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BizarroAzrael posted:Are there any good US-based stores shipping to the UK? I really want to get a 00 Command Qan[t] or two from seeing the Mecha Gaikotsu review and I think I'll be waiting a while for it to come back into stock in Japan. Am looking at eBay but want to check all options. I actually have an order with HLJ that still not been fulfilled from October. Shop near me has a bunch of these but I have to warn you, shipping to the UK from the US is expensive.
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MGEX Number 2 on the way! Experience its "gold"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijddqgCXg88
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Midjack posted:Shop near me has a bunch of these but I have to warn you, shipping to the UK from the US is expensive. Any idea how much? How much are the kits themselves there? I'm assuming more than Japan. I dunno, didn't the US get them way early, did they actually come out in Japan yet? HLJ says the Command Qan[t] came out in January. Just super frustrating no knowing when HLJ will fulfill the order
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BizarroAzrael posted:Any idea how much? How much are the kits themselves there? I'm assuming more than Japan. 26 bucks in the US. Came out in October.
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I'm kind of happy Canada cannot use P-Bandai because I do not want to fight for an Efreet Nacht. OTOH I really really really want an Efreet Nacht and but I will not pay $120 CAD for it. Where's all the intermediate scalpers?
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BizarroAzrael posted:Any idea how much? How much are the kits themselves there? I'm assuming more than Japan. chiasaur11 posted:26 bucks in the US. Came out in October. Yeah it was this.
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Argas posted:I'm kind of happy Canada cannot use P-Bandai because I do not want to fight for an Efreet Nacht. OTOH I really really really want an Efreet Nacht and but I will not pay $120 CAD for it. Where's all the intermediate scalpers? Right now, that might be the intermediate scalper. I'd assumed that US distribution would bring down P-Bandai prices, but the global Gunpla shortage has more than counteracted that.
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What are people's experiences with Frame Arms kits? I've seen a few at my local shops but never really bit on any of them; I did order the SX-25 Cutlass RE2 just now because for what reads as a "grunt" suit, the thing looks remarkably slick, and hopefully a good build
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MechaX posted:What are people's experiences with Frame Arms kits? They're fine. Koto's plastic is a little more brittle than Bandai's and their engineering isn't quite as good so they sometimes are a bit more prone to things falling off than a Gundam or 30MM with similar complexity, but they've been making Frame Arms for long enough to be good at it.
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Just Dan Again posted:MGEX Number 2 on the way! I could take or leave the Unicorn as I've built a ton of them recently, but I'm all over this one. Looks great.
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Hope this means the other SEED Destiny suits are getting remake MGs soon. They're getting a bit elderly, and we did get the Freedom, Justice, and Providence pretty recently. A reimagined Destiny could be neat, seeing as they're so happy to go adventurous with the 2.0 designs.
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Next MGEX will be Age, mark my words.
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Puddin posted:Next MGEX will be Age, mark my words. That seems unlikely.
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Puddin posted:Next MGEX will be Age, mark my words. G-Self. X or DX could have some pretty impressive light shows too.
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Midjack posted:G-Self. The p-bandai MGEX reflector pack would be pretty amazing
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Napoleon Nelson posted:The p-bandai MGEX reflector pack would be pretty amazing That's exactly what I'm envisioning.
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MGEX seems to be for all-time mega-popular classics, so maybe the Nu? I'd suggest the Wing Zero, but the Ver.Ka came out far too recently. Alternatively, it'll be the Exia, because all the other S1 Celestial Being suits just got MGs and the kit is quite elderly.
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Darth Walrus posted:Alternatively, it'll be the Exia, because all the other S1 Celestial Being suits just got MGs and the kit is quite elderly. That's the safe bet. Midjack posted:G-Self. That's the lol bet. Puddin posted:Next MGEX will be Age, mark my words. That's the ROFLCOPTER bet.
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The question is, what will be the EXTREME POINT? Unicorn was Light Emitting. With the Strike Freedom it's Metallic Expression. So you'd have to consider what new EXTREME POINT a given suit could bring to the table. I feel like Exia would just be light up again, like the PG. The AGE is a very standard Gundam, not sure what they could use as it's EXTREME POINT that wouldn't apply to any other standard Gundam The G-Self is interesting, I could see light piping or reflectivity or something like that being it's EXTREME POINT. Another thought would be God Gundam, with poseability as an EXTREME POINT. They've been doing a ton of stuff recently with parts that move out of the way to allow for freedom of movement.
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Gripweed posted:The question is, what will be the EXTREME POINT? Unicorn was Light Emitting. With the Strike Freedom it's Metallic Expression. So you'd have to consider what new EXTREME POINT a given suit could bring to the table. Extreme poseability would also work for the Exia. In the show, it's canonically the only one of Celestial Being's initial front-line Gundams that has a full range of humanlike movement, so that would itself justify it being a MGEX while all the others are MGs.
