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>Why won't anyone answer my question?
Be more specific, and try to provide clear images if you can.

>Why are my pictures sideways?
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-=THE GUIDES=-
>Gelgoog Guy's gunpla guide:
gunpla.buyfags.moe
>Funaka's gunpla guides:
Building Gunpla: files.catbox.moe/fj5azc.pdf
Scratchbuilding: files.catbox.moe/2d9ppa.pdf
>Falldog's gunpla guide:
otakurevolution.com/content/laymans-gunpla-guide
>A guide to other types of plamo:
mediafire.com/file/1vf1aw7v91pz5pa
>Saintism's gunpla photography guide:
saint-ism.com/category/gunpla/photography

-=OTHER RESOURCES=-
>Gundam lineart (There's a lot!):
pastebin.com/22jyPB6q
>Dalong's gunpla reviews and documentation:
dalong.net
>Schizophonic's gunpla/plamo reviews:
schizophonic9-2.com
>KenBill Blog's gunpla/plamo reviews:
blog.kenbill.com
>Past Groupbuilds:
flickr.com/photos/197891373@N06
>Monthly Restock List:
old.reddit.com/r/gunpla/1lob2na

Prior thread: >>23387108

-=ARTILLERY GROUPBUILD=-

Build a mecha or vehicle that uses long-range heavy-weapons such as Cannons, Missiles/Rockets, Railguns, or any other type of siege weaponry. Some clarifying rules
>The weapon can either be placed anywhere on the build (Shoulder-mounted, under-slung, etc), or in a separate side-build (Such as an artillery system utilized by a larger mech).
>Side-builds can include things like howitzers, self-propelled artillery, missile platforms, and the like.
>Alternatively, the mech can act as a spotter, loader, or some other role to support Artillery fire.
>Despite technically being a long-range weapon, Sniper Rifles are a no-go.

Send your entries to gunplaplamo@gmail.com with at least 5 photos of your finished build along with any WIP photos and a description of your entry.
START: 4/13/25
END: 7/31/25

Post what you're working on!

Praise Plamor

>>23390789
I didn't take another pic of the Psycho Mkii, but it's got arms now. They managed a double joint, so the flex is a huge improvement over the Mki. Four is still best girl though

>>23390787
What a handsome and well done barbatos.

wtf there is a tan gun-ez too.

>>23390785 (OP)
broes i don't think i'm getting my gyan and lightcannon before the weekend

>>23390814
oh noe! oopsie

>>23390823
He did this to me last week and convinced me it was my fault.

>>23390827
No I didn't

>>23390830
This is true. I was never beaten. I fell down the stairs.

speaking of, as I was taking photos of my X divider and DX few threads ago, I also snapped a pic of my HG barbatos and some others. It's not really completed yet, and I still have a bit of painting to do. the mobile worker that comes with one of it's weapon packs is cute though

Is there a kit for the X bit Gundams? I can't even remember their name.

>>23390841
GX-Bits, and not directly. Most of them is just the X Gundam, but you can get the heads from the HGBC Northern Pod.

>>23390860
Ah neat, thanks!

>>23390767
It's been an hour. . . You're alright, right anon?

What are best legs in gundam. Hi nu or turn a.

>>23390881
The O. I will not elaborate.

>>23390881
hazel custom

Bandai you can put the Ex-S and Mk. V on US P-Bandai now.

>>23390881
Best how

>>23390823
I only bought from usag one time (from canada) and fedex charged me $70 CAD on top of the $40 USD shipping for a $130 USD order. This was about 4 years ago and I didn't know about any local stores at the time. Still use their branded nippers that I got though

>>23390893
Mom says it's my turn to use the drop ship

>>23390889
LAST CHANCE PB.

>>23390789
my first peebandai
im not putting the visor on until I hit it with some matte obvi

>>23390919
dropped image
fuck my stupid chud life

are there any 1/100 hyaku shiki bootlegs (and with no coating)

>>23390936
The old MG 1.0 with Ballute Pack isn't coated, but I'm pretty sure they don't print it anymore.

>>23390936
Why would you not want the coating?

>>23390946
so he doesnt have to strip it

>>23390950
The coating looks better than paint so why would you strip it

>>23390841
There isn't a kit. But as the other anon pointed out, the northern pod comes with a head greatly reminiscent of the bit mobile suits. Even though they share a lot with the gundam there's tons of little differences, most notably the torso, legs, ankles, forearms, shoulders, and skirts. I'm currently making one and the only parts left unmodified are the thighs, crotch, and the satellite cannon.

>>23390960
Hey that's actually super neat anon, would love to see the progress on it.

>>23390960
Here's how it's supposed to look. Picrel is a resin conversion I think.

>>23390881
hyaku shiki

>>23390942
this shit is so fucking aids. i just want one to go with my zeta and mk2. PaintGod Erasure. snapshitters want us dead.

>>23390976
Stealing is bad

https://x.com/Kzi_official/status/1945489629442138384

>>23390982
>Buys babyboy toys with color separation
>Complains why alot of said toys pander to the intended target audiences
Do yourself a favor and buy something else.

>>23390989
I did. Until about a month ago, I hadn't painted a gunpla kit for about year. I'm in the mood for one because I'm mid-zeta rewatch

>>23390985
But the guy didn't imply it's his work?

>>23390994
It is the usual " i won't post xwitter link because Elon is le Nazi or some shit ". Fucking faggots.

>>23390997
What the fuck are you babbling about, you schizo, it's just a pic of someone's build

>>23390992
I only cherrypick gunpla that's most of normies bitch about due to "lack of color separation" and "hand grenade". They are most of the time ended up as fun builds once you have put some paint and some mods to them.

I only build kits of good ms

>>23391000
nah man what the fuck is that link

>>23391009
Yeah I don't really mind dealing with that stuff. I've done a lot of koto kits and some of those are around the level of the most "handgrenadey" gunpla. Right now I just want to skip stripping the hyaku shiki coating.

>>23390789
Waiting for a new chisel to arrive. What better time to make a nice base?

>>23391014
People give Koto too much shit when in reality, majority of modelkits are fragile. Bandai's models would have the same level fragility if they actually make something like this. They can't be bended or taking pressure.

>>23390789
I'm trying to assemble the FM Gusion that came in the same box as the Full City Gusion with just one frame to share. I have a decent number of spare parts from various IBO FM kits but not enough to complete the kit. I found a torso that fits in the upper body perfectly and can connect to a spare lower IBO waist. The rest I'm just going to have to build. I really like this fat frog so it'll be nice not to just have it loose in a box.

>>23390976
Boy this design does NOT look good with this color. It was already bad but this reddish brown looks like literal turds.

I can't believe we're literally never going to see a Master Grade G-Self. What the fuck man.

>>23391059
Bandai hates Reconguista

>>23391059
shit design
katoki wouldn't allow it

>>23391082
Bandai listened to vocal retards and damaged themselves with MG Turn X.

time to pick next build:
MG Rick Dom
MG Mk II Titans colors
Fat Cat RX-78

>>23391106
Rick dom.

>>23391106
rick dom

>>23391106
Do the mk.II and paint it into AEUG colors. This is the canon way to get a mk.ii that looks good.

>>23391109
>>23391113
yeah I'm leaning towards the rick dom too, will save for later the gandamus

>>23391116
fuck you

Wasn’t there a Narrative B-Packs up on P-Bandai a few days ago before the restructuring? Now it’s not even there as a closed order

>>23391125
I was also going to order one. It was in stock and ready to ship too.

Bandai did it, they cured me of my desire to buy their products.
All it took was making everything cost 40% more than it did 6 months ago, gouging me further by ensuring I have to pay more for shipping by virtue of not being able to consolidate my orders, and then making their site the slowest thing on the internet and ugly as sin.

>>23391132
That's funny, I was about to comment on how ugly the new site design is.

>>23391135
It's designed purely for mobile so the desktop version has everything smushed into the center with 50% of the page being unused white space, but the formatting is awful for mobile devices too for multiple reasons. Not the least of which is the large banner that pops up on the bottom of your screen prompting you to order while the original order button is in the middle of your screen.

Hey, /gpg/! ZakuAurelius here for a brand new Ultimate Gunpla Modeler Tip! If you spray your license plate with matte topcoat, it won't reflect a camera flash! Happy building!

>>23391156
Fool, you are supposed to use a gloss topcoat so it reflects all the flash and becomes unreadable. Rookie mistake.

>>23391156
he's not receding, it's a mohawk

i might make it after all
don't extend

i dont know if anyone else saw but it looks like they're moving to lottery system for pbandai stuff I fucken hate japan so much it's unreal

>>23391191
lottery system is genuinely one of the worst things that the japanese are obsessed with.

>>23391191
*raughs*

Has the Dreissen been reprinted yet. I heard it was getting a reprint.

>>23391191
On the bright side, this makes not buying PBandai shit even more justifiable.

>>23390789
he's getting there.

>>23391191
that's existed for years, a lot of the trading cards they sell operate on that. They hold drawings and winners get their orders shipped first

Just built my first perfect grade and god, they're fucking huge. It makes master grades look smaller than high grades

>>23391209
>obsessed with
It's a pretty fair system of dealing with high demand or scalpers, the alternative is items selling out in 5 seconds

>>23391246
>the alternative is items selling out in 5 seconds
That happens regardless though. And also they have lotteries for literally everything, I think even visiting the doctor.

