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The
MS-21C is a mobile suit built for space and in
space it sees his only use. This weapon has been
developed and produced by the Zion forces that
didn't surrender at the end of the One Year War in
U.C. 0080, in particular it is largely used by the
Delaz Fleet in U.C. 0083 during the Operation
Stardust, as depicted in the "Gundam 0083: Stardust
Memories" OAV series. The odd appearance of this
vehicle, halfway between a humanoid mobile suit and
a space fighter, is due to the ragtag material
which the MS-21C is based upon: parts of other
mobile suits, unfinished prototypes, starship
weapons and engines. Everything that the Zionist
rebels could get their hand on, in order to built a
small army of fast and reliable mobile weapons. The
resulting Dra-C is a light armoured and fast mobile
suit, quite well manoeuvrable in space, but clearly
outclassed and outmatched by the new technology of
the modern Federal mobile suit, that in fact cut
through their ranks as a knife through butter.
The only existing model kit for this mobile suit is
a very expensive and quite impossible to find resin
garage kit. So I decided to make my own Dra-C,
using the stuff that I could find around (a little
like those rebel Zionic techs). I started using a
Zaku Mine Layer, from the Bandai Mobile Suit
Variation series (see cover next page), and went on
from there. All the details and a large
photographic documentation of the long process of
building this model will be soon available in the
'How to... make a full scratchbuilt model!' in the
HOW TO... section of this site. This model has been
the winner for the Science Fiction and Fantasy
section of a big model making contest held in Rome,
Italy, a few years ago.
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