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MS-06M Zaku Marine Type Ver.2.0 Conversion Parts

A resin detour that turns a familiar Zaku into the amphibious oddball of the One Year War.

MechaGrade Score

3.5/5

Zaku II · 1/100 · 2009

GradeMG

Scale1/100

Released2009

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The verdict

I like this set for exactly what it is, a garage-kit style add-on that lets a builder who already owns an MG Zaku II Ver.2.0 turn it into something almost nobody else on the shelf has.

It is not a kit in the usual snap-together sense, it is resin armor, a new backpack, a sub gun, and a pair of brass rods you have to work for. The payoff, a proper amphibious Zaku with the right silhouette, is worth it if you go in knowing what you are signing up for.

Best for: MG Zaku II Ver.2.0 owners who already have resin cleanup experience and want a genuinely uncommon Zeon variant on the shelf

The full review

What it is

This is a conversion set, not a standalone kit. You need an MG MS-06F or MS-06J Zaku II Ver.2.0 already built (or ready to build) because the base suit, its frame, its articulation, its legs and torso, is doing all the heavy lifting. What you get here is resin-cast armor panels, a new backpack unit, the distinctive 56 Sub Lock Gun, and two brass rods (one thick, one thin) to reinforce the new parts. I like that it commits fully to the marine silhouette rather than just bolting on a few floats, the shaping reads as a real Zeon amphibious unit the moment it goes together.

The catch

Resin is the whole story here. These are garage-kit grade parts, not injection-molded runners, so there is mold-line cleanup, no click-fit tabs to lean on, and test-fitting before any glue or paint touches the base kit. Bandai and B-Club did not ship a detailed illustrated manual the way a normal MG box does, so builders are largely working out fit and part orientation themselves. There is no dedicated color guide the way a mainline MG gets either, so you are matching paint to the base kit's Zeon green by eye. Budget real bench time and basic resin-handling skill before you start.

Who it's for

This is for the builder who already has the itch for something other than one more standard Zaku on the shelf, and who does not mind sanding resin, dry-fitting twice, and mixing their own paint match. If you have never worked with a resin garage-kit accessory before, or you want box-fresh instructions and guaranteed fit, skip this one and look at a mainline HGUC or MG marine-type release instead. If you already love the MG Zaku Ver.2.0 platform and want to push it somewhere the mainline catalog does not go, this delivers a genuinely distinct silhouette for the effort.

The build story

What the build is actually like, and the engineering worth knowing about.

Treat this like a garage-kit project layered onto a finished MG, not a weekend snap-build. The resin armor panels need mold-line cleanup and careful dry-fitting against the Zaku II Ver.2.0's torso and leg shaping before anything gets glued or pinned, and the brass rods (a 1mm-thick length and a thinner 0.5mm length) exist specifically to reinforce the new backpack and fin parts so they hold up under handling rather than snapping off the resin casting.

The payoff is in the parts you do not get anywhere else, the marine-specific backpack, the reshaped armor that gives the amphibious Zaku its rounder, water-adapted profile, and the 56 Sub Lock Gun as a dedicated underwater sidearm. Articulation and color separation are entirely inherited from whichever MG Zaku II Ver.2.0 base kit you use, so the value here is purely in how much a fairly rare Zeon variant matters to you, since this set will not by itself compete on part count or engineering against a standalone MG release.

Lore & trivia

01The MS-06M is an amphibious variant of the MS-06 Zaku II, built for underwater operations with a dedicated propulsion backpack and thruster-equipped feet for quick turns in water.
02The 56 Sub Lock Gun included in this conversion set is the type's signature underwater sidearm, distinct from the mainline Zaku's machine gun and bazooka loadout.
03In Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt, Zaku Marine Type units served with Zeon Remnants and the South Seas Alliance after the One Year War, defending the Rig oil-platform refuge alongside Zogok units of the Alliance's Mermaid Squad.
04This conversion set was produced to fit directly onto Bandai's MG MS-06F and MS-06J Zaku II Ver.2.0 kits, letting builders repurpose an existing mainline Zaku rather than buying a whole new standalone release.