>>23391246
It does nothing against scalpers because they bot farm them these days, a scalper will still get more lottery rolls than a normal person will. If anything it makes it worse, because a normal person will get a single roll while scalpers will just bot as many as they need to stock up. There are only two ways that actually work vs scalping, the first is print so many that there is no value to scalping in the first place, the second is print to demand(which only alleviates it in the short term, but at least does more than nothing).

>>23391250
I'm reminded of the old kancolle lottery if you wanted to play that years ago.

>Reben Wolf comes with trigger fingers for each hand, spread palms, closed fists, and sabre holders
>all accurately molded instead of square lego hand
No fucking excuse for every kit not having these Bandai. None.

>>23390785 (OP)
Question, OP. Is that YOUR shelf and if so, how many kits do you own at this point? That room looks pretty awesome btw, but do you build mostly UC stuff?

Gimbals are cool

Ok, i just bought Ammoknight and Bandai's Fatty. Which one should i build first?

>>23391322
Im still so pissed I missed out on the reben wolf

>>23391390
>not buying two the second the preorder went live
foolish fool

I had an idea for a custom but i wonder if theres a recent high mobility zake legs on HG
I wanted to see if i could put them on the police zaku legs and then put them on the zudah

bueno

>>23390789
So far I am really liking Alex. I prepainted the blue parts because I already knew what I wanted to do with them but I am not sure about the rest. I may dull the whites a bit and gradient them away from the center of mass. Then do the entire frame in metallics and hand paint all the yellow parts to look a bit burnt up.
Also, anyone have tips on making stickers blend in? I really like some of the ones this kit came with.

>>23391392
I was unemployed...

With all the third party RG modification parts, why don't any of third party company make modified part to swap RG 2.0 head with RG 1.0 head?

my gm sniper ground type is almost ready to shoot at fleeing wounded zeon soldiers but im out of top coat for the weapons so unfortunately I gotta leave it here for a few

>>23391418
Wrist joints are super tight btw, either sand it slightly or put a bit of lube or w/e on it

Finished this a few weeks ago, solid build experience.

>>23391447
Aggressively chinese looking

>>23391441
My gut instinct told me to skip the arms and this vindicates my decision. That's weird since every other joint on this thing just feels perfect.

>>23391447
that just sick btw SNAA model ?

>>23391462
Yup the yr-04 Fire Lord. Here it is without all the effect parts

>>23391458
A common thing people have complained about Alex 2.0 here and elsewhere is that they have had their wrist joint snap. I sanded it lightly and that's pretty much all you need to do.

>>23391452
To be honest, I don't mind most original chinkshit designs. At the very least I like it more than seeing a smooth and clean design greebled the fuck up.

>>23391483
Is it just the ball being too tight?

What do we think about the current direction of the 30 Minute Missions franchise.

Need recommendations for a spray booth using Mr Hobby paints. These paints are killing my braincells even with a mask on

>>23391505
Yeah, the wrist ball joint here

>>23391512
It's a good line.

>>23391520
Make your own.

>>23391437
real nice kit

>>23391520
Just get a cardboard box, put a fan in a hole on it and point it into an HVAC filter.

>>23391520
Your braincells aren't dying you are just becoming a newtype. It's part of the process.

>>23391512
I just built the sengoku version of this today. It's fine.

>>23391520
you're using a proper respirator right? not just any old mask? If it's properly sealed, you shouldn't smell a damn thing when it's over your face.

>>23391191
>increase prices
>people stop buying
>create artificial rarity through lottery system
>all of a sudden everyone wants it
Can’t wait

>>23391540
Im using gear indoors and the smell lingers

>>23391520
this thread is the absolute last place you should ask this question
most of the people who will respond own no paints with VOCs.
half will overstate the dangers of paint
half will understate the dangers of pant
half will say dogshit solutions like a random fan (need to do a air changes/hour calc) is fine
half will say you need a cleanroom and spacesuit with compressed air

>>23391543
Paint is literally harmless, it just makes you high for an hour or so. You could drink the stuff.

>>23391512
What the fuck this would take me at least 2 hours to build.

>>23391512
Built one of them once and it's not my cup of tea. The base designs are too plain, and I don't have a creative bone in my body to make custom ones.

>>23391383
Ammoknight I dont think anyone has posted one in these threads before

>>23391603
There was one anon posted his Ammoknight build several threads ago.

>>23391354
I'm sitting around 250 finished 1/100 kits. About 2/3 are UC but I have most of the IBO, Wing, 00, X, Turn A and Seed releases There are a few holes in my collection though.

>>23391512
I wish they'd visit the "early types" more, like Baskyrotto and Roundnova. I prefer the less-humanoid designs.

>>23391693
What are your favorites (among the UC kits)? Any AoZ kits in the mix?

Anyone get the Moderoid combining Gunbuster and Getter-1? Finished the Gunbuster and it's pretty neat, tempted to pick up Getter as well.

*nukes your board*

>>23391191
HAHAHAHA OH WOW. USbros getting cooked.

>>23391714
Waiting warmly for ty-phon. Zeus negro is cooler looking.

>>23391728
I think so too, but he'd be harder to make in model kit form. Personally hoping for more non- DM era slop kits. A lot of people say Detonator would be cool, but Star, Ext, and especially Duo Drive would be better. I think he looks so cool

>>23391106
Rick Dom

>>23391747
>more non- DM era slop kits
god I want a Figure-rise Standard AMPLIFIED Cyber Dragon so fucking bad

Dark Necrofear kit so I could hotglue it

I regret starting on this Varguil project
Next one will be something real simple
Anyone got some simple kits to recommend? Something like a GM. But not a GM, I've already done one of those.

>>23390789
Currentlt doing work on a GP03S. Work is messy, minimal battle damage, and it's all been painted. Was going for more of an F-14 Tomcat look here. Not sure how good my work is, but I try my best. Considering going over the UV resin lenses to diffuse them.

>>23391759
didn't you buy a bootleg Turn-A? paint that one.

>>23391759
Doesn't get much simpler than a Graze.

>>23391763
any airbrush or mostly handpaint?

>>23391759
30MM Full Armor Alto

>>23391512
love it. 30mm, 30mf, and 30ms are all great lines. Just wish the heads were better.

>>23391767
I do a mix of both. Rattlecan Mr. Color surfacer or Army Painter airbrush primer, two layers of acrylic after a base coat to better display the color I look for, satin/matte coat once again two coats, hand paint details, satin/gloss, decals. I'm midway through this one, still need to do hands/weapons. Going to get a display base for this.

Imagine if they just stop making AoZ a PB exclusive.

>>23391784
I'm sure it'll happen any day now if you make just a few more posts about it

>>23391784
Sorry, but non-PB AoZ was a thing only because they didn't invent PB at the time

>>23391512
good gundam designs have been scraped for this shit
as a SNAPGAWDZ Im offended.

>>23390893
IIRC you can switch the lower legs and forearms around OOB and it looks pretty cool

>>23391786
Sorry Im saving my monkeypaw wish for something that /gpg/ wants.

>>23390789
I've finished my Ball ver ka
I love how detailed the inner frame is, so I decided to display it with one panel taken off (for maintenance or something)

>>23391840
The extremely bright lighting of my booth makes the dry brushing stand out way more than it normally does

>>23391841
Detail painting these tiny dudes is the most stressful thing I've done in my gunpla "career"

>the HGUC has two of these
guess I'm buying either a long range fin funnel or the regular Nu for it's fin funnels

>>23391839
>I decided to display it with one panel taken off
Looks great, If ever manage to get the Alex for reasonable price I'm probably going to do the same thing with the Choban armor plates

>>23391844
Thanks
>I'm probably going to do the same thing with the Choban armor plates
The MG 2.0 having a separate inner frame for the chobham armor is really cool, it's probably more detailed than the gundam's actual inner frame lol

Do we know which mg is going to be reprinted based on july 7th voting poll?

>>23391817
>didn't remove the seam line

>go to assemble repainted amatsu mina claw
>realize a bit is missing
>search for manual for 10min
>the key component that holds it together and pegs it into the forearm is nowhere to be found
>search through all my shit for it
>this takes around 20 minutes of me opening boxes and silently tweaking
>genuinely consider buying an entire second amatsu mina hg just for this part
>look in my wip bits box again
>find it instantly with a glance

>>23391870
the bad thing about it is that it makes the Alex too bulky just like the FAZZ ver Ka is too bulky compared to the old FAZZ

>>23391872
https://bandai-hobby.net/site/mg_kessen2025/
It's still on-going until the end of the month. You get to vote each day. After that there's a run-off vote.

>>23391891
>MG Perfect Zeong

Are they going to reprint just a single one or do they plan to reissue a certain number?

>>23391883
>called full armor
>crotch, knees and feet are not armored

>>23391900
they are collecting votes to know exactly how many kits to reprint each, so that everyone gets at least one of what they want.

>>23391883
>the FAZZ ver Ka is too bulky
I dont see it. The ZZ is not a slim MS, so the FAZZ has to be relatively bulky.

>>23391891
>Vote on what you want us to reprint
STOP DOING THIS GAY SHIT. Take pre orders that once they meet a threshold qualifies for reprint. Surely there are 100+ people out there in this world of 8 billion who want to buy half of these model kits.

