Welcome to the Gunpla/Plamo General

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For fucks sake guys read the whole thing about submitting.

***GM Group Build***
Rules:
Pick an HG GM, and paint and customize it. For it to count as a GM, it literally just has to have GM in the name of the MS on the box, otherwise, no, it doesn't count. As far as customizing it, I'm going to place a limit on that. The limit is 50% additions to the kit.
To define 50%, look at it like this, you could take a GM Custom and replace the arms (including shoulders), legs, and backpack and I'd call that 50%. I'm not counting handheld bits in that. If you're unsure of something please ask in IRC, the thread, or email.

Due Date: 8/12
Submissions go to [email protected]
Submission format
Please submit photos in jpg via a compressed file (zip, rar, or 7zip), please don't link images to imgur or photobucket or the like. Please also name yourself, even if it's a pseudonym. Also indicate your participation in the contest below.

***Contest***
Instead of doing just a generic group build this time, there's going to be a prize pack. The prize pack will contain a GM Sniper K9, a set of glass paint mixing jars, and a Tamashii stand (sized for HGs or RDs). Shipping is at my expense.

Rules for the contest:
If you wish to enter the contest I'm going to actually need some proof. Please send me pictures of your kit as a work in progress and a final product with a timestamp and your email address. I hate to put his burden on you guys but this is the internet and people suck.

Judging
Regardless of who wins the contest proper, all entries will be made available on a blog post on Saturday, August 13th. Actual judging will take place Saturday as well, with the winner announced that evening. The winner will be contacted via email and be given a two day grace period for responding. PLEASE USE AN ACTIVE EMAIL WHEN SUBMITTING!

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>>5794659
only worth it if they really go all out and make a Full Armor Unicorn Plan B too.

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>>5795009
Kek, someone needs to do an edit with that

>>5793665
Excuse my ignorance, but what is HIPS? I figure that the PS means polystyrene.

So apparently that giant B&N in the Baltimore harbor doesn't carry a single model kit.

>>5795140
HIPS = High Impact Polystyrene, ie. high strength hard plastic.

>>5795140
High Impact Polystyrene is a blend of PS that's a little softer but has higher toughness than general purpose polystyrene, which is stiffer and more fragile.

Newfag here, is Gundam Wing the series with all of the whiny emo teens that all of 90 kids go crazy over?

>>5795250
Yes

>>5794659
Oh damn. I would've figured they'd just put out a conversion kit. Curious, any mentions on the pricing for it yet?

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Well that's my gm finished for the group build, maybe.

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GM squad grows in number.

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Worked on my HG V2 today. Didn't like the plasticy looking gold so I went with sharpie gold after testing it on the runner.

>>5795741
It's definitely an improvement, unfortunately there's probably nothing you can really do about the streakyness of it.

>>5795757
Yeah, there isn't sadly. I just tried to move in the same direction over and over. Unlike brushing it doesn't help to switch directions.

>>5795431
I fucking love this.

Granted, all I really like is more green on stuff, but for real. That's a really good paintjob, anon.

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I don goofed and accidentally bought paint meant for airbrush.
So my question is, is it still possible to hand paint it?
Pic related is the paint in question.

So which is better in you guys' opinion . The HG Amazing Red Warrior or the HG Mega Shiki. Want to eventually get both, but can only spring for one right now.

>>5795790
No, I don't think so. Sorry. It's very thin and more of a colloidal metal suspension in medium than "paint." It won't brush very nicely...although since you already have it, might as well try. I think you might get gnarly brushstrokes, so use a brush wider than the piece if possible. Usually they can be buffed as well, and some actually need to be sealed or else the metal begins to corrode or oxidize due to air exposure.

At your local hobby shop you can pick up a small airbrushing kit that runs off cans of compressed air for about 20-30 dollars, though, if that's more your speed.

>>5795790
Not sure. You can hand paint the regular vallejo airbrush colours as they are essentially just pre thinned acrylics, not sure about the metal colours though.

>>5795831
Red warrior, since the Mega Shiki uses part of the Hyaku Shiki mold from '99 while the red warrior is original to my knowledge.

>>5795869
Wrong the Mega Shiki uses the Delta gundam mold from 2012.

>>5795831
Both are very nice, but the Red Warrior is more possible and comes with more weapons, while the Megashiki is the tall guy who has a very nice backpack gimmick and comes with the best beam saber blade.

>>5795145
Naw bruh that one is shit. The b&n in white Marsh mall has a bunch of them. Up in bel air there is hobbyworks which has a shitton.

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>>5795831
Mega Shiki for customizin'.

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post ghetto lighting rigs

>>5796004
Yo: https://smile.amazon.com/Neewer-Umbrella-Continuous-Lighting-Photography/dp/B013JV3J1I/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1468715958&sr=8-2&keywords=neewer+lighting+set

Stuff's pretty cheap IMO.

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>>5796004

>>5795436
What paint did you use?

>>5795790
Vallejo metal color is in my opinion the best acrylic metallic paint for both airbrushing and handbrushing

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>>5795831
Red Warrior has much better articulation and more accessories if that's your thing. Plus it's red warrior.

Mega Shiki though looks excellent even if it's back heavy and not super poseable. It's got some nice detail and just looks downright imposing.

It comes down to what you want really. A kit to just have a cool looking static model of that you won't play with or repose much? Go with Mega-shiki. Something to fool around with on your desk and occasionally slap other parts onto and mess with? Go with Red Warrior.

>>5795869
Mega Shiki uses the hguc delta gundam mold, which means most of its parts are also from the hguc delta plus.

>>5795741
>>5795757

Yeah, the streakyness is unfortunate, but I like that only the AB equipment's gold is done. Makes it look more like an attachment to it.

Do you only paint some of your kits, GGuy?

>>5795431
Looks good, man. Looks like there'll be good competition!

>>5796123
Yeah, kind of odd for me to just paint a bit of one, its usually either all or nothing.

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>>5795431
>>5795436

>Everyone showing off their group builds.
>My GM doesn't even arrive until Tuesday, giving me under a month to work on it while at the same time working on my GBWC submission due the same dday as teh group build.

>>5795786
>>5796133
Thanks man.

>>5796055
It's vallejo model color, handbrushed on.

>>5796175
Don't worry anon. I believe in you!

>>5796195
>>5795436
Pretty solid anon. My Vallejo paints came in today and I'm excited to start testing these out on spoons.

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I find the geara zulu legs to be too close to each other and I'm planning to extend these joints with 1.2 mm plaplate. Do you guys think it will support the legs? What kind of things could go wrong?

