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chumbler posted:I should mention I'm not painting or sealing these, just doing panel lining on them out of the box. Still, it sounds like getting the various components together first is the way to go. Thanks. I'm in the same boat as you. I do lining after I finish removing the nubs off each piece. After I finish a step, I do a touch-up pass to get any areas I miss. Doing it on a completed model is just awfully difficult or impossible to get to certain places that are visible but the pen can't reach.
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I picked up my first Gundam model kits on a whim and Ikea furniture is my experience level. Do I need special tools? Some pieces are left with a little tab after I pop them out. The kits I have are Fenice Rinascita 1/144 and Gundam Aegis 1/100 (it's pink).
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tsuki posted:I picked up my first Gundam model kits on a whim and Ikea furniture is my experience level. Do I need special tools? Some pieces are left with a little tab after I pop them out.  Get yourself some angled wirecutters or hobby nippers and cut the pieces out. That's all you need to build yourself a Gundam, save maybe a toothpick or something to help get the really tiny stickers in place.
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The only thing you really need is a flush cutter so you can get those tabs off. Sanding implements to completely remove them would be nice too, but you could just use an x-acto knife instead if you don't intend to paint. An x-acto knife is also a good way to apply stickers, so that's another reason to get one.
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tsuki posted:I picked up my first Gundam model kits on a whim and Ikea furniture is my experience level. Do I need special tools? Some pieces are left with a little tab after I pop them out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQyY1yfC8p4 get some sprue nippers and do what this episode says.
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Broken Loose posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQyY1yfC8p4 I haven't gotten to that episode in the series, yet, but that was an amazing one.
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Anybody have any experience getting replacement kotobukiya model parts? I've seen some people having success by emailing the US branch, but I was wondering if anybody has better ideas then that. The fix on the Rex' railgun is pretty stopgap at best, so I'd like to see what I can do about getting a new part. Suggestions?
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Kibner posted:I haven't gotten to that episode in the series, yet, but that was an amazing one. Build fighters is a 26 episode toy commercial, and it's fantastic. But nippers are the only thing you really 'need,' especially if you have a good pair. Now, once you've had a taste, and follow this thread more, watch more episodes, and catch a glimpse of the highest of highs in model building, you'll want to look into that X-Acto knife (and lots of spare blades), sanding sticks, paint and paint accessories, gap fillers, tweezers and decal softener for putting those fiddly slide transfer decals on... The journey of 1000 MG GX's starts with a single pair of nippers.
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Honestly, I would put a hobby knife in the "need" category, just because some polycaps and pieces just won't fit right if you don't get the nubs off and I've had no luck doing that with sprue cutters (on polycaps, anyway).
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BlitzBlast posted:but you could just use an x-acto knife instead if you don't intend to paint. To many bad experiences with the knife, snip twice then sand. Slow and steady doesn't leave you with gouges or bleeding hands.
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Tenzarin posted:To many bad experiences with the knife, snip twice then sand. Slow and steady doesn't leave you with gouges or bleeding hands. LOL if your thumb isn't basically made of callouses after you've been doing any modelling hobby for a while
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I'm not really a Gundam fan (never seen the show or such), but I like building hobby kits and I visit Japan on a yearly basis to meet my in-laws. So, after never finding anything fun but Gundam kits in the shops here, I decided that I would finally try one out. Today I went and bought this kit: http://www.amazon.com/Gundam-MSZ-006A1-Zeta-Plus-Scale/dp/B00030EU7Q The reasoning was that the box was reasonably sized to not take up my entire luggage (god drat some kits are huge), and even if I'm not a Gundam fan I can't say no to a fighter jet that turns into a robot. I also wanted to try out a MG kit, with all that talk about a structural skeleton and that. Now I'm just waiting to get home so I can open it up and start to fuzz around with it. The plan is to paint it up with quite a heavy amount of weathering, as I'm a much big fan of "gritty" sci-fi (Alien, Blade Runner, District 9) than glossy, clean sci-fi. I haven't decided if I want to go with the box colour scheme of white and red or not, any ideas?