>The O is the list
LOL

>>23391910
I love The O, but it feels hard to justify buying it

>>23391904
The FAZZ has always worn its bulk extremely well. The Alex is way more bulky by comparison.

>>23391902
That's not full armor, dummy
Also that's always how it works, armoring stuff like feet and upper legs would not only look dumb but also wouldn't fit with FA real life inspiration

my beautiful boy is finally coming together
my son... my son!

>>23391933
he looks shocked

>>23391933
fucking piece of shit camera i'm gonna go kill myself
captcha: AKYSM
lol

>>23391902
Full armor alex is a completely different loadout despite the model number for the chobham having FA in it.

>>23391940
back in my day we just called it the FSWS Alex and that was all we needed

>>23391946
wtf is the point of a FA Alex when it already uses a crapton of addon armor in its default load out?

>>23391956
Full armor also implies it's more heavily armed.

>>23391956
More money for bandai lol

>>23391883
Most of the reason it's fatter is because of the mechanism they added to allow it to have the wrist cannons out with the cobham still attached.

>>23391946
>un-bullpups your FAMAS

>>23391956
theoretically a FAAlex would be superior to a Chobhalex due to better integration of the armor, compensation for the weight for better mobility when armored, and more weapons

>>23391933
going for a ground sazabi kind of look? mite b cool

>>23391964
Nah. It's purely design. They could have the gatling pop up on the old design too if they wanted.

>>23391975
I'm considering it, I have a camo pattern stencil as well as sponges, but I'm afraid of screwing it up with a bad camo job
The base paintjob is mostly olive green with a dark titans blue right arm
I'm also thinking of replacing the backpack with a ground gundam backpack

>>23391982
it wouldn't have the clearances.

>>23391987
Yeah it would anon... The entire thing is just lifting up one face of the polygon. As long as that face covers the forearm covers, it can be extended out by design. Both the old MG and the new one COULD do the exact same thing if they wanted.

These little shokugan that come in chocolate not-Kinder Eggs that Japan is currently crazy about look so much better than the tabletop minis.

>>23391992
what the hell these are cool as hell i would buy these guys

>>23391987
>>23391990
You're both wrong.
The issue stems from the forearms being significantly larger (in particular the blue part, but the main white area as well) than the previous MG.

For psycho frame shit that has foil sticker that go on the backside of the colored clear plastic, is it better to paint silver on the inside or a metallic color on the outside?

>>23391992
Not really, but they still look good enough

>>23391995
How am I wrong? What? Everything I said is accurate.
The majority of the bulk doesn't come from the forearm covers being embiggened, it comes from making it a straight line from the gatling-cover section to the inner arm. The original MG differentiated this with purely a section for the chobham to narrow on covering that area. They could do the same with the MG and you could cut down the apparent bulk by quite a lot.

>>23391992
The Assemble minis that came with the card game recently absolutely blow James workshit out of the water.

>>23392009
Pic not related?

how do i get the acrylics the put inside the good paint markers but like
without the markers
how do i mix this stuff up?
i've tried however many times to handpaint acrylics with various brands and thinners and always got meh at best results, but these markers magically just work, give me the paints inside these

>>23391999
depends on which one you're talking about.
the Nu Ver Ka and a few others use a plastic sticker with a near perfect chrome finish that will look as good as everything but the best chrome paints.
foil stickers really aren't used here as they are paper backed.
>>23392009
mf has never seen a GW finecast
>>23392011
those paints honestly blow chunks
too sensitive to other solvents
softer than the softest water based acrylics despite being alcohol based

>>23392011
They're just oil based.

>>23392015
no they aren't, retard.
alcohol instantly strips them which 100% means they aren't oil based.

>>23392014
>mf has never seen a GW finecast
and no one ever should, but their actual modern plastic minis are overall excellent sculpts taken for what they are. The Assemble minis are fine enough quality for the most part (that Zaku's left hand looks like shit) and probably compete well on price per unit since GW will literally never win that contest ever against anyone, but despite the cost GW sculpts are excellent.

>>23391992
>>23392009
This is the only mini line we need

>>23392014
i've noticed that marker acrylics are pretty fragile but for detailing they're perfectly fine and the matte colors from the DSPIAE MKM markers are actually pretty sturdy (still fragile but you know, they hold up decently so you have some wiggle room before you coat them)
this is a matter of convenience for details that won't be subject to mechanical stress so the paint being fragile is fine

>>23392016
Oils are alcohol soluble. It's why hand sanitizer dries out your hands.

>>23392016
where did you even pull this from

>>23392017
>but their actual modern plastic minis are overall excellent sculpts taken for what they are
Nah, overdetailed slop with terrible posing and no regard for whether details are actually reachable by a brush

Who on earth thought making two Mega Size kits for AGE was a good idea.

>>23392014
>Nu Ver Ka
One of the ones I had in mind, actually. I have a nice metallic green I've used for eyes on things like Zoids. It catches the light very well and looks to be the same color. If the metallic sticker is good, I might stick to it.
>>23392019
I have the whole MKM + MK line cause it was pretty cheap. I rather like them, but they're acrylic not enamel.

>>23392024
disagree except on posing, move towards monopose units as a whole is fairly shit, but the end sculpt quality is still gorgeous.

>>23392028
Forgot pic for eye example.

>>23392030
Tactical rocks

>>23392027
same ones who signed off on 1/60 scale MSV, F91, victory, and G kits

>>23392028
i don't like the MK line with the hard nibs because mine are really bad but i'm told i got a lemon batch so what do i know

>>23392035
overblown issue imo but also not a quality problem as much as it is a posing-of-sculpts problem, but if you wanna count it I won't stop you

>>23392037
Can't speak for those unfortunately. I specifically wanted the soft tips, and I rather like them, especially for the price

>>23392036
All those were old though, I would imagine such an insane decision would never happen again.

>>23392036
>same ones who signed off on 1/60 scale MSV,
MSV stuff sold really well though

Look at those beautiful hollow parts

>>23392046
We saw that on release. Those lower "binder" things are so retarded I've been salivating to get mine and chop them up into a less fucking stupid shape.

>>23392046
I'm pretty interested in this kit but I just can't justify the P-Bandai tax for a random ass HG.

>>23392046
one of these days I'll have to go buy several tubes of epoxy putty

>>23392041
so the MK line with the cylindrical bodies has soft tips? the hard tip ones i have are "super metallic"

>>23392042
eh
imo AGE was really the first big stumble of gundam in recent years.
(again pure speculation as we'll never see sales data per IP)
targeting a younger audience with shittier (advanced grades, etc) models probably left them with piles of unsold crap. too many product lines cannibalizing sales from each other, and a massive arcade game tie-in seems like poor business sense. Particularly when the show did little to appeal to the older (25-50 year olds) demographic in japan that buys the most plamo.

>>23392058
they went out on a limb and stepped in a sinkhole full of shit
so they reverted to pure distilled memberberries

>>23392058
There's no speculation, AGE and G-Reco both just flat out underperformed. AGE by a lot. They really were expecting to revitalize Gundam with the child market with it and put a lot into it between the anime and game. We don't need sales data to know there's a reason the MG AGE-3 and FX got cancelled and the game ended up a strung out disappointment.

>>23392063
>They really were expecting to revitalize Gundam with the child market
I've seen people throw a quote around, but is there any source for Bandai wanting "150 episodes of AGE"?
Honestly would love to see somebody do a super deep dive on AGE, from pre-production, to marketing, to building hype, and then everything that came after.

>>23392063
g-reco was doomed due to being the first gundam series to air on a late primetime japanese timeslot.
too late for the traditional viewing audience.

>>23392063
Also obviously, Build ended up mogging AGE at its goal of recapturing the child market. SEED and 00 appealed heavily to teens (and SEED's demo was aging out of it by then) but kids weren't watching anything Gundam.

>>23392066
I don't know of any source for it. I don't think they would've ever intended that honestly. They did want to flesh out all the arcs a lot more in the companion game though.

>>23392061
>so they reverted to pure distilled memberberries
Yeah, IBO was really trying to appeal to nostalgia and nothing else.

>>23392069
IBO wasn't the show that came after AGE. Build Fighters was.

>>23392072
Build fighters is a gunpla television show, not a gundam television show. It's different.

>>23392030
monopose is an inevitable result of more detailed and closer to truescale minis so I can accept that even if the aesthetics aren't to my preference, the sheer number of them doing balancing acts on random rocks and all the fliers held up by random objects not so much

>>23392073
>main character is controlling a gundam
It's a gundam show

>>23392073
Not to John Gundam, in charge of allocating money to animation projects to drive robot toy sales.

>>23392075
Ready player one is a gundam film

>>23392073
this has to be bait, surely nobody can be this retarded

>>23392074
I get it, but honestly why is it so uninteresting? I mean how many people bitch about "models standing around?" Cus while it's not the only alternative it is mostly the alternative. It's not like you can't hack up the legs and repose it. Obviously that's a pain, but you do it to differentiate boring-standing-pose commanders/lieutenants/whatever anyways, or I do. I dunno it's just overblown to me. You can only do so much. Some of them work better than others I'll grant that. I think Shadowsun's leaping pose and fancy tactical rock is more interesting than other ones, but the best solution is shit like Celestine where they can just be supported by incidental lengths of plastic. But not every design in 40k can accommodate that either.

