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Suzaku posted:And red is one of the worst for coverage. Most reds are pretty translucent. If you shade, you can mitigate some of that by building up from yellow and orange bases instead of straight white or grey. most of the parts were primer -> color though i did do primer -> black -> gold for those pieces. youre saying that for stuff like red i should put a orange or yellow before it?
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Yeah, I'm really happy with the direction they're taking Haropla. Especially if they keep puttong out the retro style boxes.
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Sep 6, 2019 23:01
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Release an MG Zakrello you cowards!!!!!
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RillAkBea posted:Yeah, I'm really happy with the direction they're taking Haropla. Especially if they keep puttong out the retro style boxes. I think the retro boxes are my favourite part TBH.
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I just finished building the MG F90, and I have to say it's quite a shame they didn't make it a general release. The color separation is pretty drat amazing. Even the tiniest of vents has the yellow lining and even on the shield they've gone to great lengths to get all the colors in. I'm also quite surprised at how closely they stuck to the original design as it is one of those slightly overcomplicated early 90s designs. Unfortunately the mission packs appear to be a bit stickery, but I like the idea of them actually making all 26 and I'm intrigued to see if they'll actually get through them all. Though I won't be buying another 25 F90s to put them all on display, I'm satisfies with the base figure enough that I wouldn't mind building another one or two.
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Kuvo posted:most of the parts were primer -> color though i did do primer -> black -> gold for those pieces. youre saying that for stuff like red i should put a orange or yellow before it? Orange, yellow or white are the bases for red, anything else and its hell. You can get away with a very light grey, but that gives you a particular type of red. They'll all give you different results as well so I recommend spraying a couple of plastic spoons and seeing what the final product will look like so you can go with the one you like best. For a bright red you pretty much have to go white first. Yellow and orange are also generally best on a white base too, but it depends on the yellow you're going for and a light grey base is fine for some of the less bright ones.
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Null of Undefined posted:Release an MG Zakrello you cowards!!!!! 
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RillAkBea posted:Unfortunately the mission packs appear to be a bit stickery Oh that's a real shame
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picked up the RG Nu and finally got around to making the prettiest possible RG diorama
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K Prime posted:picked up the RG Nu and finally got around to making the prettiest possible RG diorama your screen makes me want a char's counterattack crossover with granblue now
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Merilan posted:your screen makes me want a char's counterattack crossover with granblue now Hey, Granblue already has someone going beyond the bounds. Why not go beyond the time as well?
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I'm building the new HG Destiny and it's a very quick build with some impressive posability.
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Azubah posted:I'm building the new HG Destiny and it's a very quick build with some impressive posability. The range of motion in the shoulders, forearms, and torso is really great. I hope we see more engineering like that in future HGs. Between the HG Destiny and the 30 Minute Missions kits Bandai's really been turning out some amazingly poseable kits lately.
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https://twitter.com/davidpaulk/status/1171231565264801793
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Sep 10, 2019 06:35
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Should've picked a better gundam, though.
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Bandai have announced they're opening a second Gundam Base in west Japan. https://www.gundam-base.net/news/9310.html?_ga=2.179180260.111098865.1568108167-207830887.1560322184
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Is it wrong that I tried to reach into the screen to fix the godawful pose they left it in?
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TaurusOxford posted:Is it wrong that I tried to reach into the screen to fix the godawful pose they left it in? Gotta be a Gunpla Newtype
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Maybe that's just how police in Shanghai pose when they're on the lookout for counterfeit gunpla
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Predictable enough but RG Crossbone X-2 went to PB. https://p-bandai.jp/hobby/special-1000010985/ They also put up non-sleeves HG Sinanji Stein recently which is nice. https://p-bandai.jp/hobby/special-1000010966/
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RillAkBea posted:Predictable enough but RG Crossbone X-2 went to PB. That sticker on the front is such a loving lie. That chest is so curved and the sticker had no cuts to allow it to conform to the curve. It's the only sticker I can't apply to my RG Crossbone and I loving hate it.
