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RillAkBea posted:That thing on the right just looks like Sandrock hit the protein powder a little too hard. I agree on the waist, but theres actually a decent number of elements they share; the V belt capped by thrusters (?), the upwards curves shoulderpads, the chevron abdomen, the squared off tits, and the general arm shape are the big ones. I think what throws people off are the legs; they yave some shots where the legs are detached to mimic the unfinished Zeong, and the resemblance is much stronger there. E:  Also the waist issue might be a case of a bad angle or chest pointed too far down to show off the LED's, since in the 3/4ths angle render he's much more shapely. Neurolimal fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Oct 21, 2017 |
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Well, I finally got my Exia Repair Set in, and goddamn, plotting this out has me straight up taking notes in the margins on when to refer to what pages and steps later since the instructions for the various non-Exia Repair 2 states are kind of crammed into the back and just say what step you're doing something different with. Right now my goal is Repair 3 with the damaged parts of Repair, and base Exia's shoulder and thigh ribbons.
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Oct 21, 2017 15:43
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Just skip all that and make a Repair 4: torso, head, cloak, all limbs replaced with melted sprue sheet sticks.
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Bimmi posted:The Ziegler is the biggest pile of overdesigned tryhard poo poo I've ever seen, but man does it look like it would be fun to build. It's so loving garish and pointy while the Zeong is smooth and drab. It's not a good looking redesign.
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Improbable Lobster posted:It's so loving garish and pointy while the Zeong is smooth and drab. It's not a good looking redesign. It would be fine if it was just its own thing but as a Zeong it's awful.
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Oct 21, 2017 16:53
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Zeek Zeiggler, main character of the film Gunpla Nights.
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Oct 21, 2017 17:36
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I'm way into that overdesigned mess, personally.
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Oct 21, 2017 18:00
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Someone posted this on reddit I hope he just got a badly QC'd kit but that fit and finish is pretty horrid. https://imgur.com/a/xjQt5
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Puddin posted:Someone posted this on reddit I hope he just got a badly QC'd kit but that fit and finish is pretty horrid. The more I see of this thing the more I hate it.
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Has Mechanicore made plastic (i.e non-resin) kits before? I want to say that they had a limited edition plastic painted Kshatriya kit with similar issues but I could be thinking of another company. Assuming his isn't a QC outlier, I'd probably wait for the resin run of the kit.
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They only do plastic, for the most part, they're doing plastic remolds of resin stuff from like g-system and sosuch.
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I just finished the Cutecube Woundwort so I'm not in a rush to start another kit with awful fitting.
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 Goddamn but does the DM Exia have way more goddamn tiny little parts. Couple of cool things though like the silver stickers under the green areas and special cracked pieces for the little GN orb things.
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Double post Exia update, sorry.  Gotta say, having this kit side by side with my MG Exia is weird. Some bits are more detailed where others are way less, and overall everything is smaller, and absolutely nothing is taken from the MG mold which is cool. So is offering the full set of armor in either regular or more washed out colors, that's a nice touch too. Except for the yellow for some reason, that's always neon. I'm sure someone more  than I am about lineart and proportions might say that X is closer to Y, but I don't really care that much. It's a drat good kit though, almost identical to Bandai plastic.
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Has anyone built a Super Minipla Megazord yet? I built mine yesterday and loved it. Except that the stickers refused to stick to it, so my mastodon has only one eye. Might take a stab at a little hand painting on this thing. Already ordered a Dragonzord and preordered the Titanicus
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I got mine from big bag toy store but I haven't started it, just another on the backlog pile.
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I successfully assembled the RG Zaku without losing a single pipe piece! I did, however, lose on e of the teeny little thrusters from the back of the leg
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Puddin posted:Someone posted this on reddit I hope he just got a badly QC'd kit but that fit and finish is pretty horrid. I take back what I said about this looking like a fun build. loving disgraceful.