>>23392080
I don't know, I didn't watch it

>>23392080
Ready Player One is a Build Divers gaiden

>>23391461
man why does this art capture the "soulless anime" feel better than the actual anime suits' box art

>>23392091
The art is too clean. Soul comes from the human imperfections in the art.

>>23392091
>"soulless anime feel"
Elaborate

>>23392099
He's referring to modern digital drawings I presume.

>>23392099
it looks like it's straight up a capture from a media player, which is funny because it doesn't have an anime
meanwhile regular suits boxes look like actual artwork

>>23392085
>uninteresting
I'm not against action poses, I just think GW's posing looks mad goofy. Which wouldn't be as much of an issue if their newer minis weren't a lot harder to pose mod than the old multi pose stuff. With a mono pose mini the expected benefit for that tradeoff is that the mini looks better out of the box, like an actual piece of art and not just a simple modular game piece, but GW sculpts don't quite reach that level for me compared to what some other companies are doing.

>>23392085
it's because action poses need to be exaggerated beyond realism to look good static.
GW doesn't quite get there for most of their fixed pose shit.

>>23392009
at least from that picture I really do not agree. the hand looks awful, GW does spikes/points way better than the shoulder spikes and commander fin on that zaku and all the piping looks bad, especially the waist pipe where the detail doesn't even wrap all the way around.

We still have a few months to go and all, but I think I'm going to preemptively declare the Reben Wolf the winner of gunpla of the year. Damn this kit is excellent.

>>23392117
it's just another HG, plus it has sculpting errors (fucked up head)

>>23392119
excellent quality HG though and of a good design
head's fine, don't care about it

>>23391933
I'm gonna say it. Varguil is cooler than Sazabi.

>>23392131
daring but also the wrong opinion

>>23392057
They have triangular black bodies

https://dspiaestore.com/products/dspiae-mk-eco-friendly-water-based-soft-head-markers-with-multi-colors

>>23392074
Thus of auld
Thus now

>>23392134
Oh, these. Yeah these are great. For some reason I thought there was an older line of soft-nib markers with a different shape.

>>23392117
Bold to declare a woundwort expansion pack gunpla of the year

How come standing poses are so kino? Action poses just feel like reddit

>>23392162
This is cope

>>23392156
just goes to show that aozchads will always beat out auslop

I love him so much
still needs a fair bit of cleanup and detailing and i kinda botched the gatling attachment but what's done is done, i can make it work

>>23392162
i like both

>>23392131
I don’t like how anorexic varguil looks compared to sazabi

>spilled extra thin cement on bed
It's over

>>23392216
You're going to have some freaky dreams next time you use that bad

>>23392162
Good poses are kino. Poses with no thought behind them or stock toy poses are reddit.

>>23392216
lay down in it and you can become sleep

>>23392162
I like trying out a few crazy poses when I first build a kit but once it's painted I leave them in a basic relaxed pose. shelves full of kits in action poses look messy

The litmus test for kit posing is SEED poses

>>23392156
Most HGs are expanson packs for the Woundwort, that's literally its gimmick

>>23392217
>>23392223
>feel like puking
ahhhahahahhhahahehhehehehehe

>>23392246
This is why I use testors non-toxic cement.

>>23392250
not so bad when mixed with pepsi and ice

>>23392278
that thing is really ugly

>>23392278
From the thumbnail I thought this was Hyazentlay II

>>23392218
I kinda dig the bright neon/highlighter colors...

Are there any titans kits that were printed in purple instead of the standard dark blue? For some reason I thought I remembered there being some older mg kits that used the purple, but I might just be thinking of the p-Bandai purple gaplant [hrairoo]

post shelves

>>23392309
the difference between dark blue and dark purple for the hues of titans MS is virtually nonexistent

>>23392311
I would, but the last time I did not everything on it was painted and that one guy spent another three days going berserk.

>>23392309
the mg hazels are noticeably more purple than blue

>>23392311
Just post yours and start samefagging if you want to shitpost so bad.

>>23392311
shelves

/k/ommando here, do you guys like cope cages?

>>23392333
cute build but the Zaku doesn't have the reactor output to wield the ReGZ Custom's beam rifle

>>23392337
zaku frame retrofitted with regz equipment
or a ballistic weapon using the shell of a regz beam rifle
why?
scavengers
it's really not hard to justify this stuff

>>23392333
they can work but they usually look like shit

>>23392333
You already asked I believe and with the exact same image

>>23392340
>zaku frame retrofitted with regz equipment
>or a ballistic weapon using the shell of a regz beam rifle
both of these ideas are so stupid lol

>>23390789
painting white is a bitch, this is going to take forever lol

>>23391883
>Bad thing about that is that it makes it bulkier
>Just a thread ago there are posts that more bulk=good

Make up your god damn fucking mind, which is it? Bulk more good or Less bulk more good?

Oh you gotta be fucking kidding

>>23392311
I'm perma rangeblocked from posting pictures on the entire site.

>>23392350
The fuck did you expect anon

>>23392349
/gpg/ is not two posters

>>23392352
Ugh... ill get the masking tape....

>>23392356
Good boy. And go buy a Pale Rider.

>>23392353
It might as well be, with all of the schizos posting here.

>>23392311
Top shelf is for the hguc kits. Bottom shelf is where my master grades hang out with ibo. Its not nearly as coordinated and the thunderbolt fag is sort of my shame kit cuz its like 3/4ths finished for a year at this point. I just gotta fill out my ibo collection with more tekkedan stuff cuz its basically all grazes.

>>23392311
I just took a photo for a friend so I might as well post it here as well. Though you'll have to bear the really bad quality. Only the two X gundams, Victory and GL are painted. Rest is bare plastic, but I plan to paint everything eventually. GP01 is currently warming shelf space for an Airmaster when they finally reprint it next year.

>>23392361
Leg shape of the Turn A looks so good in a running pose, never paid attention to it before

>>23392367
Syd Mead put a lot of work into making it a dynamic machine, and that running pose is directly from some of his art.

I posit that the anons who complain about every modern suits being overdesigned are ironically the same jerking off about zeta suits

>>23392356
Just use the stickers as precut masking tape, silly

>>23392358
>>23392384
im uncomfortable, also idk if that would work in this case considering the sticker layout

>>23392311
My kits are snapshitted. No thank you

My late uc 1/100 is the same size as some of my early uc 1/144s

>>23392311
Nah. It looks like a mess

He's assembled!

Not finished by far, but he's assembled.

Kinda bummed out about the fact I can't actually fit the ground gundam backpack on him. It's too tall, bumps into the rear skirt. Maybe a G-Line backpack? Since I did away with the funnel racks there's no point to keeping the anemic little original pack.

>>23392400
Sick camo scheme

>>23392400
i'm gonna kill myself, this time i'll really do it
picrel

It's crazy that I've never seen any other thread or gen where retards forget their pics

>>23392403
the matte coat is doing herculean lifting here, i left brush marks all over his legs and torso fixing my shitty spraying

>>23392405
look man the fumes are getting to me

Chinese MGSD Strike Rouge.
I'll probably get it just for the Ootori pack.

>>23390785 (OP)
>cant even pose properly
what a fucking disgrace fucking kill yourself you goddamn homo

>>23392414
The Ootori pack is so fucking cool. Worth the remasters just for it.

>heard about these model robots for decades
>they don't sell this shit here in the middle of nowhere in middle Europe so don't really care
>sees some really cheap ones on AliExpress so buys one on a whim
>spends like one and a half days scraping with a knife and sanding parts to actually fit together because of janky casting
>it's finished
>looks into Gundam
>needs to basically One Piece marathon the entire franchise starting with the really old original...
>"I'm too old for marathoning 600+ episodes plus movies."
>lots of people just talking politics
>"I'm way too fucking old to not be sick of this shit."
>looks into Gunpla
>apparently this badboy is an offbrand copy of a pretty infamously jank figure line
>funnily enough both it's exact name and the title it's from is actually namedropped on the box LMAO
>well it was fun to try but a bit too much time lost to the void
>starts getting cravings for more of this shit
>it takes like two weeks for more to arrive
>"oh no it's getting worse... my fix.... I need my fix"
What did I get myself into!?

>>23392422
Forgot to post pic.

>>23392422
mechauniverse in spain has fairly reasonable prices
you can also get bootlegs off of aliexpress, if you want to just ask the resident changposter will give you the qrd on which "brands" are good

>>23392422
You don't have to marathon anything, just watch some of the OVAs and if you like them go from there.

>>23392422
The right play here is to look up cool moments of the suits you liked on youtube
>What did I get myself into!?
Plastic crack.

>>23392422
>>23392423
Also the absolute guerilla shit I had to work with because the local hardware store doesn't have anything like those precise modeling tools.
Whatever remains from an old sharpening stone for "sanding" off things that need to be gone, that thing isn't that precise side cutter but a nail clipper, and a box cutter that constantly loses edge to even plastic this soft.
I'll try my luck in the nearby city for precision tools like that. I'm in the middle of bum fuck nowhere.

>>23392422
Yes, the whole point is that these plastic robots are copyrighted intellectual property, and only one company (the one that owns the animation studio that makes the shows and movies) has the right to make toys for it (or sell licenses to other companies). The bootleg you bought off of Ali is a Chinese knockoff that's made of lower quality plastic and uses an inferior manufacturing method to cut costs, which is why they're usually so crappy (and also why they cost a fraction of the official product).