>>5796267
It won't with just glue. First you should extend it, then drill a hole through the middle of each side and pin it using a metal pin. You will need to sand and degrease the metal pin and then use superglue to put it in your drilled hole.

You can use a small brass rod or a dowel pin for the pinning.

>>5796267
Instead of extending the joints, consider extending the middle of the crotch.

Are there any shops that will print custom decals?

>>5796303
sam decals

>>5796308
Oh that's neat, $37 for a 8x11 sheet. Thanks, never knew that until I looked for it on their site.

>>5795431
Tiny error - you used the left hand armor on the right hand. The raised bit is supposed to go over the index knuckle.

>>5796388
Nice catch

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Hey guys I'm using Mr. Color clear orange spray, and it comes out super light. I have to spray until it starts to pool and run to get the color to show up.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

>>5796412
uh...yeah

it's a clear orange, not an opaque one. and, like all sprays, you don't try to put all the paint on at once, you spray lots of thin coats giving each coat time to dry in between.

It's not a race, anon.

>>5796272
I'll try this out. Thanks anon

>>5796297
I think this is more difficult for this kit but I'll keep this in mind for future kits

>>5796318
Look on his facebook page actually. His website is long out of date. All his current things for sale are on his facebook.

Is there any English site where you can submit your gunpla where the community can rate and comment on? I know of modelers-g, but I'd rather not click around in Japanese.

>>5796444
I can't find anything about decals on his facebook page.

>>5796463
no there isn't, should I make one? mite be cool

i'd probably just get it to ride off the imgur API because fuck hosting images on my own site

In unrelated news: Does anyone have any good ideas for an alternate colourscheme for the Thunderbolt Gundam? I'm getting the Ver Ka next week and EMSing it but I don't really like the default colours, any ideas?

>>5796488
Not him, but I have long wished there was a better gunpla community site option out there.

For a long time the only way to share and discuss crap is facebook groups, often run by people who are frankly assholes, or random places like here or reddit.

It makes seeing what other people are doing and sharing/seeing new techniques more work than it really should be.

>>5796489
I also hate that the majority of communities are facebook groups, being someone who hides their powerlevel (not ashamed but i'd rather not have a bunch of friends with anime girl profile pictures posting gunpla shit on my wall all the time) and not having any real life friends into the hobby pretty much limits my discussion to here.

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>>5796488
Original FA gundam colors.

>>5796488
The original guy, but it would be cool as long as it's actively promoted. I forgot about this site made by a guy on Reddit https://www.gunpla-base.com/ that's pretty much what I want, but since it was never really promoted often or much, it's pretty dead. I just want a place with dedicated critcism/feedback.

>>5796489
>>5796495
Unfortunately, that's the case. I'm part of the SD Facebook group, and it's full of a bunch of super nerds that I just can't bring myself to try and make friends with, and that Clement guy posts on there, and according to that one dude, he's an established asshole.

It'd be nice to have a dedicated place to talk techniques, advice, and more stuff on the subject of modelling and not full of meme shit, which I see the toy thread more as, but just without the system of submitting your stuff, ratings, and stuff.

>>5796504
>Clement

the guy from LA who runs gundam guys?

>>5796511
Yeah, that's the one. He and the gundam guys supposedly fucked up some contest results and regularly join their own contests and declare themselves the winner, right?

>>5796520
I don't know about that.

Do you mean the San Diego Gunpla Group, then??

>>5796534
iirc it was something like the south california model convention?

>>5796540
I meant specifically in reference to "SD Facebook Group," rather than the event. I don't want to say anything untrue, even under the cover of anonymous.

>>5796520
I don't remember if it was here or the /m/ thread but somebody else said they used to go to build nights with him and that he was an asshole there too.


The event they do was the so cal gundam model competition, or scgmc.

I really feel like Gunpla should have a great centralized community as a hobby, there just aren't any good options.

>>5796547
It'd be cool to build one LIKE modelers-g but using western views on UI/UX because japanese web design is fucking dreadful

>>5796554
I just checked out that gunpla-base site.

The biggest problem I can see with it is that you don't upload all the pictures of a build as one album.

Most of the first page of user builds is one build.

I don't know what that site wants to be, a showcase for the models that are out there that you can buy, or for user builds. They don't know either.

Also, no forum? Shame.

Modelers-g is better but still flawed, beyond the crazy poor UI design.

What they'd need is

User profiles
Collected build posts with all associated pictures in just one spot
User interactivity via comments on a build and a forum
Options to search by base model

Then you could increase community interaction via build contests, features, discussions etc.

>>5796561
Without getting too into it, I have thought up of a couple ideas:

A profile is what it is, no link to a real person unless they sign in through facebook or something. A person can belong to a group if they choose, and groups can organize build events.

People can submit a work, this includes work in progresses so a whole build is conceptually linked from start to finish. I was also thinking of an option where they can list the kits they've used and this would be viewable in something like a description field for a youtube video tabbed out like the following: Description|Kits Used|(Timeline of build?)|User Profile. Each build also has a comment section and can be favourited by other users.

I'm not sure the traditional forum aspect is the way to go though, forums are going the way of the dinosaur now.

>>5796565
I can see something like some like posting 2 image gallery
1- finally product
2-in production
2.1- frame
2.2- detail added
2.3 prime
2.4 paint
2.5 final

>>5796593
I'm tempted to start developing one, I'd probably need to experiment with new JS frameworks (i've always wanted to try React) and it'd be neat to use a NOSQL database like Cassandra

this goes totally against KISS but w/e

>>5796463
hobbyfanatics is still around but dying a slow and painful death.

gundam eclipse is slightly more lively, but a younger and less build-oriented userbase.

I have no idea what happened to fitchenfoo forums

All of the early 2000s sites are barren or just gone.

fuck I made myself sad again

>>5795431
How did you do the visor?

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>>5796388
Shit, you're right. Dunno how I missed that, thanks.

>>5796690
Here's the best photo I have. It's just silver and black on the monoeye like thing and then gloss coated. The visor got put on and masked for the matte coat.

>>5796681
Fichtenfoo forum is still around, but only gets like one new post a month. It still a great resource for ideas and techniques though.

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>>5795431
Good job GM bro, glad to see a non-Powered custom for the group build

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base body complete, already feels super heavy

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>>5797029
always love LEDs in these things

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posting non-resized wip because I'm too lazy for this shit

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So this guy won popularity vote for
"Marine Day. Which Amphibious Mobile Suit in Unicorn Gundam RE:0096 do you like most?"

