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Honestly, in my head I always think about the Val Varo rebuilding scene from 0083. I've even listened to Magic while building some kits.

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>Not knowing the bliss of a good airbrushing session.

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>>14927998

Fucking this.

I feel like Heero Yuy working on his Wing Gundam or A Delaz Mook working on his Zaku or Even Kelley when I'm working on my car.

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>been watching mecha since Toonami
>never built a model kit

Does it really enhance your appreciation for the show? Or is it just buyfaggotry?

>>14928022
it's the difference between jacking off to a character and humping a pillow of her

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>>14927998

And when I bring her out from the shadows at night, I feel like a Zeon remnant bringing out his outdated OYW machine amongst modern day suits.

>>14928022

A lot of people have learned to appreciate different units they may not have really cared for. Or at least look at them in a different light.

It definitely can enhance appreciation but it can definitely slip into buyfaggotry. But the thing with gunpla is unless it's like a limited edition kind of deal, it's not something you buy just to keep in a box. You buy it for the sake of cracking it open and making it your own.

But it's an expensive hobby nonetheless.

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>>14927991
>Post a reaction image describing the state of your mind when you're building your plastic models from japan land.

>>14928022
It depends on the quality of the show and the quality of the toy.

There are awesome shows where the toys are marvels of modern engineering. The MG Victory is fucking amazing (if a bit frail), and its accurate-to-show transformation parts make you appreciate just how much thought Katoki put into the design of both. MG Turn A is also supposedly very good, and it comes with a 1/100 cow you can put in its chest silo.

Mediocre shows where the toys suck can make you really think twice about the show afterward. The MG ReZELs are hot trash where even the Commander type is lacking in extra parts (it has a launcher but no regular beam rifle), MG Unicorn still has knee issues after two revisions, all the special versions of the Unicorn kit all look like obvious cash grabs, and as a result you kind of look back at Unicorn and question whether or not it was actually a good show or not.

Bad shows where the toys are good can make you feel guilty for buying the toy. Most SEED/Destiny kits are very well done, but they also don't excuse the terrible quality of the shows. At that point you start putting a wall between the toy and the show, because you can't very well blame Okawara because Fukuda and Morosawa shit all over the show that his designs were in; just buy a toy because you like how it looks, and not because of whether it was awesome or not in the show.

Really it depends on your mindset and whether or not you'd feel guilty for buying a toy whose quality is disparate from the show. It is true that in many cases the shows are there simply to promote the sales of the toys, but by and large they are separate enough that it's okay to buy a toy for its quality despite how the show turns out, or to ignore a mediocre toy even if its show turned out to be a masterpiece.

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>>14927991

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>When you hope your SAL package gets to you before the heat death of the universe.

>>14927991
imagine a kid whos way to old to be playing with a shape sorting toddler toy

now imagine him failing miserably

that.jpg

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>>14928075
If my wife is out while I'm building a model I make sound effects when attaching parts. Please tell me I'm not alone.

>>14928531
>If my wife is out
With her boyfriend jamal?

>>14928531
That's a lot of Raptors.

>>14928541
Nah, she has Julio the poolboy.
I keep asking why she has a poolboy when we don't even have a pool.

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>>14927991
>snipping one of the smaller pieces out of the runner
>fucking leaps out of there into a basket of clothes, never to be seen again

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>>14927991

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>>14927991

I might be the only one.

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>>14927991

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>>14928468
>When your SAL package comes way earlier than you expected.

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>>14927991
>building a hand grenade

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>when you assemble a limb, but realize a part was put in backwards.

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>>14928002
>Not knowing the horror of a bad airbrushing session

>Nozzle keeps clogging
>Paint wont flow
>Paint gums up and splatters over good paint layer
>Paint too thin and runs all over the place
>Awkward as fuck masking
>Needle gets bent
>Layering goes wrong as lighter paint ends up completely covering darker layering ruining recessed areas

>>14928644
Now I'm self diagnosing on /m/.

I'll build my plamo in the most logical straight forward manner I can muster, thanks.

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>>14927991

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>when you're grinding out a nub with the blade of an exacto knife and it accidentally cuts below where you wanted to go

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>>14929304

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>>14927991
>Post a reaction image describing the state of your mind when you're building your plastic models from japan land.

>>14928741
>Implying I haven't dropped my airbrush as I was filling it and it got paint all over my kit and floor.

You want to know real horror? Masking something and spending several days doing the next painting steps, and then peeling the mask off only to have it strip random bits of paint off.

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>>14927991
>When the piece doesn't fit just right and you gotta pull 'em apart but you don't have one of those fancy-pants parts separators.

>>14928022
For me, they're like memento's of my favourite designs. And the satisfaction you get from progressively getting better at building and painting is a joy.

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>>14928531
>High Level Advanced Masking

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>>14927991

>building gunpla

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Maeks me feel cluver

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>>14929426
I cut my finger up the other day because I forgot to take all the nubs off the bottom of a Kamfer's foot before clicking it into place and it wouldn't go all the way in but it wouldn't come out either so I tried slicing off the exposed nubbs and trying to wedge it back out with my knife fuck still raging

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>>14928741

>>14928078
>Forgetting great shows where the toys suck

I'm looking at you, 0080

>>14928644
>kid literally has his ducks in a row
Goddamn Newtypes man

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>>14928644
>always pass the "do you autism" check list

>>14928022
>Does it really enhance your appreciation for the show? Or is it just buyfaggotry?
Sort of in-between I'd say.
Something about the building part really does feel amazing, though.

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>>14927991