-=READ THE GUIDES=-Welcome to the Gunpla/Plamo General!For those new, please read our guides. We have many resources available to help you in many different aspects of the hobby. They're here for you!For the unclear, "plamo" is short for "plastic model". "Gunpla" is thus short for "Gundam plastic model". Many different kinds of models are built here, ranging from mecha to planes, cars, musume, you name it! If you're new, you're gonna screw up. Don't worry! If you're seasoned, don't make the newbies worry!And don't forget to report shitposting and spam. The mods don't browse /m/ too often, so it's up to YOU to help keep our general clean and civil!>Why won't anyone answer my question?Be more specific, and try to provide clear images if you can.>Why are my pictures sideways?4chan strips EXIF data when images are uploaded, including the orientation tag if it's from your phone. To fix it save out your images separately, or use an app that will rotate and save the images for you.One easy to use app that works well on Android:play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobilephotoresizer-=THE GUIDES=->Gelgoog Guy's gunpla guide:gunpla.buyfags.moe>Funaka's gunpla guides:Building Gunpla: files.catbox.moe/fj5azc.pdfScratchbuilding: 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/1n0pstzPrior thread: >>23482784
-= BIOMECHA GROUPBUILD =-Build a mecha/cyborg with a visibly biological component integrated into the machine. This can include:>Mecha that naturally have some sort of organic component to them (Evangelions, Aura Battlers, etc)>Mecha that have organic elements attached/fused to them, willingly or otherwise >Cyborgs, androids, and human with mechanical attachments/enhancements (Robocop, Kamen Rider, mecha musume, etc)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 - 8/12/25END - 11/30/25
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>>23489179Why did he do it?
>Get the HG Choryujin kit because I heard it scales with the RG Gaogaigar kits>Get warned its a partsformer for the combining gimmick.>Look it up.>Pic related is the partsforming piece.You're shitting me. Really Bandai? You might as well just sell a seperate figure if your going to do this. Its not even a combination gimmick at this point, you're just swapping a few cosmetic pieces around.
>>23489334>please give me less accessories and parts Bandai!!!
>>23489334Think about it the other way, you can recast just a few parts and have both Choryujin, Enryu and Houryu displayed at the same time
>>23489370Nah, it's not a "Give me less stuff" thing. When the only parts of the component robots you end up using are the arms, lower legs, and crane/ladder arms you're left with all this shit. Yeah, you're left with a lot of stuff that you COULD use for kitbashing in theory, but then you lock yourself into only displaying it as Choryujin forever.
is primer even necessary if i'm airbrushing only acrylics and in (mostly) stock colors
>>23489392To use another combiner as an example, Moderoid God Mars has you build all 6 components separately, yet in order to get the on-screen look for both the individual robots and the combined Godmars, you basically have to dismantle the arm/leg mechs by removing pretty much everything except their torso, then slapping on an additional part below that to attach pretty much the entire lower leg. This is everything you're left over with. Fun fact, I used the blue leg pieces from Sphinx as the backpack parts for the Earthshaker Hound last groupbuild. Yeah this puts me in the scenario that I'll never be able to properly display the six together, but I bought the thing for Godmars, not Gaia, Sphinx. Uranus, Titan, Ra, and Shin. However it's completely understandable to want to display Hyoryu and Enryu on their own instead of ChoRyujin since they're actual characters instead of mindless combiner drone pieces. >>23489399A thousand times yes. If not for adhesion then to just ensure you get proper color coverage.
>>23489399Most acrylics paints won't really stick to the plastic on their own. The primer is a medium that adheres to the plastic, which the paint can then stick to.
>https://youtube.com/shorts/cLtleIyRxOs?si=eLORACAcmXkKWwP1His scribing skills pisses me off ngl. Its very clean.
>>23489413i bet these ruler tape things are retardedly pricy
>>23489370>"Please take more of my money by bloating the price by $10-$20 to cover for lazy engineering Bandai!"
Which is more value for the money, canned spray primer or primer for hand painting?
>>23489421Cans are definitely the money waster option
>>23489413What do these lines accomplish?
>>23489436greeble
>>23489436Makes it go faster
>>23489444Wouldn't it make it go slower because the air resistance is now contending with grooves?
>>23489436contraband cache
>>23489436What does painting accomplish
>>23489487Why are you answering a question with a question?
>>23489501Why dont you answer the question?
>>23489436They insist upon themselves.