Possible future hguc GM Aqua?

>>5797304
COME ON BANDAI
P L E A S E
They can just reuse the mold for the waterproof Gundam, r-right? and e-everybody likes gundams, right??

>>5797271
we get it you vape

>>5797310
not me, just a video

What ratio is right for thinning Tamiya acrylic with Mr Color thinner for airbrushing?

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Can anyone tell me the difference between the Tamiya PS-48 and PS-12? They're both silver sprays but one is "metallic" and 10 dollars more expensive?
If I'm aiming to paint something like all those titanium Sinanjus that I see where they spray silver on it then paint clear red on top of it, which one do I get?

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Post Sunday WIPs.

>masking: 1hr
>painting: 30sec
>cleaning the brush: 5min

>>5797406
PS-48 is chrome, PS-12 is silver.

Chrome paint is can be more expensive than normal colors.

>>5797406
dont use Tamiya PS spray paints on any Gunpla, they are designed to be used on Poly-carbonate RC car bodies and will destroy polystyrene and ABS plastic. use a TS spray can like TS-30 or TS-76 instead to avoid melting your parts.

>>5797406
>>5797523
What that anon said. PS is for for lexan/polycarb plastics. It'll melt ABS and such.

Also like he said, TS is your game. If you're buying in store they should be physically separated into two areas, one for hobby paints and one with the lexan/polycarb RC bodies.

>>5797428
Thank God I found this board and modeling forums in the early 2000s.

You guys make me feel normal

Not really gunpla related, but I'm sure some of you might know. I have a clear acrylic dome I want to paint translucent green. Does anyone know any spray paint or some other method I could use to do this? I'd like to be able to see what's inside of it.

>>5797574
Use a clear or translucent paint, then.

>>5797574
Clear green paint or Future + green food coloring.

>>5797428
just handpaint

>>5797580
Yeah, but the green translucent I found was for polycarbonate.

>>5797585
That actually is a good idea.. Have you tried it?

>>5797596
There's lots of clears/translucents for ABS etc. Tamiya, Testors/Model Masters, GSI...

>>5797523
>>5797554
Thanks. I was just shopping online to get a general sense of what I could find. I believe I want TS-30 which is Silver Leaf.

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Painting something about the size of a 9V battery is a bit of a pain

>>5797615
TS-30 is a nice silver. Probably the best without using an Alclad caan (if they make one in silver, I'm not sure, but I do know there's a chrome) or airbrushing.

>>5797653
Is that a 1/144 pizza decal?

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In case anybody needs a reference.

>>5797304
>Vote for favorite amphibious mobile suit!
>No one likes Zaku Mariner

>>5797686
A lot of lacquer metals can be polished. Also, satin usually means a semi-gloss. You want a high gloss for metals.

>>5797699
>You want a high gloss for metals.
No I don't, not in this case.

I needed gray _dull_ metal for >>5797428
and then decided to take a picture of the spoons before I put them in the trash.

>>5797699
>You want a high gloss for metals.
Only if you want high shine metallics, like chrome. Satin primer is perfectly fine for matte metallics. I prefer my dark metallics to be matte.

>>5797691
The Model was bad for its time, can't blame them

>>5797726
Gloss black and no polishing will give you an unfinished metal look on several of Alclad's paints, like their aluminums.

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American EZ8 is my wet dream

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:)

>>5797826
I hope we get more QUALITY Atra from the second season.

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What's the best way to go about painting the main cameras? Silver then clear color of choice over it?

>>5797859
That's how I do it.

>>5797826
What's that red figure in the background?

>>5797034

Is the light supposed to come out from the neck, too, or is that just bleed? Might be good if you can block that up.

>>5798074
Why don't you block your fucking neck and kill yourself?

>>5798082
ruthless

>>5796598
>>5796681
you know people can also add shit like where there is any new entry the site can post it on FB/Twitter so at least it can attract other people and not die

>>5798177
thats pretty easy to do API wise

>>5798082
R U D E
U
D
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>>5798047
Looks like Oscar-II from Active Raid.

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The way the eyes are done is really something.

And is that the same cigarette box on every comparison?

>>5798282
Okay, now incorporate that tech with figure companies
Mass produced injection molded plastic anime girl figurines.

I'll like to see a model kit version of the AGP line actually.

>>5798282
No he just uses the same brand every time

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>>5798282
>Everyone keeps praising the way the eyes on these character busts are done.
>The eyes on the crappy solar powered penguin kit I got from 5 Below uses essentially the same engineering.

>>5798298
I saw this at a local supermarket once, really tempted because of your demo.

It can't be helped, that gets a lot more attention.

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>Want to try something new
>Thinking about getting the vintage MSV kits
>Look at the manual

How do they do it in the past?
It's all glue, paint, and shit. Don't they get messy with all the painting and gluing afterward? Even worst, painting the kits after gluing with all those tiny detail, just how good you have to be with hand brushes?
Should I give it a try? And any general guide on them?

>>5798298
What's so special about the eyes?

>>5798384
they're seperate plastic parts instead of being painted on, I think.

>>5798384
All the color is done through part separation rather than being stickers or pre-painted.

>>5798368
Do it pussy, if all else fails you can buy one of the MSV that's basically just a reskin of another one (GM Canon, Desert Zaku, etc) and get yourself a high grade and slap the parts on.

>>5798368
>How do they do it in the past?
>It's all glue, paint, and shit.

Welcome to the vast majority of non giant robot model kits. Wait until you see manuals that require you to drill the guide holes yourself or boil parts to bend them into shape.

>>5798398
>>5798403

That's dumb. Molded eyes on anime characters look terrible. Decal eyes are the best.

>>5798422
I don't get why conventional models still have shit-tier engineering. It's like they straight from the 80s or something.

>>5798463
Because the people who build them are old men who don't like change?

Whatever happened to rrobbert184? His reviews weren't perfect, but I liked watching them.

>>5798476
dead

>>5798463
The innovations and conveniences you see in Bandai kits are a result of them trying to push model kits to younger kids. Things like non-toxic paints, gunpla markers, snap-off gate designs, part separation, pre-assembled frames, etc. Their LBX stuff have a target age group of 6 year-olds.

Other model kit companies don't have this goal and thus no need for such conveniences.

>>5798282
Too bad they couldn't do that with the Super Fumina.

>>5798484
Btw, I'm referring to Japanese/Asian ages because we all know that exposing a 6 year-old American kid to a model kit would poke out the eyes of him, his family and the President of the United States.

