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I started with Zoids when my dad had a bunch of work trips to Minnesota and kept bringing them back from the great mall.
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My first robot was a Gundam, but I stuck solely to Macross, Orguss and Dunbine for the first year or two. Wasn't the least bit impressed with Gundam until I saw the first episode of Zeta, at which point it all clicked, though sometimes I wish I'd remained unimpressed.
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May 9, 2017 08:16
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Midjack posted:First one was the 1/144 "HG" Wing Zero from when you could buy Gunpla at Wal-Mart around the turn of the century. First decent recent one was the HG Strike Noir. 1/144 "HG" Altron, around the same time. My first MG was the ZZ because big loving transforming robots are cool.
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This is definitely my preferred place for Gunpla discussion. My first Gunpla was the MG Wing Zero Custom. My girlfriend(now wife) bought it for me at an  convention in 2007 and I thought it was so cool that I started putting it together with her nail clippers in the hotel room. I chopped up slightly less than you would expect, though I only used an exacto once I got home. She got me a 1/144 HG Deathscythe shortly after, then I didn't think about Gunpla until I saw the Bandai booth at New York Toy Fair in 2014 and got an RG Zaku II right after.
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Midjack posted:First one was the 1/144 "HG" Wing Zero from when you could buy Gunpla at Wal-Mart around the turn of the century. Same, I remember putting a poo poo ton of time and effort into it because of poorness and buying it was kind of a big deal. I still have it:  Makes me question how much I've actually improved in the last decade or two, I still use the same basic process, I just have thinner panel lines now. Also evidently I had knowledge of some kind of voodoo-rear end clearcoat that sticks to polycaps.
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My first was a 1/144 Epyon in the very early 2000's, then nothing else for over a decade because the local Hobbytown closed and Gunpla was virtually unavailable locally until B&N started carrying them. In the meantime I was heavy into tabletop miniatures (D&D and later Warmachine). I rediscovered Gunpla a couple of years ago through SA; Broken Loose was in one of the Warhammer threads talking about the absurd price difference vs what you get when comparing Gunpla to tiny plastic scifi/fantasy soldiers. That lead me to this thread were I lurked for a while. Then last year I was in B&N as saw an HG Kimaris which I liked the look of, and saw the dirt cheap pricing of HG IBOs, and grabbed it. Since then, I've done about 20 kits (mostly HGs with a few MGs and RGs), and have more than that many again in my backlog. I should really start working on putting in more detailing than just panel lining and a top coat, just to slow myself down. Although not doing tabletop miniatures anymore does give me a lot more free time these days.
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May 9, 2017 15:50
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My first was a 1/144 Master Gundam that my grandma got me at Target, long ago in the halcyon days of the early 2000s.
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My first kits were a trio of Batman vehicles from Batman Forever. The Batwing, Batboat, and the Batmobile with the split fin. The first snap build kit I remember were some Zoids. I actually built the Iron Kong and the big Brontosaurus one. I found those when I moved 3 years ago and I was ashamed to see all the nubs because I was a teenager and didn't have nippers. I wish I had room to keep them but had to get rid of those monsters.
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I remember having the Zoid kits that had the wind-up motors inside them when I was like eight. Command Wolf was the only one to turn out halfway decent.
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I remember the scorpion one being okay. I dug the beam gun on the tip of the tail and the gold pilots. Apparently this one was called the Guysack. Wtf zoids.
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muike posted:have you built any macross kits, bandai or otherwise? I have built a few Macross kits. I have an old Macross 7 one I still need to build (I am fostering kittens so I am currently On Hiatus because holy poo poo five kittens) that was gifted to me, two Hasegawa Valkyrie Egg Planes and the Minimum Factory Lynn Minmei (with intention to do the MF Frontier ones of Ranka and Sheryl). It's just hard to tell which kits don't suck sometimes! But I do love them. Puddin posted:I've watched the first episode of the very first series that I got for Xmas. Yeah I pick things on an aesthetics basis 90% of the time, the other 10% is me building Macross poo poo or plastic arcade machines. Hang-On is here waiting to be gloss coated, but someday when I don't have five kittens the next one up is Taiko Drum Master  mikeycp posted:for the most part you aren't really missing out. I hear this a LOT from people who are honestly really into the anime so I don't feel THAT bad about it...
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My first kit was an MG Freedom gundam, I didn't even know gunpla was a thing untill 00. And 00 was the first show i'd seen after WING on toonami. It isn't the best build I have done, but I have to say for my very first kit it looks surprisingly decent for an OoB+detailing build.
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What's a good way to display Gunpla because I have a bunch of them I put together in high school that are languishing in boxes right now. Ikea glass case maybe?
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Improbable Lobster posted:What's a good way to display Gunpla because I have a bunch of them I put together in high school that are languishing in boxes right now. Ikea glass case maybe?
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:So obviously this is a segue into everyone's first gunpla, right? I bought the 1/100 Launcher Strike Gundam at Otakon in I think 2004 or 2005. I think I used an Xacto knife to cut the parts off, and nothing more. Then I did the 1/144 BuCUE and was all "why is it so tiny" So then I bought, and I think I started but abandoned, a Wing ver Ka, and I forget what happened with that. Many years later, 2014 came around, and Gundam Build Fighters had dropped. I was enjoying it and was borrowing Katsucon badges rather than pay to go, and was hanging out with a buddy as I was expressing envy at some of the kits in the contest. I mentioned I'd try it one day when I was retired and had time, he convinced me otherwise, I dug up my lovely old nippers and got a Build Strike Full Package. The rest is history.
