Gromasen R9   

One of the first enemy of MazingaZ

Update 18/04/01 Completed to 92%

Pictures of the model

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Name: Mechanical monster Gromasen R9 (MazingaZ anime)
Height: It's tall as MazingaZ.
Pilot: Artificial intelligence
Activation: He wake up at Dr Hell orders.
Driving system: None
Material: Iron
Weapons: Ionic ray, finger missiles, arms can rotate and extend
Vehicle:---
Friends:No one except Dr Hell
Enemies:
Everyone on hearth except Dr hell.
Notes: This is one of the first enemy of MazingaZ (third episode). As you can see he is very simple in shape and he is also quite ugly. The reason is that he is a 70's robot, one of the first to be draw by Go Nagai. Although his aspect, he is very powerful, he destroy a city before MazingaZ stop him with is Breast fire (In this episode Koji use Breast fire for the first time)
Nowadays robots are all very strong, they can split planets in half, instead Gromasen has only one powerful weapon, his Ionic ray, but he can use it only two time!


Technical notes:

Techniques: This is my first Lightwave6 model. I spent only two afternoons to model the 90% of the robot. Some parts comes from MazingaZ model. All the others are modeled using classical techniques.
What lacks: Textures.
My biggest problems: The most difficult part to model was the blue part of the head. I used the new subdivision patch of Lightwave6. The original robot is sky-blue so I think he has metallic finish. He is a brand new robot so he doesn't have rust or scratch but it was build very quickly by Dr Hell so he cannot be very accurate. I used an hammered steel textures with a little bit of dust.


The original robot
These are a few pictures from the MazingaZ's episode I used as reference to model Gromasen. You can see the real shapes and colors of the robot, his weapons, his name written in Japanese etc.

Gallery:
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