>>5798463
>I don't get why conventional models still have shit-tier engineering

they don't, you 16 year old piece of shit. Tamiya kits blow "gundam," models out of the water in terms of quality.

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>>5798489
10/10 made me reply with an image

>>5798492
Don't forget Kotobukiya, a lot of model train manufacturers, Trumpeteer, Dragon...

>>5798463
Different markets. The primary market for things like military models actually like having to glue and putty and paint because to them its a key part of the hobby and they enjoy the process. Gunpla and similar models on the other hand are aimed at a wider audience of all skill levels.

>>5798487
The problem with Super Fuminas eyes isn't the fact that you need to paint or use the stickers on the eyes themselves, its the fact that they're sunken in and have clear lenses over top for no real reason.

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How long do I wait before painting another coat hand painting with Vallejo Acrylics?
And just to be double clear, it's safe to top coat Acrylic with the Lacquer right? And spray Lacquer as a base and hand paint on top of it?

>>5798551
I usually wait until it's touch dry to do another coat and I normally wait about a week for the paint to cure before topcoating with tamiya spray paint. It might be overkill but better safe than sorry I guess.

>>5798551
Probably just 5 minutes. And yes, you can topcoat acrylic with lacquer. I'm not sure about the last one but most primers I've seen are lacquer and you can handpaint over them just fine.

>>5798551
You should top coat the acrylic with an acrylic varnish first. Lacquers can potentially attack your acrylic paints and give you bleeding colors or faded colors. But yes, you can top coat acrylic with lacquer. You should let it cure for a week like >>5798558 said

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>when you have too much time for fun, but not enough for building

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You know how come we never got this as an HGUC when it was made into basically the equivalent of a re-100 back then?

>>5798645
I love the 05 and 04. The question is, if they were made into HGUC, which one would be the P-Bandai?

>>5798660
Both!

What transparent plastics outside of acetate sheets or styrene can be used to replace lenses for the primary cameras like in >>5797859 ?

Assuming I oversanded the original lenses and now they're too small?

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Looks like kotobukiya are plotting something.
A devious plot to rob me of more money I suspect.

>>5798987
>seams all up the sides of the torso
I'm already afraid.

>>5798987
FAG optional bikini body it looks like. Probably going to be an exclusive if I had to guess.

>>5798948
https://smile.amazon.com/Micro-Kristal-Klear-1-oz/dp/B0006O029E/
Try this, maybe?

>>5799074
https://smile.amazon.com/Testor-Model-Master-Cement-Window/dp/B0006NDZDU/
Actually, it looks like this stuff works better.

>>5799074
I have that. I'm not sure how well it will handle to being painted on the backside (clear green then silver)

>>5797271
Is that my boy P FLAX?

Good sites to order some quality asian tools and materials like wave epoxy?

Why aren't there any good lacquer gloss coats that come in bottles? Why the hell won't testors make some bottled versions of their one coat gloss?

>>5799478
But there are. Mr Color and Gaia make great gloss clears.

>>5799482
Where the hell can I get those?

>>5799478
Testors made some great clear coats under the Floquil brand. Try Poly Scale as well.

Just ordered a handful of HG kits. Does anyone have a batch of every gundam series for download? Dual audio where applicable would be awesome but I'll take what I can get.

I'm wanting to watch while I build in the coming week.

>>5799554
OZC has batches ready for download. iirc they have almost all the series except Turn-A which I'm still trying to find seeded

>>5799554
>Every gundam series in a batch

You do realize that you're asking for like 100GB or more in files right? Most of the series are like 37-52 episodes long and theres over a dozen of JUST the series not counting the movies and OVAs.

>>5799554
the only ones you need to care about are G, GBF S1, and Thunderbolt.

Gentle reminder that this is /toy/ and not /m/

>>5799520
I can only find some scraps online and they're acrylics and enamels. Where exactly do you buy these pollyscale lacquer topcoats?

>>5799599
You're right. I'm thinking of recoloring my Liger Zero Jager from blue to something else. What do you think?

>>5799600
I'm not 100% if Poly Scale did or does. you'd need to google that.

Floquil has been discontinued for a while but I have a jar of it I had in my hand earlier tonight while inventorying for a new project I'm starting. It's definitely lacquer.

>>5799601
White, red and orange/dark red?

>>5799637
Orange might make it look too much like a Schneider.

I think I want to make it "desert," tones, but I'm not really sure how I want or should go about it.

Which kits (all scales and grades) have the best articulation/poseability?
Which HG 1/144 kits have the best articulation/poseability?
>Revive Gundam, Revive Gyan?
Which RG 1/144 kits have the best articulation/poseability?

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Customs general redirected me here from >>5796373

The plastic is molded in solid purple and then it's painted with silver paint to give an effect kind of similar to how spandex shines when light hits it. No silver paint totally covers anything but it shows on certain angles.
I tried, but it didn't show on the photo. Neither on the stock photo, most of it just looks it's a very shiny plastic, which it is, but part of it is the silver paint showing.

>>5799737
fuck off

>>5799740
n-no bully

>>5795074
I really fucking want an HG of that. So bad. I just really like HGs.

>>5798368
Welcome to modelling.

No offence to you, but this is why old men in sheds building military scale shit turn their noses up at gunpla and similar kits. Snap fit is nice and all but as a modeller it pigeon-holes you into a low skill niche, unless you actively make a decision to explore other types of kit. I find scale military stuff boring and if you feel the same, the older MSV stuff is highly recommended. Not because you'll come out with a nice kit at the end, but because you'll learn a lot about having to glue a kit together. The same applies to miniatures, get some cheap minis online and spend a some time painting a couple of squads or something, you'll find your hand detailing skills have improved massively.

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Is there actually any difference between the Zakuto Yami Shogun Metallic Finish and Super Hagane Ver? See, the thing is, hagane means "steel," so I'd assume they're the same product, and boxshots of both look the same....but Gentei Kits has separate listings for both, with different prices. I thought I'd ask to be sure before buying--maybe one has extra parts or something??

>>5799257

since no one is answering you, Hobbysearch (1999.co.jp) is the best for tools & parts having way more stock than other japanese retailers but with expensive shipping. Amiami have way less tools & supplies but cost roughly the same in shipping. HLJ is by far the cheapest but have limited stock on supplies. Preorders almost never get listed due to demand. Cheapest shipping by far.

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>>5798460
Y'know, I woulda been inclined to agree with you before I saw it in action. This shit came together PERFECTLY. It looks smooth and uniform, you can't detect and edges on anything, and even the shadow of the eyelid is molded in. It's a really well done eye and a triumph of modern injection molding tech.

