MSN-04II Nightingale

MSN-04II Nightingale is Char Aznable's mobile suit in Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack — Beltorchika's Children, the novel version Yoshiyuki Tomino wrote in 1988 from his early draft of the film. In that telling the Sazabi does not exist and the Nightingale takes its place as the Neo Zeon leader's personal machine; Yutaka Izubuchi drew the original design.

What it does in the story

Char's rebellion runs much as it does on screen, with Axis driven toward Earth and the quarrel between Char and Amuro settled in person. The Nightingale overwhelms Amuro's Re-GZ when they first meet, and over Axis it faces the Hi-Nu Gundam as an equal rather than as an underdog.

What makes it different

• It is shaped like a mobile armour. Psycho-Frame construction gave a machine the size of a mobile suit performance closer to a Newtype-use mobile armour, and the silhouette follows that logic: binders overhanging both shoulders, a large rear armour block and front armour as big as the legs. Thrusters placed across the shoulders and the rear armour are what keep it flyable.
• Ten funnels hang on the binders. Five funnels are mounted on each movable binder, resized from the large funnels carried by the Alpha Azieru. Each holds a large-capacity condenser, which gives it more power and a longer working time than the cylindrical funnels used elsewhere.
• The rifle is about 30 metres long. The large mega beam rifle fires a focused beam, a diffuse shotgun-like spread, or a high-output blast in launcher mode with a bipod and an external power source. Its focused shot is compared to a mega bazooka launcher.
• There are arms hidden in the skirt. Four simplified manipulators sit behind the left and right front skirt armour, and each holds a beam saber. They let the suit put a blade on a target from an angle an opponent has not accounted for.

How big is it?

• Overall height: 27.8 m, with a head height of 22.5 m and a weight of 48.2 t
• 1/144: roughly 19.3 cm
• 1/100: roughly 27.8 cm

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Background sources: MSN-04II Nightingale — Gundam Wiki · サザビー（ナイチンゲール）— 日本語版 Wikipedia