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I think the white looks really cool when it's weathered. It's a transformable kit that I've never built so I don't know how paint on the frame will mess with that, but if it doesn't I think a cool dark gunmetal works well as a contrast to the white/red, with the thrusters a lighter silver. Also, watch Gundam, it's pretty good.
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Swagger Dagger posted:I think the white looks really cool when it's weathered. It's a transformable kit that I've never built so I don't know how paint on the frame will mess with that, but if it doesn't I think a cool dark gunmetal works well as a contrast to the white/red, with the thrusters a lighter silver. It's an old Zeta kit so as usual, do not transform it unless you want it to fall apart.
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Swagger Dagger posted:I think the white looks really cool when it's weathered. It's a transformable kit that I've never built so I don't know how paint on the frame will mess with that, but if it doesn't I think a cool dark gunmetal works well as a contrast to the white/red, with the thrusters a lighter silver. Yeah, a white with streaks and stuff would look nice, and appropriate for that fighter look. The alternative to the red would be to go for a more WW2 fighter camo paint, but I have no idea how well that would look in the end. Where the hell would you start watching the show? There's like a million Gundams, right?
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lilljonas posted:Yeah, a white with streaks and stuff would look nice, and appropriate for that fighter look. The alternative to the red would be to go for a more WW2 fighter camo paint, but I have no idea how well that would look in the end. Generally, you wanna watch the original series, Mobile Suit Gundam (it's also been remastered into 3 movies instead, you could watch those instead), and you'll have the gist of the background for most of the other series.
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lilljonas posted:Yeah, a white with streaks and stuff would look nice, and appropriate for that fighter look. The alternative to the red would be to go for a more WW2 fighter camo paint, but I have no idea how well that would look in the end. Start with the original Gundam movie trilogy. Then ask for advice in the Gundam thread.
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The original Gundam is pretty great 70s science-fiction. I'd put it up there with stuff by Clarke and Asimov or Star Wars/Star Trek. The rest is anime. And some of it is great, and some of it is terrible, and most vascillate between these two poles depending on the episodes. But only very few try to be SF again (parts of 00, as an example), most are content with being simple mecha wars in space.
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lilljonas posted:Yeah, a white with streaks and stuff would look nice, and appropriate for that fighter look. The alternative to the red would be to go for a more WW2 fighter camo paint, but I have no idea how well that would look in the end. If you want a more modern entry to the franchise, aside from the movie trilogy, try Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin. It's a hardcover manga series that's a modern remake of the original series. MonsieurChoc posted:The original Gundam is pretty great 70s science-fiction. I'd put it up there with stuff by Clarke and Asimov or Star Wars/Star Trek. Gundam 00's pretty newbie-friendly and the first season is pretty good in it's own right. Plus it has some great grunt Mobile Suits  . The second season's not as good though.
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If we're tossing out recommendations for a good entry point, I'd suggest Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, especially since most of the fight scenes end with the damaged suits mostly intact as opposed to exploding dramatically for no reason.
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JimmyBiskit posted:
Hi5 Rexbro It's a hell of a fun build, no? Nice to see a company caring about really getting the seams hidden.
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Or watch Stardust Memory in a language you aren't fluent in so you don't deal with the cast's chronic idiocy but still get to see the pretty kickass fight animation and music.
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I don't know why you wouldn't want to watch 0083 in english. That dub, man.
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W.T. Fits posted:If we're tossing out recommendations for a good entry point, I'd suggest Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, especially since most of the fight scenes end with the damaged suits mostly intact as opposed to exploding dramatically for no reason. And it'll turn any new convert to Gundam into a Zeon sympathizer  It's actually a great intro to the series, because mobile suits are a HUGE deal in it. Like, thanks to it being such a small-scale story, even a single mobile suit is a massive threat. Plus some of the best designs of the OYW MSes, like the Cold Districts GM and the Hygogg.
