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I made a robot! https://imgur.com/a/HmsiVEk
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Droyer posted:I made a robot! Nice. I built that one too. A lot of stickers, and Thunder Gridman was kind of unstable, but overall they're pretty neat.
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Nov 2, 2019 11:45
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Droyer posted:I made a robot! Still waiting for someone to make a version of Full-Powered Gridman that isn't a fiddly mess.
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Nov 2, 2019 12:03
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The Hello Kitty kit is pretty boring but my god that sprue
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Nov 2, 2019 13:09
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Gripweed posted:The Hello Kitty kit is pretty boring but my god that sprue Someone clearly had a LOT of fun designing that one.
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Nov 2, 2019 13:39
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Ignimbrite posted:*heavy breathing* You Can(not) pre-order fast enough.
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Nov 2, 2019 14:57
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chiasaur11 posted:Nice. There's no form of this robot called thunder gridman though?
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Nov 2, 2019 16:02
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Puddin posted:Ffffffffuuuuuuucccckkkkkkk. How do you pre-order it? I'm not familiar with the site, and I don't see a purchase button.
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Nov 2, 2019 16:25
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chiasaur11 posted:Nice. There's no form of this robot called thunder gridman though?
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Nov 2, 2019 16:36
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chiasaur11 posted:Nice. There's no form of this robot called thunder gridman though?
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Nov 2, 2019 16:47
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Thanks SA
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Nov 2, 2019 16:48
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BadMedic posted:How do you pre-order it? I'm not familiar with the site, and I don't see a purchase button. You can't purchase direct from the bandai site, you just have to wait until it comes up for preorder on retail sites. Some sites are already sold out on preorders though. RillAkBea fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Nov 2, 2019 |
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Nov 2, 2019 16:57
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Droyer posted:There's no form of this robot called thunder gridman though? I'm guessing he doesn't know any better and thinks Full Powered = Thunder with new design.
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Nov 2, 2019 18:03
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TaurusOxford posted:I'm guessing he doesn't know any better and thinks Full Powered = Thunder with new design. Less doesn't know better, more "Was tired and not remembering combination names right", but yeah. I meant Full Powered.
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Nov 2, 2019 21:06
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BadMedic posted:How do you pre-order it? I'm not familiar with the site, and I don't see a purchase button. RillAkBea posted:You can't purchase direct from the bandai site, you just have to wait until it comes up for preorder on retail sites. HLJ's still got em https://www.hlj.com/rg-all-purpose-humanoid-decisive-battle-weapon-artificial-human-evangelion-unit-01-dx-transporter-set-bans59015
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Nov 2, 2019 22:51
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It still amuses me that Full-powered Gridman never actually was full-powered, or even the full-powered version of full-powered Gridman. I made a Sarah this week. She's cute, even if she has trouble manhandling a slightly heavy mace and I had to drop her down so I could use the back of the dress as a third leg.  Accessories are sparse. Two sets of hands, 1 for holding and 1 with open palms for bird-flapping poses. Two sets of frontal hair, 1 hairy and 1 that has a camera and antenna. Two faces, 1 fleshy and 1 robot. 2 sets of shoulders and matching armpits. Like the face, 1 fleshy and 1 that's white for robot-mode. It also comes with a very basic stand that plugs into the back of her dress, but it's too tall for standing poses. Converting Sarah from doll to full robot is easy enough. Just pop off the forward hair pieces to swap out the face, and slap in the other set of shoulders. To get the armpits replaced however, you need to dismantle the entire torso and screw that. It's not hard, but it's the kind of thing that makes it far too easy to damage the model. So I just keep it in full-robot form. It's the cuter one anyway. The focal point of the model I'd say would be the dress. Without it, Sarah is very thin. She's taller than most 1/144 kits of say RX78 or GMs, but there is no bulk whatsoever without the help of the big dress. Ironically however, I think that the dress is also the weakest part of the kit. The way it plugs into the body is all through non-standard rectangular ports for front and back (so good-bye