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I figured it out, it just takes way longer and more effort than I was doingEVGA Longoria posted:Buy waterslides for the kit. It's actually going extremely well now that I've figured it out. Whenever I do waterslides I have about a 25% chance of getting it horribly tangled up while trying to transfer it to the kit
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The vidar is cool and good and I just finished its equally cool and good 1/100 kit.  
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I'm interested in a new pair of nippers to replace my Tamiyas I lost in the move. What do people recommend nowadays? I saw that there are like five different models of god hand on Amazon of all places so I guess things have changed a little bit. Also, has anybody played with the cross silhouette SD models? I really like the new SD frame and was thinking of trying to work on a SD G Arcane.
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Mar 22, 2019 23:33
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A MG RGM-79D just got announced and it's P-Bandai. 
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Mar 24, 2019 21:07
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Isn't the Leo space type P bandai too? I might get one, just to beef it up and paint in pretty spectral colors. Oh wow that Neo Zeong rerelease for NT is also P Bandai, I feel so sorry for unicorn fans.
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Ka0 posted:Isn't the Leo space type P bandai too? I might get one, just to beef it up and paint in pretty spectral colors. There are enough Neo Zeongs sitting unsold in stores that you can pick up a can of white spray paint and a Sinanju Stein HG and still come out ahead.
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That's a shame innit. On the other hand, I cannot find the Fenice Rinascita Liberta at a normal price to save my life.
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Monaghan posted:The vidar is cool and good and I just finished its equally cool and good 1/100 kit. Nice job on the metal bits dude. I've been fussing with a 1/144 Vidar and getting all the copper sections down is the most annoying part.
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What am I looking at for LED unit options? I've heard the bandai ones kind of suck (they tend to flicker for whatever reason) and there are cheaper alternatives, but I don't know what they are. Also, as a sanity check, I assume I don't want to like, put an orange LED behind blue plastic, yeah?
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LibrarianCroaker posted:What am I looking at for LED unit options? I've heard the bandai ones kind of suck (they tend to flicker for whatever reason) and there are cheaper alternatives, but I don't know what they are. Just type Gundam LED into ebay and you'll find them easy enough. As for your sanity check, you'll want a LED that matches the visor color, or at the very least, a white LED.
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Lemon-Lime posted:A MG RGM-79D just got announced and it's P-Bandai. Aww yiss, I'm gonna buy the heck out of that. If they want to put space GM Command on resale at the same time too, my wallet is open.
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RillAkBea posted:Aww yiss, I'm gonna buy the heck out of that. If they want to put space GM Command on resale at the same time too, my wallet is open. I'm going to have to find a reseller and pay a ridiculous premium to get it. 
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I've always been curious about the Salamis Kai's hangar setup. Like, we know it more or less adapted the Albion's mobile suit bay's elevator to launch catapult setup but it's underappreciated compared to the dozens of shots from inside the MS bays of many other ships.
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 I put out a preorder for this on Samueldecal the second it became available. I sent 14 emails and eventually, one was answered. I don't know what postal system they used but it took 4 months to arrive and by the time it did, I had nearly forgotten I had it.
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Bad news, everyone
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Gripweed posted:Bad news, everyone Eh, it's not that bad news, sounds like heavens gonna be pretty dull anyway, at least there'll be lots to talk about while we get our sinners hands eternally nibbled away by rats. And I kinda like rats too so that's another thing 
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Gripweed posted:Bad news, everyone Don’t you remember the first rule of Gundam? Our souls are weighed down my gravity.
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I've seen gunpla Valhalla, those guys don't know poo poo.
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Wow PBandai is the brokest I've ever seen it today. New today is GunEZ Ground Type which feels odd as I thought the regular GunEZ was already the ground type to Gunblaster's space type but V:MSV disavrees. And Gold Frame Amatsu Hana or rather the white gold frame recolor from Princess of the Sky. Which is pretty much just a straight black>white palette swap.
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Someone must wa t them caus p-bandai site is busted right now.
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Any tips of the RG Sazabi?
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https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1110542243507699712
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Crossposting from the Transformers threadPhy posted:Did you want info on the fictional transforming airplane or on this particular toy release BECAUSE I CAN DO BOTH
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Azubah posted:Any tips of the RG Sazabi? I'm not exactly a super experienced builder, but the only problem I had with the Sazabi was failing to get the back on because I hadn't seated the body side of the shoulder joint fully. 
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Phy posted:Crossposting from the Transformers thread I have the Hi-Metal VF1 and it's a really good toy. Pain in the rear end to transform, though, so it just sits on my desk in fighter mode.
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Finished my first two Master Grades.  Had a great time building the GM Sniper II. I loved putting together the tiny pistons that animate with the articulation and the mechanism the allows the arms to come forward so much was a revelation. The Jegan was a bit of a disappointment in comparison. It's not bad but the construction was so simple in comparison to the Sniper II. Things like pistons are just moulded-in detail and instead of the amazing mechanism in the shoulders it's only like three pieces that don't feel as good. Kind of surprised the sticker for the eye camera was just a regular matt sticker, even most of the HG's I've made have used a metallic sticker for that. Going to build the Jesta next. Was going to do it instead of the Jegan this week, but the LED unit I ordered off ebay was late so I'd thought I'd wait to do it.
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The Jesta is a really cool kit. It's a grunt kit that looks bad rear end and has some very nice color separation. What color LED are you getting for it?