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Gripweed posted:Another thought would be God Gundam, with poseability as an EXTREME POINT. They've been doing a ton of stuff recently with parts that move out of the way to allow for freedom of movement. I don't think so, because the God Gundam's getting the RG with flexibility as its big gimmick in June.
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It's gonna actually go trans am and teleport around your house
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It's going to be Barbatos with a 40 percent chance of causing crippling nerve damage.
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Gaius Marius posted:It's gonna actually go trans am and teleport around your house I already do this by dunking my PG Exia in Kool Aid and chucking it at the walls
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Gaius Marius posted:It's gonna actually go trans am and teleport around your house Incidentally, I do sometimes pause and consider what a stunningly bad idea it was to have the protagonist machines turn into blurry red smears whenever it was their time to do something cool. 00 wasn't anywhere near as heavy on the artistic missteps as SEED, but hoo boy, that was a doozy.
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Darth Walrus posted:MGEX seems to be for all-time mega-popular classics, so maybe the Nu? I'd suggest the Wing Zero, but the Ver.Ka came out far too recently. Nu will be the next PG Unleashed, or the one after the Zaku. I think the Exia is much better bet.
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The next MGEX will be the Leo. Its extreme point will be its combustability.
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MGEX Neo Zeong. Extreme Point is size. MG Sinanju not included.
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Got a question for you lot. My IT training program is getting the head for a Makerbot Replicator in either today or tomorrow. Will a .4 nozzle be sufficient for printing some custom weapons for HG Gunpla?
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I tried with a MP mini V2 which has a 0.4 and it's doable, just you will need a lot of cleanup and finishing to get rid of the layers definitions. FDM printers just require a lot of work, you'll be making the small details manually. Resin printers are the way to go if you're serious.
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Should I really get a Godhand one-bladed snipper or similar to get really clean kits done? Are there any out there that aren't crazy expensive? I think I see them for a little over £20 on Amazon, but I don't know what Godhands could be doing to justify that price.
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paint question: im using tamiya acrylics and have painted a dark blue base coat. i need to do white and orange highlights over the blue. these lighter colors have poor coverage and also seem to dissolve the underlying blue, mixing the colors. i assume the best way to avoid these issues it to spray a clearcoat over it first?
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Kuvo posted:paint question: im using tamiya acrylics and have painted a dark blue base coat. i need to do white and orange highlights over the blue. these lighter colors have poor coverage and also seem to dissolve the underlying blue, mixing the colors. i assume the best way to avoid these issues it to spray a clearcoat over it first? Are you hand brushing or air brushing?
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BizarroAzrael posted:Should I really get a Godhand one-bladed snipper or similar to get really clean kits done? Are there any out there that aren't crazy expensive? I think I see them for a little over £20 on Amazon, but I don't know what Godhands could be doing to justify that price. you can totally get away with using some generic two blade snipper. the godhands are nice tho as the blade is thinner and the bottom is flat so it cuts down on the amount of sanding and xacto knife touchups you need to do
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Suzaku posted:Are you hand brushing or air brushing? hand brushing
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Kuvo posted:hand brushing I'm that case yeah, you'll need a clear coat in between. Tamiya acrylics aren't true water-based paints. You can easily layer them while air brushing, but hand brushing will lay enough paint and solvent down that it can start lifting or dissolving the previous layer. Alternatively, you could use Vallejo or another water based acrylic for the highlighting and go right over the top of the Tamiya. It will also help color-wise to paint a layer of white first, and then put your bright colors over that. It will take you forever to get a good color over the dark blue.
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BizarroAzrael posted:Should I really get a Godhand one-bladed snipper or similar to get really clean kits done? Are there any out there that aren't crazy expensive? I think I see them for a little over £20 on Amazon, but I don't know what Godhands could be doing to justify that price. Gimme a link to £20 godhands please!
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Finished my second dude, the HG Livelance Heaven. It's my first go at panel lining! 
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Looks really nice! That's some clean lining! On the subject of nippers, I've had great results with my Godhands, but before that I was using the much more modestly-priced Tamiya nippers and they were still very effective.
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I've used godhands a bunch and went into a bit of a nipper buying spree when I was inbetween godhands so I'll have this to say. Godhands can reduce a lot of work from having to clear nubs by just producing a cleaner cut. Unfortunately, you will often just need to do less work rather than no work cleaning up the nub. It varies by kit design, plastic quality, etc. There are plenty of single-bladed nippers out there that can do a good enough job to replace a godhand. However, godhands are by far the sharpest ones I've used. Hell, even my normal two-blade godhand nipper is sharper than the rest of its cousins. They just make them sharper and it shows. The price premium is going to be a pain though because they are not worth the mark up at all.
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