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Gripweed posted:I think a proper G-Self, on top of lighting, would really benefit from some kind of pearlescent finish. It always seemed shiny to me, but not in a metallic way. The moonlight butterfly version of turn a has that pearlescent finish. It’s subtle, but very cool.
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brand engager posted:Yeah I'm already doing two cuts, it doesn't completely get rid of marks Are the marks a lighter or darker color than the surrounding plastic?
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Worked on this off and on for a couple months but it is finally done.    a friend linked a fight scene it was in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nThDGwwrvXg
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Smoke posted:Little heads-up from the scale modeling thread: Scalemates now also has Gundammates. Oh hell yeah! This will be useful for me.
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Big Bizness posted:This is extremely clean, well done. Very polished. Did you panel line it with a light grey? Thanks! And, yeah, I used the Gundam Marker GM02 pen to do the panel lining for nearly everything. The gold parts were detailed with the GM03 brown pen. The black GM01 pen I find is too dark for most things. I typically only use it when a part itself is gray or nearly black. I don't bother using it with actually black parts anymore. It still has an effect on black parts, but it is too subtle for even me to notice unless I'm specifically looking for it. I also didn't polish it at all, despite having a polishing cloth that I could have used. I usually only break that or other sanding tools out if I left a noticeable finish when using the glass file to grind away the nubs. That only happened a couple times with this kit. Kibner fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Mar 19, 2024 |
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MG Ball is done. HG Gold Acguy from my trip to Japan a decade ago is next. This kit has been in my backlog the longest. 
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All I did was panel line it, btw. The arms are made of a different plastic than the body. Really, it uses like 4 or 5 different kinds of plastic. Along with a couple metal rods and a couple lengths of wire (both used in the arms). It was a very nice mix of materials to work with and helped keep the cleaning and assembly interesting.
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Finished the gold Acguy I bought on a trip to Japan a decade ago:    
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Deviant posted:i use gray because black looks too cel shaded Yeah, I'm also a fan of gray on most cool tones. I don't like the high contrast you can get with a straight black. I usually save the black for particularly dark tones.
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Iymarra posted:Are there any gunpla which come with metal or metal coated parts? I have heard some kits have after market metal bits (which ones are recommended?) but are there any kits which have them by default? The MG Ball has two metal rods for the arms. You can check my post a couple weeks ago for them.
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:Well, I've had it sitting in a box for uh, 4 moves, and before this week haven't worked on it since 2018 but finally at least got the main body done, and some real batteries for it. Owns
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man, the mg z'gok definitely shows it's age. limbs are weirdly unflexible, the claw/nail design is super weird and prone to falling out, have to take off two pieces to get access to the mono eye to turn it, spinning rotors on the backpack but you can't actually see them well and have to remove a part to turn them, cockpit door is very hard to open and i haven't even gotten to the waist or legs, yet!
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Mg char’s z’gok completed. It is an old kit (from 2003) and shows it. Limbs aren’t flexible, can’t bend legs too far or it topples over because poly caps, monoeye is difficult to get to when you want to change the position, rotor on bottom of feet don’t freely spin, the part with a leg that the nails slot into can easily pop out, sending the nails everywhere, and other things. It looks cool, though, and I like the rubber parts (waist, shoulder & ankle joints, pipes going through arms and legs).    
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Synthbuttrange posted:love the sassy claw on hip pose there thanks!
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boz posted:I wanna hang with them and their torso friend Hopefully I can finish that Aerial within the next week or two. Those stickers are maddening. I’ll take my partner’s advice for the remaining stickers and use some dang tweezers.
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Synthbuttrange posted:I was wondering where you got a black Acguy til I remembered mine's been painted bright yellow and they arent all like that, and the brown just looks black here. Black/grey's a great color scheme for it tho. Hah, yeah. It’s mostly just bad lighting because I just took a random pic at my desk. It’s a dark brown.
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Finished the Recirculation version of the Aerial this weekend. My partner helped me out with this pose.    
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acguy remains the best
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MechaX posted:That’s not how you spell Gogg gogg is great. but is not best.
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get the mg acguy. it is as close to perfection as we will find on this planet.
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Bandai makes Star Wars models, too. I think they might also have released some models on other anime things like Space Battleship Yamato. If you want to try a different manufacturer, Kotobukiya makes Zoids which are anime dinosaur robots, if that makes a difference. You can also find Transfomers kits, Pokemon kits, some actual dinosaur kits, etc.       
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Have the shield and rifle left but basically done. Will have to do another pose in a different configuration. Very fun, quick, and easy kit (other than the stickers being awful and there being so. much. panel. lining. to do).   
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Buck Wildman posted:noice I also just built this guy. he's hard to get stood up straight because of the back weight yeah, i also have that problem. and then when actually wielding those lobster claws, he falls forward on them. lol
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May 6, 2024 21:27
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One more pose
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This will be my next kit and will likely take me about a month to do.
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while building the Epyon, i think i have realized that my favorite color schemes are predominately earth tones with bold and/or gemstone accents
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Gripweed posted:I've never ordered anything from P-Bandai, theoretically if one were to get that Black Knight Squad 3-pack, which presumably comes in a quite large box, what would be the ballpark on expected shipping cost to the US? I think it’s always a flat $10 per shipment?
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TheMightyBoops posted:Edit: oh btw of the 3 SD kits I did the SD Wing and Strike seemed to be manufactured or ran around the same time. They had great instructions/paint guides and were both really great kits. If you want to look up things like that, this site is a godsend: https://www.gundammates.com
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