>>5799737
1) Your post is really poorly worded, it's not even clear that you're asking a question. I had to go read your old post to even figure out what you wanted.

2) Baldy told you to read the guide (link in OP post), not to come ask here.

3) I'm not certain but I think you're talking about pearlized coatings. You can buy pearlized paints or use a pearl topcoat.

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>>5799865
It really looks great in there. And unlike eye stickers, this gives you the option of doing something like glosscoating the eye parts for a realistic shine.

>Which HG 1/144 kits have the best articulation/poseability?
>Revive Gundam, Revive Gyan?

Not even close. It's Build/Try Burning.

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>Somehow loses sticker sheet halfway.
Breaking out the paint I guess.

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>>5799717
It looks rather unspectacular, but HG 0 Gundam (Type ACD) is one of the most poseable I've ever built. It has great range in most of its joints, it can even do the Slav/banchou squat decently.

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>>5799911
Is it weird that I think the old one (left) looks better in almost every conceivable way? I mean, I'm generally happy with the Origins kits, and it's always great to see Bandai's latest and greatest engineering at work, but....the older HGUC just looks more appealing to me. Better proportions, colors, stickers, weapons, etc. To anyone who might own both, is there any strong reason for me to get the Origin ver over the HGUC? Is there anything it does significantly better that I should be aware of?

Are there any good kits outside gundam stuff? I've only built HGs, MGs and that one Alteisen kit in my life.

>>5799927
Get the one you like more. The increased articulation on the origin is nice (the stickers sucks so much though) but the old HG isn't that much of a brick anyway.

>>5799931
Sure! Within Bandai's own catalog, there's Figurerise (mostly Dragonball and Kamen Rider, with a few other randoms), One Piece (mostly ships), Star Wars (ships and characters), and LBX. LBX seems like kits for kids, but don't skip em because of that, they're mostly great. The Hyper Function ones are even better, but sadly they were only a few of those.

Kotobukiya makes a wide range of shit-- Zoids, Super Robot Wars (which is where your Alteisen kit came from!), Frame Arms, Muv-Luv, Ghost in the Shell, Megaman, D-Style, Virtual On, etc. etc. They do a lot. Their plastic and parts fit isn't QUITE as good as Bandai's, but they're probably second in line quality wise.

Takara-Tomy makes a few nice things, like MSS Zoids and Dual Model kits. I've heard some decent things about Max Factory's kits but they're kinda overpriced. I would stay away from the likes of Wave and Volks until you have more modeling experience.

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>>5799943
Thanks man, those Megaman kits look pretty good. I've found some Digimon kits, but those look kinda cheap, still interested in em though

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>>5799943
>No mention of Hasegawa.

>>5799951
I forgot about em honestly, but they also fall into the category of "ignore." If anon has built only Bandai and one Koto, he definitely isn't ready for Hasegawa kits.

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>>5799976
You know what? Screw that logic. Building a kit that requires you to do a little more can be a great experience and chance to try some new things and learn some new skills. The worst that happens is you make a fixable fuck up you can redo later and you can decide whether or not the full model building process is fun for you or not.

He'll never find out if he's constantly afraid of that first step. I say give it a try and see for yourself, the worst that happens is you lost a little money.

I'm just tired of seeing people steer others away from the hobby because they don't have experience in it. You know how you get experience? By actually doing it. Snapping kits together and lining with a pen for the next 10 kits isn't going to make you any more ready than you are now to start gluing and painting.

Building my first Zoids kit. The metallic plastic is kinda nice looking, but why does it scar so damn bad? Everywhere I trim nubs it leaves this ugly black mark.

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Does anybody here play Gundam Skirmish? I'm about to post on /tg/ about it and thought I'd ask here first.

It's a fan-made Skirmish game for 1/144 kits.

>>5800004
Also related, there seems to be a slip in the box for ordering replacement sprues at fairly cheap prices (100-700jpy). Does this actually work, and if so, do they ship outside of Japan?

>>5799996
I understand where you're coming from and think you have a valid point, but I also think there's a danger of someone going into something high-level without a proper ramp-up, getting discouraged, and never returning again.

>>5800093
Some guys at a local shop keep pushing it.
I talked to the guy who "runs" it there, but when he was trying to explain that the Talgeese was from the Universal Century, I lost all confidence. I'm glad the place continues to carry kits, but the game itself seemed a little wonky.

>>5800098
>>5800004

The metallic runners from Zoids kits are coated, with I believe either black or grey plastic underneath. Pretty much in the same way bandai's special finish kits are. Hence the nasty marks on them.

As for the replacement parts, they're normally limited to japan I think you might be able to order them in America too via kotoUS if there's one missing or something.

>>5800122
Lore =/= mechanics
Don't let some guy who fucked up on his fluff interfere with fun you could be having with your dudes in a tabletop skirmish game.

What seems wonky about the game itself?

>>5799866
Yeah. I counted on whoever replied to my post to use the original post on the other general as reference.

>pearlized coatings
Thanks, I'll look into it and try to delete my other post. It doesn't belong here.

>>5799927
Its the same with just about any Revive kit (Looking at you, RX-78-2 and MK. II) ,everything feels weirdly lanky and spaced out.

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Lookin cute MK-II! I like these tiny SD kits now, I've warmed up to them. My friend found it in her brothers old room, box lookin a lil bit old but runners still in plastic bags. Free gunpla is the best. What other kits from the SD series do you recommend? Thinking of getting Knight Gundam soon.

G-Defencer is looking like it is gonna need some paint though. Literally a white and blue runner for it and like some stickers. Gonna have to paint the rifle grey with even strokes it seems like.

>>5799943
>Their plastic and parts fit isn't QUITE as good as Bandai's, but they're probably second in line quality wise.

nigger you fucking what? Kotobukiya's Highend Master Models shits all over gundam. Have you even seen one? There's more detail in the head than there is in an entire gundam kit.

Hasegawa produces quality model scales as well, most of it 1/72 and 1/48 planes. Tamiya makes many, many models, some of them easy and not so detailed, some of them very large (like 1/12 scars and 1/32 planes) that are complex and well detailed.

It's best to figure out what you want to build and then just go from there.

>>5800004
The pigmentation used to make the metallic plastics seem much more sensitive to stress discoloration. I couldn't tell you why, though. They also sand poorly, which is frustrating since you can't go back and try to sand/buff it out.

You might want to try using a knife to slice it out instead of cutters, since those have a tendency to crush before they slice/cut.

