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Somehow I didn't realize just how much the Unit 4 and Unit 5 P-Bandai HG's cribbed from the previous Pale Rider (Space Type) kit. I picked one up off Amazon after noticing, and I'm debating converting the gatling gun to a twin-barrel design since the RX-78-5 runners come with an extra gun barrel.
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So I got an LED unit for my MG Hi Nu. they really can't go five minutes without throwing a runner at you, huh.
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BisbyWorl posted:So I got an LED unit for my MG Hi Nu. Wouldn't be gunpla if you didn't have to cut it out from the injection molding sprues lol Are there any cute lil kits that incorporate a like fake runner set to display something or into the design of the final model itself Runner-kun
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More plastic to melt into gap filler  My latest brain worm feature creep is resin casting some clear head parts and casting a chip LED inside them. The "Z" LEDs sold by Evan Designs are about 0.0936mm^3 in volume, which is loving tiny, produce no appreciable heat, and should be perfect for casting inside something like the B1-16 eyes/chin component of the HG RX-78-5 and 4. Is this worth a $200 investment (rounded up) in tools? Jury is still out on that. Monkey Fracas posted:Wouldn't be gunpla if you didn't have to cut it out from the injection molding sprues lol I'm not aware of anything, but you could do up something like the Gundam Breaker Mobile Battlelogue scenes where the bad guy trapped everyone's gunpla in runners. Might be a cute display gimmick.
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Mar 8, 2023 18:34
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Well, the Jegan Escort Type is going back up on P-Bandai and I don't think I can resist the skateboard helmet after I missed the first run.
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Mar 8, 2023 19:05
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You could use these cute and lil runners to make a small diorama of a casting/assembly line I guess  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IprEi4V3s4&t=103s
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Mar 8, 2023 19:11
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Monkey Fracas posted:Wouldn't be gunpla if you didn't have to cut it out from the injection molding sprues lol There's this guy , and it looks like maybe more gunpla-kun coming?
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Mar 8, 2023 19:25
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Razor Jacksuit posted:There's this guy , and it looks like maybe more gunpla-kun coming? Now the weird thing with that little guy is he's not actually made from plastic. Through the power of material science wizardry he's made from a limestone based plastic substitute?
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Mar 8, 2023 20:07
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Warmachine posted:More plastic to melt into gap filler Well, my decision just got made for me. I didn't notice a part had gone missing while I was prepping and painting other pieces. A few hours later, I found it in pieces, crushed on the floor. So I guess I'm going to learn how to cast resin whether I like it or not.
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Mar 9, 2023 05:37
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Battroid Mode is done for the HG YF-19. The black stickers on the wings are a bit fiddly, but on the whole this is a real fun build. The only complaint I have is there's a mechanism in the thigh joint's horzontal swivel that's meant to pop it up so they can bend forward for Gerwalk mode that doesn't seem to want to happen. It's one of those scary tight pop-groove jobs Bandai loves to try, and I'm not gonna risk forcing it. Aside from that, this thing has some fantastic posability for the most part. and you get lot more horizontal angle out of the thigh joints than you might think for dramatic wide-legged poses. Oh also; Make sure you've got something you can do panel-lining with for this one. There is a lot of beige otherwise.   Looking forward to banging out the Gerwalk and Flight modes next.
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Mar 9, 2023 15:53
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Tin Tim posted:You could use these cute and lil runners to make a small diorama of a casting/assembly line I guess Wanna make a little attachment point in the middle of the sprue and try sticking them on hard points on something Razor Jacksuit posted:There's this guy , and it looks like maybe more gunpla-kun coming? This is so cute; I love it
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Hello thread! Would you be able to help identify the first model kit here, with the shoulder weapon? https://twitter.com/10daime777/status/1634068559155593218
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ijyt posted:Hello thread! Would you be able to help identify the first model kit here, with the shoulder weapon? Looks like a Guncannon... Origins type? Yeah, that's the Guncannon First Type. Repainted, and with some tweaks (hands look different) but the base design is Kai Shiden's ride.
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Mar 10, 2023 11:00
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Thank you!!
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The hands are almost definitely from the 'MS Hand 01' builder parts set.
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I impulse-bought the 1/100 Mobile Pod Ball Ver. Ka the other day, and decided to turn it into my first attempt at painting. I'm going for the least original idea ever - turn it into a militarised Pokéball. I still want to use the kit's dry transfers though. What would be the best way to go about it? Paint > top coat > transfers > top coat? Or just apply the transfers directly to the paint?