You don't have to be a fan of the shows to build the cool toy robots (blasphemy I know), but it does help. Also, the whole reason that they shifted to an "AU" format from 1994 onward was so that people could get into the franchise without having to watch a half-dozen 50-episode shows and movies from the 80's. The new shows always make references to the old ones, especially the very first one from 1979, but I would argue that it's not strictly necessary to enjoy them.

>>23392408
no seriously it's such a curious phenomena
look at this guy >>23392422, probably his first post here ever, fumes virgin and he also forgot his pic

>>23392437
It's not the fumes; it's the microplastic replacing our brain cells.

>>23392434
If you could order your gundumbs from Ali, you could've also ordered a few chink tools, ya know

>>23392434
You can order cheap-ass hobby tools off of Ali as well. Hell, I would argue that you can make it work with just some fingernail clippers, a razor blade and some high grit sandpaper (gradually from around 800 to 2000). But yes, purpose-built tools like nippers, a hobby knife and a glass file will work. Don't even need brand name stuff, even the glass files that are designed for manicuring are fine (secret fact, a bunch of the stuff designed for makeup and fingernail care work great for hobbies).

sometimes I chew on the pollycap runners

Are there any bootleg action bases? I need like a whole box of em.

>>23392444
Yes. Plenty on Ali, a few on Amazon (though the one I found needs to have the nub shaved down drastically because it's too big for the crotch peg on HG kits).

>>23392444
Yeah, there are some good chang stands on amazon for cheap as dirt.
https://www.amazon.com/Migavan-Assembly-Display-Support-Compatible/dp/B07YWYTS72
Definitely recommend, they're perfect for HGs.

What is a good place to get the manuals from various kits? I got in my 3rd party LEDs for my PG Exia and it just said to follow the instructions from the version that comes with LEDs.

>>23392451
dalong

How green are Zaku IIs supposed to be?

>>23392452
Oh duh they put them with the runner pictures right?

>>23392451
newtype

>>23392448
Pic related, Leo gang holding strong despite an upside down connection for a couple months now IIRC

>>23392451
Bandai technically has an official site, but you have to search in Japanese and it's a bit finnicky.

https://manual.bandai-hobby.net/

>>23392448
Awesome, exactly what I was looking for.

>>23392464
Just beware the connectors need a little sanding like >>23392446 said. They're EXTREMELY tight otherwise and highly likely to snap to torque.

>>23392377
yeah we are

>>23392403
what the fuck is wrong with your camera anon

>>23392472
very old phone, camera is just worn down
yes i've cleaned it, i also removed the scratched up protective cover
it's just an old camera
i have to borrow a relative's phone to take the nice pictures, which i only do for finished things
i could get a new phone but i don't use it for anything other than phone functionality so i would rather spend the money on more plastic

>>23392478
>i don't use it for anything other than phone functionality
i don't use my phone for phone functionality, it's a glorified camera. i upgrade every 4-5 years entirely to get a better camera

>bought the RG Akatsuki for around $70 on sale last month
>there's another sale now where it's $70 before 20% off
I'm unhappy, but frankly it's my own damn fault.

Why must it be like this?

>>23392492
oh fuck
Are they reprinting every Jegan? My fucking wallet.

>>23392492
what is this?

>>23392492
fuck you gaijin that's why
no really, i fully believed a solid 60% of bandai's consumer-hostility stems from the fact the company is run by yakuza dinosaurs who hate gaijin

>>23392494
>>23392497
It's a Jegan waterslide decal giveaway

>>23392492
>>23392503
>Bandai waterslides for HG kits
Yeah, no thank you.

wake me up when they actually start reprinting the jegans

>>23392510
I wish they'd make a Jegan 2.0.

>>23392278
How are they going to have skirt parts that huge and just leave them ugly and hollow?

>>23392510
same
need all three stark jegans so I can actually assemble the proper CCA-MSV one, and the EWAC one because it's cool, and the Birnam one because F91 related things make my shotlancer extend

>>23392435
Funnily enough it's barely different from the genuine stuff.
Even the plastic itself is pretty good and not that ultra rigid stuff that easily snaps and becomes the sharpest thing in the universe.
>>23392426
>>23392430
Now I'm both confused and aroused.

Are these knights of the round table guys any good? I'm kind of digging this newest one.

>>23392521
They're great. None quite as good as Iron Sickie but close.

>>23392521
Pretty much any chinkmodel is fine if you like the design. Fitment tends to be more Kotobukiya-at-their-worst quality rather than Bandai but it's not a real problem.

>>23392530
SNAA's fitment is impeccable though

>>23392531
YMMV, QC is mid

ehhhhhh I guesss I cant be too upset

>>23392556
god just let a nuke hit the white house please just let grok go insane with the access codes I need this

>>23392556
Who did you buy from? I have a pre order from koto official us store that I did before tariffs and I’m expecting to have to bite the bullet on it eventually

>>23392488
>bought the RG Akatsuki
But why

>>23392564
pretty

>>23392567
Oh you could of just said you are Filipino

If Bandai doesn't eat my tariffs for something I already paid for I'm cancelling that shit.

>>23392568
>could of
ESL throw stone. House? Glass!

>>23392564
There are aftermarket parts to fix the shitty hips, and frankly I fell head over heels for the Zeus Silhouette. I'm also contemplating ordering some custom waterslides for my kits and getting a Cagalli ORB emblem to put on its left shoulder.

>>23392422
You absolutely do not need to watch every single thing Gundam-related that's been put out over the last 45+ years. Just start off with the original series (TV, not the movies) and once you're done with that just pick and choose what you want to watch from there. The only real constraint you'd want to keep to is watching Universal Century stuff in chronological order, but so long as you go 0079>Zeta>ZZ>CCA you shouldn't have any trouble bouncing to any other UC entry from there.

>>23392586
CCA is a perfectly fine sequel to MSG if he doesn't want to watch 100 episodes of Z+ZZ or even 50 episodes of Z
or he can just fuckin watch anything it's not that complex if you get into one story you'll probably want to check out the others similar to it naturally

>>23392586
For the original MSG you can absolutely watch the movies instead of TV. And you can skip ZZ and go straight to CCA if you want. But you can’t skip zeta like the other speedwatching retard insinuates.

>>23392587
Zeta is literally the only good show in the entire franchise so skipping it is fucking retarded

>>23392589
CCA was literally always a sequel to MSG. The very first draft of Zeta? Titled Char's Counterattack.
>oh no I will miss out on all the Char characterization that is thrown away for the movie for him to be a bad guy.
It does nothing to set up CCA whatsoever, you can skip it all you want.

>>23392592
Ummm no sweaty that’s new mobile report gundam wing

>>23392556
It's probably cheaper to tell them to give you a refund and then import it yourself.
Even if it wasn't, I'd do it out of spite. Fuck you, you accepted the risk of market changes when you sold a product you didn't have yet.

>>23392592
Watching dogshit gundam anime? No thanks, i would rather buy stuff and paint.

>>23392593
Chat is this real

>>23392587
>>23392589
>>23392593
Ignore, ragebait shitposts.

>>23392595
>>23392563
its one of the koto limited only hexa gears coming out finally girl which I will replace the head with handscale durga

>>23392598
You can go verify it if you look around, it's not hard.
>The project of a Gundam entry titled Char’s Counterattack dates back in Yoshiyuki Tomino’s mind, as it was included in the original proposal of Zeta Gundam, made in 1984. The title would pop up everywhere between 1984 and 1986, whether on TV series proposals or novelizations; in the end, it would be the conclusion to Char and Amuro’s storyline that would be named Char’s Counterattack – its movie version, at least.

Do people who say Zeta does nothing for Char's characterization in CCA have fucking brain damage or is this just some retarded year long trolling meme?

>>23392599
Zero bait. Pure fact. Z is a great show and I love ZZ. Both are completely skippable, and MSG > CCA won't leave you hurting for much context. Zeta ends with Char saying a whole bunch of shit that is 100% opposite his next on-screen actions, there's no getting around that. Zeta provides very little context to enjoy CCA, which is entirely a movie about Amuro and Char's rivalry, based entirely around Lalah, concluding. You don't see anyone from Zeta except Astonaige, you hear Titans and Haman namedropped, you don't know what really happened with that whole AEUG thing, it's all a sequel to Amuro vs Char.

>>23392607
How come they put off the char’s counterattack for so long? First zeta was supposed to be it, then zz clearly the glemy neo Zeon civil war thing was supposed to be char’s counterattack. They literally just made 100 episodes of filler to sell toys before char had his counterattack.

>>23392610
>year long
People have been trolling with it for decades at this point.

>>23392610
Because it fucking doesn't retard. It doesn't set up shit for CCA Char, he has no moment where he goes "actually, maybe this is all futile and it'd be easier to drop a rock. haha jk. unless...?" You have to just assume he got sick of all the shit and waiting for humanity to leave Earth (in 5 years) and is super fucking obsessed with Lalah despite Zeta really not playing her up 1/10th as hard as it is made out to be in CCA. It's important for Amuro and his fear of MS for a few episodes but I don't think they even bring her up. If they do it's for like one dialogue. Meanwhile, it's the crux of everything in CCA. It's the petty revenge against Amuro driving Char, to prove he's better and to get back at him for Lalah. EVERYTHING about their conflict in CCA is from their conflict in MSG.

>>23392618
So it's a decade long shitpost? Some people have no lives.
>>23392620
>It doesn't set up shit for CCA Char
Just stopped reading here, done letting all the fags on this board in particular just waste my time maliciously.

