Pre-Blog Kits #8: HGUC Jegan Bombardment

This build was for Gundam Eclipse's 2012 Personalized Grunt Group Build. For this kit I started with the HGUC Stark Jegan, I added missile launchers by Kotobukiya that fold over the shoulders from an attachment point on the modified backpack. I modified HGUC GP02's front skirts to fit the Jegan mold and then attached VSBRs built from the Stark Jegan's fuel tanks as side skirts. The VSBR side skirts are tied into a cylindrical capacitor on the back skirt, via two sections of cable. I cobbled together a targeting scope and tracer gun from a Zaku machine gun and attached that to the right forearm. In addition, I added some basic pla-plating to the legs, shoulders, and chest.

HGUC Jegan Bombardment, completed April 16 2012

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Notes:

RGM-89sb Jegan Bombardment [VSBR Test Type] - a non-existent design, though I decided to base it in the same era of the Universal Century as the Jegan Fireball... Another such Jegan Variant is the VSBR Test Type or RGM-89sb "Jegan Bombardment", cobbled together from spare parts from numerous other Jegan models, and equipped with an extensively overhauled reactor along with a massive energy capacitor; this Jegan model is intended to test the viability of of VSBR weapon systems on a mobile suit platform... the machine is deemed successful, though highly unbalanced, its targeting systems for the VSBRs are not entirely complete yet, to accommodate these issues and push it off into combat against the Cross Bone Vanguards forces it is equipped with a large targeting scope and tracer gun assembly on its right arm, along large missile pods to round out its ranged fire-power...

VSBR - Variable Speed Beam Rifle, the pilot can adjust the speed at which the mega particles used in the beam rifle are accelerated. Slower-speed particles produced a wider beam that delivered more raw damage, and higher-speed particles create a more tightly focused, penetrating beam.