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What grade would be good to start in short of working with painting, stickers, or using a marker?
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It turns out what I thought was a gundam model but it was just one of those cosmic series of seed destiny action figures. I was thinking building a model would be pretty fun, and I bought a HGUC GM 1/144. It took 6 hours to build it plain but it was alot of tiring fun. Looking forward to practice some more HGs before I start seam hiding, panel lining, decaling, and top coating.
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Sep 2, 2014 03:32
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What cement do you guys recommend using to use on seams to be able to sand them down?
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Sep 2, 2014 23:08
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Thanks for the responses. Also on this HG there seems to be some things unpainted such as a the beam saber and gears on the foot. What would be the easiest way to paint these short of using an airbrush?
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Sep 3, 2014 00:15
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Is it necessary to put on a gloss coat before preforming a panel wash?
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Sep 4, 2014 02:41
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I never thought building these and posing them would be so much fun.
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Sep 5, 2014 02:18
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Went to a hobby shop to get some tools and maybe a HG. Walk out with tools and 4 HGs.
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Sep 6, 2014 03:16
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Well you could at least tell us which ones HG Forbidden Gundam remaster HG MS08 Custom Gouf HG Cherudim Gundam HG 00 Rasier + GN Sword 3
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Sep 6, 2014 03:47
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Any tips for using plastic cement? Should I be just holding pieces together and go down the seam line or open them alittle and cement in the seam line. Planning on practicing on some cut up runners first before trying actual parts. I also shaved pegs and bored some of the holes inside parts for easy disassembly, do I need to cement those as well?
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Sep 7, 2014 01:57
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Literally The Worst posted:I'm not actually giving up. I'm sitting in front of the tv watching Parks and Rec and working on my gundam. I'm just irritates by how loving long I messes with that chest assembly for no reason. Took me like 4 hours to make 80% of the 0 Raiser HG last night, I don't know how people can build whole HGs in 4 hours.
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Sep 9, 2014 16:42
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Cheap high grades for the
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Sep 10, 2014 06:52
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Bimmi posted:Just a reminder that the risk from sprayed acrylics comes not so much from toxicity as "coating your lungs with plastic-based paint," which can have very unpleasant consequences, so a spray mask is still absolutely called for in most cases. So you are just trying to say to coat our lungs in future first and then do a swig of thinner in the lungs after painting correct?
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Sep 11, 2014 01:15
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Just got my order from Gundam Store and More, their membership thingy is pretty nice. Bought a platinum membership and got a ~ hg guntank (gun and a tank whats not to love about this midget) hg hizack mg zaku 2 some random sd gundam then got $60 credit and got ~ mg strike aile rm mg ground gm Not to bad of a deal for some random stuff to practice on. Tenzarin fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Sep 11, 2014 |
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Sep 11, 2014 03:49
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Neddy Seagoon posted:If you can still edit your order, swap the Strike Aile Remaster for the HGCE Strike Gundam. It's a newer version that's much better made. Oops, both the last two are mg kits.
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Sep 11, 2014 05:55
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Kurui Reiten posted:I have gone from building an entire HG in one night to taking a week on one, just through adding in more vigorous sanding and paneling lining. I'm working on Turn A right now, and I might actually post a final shot of that; I think it looks pretty good. It needs more detailing work, though, before I'm done. What method are you using to sand? I started with sand paper then went into sanding blocks and sanding sticks. Just switched from wet sanding with sand paper to wet sanding with sanding sticks. Now I check with a fingernail if an area is flush to stop after I sanded down some panel lines on my hg gouf ignited. Its pretty easy to sand off some details on hg kits, I figured when I move on to mg kits this will be harder to do with the bigger pieces.
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Sep 11, 2014 16:57
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Kurui Reiten posted:Kinda crappy sanding sticks at 1200 grit that tend to run out faster than I anticipated. Probably switching to paper soon. The thing is, I try to sand down so the nub's level, even if it scuffs the surrounding plastic a little. I figure a flat coat'll make that look better in the end. What's taking more time is actually trying to eliminate the nub, as opposed to my previous goal being to just make it non-obvious. Looking back at my older models made me go "Wow, I was terrible at nubs", and now I wanna get rid of them. From what I have read is that getting rid of the small white stress marks are pretty much impossible without painting. So my goal is just to get the area of the nub flush with the least about of plastic lost due to nub removal/fixin. I have found starting with a coarse grit sanding to do the bulk of the work and then move up grits to polish out the scratches saves some paper. Wet sanding keeps the plastic dust off the parts and cleans the grit for less clogged problems. I don't know what is the difference from sanding paper to sanding sticks but my sand paper grit dies super fast after 3-4 nubs. While the coarse sanding stick is lasting forever, but I have no clue what grit it is because it only have coarse written on it. Tenzarin fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Sep 11, 2014 |
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Sep 11, 2014 19:29
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Kurui Reiten posted:I don't know what you're using, but even at 1200 grit I can look at the area I sanded and go "Yep, that was sanded". Like, it looks clearly and noticeably different than unsanded areas. To me, nub removal means "I can't even really tell it was there", and I still haven't reached that point. Sure, I could paint over it; but I have no proper set up for paint anywhere, so, that's not simple. Are you cleaning up the dust left on from sanding? After a wipe with a wet paper towel with anything higher then 800 grit for me starts to shine again. HG 00 Raiser kit covers pegs and seams insanely well.
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Sep 11, 2014 20:36
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Do you guys mix your colors to match the guide that comes with models? How easy/hard is it to get the colors to match?
