2006-12: Gojulas Giga MK-II (UPDATE)

RCM — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:14:14 +0000

I did what I could in the short time I had for the contest, but after that I started looking at it again, and thought about how to fix the things I was still unhappy with. First, I made “dino-accurate” hands by removing the thumbs. I went on a quest for a good three fingered replacement, but it was not to be, so it has tyranno-type hands. Then, I saw WIKD’s custom Giga, which had little guns all along the tail. I decided I would have to do this myself. WIKD sent me some spares, and they worked like a charm. Last, I never liked how Giga’s arms looked like they were flailing madly, so I tried to fix that. I’m almost there…

(See the 2/06 version for more pics)

Sacrifices made (round 2):

8 little guns from Seismosaurus;
the barrel tips from CP-10 (to mount arms)

2006-02: Gojulas Giga MK-II (Prototype)

RCM — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:56:28 +0000

I entered this in Phenotype’s Zoids Forum Contest in February 2006. The initial darthing took forever, because there were just so many pieces to paint. Stickers were a grueling undertaking as well. Also, I did a lot of cutting and drilling. I got the idea from Pheno’s Proto Giga page, where he wished it had more of a prototype feel. This said to me: coil springs! Also, all the preview pics for Proto Giga showed shiny armor, not the dullness we ended up with.

Sacrifices made:

Gojulas Giga (extra one for cut up parts and stickers);
Proto Giga (caps);
Deathsaurer (DS hands=custom feet);
Parablade (slashy things);
Ultrasaurus, Helcat Noir, ??? (various stickers);
CP-02 (springs, one gun);
CP-03 (spring, cut piece off gatling for nose gun);
CP-19 (cut up the box);
Blox CP-H (aka the cannon);
various Wave coil spring sets;
2 Starriors Slice figures (evil skull—first attempt was hot pink!)

Battle Story
Crew: 1
Function: Assault
Stats: many.

This prototype shows many proposed improvements on the original Gojulas Giga: a pair of machine guns mounted in the nose for “picking off stragglers”, improved feet–stronger, nastier claws for enchanced stomping, Electro-Slash™ blades in the tail (ouch!), all leather interior, and a massive beam cannon. Powering the cannon and the tail blades is… well… not much is known about the power source, except that it is very unpredictable, and seems to have its own ideas about firing the cannon (it once shot through an entire mountain to get to enemies on the other side–all without input from the pilot). Also, many test pilots have had to undergo psychiatric treatment after piloting the prototype, all mentioning something “eating their brain”. Because of that, R & D ceased further development of the prototype.

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2006-12: Gojulas Giga MK-II (UPDATE)

2006-02: Gojulas Giga MK-II (Prototype)