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mikeycp posted:Where did you get it I want it. Local HobbyTown. The owner has decided he wants to be the #1 Gunpla place in the southeast, and he's doing a great job. If anyone is ever in Atlanta, I highly recommend swinging by the Kennesaw HobbyTown.    The stickers really don't want to stick, lost that Mastodon eye and it bugs me. Used tweezers for all of them, and they just came out not sticking. And now that I'm looking at the pictures up close, I see some places I want to go clean up a bit more. It's kinda weird, it seemed like it was made of a completely different plastic than the Gundams I'm used to building. Instead of getting the white stress marks, it kinda looks like it marbles a bit? I kinda like it, to be honest. EVGA Longoria fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Oct 23, 2017 |
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Sounds (and looks) like the higher-durability plastic you often see on Transformers; it's much harder to break (hence its use in transformers), but is harder to get fine detail into, which I suppose isn't a big deal for the Megazord.Bimmi posted:I take back what I said about this looking like a fun build. loving disgraceful. According to the Reddit thread that was linked in, the issues are (so far, it is ofc a pretty loving big kit) limited to the head; apparently there were some last minute design changes that resulted in the head seeing remolding separate from the rest of the kits' production. I imagine the QC there was laxed to make sure every kit had the new head. Still pretty embarassing for a super expensive hobby kit of course. Neurolimal fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Oct 23, 2017 |
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EVGA Longoria posted:Local HobbyTown. The owner has decided he wants to be the #1 Gunpla place in the southeast, and he's doing a great job. If anyone is ever in Atlanta, I highly recommend swinging by the Kennesaw HobbyTown. I'm gonna be in Atlanta next week, I'll try to go there. Did they have more of those in stock and how much did they cost?
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I've seen other pics of the Ziegler floating around and the fit and finish look uniformly terrible.
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asterioth posted:I'm gonna be in Atlanta next week, I'll try to go there. Did they have more of those in stock and how much did they cost? They had probably 4 more in stock when I looked. They're on the Gunpla endcap. They were going for $60. The actual Gundams are generally within a couple bucks of Amazon prices (in either direction, they're cheaper almost as often as they're more expensive). Depending on what part of Atlanta you're in, it might be a bit of a trip since it's up in Kennesaw, but it's right off of 75 so it's not hard to find.
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If this is the case, and the head's the only hosed up part, it seems like they know about it. When my order shipped from SamuelDecal he mentioned: quote:A Free ZEONG Head 1/100 kit will free to you too, suppose finish in Nov,2017 and shipment will arrange again, thanks for support! They did the same thing for the Deep Striker, not sure if that had similar issues w/ molding, but I have a spare head sitting in a box next to the kit itself's box, that showed up a month or so after the kit. I'll find out whenever I get around to building it I guess.
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Ugh, just a roller coaster of reasons to either avoid the Ziegler or buy it. I'm very conflicted.
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Bimmi posted:I've seen other pics of the Ziegler floating around and the fit and finish look uniformly terrible. It's pretty ballsy of them to charge 400 bucks for a kit of that quality.
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The shoulder ribbons on the DM exia aren't compatible with the R3 armor bits  I'm amazed at how much detail they managed to cram in here. It's leagues ahead of the MG on the detail front. There's no sliding panel or movable frame gimmicks like the MG but there's a lot of stuff done in plastic that the MG did in stickers or didn't even bother with.
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What 3rd party companies are good for 1/144th scale moulds? I stick with the smaller scale for convenience rather than ease of construction.
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Arcsquad12 posted:What 3rd party companies are good for 1/144th scale moulds? I stick with the smaller scale for convenience rather than ease of construction. The only company that really made consistent 1/144 (and that was a LOOSE 1/144) scale kits was Model Comprehend, and they don't exist anymore. Pretty much every third-party stick with 1/100 scale now.