>>23392612
Can't speak for Zeta, but ZZ got the short end of the stick when they decided to go ahead with the actual movie. We know Char was likely to take the place of Glemy at the end, which might well have made it the series that ultimately became CCA - if it weren't for the fact CCA got greenlit when ZZ was in production.

>>23392621
Tell me what Zeta sets up for CCA Char that MSG doesn't do better.

>>23392556
>IS THAT A $1.84 INCREASE ON MY MODEL TOY?

>>23392620
You have smoothbrains like this thats why the meme is still alive.

>>23392625
Most people don't like have to pay money they wouldn't have had to pay in a not retarded world.

>>23392628
do you also get mad when gas prices go up by 5 cents?

>>23392611
>>23392620
>>23392623
Bad faith shitposts, ignore.

>>23392629
yes

>>23392628
Most people don't give a shit about a dollar and 84 cents even in a retarded world.

>>23392627
hey super cool screenshot but let's see what char's last conversation in zeta gundam is all about shall we

>>23392629
No because that's dictated by a bunch of complex nations, treaties, and policies I can't even pretend to understand.
It's not the result of somebody somewhere doing market manipulation that's going to be walked back on in a month, causing a colossal waste of everybody's time

>>23392634
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQMz7YHPIiI

Why don't you post the actual last monologue of Char?

>>23392634
Huh, wonder if anything could have happened after this scene that could have upset Char.

>>23392629
Do you not? It wasn't that long ago that gas was in the low dollar range(or sub dollar range if you are older). But 5 cents here and 5 cents there adds up, and of course price changes only go one direction.

>>23392641
I don't know. It sure sounds like that would be headcanon we never have validated.

>>23392639
>video game
Because that's not the anime, now is it?

>>23392643
respectable

>>23392645
>I'm shitposting, no you can't shitpost back!
Whatever you say buddy.

>>23392650
I'm not shitposting. Just because I'm saying things you don't like doesn't mean I am anything less than completely sincere.

>>23392643
What the fuck is up with that manlet Xi Gundam? Isn't it supposed to be at least the height of the Penelope?

>>23392653
Xi is an integrated, more-developed Penelope. It's always been smaller than Penelope.

>>23392651
>STOP CALLING OUT THE SHITPOST.
Here's your (you)

>>23392656
You're a strange little person.

>>23392628
Agreed, fuck bandai.

If you're gonna be shitposting at least shitpost about something on topic like the usual snap vs paint, acrylics vs laquer and gtm designs vs fss designs.

>>23392653
Xi is sitting on a stand but it's barely off the ground and penelope is on the stand it came with. Don't really have anywhere else for them until I move but I'd like to eventually give them enough space to bring the zeta 2.0 base back out, get the missile effects for pene/xi and the bit/funnel stands for the RGs

>>23392641
Definitely not anything to do with Kamille since Char wasn't around to see Kamille's fate. And yknow he doesn't have that fate in the movies so it definitely isn't his motivation there either. What else happened?

>>23392671
>And yknow he doesn't have that fate in the movies
There isn't a single person on the planet who cares about the Zeta movies.

>>23392678
I was going to make a bait reply but yeah even I don’t care enough about the zeta movies to shitpost about them

I thought it was pretty clearly because of kamille. The last shot is the hyaku shiki cockpit for a reason, which is to put Char on your mind in conjunction with Kamille's fate. I do think one of the biggest issues with CCA is it sort of sweeping Z/ZZ under the rug. I recall reading that this was a result of them wanting to be more accomodating to people who only saw the 0079 movies. You could theoretically watch it and still get the Lala stuff without having seen Z but I think Char is far more fleshed out with it, especially with how much Z reiterates young newtypes being dragged into war and ruined by it.
>Char didn't see what happened
They're newtypes and were on the same battlefield. I don't think it would be out of the question for him to have felt all the pressure from Kamille and Scirocco's fight suddenly disappear.

I think shallow observations are one of the big reasons there was so much negative buzz around Gquuuuuux recently. Viewers aren't thinking about the characters as people and are unable to draw conclusions to their motivations and actions without it being directly spelled out.

>>23392685
I wish you just put the gqx bait at the beginning so I didn’t have to read all that

>>23392685
>The last shot is the hyaku shiki cockpit for a reason
To tease Char still being alive, just like how the MSG movies inserted him for the same purpose - because Char was for basically the entirety of the original story the most compelling character for both Tomino to write and for fans.
If he could "feel" Kamille then he will feel Kamille isn't dead. He'll feel Kamille is stronger as a Newtype than ever in ZZ and makes a recovery. It's extremely forced to suggest it. Once again, Kamille's fine in the movies and they still lead to CCA.
>especially with how much Z reiterates young newtypes being dragged into war and ruined by it.
You mean like he does to Gyunei and ESPECIALLY Quess? If it's his defining breaking point, it sure is a strange choice for him to commit the same dehumanization of Newtypes. A 13 year old girl he turned into a machine (his words) to utilize as a tool in his petty revengefight against AMURO? The man he's so utterly seething over he demands a "fair" fight with by leaking psycoframe data? Where does that follow from Z? I'm not saying Char in Z is bad. I'm not saying Z is bad. Z is great. It's a wonderful show worth watching multiple times with wonderfully written characters. But to get to Char in CCA from Z requires a piece of material we've never gotten and perhaps never will get without it seeming fucking stupid. Like seriously, Kamille's fate broke him? That's why he's spending the whole movie grappling with Amuro and Lalah? One boy not-even-dying made him say "yep, Earth will never change, billions must die." It doesn't follow.

What will be the next master grade they come out with

>>23392700
gp01 2.0

>>23392700
Nero ver Ka

>>23392700
Barbatos Lupus Rex
Bael
Kimaris Vidar
Mighty Strike Freedom
Aerial
Destiny Spec II (revive of the old 2007 MG, with P-Bandai exclusives in original colors or with glowing joints)
RX-78-2 4.0
RX-78 EX

>>23392719
Kino

I will trample over the MG and RG lines

EG RX-78-2 2.0 when?

>>23392730
After rg rx-78-2 3.0

>>23392521
iron sickie is kino
havent boughted the rest
some of the undergates are quite annoying to clean up though. shit like being placed on a curve between two pegs so you can't sand properly

>>23392698
Japanese simply do not share the obsession with continuity that the west has
Just enjoy each entry by its own merits treating recurring characters like actors inhabiting similar, but not necessarily the same roles

>>23392311
recently moved out so I left a lot of snapped kits at my parents. Also havent fixed some of the poses since the move
Bottem left is going to be megalomaria/girlpla/figma zone

>>23392556
I was under the impression that china was going to be the one paying for this

>>23392743
Is that Seibah a kit? Actually would grab that myself if it is.
Also whats that big ass white (presumably) AoZ kit in the top left shelf?

>>23392690
not an argument

>more clear color shit
>more Gross Injection(tm) shit
>the Tolro yet again
I am unimpressed.

Does this count as gunpla? Think I nailed the colors. Still some touch ups to do but ran out of time

>>23392755
saber is a figma, so a doll not a model kit
the white kit is the hg gigantic arms

>>23392759
You know what ive never seen /gpg/ post any built clear kits.

>>23392759
Arent the clear parts more fragile?

>>23392768
Clear is harder and more brittle but not really to an extent that it's fragile. Pain in the ass to clean up though.

>>23392760
Thin your paints

>>23392759
the clear ball is the only time I've somewhat wanted a clear kit. I'd paint most of it opaque but leaving a few panels clear to see the insides would be cool

>>23392759
man clear vfin stab stoppers look extra disturbing
>>23392765
i saw a guy posting his clear penelope

>>23392774
shut the FUCK up

>>23392790
Mad cause is true. You can frankly do better then this even with brush painting.

>>23392759
The Draken-E is a very cool kit and I recommend it

>>23392759
I'll be picking up the clear Devil Gundam, thank you very much

>>23392759
Oh cool Tallgeese III!
>Special coating
Nevermind.

>>23392765
I got a clear Ball and clear Second V, but only from a Gundam Base tour. Would never pay the P-Bandai online tax for them, they're just a neat novelty.

>>23392774
They're actually fairly thin. Too thin in some cases.
>>23392793
That other dude isn't me. It's all brush. Even brush primed cause I did it at work. I don't pretend to be a good painter, though I did rush the end a bit.

>>23392659
Anon you forgot about glue

>>23392760
Load less paint on your brush. Also, are you using an acrylic wash? Enamel doesn't stain that much on a clear coat
>>23392823
>They're actually fairly thin. Too thin in some cases.
What brand do you use?

>>23392759
You're forgetting the best parts: no order consolidation and massive markups, so enjoy spending $45 for a single Draken kit.
And why is their new site so SLOW? Everything takes a year and a day to load.

>>23392823
Anon please pardon the Warhammerfag. They consider everything that isn't wash paint to be unthinned.

>>23392816
The regular version was in the catalog late last year for around $50. I imagine that with tariffs and the price hike, you'll be looking at something like $60 or more the next time it shows up.

Is it true the Pale Rider kit is pretty bad

>>23392869
Not if you paint it. But out of the box there are a fuck ton of stickers if you don't.