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Finished my YF-19's other transformation modes! Gerwalk is Gerwalk. Could NOT get those thigh pieces to rotate forward, so legs are kinda tucked back at a 90 angle instead of curving forward.  Flight Mode... comes off the worst I feel, and I put the sticker sheet at the back to show why. Battroid definitely feels like the favoured mode of the three engineering-wise, as the Flight Mode parts are just three pieces of beige plastic fitting together for the plane body. The transformation's nice and simple, but all the details on it are just stickers. There could definitely have been a black piece or two tucked away in the frame to eliminate some of the more egregious stickers like the dorsal jet intakes. Also the funny thing with Flight Mode is you have a whole upper half of Battroid mode just left to the side. Overall it's still a real nice kit, I'd put it at an 8/10 overall. I'd break it down like this; Battroid; 9/10. Good Posability, some limitations in posing the gun cause of the nosecone chestpiece, but that's just how it be. Gerwalk; 7/10. The thigh mechanisms being too tight to click and work bring it down, but it's a half-plane half-robot all right. Plane: 7/10, somewhere around there. It's exists, is a good plane, but could've done with a little more colour separation rather than stickers for a 2023 High Grade.
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Skios posted:I impulse-bought the 1/100 Mobile Pod Ball Ver. Ka the other day, and decided to turn it into my first attempt at painting. I'm going for the least original idea ever - turn it into a militarised Pokéball. I still want to use the kit's dry transfers though. What would be the best way to go about it? Paint > top coat > transfers > top coat? Or just apply the transfers directly to the paint?
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Pierson posted:Definitely top coat between painting and decals. Might also want to think about some microsol/top setter for it as well, putting decals on a curved surface sounds like a nightmare. I looked into microsol/microset, but I thought that was just for water transfers?
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Skios posted:I looked into microsol/microset, but I thought that was just for water transfers? It is. Don't use it for stickers, but you still want to do paint > clear gloss > stickers > clear matte/gloss as your process. The clear coats protect the thing under them, including your stickers.
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Warmachine posted:It is. Don't use it for stickers, but you still want to do paint > clear gloss > stickers > clear matte/gloss as your process. The clear coats protect the thing under them, including your stickers. I usually skip the bottom layer of clear gloss if I haven't painted (especially with stickers), but it can be really important if you have. I have one badly silvered decal on a kit where I didn't bother to brush on some Future floor polish ahead of time and it bugs me whenever I look at it. Lesson learned: paint isn't as smooth as it looks.
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Cat Hatter posted:I usually skip the bottom layer of clear gloss if I haven't painted (especially with stickers), but it can be really important if you have. I have one badly silvered decal on a kit where I didn't bother to brush on some Future floor polish ahead of time and it bugs me whenever I look at it. Lesson learned: paint isn't as smooth as it looks. It's probably not worth it if you're not painting, but definitely do clean the bare plastic before you stick anything on. The goal is to make sure the decal 1) adheres and 2) doesn't get or cause damage. How you achieve that depends on what you're doing. If you're keeping it really simple, all you're really needing to do is clean the kit, apply decals and panel lines, then seal it all in with the clear finish of your choice. It still amuses me to no end that two of the most commonly used chemicals in the toolkit are Future floor polish and Zippo lighter fluid.
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Skios posted:I looked into microsol/microset, but I thought that was just for water transfers? Yeah, for your dry transfers you definitely don't want to use it. Dry transfers are kind of a pain in the rear end, the way I've had decent success is to cut one out, then position it where i want on the model and secure with masking tape. You can fiddle with the positioning as much as you want and then get it taped in position. After that it's just a matter of rub/scraping it on, which can take multiple passes. It's also ideal if you can do a gloss or matte top coat after to prevent smudging.
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Warmachine posted:It still amuses me to no end that two of the most commonly used chemicals in the toolkit are Future floor polish and Zippo lighter fluid. gently caress yeah! Ronsonol has a much stronger odor and Zippo fluid is like 4bux. Future gets you any finish you want (with some Tamiya flat base added), can be applied with a brush or airbrush, and lasts forever as long as you don't use it to actually polish your floor like I did.
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Pledge doesn't make future anymore just so you know.
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Monaghan posted:Pledge doesn't make future anymore just so you know. 
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Monaghan posted:Pledge doesn't make future anymore just so you know. And that's why I can never finish any more models and use up my precious stash of Future ...is what I keep telling myself.
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Monaghan posted:Pledge doesn't make future anymore just so you know. well drat I wished I'd bought one more bottle
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Neddy Seagoon posted:
Thanks for doing the review - I had one backordered but I was primarily interested in the flight mode, so with that and no sign of HLJ getting it back in stock any time soon, I just cancelled my order instead and saved myself $50.
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Lemon-Lime posted:Thanks for doing the review - I had one backordered but I was primarily interested in the flight mode, so with that and no sign of HLJ getting it back in stock any time soon, I just cancelled my order instead and saved myself $50. To be fair I don't think it's outright-bad or anything that negative, but building the Battroid parts has all these delightful layered sections of different colours that just come together so well. It made it feel a little weird and lacking to me when you get to that final stretch of building the plane body and it's just "Beige, three pieces put together and mount to leg section, apply stickers  ". Even the plane's nose is made of several pieces in different colours.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:To be fair I don't think it's outright-bad or anything that negative, but building the Battroid parts has all these delightful layered sections of different colours that just come together so well. It made it feel a little weird and lacking to me when you get to that final stretch of building the plane body and it's just "Beige, three pieces put together and mount to leg section, apply stickers It doesn't sound catastrophic (I mean, it's Bandai), but I have a significant backlog already (including two Hasegawa Valkyries), so not buying more plastic is really in my interest anyway.
