MS-06S Char's Zaku II

MS-06S Zaku II is the machine Char Aznable flies in Mobile Suit Gundam (1979, U.C. 0079), on the Principality of Zeon side. Bandai's profile calls it a squadron commander's Zaku in Char's personal red and pink, with a blade antenna on the head marking the rank.

What it does in the story

Char's Zaku leads the reconnaissance team into Side 7 in the first episode, and the fight that follows puts Amuro Ray in the RX-78-2's cockpit. Federation soldiers came to call the red machine the Red Comet, a name Bandai's profile ties to how fast it was said to close on them. The S type was the commander machine of the Zaku II line, issued to ace and squadron-leader pilots.

What makes it different

• The blade antenna is a rank marking, not decoration. Bandai's profile marks the head antenna as a squadron leader's badge and the red and pink as Char's own colours. Those two details separate the machine from a line Zaku at a glance.
• The Red Comet name comes from a setting, not a measured figure. The profile says Federation soldiers feared the suit because it closed at three times the speed of a standard Zaku, and that is the line the nickname hangs on. Reference accounts note the TV series and the later films word the idea differently, so it reads as story detail rather than a rating.
• The S type is the commander variant of the Zaku II family. The MS-06 line also covers the F type for space and the J type for ground combat, both of them line machines. The S was the version set aside for ace and squadron-leader pilots, carrying the usual Zaku weapons: machine gun, bazooka and heat hawk.
• Two Master Grade kits load the same machine very differently. The 1995 kit carries a 120 mm machine gun, heat hawk, a 175 mm Magella Top cannon and two Sturm Fausts. The 2007 Ver.2.0 instead reproduces the S type's backpack and leg thrusters, offers both antenna types, ties the mono-eye to the neck, and adds two Char figures and a lift vehicle.

How big is it?

• 1/48: 365 mm tall, the one size Bandai publishes as a finished dimension
• 1/144: roughly 12 cm, scaling from the 1/48 figure
• 1/100: roughly 17.5 cm on the same basis

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Frequently asked questions

Background sources: MS-06S Char's Zaku II — Gundam Wiki · ザクII S型（日本語版 Wikipedia）