The main components come from Gundam UO’s(what else) Dom and Zaku I, Banpresto’s Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 Weathering & Lightup Diorama - MS-09F/trop DOM Tropen, and Bandai’s Gashapon Char Aznable MS collection Rick Dom. As you can see the ankles needed to be opened up a bit to give that “In Space” look.

I chose to arm this one with the 880mm Raketen Bazooka, Knuckle Sheild, and MMP-80/90mm ver.8 Machine Gun.

I really like the stowed MMP-80/90mm ver.8 Machine Gun and Raketen Bazooka Clips on the rear Armor Skirt.

I left this open mount for a Heat Saber but couldn’t get it to look right amongst all the other equipment.

Bit of slide marks on the soles.

I placed insignias in a 360′ concept, some are always visible.

Here is a good shot of the Raketen Bazooka.

A bit of a defensive posture to this one.

The front Armor Skirt gets six MMP-80/90mm ver.8 Machine Gun Clips.

I kept the stressing to a minimum on this one, just a few highlights here and there. The Knuckle Shield gets the most of it. I also moved the color scheme away from the purple more to blue. In all a very tight interpretation of the conventional Dom look.

The MS-14 Gelgoog, the last mass-production mobile suit fielded by the Zeon military during the war, had proven itself as an excellent high-performance unit. However, more powerful and advanced mobile suit technology was being developed by the Earth Federation and the Titans, and the Remnants had to keep pace in this arms race and train its pilots to handle better mobile suits.

Hence, the Remnants proposed and tested various upgrades to its surviving Gelgoog units including several Stutzer configurations. One project line would eventually lead to the MS-14J ReGelg (short for “REfined GELGoog”). The prototype ReGelg or “Komet”, as it became to be known, was equipped with oversized shoulder binders, each housing additional thrusters and verniers for unprecedented speed and maneuverability.

This radical thruster and vernier configuration used tremendous amounts of fuel and stressed the test pilots with near intolerable g-forces limiting both flight time and mission configuration.

A major concern about the design was the short flight time, which never met the projections made by its’ designers. With such short endurance, the YMS-14J ReGelg Prototype truly was a dedicated point defense interceptor similar to the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet of WWII Germany, its’ namesake.

External propellant/coolant tanks were attached to the legs in addition to an oversized rear fuel pack in the attempt to provide the Komet with an acceptable flight range on par with lighter and more modern mobile suits.

Since the unit lacked mission duration it was determined that it would make up for it in sheer firepower. A Mega Particle Cannon was adapted to a Stutzer cowling to disguise the offensive and defensive range of this powerful, if not entirely reliable, new Zeonic energy weapons platform configuration.

When operational tests began, as expected, the prototype was extremely fast, and for a time the Titans’ mobile suit pilots were at a complete loss as what to do about it. Singly or in pairs, they attacked the Titans fleet and MS formations, often faster than the opposing MS could deploy in an attempt to intercept them.

A typical tactic was to charge directly into the fleets’ formations firing amongst them at point blank ranges allowing and the Stutzer Mega Particle Cannon to recharge in between passes. With luck, this would afford the pilot a brief chance to fire off a few rounds from his cannon before he had to evade and escape back to a base of operations or camouflaged refueling asteroid. At the speeds necessary for this tactic accuracy suffered, thus only fleet ships were targeted.

Titan MS pilots quickly noted the short duration of this tactic. They would wait it out until retreat began, and then pursue the retreating Komet(s). They quickly began to identify the asteroid refueling depots the Komets operated from and started bombardment of the asteroid after the MS docked. Most of the Komets were destroyed in their hangers before an adequate number of pilots could be trained on them, and it was soon clear that the original plan for a huge network of “Komet Satellite Bases” was never going to happen.

The YMS-14J ReGelg Prototype was a tremendously ambitious yet highly specialized improvement over its successful, tried-and-true previous Gelgoog form. With a better infrastructure the Komet could have been developed more thoroughly and successfully, and the Komet’s fully realized role of point defense could have possibly turned the tide for the Remnants against the Titans.

