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Darth Walrus posted:Assembled a whole shitload of G-Reco suits - I'll talk about them in more detail when I get a chance to upload some pics. My Gastima cannot get here soon enough
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Runner previews are out for the June kits: MG Wing Gundam Fenice Rinascita - http://gundamguy.blogspot.com.au/2015/06/mg-1100-gundam-fenice-rinascita-manual.html RE/100 Dijeh - http://gundamguy.blogspot.com.au/2015/06/re100-msk-008-dijeh-manual-runner.html HGUC REVIVE Guncannon - http://gundamguy.blogspot.com.au/2015/06/hguc-1144-guncannon-revive-ver-manual.html The color separation of the Dijeh looks decent. Not a lot of stickers compared to the RE/100 MK III and GP04.
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OK, G-Reco time. Here's all the kits I've assembled thus far - still got a G-Self with Space Pack to put together. After that, I might go for the G-Lucifer, G-Arcane, Gaeon, and Gastima. Maybe the Kabakali and Dahack when the former comes out.   To run through them individually:  The Elf Bullock has issues with poseability thanks to its limb design, and its stand leans slightly too far forward. Fortunately, the design is badass and imposing enough that it's not a big deal, and the stickers are mostly straightforward.  The Catsith is, as you'd expect from a grunt suit, a solidly-engineered design with minimal, easy-to-apply stickers, and the joints on the subarms in the shins are just stiff enough to let it wield its beam sabers properly, as my pics demonstrate. The trigger-holding right hand was a neat innovation, too, and it'll be cool to see future HG suits with that. It's got a surprisingly big parts count for what it is, and the huge, heavy backpack causes obvious (though not insurmountable) balance issues, but those are really my only complaints.  The Mack Knife is exactly as simple and flexible a kit as you'd expect - some of the stickers are very small and fiddly, but I got the hang of it eventually, and the skinny arms have obvious consequences for poseability (not much room for ball joints). Still, it was quick and easy to build, and you can do lots of entertainingly stupid kung-fu poses with it - come to think of it, I might give the Bruce Lee flying kick a go.  I had a couple of issues with the Space Jahannam. I felt I got the cross-shaped monoeye looking good more through accident than design, the heel stickers didn't seem necessary (they surely could have accomplished the same thing with a couple of extra parts instead), and the shoulder thruster stickers had a small area of contact, making it easy for them to fall off. Not only that, but the size and position of the shield inhibits the left arm's poseability, and the beam axe is held loosely - don't worry, it won't fall off, but it means you have to be a bit less anal about posing. Other than that, it's a good, solid kit, but I think the above niggles deserve mention.  The Grimoire lives up to its reputation - I especially liked the clever engineering work on its head. The shield connection is slightly weird, but that's the biggest issue I can think of.  The Montero has three downright evil stickers on its collar and shoulders, and its small feet cause mild balance issues, but it's a good kit otherwise.
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Darth Walrus posted:The Mack Knife is exactly as simple and flexible a kit as you'd expect - some of the stickers are very small and fiddly, but I got the hang of it eventually, and the skinny arms have obvious consequences for poseability (not much room for ball joints). Still, it was quick and easy to build, and you can do lots of entertainingly stupid kung-fu poses with it - come to think of it, I might give the Bruce Lee flying kick a go. Success! 
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Jun 16, 2015 19:46
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But can they all do high kicks a la the ED?
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closeted republican posted:Runner previews are out for the June kits: 
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Jun 16, 2015 23:24
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 Well, I think I'm done with MG Unicorns for a while. I don't even know what I'd do with the one I have sitting in parts with a bunch missing because I scrapped a bunch to replace lost/broken bits. Nothing at all.
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So Deathscythe Hell is pretty cool and all, what with the whole demonic bat-winged God of Death thang it's got going on. However, as they say, gunpla is freedom, and I don't think there's any reason Heero should have a monopoly on the angel of death schtick. So, Deathscythe Heaven. Decals mostly courtesy of MG Exia and PG 00 Raiser, as there are apparently very few suits that have blue decals, at least as far as suits with waterslide sets go. The scythe blade turned out a lot better than I was expecting; my hope was that clear blue over the clear green would make clear turquiose, and I was all set to be disappointed. But, as you can see, it worked out just fine.  Quite happy with this guy, and with him finished I'm finally going to get working on MG Sinanju, who has been gathering dust in my closet for months now as I build up my skills and equipment.
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Jun 17, 2015 00:35
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That looks real nice.
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How do you cut the safety nubs off v-fins without it looking like poo poo?
