Gundam.Org & Mechadomain

This is the original design of the RX-93-n-2 produced by Yutaka Izubuchi for one of Tomino Gundam novels. I found this picture both in Mechadomain and Gundam.Org. The first website has a collection of linearts about almost any gundam mecha you can think off, while Gundam.Org, despite being in chinese, boasts a lot of pictures of a selected range of mechas. It has also a huge collection of Dendrobium Orchis linearts.

Izubuchi Hi-Nu design

Hobby Link Japan
B-Club 1:100 resin kit	I was browsing through Hobby Link Japan website looking for SD Gundams when I first saw the Hi-Nu models depicted here. I got immediatly captured by the design of the robot, and decided to build it in 3D. These pictures were really useful in constructing the back of the Hi-Nu, despite some small differences in the backpack of the 1/144 and 1/100 version. Also the close shot of the 1/144 robot head and shoulder provided unvaluable help. At first I followed the pose of the 1/144, with front plates over knees, then switched to the 1/100 pose, which is more similar to Izubuchi designs: front plates behind knees.
B-Club 1:144 resin kit

Church of the Machine

B-Club 1:144 resin kit made by Joc Tejapaibul

Church of the Machine is, in the words of its creator, "a chronicle of one person's interpretation of designs and story events from the animated show 'Gundam' and others, through means of 1/144 scale models and CGs". I found Joc's website when looking for Hi-Nu stuff over the net, and I must say his work is excellent. Not only the page presents a lot of highly detailed and well crafted modelkits, but he has one of the best B-Club 1/144 Hi-Nu models out there. The close-up pictures really helped a lot in fixing some difficult details like the fin-funnel system and the gun, while the full figure images provided new views of the robot that simply were not present in box scans. If I ever had any doubt wether to model the Hi-Nu or not, seing Joc page swept'em all away :-D

Mecha Pad
Mecha Pad is another good site about Gundam modelkits, featuring images and details about many Gundam and non Gundam kits. The Hi-Nu is not one of the webmaster kits, but he collected some box scans from B-Club 1/144 and 1/100 kits and a 1/72 plastic kit. The 1/72 model doesn't look so good, it's quite squared and proportions are not so clean as in B-Club garage kits. On the other hand the box scans were really useful, they are big and not too compressed, and you won't find them at Hobby Link Japan.	B-Club 1/100 and 1/144 box scans
	1/100 and 1/72 scale resin kits