Greetings, fellow mech-heads.

I’m slowly working my way through a pile of 1/200 Gundam mobile suits for use with Mobile Suit Skirmish – a fan-made set of rules written by Liam Thomas with contributions from yours truly.

Link to free rulebook here!

So, here’s a nice Dom high-mobility suit ready to take to the field in the Hell that is post-One Year War Earth. This will be part of my Zeon Remnant army – a bunch of diehards abandoned on Earth following Zeon’s defeat who won’t give up the fight. (I guess they didn’t get the memo.)

The model is from the HCM Pro line of action figures. These were easily the most detailed representations of Gundam suits available when they released in 2005, complete with optional weapons, swappable hands, and completely posable. Alas, these are no longer in production, but they are pretty cheap in the Japanese second-hand anime product market. As little as 800¥.

Target scope on the bazooka was hollowed out and replaced with tinted clear sprue, sanded and polished to shape.

HCM Pro models come pre-painted, but this guy is a complete repaint, from basecoat on up. (Used to be purple.) Lots and lots of Tamiya Weathering Master layered on to build up dust and dirt blown up by those bell-bottom plenum skirts on the legs. The secret to using this stuff is coats of matte varnish between each application, to seal it down before building more colour on top.

The big stick on the back is a Heat Rod – a close combat, white-hot poker, hence the heat-damaged appearance.

That’s one Dom down, two to go. I’ve also got 3 Zaku II’s and a Gelgoog to add to this army, and then it on to the better-equipped but inexperienced Feddies sent into the ruins of Australia to hunt them down!

So, more mecha madness next time. Thanks for taking a look!