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Sep 12, 2014 00:55
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Kurui Reiten posted:Everyone is yelling at me for horrible nub management! Just run your fingernail down where the nub is/was you might be surprised, its gone and you are not looking at the nub but just stress marks which can be hidden with painting.
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Sep 12, 2014 02:25
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Shinde posted:Continuing my obsession with old kits: The 1/144 Full Color Model (FCM) Guncannon. That is a nice Guncannon. I like almost all the grunt suits, they seem more possible.
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Sep 12, 2014 04:12
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Midjack posted:The HG 00 Raiser is always pretty highly regarded. I just finished a HG 00 Raiser + GN sword 3 last night, pretty great build. Alot of the seams are hidden and it comes with a free base.
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Sep 14, 2014 02:49
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Ordered a HG Asshimar, cant wait to build the little orange green fucker. Gonna wait for a alittle before ordering a Messala to complete my zeta gundam - non zeta gundam transforming collection while saving Zeta gundam to get a MG version after I practice more. gently caress, I love the grunt suits.
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Sep 17, 2014 07:37
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Literally The Worst posted:Gentlemen, behold. Don't know how you build so fast, takes me about 4 days with about 2 hours each day for a HG. Sanding, snap fitting, and posing takes up the most time. Tenzarin fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Sep 18, 2014 |
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Sep 18, 2014 17:06
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BlitzBlast posted:They're for convenience. The first is if you don't want to paint the eyes at all, the other two are if you only want to paint the eyes/blacks. How do you guys paint the faces/eyes and such. Is it toothpick and paint land?
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Sep 19, 2014 00:30
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Gammatron 64 posted:X gon' give it to ya That is one sick puppy.
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Sep 19, 2014 05:51
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The HG flag is so fragile and rigid, why in the world did they make this with no polycaps?
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Sep 20, 2014 08:13
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I honestly have no idea either, considering there's just barely enough room that they could've fitted some in the important places like the hips and shoulders. Good luck trying to keep the legs from flopping down in flight mode, by the way. My problem is if i touch the head at all it explodes because the "ears" are barely holding it all together. It stands pretty with with no arms and the legs seem to lock in place in plane mode.
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Sep 20, 2014 16:49
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The Muffinlord posted:Do the other MG Gundam 00 kits have the same runner structure as the 00 Raiser? One of my upper arm pieces is stress fractured like six different ways and pretty much beyond repair. I'm going to try to e-mail Bluefin and see if I can get a replacement runner, but if I can't, I'd like to just get a kit quick and get back to building this thing. That sucks, mod it to a 00 Raiser repair.
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Sep 20, 2014 20:05
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Can anyone recommend a display case to protect the gundams from dust and crafty nephews? I've been looking at this http://www.storesupply.com/4-shelf-acrylic-rotating-tower-display-98219.aspx but would like alittle bit bigger but cant find anything else anywhere.
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Sep 21, 2014 22:53
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Would there be someway to lock it?
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Sep 21, 2014 23:03
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Put some action bases together today, they are some fine pieces of plastic. They are so much better than the ones you get in some kits and make aerial posing a breeze.
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Sep 22, 2014 05:35
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Must resist ordering HG Messala, Gaplant, and Fa's yellow fat robot.
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Sep 25, 2014 00:26
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Literally The Worst posted:Is there a way to mount the Raiser on a base of some kind? I was thinking it might look neat to put it next to the MG Build Strike and have the two ship booster backpack things behind them. Action bases, sturdy and about 10 times better for posing then the small stands you get in kits. There are two kinda one for HGs and another that can hold HGs and MGs.
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Sep 25, 2014 16:29
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The action bases can also lock together with other action bases to form a bigger base. And you can take one action base arm system and add it to another base so it has two arms to hold two suits. They also come with 4-5 different connectors to hold all types of kits.
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Sep 25, 2014 18:56
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Bimmi posted:Another tidbit from the show: non-scale Space Colony by WAVE, release 01/15 @ ¥3600. That is bad rear end.
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Sep 27, 2014 01:10
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I like how they did the laser gun firing effect for the tie fighters. Is there anything like that for gunpla?
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Oct 2, 2014 00:56
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Is it better to sand each piece/assembly of pieces or just to snap it all together then sand? I'm reading that people do a HG in under an hour and just don't understand how they could do that. Looking how pieces fit and sanding really eats up the time.
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Oct 4, 2014 19:21
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After about my first month of gunpla, I did my first sticker last night. After I saw the HG Gouf custom has an movable camera in the head, I just had to do it. I kinda put it on upside down, dropped it, and almost lost it but I was able to place it correctly. It looks so loving sweet just having it on. I need to start getting more practice for when I finally move up into the master grades.
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Oct 9, 2014 00:09
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After building a HG Gundam Wing it made me think, why didn't they have it spin around on the torso and shoot some dude behind him in the show? It can turn around completely to go into flight mode.
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Oct 11, 2014 21:46
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Pyronic posted:EXACTLY why I decided to get a few HG kits instead of going right for an MG or Real Grade. Im just worried I'll break something or not be able to do it justice. Been practicing on HGs with about 6 more to build. Almost ready to be done with 1/144, everything is so tiny and can barely take any handling. HG flag and HG wing tend to just explode when touched. HGs don't have alot of possible poses either, HG Hizack can hold the gun with both hands and that's about it. Tenzarin fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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Oct 12, 2014 04:12
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