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Man, way to make me feel incompetent at my painting skills  But UV lights make everything better. Goddammit bandai, why aren't all your beam effect parts UV sensitive?  Edit: Jesus, my phone looks bad enough already, it's worse in the dark. ACES CURE PLANES fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Jun 17, 2015 |
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Jun 17, 2015 02:32
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Does anyone else do Gunpla-quality (or better) snapbuild kits of stuff?
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Darth Walrus posted:Does anyone else do Gunpla-quality (or better) snapbuild kits of stuff? zoids and frame arms from kotobukiya
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Darth Walrus posted:Does anyone else do Gunpla-quality (or better) snapbuild kits of stuff? Nothing better, but occasionally stuff from Kotobukiya can be almost as good as Bandai's kits used to be (but still worse, see: my post about Compatible Kaiser).
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HY2M Rick Dom build log archive posted:Day 1: how does wiring work i am not good at electronic, also THIS FUCKER IS BIG http://imgur.com/a/dCKbm This was actually one hell of a good challenge to take on. Learned a good life lesson: it's OK to venture into the unknown if you don't have a support corpus or experienced help to advise along the way. Take the logic that you can derive from what you have available, hedge your bets, and move onward. Now I gotta buy another Detolf because the one I have is full already 
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- paintin' thrusters, wirin' leg thruster housings, and finishin' up legs. Also the glorious circular Rick Dong.
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I just spent 5 minutes crawling around on my hands and knees looking for a part of my RG Exia's chest that wasn't attached. It was on the sprue and I hadn't attached it this morning when I thought I did. edit: gently caress poo poo balls I snipped a piece off without looking close enough at the instructions and removed a peg for the shoulder cable ribbon thing to attach to the right arm, doesn't look repairable so I think I'm going to have to order a kit from gunpla.co.uk just so I can use their replacement part service. I was planning to get an RG Destiny sometime soon anyway so it's not a huge ballache, biggest problem is I can't do the right shoulder at all until I get the part. ActionZero fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Jun 18, 2015 |
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Jun 17, 2015 22:08
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbIh1VcUdf8 Bandai is finally making another DX Soul of Chogokin.
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TaurusOxford posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbIh1VcUdf8 yeah they are  pre-order about to come up either now or in 3 hours, I forget what time it is over there. Its one of those items that will sell out instantly http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=FIGURE-012097&page=top Fauxtool fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Jun 18, 2015 |
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Jun 18, 2015 04:56
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I wish I was rich enough / crazy enough to almost spend a grand on the most epic robot handshake in the world 
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chutche2 posted:How do you cut the safety nubs off v-fins without it looking like poo poo? recommendation I've seen is to use a hobby knife and slowly whittle down, using sandpaper to get it down further once you're close enough to hte fin itself. I tried practicing on my old GP01 HGUC but I need to get a newer, less dull knife because I could barely get through any of the plastic of the nub.
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Welp, after a few years doing seasonal contract work for this company, I just got brought on full-time, which includes a nice bonus, a raise, and stable year-round hours. So I dug deep and dropped money for a personal grail. Preemptive apologies for anyone who likes simple, non-busy designs. Just last week, I thought this thing would be forever out of my financial grasp. I'm so excited to start work on that in 6-8 months. Got the last one too. Should probably start learning how to solder. Please mock my bad decisions 
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Jun 18, 2015 18:29
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I'm just wondering if you even have a place to put it. Congratulations on your promotion.
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Jun 18, 2015 19:14
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 so much nerd poo poo fam
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:Welp, after a few years doing seasonal contract work for this company, I just got brought on full-time, which includes a nice bonus, a raise, and stable year-round hours. So I dug deep and dropped money for a personal grail. Preemptive apologies for anyone who likes simple, non-busy designs. Haha wow that's amazing! Congrats on the promotion, condolences on losing your job when you spend like a month putting that thing together and forget to go to work.
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BlitzBlast posted:I'm just wondering if you even have a place to put it. If I orient it lengthwise, I can fit it with my other stuff easily. I've got two whole empty sections of shelf left. The shelves are pretty stable, but if the Mechanicore Xi is anything to go by, this thing will weigh a ton and a half. I'm worried about their pack-in stand holding up to the test. And thanks.
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Congrats on the promotion and your good decision making. I hope to see a wip post when you're finally allowed to put it together. I sprayed some Vallejo metalics today. The gunmetal, steel and silver all went on perfectly. The gold was a lumpy mess that clogged me up and artic blue didn't play nice either. At least the gold was the right colour, I've been told they had an old formula that was awful. Am I boned on these paints and need new pots, or is there a way to filter? I could pour them through some stockings stretched over the cup I guess? Would that work or do metallics need a certain lumpiness? Should I just keep shaking?