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Well I did it, I built my first RG. It was...very underwhelming? The build wasn't interesting to me since it was just a bunch of "take these prebuilt frame parts and snap them together, now put these armor pieces on top." So I didn't get a lot out of the actual putting it together. But in addition to that, the advantages of RGs (better poseability and such) don't mean much to me either because this kit feels wobbly. A lot of it feels kinda bad to me, honestly, with how loose some parts are like the shoulder pads, and the neck/head are especially bad. It can't look up, at all, hell it feels like it can barely look straight ahead because of the back of the neck ball being close to a surface slanting upwards. Trying to get the head to move upwards usually just results in it popping off. Tons of incredibly tiny stickers but I didn't put a lot of them on. I put the bigger ones on, and a lot of the front ones just because it's a nice contrast, but I skipped the stickers on the sides and the back/backpack because meh. Just too much of a hassle.  Robot seems to be having a good time even if it can't stand up properly when it's armed like this.  Though secretly it is sad it doesn't have an action base to help it pose properly. Yeah I dunno. This is apparently an early-ish RG and later ones are better, but it has soured me on RGs a little bit. If anyone can suggest some of the highest quality RGs I'm willing to give them another shot though, I already have heard the Zeong is one of the gold standards for RGs.
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The RG Hi Nu is the single greatest gunpla kit ever created.
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Arc Hammer posted:The RG Hi Nu is the single greatest gunpla kit ever created. It's sitting in my now enormous back log. At least now I don't have any more reasons to buy more kits for the year.  I'm still procrastinating on the final detailing of the back parts for my Unit 5. But I'm at least at the part where I'm assembling everything else. The legs and arms are assembled, and I'm just letting the paint dry before clear coating the arms and chest (head and legs got their gloss coats today). I also got my vacuum chamber today, and I've set up the mold for the part that broke using a spare from Unit 4. Should be ready to break it out tomorrow morning. It was fun watching the silicone degas. It was less fun watching it boil over because I made too much and didn't account of the sheer violence of the degassing process.
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Monaghan posted:Pledge doesn't make future anymore just so you know. Is there anything that gets even sort of close in performance for how easy it was? It self-leveled so well for me that you basically couldn't screw up applying it. I just got some mr. color gloss (c46) because I was at the store getting the Super Smooth Clear Flat (gx114) that I guess I'll try. I missed that there's a super gloss apparently gx100.
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Arc Hammer posted:The RG Hi Nu is the single greatest gunpla kit ever created. tbh I'm glad to hear that despite the fact that I not only took some efforts to track down a Hi-Nu locally a year back, but I also have a regular RG Nu and also a Nu-ff on the way from P-Bandai shortly I say this because I was dreading building a million fin funnels, but I never heard such complaints with the Hi-Nu at all
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Arc Hammer posted:The RG Hi Nu is the single greatest gunpla kit ever created. There's one at the store I usually pick up my kits at. I guess I'll grab it next time I'm in, then. I did impulse buy on a couple of kits this week though.  I seriously loving love Magic Knight Rayearth. It was one of the first manga I ever read and I still think it's super good, the best thing CLAMP has ever done by far. Apparently there's also kits for Windam and Seles, as well as the combined form of the three. I will absolutely pick those up at some point in the future. The GFrame thing was fairly cheap and seemed interesting so I figured why not. It's not quite what I expected. I'm sure other people here have gotten them, but the figure came almost pre-built, just on a display frame, and then you have to pull the parts off the display frame and put them on the action frame (if you want to, I mean, you can just leave them on the display frame too).  It's neat, but I probably won't buy any more of them. I still like this Zaku better than the kit I built though, funny enough. It's also cool that it comes with a display stand, even if the display stand looks like some hosed up sacrificial altar made of robot remains (you use the display frame to build the stand, by turning the arms down, putting the feet on the butt, and stacking the legs on top).
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I just realized the three cans of matte tamiya I picked up are for polycarbonate. Can I use this as normal or do I have to return this poo poo and buy the plastic one? Edit: did my research. Got a refund. IG-88 fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Mar 12, 2023 |
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MechaX posted:tbh I'm glad to hear that despite the fact that I not only took some efforts to track down a Hi-Nu locally a year back, but I also have a regular RG Nu and also a Nu-ff on the way from P-Bandai shortly I give this advice every time it comes up: building all six at the end gets a little tedious, I suggest building a couple after you do the arms, two more after the legs, and the last two after you finish the rest just to break it up a little.
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Arc Hammer posted:The RG Hi Nu is the single greatest gunpla kit ever created. the zeong and zgok are both superior
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