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Cat Hatter posted:I don't want to come off as "clearly you're doing it wrong It's not limbs coming off, it's limbs coming apart. I've got clear nail polish for loose joints. Isuppose I could just glue the thing together, but that just seems wrong when I've got a good whinge going.
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mllaneza posted:It's not limbs coming off, it's limbs coming apart. I've got clear nail polish for loose joints. Isuppose I could just glue the thing together, but that just seems wrong when I've got a good whinge going. I think this is telling, because yeah, "I know how I can fix this but I shouldn't have to" is a very distinct form of whinging compared to "I don't know how to fix this and I shouldn't have to." See also: "I shouldn't need industrial quantities of milliput to fix the fitment issues with this overpriced Games Workshop model, but gently caress Games Workshop."
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Is getting into resin kits just sink or swim? I want to do some more building then get into the conversion kits for some suits I like but it seems you just gotta jump in and hope for the best. I know there's more safety issues to be worried about and some parts may have minor faults to be sanded/filled due to the casting but they're not really that different right?
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Pierson posted:Is getting into resin kits just sink or swim? I want to do some more building then get into the conversion kits for some suits I like but it seems you just gotta jump in and hope for the best. I know there's more safety issues to be worried about and some parts may have minor faults to be sanded/filled due to the casting but they're not really that different right? You gotta wash them, there's a decent chance you'll have to bend some pieces back into shape, and you have to inspect all the parts for mold slippage and unfixable bubbles, in which case you'll have to get in touch with the producer and get replacements. And wear a mask while you sand. Beyond that, yeah just jump in and it's not too different.
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Having a good complain is one of my few joys left in life. I took my RG Build Strike off its stand because my HG Raphael just ain't gonna stand up on its own. Aaand, yeah, of all my RGs, this is the one most likely to be destined for the Spare Parts Bin. If it ever falls off my shelf, that's it, end of life. Can't re-pose the fucker even a little bit without it shedding pieces like crazy. Though I have, let's see, 5 other RGs and don't have that problem with them. Wish my local store would get some more god drat action bases in so I wouldn't have to keep swapping 'em between kits every time I get the hankering to pose a different one creatively.
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Diet Poison posted:Having a good complain is one of my few joys left in life. I'm thinking I might want to just mass order some action bases to have them handy. But I also want to do diorama bases and those might help minimize the need to use a bunch of Bandai bases.
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Warmachine posted:I'm thinking I might want to just mass order some action bases to have them handy. But I also want to do diorama bases and those might help minimize the need to use a bunch of Bandai bases. There's a cool Bandai base than holds three kits at once... but unfortunately it's only available from the Gundam base or as a contest prize.
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Warmachine posted:I'm thinking I might want to just mass order some action bases to have them handy. But I also want to do diorama bases and those might help minimize the need to use a bunch of Bandai bases. Action Base 5's are what you want.
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Good Smile also sells their stands at 3 for twenty dollars if you can find them online, they have 3mm pegs as one of the options which fits most gunpla. You can't stack them together like Action Bases though.
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Justin_Brett posted:Good Smile also sells their stands at 3 for twenty dollars if you can find them online, they have 3mm pegs as one of the options which fits most gunpla. You can't stack them together like Action Bases though. Nothing a bit of glue can't fix.
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Warmachine posted:Nothing a bit of glue can't fix. All kits are combiners if you have glue.
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Gripweed posted:All kits are combiners if you have glue. And all kits are scratch builds if you add enough milliput and greebles. Gunpla freedom blah blah.
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Twelve by Pies posted:RGs just feel incredibly cheap and inferior quality to HGs. I haven't done the Hi Nu or Nu yet, but out of the two RGs that I built so far (Sazabi and Eva Unit 08), I can't get behind this sentiment at all. The Sazabi was a bitch to build but it's probably one of the most detailed and sturdy kits I have; the Unit 08 was not a bitch to build but it has held its pose without problem for the past year, both without action bases
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I like the underlying design a lot, don't get me wrong. But, uh..
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parabolic posted:I like the underlying design a lot, don't get me wrong. But, uh.. Hey, Gunpla is freedom.
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MechaX posted:I haven't done the Hi Nu or Nu yet, but out of the two RGs that I built so far (Sazabi and Eva Unit 08), I can't get behind this sentiment at all. This has also been my experience, my Sazabi is excellent and the Evas seem to use some sort of witchcraft to pose and balance like they do on those tiny feet. I've also done the Exia and Wing Zero EW, which aren't the showstoppers the Eva and Sazabi are, but they're each quite good.
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I've had a few experiences with RGs being a little slippy and loose, but only on really old kits like the Zaku II and RX-78. The Nu and Hi-Nu were gorgeous builds for me and have never seemed like hand grenades. The RG line as a whole has treated me really well. This isn't an attempt to invalidate anybody's lived experience, but I love RG's and hope that anybody who wants a 1/144 scale Gundam with high detail and lots of gimmicks will give them a chance, or another chance if one didn't go perfectly.
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parabolic posted:I like the underlying design a lot, don't get me wrong. But, uh.. I want to give it teeth. Just a big old BTAS Joker grin.