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4th kit is done, the RG Unicorn! The reason I started building was to eventually do this kit, and here I am making decent straight builds that make me smile. WIP thread starts here: https://twitter.com/Gen_Ironicus/status/1165759146177835008 Finished pics start at this point: https://twitter.com/Gen_Ironicus/status/1170016724130947074 So the downside is the peg-and-hole joint that connect the right arm to the inside of the chest popped so I have to be very careful rotating that arm (thin coat of super glue to reinforce the hole, thin coat of acrylic nail polish to thicken the peg), any time I try to pose it in Destroy mode I end up covering up a bit of psychoframe, and the head is basically immobile which really limits goofy poses. But, I love this kit. Everything does something. It's solid, the moving parts are fascinating. Everything slid into place just right. I think the RGs might become my preferred line, and I can't wait to build that Nu.
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RGs really are a solid line, yeah. I tend to like suits with really fragile things like wings and even the ones I've done aren't that much of a pain compared to when they appear on other lines, and I've seen reviews say the RG Nu's Fin Funnels (which are traditionally notoriously loose) solidly lock into place.
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General Ironicus posted:4th kit is done, the RG Unicorn! The reason I started building was to eventually do this kit, and here I am making decent straight builds that make me smile. Unicorn is one of the best RG kits but I think that the Tallgeese is my favourite so far. I have the Nu and Saz waiting to get built, but I really want to pain them to do them justice but it's all too much  right now.
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I'm pretty sure once I've finished Tallgeese I'm going to find myself buying Sazabi and Nu. But I've had Hugeduck for over a year and still only done the lower half...
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Puddin posted:Unicorn is one of the best RG kits but I think that the Tallgeese is my favourite so far. The Sazabi and the Nu look amazing even if all you do is apply the stickers. With the multiple whites on the Nu, it would be pretty tricky to find the paints to make it look right without extensive planning.
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chiasaur11 posted:The Sazabi and the Nu look amazing even if all you do is apply the stickers. With the multiple whites on the Nu, it would be pretty tricky to find the paints to make it look right without extensive planning. True, I had an idea for a colour scheme other than standard. But I'll probavly just end up doing a straight build.
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https://www.uniqlo.com/au/store/catalogsearch/result/?q=Gundam Have at it boys.
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Agh, they don't ship to New Zealand right now. That's pretty frustrating. 
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I almost forgot. I guess I have something to do at lunchtime now.
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They've sold out of the RX-78 shirts in my size here in the US. 
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A reminder if you're in Melbourne that this weekend is Madfest, so you might want to get those shirts today before a couple thousand nerds descend upon the city and exhibition center.
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I got mine today, went with the collage rx78, zgok, blue zaku and Amuro. Would have liked the white rx78 but I have an aversion to white shirts.
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I got myself a Ramba Ral, Amuro and green Zaku.
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Anyone have any tips for keeping pieces dust free while painting/weathering/assembling over like 3 months? (I work hella slow)
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Gosh, the new HG Sandrock looks pretty god drat good. http://schizophonic9.com/re5/hgac_sandrock.html Definitely gonna have to pick that up. Hopefully Bandai will slip us another one or two wing suits before the Hathaway's Flash tie-in hathalanche clogs up the release schedule.
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Null of Undefined posted:Anyone have any tips for keeping pieces dust free while painting/weathering/assembling over like 3 months? (I work hella slow) I’d throw all the in-progress parts into some ziplock containers or bags.
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I've been have a real struggle to get my airbrushed whites to come out looking even remotely how I like them (which is to say, not awful, I have fairly low standards). I've tried both Tamiya and Mr Color Acrylic at various thinning levels and pressures and I can't seem to find the sweet spot that looks at least serviceable. It seems like the white runs across the piece far more than any other color and tends to pool on the edges. I'm not sure what the issue is because I never really had issues with my white on either of the two other models I've done. This may also just be me being bad at airbrushing. It is probably me just being bad at airbrushing. I have a couple of bottles of Vellejo Mecha Color sitting at home that I'm going to give a shot this weekend. Is it likely that I'm trying to get too much coverage too quick and that I need to slow down and do more layers? Should I give lacquers a shot? Basically at this point I'm never going to paint a gunpla white or anything remotely white again because it is a giant pain in the butt and I'm frustrated even talking about it and I've restarted this specific model twice already.
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