easy customization), and the side-pieces aren't even stuck in a proper socket, so much as squeezed into a bowl-shaped indentation in the waist with the help of the pelvis section. What I'm saying is, it all falls off too easily. Which is double bad because with the stand plugging into the back-part of the dress instead of the body, it's completely reliant on that one port to keep it from just falling off. And while I'm on the subject of falling off, the head keeps popping off when I try to turn it and the hands aren't as tight in the wrists as I'd like either. The dress is made of two layers, a purple under-layer and a white upper-layer. The white layer can hinge outward which looks nice but again, there are no ports hidden underneath so the white pieces don't have anything to securely connect with the purple pieces and just kind of lay on top. It also destroyed my plans of adding wings. The specs in the manual are amazing by the way. In a stupid way. There are little flowers scattered throughout the pages for one, but it's the page that usually describes the weapons etc. that really gave me a chuckle. - Her arms can handle the Unicorn's beam magnum. (unlike that chunky big gundam recently with a full set of spare arms.) However, Sarah is afraid of guns so she doesn't use them. - Her sensors can detect any sign of hesitation! (in case she ever gets over her fear of guns, I suppose) - Her dress may or may not be capable of releasing a Moonlight Butterfly. But if it does, it would literally break the game (again), so this hypothetical Moonlight Butterfly is tuned down if it hypothetically exists. - The secret behind her ability to move. (Story-wise, Sarah is a 1/1 scale tiny robot.) Is it tiny servos? Nope, it's the attraction and repulsion of air molecules around her. Don't ask me how that works cause I don't even know what I'm supposed to imagine with that explanation. Something like Magnets repelling each other?
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Nov 2, 2019 22:51
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I'm pretty sure Sarah is that compulsive liar kind of friend everybody has at some point. "I can totally handle the beam magnum. What? Right now? Er, I can't, I'm uh.. afraid of guns, yeah that's it." "Oh yeah I could release the moonlight butterfly right now if I wanted to but I can't because it would break everything."
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Nov 3, 2019 06:32
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RillAkBea posted:I'm pretty sure Sarah is that compulsive liar kind of friend everybody has at some point. Pictured: Sarah
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Nov 3, 2019 06:33
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RillAkBea posted:I'm pretty sure Sarah is that compulsive liar kind of friend everybody has at some point. To be fair, she breaks the game just by being in it because she eats ever scrap of active memory in the game's cloud hardware.
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Nov 3, 2019 15:12
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I totally forgot this was out, but my wife spotted it whilst out the other day. Hopefully someone will do a translation.
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Nov 4, 2019 01:23
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I wonder if it's any good
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Nov 4, 2019 01:56
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Who knows! Not me that's for sure!
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Nov 4, 2019 06:48
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Finally started work on my RG Sazabi, and I've got to say I'm really liking not have the premolded inner frames. It's making the build much more enjoyable than previous RGs, and it actually feels more sturdy. I can't wait to see this old girl when she's finished.
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Nov 4, 2019 20:35
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Paper Kaiju posted:Finally started work on my RG Sazabi, and I've got to say I'm really liking not have the premolded inner frames. It's making the build much more enjoyable than previous RGs, and it actually feels more sturdy. I can't wait to see this old girl when she's finished. I had that same thought with the RX-93. It really feels like a 1/144 MG now in that aspect, with a few key joints premade, like the funnels for the Nu.
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Nov 4, 2019 21:43
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iospace posted:I had that same thought with the RX-93. It really feels like a 1/144 MG now in that aspect, with a few key joints premade, like the funnels for the Nu. Well I've got that one in my queue, so I'll be looking forward to that!
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Nov 4, 2019 21:55
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I'm sorry, what? I've never built a RG before- are you saying the whole kit was like the PG hands or something?
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Nov 5, 2019 04:38
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Yawgmoft posted:I'm sorry, what? I've never built a RG before- are you saying the whole kit was like the PG hands or something? Sort of. There's a runner with the skeleton for most of them, and the parts for that are mostly built from the start, with minimal assembly required.
