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Arcsquad12 posted:I haven't built the unicorn myself, but I'd heartily recommend the RG Gundam MK II. Especially in Titans colors, the best color scheme for the RX-178. Edit: quoted last page for clarity.
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bingsu posted:Especially in Titans colors, the best color scheme for the RX-178. On the one hand you're right On the other hand the different between the two kits is 50$+ And if I'm spending 80$+ on a Gundam I want it to be a massively huge monster e: Wait, I'm an idiot! Amazon had another listing for it with comparable pricing!  I can get it in the best colors!
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Oct 25, 2017 18:03
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If you want a massive monster buy the HG Psycho Gundam.
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Oct 25, 2017 18:31
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That Gobbo posted:If you want a massive monster buy the HG Psycho Gundam. "It's around 11/12 inches tall"  Yes hello Four is one of my favorite pilots in Zeta Gundam I do want her Gundam thank you~
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Oct 25, 2017 18:37
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Just so you don't end up too surprised, the HG Psycho Gundam uses screws. Nothing too complicated though, and using metal joiners means it leans closer to the Transformers side rather than Gundam wrt "this thing can transform cleanly and without falling apart" ....helps that the mobile armor mode is basically A Brick too. Or maybe a backpack for a yet larger gundam.
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Neurolimal posted:Just so you don't end up too surprised, the HG Psycho Gundam uses screws. Nothing too complicated though, and using metal joiners means it leans closer to the Transformers side rather than Gundam wrt "this thing can transform cleanly and without falling apart" Ah, thanks for the warning! It'll go nicely with my Transformers, haha.
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That Gobbo posted:If you want a massive monster buy the HG Psycho Gundam. I already did  The head is just sitting on my desk here in front of me until I'm ready to build the rest  StrixNebulosa posted:If I have any complaints about the GM, it's a short list The colors thing is a result of the constant toss-up between having the models be exactly the same color as they were on TV or substitute an alternate real world interpretation of that color. As a result depending on where you see them a lot of things will be slightly different white, grey or teal/seafoam green. I assure you though, that the GM's tone is not nearly as shocking as the seafoam green on the HGUC Jegan, it looks like a drat bar of soap. Your choices for cleaning up visible nubs are careful shaving with a hobby knife or sanding. Either way on certain colors of plastics you can pretty much forget hiding every stress mark!  Arcsquad12 posted:I do wish high grades would move away from ball joint shoulders back to pegs. The peg and slot hinges on RGs work just fine. RillAkBea fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Oct 25, 2017 |
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Oct 25, 2017 18:54
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I really like the colour scheme of the Thunderbolt GMs
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RillAkBea posted:The colors thing is a result of the constant toss-up between having the models be exactly the same color as they were on TV or substitute an alternate real world interpretation of that color. As a result depending on where you see them a lot of things will be slightly different white, grey or teal/seafoam green. I assure you though, that the GM's tone is not nearly as shocking as the seafoam green on the HGUC Jegan, it looks like a drat bar of soap. Oh, the Jegan is cute! ...so when do I get unlimited money to go along with wanting unlimited kits? As for my poor GM, welp, there's no way to hide the nubs, then. Ah well. Fortunately it's the kind of blemish that no one will notice except for me and experienced gunpla builders.
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Oct 25, 2017 19:11
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StrixNebulosa posted:If I have any complaints about the GM, it's a short list If you take a closeup of the nubs the are talking about we can maybe try to help. I'm pretty low effort on nubs but with a combination of sharp hobby knife and using my fingernail as a fine grit sandpaper, I can make most of them pretty subdued.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Oh, the Jegan is cute! ...so when do I get unlimited money to go along with wanting unlimited kits? do you topcoat? A matte finish goes quite a long way in minimizing the appearance of nub leftovers/sanding
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That Gobbo posted:If you want a massive monster buy the HG
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Oct 25, 2017 19:49
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what a ripoff, it doesnt even come with the halo 
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Booyah- posted:If you take a closeup of the nubs the are talking about we can maybe try to help. I'm pretty low effort on nubs but with a combination of sharp hobby knife and using my fingernail as a fine grit sandpaper, I can make most of them pretty subdued.  My usual method of "just nip a little closer to the plastic" won't really hide that nubs were here, I don't think.  tenderjerk posted:do you topcoat? A matte finish goes quite a long way in minimizing the appearance of nub leftovers/sanding I do not. I haven't yet ventured into the wild world of actually painting anything outside of a canvas. Midjack posted:Dendrobium or Neo Zeong Alas, neither of those appeal to me. I am looking at the MG Zeong for when I'm ready to spend 90$ on a gundam. It just looks so hilariously fun. 