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>>5800283
Hahaha, chill kid. I'm literally building an HMM right now, the parts are on my desk in front of me. Yes, I am very familiar with the series, and yes, it's great.

However, it seems like you didn't actually read my post. Koto's plastic quality, parts fit, and engineering simply aren't up to Bandai's standard. And ask anyone who's been in the Plamo game for a long time, Bandai is definitively the top of the pile when it comes to those categories.

See, you're talking about something entirely different here, which is complexity (I assume both of parts count and sculpted detail). And in the HMM and Variable Infinity lines, Koto does indeed go balls to the wall with intricate sculpting and a high parts count. However, outside of those two lines, most of the Koto kits I've built were pretty ordinary, being of generally lower detail and complexity. Anyway, the way I see it, that superfine level of detail simply isn't Bandai's style anymore. They used to do it on older internal frames, but now most of their kits are rather on the simple and smooth side of things. That's not to say I believe they're not capable of it though. Look at the intricacy of their recent Y-Wing kit for proof of that.

And just as an aside? Some of my Koto kits were nightmarish due in part to their complexity and subpar engineering. When you have parts literally the size of a grain of rice popping off during a build due to poor peg fits, you get tired reaaaal fast and start to long for Bandai-level engineering.

>>5800291
I have pretty good nippers, they don't do too much crushing. I've also tried snipping far from the piece, then going in with a precision hobby knife, but this still leaves a black mark. In the end, I sorta fixed the problem with a silver sharpie (the plastic was originally silver). It blends decently well and it's better than a glaring black mark.

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>>5800245
There's some really solid shit in the SD line actually! Anything in the BB Senshi line from about 2002 until now is pretty solid. The BB Senshi Sangokuden line is nice as well, but be warned that it's really sticker-heavy and due to the intricate historical armor, most kits kind of need painting to look good.

Avoid EX Standard kits at all cost, they are garbage. Shit engineering, shit color separation, stickers everywhere, and cost cutting to the max (hollow parts abound). A horrible line with no redeeming value.

And from that awfulness we segue over to Legend BB, which are probably the best SD kits I've ever had the pleasure to build. Color separation is so good I wanna cry, there are chromed parts in every kit, you get four choices of eye stickers, poseability is nice, and they're just all-around fun builds. I highly recommend this line, every one I've built has been great.

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>>5800356
Thanks for the tips, might invest in a couple of SDs soon of different variety.

Also I don't mind painting, and in pic related I bought my first EX SD a while ago cos it was cheap and to practice painting on. With a little topcoat and paint, even they can look pretty spiffy.

Large surface areas that need (hand)painting scare me though.

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>>5800443
Okay, not bad, you did manage to salvage it pretty well. But like...why put in all that effort on what we both know is a shitty kit? EX Standards aren't even cheap for what you get. I mean compare: left is EX Standard, 510 yen, right is the old 1999 BB Senshi mold, 680 yen. Both are straight builds with no stickers. Look at how much nicer the old mold is. Look man, it's fine if you don't mind painting, but damn, have some self-respect. Put that painting into a nice kit that deserves your time.

>>5800462
>Look at how much nicer the old mold is.
Do what now? New one looks so much better.

>>5800464
The older version had some color separation so snapfags could be happy.

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>>5800464
You might like the proportions better, which is a subjective thing (I prefer the proportions on the right personally), but I meant you can see how much more care and love Bandai has lavished on the older kit. EX Standards are a cheap shitty cash grab, nothing more.

The color separation and hollow pieces are so bad, they actually recall the old small box 200-300 yen kits from back in the day. Look at em, really similar shit going on.

>>5800481
Better color separation is always a good thing whether you stop at snapping or take it further. Would you rather have a one-piece molded V-fin you have to mask off yourself, or a two-piece that you can individually paint red and white?

>>5800500
He's gonna tell you to git gud.

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>>5800462
Ah right I see, but even then, I felt like giving the ex series a try.
Isnt it unavailable in japan and exclusively for foreign countries anyhow?

Probably gonna stick to the older series anyhow now. Neo zeong sd looks fun to get actually

>>5800493
Also holy shit I can't believe thats how it originally looked like before I painted some of it. (That reminds me, I need to buy paint thinner, preferably acrylic.)

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>>5800505
That's what we thought at first, but it turns out they sell EX Standards in Japan too.

Also, SD Neo Zeong is a fantastic kit and it comes with SD Sinanju, which is also a fantastic kit. You can't lose!!!

>>5800493
Ex standard is actually a line for real modelers that are serious about doing the extra work required like masking and filling and like a challenge. BB senshi is babby tier.

>>5800564
and there he is

>>5800564
By that logic, I shouldn't even buy model kits. I should make my own with pla-plate and cement.

Oh wait, no, fuck using that. I will create my own plastic compound.

>>5800569
put your trip back on snapshit. Ex standard line is not for you. They're that cheap intentionally so modelers can try new techniques and can put a lot of work into them

>>5800493
Jesus christ how would you even fill a hole like that?

>>5800576
If modelers want to try new techniques, they can invest in a lot better and cheaper stuff than EX standard.

Its a cash grab, and a pathetic one at that.

>>5800579
Epoxy putty. Or a plaplate. Putty is probably easier though.

>>5800564
>and filling

You're going to have to add sculpting to that list. The gaps don't just create hollow parts, they outright erase the detail entirely. Modern BB Senshi kits at least made an attempt to preserve the details by making the hollow parts within and around them. The EX kits outright destroy the detail entirely so even if you fill them you are going to need to rebuild and re-sculpt all the missing detail yourself.

The lines gimmick is awful too. "Give your HG a hideous looking weapon made up of random parts of the EX slapped together".

>>5800462
I really do like the new proportions
just why does everything else have to be so terrible

>>5800514

I have the SD Neo Zeong and can attest to it being fun. If you collect Nendos they fit in the slot for the Sinanju no problem, and the Sinanju is good too, the monoeye is even rigged to move when you turn the head.

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>mg never ever ever

>>5800343
>Black mark
It's not the usual white stress marks, right? Those dark marks are caused by the plastic being packed near the opening of the gate, due to fluid dynamics when the plastic is forming. It's more evident in darker plastics or metallic plastic, like in your case.

This discoloration penetrates quite deep into the plastic thickness, can't really remove it.

>>5800093
Was sort of thinking of my own rules based very loosely on bolt action's activation dice and reliance on modifiers.

>>5799845
one's green, one's red

>>5801067
....are you....being serious? I honestly can't tell. Googling both kits seems to bring up the exact same promo shots. If you're serious, what parts are green/red respectively? Since the base design DOES include both green and red, it's a little confusing.