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Nov 5, 2019 04:42
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chiasaur11 posted:Sort of. To expand on this, the B runner in an RG kit is the "Advanced MS Joint" runner. Here's the runner for the RX-78-2:  I believe it's: legs - chest* - arms <blank> - hips - <blank> no clue - hands** - feet *Subs for the core fighter **The hands suck, by the way. The moving joints are pre-assembled, and will slide, causing the armor to slide with it. If you just put those pieces together, you get this:  A very skeletal underframe, but no PC joints. Compare to the B runner from the RX-93:  Which are only for the funnels. For what it's worth, here's the underframe of the RG RX-93  Definitely more analogous to an MG's underframe as opposed to the more skeletal underframe from the RX-78-2. They also ditched the crappy rear end hands, thank the gods. (All images from dalong.net)
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Nov 5, 2019 05:36
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Yeah the advance joints are an excellent definition of being an amazingly detailed manufacturing process, but ultimately limits the model to being very finicky and fragile. Not to say that they are incredible the first time you build them. I was laughing at how incredibly complex it was and fun to build, but theres just no strength in the joints if you a posing without a stand.
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Nov 5, 2019 05:59
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So far I've enjoyed the few RGs I've done, but yeah, those joints are finicky as gently caress. Especially trying to figure out which parts you should and shouldn't clip, and which thing rotates which direction.. It was kind of fun to do stupid poo poo like this with my Zero, though..    Not that you can't do that with an MG kit or anything else with a decent frame, but it just looks so derpy with that skinny-rear end skeleton there. 
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Nov 5, 2019 11:03
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Huh. That's really interesting, I had no idea.
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Nov 5, 2019 16:32
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the fact that rg's are more like mini mg's now is even more terrifying to me, since I'm terrible at losing parts to begin with and I'm having nightmares about me constantly looking for a part that flew away or something.
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Nov 5, 2019 18:02
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It's a little too rich for my tastes ($270 USD), but apparently Bluefin has some Metal Build (Soul Blue ver.) Strike Freedoms available: https://www.bluefinbrands.com/strike-freedom-gundam-soul-blue-ver-gundam-seed-destiny-bandai-metal-build-bas55162.html
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Nov 5, 2019 18:36
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Monaghan posted:the fact that rg's are more like mini mg's now is even more terrifying to me, since I'm terrible at losing parts to begin with and I'm having nightmares about me constantly looking for a part that flew away or something. Yep. I'm missing the forehead gem for the Sazabi Ver Ka, one of the backpack covers on the HG Barbatos and the V fin off the MG qan-t. Although I think I know where the latter is, it's just moving stuff to get to it.
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Nov 5, 2019 20:34
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Did anyone get any of those 30 Minute Mission kits? It looks like they've finally started putting out slightly more interesting designs: I still hate the overall Bionicle aesthetic of the line, though. I wish they'd put more effort into designing the torso so the models didn't look like toys.
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Nov 6, 2019 00:55
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I picked up an Alto, with the expansion kits they look super nice, just a shame that all the flight extension kits weren't released at launch, not due til 2020.
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Nov 6, 2019 01:01
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Lemon-Lime posted:Did anyone get any of those 30 Minute Mission kits? It looks like they've finally started putting out slightly more interesting designs: They announced a bunch of modified ones like that. Same core kits, but with unique add-ons included rather than sold separately. Basically, the cores aren't meant to be all that interesting, since they're designed for modularity. If the base kit has too strong a style, it's harder to make it into something new.
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Nov 6, 2019 01:21
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That aquatic add on set will revolutionize aquatic MS kitbashes
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Nov 6, 2019 01:33
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I think the only piece I've lost so far is one of the clear blue RG Build Strike shoulder inserts. Now, pieces that I've accidentally destroyed.... several more.
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Nov 6, 2019 02:28
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I don't remember losing pieces but I've lost sticker sheets. Since I don't use most of my decals, especially sticker decals, I don't much care. However, losing the foil sheet for the MG Turn X really sucks. Still haven't found a way to buy a replacement.
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