In any operational sense the Komet was a failure. More were lost before deployment than were ever responsible for MS or fleet kills. Due to fuel shortages, limited supplies, and production delays, very few actually went into combat. It took an experienced pilot with excellent shooting skills to achieve kills with the Komet due to its great speed and sensitive control features. At the same time the Komet was a remarkable design that pointed the way to the future of Zeonic mobile suit advancement.

At the time of the destruction of the Aswan and its exotic mecha by the AEUG only one Komet remained operational and it is pictured here.

The GMA-02 “Terror” is designed exclusively for use by Newtypes for using unmanned Slave Funnel mobile suits with the same performance as the main MS. The intent is to have a large team of mobile suits with only one of the suits actually having a human pilot. The main MS is equiped with a complete brain control system that connects the pilot organically to the MS control system. The prototype showed even higher performance than was expected, but it takes a powerful Newtype to use the system effectively. The main weapons are a pair of fixed beam cannons, mounted on each arm. There are various optional armaments, but they tend to burden the Newtype control system too much and the Terror usually enters battle with just the standard equipment.

This core machine of the Toa and other more specialized mobile suits. The control performance of this unit is exceptional. the body consists of a beam cannon and a sub-arm with a beam saber on the right and left sides.

The GMS-01 “Toa” is a the general-purpose mass-production MS of GS. At it’s core it is a GMA-01 Phantom Figther equiped with arms, a torso and a body. The Toa is just one of many configurable MS that are possible with the base GMA-01 core.

In the midst of construction the Dengeki Primrose Escape Unit Mega Particle Cannon caught my attention as an interesting detail. I began to imagine a Mega Particle Cannon on the Stutzer rig. It could be disguised to resemble a standard Stutzer unit to lure TTT aggressors into range.

I did a bit of research at this point into Gelgoogs and realized the ReGelg hadn’t been fielded in the AoZ time frame but was in Zeta, so when was it tested? I decided in the AoZ timeline would be appropriate and went about sketching some mock ups. I came up with this Frame Shoulder Binder design.

All the white plastic is styrene. Yellow parts are from the Gundam Adapt Methuss.

This is the pre-assembly test set up. Articulation has been added to the ankles, knees, and hips. Thrusters, fuel lines and a big backpack round out the set up.

I also lengthend and reshaped the waist portion of the torso, and added power lines for the Mega Particle Cannon.

Pre-painting disarticulation. Some changes are still to come on the chest cowl. I also added some legs tanks, of course.

So here it is painted, decaled, and weathered/stressed. The cowl has been added to since the previous pic, can you see the differences?

A few more insignias get added later to round out this first view.

Good look at the back. Lots of verniers need lots of feul and coolant.

Reverse angle really shows off the cowl, no Beam Rifle in the way.

Firing position for the Mega Particle Cannon, everything gets articulation.

Another look.

Close up detail shot.

The core is comprised of Gundam UO Gelgoog Cannon, HMS Gundam Gelgoog, and a Banpresto Mobile Suit Gelgoog of about the same scale.

The head is a composite piece of molded parts, bitz, and styrene.

The Zulu Shield is a near scratch piece with some molded details added. It’s core is styrene, I used wood filler instead of any putty and a coat of Zap CA super thin cyanocrylate (super) glue to change the surface texture. I find the wood filler much easier to work with, it’s cheaper and the trick of applying a “super glue” finish( my own innovation) is a great combination.

You may notice on the Thruster and Maneuvering Pack a small extension and lip, this is for stowing the Zulu Shield. The handle grip rotates and slides right in but I chose later to have it in the hand instead of stowing it.

The Beam Bazooka mounted on the rear of the Armor Skirt is removable. It is from a Bandai Char Aznable Gashapon mecha series, a Rick Dom. It has been modified slightly to be more symetrical from the handle grip.

Good look inside of the Zulu Shield.

The Gelgoog Beam Rifle is the older version from the Banpresto Gelgoog.

I really like this particular angle.

Every joint in this build has articulation. I never get rid of any old mecha, the joints are always salvaged and the rest separated into my bitz bins. Can you see the rotating handle grip inside the Zulu Shield?

It’s hard to tell but the knee joints actually have the double articulation of the Extendend MSIA series.

Gotcha!

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