They're also quite different weights (250 vs. 400g). Did Gentei just fuck up, or what?

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>Using Alclad grey micro filler primer for the first time.
>That smoothness when it dries and easy flow from the brush.

>>5800744
RE/100 maybe? they already there thinking of making a Leo

>>5801107
I hope, I hope, I hope. Do we even know what the next RE/100 will be?

>>5801140
Not yet. It's still just that silhouette that's confirmed to be something from ZZ.

>>5801140
Gazu-R/L

>>5801072
maybe one has actual chrome silver and the other just has metallic silver?

Why dont you just get the regular release though?

>>5801162
>>5801140
Bawoo you idiots

>>5801275
it's an r-jarja though

There are plenty of buying guides out there for airbrushes and compressors.

But what makes a good regulator (arguably more important than the compressor)?

>Forgot one color of paint on my last order
>local hobby shop closes retardedly early so I can never get shit from there and I'm not even sure they carry the brand I need
>making an order for one thing of paint seems dumb
FUCKING

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>>5801272
Because the regular release is just flat boring silver parts. See, I owned the very old Zakuto kit (pictured here, middle), and it had the most gorgeous dark blueish gunmetal chrome. This exclusive release is the closest I can get to that in a modern form.

>>5801275
I really, really hope it's the Bawoo. That's always been one of my favorite suits.

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Couldn't resist myself today, went to the local hobby store and picked up Knight Gundam for $20 AUD. The colour seperation looks fantastic here in comparison to Super Gundam.

>>5801364
And what store was that? Hobbyco?

>>5801328
I feel your pain. I had a similar experience with my last project and I'd be damn if I was gonna pay $7 shipping for one color so I went through 3 hobby shops to find the color I needed.

Convince me not to buy this

>shopping on taobao for a ventilation fan
>take the chance to browse model shops
>end up with additional $100 in the cart

>>5801373
Dont think we have hobbyco in south australia..

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>>5801384
Of course, I forgot to attach the image.

>>5801388
>buying chinese airbrushes
Pretend I posted a laughing anime girl here, I don't have access to my folder right now.

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>>5801384
>>5801388
I was bored af and did a review of one here some time ago.

tl;dr it's shit

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>>5801396
Machining quality is garbage, nozzle is off-center, etc etc.

>>5801396
I did see a youtube review that said it was alright though, so I was thinking of fucking around with one

Good airbushes are kinda too expensive for me right now

>>5801406
If "good" brushes are too good for you right now, then why are you wasting your money on a bad one rather than just buying a cheap decent one?

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>>5801406
Be prepared for a frustrating experience then.

Also don't use lacquers.

>>5801406
Buying something cheap and shitty because you can't immediately afford something decent is just throwing money away. Just wait a little bit longer and save a bit of extra money.

>>5801410
>>5801412
>>5801415
Any airbrush recommendations? Looking at the HP-CS

>>5801428
I think most people start with either the HP-CS or the Badger Patriot

>>5801428
>>5801432
Everyone should start and stop at the Eclipse HP-CS for general use, and then pick up a Paasche H for priming and large base coats if they need it.

>>5801432
HP-CS it is. Thanks guys.

Also, should I go overkill and get a "618" cfm fan?

>>5799868
Still looks a little weird to me. You can see the rim around the eyes which just looks weird on anime eyes because of the seam.

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>>5801428
I started with HP-CS and it was enough for me for about a year. Very good solid brush.
I later converted it to 0.5mm for priming and base coating.

>>5795905
Why didn't you use some Tamiya puddy tp close the gap running down the rifle?

HY2M Rick Dom in Utsunomiya if anyone's interested.

I am, but

>300 kangarooland fun bucks

is kinda pushing it, seeing as i have a couple nit cheap preorders scheduled for this month

>>5801533
why dont you use some tamiya putty to close the gap in your windpipe and fucking kill yourself.

>>5801558
yeah i have the new MG to pay for this week too as well as a p-bandai order

luckily the AUD isn't doing too bad this week

>>5801561
savage

>>5801562
18000jpy popped up as 225aud though + approx 75aud EMS shipping if past PG orders are to go by.

I know I'm gonna kick myself for passing on it, but ehhhhh

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>>5801561
first one was original, but now it's kinda repetitive

apply yourself

>>5801334
Did you ever complete the Zakutos and make the Gouf Custom one? I've always wanted to see it, but I only had the head.

>>5801582
they require dickloads of work and are getting old so its probably for the best man

>>5800283
>Kotobukiya's Highend Master Models shits all over gundam. Have you even seen one? There's more detail in the head than there is in an entire gundam kit.

The details are crisp and the pieces are sharp and nice, but the engineering on koto kits has always been a step under.

It's because Koto can't use the patented injection molding system Bandai does. That's why you'll hear people complaining about frame arms/hmm/SRW kits having super loose or super tight joints.

>>5798368
>being a pussy
>not wanting to learn new skills
>not wanting to try new things
>not wanting to take risks

GBF was a missed steak

>>5801432
What's the Iwata Neo like?

>>5801441
Keep in mind you're seeing this shot with a macro lens. In real life that head will be much smaller and you likely won't be peering at it from 2 inches away most of the time.

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>>5801558
Oh man I've always wanted a HY2M Dom. But to be honest, I don't know if I could stomach doing all that wiring and stuff.

>>5801605
Nah, I just had the middle one. I got it in a lot from a friend in grade school to be honest. I know he owned the one on the right at some point too, cause there was a lone one of those shoulderpads in the lot.

>>5801611
This. The HMM I just built feels really unpleasant to pose...it's wobbly and feels like it might pull apart at any moment. Plus pieces keep falling off. Make no mistake, it looks fantastic....but I'll be leaving this one alone on the shelf for the most part and posing my Gunpla instead.

>>5801668
i've had mine for just over a year, its ok I suppose but i'm already looking for a better airbrush to detail paint/colour coat and using my neo just for priming

>>5801668
It's a chinese made crap, not worth it.

>scribing for the first time
>do guide lines on both sides, looks pretty good
>use structural crevices to scribe
>finish one side, looks great
>rotate the piece to do the other side
>forgot to change the orientation of my blade as well
>finish scribing, looks great at first glance
>look closer
>one side is crooked
>fugg
>gouge out excess material in attempt to straighten it out, widening the panel line
>OK fixed, now to replicate it on the other side
>misestimated the cut I had to make
>cut out too much material at the wrong angle
>end me.jpg

If you look at both sides individually, they look alright, but its not fucking symmetrical fucking kill me

>>5801822
99%of people who see it won't even notice. The ones who do won't particularly care unless its a competition and you'r being judged because they understand how it happened and have made the same fuck up at some point.