>friend enjoyed his few EGs, HGs, MGs, and seems to prefer MGs the most
>prefer RGs since they have more articulation and MGs seem to be relatively neglected from what I gathered here
>want to recommend at least one RG to let him know what it's like, even if he decides to go back to MGs
>Shining/God Gundam might be too expensive for him, Crossbone too frustratingly small, but pre-Unicorn ones might be bad
Are there any RGs that are both cheap and good at the same time?

I've never bought a Pale Rider because I have no fucking idea what they're from.

>>23392892
Gundam.

>>23392888
Might be useful to know which designs he likes most

>>23392888
RG Mk2 is the best old RG
Non-EW Wing RGs are great

>>23392892
Missing Link is their origin, the remake of the PS2 games that was pretty shit

Does Mr Leveling Thinner work for their weathering color products, or do I have to get the weathering solvent specifically?

>>23392948
>gobpla
This is repulsive.

>>23392948
Where is the girlpla for the gobbopla cave?

was at tekkocon today and I saw picrel. How is it as a build compared to the RG? That was one of my all time favourite builds and I was debating picking it up. I don't mind having dupes since it's one of my favourite MSes

>>23392966
The master grade is just a better kit than the real grade. The parts all hold onto it better and it holds a pose better. The only drawback is that the gold parts are not color separated and the decals suck ass. The stickers for the gold are okay if you like stickers. It's not hard to paint though. If you do like to paint, it's a very fun kit to do so with. There's a lot of interesting surfaces to work with.
Here's proof I did all of this.

He bought the RG for Char's Zaku II and was infuriated with the tiny parts and beads, hitherto unfinished
>>23392908
He likes G Gundam, IBO, Wing, and Char, but I don't know about the specific designs yet, I'll ask.
>>23392917
I can maybe suggest the Mk II and see how that goes, thank you. I'd love to just suggest the Shining and God but he's really iffy about it, and he's rather pleased with the MG Shining Gundam

>>23392986
The master grade may be a bit neglected right now but there's still hundreds of options for you to pick from

>>23392966
The MG is a stellar kit, looks good, rock solid, no issue holding the out of box weapons even years later(maybe the zook? But that doesn't come in the standard kit). The trim is a pain to paint but you can do a reverse wash for decent results.

>>23392974
Damn that actually looks fantastic anon.

>>23393008
This thing took me like 3 days of nonstop work. Thank you.

Is the ZZ Ver Ka any good? I’m seeing it on sale for 4000 yen.

Two weeks ago I built the HG Gunleon, it was quite a lot and had so many unnecessary stickers, but I enjoyed making it. No idea how I completely forgot to mention that in these threads until now lol.

>>23393025
It is very good and 4000 isn't a bad price at all.

>>23392759
>no piss-colored eg nu
my money is safe for now

>>23393025
It's extremely good. Personally, I suggest keeping an eye out for a fair price on the EZZ expansion because it really does just emphasize all the cool parts of ZZ much more.

>>23392759
The only cool thing I see is the MS hanger cages for MG kits, but scalpers will probably scoop those up the second they go live

>>23393087
What kind of fucking faggot shit is it that MS Hangars are even P-Bandai. I want to buy a fuck ton of them at once for obvious reasons why is Bandai so terrible.

>>23393089
Just go buy a bunch of the 30MM ones, they don't actually look much worse and you can pretty them up with a single sheet of styrene to look better.

>>23393092
Hey woah I actually didn't know they had these. They don't look half bad either yeah.

>>23393094
just keep in mind the default size is more for a highgrade

>>23392948
A plastic goblin is still just a filthy, stinking goblin.

>>23392759
>Has P-Bandai Website
>Still Complains.

>>23393101
YWNHAPBS

>>23393103
Bandai's 1/20 Fatty is 5% done. The rest are mods and paint. This thing is pretty huge, too.

Also, one of my side project: Chicken Zaku and his handler.

>>23392435
>the whole point is that these plastic robots are copyrighted intellectual property
The funny thing is that the description on the box namecalls both the exact name of this unit, characters involved and SEED. X,D
Both are either copyrighted or trademarked.

>>23392990
In a row?

GQX if it looked good and not like a discount eva
>CAPTCHA: TRUM8

>>23393160
My brain enjoys this
It even looks like it's from the 0080s, appropriately

>>23393160
>Spent all that time modeling
>Couldn't be bothered enough to give it a proper fist/open hand

>>23393131
Which is precisely why they're being bootlegged by the Chinese, who care absolutely nothing for copyright or trademark law.

>>23393195
Walrus Suletta WIP

>>23393195
Oops, sorry, didn't mean to reply you with that.

This needs a kit yesterday

>>23392933
Levelling thinner works for all lacquer and alcohol acrylics, not even just the mr. hobby ones

>>23393215
his nails are pretty

>>23393220
So are you

>>23393215
>The feminine robot gave long penis
>The more masculine ones doesn't
What did they mean by this?

>>23393220
That's the Titans Test Team's gimmick
I'm pretty sure all of their suits have pretty nails

>>23393215
Now even the mobile suits are painting their nails.

>>23393221
ooh hehe how did u know
>>23393225
wtf im joining the titans rn fuck them newtypes

>>23393243
Excellent, we here at the Titans need up and coming pilots like you... To partner up with Jerid! he never seems to bring his back from missions.

>>23393254
im so boned...

Redpill me on the AK Woundwort knock off please
Is it a straight remold of the bandai one or is it different? Why are there 4 and what are the differences?

>>23391512
I like them a lot so far! Just started getting back into plamo and got a handful of these kits. I like the vehicles and option parts and am close to having enough built to start being creative. Working on a Spinatio Royal Knight right now, with a Wing pack and Horse kit completed and ready for him. Pic related, two 30MM kits I completed recently. My first time really trying with panel lining, a good learning experience for sure.

>>23391512
I don't get it.
If they're not from an anime or video game how do you know which ones to buy and which accessories go with them?

>>23392974
I'm gonna say that the rg mogs the mg in the looks department. If the rg wasn't such a piece fragile kit, it would be one of the best rg kits of all time.

>>23393286
They're robot legos and you're supposed to come up with your own designs and stories

>>23393288
>I'm gonna say that the rg mogs the mg in the looks department
How? They look the same but the RG has worse looking trim.

>>23393286
Everything's compatible with everything so you can just make whatever you want. Thats the point.

>>23393292
>>23393295
Do they publish some kind of guide to let you know which designs are the canon ones?

>>23393297
There is no canon
If you care about that then this is not the line for you

>>23393297
Why the fuck should it matter which are the canon ones when the whole bit is making your own thing.

>>23393288
I think the HGUC looks way better than the RG. RG Sinanju's trim is really shitty looking.

>>23393299
There IS canon to some degree.
Is explained in their website, and also in every single manual for the machines if you care for fluff that much.

You could also take promo material as the "official" equipment for the machines.
But again what is the other guy's deal as if is one of those that cannot think for themselves. And need some sort of "canon" to go by.

>>23393302
Really wish they did a short series of the 30MM with 30 minute episodes of these suits doing missions, could be in space/jungle/underwater/covert ops.

>>23393305
I just want to know if the girlpla is FAG/busou size, ningen size, or giant robot girl size personally.

What if gcucks was good

>>23393305
They regularly do contests taking into account the number of submissions to each faction. Defeating "bosses" during the mission. And then depending of the results this affect the direction of the fluff with some factions gaining the upperhand to other factions and affecting the story.
Already did constests related to urban, underwater and space combat. All in their website.

>>23393312
Brother use your own imagination jesus christ.

Of all the kits to bootleg, Zhang choose this...

what is the obsession with canon in this general? just buy the robots you think look cool jesus christ

>>23393302
>>23393318
Oh good, I might get into this line after all. Why should I come up with my own design when that's the manufacturer's job?

Cause you cannot fucking think for yourself

>>23393270
It's basically a straight remold. The differences are color, v-fin, and one of them has two guns. That's it.

You stupid motherfuckers need to learn to identify bait at some fucking point in your adult lives

>>23393322
they've consistently targeted limited kits and changs love zeonic MS, it makes sense

>>23393338
Have you ever asked yourself if you're retarded or something?

I am no longer asking for the full armour Hyaku Shiki, I AM DEMANDING IT BANDAI.

>>23393389
Didn’t chinks just give us one?

>>23393392
NTA but I would far prefer a Bandai one

>>23393322
Isn't it just a recolor of the zaku ii mold they already had? If they already have the molds, printing a limited edition of a kit is basically free money.

>>23393392
You think I buy chinkshit?

>>23393389
everyone says FA Shiki when
but no one says FA Mark III when
why did we even get TWO Mark III kits if they didn't want to make FA Mark III later?

>>23393389
What kit is this?

>>23393423
It's an action figure from Bandai

>>23393392
The chink one looks terrible

>>23393316
>>23393160
Leg pipes seem kind of unnecessary since in the show they only really exist to make up for the designs lack of skirt armor (also seen on the Gyan) but overall, I like it.

>>23393434
It is just a random kitbash with very little thoughts behind it. You can see the backpack is Z'Gok's arms lmao. These builds are fun concepts, but they seem to be abit low efforted so i wouldn't nitpick the logic behind them too much.

>>23393160
The base kit is GP00, right?

self leveling didnt do the needful......

>>23393409
MG MK-III when?

are missile pods just lazy arsonal attachments

what is mr color ggx?

>>23393332
It's the difference between being gay and not being gay.

>>23393392
True, bandai's is going to be chinese as well if they do make one.
>>23393409
Something looks off about this but I can't figure out what. The lineart looks a bit better but it's so small I'm having trouble making out better details so that's likely the reason for that.

Did you guys preordered the Chink Kshatriya 1/100? Its fucking sold out

>>23393477
mr color gx 2

>>23393470
yes but they're cool

>>23393499
I was just a bit confused because
the listing says it's a acrylic but can also be mixed with the other mr color lacquers. Is it really good enough to justify a whole separate thinner type just for that line specifically?

>>23390789
>>23392347
head.
really don't like that the unicorn mode visor is just empty space on the MG so I've glued a small strip of styrene in there that will get painted green

>>23393513
it can be used with levelling thinner

>>23393513
It uses a different binder and thinner formulation
It can be mixed with other lines but it will lose its unique properties the more you do so

>>23393526
is "solvent-based acrylic resin" just what their lacquer paints already are then? anyways the little diagram they put out says their existing thinners will supposedly make the paint not as effective. i did also see a r*ddit post say it works fine with leveling. i guess it'd probably be best to treat it just as a gloss that comes in a 60ml jar and not worry about the new effects?

>>23393538
mr color arent actually "true lacquers" because its base isn't nitrocellulose or cellulose acetate, which are thinned with toluene or acetone respectively. They're lacquer-like, but technically a solvent-based acrylic because its binder is an acrylic resin, not a cellulose derivative.
All GSI creos paints use acrylic resin as a base, only the solvent is different (water, alcohol, ketones, etc)

>>23388986
Actually it doesn't use any weapon parts from the Geara Doga. Everything about the reben is 100% new

>>23393545
you're telling me i've been an acrylicshitter this whole time?

>>23393549
Huh I thought I remembered the beam sabre effect runner being from one but I guess not

Does the HG dijeh look any good with the mono eye removed and the gundam eye sockets filled and colored

I'm considering using a fatfuck 30mm thruster pack but I dunno
I'm fine if it doesn't fit perfectly but i still feel like I should get some second opinions

>>23393550
every modern model paint is some manner of acrylic
enamels are oil based alkyd resin paints instead

>>23393558
it would look roughly like this. The gundam eyes are a bit smaller than the monoeye

>>23393589
I want to get a mg wing gundam and am confused over if I should get mg wing gundam ver ka, mg wing gundam, or mg wing gundam: ew

>>23393558
Oops, I forgot to merge layers. it would look roughly like this. The gundam eyes are a bit smaller than the monoeye

>>23393589
i think it looks pretty good. what kit is that thruster pack from?

I want to get a mg wing gundam and am confused over if I should get mg wing gundam ver ka, mg wing gundam, or mg wing gundam: ew

>>23393589
I think it looks good. The only thing that I'd change personally would be to bulk up the middle thruster pack or something so that it's a little larger than the side ones. Just my preference.

>>23393589
actually fits pretty nicely

>>23393545
>All GSI creos paints use acrylic resin as a base, only the solvent is different
Not quite true, different paint lines, depending on the solvent meant to thin them, use different kinds of acrylic polymers for their binders. You can still mix them fine since solvent based acrylic film formation is not a chemical process and solely based on solvent evaporation so there's no issue of compatibility as long as the thinner you're using can dissolve the paint properly, but yeah.

>>23393597
mostly 30MM - OPTION PARTS -W30- CUSTOMIZE WEAPONS (HEAVY WEAPON 2) and some bits from 30 Minutes Missions #W-28 Option Parts Set 15 (Multi Vernier/Multi-Joint) 1/144 Scale Accessory Set

>>23393603
i'll take a shot at it

>>23393389
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QroIWYoNmZ8&t=215s

??????????????????????

>>23393614
This thing still looks like ass

Wip Fatty

>>23393493
>Its fucking sold out
no, it is not, dozens of stores in aliexpress are offering it

>>23393615
just like the lineart and the like the kit bandai will never make
it is your only option, take it or leave it

>>23393618
It doesn't look like the lineart though. I'll leave it, in the trash preferably.

>>23393621
>noooooooooooooooooooooo bandai is toptier manufacturer i swear reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

lmao

>>23393616
how's the kit

>>23393623
I cannot imagine a world where someone sees the full armor hyaku shiki and thinks that it needs more nonsensical greeble.

>>23393493
whcih one? because there are like 3 different versions coming out soon

>>23393615
Then fix it

>>23393624
Pretty solid. Has cockpit hatch, quite tall, has 2 guns. It makes me wonder what the fuck is Bandai doing with HG scopedogs because this kit feels alot more modern when it is supposed to be a 2008 kit.

>>23393632
There's no saving that design.

>>23393632
I know you love to larp as pro modellers but usually you're supposed to take a kit whose basic shape is already good and then improve the small details as you see fit, not take a wildly inaccurate one and then resculpt the entire thing by hand

>>23393639
what's wrong with the basic shape? its the greeble thats the problem

>>23393642
The problem isn't as simple as just some minor easily sanded-away surface detail, the entire geometry is fucked up.

>>23393644
>LOOK IM AN EXPERT MECH DESIGNER

fuck off

>>23393648
Emaciated and jaundiced, chinese fingers typed this

>>23393648
>LOOK IM AN EXPERT MECH DESIGNER
The irony when you're defending chinks bastardizing a professional designer's work

I don't get why some look at chinse kits as if they were an insult, where dou you think bandai produces its shit?

the fact they are starting to give out options for niche stuff we will never get from bandai like the kshatriya and the FA hyakushiki makes me happy

>>23393648
It's funny you say that because I'm literally an aerospace engineer and I do in fact design parts for drones, planes, jets, helicopters, etc. Not gonna sit here and pretend to know jack shit about art though lol

>>23393160
>Gqux if it looked good
This looks fuckugly. What are you smoking? It looks like a lego figure for 6 year olds.

>>23393656
>It looks like a lego figure for 6 year olds.
that's 90% of gundam though

>>23393639
I both agree with him and agree with you. Modelers should take challenges to learn and achieve something. But with that being said, it is much more annoying to remove bunch of greebles and surface details than to add them. And i can tell alot of these " you are a modeler, go fix them " is not an actual encouragement and more like a spiteful remark from our greeble enjoyers.

>>23393654
>where dou you think bandai produces its shit
their factory in japan, except for sd kids and tampo printed face parts

>>23393160
I paid this guy for a commission over a year ago and he hasn't even started yet.

>>23390789
Finished building the alex. I do not think I am going to display it with the armor but I may display it with some of the armor frames. I might get another so that I can have one armored, and one unarmored. The shield is going to need a lot of work when I paint it.

>>23393654
Bandai manufactures gunpla in japan.

>>23393610
>>23393603

"How do we deal with gravity?"

"Just give it nuclear rockets. Plug them into the psycommu. Mishaguji Front said they'd cover our costs as long as we deliver, so let's get our money's worth."

"A linear seat can only do so much, sir..."

"I'll just take blood thinners, it's fine. Don't worry about it. How about we give it a head crest? Paint it white, maybe?"

I prefer home grown original chinkino, designed with detail in mind over an existing design with a bunch of bullshit added on top

>>23393665
forgot the pictures come out sideways for some reason

>>23393666
Too much bullshit going on here, satan.

>>23393669
Yeah, that's pretty cool, neat addition. It's a Zudah Saturn engine, the pilot's doomed.

>>23392759
This is so much worse than drop 1
>>23392832
Just don’t be a fickle fuck and buy everything you want in one order

>>23393589
normally 30mm parts don't really look good attached to a high grade but in this case they match pretty well. the moon gundam kits have a similar enough level of detail that it doesn't look out of place

Fatty wip update

>>23393676
When are you adding the putty?

>>23393677
Already did. The primer simply hides it.

>>23393654
The problem isn't Chinese manufacturing, it's Chinese design

>>23393666
>home grown original chinkino
>posts a Gundam clone

What if there was nuance for what constitutes good kits from manufacturers and countries.

>>23393666
I wish chinks would tone down on the greeble and edges.

>>23393663
I don't understand how modeling commission works. Like, you receive the model itself via import or he sends you a photo set of the model?

>>23393690
There's good stuff manufactured in china. Kotobukiya makes their shit there. The problem is chinese knockoff design.

>>23393693
Even Bandai themselves have alot of their action figures and statues made in China. That place is not a problem ( toy production-wise atleast ). However, Chinese OCs and redesigns are lame most of the time, they always shove in so many details to the point you can't even see the robot's face clearly anymore.

>>23393682
>>23393693
>robots MUST forever look like 500 yen toys, the medium must NEVER advance past the 80s
Yeah ok

>>23393701
>Models must look like a pile of broken glass or the medium will never advance

>>23393701
The 500 yen toys look better. Less is more.

y'know the heads-up for this kit looks way better in real life. For some reason it seemed off on the images on the box and stuff. I am pleased.

>>23393711
The pile of broken glass looks more or less better.

>>23393717
It looks like shit, chang.

>>23393716
*head sculpt

>>23393701
Lol no joke, "500 yen toys" is an appropriate description for Chinese OC models. They are cheaper compares to any other Japanese model brands and the design is always super childish, not in a silly charming way but more like those generic gundam redesigns made by SEA teenagers you usually see on twitter.

Just remembered the FAZZ is getting a reprint and felt a twinge of joy.

>>23393724
I'm happy for you.