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That Gobbo posted:Ugh, just a roller coaster of reasons to either avoid the Ziegler or buy it. I'm very conflicted. BUY IT
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How are the various 1/72 scale Bandai star wars kits? I'm nearly finished with my PG zaku and that cleans out my backlog, so was thinking about what's next. Next thought was that PG falcon looks awesome but probably need to warm up to it
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:How are the various 1/72 scale Bandai star wars kits? I'm nearly finished with my PG zaku and that cleans out my backlog, so was thinking about what's next. I've built the First Order SF Tie, Tie Advanced, and Tie Interceptor and they've all been phenomenal. They pretty much fly together and look great out of box. Not a ton of gimmicks outside of included laser effects, small thematic stands, and some canopy options, but they deliver in the detail department to my perhaps untrained eye. I have some of the rebel ships in my backlog, which apparently have a lot more fiddly bits (imagine the all of that piping on the outside of the Y-Wing) and require judicious application of the included water slides (or decals, you get both which is nice) to really shine, but nothing that building normal gunpla wouldn't prepare you for, I'd wager. I also built a First Order Stormtrooper and it's what you'd expect out of a quality HG, with nice articulation.
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:How are the various 1/72 scale Bandai star wars kits? I'm nearly finished with my PG zaku and that cleans out my backlog, so was thinking about what's next. There's a pretty good pictorial rundown of the Falcon on this page. However, it was a limited run premium bandai only item and isn't on sale at the moment, so I hope you like paying out the rear end to resellers.
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Star Wars models are generally good, with a few things to note. TIE models are probably too simple, since they come with the entire wings as single pieces, and the ball cockpits aren't very complex. The Y-Wing and 1/144 Falcon were both really good, though the piping was a lot of the installation, so fat fingers are even worse for this than with regular gunpla. I never finished the X-Wing I bought, though I can't remember why. The 1/72 Falcon is definitely still available if you look a bit. I'm still debating the $400 with myself, though.
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On the humanoid model side of things, the bandai kits have more defined detail and articulation than similar Black Series figures (though with the obvious fragility that comes with making a hollow model kit). Model kits with human faces can be a bit ehhh but otherwise their experience with Kamen Rider has paid off well for the ol' stormies. Captain Phasma and C3PO are vac-metalized which is more film-accurate but isn't a look everyone likes + means you can do a lot of damage to the look when removing parts from sprues (and the Black Series Phasma has a pretty nice non-metallic metal silver paint job).
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There's a Metal Build Arbalest. And it looks really, really sexy. As in sexy enough to not build the Aoshima Arbalest I got from Midjack a year or so ago (but I'm keeping that Gernsback I ordered recently) http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10497975 Are these things really worth darn near Chogokin DX pricing? Also meanwhile I'm working on the RG clear Trans Am 00 Raiser, and goddamn do these clear parts beg for Godhands. I tried last week with GP nippers and a fresh curved Xacto blade and it left behind some pretty real white marks. I hate to revive the nipper elitism but is there any other decent way to do clean nub shaving or sanding on a clear parts kit? Gonna paint the skeletal parts of the frame chrome and everything else that nice dark steel they do in the Vallejo Mecha Color, it's my new jam. RGs are cool and good, though. I thought it'd be an absolute nightmare of tiny parts but it wasn't as awful as I thought it'd be. I'm totally blown away by the leg and arm frames that are molded as one piece but are still mobile at the joints. What kind of witchcraft is this? MJP fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Oct 23, 2017 |
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I'm working on my PG Strike and god drat, the amount of detail and parts in this is impressive. Just need to build the weapons and arms and I'm done with the main strike part. Still got the skygrasper and aile packs to build.
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MJP posted:There's a Metal Build Arbalest. And it looks really, really sexy. As in sexy enough to not build the Aoshima Arbalest I got from Midjack a year or so ago (but I'm keeping that Gernsback I ordered recently) Every Metal Build I own is basically Chogokin DX but for Gundams and Stuff, so I'd say yes if you consider the DX stuff worth it.
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drat, managed to put a small crack into the shield for the strike. I put the clear part in wrong and was taking the red piece off and managed to put just a little too much pressure one side and cracked it a bit. Any reccomendations to make it look better? It's not a massive crack luckly. 
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