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Kuvo posted:what a ripoff, it doesnt even come with the halo It was a p Bandai add on.
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StrixNebulosa posted:
Ack, yeah that is a really frustrating place for gates to be that thankfully newer kits avoid. With nubs I actually like to cut a bit further from the model, and then level off the nub with a couple of passes with the xacto blade. The more you use kind of a slicing action the less stress is put on the plastic and so the less the white marks show.
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Booyah- posted:Ack, yeah that is a really frustrating place for gates to be that thankfully newer kits avoid. With nubs I actually like to cut a bit further from the model, and then level off the nub with a couple of passes with the xacto blade. The more you use kind of a slicing action the less stress is put on the plastic and so the less the white marks show. I'll keep that in mind, thank you! ...At least this kind of fits with what a GM is - mass produced mobile suit, kinda shoddy but better than a Ball. Of course the newer kits don't have this problem!
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That GM is rad. Be careful if you xacto I've stabbed myself twice working on this Unicorn. Someone earlier recommended a scalpel, I think I'd be dead now.
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the best part about the HG psycho gundam is the manipulators are articulated so you can have it flipping the bird
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Buy some good nippers like god hands or gundam planet nippers if you want to kill nubs with little to no sanding and less danger to yourself if you're clumsy like me.
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Midjack posted:It was a p Bandai add on.
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That Gobbo posted:Buy some good nippers like god hands or gundam planet nippers if you want to kill nubs with little to no sanding and less danger to yourself if you're clumsy like me. THIS my nub woes turned around considerably once I got godhands and ditched the nail clippers. They even make entry level nippers!
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That reminds me: I picked up a pair of the cheap $12-13 godhands and they were an obvious improvement over the various hobby shop ones I've bought over the years.
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I'm using these, which were recced in the OP, and they're pretty good so far. Extremely sharp stuff! Can anyone compare them to the godhands?
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I use those as my 'get piece off runner' nippers, then I use my god hands to take off the nubs. Edit: God hands cut through nubs like butter and leave little to no stress marks. That Gobbo fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Oct 25, 2017 |
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Neurolimal posted:It is, but at the same time it's a really good intro kit for people to realize "wow, model kits can be easy, cheap, AND look good???". Source: it was literally my first kit. It was somewhere around my... third kit? The thing was, I built the Guncannon before it, and the GM Command around the same time, and those were about as simple while being so much better in more or less every way. Kind of made the GM's weaknesses stand out more.
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StrixNebulosa posted:I'm using these, which were recced in the OP, and they're pretty good so far. Extremely sharp stuff! i have the gundam planet nippers which are supposedly very similar. the main difference is that they use a "hammer anvil" style where only one side is the sharp knife and it pushed into plastic supported by the other side. when they are sharp enough it gives you a cleaner cut.
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Finished my snapfit of the MG Zaku 2, decided he looks much cooler with an AKS-74.
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Taintrunner posted:Finished my snapfit of the MG Zaku 2, decided he looks much cooler with an AKS-74. drat, that's a nice Zaku. Also, yup, that gun looks cool.  Also, yep, my GM's arm popped off thanks to the weird peg design when I tipped him over on accident. He's been put back together, but eesh. Poor fragile thing.
