some compact Funnels, Beam Sabers/Guns, an optional weapon mount (on the backpack on the F100), a high output reactor, a cockpit Psycommu/Psychoframe, and a Biocomputer. This means if the Gundam is damaged or lost, it is less costly to replace as long as the Core Fighter is intact. This also improves the chances of pilot survival by making the Core Fighter formidable and quick to escape.

The F100 itself has less costly things on it, but it includes some of the F97's melee abilities, some psycommu/psychoframe parts, biosensor support components, sensors, conventional backup thrusters, a secondary reactor, two hip-mounts, and a rear skirt armor mount for various options. It is typically armed with a Smart Beam Rifle with VSBR functionality and an underslung grenade launcher as its primary handheld armament, but it can use any F97 or F97-E (Flint)-compatible armament.

Secondary options for the F100's hip mounts include VSBRs, High Caliber Machine Cannons, grenade/missile racks, and supplemental funnels. Options for the rear skirt armor mount are a Hyper Bazooka, supplemental funnels, or an I-Field projector based on the X-3 forearm model that benefits from larger heat dissipation systems and F91 cooling technology to mitigate its limitations. The I-Field projector is most useful in specific situations, however, as the Minovsky Drive and its assorted subsystems can offer superior defense. The backpack mount can be used to carry anything the rear skirt armor mount can, albeit rotated by ninety degrees. It is often left vacant so as to hold the Smart-capable VSBR, unless a second such weapon is employed or a specific need is found. It should be noted that an armament on the backback mount can be used in Corefighter mode and is also be used by the F100 as an extra AMBAC limb if of sufficient length.

A key demonstration of Newtype control for the F100 is to detach the Core Fighter from the F100 and to remotely control the F100. The F100, in this form, uses conventional thrust for propulsion and normal Beam Shields for its defense, as well as optional hip armaments and perhaps the rear skirt armor-mounted I-Field. It lacks the reactor output for the Smart-capable VSBR in this form. In spite of the reduction of verniers and advanced components, and the use of a lower output supplemental reactor, the F100 in this remote controlled state can match the earlier F91 in capability and can be replaced if sacrificed or more readily upgraded. It is when used in this capacity that the I-Field module is most useful, as the F100 lacks the Wings of Light boosting its acceleration and defensive capabilities.

Well, this was a Gunpla Builders concept turned thought exercise rather than a balanced UC RP unit. I might have done some things differently for a UC RP machine. Also, I pondered the beam strings and such but that's from the U.C. 150s. This is at least 10 years before then so it's touch and go there.