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:And it'll turn any new convert to Gundam into a Zeon sympathizer No joke, I saw huge in all caps before the rest of the post and my brain mixed things up and thought you were talking about a new line of Gunpla. EDIT: Speaking of new stuff, one site released its predictions for new kits this year, which has the givens like MG G-Self and Build Burning, but some hilarious and amazing as hell predictions like RG GM, Gouf, Hyaku Shiki, and Qubeley. Other gems are RE-1/100 Xi and Penelope and Full Armor Hyaku Shiki Kai. If Bandai is on half the crazy drugs they were last year, this could be an interesting time.
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lilljonas posted:Yeah, a white with streaks and stuff would look nice, and appropriate for that fighter look. The alternative to the red would be to go for a more WW2 fighter camo paint, but I have no idea how well that would look in the end. I suggest snap building it first just to see where all the bits end up when in the two modes. It'll give you a better idea how you want to do the paint job. Nip and sand the nubs, but don't bother with paint or decals until you figure that out.
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Finished the 7-11 Ball twins I got from MJP. Thanks again!
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Man this weekend is boring. I wish I had a kit to work on to pass the time, guess I'll just play KH2.5 and Xrd all weeken- OH poo poo IT'S HERE  OH MY GOOOOOD.  LOOK AT ALL THAT METAL AND THOSE LEDS  Holy poo poo that is a lot of plastic. 
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Hahahaha holy poo poo, have fun.
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:Man this weekend is boring. I wish I had a kit to work on to pass the time, guess I'll just play KH2.5 and Xrd all weeken- Haha I got one of these too, but I got the first edition preorder, which comes with LED Beamsabers and printed external armor with no sprues, but loses the metal V-fin. Probably gonna build some other stuff before it though, on account of it being HUGE and my gunpla building skills being rusty as hell (also, no actual printed assembly guide, instead it's got a DVD of 3D-renders being assembled).
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YamataNoOrochi posted:(also, no actual printed assembly guide, instead it's got a DVD of 3D-renders being assembled). 
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It's got soldering too! Which is wonderfully represented! Somebody ripped the whole thing to youtube already, here's how the inside of the head goes together around an LED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0aswZ9ywM
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You know, I don't think I mind it. It's really quite detailed, I think I like it. Also, holy poo poo, I was worried about the plastic being kind of shoddy, but this is superb. It's better than Bandai's in some ways, I'm really amazed. Top points Mechanicore, I guess I will preorder your Deep Striker after all!
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YamataNoOrochi posted:It's got soldering too! Which is wonderfully represented! Somebody ripped the whole thing to youtube already, here's how the inside of the head goes together around an LED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0aswZ9ywM Oh my god, the dramatic music, the "Werrrr-Kerchack!" sounds, this is the nerdest thing ever. I'm cringing pretty hard here. 
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:And it'll turn any new convert to Gundam into a Zeon sympathizer Eh... only in the sense that they'll be sympathetic to the rank and file Zeon soldiers who are forced to put up with the bullshit from the monsters running Zeon high command. But that's a discussion for the Gundam general thread. v  v
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Ka0 posted:Do not watch 0083 Stardust Memory or AGE. Stupid question: What's so bad about those two? I've been out of the Gundam series loop for a while (I last watched 00 back in 2010). For a recommendation, I suggest watching 08th MS Team, it's pretty realistic as far as a Gundam series goes (the Gundams aren't exactly a one-man army, for example) but there's a love story so that might be a deal breaker. But it features Norris Packard and his and his amazing Gouf custom so that evens it out I guess. I also hear Unicorn is good, but I haven't seen it (yet). TARDISman posted:EDIT: Speaking of new stuff, one site released its predictions for new kits this year, which has the givens like MG G-Self and Build Burning, but some hilarious and amazing as hell predictions like RG GM, Gouf, Hyaku Shiki, and Qubeley. Other gems are RE-1/100 Xi and Penelope and Full Armor Hyaku Shiki Kai. If Bandai is on half the crazy drugs they were last year, this could be an interesting time. I was hoping for an updated HG Gouf since it's almost 15 years old at this point, but an RG sounds rad (also Gundam Guy predicts an RG Gundam Ground type!).
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Stupid question: What's so bad about those two? I've been out of the Gundam series loop for a while (I last watched 00 back in 2010). 0083: Bad writing. AGE: Bad writing, poor pacing, shitloads of misogyny.
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