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Just how many arms does this guy need? https://bandai-hobby.net/item/3238/ Veotax posted:Finished my first two Master Grades. I'll defend the Jegan in that it's a very nice sculpt and poses well. It is very much a different kind of kit to Gundam 2.0 based stuff though, yes. Bandai can't quite seem to decide if they want MG to be a highly articulated line or a highly detailed line. They were definitely leaning towards high articulation around the original 2.0 era but more recently they seem to favor simpler, more durable joints on high detail frames with more color separation. RillAkBea fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Mar 27, 2019 |
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RillAkBea posted:Just how many arms does this guy need? I choose to believe that thing is equipped with rocket fists, and that's how it reloads.
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why not just have one big arm strong enough to fire the Beam Magnum without breaking? I understand that one of the benefits of Mobile Suits having standard hands is that they can easily switch loadouts. But if you have to add a rack of extra arms because the gun keeps breaking the arm, maybe just having one non standard arm that won't break would be the better solution
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I do like the look of the Jegan, especially after I got it panel lined and stickered-up, it's just the build wasn't as fun of an experience. Haven't played with the posing too much yet, probably going to put this one on an Action Base and keep the Sniper kneeling.Azubah posted:The Jesta is a really cool kit. It's a grunt kit that looks bad rear end and has some very nice color separation. What color LED are you getting for it? Found a red one from a UK seller on ebay at an alright price. Would have gone orange since I think that's a better match for the visor, but it was either wait a month to get a knockoff from China or a weekend (in theory, since it was late) to get a genuine one from a guy over here. I also have the Gundam F91 and the lighting unit for it too, but I'm saving that kit for last. Currently out of work, so I'm spacing my kits out for the time being. One a week.
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I can't believe an amazing idea like "extra arms" was immediately ruined by "because we keep breaking the hands with the gun." Amazing idea wasted.
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Gripweed posted:why not just have one big arm strong enough to fire the Beam Magnum without breaking? I understand that one of the benefits of Mobile Suits having standard hands is that they can easily switch loadouts. But if you have to add a rack of extra arms because the gun keeps breaking the arm, maybe just having one non standard arm that won't break would be the better solution There have already been hundreds, if not thousands, of mobile suits with guns that don't break their own arms. We can chase realism in a giant robot setting down a rabbit hole that leads ultimately back to tanks and airplanes/spacefighters, or we can accept that the premise of mobile suits at all is ridiculous and a Gundam with a gun so powerful it breaks its own arms and can reload its arms is pretty fuckin' funny.
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Like obviously if anyone sane was in charge, they would do one of: make arm stronger make gun weaker hardmount gun put gun on a mobile armor instead But no, this design project is apparently being headed up by the kind of engineer who takes benzos every day and tries to smuggle them into Saudi Arabia for work, so the answer is instead "arms are a consumable and here's a reloading system" It's like how Tallgeese just loving kills its pilots unless they're Zechs. Provide a G-suit? Naw. One of those fancy breathable liquid suspension cockpits? Too expensive. Make the thrusters weaker? Heck no. Put a little stop in the thruster controls so you can't drive them as far? Sissy. Sack up and eat gees, pilot.
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In defense of the BigDuck designers it was the first mobile suit prototype and they made others that were usable later.
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I'm holding out until they make an MG Stark Jegan or an Eccoas Jegan so I can rebuild my Stark Jegan Eccoas Custom in 1/100 scale.
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Phy posted:It's like how Tallgeese just loving kills its pilots unless they're Zechs. Provide a G-suit? Naw. One of those fancy breathable liquid suspension cockpits? Too expensive. Make the thrusters weaker? Heck no. Put a little stop in the thruster controls so you can't drive them as far? Sissy. Sack up and eat gees, pilot. But the Tallgeese was acknowledged as a failure, and all derived Mobile Suits had weaker thrusters. They saw that the Tallgeese was killing it's pilots, and their solution was mothball the Tallgeese. Zechs was the one who dug it out of storage for his own personal use
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Also they aren't gonna provide a g-suit for the tallgeese because if you're wearing a g-suit you're not going to be able to wear the alliance/oz's sick rear end uniforms while piloting. That trade off is just unacceptable.
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Monaghan posted:Also they aren't gonna provide a g-suit for the tallgeese because if you're wearing a g-suit you're not going to be able to wear the alliance/oz's sick rear end uniforms while piloting. That trade off is just unacceptable. Oh clearly. You gotta look swank, or what's the point? Also, the fictional decisions made by OZ are in aid of the metafictional decision to have a monster sealed away for the deuteragonist to tame, and use it to threaten his foes on a more equal level. If the writers of Wing had decided smart engineering decisions were more fun than shonen tropes, the "Tallgeese" wouldn't have existed, because the conditions that make it pilot-lethal would have been anticipated and mitigated during the design phase. There'd be hundreds of "Leos", artificially limited to do the maximum acceleration that a trained pilot can survive, but no more; and then despite being an inexpensive mobile suit that could fly right up its own rear end in a top hat, it would mostly get used as a bomb truck. The prototype would be in a museum somewhere, but no better (and probably worse) than any later Leo. Because that's exactly what the F-16 jet fighter was and is in the real world. Same drat problem as the Tallgeese, it can physically turn harder than a pilot can survive, they just programmed it so it won't. I realize I'm not saying anything interesting by pointing out that these giant tanks with legs are designed first and foremost to be cool and/or funny, and only justified in the fiction after the fact. But I've kinda gotten away from my point here, which is that a mobile suit that has to reload its arms because Gun Too Stronk is a crazy idea that even the most coked-up weapons development project would shout down, and I applaud the person bold enough to put pen to paper to design it.
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