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I was recently disappointed by the RG GaoGaiGar. It's got some really great engineering (the way the small legs lock into the big ones is  ) and some of the most piss-poor "it's in your hands now, friction and unicorn farts" engineering (the face plate, the way the helmet attaches to the head, the hands in general, the upper arms split apart ever so slightly whenever you apply any force to them). It's not very well balanced because of the giant lump of plastic backpack. The less said about the goldmarg hand and hammer (which look  admittedly) the better; it's literally at the point where it's too heavy to support itself and needs an action base to support it no matter what; the base kit would need screwed or ratcheted joints to support it's weight. It's a very ambitious kit but it falls short of the mark in ways that could have been easily fixed (the hands, the helmet). Typical of a true transformer and not a partsformer, I guess.In comparison, the RG God Gundam is literally loving bottled WITCHCRAFT in the poo poo you can pull with it.
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That description is kinda making RG GaoGaiGar even more appealing to me. I've had my eye on it for a minute. I might add it to my shelf when budget allows. Maybe I'll do RG God after I finish my Messer. I was thinking of doing my MG Delta Plus next, since I have a custom paint scheme in mind for it. Decisions are are hard.
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Oh, it's a great looking kit, and fun as hell to make (and pull apart, and put back together) but it could have been so much more  I'm thinking of cracking my Eclipse Gundam MG or maybe the RG Gold Frame Amatsu Hina or an EVA.
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I'm really glad you said that actually because i love RGs and i love GaoGaiGar and I straight up abandoned it by the time I got to stealth gao. the vents to cover where the hands hide in jet mode just straight up do not fit and it was the last straw in a build full of annoying connections not to add more fuel to the "RGs are bad" fire though, RGs are my favorite and I loved the hi-nu
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The bullshit I can pull off with the RG God in terms of posing without a base is pretty wild (although you probably need to leave the rainbow halo off for easier balancing).
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Super Robot combiners seem like a hit or miss thing for kits in general. I have the Dynazenon Moderoid and that's great, even with a torso that's kind of one solid piece (true to the show though), while the Raijin-Oh Moderoid had one part to its combination that made it a nightmare.
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https://p-bandai.com/us/item/N2619353001003 Rose is going up for another round of pre-orders tonight
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Also the PG Phenex, which I think I'll try to nab because it looks sick as hell and I want a PG in my collection.
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Waffleman_ posted:https://p-bandai.com/us/item/N2619353001003 Hopefully I can snag one this time and hopefully more silly G Gundam designs are on the way Would love to see some of them given the modern treatment
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Justin_Brett posted:Super Robot combiners seem like a hit or miss thing for kits in general. I have the Dynazenon Moderoid and that's great, even with a torso that's kind of one solid piece (true to the show though), while the Raijin-Oh Moderoid had one part to its combination that made it a nightmare. I swear there has to be multiple teams working on pumping out the Moderoids, because there's some that have some real near-Bandai quality engineering and design, while others are real simple and cheap early-00's-Bandai design work in their assembly and colour separation.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I swear there has to be multiple teams working on pumping out the Moderoids, because there's some that have some real near-Bandai quality engineering and design, while others are real simple and cheap early-00's-Bandai design work in their assembly and colour separation. Moderoid Full Power Gridman's color separation is so atrocious it turned me off even wanting to build it.
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What should i build next? I have the following left: Nu gundam ver ka Full armor gundam ver ka MG gm sniper 2 Hg origin zaku 2 Hg Gundam Ez8 I might go back and paint the hg hyaku shiki as well.
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Haven't built the GM Sniper 2 but the HG Origin Zaku and the HG Ez8 are both very fun builds.
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The Nu's also fun, but also gets really repetitive if you leave all six fin funnels till the end so spread those around the build.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I swear there has to be multiple teams working on pumping out the Moderoids, because there's some that have some real near-Bandai quality engineering and design, while others are real simple and cheap early-00's-Bandai design work in their assembly and colour separation. That seems about right, the info pages for them list the sculptor and it's usually different people for each.
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This is pretty cool to hear: https://twitter.com/180223/status/1646533115027009536?t=2sgW-LFKSxayQ1AQSzasKA&s=19
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It's a great suit and a great HG. I hosed up my own a bit so I'll probably end up buying a second to do it properly.
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Pierson posted:It's a great suit and a great HG. I hosed up my own a bit so I'll probably end up buying a second to do it properly. the Permet Score 6 (blue lines) is one of the kits going back up on p-bandai tonight at 9pm EST if you're interested in a variation
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I do wonder what the best-selling gunpla of all time are. If you counted all variations/remakes it'd be the RX-78-2 sure but as a single model I wonder if they ever released that info. Probably like the HG Strike or something I would imagine.
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Pierson posted:I do wonder what the best-selling gunpla of all time are. If you counted all variations/remakes it'd be the RX-78-2 sure but as a single model I wonder if they ever released that info. Probably like the HG Strike or something I would imagine. Given the massive surge in gunplay sales in the last few years, I think the EG grandpa and the MG Barbatos are probably up there.
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