#rx-78gp01

This was my project I started last week. I worked on it for my days off to relax. Hoping that finishing one of the many kits sitting in my room would make me feel better and it did!

This is the MG RX-78 GP01 1/100. This gundam is one of my favorites in design. It has a bulky look but still stylish. My favorite piece of this kit has got to be the knees.

This was my first MG kit ever and although I found the core fighter piece annoying, that was still pretty cool way to integrate it with the entire kit.

New Papercraft has been published on PaperCraftSquare: Link: http://www.papercraftsquare.com/rx-78gp01-gundam-zephyranthes-free-papercraft-download.html Paper Craft Name: RX-78GP01 Gundam Zephyranthes Free Papercraft Download Description:

This gundam paper model is a RX-78GP01 Gundam Zephyranthes (aka Zephyranthes, GP01, Unit 1), a prototype general-purpose mobile suit from the OVA series Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory, the papercraft is created by Josey, and shared by yenc. The Zephyranthes is piloted by Kou Uraki.

As described in the Master Grade model manual and MS Encyclopedia, at the conclusion of the One Year War, the Federation opened the Gundam Development Project, aimed at creating mobile suits superior to those that Zeon had developed. The RX-78GP01 Gundam "Zephyranthes" was the second of five Gundam type mobile suit prototypes completed under this plan.

The RX-78GP01 was designed to be an adaptable mobile suit, able to operate under any condition on earth or in space; to that end its design is superficially similar to the other RX series Gundams. Unlike previous suits, this was one of the first to re-introduce the core fighter concept in its design, utilizing the recently developed FF-XII Core Fighter II as the cockpit.

One major innovation in the RX-78GP01's arsenal was the addition of a beam rifle that used removable energy capacitor clips called e-pacs. Previous beam rifle designs had the energy capacitor integrated into the rifle directly, resulting in the rifle becoming dead weight once the capacitor was depleted. With e-pacs, beam rifles can be used indefinitely as long as the pilot has a ready supply of replacement e-pacs. The RX-78GP01 has three e-pacs (one mounted on the rifle, two held in reserve on the shield) in its normal deployment configuration.

Though the GP01 is operable in both Earth and outer space, it needs to be configured for each environment before battle by swapping out the different Core Fighters. Otherwise, the GP01 will suffer from a lack of balance and will become near impossible to pilot. [Source: wikia]

You may download this paper model template here:

RX-78GP01 Gundam Zephyranthes Free Papercraft Download