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Some might call it a design flaw, others might call it Realistic Customizable Battle Damage
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https://twitter.com/templajp/status/923015856203821056 A Deep Striker themed Nu ver Ka HWS and here I didn't think I could possibly love anything this much
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Just put together an RG Unicorn leg. Is it normal for it to have no forward bend on the knee and weird ankle articulation? I just built the RG Exia which is extremely well articulated so it might just be the contrast between the kits.
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brainwrinkle posted:Just put together an RG Unicorn leg. Is it normal for it to have no forward bend on the knee and weird ankle articulation? I just built the RG Exia which is extremely well articulated so it might just be the contrast between the kits. The MG, PG, and RG Unicorn and derivatives have to compromise mobility and stability to incorporate the transformation feature.
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Booyah- posted:i have the gundam planet nippers which are supposedly very similar. the main difference is that they use a "hammer anvil" style where only one side is the sharp knife and it pushed into plastic supported by the other side. when they are sharp enough it gives you a cleaner cut. In my quest to make non-painted builds look best, I've bought both the GPs and the God Hands. The God Hands are generally better with the cut. I haven't figured out how to sharpen mine yet, though, so they're not as sharp as I'd like. I also have the (incredibly bad?) habit of using my nipper blade to do some shaving of nubs without cutting (put against nub and press from the outside to shave across). The God Hands have a little bar of metal right where my thumb goes, probably to prevent exactly that, but it makes it uncomfortable when I ignore it and do it anyway. Whoops. They're also a little shallower, so it's easier to get them into hard-to-reach places on the runners. On the downside, they have to be the worst nippers on the planet for getting the little nubs of plastic stuck in them when you snip them off -- probably every 4 or 5 cuts I have to dislodge a bit of plastic. The Gundam Planet nippers are great, and a bit easier to sharpen (I've done the aluminum foil trick, which made a huge improvement). I also find the rubber wrapping the handles a bit more comfortable. If you're trying to save the most money, go with the Gundam Planets. They're like, 95% as good, $15 less, and GundamPlanet routinely runs deals where ordering a pair of nippers makes the whole order ship free. They've got one of those going right now, actually. If you want the best cut, get the God Hands.
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EVGA Longoria posted:The Gundam Planet nippers are great, and a bit easier to sharpen (I've done the aluminum foil trick, which made a huge improvement). Can you describe this trick in more detail? I would love to sharpen my Gundam Planet nippers after building 6+ kits with them.
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EVGA Longoria posted:GundamPlanet routinely runs deals where ordering a pair of nippers makes the whole order ship free. They've got one of those going right now, actually. Oh great, now you tell me!
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Hey, where's the best place to buy gunpla in Canada? I'm trying to get my Canadian friend into the hobby and the difference in prices on ebay is a little silly. At least amazon only has you add like 5$ shipping, but if there's a better deal, I want to know!
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StrixNebulosa posted:Hey, where's the best place to buy gunpla in Canada? I'm trying to get my Canadian friend into the hobby and the difference in prices on ebay is a little silly. Amazon usually has the best deals in general. I've no clue if its canada's import tax or whatev that drives up the price, but if not then Hobbylink Japan is a really nice site to get obscure stuff directly from Japan; the only drawback is they take quite a while to ship + shipping costs make bulk orders more preferable. On the flip side you get access to weird 2 dollar single-piece folding model kits!
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Neurolimal posted:Amazon usually has the best deals in general. I've no clue if its canada's import tax or whatev that drives up the price, but if not then Hobbylink Japan is a really nice site to get obscure stuff directly from Japan; the only drawback is they take quite a while to ship + shipping costs make bulk orders more preferable. On the flip side you get access to weird 2 dollar single-piece folding model kits! Got it, thanks! Who woulda thunk it would take an IBO kit to get my friend to ask me where she can buy these things.
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brainwrinkle posted:Can you describe this trick in more detail? I would love to sharpen my Gundam Planet nippers after building 6+ kits with them. https://lifehacker.com/300223/use-aluminum-foil-to-sharpen-scissors I usually do about 4, but the basic idea is stack a few sheets of aluminum foil and cut through it with the nippers. It don’t help if you’ve physically damaged them, but helps sharpen them.
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