>>23489449Not in space
>>23489179I just spent 4.5 hours. turning FM Vidar into a Gusion.Who the fuck told me that IBO Gundams have the same frame? that's a goddamn LIE.I had to do a fucking tranny surgery on Vidar's waist just so it can fit inside Gusion's body armor.Gusion's Leg, Arm and Body (Back) armors rely on long male connectors that connect into a hole in the arm/leg, which Vidar doesn't have, so I had to snip all the male connectors on armors or made a hole in some of the frame part (another tranny surgery).And the THIGH - LEG joints are straight up incompatible. Gusion's joints are "Claw" type, while Vidar is... idk how to call it, but it's Gear-like/Circular, so I had to snip the Circular stuff and turned it into a Claw shape that I can insert into the hole inside Gusion's leg + double tape, so it can actually stay there with minimal leg articulation.Goddamn man, I'm just a casual snapshitter, but I felt like RAYSTUDIO trying to fit an Infinite Justice inside a Z'gok today.That was very tough, but well worth it. What a badass FAT FROG. I need The O and Dom to become its friends.
>>23489521The Gusions
>>23489521i don't get itthere's a 1/100 frog gusion? or did you put the hg parts on the frame
>>234895261/100 Gusion is Gusion + Rebake set. 2 armor types, but only 1 frame. can't display both.
>>23489392Why are you making such a retarded statement? What if i don't want Choryujin? What if i want the twin robots? >Groupbuild dudeYeah no wonder. Fucking faggot running a faggy thread such as this.
>>23489521Also, the Hammer is way too heavy to lift.Gusion/Rebake set provides 4 gripping hands, but 2 can only be used on Rebake's backpack arms since the joints are too big for the normal arms and I already used both gripping hands on Rebake, so there's nothing left for Gusion.I tried using Vidar's gripping hand on Gusion, but of fucking course it's incompatible with Gusion's green hand armor, so I had to use Rebake's right hand and let Rebake grip the Axe with its backpack 3rd hand instead.fucking Bandai, man...
>>23489539Imagine being this buttblasted lmao
>Mogs your backlog while being cuteNothing personnel /gpg/
>>23489543
>>23489543>all bandaislopdoesn't seem very mogging to me
>>23489543I can only dream of having a backlog this big
I don't like protagonist mech
>>23489549any of them? from any franchise?
>>23489543My backlog is unironically bigger and I'm pretty sure my ZAP is more expensive than that entire wall by itself
>>23489539>What if i don't want Choryujin? What if i want the twin robots? Then display them as Hyoryu/Enryu? Either way you're still left with leftover parts from the truck modes, let alone the huge Choryujin body. I mean fuck, even the $300+ Soul of Chogokin includes parts to swap out for a more anime accurate look, even though it can still do a perfect transformation. It's just the nature of Symmetrical Docking where you either have to sacrifice any semblance of joints in the torso or do faux parts for it to be fully articulated.
Don't care.I will NEVER buy a gbitch kit.I will NEVER buy a gcucks kit.I WILL buy more Wing kits.I WILL buy more Seed kits.I WILL buy more IBO kits.I WILL buy X kits (when I'm in the mood for it).
>>23489553you should build it
>>23489527oh ok, didn't know that
>>23489553Lets see it
>>23489560Cool 1/25 tiger. Does it have a inner frame? Bandai should reprint those.
>>23489553But are you cuter? Yeah I dont think so buddy.
>>23489543>generic asian with a mask obscuring most of the face>cuteYellow fever much?
https://x.com/O15RXnhQL8nvfYW/status/1962110276809216019?t=4UInaddMWUx4M6Ta7GdITg&s=19
>it transforms
>>23489283My favorite Macross The Movie design and my Favorite Macross TV series design, together and coming soon. Awesome!
>take inspo from something>not sure for the finishing touch, pull up reference>the detail I had in mind was a complete invention on my partturns out i'm an ex-nihilo chador a mandela effect cel
>>23489283That plastic Lynn Minmay kit better be fucking good. I got burned the last time they made one. I think it was Hasegawa or some shit but I remember opening the box, seeing her gummy ass down syndrome fetal alcohol looking face and just throwing the box to the sidewalk
>>23489617Oh god dammit I just looked and it IS fucking Hasegawa. Again. Son of a bitch I think I'm gonna wait for the reviews before pre-ordering. God I hate Hasegawa's character models so much. Their mecha look fine idk why they cant get faces right though. They're like Games Workshop bad.
>>23489617it says resin
>>23489414cant you just use normal plastic tape?
>>23489633no, big plamo conditioned me into thinking the scriber would eat straight through it
>>23489593It's just a modified zeta ver ka so yeah?
I didn't liked the show, but the Solaris is growing on me
>>23489641My brother in christ the base kit is a GQuuuuuuX Gelgoog.
>>23489593qwucksilicious
>>23489647Oh so he slapped the gcucks hg on a zeta hg.
>>23489642what's the guy on the right
>>23489650I mean there's some other kits involved too (The head is from a Harute with the Mk II's vulcans attached for example) but engineering the transformation at that scale is still fairly impressive.
