It turns out the blue color scheme didn't originate with the 2006 redesign.
No shit, that design's been common knowledge since Gundam W was airing on Toonami.
>>22598638Well it's a discovery for me.
>>22598643That's what you get for being a newfag.
>>22598655I just didn't care much about the Hi-Nu until relatively recently.
Is there a full catalog of B-Club kits anywhere out there?
>>22598635>>22598643Recently I've started to appreciate these kind of vintage kits from the 90s and prior.Modern Gunpla puts an emphasis on looking more rigid and mechanical, but these have a more stylized look reminiscent of the artwork.
>>22598638You can't blame a Gundam fan in the 2020s for not knowing about a B-club kit from the 90s, this is ridiculous.
>>22598749The Hi-Nu Gundam is not an obscure mobile suit design. You see it just from looking up the basic Nu Gundam.
>>22598805Doesn't mean there aren't obscure versions of it.
>>22598749I can.
>>22598820You're ridiculous then.
>>22598805Anon you're color blind
Huh, all this time I thought the RG was a buffed up take on the redesign but it turns out to be more of a modernization of the old resin kits. That's kind of neat.
>>22598862The RG is closer to the original design, the skinny hi-nu was Katoki's redesign of it from the 00s iirc.
>>22598869The skinny redesign was actually made by Izubuchi, the Nu and Hi-Nu's original designer.
>>22598869The skinny Hi-Nu is Izubuchi's doing. His Nu redesign from the same period is just as shit.
>>22598704There was a lot of them, not only full resin kits in 1/72, 1/100, 1/144 and 1/220, but upgrade and detail and figure kits.
>>22598952
>>22598635>>22598643>>22598662>>22598805Freedom Gundam ah clone
>>22598955(you)
>>22598952>>22598954Rad stuff.
>>22598828Not my fault you're a tardy faggot.
>>22598747Kondo had some of his curvy Zeon designs made into resin kits in the 1980s like this Goblin. They never got turned into Bandai kits like the Hi-Nu did, sadly.
>>22600031Here are some more old resin kits, the left side are kits from Kondo designs. The original kits are worth a lot of money now.
>>22600031One of those popped up on Yahoo!Auctions and good lord did they want an fuckton!
>>22598955Entre
>>22598862not really, RG is its own thing entirely. like a 1/144 torso on 1/100 legs and a much more generic head design with a bigger v fin
>>22598635Got that Kondo bulk going on
Skinny Hi-Nu is best Hi-Nu.
>>22600031Fuck Bandai
>>22602362Bandai isn't involved with old resin kits.
>>22602368Except, you know, B-Club.
>>22600678chink recasting are cheap for what they are
>>22602373There are Chinese recasts for B-Club kits? Cool.
>>22602357BARF PUKE
>>22602245>like a 1/144 torso on 1/100 legsLineart Hi-Nu has an even shorter torso than the RG, the RG just has a smaller waist.
>>22602563Recasts took over the resin kit market, and killed B-club, which was Bandai's resin kit company in the 80s and 90s. They had it coming, though, B-club would charge insane prices compared to Bandai kits, Over $100 for a 1/144 Gundam kit compared to a Bandai plastic kit in the 80s or 90s would be $20 at the most,
>>22602693which makes a world and a half of difference, looking from above you can see all the hip frame parts clearly because the torso is not even trying to cover them
>>22598635>>22598643>>22598662>>22598805>>22598817>>22598954>>22602357I hate the Hi-Nu so goddamn much. Ruins an excellent, almost perfect design.I hate its blue/purple color scheme, I hate the fact that it loses the asymmetry that made Nu look amazing, I hate the enlarged skirts and shoulders, I hate the fat-ass calves, I hate the tiny head. And I especially hate anyone that likes that turd.
>>22603053> I hate the fact that it loses the asymmetry that made Nu look amazingThe funnel rack looks tacky as hell, it looks much better without the funnels.
>>22603053go away normie
>>22603145Hi-Nu is a normie mecha design. It's symmetrical, like fucking Strike Freedom.
>>22603053Nu Gundam does not even make my top 80 favorite Gundam.
>>22603053>Ruins an excellent, almost perfect design.Nothing is ruined, Nu's perfection cannot be tainted so easily.>blue/purpleThe blue sucks; The purple is nice and I like the weird lineage it has with G-3 purple/Z3 pink or purple for supposed Amuro suits>assymmetryAgreed, but the Nu also looks lovely without Fin Funnels. The base suit is solid, the fin funnels "ripped cape" design is just icing on top.>enlarged skirts and shouldersAgreed>fat-ass calvesIt works in the OG fat Hi-nu/ver.Ka homage config, it's nice and heavy>tiny headI think the problem lies with the smaller face area, otherwise the long head shape again works with the intended Hi-Nu rear beak thing overall.All in all I respect your opinion but Hi-Nu has redeeming qualities fat, not the thin 2007 one
>>22603190you know what else is symmetrical?You.Fucking normie mecha looking ass.
>>22603145Hi-nu has been the default "I like the nu gundam but wanna be different" pick ever since it's creation. Now mp and narrative are the true contrarian pick.
>>22598955>SEA'd
>>22603053Not even worthy of being top 80 gundams in the franchise.
