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Background noise is your friend. I've been watching Mad Men while masking. It helps having English dialogue so you can keep your eyes on your work.
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MJP posted:Background noise is your friend. I've been watching Mad Men while masking. It helps having English dialogue so you can keep your eyes on your work. For the same purpose, I usually have a basketball or DotA game on in the background. The occasional big play also gives me a reason to take a short break every now and then.
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I've been leaving Xena : Warrior Princess on while I build and paint  vv X-Files and Leverage are two other shows I have chosen, but yeah I tend to stick to english language shows for it even though I watch tons of subbed stuff. Caitlin fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Nov 9, 2016 |
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Nov 9, 2016 22:29
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My build show is generally whatever I have an interest in watching but not watching actively, and is also dubbed. Got through two seasons of Shana that way. Otherwise it just defaults to X-Files because I'll never finish that show in my lifetime.
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:My build show is generally whatever I have an interest in watching but not watching actively, and is also dubbed. Got through two seasons of Shana that way. Same with me and The Wire or House of Cards
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If I watch something I want to pay full attention to it, so I mostly use podcasts while i'm building.
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Droyer posted:If I watch something I want to pay full attention to it, so I mostly use podcasts while i'm building. Even that splits my attention too much. Music or silence.
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Nov 10, 2016 01:22
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I build in my katana room blindfolded in the dark in complete silence
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Nov 10, 2016 01:30
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To be fair, the silence goes away as soon as I start up the compressor and fume hood.
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Nov 10, 2016 01:35
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If you missed pre-orders for MB F91, I've heard good things about Kirin Hobby.
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I spent election night building most of one leg on my RG Atray Red Frame.
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BlitzBlast posted:If you missed pre-orders for MB F91, I've heard good things about Kirin Hobby. Kirin is good people. They ship preordered stuff very quickly. I've ordered figures from them many times. Meanwhile, 1999's latest email has revealed that the UC Hardgraph Semovente tank and EX Model Hildolfr are getting reprints. Both are commanding huge prices on Ebay right now - so much for Gunpla retirement futures. http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10055462 http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10081018
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Do the Tamashii Stage stands work well with HG-sized models? I want to build an Origin Tri-Stars display but I can't find a good base, so I was going to use the Trident Plus stand for it.
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Yes.
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Well, poo poo, I got hooked.  Last couple months, I've now built: HG RX-78-02 HG Gundam Wing Zero HG Barbatos HG Grimgerde HG Zaku II Capsule Size (like 3.5in) RX-78-02 And I'm up to the waist on an RG RX-78-02. My backlog is Finishing The Stickers on my Zaku, learning to highlight/panel line, and the RG. Thinking about tackling an MG soon, prolly either a Zaku II or a RX-78-02, so I can have like, 3 sizes of the same dude. Which Zaku/ which RX-78-02 MG kit looks best? They both have like 3 different kinds minimum. Quad fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Nov 11, 2016 |
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Nov 11, 2016 01:54
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For MG, the One Year War RX-78 and the Origin RX-78 are the prettiest.
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Quad posted:Well, poo poo, I got hooked. excellent collection. How are you folding your boxes?
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Your only real choices Zaku wise are one of the 2.0 line or the upcoming Psycho Zaku. For the RX-78-2, get the Origin version. EDIT: Dragon Momoko is also doing a MB Strike Freedom kit. gently caress my life. 
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Fauxtool posted:excellent collection. How are you folding your boxes? https://gbofchicago.wordpress.com/2016/07/06/displaying-gunpla-boxes/ Using a bit of glue to keep the flaps together, and once I get my new set of shelves up, using stickytack or whatever to put them on the wall behind my anime robits.
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thats a good idea, so many of the box arts are excellent
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Dragon Momoko is apparently getting some new machines in, and hinted at a possible MB F91 kit. If that does happen, get ready for PE and detail painting hell.
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 But now I can only make like 3 more ever, otherwise the box art won't match up with the dude in front of it. 
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Quad posted:
Choose wisely! Since I was out of town for most of October I couldn't complete the diorama I intend to enter so I made this in my hotel room today.  MS S&M
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BlitzBlast posted:You get two MG Unicorns in one box. I was wrong! The red/green titanium Unicorn just gives you two sets of psychoframe runners. I guess you can make the christmas tree Unicorn???
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BlitzBlast posted:I was wrong! The red/green titanium Unicorn just gives you two sets of psychoframe runners. I knew it was something stupid like that
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I was going back and forth with MS S&M OR MS&M. I think I'll go with what you went with.
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A dude from Dragon Momoko went onto reddit to answer questions. My opinion of DM has gone up a lot. Also they said a MG Stargazer is in planning.
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Quad posted:
Thats what Im going to do with my p-bandai exclusive gouf boxart when I get around to building it. Thats a good look.
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Now that I have my own scanner, I am free of Dalong's low res manual scans! Before:  After:   I tried it out, and these scans are clean enough you can use them to test color schemes. And they're not even the highest I can make this scanner go. Also if you were ever curious what everything on the God was, here: quote:01. Main Camera Pretty boring stuff, honestly. EDIT: Sadly, colored lineart doesn't play with fill buckets well. BlitzBlast fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Nov 12, 2016 |
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BlitzBlast posted:A dude from Dragon Momoko went onto reddit to answer questions. Huh, that's pretty cool. They did straight up bootlegs for a while, now they're doing custom modifications for enthusiasts, and soon they'll branch out into full blown unique molds. I'm pretty excited to see where they take things. I can't wait for their PG Unicorn to arrive.
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Hey, cool, that's a much smaller sticker sheet than the original 1/100 Barbatos had. It gets even better when you remember that all the gold stickers are for the inner frame, which you won't see 90% of the time.
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BlitzBlast posted:EDIT: Sadly, colored lineart doesn't play with fill buckets well. I think that might be because you have some bleed through of the page behind. Most scanner software I've used let's me adjust black/white levels etc. to get a cleaner scan. Or you can just touch it up in photoshop or something. edit: Also taking a closer look they both appear to have quite bad compression artifacts.
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What's the deal with the Figure-Rise line? Are they just HG kits of Dragonball Z characters?
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BlitzBlast posted:
Tech specs are the true path to complete nerdom. Sei Iori style.
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Grabbed a cheap Zaku II FZ that was on sale at my local shop. Really nice design, with a few weird parts based on its age. It came out in 2009 so it predates universal joints, but it has stuff like the pelvis swivel that has become standard on most of the Mobile Suit Discovery kits. Not sure how I feel about the back and side skirts being attached with only a single polycap, but it works well enough, and the front skirts look really good. If there was a way to splice together the front skirts from this suit to the skirts on the Origin Zaku II it would look great with a coat of paint.
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Yeah that's super duper dumb. Why not focus on the new season?
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Hahahahahahaha. It's so cute.
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KobayashiMaru posted:Yeah that's super duper dumb. Why not focus on the new season? Completionism? If the first season is getting total, top-to-bottom kit support, that may actually be quite a good sign for how much they're willing to invest in S2. This may also be an indicator, of course, that there will be an S2 machine based on the Rouei. This silhouette looks pretty suggestive.
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