For my very first Design Series post, I want to go over something that’s been on my mind a lot lately - namely, the GM variants found in the 1989 OVA Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket. I built two of these GM’s as model kits in the past year, and currently have another in the backlog. This seems like the perfect time to cover them all in one fell swoop.
Caveats and Context
- There are plenty of other GM variants from across the Universal Century timeline, but I am going to focus on the ones from War in the Pocket.
- These mobile suits don’t just happen to appear in the same OVA: they are also part of a single throughline of technological progression, each one building off of another. That makes this post much easier to write.