>>23489636Just lightly feather the scribing until you have a stable edge.
>>23489652Forgot the line name, but they made a Gundam and Zaku statues that looke like carved out of stone
>>23489592>>23489593looks like he used 5+ kits for this, I could never break down 5 Hgs for parts, you are just wasting a shit ton of money at that point,>HG Gquuuux Gelgoog>HG P Bandai Barzam>HG Zeta>2x HG Michaelis>HG Harutedont know where the legs and back boosters came from
>>23489676imo anything goes if it's in service of the vision but it's far easier to get scrap parts in japan. some on yahoo auctions/mercari sell kits by the arms/legs/torso/accessories and I've seen images of stores there doing that too
Greetings, noob here.I've been thinking about 3D-printing spare parts for an old kit i have (cant hold his rifle due to loose joints). You wouldnt know if there are already some databases with the 3D models already done?. Or im going to learn to model them myself. Or maybe its a bad idea to begin with>pic relatedhaha...
What kit? You could literally buy a "Joint Strengthening Pen" and just apply a little bit and strengthen the joints. Alternatively it would be faster to recast the joints unless you have a printer and it's simple enough to 3d model.
I bought a Chang saber effect, it's too cool, thank you my Chinese brothers for creating kino.
>De minimis removed>Everything on Surugaya drops like $5They're just taunting Americans now.
>>23489889holy basedtime to buy out all the stock
>>23489889I don't even know what I wanna buy from surugay anymore, my backlog is too big.
Imagine a perfect world where Americans are priced out of Gundam. No more Wingfaggots, no more WfMtroons. Only UC and SEEDkino.We're in the golden timeline, friends.
>>23489912>SEAd
>>23489912Imagine no more catering to the "realism" Muh w40k faggets. Only super robot gundam and a bunch of kino.
>>23489889>5 dollarsWow. Much savings.
It's amazing how I can see the same shitposters (most likely) claim that the US market is both irrelevant as most sales go to Japan/China and also that the US market is so relevant that Bandai caters to us and they hope they'll stop catering to us now.
>>23489953both of those statements are true albeit I personally will never forgive Wing for taking that Ver Ka spot with the Zero Custom and hope that nightmare is all behind us now
>>23489953John Bandai works in mysterious ways and attempt to understand his thought process is an exercise in frustration.
>>23489953It's almost like shitposters just want to say things to stir shit and not things they actually believe.
do you guys have any display shelf recommendations from IKEA? I live like right by one lol
>>23490033I have Detolf but its discontinued
>>23490040they have the blaliden now but I hear it's kind of shit
>smaller than HG>somehow has sharper/better detailsSo HGs fucking suck on purpose then
>>23490052sure if you only snapshit it
>>23490063man i want to get these to vary up my painting but looking at them this close it's intimidating
>>23489837This one. Granted im watching some video and apparently the kit itself is kinda bad.>>23490033I bought the skruvby some months ago and its fine.
>>23490075This was one of my first gunpla kits ever. I got it from an EB Games in Atlanta. I loved the effect parts it came with.
>>23490069The worst thing about these is removing the seam lines
my backlog can sustain itself from falling by touching the ceiling
>>23489889Prices haven't changed at all.
>>23489912i hate SEAd too but i would accept this compromise
>>23489521>Who the fuck told me that IBO Gundams have the same frame? that's a goddamn LIE.Why would you listen to advice from this board?
>>23490095>99% bandai>meme poster
>>23490063Oh, so when you complain about kits not being sharp enough it just means that they don't have mold flashing on them, I see.
Is hobby lobby getting rid of their gundam section?
>>23490095what's this one?
>>23490033My Deltolfs filled up recently so I took some space from books on my Billy bookshelf. It's about the right depth for Action Base 1s for MGs even with their extendy bit and about 6 wide. I think you can fit 4 MG height shelves with an extra for HG?
>>23490112g self from reconquita in gi never managed to find one of those kits coming to think of it
IDK if this is the right place to ask but is there any kind of repository on the net with high quality pictures of painted models? Especially interested in VOTOMS ones. I know there's a yearly VOTOMS-themed con in Japan with lots of dioramas, but I couldn't find high-res pictures.
>>23490110They just seem to be moving away from MG kits. Used to be they would have two shelves for MG kits, but they're clearing one of those shelves for stuff like Digimon, Kyokai Senki, 30MM, and Mazinger. Their HG and RG selection is about the same as it was before.
>>23490130>Kyokai SenkiThat shit doesn't even sell in Japan. How are they getting retailers to take stock of it.