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:Welp, after a few years doing seasonal contract work for this company, I just got brought on full-time, which includes a nice bonus, a raise, and stable year-round hours. So I dug deep and dropped money for a personal grail. Preemptive apologies for anyone who likes simple, non-busy designs. 1: Grats! 2: Is that a Gundam with a ton of guns or is a ton of guns in a vague Gundam shape? Oh and do any of you want a RG Z'gok in non-Char colors?   It's a webshop exclusive
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so things I've learned: Don't actually try to get HGCC Turn A to hold its rifle by the top handle with the weapons hands. Apparently this induces enough strain on the rear peg where the thumb connects to the palm to shear half the drat thing off the remaining peg+the square peg in the fingers section is enough to hold the hand together with the rifle normally, but holy poo poo. EDIT: 
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:1: Grats! It has a Gundam head and arms, that's close enough, right? I'm okay with more weapons than gundam, I did do that FAUC custom after all. And I thought this, like Mechanicore's released Xi and soon to be released Penelope was just a 1/100 plastic remold of a G-System resin kit, but from all I can find, nothing else is remotely similar. The G-System Deep Striker conversion kit is way less busy, and has a way lower LED count. So it looks like they're doing something totally original! Huh. You can see a bunch of the prototype shots here, with concept drawings and stuff. Almost 50 LEDs  https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152428257636897.1073741878.382602901896And thanks for the congratulations everyone. I'll make sure to have the occasional WIP of that.
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:Welp, after a few years doing seasonal contract work for this company, I just got brought on full-time, which includes a nice bonus, a raise, and stable year-round hours. So I dug deep and dropped money for a personal grail. Preemptive apologies for anyone who likes simple, non-busy designs. 1: Don't lie; job security doesn't excist any more.  2: Congrats! 3: That is an amazing holy grail, don't ever feel ashamed for it; we do need a WIP though!
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Anyone know if there's a kit for the gm type suit from ep 7 of unicorn? The gray one sitting on top of the nahel argama with a sweet beam pistol.
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Jun 19, 2015 00:02
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the ECOAS jegan?
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Yep! That's the one. Thanks.
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Kingtheninja posted:Anyone know if there's a kit for the gm type suit from ep 7 of unicorn? The gray one sitting on top of the nahel argama with a sweet beam pistol. http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10138102 Don't know if it comes with the pistol, though.
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Jun 19, 2015 00:26
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It does not come with the pistol. It does come with a cool bazooka though.
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:Welp, after a few years doing seasonal contract work for this company, I just got brought on full-time, which includes a nice bonus, a raise, and stable year-round hours. So I dug deep and dropped money for a personal grail. Preemptive apologies for anyone who likes simple, non-busy designs. How can I mock a decision that I think is awesome. I recently passed the Bar and am now a full time lawyer and I'm thinking of rewarding myself.Once I get through my insane backlog, I'm thinking of picking up something big and dumb, I really wanna know how much this bad boy cost.
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Monaghan posted:How can I mock a decision that I think is awesome. It's 180 deposit, 170+shipping in october when it comes out. I know I said I got the last one, but that was kind of a lie. According to samuel, he said he had two in his quota when he sent me my preorder confirmation. All the info can be found here if you want your own, but I don't know if he sold out his last one or not, and you said you were thinking of doing it after finishing your backlog so  I'd definitely love to see another guy pick it up, it looks amazing and I can't wait for it.
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:It's 180 deposit, 170+shipping in october when it comes out. I know I said I got the last one, but that was kind of a lie. According to samuel, he said he had two in his quota when he sent me my preorder confirmation. All the info can be found here if you want your own, but I don't know if he sold out his last one or not, and you said you were thinking of doing it after finishing your backlog so ughh drat I was hoping there wouldn't be a time limit. I bought like eight kits a month ago and it'd be hard to justify adding to my backlog. I pretty much make it a policy to stop buying kits once my backlog reaches the 10 + mark. Enjoy it though, I've been browsing through the pictures and it looks fantastic.
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At the very worst, you can get it off of ebay for a bit higher, which shouldn't be too troubling for a lawyer. The Xi isn't going for much over list price on there, so there's always that. The only thing you'd miss out on is Samuel's custom decal sheets with classic UC designs.
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One of my friends bought the ECOAS Jegan before the first fight even ended. He was pretty decisive in his adulation of that fucker.
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