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ASW-G-08A Gundam Amazing Barbatos Lupus

Say what you want about Build Metaverse, but man did they do some banger kits. This one is probably my favorite of the entire line, having just a fantastic concept to it. It's Barbatos Lupus, but it comes with a tiny Hashmal that when you combine them they make a Barbatos Lupus Rex, which matches the lore of IBO since Hashmal was used to upgrade Barbatos. Not only that, but it also has a weapon upgrade mode and a general backpack mode. So good.

The Good: Apart from its concept, it executes the gimmicks associated with them well. Backpack equip is solid, upgraded form is solid, etc. It also has all the posability of your expected Barbatos.

The Bad: There are some general weight issues when in weapon and backpack mode. It's relatively mitigated when upgraded, though. I'd still recommend a stand, though.

The Details: I did standard black panel lining for areas where levels shift lightly and metallic green for actual grooves and indents. And for the frame I did my usual shtick of adding some gold to the mechanical parts, and doing metallic red and blue for the piping.

One thing I did to really bring out the detail is I took areas where there were large raised red areas is repaint some of those areas a darker red. There's also a bit of black fill in areas, most obviously on the Amazing Mace.

An interesting thought I had a few days ago when thinking about Gundam Frame development;

We know that Gundam frames and Mobile Armours share a lot in common from a design perspective, since parts from a mobile armour can be integrated into Mobile suits, so could the apparent increase in complexity as the Gundam Frames continue on be the result of captured materials being integrated into the Gundam Frames?

Murmur was the original catalyst for this line of thinking, since it uses tech that we’ve seen previously on Mobile Armours such as Hashmal, but it’s most evident with Barbatos;

It’s able to integrate the tech with very little difficulty, and Alaya-Vijinana bridges the gap between pilot and machine, so it doesn’t have to match absolutely. So why couldn’t other technology be the result of recovered Mobile armour materials?

It could also lead to a greater refinement of the Alaya-Vijinana system, since we see Units like the Murmur or Marchosias having more inhuman designs, when compared to the relative simplicity of Barbatos and Gamigin, the earlier-numbered units.

The only “fancy” weapon system that appears to exist basically from the start (barring the Alaya-Vijinana system itself) is the Rare Metal weaponry, with Bael, Haagenti and now Zepar all having access to weapons made from Rare Metal (though it’s possible there were multiple Gundam Frame “foundries”, each of which had different technological specialties).

This post was inspired by this piece of Fanart, depicting a sort of Gundam-ified Hashmal;

Sachiel

Angel of Jupiter

Have under it's jurisdiction the sixth heaven: Zebul

Sachiel is a Hashmallim, angelic entities in Judaism that have the form of "....a stormy wind, a cloud with a fire, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of electrum (?)..."

While is stated that it appears a living creature and a human form, this artist choose to not take any animal or human form. Angels are ethereal beings in my conception.

I imagine him as the appearance of the first milliseconds of an atomic explosion (search the image of needed)

Sachiel (zadkiel) mean "God is my righteousness"

Part 3 of the serie "Tabula Astris", an artistic interpretation of angels (including the ones from the fiction)

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Part 4 here: