Thread 11463238

>"If you're new, you're gonna fuck up. Don't worry! If you're experienced, don't make the new people worry!"

***READ THE GUIDE***

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The guide:
Part 1 (Quick Start)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSBDfE8Iz-a86DZJCR5MHRW6tjkQX-y4-ZpUc_vHjRfx_i2FB0zR1usdrgUJ4wNTs1iDFZmTQHF66X_/pub

Part 2 (Deeper Dive)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQJG2SZo1O1PjExPrdU_-GnkrYTGiGLCgBcKaL4peEWxOGB4CNbpGaJBV1oF61eNE1lEhbQHYEAXLrw/pub

And a handy guide to other types of plamo: http://www.mediafire.com/view/1vf1aw7v91pz5pa/Airfix%20Model%20World%20Specia%20(Scale%20Modelling%20Step-By-Step).pdf
http://www.scalemodelguide.com

Some line art:
https://imgur.com/user/Gundaml1neart/posts


Previous thread: >>11434451

==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

Made a very inadvisable impulse purchase from USAGS yesterday during their Juneteenth sale, 20% off the RG Akatsuki isn't as good as 30% off stacked with a 10% discount from previous purchase (I couldn't use the 10% off anyway because they somehow thought it was expired despite me being within the cutoff window), but $18 for a RG GP01 is a good deal any way you cut it.

Delpi's website also sells aftermarket joints for RG Strike-type kits, I'm kind of tempted to get two since I have a RG Aile Strike + Skygrasper with the third-party Perfect Strike conversion kit, even if I plan to only ever display that RG Perfect Strike on an action base. I'm already going to be buying a shitload of waterslides as it is, so this only adds like a drop in the bucket. After that, wait for the P-Bandai Shiranui kit, and the Chinese third-party Zeus Silhouette bootleg.

Genuine Mr Finishing Surfacer Black 1500, fresh from Aliexpress.
Just because your local hobby shops are perpetually out of stock, it doesn't mean you can't get it.

He is done

Hg gouf custom
G rework decals

I just used this to experiment with decals

>>11463529
looks really good
can it lift the arm with the gatling gun?

>>11463538
Yes but it falls after a few hours

I just bought this. Is it a good acryllic wash?

>>11463544
Once it dries you can't clean it up, so no.

>>11463238 (OP)
I think you missed the title

>>11463286
Part 2 of 5 of purchasing waterslides for my kits. The description for the Akatsuki hip joints replacement says that it comes with two sets so I should only have to buy it once to have enough to modify both the Akatsuki and Strike, and if not then I'll buy another one next time.

The "rough" part with these first two purchases was prioritizing the low-stock stuff, and hoping/praying that the waterslides on my wishlist don't go out of stock while waiting for out-of-stock ones to come in stock. I'm pretty sure that their "e-mail me when this is back in stock" notification functionality seems to be broken or not working, since two previously out-of-stock waterslides were in stock when I manually checked today and I never got an e-mail about them.

I'm sure I'll repeat this whole song and dance in a month or so, while I wait for them to reprint shit like MG Crossbone Full Cloth and RE/100 Nightingale. But for now, everything on my wishlist that's in stock has a decent amount of inventory, so odds are low that they'll get bought out within that time. There isn't going to be just one MG Tallgeese Flugel waterslide left when I look and I happen to buy the very last one.

>>11463577
OP is fake Gelgoog confirmed!

I cannot find details when googling, is the new statue RX-78F00/E kit with the glass wings being sold outside of Japan?

>>11463542
Should have a little tab on the shoulder that locks into a tab on the part inside the torso to goes over the polycap. >>11464096
Its a gundam base exclusive, so only sold at gundam base locations. They should appear at the other gundam bases around asia, and maybe when they have the usa tour for gbwc.

I need to work on some gunpla soon.

>>11464099
So either Im fucked paying scalpers or praying they'd list it on the Online Gundam Base P.Bandai does occasionally

>>11464096
>>11464136
Gundam Base stuff does eventually end up on P-Bandai, though it does take time. For instance, the HG Movie Perfect G-Self is supposed to be Gundam Base exclusive, but it's on US P-Bandai right now. The leftovers from the USA Gundam Base Mobile Tour also eventually make their way there.

I just had to get a picture of them altogether before I put Choryujin together

>>11464278
Which GaoGaiGar is that and how finnicky are the RG's hands if you know?

>>11464306
That's the RG, I have two, and the hands are fine for the most part but the back of it goes fall off if you handle it too roughly so I would recommend a very small bit of glue.

And here he is

Broke out the HG 1/144 Ⅱ NEO ZEONG (NARRATIVE Ver.) from the backlog finally. Planning on doing a full paint so I started prepping parts from the runners. This is the white-ish color parts all ready to go (for size comparison those booster tubes are the size of a PG).

this 3rd party grandpa kit looks cool

>>11464721
That's just a recast of the 2.0 RG

>>11464278
I still don't understand why the GoldyMarg is an RG and the Choryujin is a HG. The GoldMarg is not complex in the slightest, is it just because it combines with the RG GaoGaiGar that they had to put it in the same line??

>>11464824
There's that and maybe the fact that it transforms without too much partsforming. With Choryujin you have to take both apart almost completely before putting them together

>>11464788
yeah but it looks pretty good and does not seem to have any issues from the reviews that are coming out of it

Hoo fucking boy, there goes another chunk of my bank account. Well, sooner than I expected, is what I should say, since I'm going to be bulk buying from Delpi at least another two times. It's just a matter of hoping that they reprint a few of the waterslides I need that are currently out of stock, before the sale goes live.

So today i learned, they don't make any waterslides for build series, so if you want to make one look cool, youre either fucked or have to buy generic waterslides + some generic waterslides for emblems.

I did find a pretty good knight waterslide set though, with chess pieces, and crosses, so i might put them on this guy whos been rotting in the backlog for 7 years.

Just finished my RG gramps 2.0 and posing it feels.. off. I'm having a really hard time getting both feet to rest solidly on flat surfaces. It's like one leg is ever so slightly shorter than the other, or the articulation just doesn't want to stay in place when I try and put it in a standing pose.

Anyone else having a similar issue, am I just bad at posing it, is there a building mistake causing this I may have overlooked?

I bought a huge set of sanding sticks with many grades and I wanted to know what grits you would mainly recommend.

Made myself a custom desktop drill press out of a beefier version of my micro drill. Not a Proxxon obviously, but will do nicely for most modelling needs.

>>11466176
I should make myself one of these some day, the one I've been using is an industrial grade hulky piece of shit that's like 30 years old, weighs at least a hundred pounds, and is the size of a garbage bin. Way too overkill for modeling purposes, but like so much of my modeling hardware I obtained it basically for free from my retired dad who's an engineer with access to all sorts of machinery like this.

>>11466186
Aliexpress is the best source of parts and raw materials known to humanity. You can build anything you want.

>>11466064
Got a picture?

Opinions on her?

>>11466312
Decades later, I still don't get how a schoolgirl in a sailor uniform outfit is supposed to be representative of Sweden.

>>11466312
I want a nobell but they're never in stock at any of my locals.

>>11466379
So you say I should immediately buy her?

>>11466312
Wanting get the bootleg normal version ones and making a Sailor mars version.

Built my second one and put it up on a stand 'cause it doesn't have the pile driver. I love these little shits.

On a whim taking my daughter to hobby lobby I picked up a gouf custom HG and finished it then ordered the Zaku, sazabi and a classic style gundam RG.
I tried to see if my daughter would take to it by trying to find SD animal themed models, but I don't think that's happening.
I was eyeing the tallgeese , but figured I went a little overboard and should finish what I have coming first even though a lot of this shit has spotty availability.

>>11466562
Probably. Is one of the faster selling kits.

>>11467621
Best plan there. Dont want to start backlogging stuff, itll just back up and youll end up with 100 unbuilt kits.

A glorified pencil sharpener.

Shavings are fucking impossible to clean out of it, reamers are good though.

>>11468706
>itll just back up and youll end up with 100 unbuilt kits
So anon will have stuff to build when he retires (or antiques to sell on ebay when Bandai is a distant memory like LS or Arii). What's the problem again?

>>11465912
Theres tons of waterslides that you can use on it anon, half the time i put slides on a kit im looking through my stack of older ones that will look good on the kit. Try Ebay

Gonna give this one to my older sister for her birthday, she doesn't much like kits but will die for Hello Kitty.

>>11468869
CUTE

>>11468904
It is, isn't it?

Anyone know of any squeeze to open nippers? Figure it'd be cheaper to buy one of those than a godhand or whatever.

Finished my first ever RG, Gaogaigar not long ago. Do all RGs use this dumb articulated polycap hand gimmick? Because they keep popping off at the slightest provocation along with the ABS back of the hand armour part.

Is there a wiki or encyclopedia for the Wataru mechs?
I used to be able to find one a while ago but google search is trash now and only returns amazon and yahoo results.
I'm looking for this, IIRC, Ryujinmaru with tank treads and normal military gear. I think it had a combat knife and a submachinegun.

>>11469485
They did on early ones but most of the new ones have fixed hand poses

>>11469171
Normally closed ones? Dunno if they exist but probably a bad idea since 2 metallic surfaces touching each other encourages corrosion. That's one of the reasons normally closed tweezers use stainless steel .

11463191
I would go for the MkII, honestly. Char’s Zaku is cute and it does lots of neat things but it is severely limited I. The articulation department. The MkII is just an incredibly solid kit all around.

I admittedly don’t own the Z’Gok

>>11469171
>squeeze to open nippers
So you apply force to open them and then some kind of spring closes them? In other words you control the opening force, but not the closing/cutting force? In what universe is that a sound concept for a cutting tool?

I've been seeing alot of nipper discourse lately, and wanted to clear some stuff up

>do i need a godhand
No. I use rui tool because they are cheap and because i am rough on my tools.

>nub marks
Even god hands wont fully get rid of every nub. Sanding is the only way to fully get rid of nubs. You can also use a hobby knife for quick removal on flat surfaces.

Honestly, even as someone that paints my kits, i dont remove every nub perfectly. I do have the skills to remove every nub, but focus my efforts on what will be visible. Alot of parts can be fully finished with the 2 snip method.

Imo nub removal isn't even 1% of this hobby. Its a day 1 skill, but i'd much rather people talk about painting.

>>11468819
But theres no specific hg build sets. Unfortanate.

I want to get into rescribing panel lines before i get fully into scribing, can anyone drop a good video on scribing here?

>>11470259
I forgot to add all single bladed nippers are the exact same,and the only difference is god hands are laser sharpened, so they are going to last longer.

Conceptually, single bladed nippers were designed to cut, instead of pinch. Thats why theres only one blade instead of 2.

I do think everyone should have single bladed nippers and amazon has many for under 20$.

>>11470268
>all single bladed nippers are the exact same
That's demonstrably untrue.
Blade geometry, blade sharpness vary pretty widely across brands, resulting in fairly obvious differences in cut quality.

>>11470259
>>11470268
how many kits have you built, anon? how many nippers have you used?

>>11470528
They are not literally the same but they are mechanically the same. Some of those posted, are not single bladed nippers though.

The principle is one end holds the plastic in place, while the other cuts.

>>11470691
I've been through 7 nippers. 2 off brand, one green one (i forget the brand but its a common 10$ nipper), 2 rui tool, and 2 god hand. Both god hands i broke, but they lasted me over a year, and i was rough with them.

I used to snap build alot, and re-entered this year with the idea i'd paint everything. I only painted a few kits before that.

Its wild theres no waterslides for this kit specifically

>>11470869
Third-party waterslide companies usually only make waterslides for a kit if it makes sense. Build kits are for the most part HG kits that look flashy and cool, not scale reductions of military machines that would actually have labels and warnings like UC grunt suits.

>>11470917
Ok but that forces you to use the "fire lord" stickers if you ever want a clean build. Theres no indentation of the kanji, so you're kinda fucked.

Soon

>>11471027
Gotten alot better at your preshading man. Keep at it, try to get a consistent level with the symmetrical parts and youll be ace. Makes my straight builds look like shit. Good work bud.

>>11471114
Do those white stickers come with the kit? Also, did you topcoat those?

>>11471124
G rework decals, mr super clear matte grey can. I didnt really start painting kits until a little over a year or so, tried to master a good clean build without painting. Maybe doing a few touches of color correction here and there before that. Good to ask and soak up info from people that look like they know what theyre doing.

Currently doing a kinda preshade but with a metallic undercoat for gundams, trying to simulate a heat treated titanium look, not always the best turnout, but will look a bit worn at least. Need to get around to doing some builds here just had some bs to handle this month.

spent the last couple hours researching and looking over panel lining options. I think I'm just not going to bother. From what I've seen the simple thin marker ones look kinda shitty unless you have a steady artist's hand, and I don't wanna bother top coating everything to not potentially fuck my plastic with tamiya liner.
This is a barrier that will take some time to cross.

>>11471190
you dont need a steady hand, because you can easily clean up mistakes
and pour type gundam markers are good and don't need topcoats at all, i've been using them a lot on bare plastic and had no problems

>>11471203
Just don't use them on anything abs

>>11471190
Panel lining is the easiest thing in this hobby, and it shouldnt take you more than an hour to panel line even a master grade.

Learn to use a paint brush. Your skill with the hobby will instantly skyrocket, and you will be at least above redditor level. You can use acryllic washes, acryllic paint, or use the tamiya panel liner but that destroys pieces, if you dont follow the proper steps.

I think its best if you start with nuln oil, and maybe buy some detail paints like citadel gold or silver, or whatever other color you think you'll.use.

Overall learning basic painting skills is an essential skill, and even something people like mecha gaikotsu do.

>>11471124
Waterslides are an incredible way to make old kits look good, and new ones, crazy good. I wouldn't reccomend water slides until you know how to paint first though

>>11471114
Those stripes are cursed, and i tried building the hg dom with spray cans a few years back, and i never could get the stripes to line up correctly. Gave up halfway through.

I was using the bandai decals though. I want to revisit the origin kits, when i'm not finishing this guncannon, or finishing some build fighter kits i bought this week.

If anyone is listening is worried about preshading, its crazy how much your skills can improve over 2 kits.

>>11471403
>Waterslides are an incredible way to make old kits look good, and new ones, crazy good
Nta but I've got a bunch of kits that need water slides I've been meaning to do, but haven't.

>>11471411
Then this weekend is the perfect time to start, and get them painted. You could even start prep work tonight.

>>11471413
Nah, working this weekend. I also do some painting, but it's mostly just color correction

>>11471366
I tried to tell a streamer about that and he jumped my shit. Had to go get a marker and translate the warning label. I bot a half assed apology and gaslit about what he said, but it was more how he said it anyway.

>>11471407
Bandai decals do suck, need some really warm water for them to be anywhere near usable. For an origin kit it really is best to gloss coat before decals, makes it easier to line everything up.

>>11471190
Tamiya is actually less harsh than the pour markers, but can crack/break parts. Its ok to use on individual parts or the runner. When it gets into a seam of 2 parts it wont dry fast enough to not damage. The other markers are ok, easy to clean up. Tamkya and the pour types just make the task faster. Either way, as long as you get the liner dry fast enough you wont have trouble, but yes abs and pour types and even the color markers can cause cracks.

>>11471411
Get to them when you can. The longer the backlog is on earth the stronger it becomes.

>>11471453
>I tried to tell a streamer about that and he jumped my shit. Had to go get a marker and translate the warning label. I bot a half assed apology and gaslit about what he said, but it was more how he said it anyway

Streamers and Internet personalities are almost all gigatier shitters that don't deserve the time of day

>>11471484
You are not wrong there. I use to like the smaller viewer count streamers but noticed once they get a little popularity they tend to turn into ego driven shitheads. Turns very cliquey and inevitably they find someone to pick on. Not always the case, but is a pattern there. If I stream again I will disable monetization, just do good solid clean work and share useful tips and give somewhat a tutorial on salt/hairspray chipping, blending colors, magnet mods and techniques hardly used or shown off with gunpla. No ego, just good informative work.

That's why I like it here, its not about me, its about the gunpla.

Any suggestions for a good quality scribe tool set? I wanted to buy the Gunprimer Grida, but literally no one has it in stock, and I'm not willing to pay 100 USD for a set of 3 scribe tools from Ray Modeling studios or whatever.

>>11471403
alright, you convinced me. I picked up some nuln oil and some tiny swabs. I have some tiny brushing lying around from when I was dabbling in assembling 40k minis. I might get back into that too, but the tiny details are extremely tiring to my eyes.

>>11471579
Another option is real touch markers. Hit those on the panel lines, mottle around the legs and wherever, then go over it with a melamone sponge to clean it up and blend it in. Real touch are water based so should not have any problems. Get panel lining plus weathering and a ok matte finish if you dont want to topcoat.

I already have a Mki. Why am I contemplating this stupid shit? There's not even that much clear red yet my stupid monke brain is like
>hrm yes this could be a good purchase

>>11463529
What website did you get the decals from? I might try to buy the same set for some HG zaku 1 I’m painting in a dark green and black color palette

finished my EVA 01 Blokees.
My only issue is the purple/neon green piece in the chest tends to fall.
A cheap option.

>>11471763
This is blokees? Wtf. I need to get more blokees.

>>11471709
Those decals are from bandai. Bandai decals suck.

I like g rework the best. I get them from newtype, but i think theres cheaper ways to get them.

The hg zaku i is a cursed kit, and theres so many better cheaper kits that dont have seam removal issues (including the origin hg zaku i.) I am begging you, to choose any other kit

>>11471579
Post before and after. This thread needs more pics. I'm on break after panel lining, the legs and head of my guncannon

>>11471709
Oh shit, youre not talking about >>11471407


No i got the goufs from newtype and they are from g rework, and now he lives at my hobbytown

I used micro sol and microset, and there was a learning curve.

>>11471782
What impressed me with the decals you used is I can’t see any sort of sheen or leveling difference which is why I didn’t think they were bandai. my biggest issue with decals is even if you hit it with a matte or a gloss sometimes it isn’t enough for it to look uniform.

Also the thickness of the decal looking out of place, yours from that image doesnt have any of that.

I’ve looked at some videos of the hguc zaku 1 and it looks like a decent kit to me for the 15.00 it costs, I already ordered them and they’re in the mail. The seam lines are kind of an issue but I was thinking with some sanding and some paintwork and a matte coat they wouldn’t be too visible. On a shelf I don’t think I would notice them.


The origin zaku excited name at first but it has a bunch of things going on I don’t like. I really dislike the origin zaku 1 having that weird out of place looking abdominal plate right above the waist. I considered maybe doing a kitbash combining the zaku 1 origin parts I like with the hguc zaku 1 but idk how plug and play that is since I’ve never combined kits before.

Back in the day I made some old hguc kits like the gelgoog cannon, GM cold district, that spcace GM, and I thought they were serviceable. If the hguc zaku 1 is of comparable quality I think it will look good painted. is it the build of the kit or the look that you don’t like?

>>11471763
Virgin decaled airbrushed gunpla modeler vs the snap built unpainted blokees Chad


I kneel…

My brother is buying some transformers blokees later today

>>11471890
But they aren't bandai they are g rework

>>11471903
Okay I already have ordered 10 zaku Bandai sheets per your previous suggestion

Jk I understand what you mean now. I have never put decals on a kit before so this is all new to me. I have built 20 or so kits and have pained a bunch over the years but for whatever reason never dipped my toes into decals so it’s a weak point in my skill set. I’ll see if they have any on eBay before I make an account or sign up on another website. I don’t really need any decals right now but I’d like to have em to make a numbered squad of zakus at some point. I’m wanting to make some stuff that’s sort of reminiscent of the sort of units you would find in the ps2 game zeonic front.

>>11471909
I looked up the g rework zaku i, and this is the kit that came up. I dont think they'd have the old zaku i, but this works well, either way, but id still tell you to buy the new one

>>11471909
Buy microsol and micro whatever

Is the "Don't paint on ABS" warning just them legally covering their ass from retards or are the parts gonna break if I use my Mr Surfacer spray can on them?

>>11472117
The enamel markers will attack the plastic, lacquer is less of a problem but if you flood the parts you can have the same problem

>>11472117
Nah abs is meant to be light weight, so think of it this way sugar cube vs spun sugar/cotton candy. The abs is more pourus and allows solvents to get in and break the bonds. Now does that mean one touch and it dissolves like xenomorph blood, no, but the longer it takes for the solvent to evaporate the more chance of damage to the abs. Same for polystyrene and all the other plastics, but because they are more denser they take the solvents a little better. Hope that made sense.

I'm going to dull coat him tommorow.

>>11472071
I found something called Microsoft they have something called XP is this any good?

Just messing around. I’m not to interested in a lot of the accent lines just mainly some good zeon looking unit number decals and the simple zeon symbols nothing too fancy.

There are elements of the origin zaku I really like but as I said they changed it too much for me to want to build and display it the way it is. A good example is the thighs, they have way too much panel lining than I think a simple zaku should really have or need. I also can’t tell if the old style head has better proportions than the new one. Areas like the arms on the new kit are pretty good though. The main issue I have with it is just the chest and stomach which I don’t like the look of. I’m not telling you objectively that the new one is worse. Just that to me I want something that matches the way the zaku 1 was portrayed in the older games. To me the origin zaku looks more like a zaku 1 variant than an actual zaku 1. It looks like that one has less seem lines which is nice. I may buy 1 to experiment with. Maybe something like
Origin head
Old chest and waist
Origin arms
Old style thighs
Origin feet and shins

no harm in seeing how it looks.

>>11472167
If i build a second zaku i, i want to do a fully decaled lime one, from build fighters try.

If you dont like the zaku i origins look, theres pretty much no way to fix that, unless you break out saw and pla plate.

The main seam differences are on the legs. The origin zaku i has no leg seams, while the hg has 2. No matter what you chose, you still have to seam weld the forearms and the shoulder pad. The pad isnt that bad, but the forearm takes alot of skill.

>tfw just scribed 48 feet (about 15 meters) of panel lines
Wasn't fun.
I forgot how shitty Dymo tape was (or maybe it became shitty in the years since I used it last?). It's thin, soft and it leaves black residue of glue and bits of tape when you peel it. It belongs in the fucking trash.
Also my cheap chinese chisel (Dspiae) is going to need replacing after all that scribing.

Guys if I got offered a MG Perfect Zeong for $200 american should I take it?

>>11470528
What about a nail clipper hack, with one of its blade filed flat so it become a single blade cutter?

>>11472262
That they offered to buy from you, or to sell to you at that price? Because if it's the latter, don't bother unless you really really like the Perfect Zeong.

Not only is it a pre-2005 MG, it's also a literal brick in that it has next to zero limb motion range. Even the arms are worse than the original MG since they strapped extra armor to the bicep area which reduces it to less than 90 degree elbow bending (and frankly, if an MG kit can only bend its elbows 90 degrees to begin with, it's already a failure). About the only thing it has going for it is its sheer size, it's bigger than most PG Gundams and takes up about as much space as the MG Ex-S but without looking anywhere near as complex.

Well fuck, I thought I had more primer left. Gonna have to put metagross on the backburner until I get more in.

>>11472372
You're going to have fitting issues on all the sandwitch pieces unless you trim the connection pegs

Good morning my fellow zaku chads are are we feeling today

>>11472117
Do a thin coat first if you're concerned.

Different question.
What is the best way to paint something white without an airbrush? Just use a white primer? Cause I just tried hand brushing white over light gray and it really really sucked.

Friend what kit to get at Barnes and noble?

>>11472560
The guntank is the only one with soul here

>>11472560
moon gundam

>>11472496
Problems for later. Plus bamco connections aren't the tightest so that's a pretty easy one to fix.

>>11472560
In what metro area do you live? Surely theres a better source for gunpla?

Pic related is mall store with just the build kits (taken for my own purposes)

>>11472560
>>11472566
What's wrong with that RG Hi-Nu?

>>11464721
>grandpa
God, I fucking hate that leddit term for the original Gundam.

>>11472596
>Build Strike
Kino

My first gunpla.
The front "skirt" ended glued after a mistake
Removed the nub marks on the feet.
I hated put the stickers.

Who else really wishes Bandai would hurry the fuck up and do a mgex Phenex Nt version. I'm sick of looking at my old ass rickety mg without the shield tails and its inability to stay on its stand.

Actually wild how much better my FA Unicorn has held up compared to my Phenex, even among my other unicorns its oddly solid. Kinda makes me want ot build my final battle banshee...

>>11470921
Fortunately the stickers don't look too atrocious on a build, and there is always cutting the white parts out and using them as a stencil for the black.

>>11466312
It's been over 25 years, where is the mg? We'll get a rg first somehow.

>>11472912
You will put the stickers and you will put happy

poor financial decision done

>>11473188
How did you get your hands on it? Did you find it in some dark corner of a hobby shop, where it was put and forgotten? As far as I know, he didn't get any reprints so far.

>>11473276
found a guy yesterday selling a Dwadge cheaper than anywhere else on facebook marketplace because he is moving and his kids eat all his spare time.

He asked if there was anything else I was hunting for and I said I mostly am keen on Zeon suits he also had a johnny ridden 2.0 but it was too expensive for a zaku2 and they are easy enough to find so said I already had one in my backlog and he mentioned he was going to list his perfect zeong I was like "Oof those go for around $600 too rich for my blood" and he said he wasn't going to sell it for that much he said $400 I told him I would think about it and he messaged me $350 when I got home and I said sold.

People will spend $350 for a model kit but not $100 for an airbrush

>>11473364
We all collect, not all of us paint

>>11473356
Good find. That's incredible. I'm hoping to get lucky with a Pshyco Genosaur, but my hopes aren't high, though.

>>11473188
why does he have legs? is that a bootleg?

>>11473457
He's Perfect.

>>11473457
more like buttleg amirite?

Am I just a tard? Whats the difference between Matte and Flat for top coat finishes?

>>11473579
Flat is like a tier less gloss than matte

>>11473626
What is the most neutral texture wise? Maybe English being a third language for me is causing issues. If I was to coat paint coat, what should I be using for each layer?

>>11473579
>Whats the difference between Matte and Flat for top coat finishes
Depends heavily on the manufacturer. What one calls "Flat" the other may call "Matte".

Mg guncannon

Hes alright. Feel like theres room for improvement

>>11473579
Flat and matte are the same, just preference the manufacturers used.

First build of the year lol.
Also my third gunpla ever.

>>11474095
As usual, movable monoeye mod took the most time.

>>11474096
Lots of cutting, filing and filling.

>>11474097
Mini drill had some use too. Luckily PCB drills go through copper like it's butter.

As usual, also posted at https://www.tinami.com/creator/profile/65467

>>11474093
Based (loosely) on pic related.

>>11473681
Youre getting there. Again aim to keep the shading and colors a little more consistent.

>>11474093
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>>11474103
Good shit man.

>Plaiobot Lazengann rerelease
It's a shit kit isn't it. Anything remotely cool gets a terrible kit it feels like

>>11474924
Ooooh is it getting a re-release?

>>11474918
I dont want to work on mg's for another month, and i think pre shading only makes sense on mgs. Next plan is mg gouf, but i havent even bought it, so that could change to a zaku, or whatever

I'm just going to do a straight build aerial in the mean time.

>>11474096
I saw these posts too, but had nothing to add. Wish we had more people actually doing scale modeling stuff,instead of just whining that the hg 00 kits need a revive, or whatever complaint is current

>update
I'm rereading through my stack of gunplabooks, and bought 6 more. Is there anyway to get them cheaper than ebay? I kind of want to do mandarake, but won't import tax kill me?

Anyways gundam weapons 6 (mg zaku ii) is kino, and a must for everyone. Also re reading endless waltz mg tonight.

Buying these books is what got me into painting in the first place.

>>11475052
Yeah, it's already up on HLJ and others. Comes out early next year I think

>>11474924
Unless they reworked the mold, you'll need to sand down the articulation points so it or GL don't shear themselves apart.

Made a start on MG Heavy Arms. I was debating over silver or gunmetal but I like how the silver stands out more looking at it like this.

>>11472265
that'd be a pretty cheap experiment to try, go for it anon

Why do I constantly hear about single blade cutters breaking? Are people spastics or are they really fragile as fuck? I wanted to grab these on sale at my local shop, I have only ever used $12 junk cutters for the past 25 years.

>>11475631
yes, people are spastics and cut towards the end of the blade instead of close to the hinge. that being said, you still want to use your rougher nippers for removing pieces from the runner to begin with.

>>11475631
People don't treat things with care. If you drop singe bladed nippers onto a hard surface you can break them. Or they cut thick nubs/sprues with the tip of the blade and wonder why it broke. I've been using GodHand SPN120s for everything for like ten years now with zero issues.

>>11475744
The clear kits will fuck up godhands after a little bit. Ive watched someone build a whole clear mg kit with their 120s and made it through, but next kit they broke.kek

>>11475711
Just do not cut at the very base of the hinge. Key is not to slam them closed. Nice gradual pressure, push with the side with the blade not the dull side. But we both know that some people just wont listen and do what they want.

>>11475631
>Why do I constantly hear about single blade cutters breaking
Because people who do NOT break their nippers keep quiet about it? For every case of breakage there are 100s if not 1000s of cases of non-breakage that are simply not reported.

>>11475631
You can buy high tier chink cutters for like 20-30 bucks. Never tried god hands, but supposedly they're equivalent.

>>11476614
Can confirm the $20 Amazon chink nips are great. I wound up with two of them. One for my gunpla tools and one for my warhams cause I'm lazy.

>forgot to order the P bandai drops last night
>the only two things i wanted are sold out

Guess I only have myself to blame.

Can anyone translate whats going on on these pages

I think they're saying you can build the amazing red warrior with the gm vudgkm and gm type type c. I'm not sure why ver ka is on it

bit of progress with the narrative

do mr. surfacer numbers correlate with sandpaper grit? that's always been my understanding but i now think that might not be the case
usually i do 240 grit -> 600 grit -> surfacer 1000 -> finishing 1500

>>11477787
Mr Primer Surfacer 1000 covers scratches from 400 grit or even 240 grit just fine, you're wasting your time sanding 600 grit.

>>11477789
what about for removing excess 1000 before the 1500

>>11477787
>usually i do 240 grit -> 600 grit -> surfacer 1000 -> finishing 1500
Do you usually paint large 3D printed nude figures? Because that looks almost exactly like my workflow for Rei (except I started at 180 grit).

240 grit is way too rough for plastic and Surfacer 1000 will fill/soften surface detail, so you want to avoid it unless you are dealing with large smooth _heavily_scratched surfaces. For 99.9% of plastic kits Surfacer 1500 is all you need.

If you do end up using Surfacer 1000, you spray a good coat, then you sand it down smooth. At that point you probably have patches of bare material, so you spray a thin coat of Surfacer 1500 to cover the bare patches. If you don't have any bare patches after sanding, you have no reason to spray any other Surfacer.

>>11463529
Slick gouf. HAIL ZEON

>>11472912
First kit looks good dude, got the standard nubbies but that is okay. the stickers are cool, enjoy it and use tweezers

>>11477787
>do mr. surfacer numbers correlate with sandpaper grit
If you scratch some abrasive particles off 1000 grit sandpaper and fish some filler particles out of mr surfacer 1000 and put them under a microscope, the particles will look about the same size. That's as far as "correlation" goes.
If you spray mr surfacer 1000 on some plastic, when it dries it won't be as rough as 1000 grit sandpaper, it will be smoother.

>>11474093
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>>11474104
Blessed mono-eye submersible. Good work, and insanely cool to see you add extra greebles and fill in unseemly gaps.

>>11478171
Also got this arrival

>>11478590
Noice that comes with a cool base doesn't it?

>>11478625
no, just the robot

>>11477172
How to make a gundam with the katoki look (ver. Ka). Katoki is a designer with a distinctive look. It goes over a bunch of mods and part swaps that they do to achieve the look. It seems like some hyper-specific autism, even for gundrones.

https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Hajime_Katoki

>>11478643
my bad didn't notice the titan colours

>>11478678
Wtf thats insane! Im going to google translate this shit.

Japanese really said "if katoki wont make a ver ka, i will"

>>11463529
I really like the blues here.

>>11478678
Weren't all the early hg's all designed by katoki, or was that just the box art? I think he might've done all the hg origin kits, but that might be me spreading misinfo

>>11477110
It's also kind of crappy how Bandai does things. They can share the blame.

Correct mr. Surfacer mixing ratio, +thinner?

>>11474103
I don't understand the eye rig. Is that a magnet and a wire suspending the eye? How do you rotate the eye to go to weird positions like the rear port holes?

>>11479532
I dump the jar into a bottle. Then pour thinner into the jar and give it a good shake, dump that into the bottle and then about half into the jar to wash it out completely, then add that to the bottle. So about 1 to 1.5, maybe 1 to 2 if the jar wont come clean.

>>11479619
Ok i added 500 2:1 ratio, and it stopped working, so i guess i'll try 1:1

Local store only has 500

>>11479635
For 500, i’d recommend more thinner than paint, maybe 70% or more. Just keep adjusting while mixing thoroughly until it sprays without sputtering (too thick) and without spiderwebbing (too thin), if that makes sense. All surfacers i have tried use more thinner than paint, and i’m spraying 1000+, so 500 will definitely need a bit more.

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>>11479669
Just so you know Mr Surfacer 500 is not designed to be sprayed as per Creos documentation. It is a liquid putty.

>>11479532
1:1

>>11479556
Did you notice a ring of sheet metal attached to the top of the head inside the body. Magnet slides along it.

In the end I used all 3 colors for the psychoframe

>>11479806
Right, but anon has what he has, which is 500. I use it as a gap filler myself and spray 1000+. I have talked to people who are involved in mr hobby about this exact question. There is no real formulation difference between the surfacer grades, just the amount of goopyness. He used that exact term. Sometimes they sell with “dissolved putty” on the label, sometimes they don’t. I don’t know which anon has, but it shouldn’t matter much. If you add more thinner, you should be able to make it work in the unfortunate case of not having access to 1000+

>>11479959
>you should be able to make it work
Define work.
You could probably make it sprayable, and it will clog the airbrush like crazy (thanks to larger filler particle and extra gluieness), but I don't know why you would want a coat of putty on your model? In most cases you want the primer to be as fine as possible so it doesn't mess with surface detail, even Surfacer 1000 is not what you want in most situations, why would you possibly want 500?

>>11479933
Kind of has a police aesthetic to it, I like it.

>>11479933
What a handsome face

awesome fatty. maybe this weekend i can do dull coat and brown panel lines

>>11480388
He's got a lot of color correction needed, but I love The O

>>11480388
>The O revival never.

Im going to go kitbash a Gyan and Galbaldy Beta together to make me feel better now.

>>11480485
99% of the kits people ask for a revival are kits that don't need a revive.

>>11478906
>>11477172
What exactly is stopping me from kitbashing origin kits with the amazing red warrior to get this look? That sounds like a 10 minute arm and leg swap.

I think i might need to mess arround with the knee though

>>11480388
He's a big, wonderful boy.

>>11480623
My kingdom for a ver ka with fully articulate dick arms and hands that don't suck.

>>11463238 (OP)
why dont you guys put gunpla in the thread title

>>11481038
Does it bother you?

Is there a way to pirate all of the amazon English mooks? I don't want to pay money for a pdf.

>>11480185
The Narrative can hold a bazooka from the MG hi nu ver Ka I had stored since long ago pretty easily, You just NEED to rotate the beam saber rack in that side because it gets in the way

>>11479814
I can see that and assumed it was a magnet, but how do you slide it when assembled?

>>11481458
He is done

>>11481470
Lift the upper body (which is also held in place by magnets) off the rest of the thing, reach into the cavity with tweezers, move the eye, put the upper body back.

>>11480026
Work perfectly fine and preserves minute rivet detail on scale model planes for example. If you are getting orange peel, you likely need to thin more, it’s really that simple. The dissolved putty thing is simply a tagline, don’t get hung up on it. It can be used like any surfacer, just with the understanding it is thicker out of the bottle. Here is a reference of someone using it just fine and smooth through airbrush.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tprOcJAQ2x8

i need a better cleaner way to do the shallow panel lines. a pencil perhaps

>>11481814
Are you shaking the Tamiya bottle enough? I find adding baffles helps a lot. Also how long are you waiting for it to dry? Shoot for a minimum of 25 minutes and it'll hold better.

>>11481833
yea I shake it but I don't think I was waiting long enough for it to dry. thank you

>>11481520
Now he is

>>11481845
Not as cool as the Vidar for sure and it is ultimately a bare bones gandamu that stands out by being a weird nu Unicorn poormans mix

>>11481843
fucking nice

Why is the black gundam pour marker so unruly? I get why they only packed grey into the 5 pack now. It looks good, but the cleaning a nightmare

Please help a shitter out:

I currently have a MG ZZ Ver. Ka, and am planning to buy the upcoming reprint of the MG FAZZ and eventually the P-Bandai Enhanced ZZ expansion kit (if it ever shows up on the US webstore), to build this big beautiful motherfucker. Problem is, I also want to properly do the decals so that instead of Pegasus III and FA-010A markings, it has the proper Nahel Argama and FA-010S markings; and there is apparently no such thing as custom waterslides for the Full Armor ZZ (or at least none that I can find, the Daban color-molded version still has the original FAZZ markings). Additionally, as a bonus, I also have the MG Zeta Ver. Ka and MG Hyaku-Shiki 2.0, and will eventually order the MG Mk-II 2.0, all of which I also want to properly decal to match; the Zeta has Argama markings, and some of the various AEUG markings use the "Government" version of the acronym.

Since it seems that my only option is to somehow do it all myself, and a lot of the decals are going to be in white and gray, is there a service out there to order and print custom waterslides? I'm certain that I'm not the only person who has thought to do something like this, so surely there must be a way.

>>11482861
We don't know you, and if you are actually a Snap"shitter", the mg fazz ver ka decals with a kitbash, should be the last place to start.

Theres tons of g rework decals for high grades. You should start with atleast one of those. I think you should learn to paint first desu, and follow zaku aurelius's beginner series.

Theres like 10 decals companies. Most popular kits eventually get decals, and if they don't theres plenty of generic decals.

Currently i'm reading both of ghosts' books, so i reccomend g rework for generic decals. They work fantastic, no matter what you do to them

How do I best paint shit like this?
It's the leg/thruster of a Dra-C. Basically a clamshell with a grey thruster part in the middle. Can't remove the thruster once it's snapped together. I would really like to weld the seam and paint over the seam but I also don't want to prime or paint over the grey part.
Do I just try to mask it? Prime over it and try to paint really carefully? If I cut the thrusters pegs I could slide it in and out and just glue it in afterwards…
But this seems like a really common problem, so I think I may be overthinking it…

>>11483528
Id paint the gray part first, then apply liquid masking to the exposed areas. Then place it in that part and seal the seams. Paint and pull masking. Tape would work too but the liquid is probably a little easier to remove in that situation.

>>11483818
Well I don't have that stuff, so it would have to be tape.
This thing also has a real shitty shape for masking. It's all ridges and bumps. I guess I could build like a tape tent over it all…

Also same question about the head and arm. Though given that parts like this appears in every HG I assume the answer here is pretty cut and dried? Just mask them?

>>11483883
>I don't have that stuff
Liquid masking is not expensive or difficult to find and it will be VERY useful.

>>11483927
Yeah, but there's no physical stores selling hobby stuff anywhere near me and shipping single items costs quite a bit…
I'll think about it though. Any brand you would recommend?

>>11483883
it looks like there's enough surface area for glue to stick to that you could just cut the pegs off the thruster part and then put some glue on the purple part where the thruster part touches it then slide the thruster in

>>11483976
https://www.amazon.com/Acrylicos-Vallejo-85-Liquid-Mask/dp/B0063TQ99I

Hello anons, I picked up a Saint Armor Oracle recently. Does anyone have any experience with this kit? If not, any thoughts you have on it?
Also, how much do you guys hate snapshitters? I'm kind of ashamed of never having done any customization at all... besides maybe a bit of panel lining.

>>11484377
I heard it's pretty good. But beware that it doesn't come with an action base and it has no connector parts for one.

>>11484377
I can paint. Why should I care if you do not? Never got that.

>>11484502
I already had the kit in my hands before I found about it not having an action base. The fact that it doesn't have a connector isn't reassuring...
It's strange that they would leave out a base for a kit of this size.

>>11484506
I'm just very shy since I don't visit this thread too often, and a lot of people seem to be painting or customizing here.

>>11484377
>how much do you guys hate snapshitters? I'm kind of ashamed of never having done any customization at all... besides maybe a bit of panel
Hating people for just building and not customising is a thing?
I mean, to me the biggest part of this hobby is building first with customising/kitbashing/color correction being a "if you want to" thing rather than mandatory.

Hell I've been building for years and this Metagross was my first attempt at a full paint job and I've been posting my non painted kits and progress for a while.

>>11484377
>how much do you guys hate snapshitters
Hate is not the opposite of love, the opposite of love is not caring. Most of us don't care much about people who snap together their kits and call it a day.
So you can post your work as much as you like, you're just not going to get a lot of attention for it.

>>11484923
Some anon use to shittalk everything I ever posted and has called fully painted kits snapshit. Some anons just want to talk shit about everything.

Here's my haul since I built the gouf. Gonna fuck with panel lining and working on the Zaku this weekend. I'm just not gonna look at any models until I get these done before it turns into a problem.

>>11485467
forgot the image.

>>11485467
>>11485468
>I'm just not gonna look at any models until I get these done before it turns into a problem.
I know that feeling, I have a week off next week and I'm going to try and make a dent in this. That second to last one is flametoys Arcee.

That said, I am going to pick up Zeta Ver Ka for two reasons, it's on sale at one of my local sellers and you get a free cutting mat for orders over £50

>>11485561
Of course I'd forget my image too.

>>11485468
>>11485563
You say that but in 3 years those boxes will be burried under 50 boxes.

>>11485616
It'll probably be those six boxes. I wanted them but they haven't been high on my priority list over the other kits I bought.
I mean, I've had that rx-78 and Unicorn for about half a year but I've built a
Windblade
Sazabi ver. Ka
RX-93 ver. Ka
Chaos and Pretty Alice
A few 30mm/mf kits
MG Heavy Arms
This Metagross with the shiny paint job>>11484923

And probably a few more. At least one of that pile will get sidelined for Zeta too.

>>11485623
All jokes aside backlog management is a skill every builder needs to master. Ive been bad about buying up kits and not building as much as I should.

where the fuck do i go for gaia notes and mr hobby paints all the colors i need are always sold out on the usagundamstore.

>>11486306
Mecha Warehouse
Newtype
Sprue Brothers

>>11477867
>Do you usually paint large 3D printed nude figures?
actually i mainly do armored vehicles, with slight modifications to texturing and detail
do you post tiddies anywhere else

Haven't shopped at Mandarake in a while, so when I went to grab another Zeon crustacean for the next time I get a gunpla craving, I also got a couple of Koto kits.

I was always curious about the Grande FAGs, so here's one. I expected the literal 200% resize of the FAG runners, but it looks like they did add some extra detail: the hair appears to be more detailed, the face plates have some extra detail compared to the regular FAG (although I'm not sure why they went with the yellow for the smiling face's lips, gonna have to fix that), the bare feet have toenals, not sure about the fingernails for the hands though, it's hard to tell through the bag.

So I guess next will be Venti (1/3?) and Trenta (1/1?). Sure look forward to seeing that.

Arrived today
This version is from the Wataru streamer show.
The is basically a EG.
No sticker bullshit
Thanks Amzon for crushing

>>11487424
Looks nice.

I want to torture myself with the Motor King Xamel kit, is Gundamaker a legit site? Other options are chinks on ebay or aliexpress which I refuse to use.

New thread: >>11488067