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I remember doing my first kit when gundam wing first was airing in Canada. I think it was the wing gundam. I don't remember much about it and it likely was terrible. I started doing them again 2-3 years later. I started with the 1/100 wing zero that I think I found at toys r us or something? I stared with testors paint, and a toothpick for trying to panel line. It was a complete mess. However I kept going, researching and got where I am today. Been doing the hobby for fifteen years now. I remember my dad saying I'd grow out of doing them in six months. Guess I proved him wrong.
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May 9, 2017 17:47
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Zedd posted:I'd say it's still pretty spacious overall but I don't feel the need to display all the things at the same time, I rotate things in and out. More people should do this, really.
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May 9, 2017 17:49
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Bimmi posted:More people should do this, really.
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My first was a 1/144 Deathscythe that I totally adored. It was covered in little spurs of plastic because I was too stupid to think of using clippers back then, so I just yanked and twisted the pieces off the runners like a barbarian. I've tried my best to get into the shows, but it never takes. I know like the first half of the plot of any given series, but I don't think I've seen any of them all the way through. Which is bad, because I have this weird aversion to buying mechs that I don't know everything about. Or maybe it's good, since otherwise nothing would stop me from spending all my money on wacky poo poo like Dendrobiums and Deep Strikers or whatever. ^said while selling my organs to afford every armored core kit As for display, yeah rotating through things is the way to go. My apartment has basically no space for a dedicated gunpla zone, so I only keep out my most recent build and one or two others I'm feeling proud of at the moment. The rest slumber in cardboard stasis. A Bad Place fucked around with this message at 18:08 on May 9, 2017 |
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May 9, 2017 18:00
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I don't throw stones about how people want to display things, I just accept that I end up having to do too much dusting. https://twitter.com/sacaitlin/status/856262299249766401
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May 9, 2017 18:00
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How many Gameboys does one person need???
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More? Yes, more. The next "want" is the Sakura Taisen GBC.
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Eh, I've seen worse.
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First kits? My first actual kit was Ssj Goku last year because i saw it at BN and I'd been considering the hobby for a while. Before I even finished building, I had ordered a Full Armor FA-78 HG online, which was my first Gundam. Still need to get another one of that kit so I can do it justice.
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...Beargguy Petit Winning Yellow  a gift from friends. But that's first GUNPLA, my first kit was actually Roll (Kotobukiya Mega Man, then I did Mega Man and Proto Man)
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My first kit was a Harrier by the company Bobcat in third grade. I did planes and spaceships through high school and the Wing Zero in college was the end of it for several years.
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I was only ever planning to buy one or two kits when I started this hobby. I'm up to 20-odd gunpla models on my shelves now  .
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HGUC Ez8 and Gouf Tactical Demonstrator. Got them last May at Comic-Con.
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Caitlin posted:I hear this a LOT from people who are honestly really into the anime so I don't feel THAT bad about it... Some Gundam is really good, some Gundam is really bad, most of it is somewhere in the "Ok, i guess" range. Kind of inevitable when you have a nearly 40-years-old franchise. My first kit was an sd Astray Gold Frame my brother got me after he went to japan maybe ten years ago.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I was only ever planning to buy one or two kits when I started this hobby. I remember when 20 seemed like way too many. How young and foolish I was.
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Bimmi posted:I remember when 20 seemed like way too many. How young and foolish I was. I have 3! (That's an exclamation point and not a factorial.)
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First kit I built was probably one of the old HG wing kits from walmart, think it was the deathscythe and I really didnt understand the point of models at the time and it came out poo poo and didnt mess with them again for a long time. First recent kit I got that got me really into building models was a HG Gouf Custom (where the gently caress is my 2.0 MG GC/RG Gouf bandai).
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I was only ever planning to buy one or two kits when I started this hobby. Gunpla has been nicknamed "plastic crack" for a reason.
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Are there any decent alternatives to top coats I can buy in Canada so I don't have to import spray cans from Japan? Am I better off just buying a can of Rust-Oleum from the Home Depot, or is that too heavy a spray?
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May 9, 2017 22:48
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Arcsquad12 posted:Are there any decent alternatives to top coats I can buy in Canada so I don't have to import spray cans from Japan? Am I better off just buying a can of Rust-Oleum from the Home Depot, or is that too heavy a spray? I live in Canada and my local shop has the tamiya spray cans that work fine.
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May 9, 2017 23:00
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Kapool? MG G-Reco?
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everythingWasBees posted:Kapool? No No
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everythingWasBees posted:Kapool? No HAHAHAHAHAHAHAno A bit late to the conversation, but i'm pretty sure my first kit was the 1/100 HG Wing Zero...and God what a mistake that was. 
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I might be the newest convert to the hobby in the thread with my first Gunpla being an HG Amazing Red Warrior this February. I've probably bought 15 more HGs and 5 MGs since then. I've been a big LEGO guy for years so by extension this hobby is sucking me in.
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If they really are doing a movie or OVA, I don't think a MG G-Self is out of the question
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