>>5801848
No but I can see it and its triggering me hard
I've gone off to remove even more material, if this doesn't work I'm fucking puttying it all and plaplate extra armor on top

>>5797653
>Italians
Respect.

>>5800142
What broke me with the mechanics was the "chart" he used to determine how effective the a hit with a weapon was. He wouldn't let anyone else see it, he had to come around to each table and explain what happened. I would prefer to just have a chart myself.

>>5799765
I dunno, it seems like a pretty simple kitbash which can be achieved in multiple ways.

>Phenex, Unicorn 01's V-fin, Banshee's claw

>2 Banshee Norn, 1 Banshee claw, Unicorn Vfin

>>5801952
That's an enormous waste of money though. Not that anon so I don't know how much he wants it, but I'm just saying, it's a terrible waste of money.

>>5801954
There are multiple chinese conversion kits or bundles for making MG Plan Bs, you just gotta deal with resin.

>>5801092
and its the same with all their product (okay not every product, the aqua gloss spit like shite)

>>5801954
The P-Bandai will probably cost as much as all the kits needed to make it anyways.

>>5801325
You need a regulator that's specifically for low pressures, the built in regulator on the tank and higher pressure ones aren't accurate at low pressure

>>5802714
I also depends on your brush. You need to buy a compressor with connections appropriately sized for your hose and tank.

How many gundams have the dragonclaw? I just ordered Dragon Gundam, Shenlong Gundam, and Altron Gundam. Want to know if I'm missing out.

>>5802801
The only other one with a Dragon Hang is Nataku, though Virsago Chest Break (haha good luck finding one) has something similar.

>>5802946
Nataku and Shenlong/Altron are the same units. Wu Fei calls them Nataku in reference to his late betrothed, officially they're the Shenlong Gundam and later Altron Gundam.

>>5803090
He probably meant the EW version of Altron, which was originally marketed on the gunpla boxes as Nataku instead of X Custom.

How are everyone's GMs for the group build coming along?

>>5803230
Like shit because the kits I need to finish still haven't shipped out and I'm running out of free time because summer classes. How bout you?

>>5803238
That sucks anon, sorry to hear that. Where did you order from?

I've been stuck for a while on mine now due to a good mix of being lazy, not knowing what exactly I plan to do next, and not being able to paint due to some complications. Sucks, man.

What were you planning to build?

>>5803230
Can't remember what I did with the spare parts for the idea I had. Otherwise it's going well.

>>5803286
Oh, hlj; there was just a hiccup on paypal's end and they froze the account without telling me so the payment never went through so nothing ever shipped. I was just planning on doing a heavy weapon system quel but it's honestly probably gonna turn into a powered gm build #45

>>5803230
It's going all right, I need to prime more pieces and attach thrusters to the back of my GM's legs and then use sand off the putty for it, then finally paint. If only it wasn't too fucking hot to do anything during the day time.

>>5803230
Its bad, I haven't even finished my customization and I know that surface prep will take up a whole lot of time.

>>5803230
Basically finished the build, planning on priming most of the pieces tomorrow, weather and time permitting

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How do I fix these shitty hands that come with MG EZ-8?
the only thing they can fucking hold are the beam sabers. Are there any extra hand kits or poseable hands that'll work better?

>>5803723
>inb4 "clean your nubs"
working on it

>>5803723
Take off your trip
Tighten the balljoints
Large size jigen knuckles should be correctly proportioned for small-mid sized MGs (judging from hguc Nu images)

>>5803723
Magnets will help.

>>5803723
For both the Ground and Ez8, I found if best to just use some blutack between the hand and handles of the guns. If you use just a small amount and position right, it won't even show and since other mods were used, both the hand and gun can be displayed without extra stuff hanging off them when not together.

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>>5803230

Done, I posted it in the last thread but it was largely ignored.

Welp amiami asked me to pay for the MG Thunderbolt Gundam Ver Ka.

4180 yen for EMS, 2860 for Small Packet and 1880 for unregistered SAL to Down Under.
'
Went for the small packet so I should get it early the week after next. Fuck me this is a big kit.

>>5803230
Slow. It's too fucking hot.

>>5804165
I didn't even see it. Backpack custom? what're the front things on the legs?

>>5804165
Nicely done.

>>5804222
Front things are the grenades. Not sure if it's from a HG/MG jesta/FA unicorn though)

>>5804222
Backpack is just the standard GM Cardigan, the radome is stolen from a resin GP03 Blossom kit, with the mega beam launcher kit bashed from the original cannon and some spare builder parts from the same mega beam launcher set the beam spray gun he has came from.

The things on the legs are grenade packs from the MG Full Armor Unicorn, puttied into the gatling gun covers it used to have on the arms and mounted on the knees.

>>5804231
So your gunpla literally has exploding knees?

>>5804235

One can never have too many explosions.

>>5798287
>I'll like to see a model kit version of the AGP line actually

???

FAGs already exist.

>>5803728
Okay, so newbie question related to nub marks
I use an x-acto knife to cut the nubs down to be flush with the plastic, but it always ends up as a white/miscolored part of plastic. Should I get sand paper instead or what?

>>5804309
read the guide

>>5804313
Wow, people weren't kidding, 'read the guide' is all the help that is given.
Anyways, seems the guide is completely wrong on the x-acto knife trick, since that is where I learned it from. Huh.

>>5804368
You didn't read enough of the guide.

>>5804309

Rub it with your thumb nail.

>>5804373
I read it all, man. The two tricks I have tried are not working, the third likely won't work either, so I am asking if I am maybe missing a step or something. Just pointing me back towards a few sentences is little to no help.

>>5804388
I must have weak finger nails or something, I have tried scratching multiple times but it never does anything.

New thread: >>5804404

>>5804399
If you're still here,
1. Your knife is putting stress on the plastic as you cut. Slice thinly to avoid.
2. Its just the way it is, if scratching doesn't return the stressed material to normal then you better gitgud and paint.

If you're a snapfag then just use your exacto and pray for the best. Otherwise gitgud and paint.

Your newbie questions have been asked a billion times when GBF was airing, so its become the defacto response.

>>5804165
That looks pretty great, anon. Nice color scheme, too. Feels like it needs something more than just a beam spray gun though, it kind of feels.. underwhelming for it.

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>>5804665

it has a mega beam launcher.

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>>5804819

And a grenade launcher too.