Series: Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 - Stardust Memory

Basically a built up GM unit by Anaheim Electronics for the Federation designed to test some of the hardware that would be in the GP project mobile suits (GP01 - etc). I was going for a Federation Zaku (it was captured) VS Powered GM, but as usual, the scene started getting too busy so I went back to simplicity.

I decided to put this together over the weekend as I had little time to start something "brand new". Anyway, I took the GM Kai unit and basically removed/upgraded the backpack, blew out the vent section of the chest and redid it. The crotch should actually be raised higher than it is, but I left it alone and extended it out a bit. The weapons holder in the rear is still intact, though the bazooka will probably not fit as the backpack would likely blow it away. The knees and calves are refitted with advanced shock absorbers so that the suit can effectively jump great distances. With the addition of the backpack it's also much faster than the stock GM alone.

The biggest mistake with the model here is that I modeled the backpack mesh "too low" against the body. The backpack should actually be raised about half a meter so that the cones are about in line with the upper waist and the top of the backpack should end above the visor on the head. I also made the blast cones a bit too large. But I'm a lazy ass and so it's imperfect for now.

Software: Lightwave3D (modeling/rendering) Photoshop(surface textures/post work)

Gundam is (c) Bandai/Sunrise/Sotsu Agency