>>23490130>clearing one of those shelves for stuff like Kyokai Senkilmfao
>>23490130Mines only had MG RX-78 3.0 as far as MGs go for a few months now. Rather annoying as they have a shelf spot for Seed MG and I'm looking for a Freedom 2.0
>>23490133I think foreign retail partners are little more than cockpuppets for bandai, they get what they get and they get it when they get itThey don't send a wishlist
>>23490133My guess is they're getting the kits second-hand from unsold stock in Japan, and getting a good deal for it. Then praying (lol) that the average American consumer who has never watched the show will see these plastic robot toys that look cool and buy them.
>>23490152they do send a wishlisthowever it's mostly ignored and they get sent kyoukai senki and battleogues instead, partly because bandai already has a set schedule of prints and they aren't going to print the mg turn x just because 5 shops wanted 2 each
>>23490114do you have the double wide billy or like the single tall one?
>>23490157Bandai also intentionally sends shelfwarmers to euro storesProlly because the yakuza dinosaur higher ups have some sperg grudge or something
new ku kin->rg base exclusive sloppagotta pay the bills i suppsoe
>>23489521rip I cannot find a Gusion/Rebake for less than I paid for my perfect zeong so no frog for me.
>>23490298if you don't mind 1/144 the hg got a reprint recently and there's a really shitty bootleg of the hg
bros, I'm not gonna make it in time for the group build, HLJ has my kit hostage!!!!
>>23490318EXTEND
>>23490318Dude you have until the end of fucking November there's plenty of time
>>23490318are you american or somethinghlj suspended all shipments to americaif you're the same guy from weeks ago i shipped around the same time as you and they shipped it in just over a week, but i'm not american
>>23490095that fucking faggot dog
lmfaohttps://x.com/Gavan_AGE1/status/1962455102708744211?t=lRw8UQbbCavMaP0UOYlt8g&s=19
>>23483496i heard someone was talking shit about RGM's.
>>23490456I KNEEL
>>23490456explains why the AGE kits have always been so hard to find.
What the FUCK am I supposed to do when I run out of shelf space?
>>23490518rent a shelf stretcher?
>>23490518Make more shelf space. Nail some floating shelves to your walls, hang some models from the ceiling
>>23490456this is either a scalper's home and this dude has issuesor its a hoarder house and this dude has even further issues>>23490518i have reorganized stuffyou can buy shelves desu its not a bad ideaone day ill have to take out my old books but i still got room
>>23490518>>23490534
>>23490565>not organizing them as a flying fleetlost opportunity tbqh
>>23490395I'm a leaf. there's nothing wrong from what I can tell, no emails from HLJ telling me my order got destroyed by circumstances or my payment got fucked up, it has been 3+ weeks now.
>>23490456one day if he feels like it, he could let people come into his basement and buy kits off him like a typical hobby shop lol
>>23490518Gunpla battle tournament. Losers get thrown out.
>>23489543what's even the point of gunpla if I can't ever be cute while snapshidding?
>MG Mk-V and MG Tallgeese III ship this month:)
>MG gogg and MG zeong ship this month:)
>>23490865I look like this IRL
>>23490865Why can't china design simple robots?It's always overcrowded overdesgined slop
>>23490881We're in the Chinese century, they can only understand things in excess.
>>23490881They insist upon themselves, anon
>>23490865hummingbird kit fucking WHEN???????
>>23490926Isn't it just a Zeta Plus with a bunch of bullshit strapped onto it? Maybe an expansion pack.
>>23490930I wouldn't mind an expansion pack for the MG C1 and A1 desu
>>23490930Looks like a kitbash of the Zeta Plus C1 and the S-Gundam Booster Unit's leg boosters
>>23490964>S-Gundam Booster Unit's leg boostersAre there any kits that have these?
>>23490881thats literally the original design straight from Katoki.
>>23490975(P-Bandai) [Bst] S Gundam Booster Unit Type
>>23490456Seems like a mentally ill guy starting his hoard, since there's other pictures where he also has multiple same kits of different car models and plane models as well
>>23490980Huh wow what the fuck, when was the last time this fucking thing was even on P-Bandai?
That Geass x Wing Zero Custom is cool but damn that price
What's the greebliest first party kit out there right now?
>>23491030Either something from Moon Gundam or the Gundams from Gquuux
>>23491034It's 100% the gcuck zakuvarguil doesn't look out of place next to a jesta
>>23491030Pick any Infinitism kit.
>>23491034>>23491045wait no i know it's the Requiem for Vengeance kits
If Bandai ask Katoki to design MGSD of S-Gundam, would he do it?
>>23491001it only got issued once... in 2014! another alternative is to kitbash it from Deep Striker, which is coming next year.
>>23491059>it only got issued once... in 2014!Kind of wild, I get why the EX-S never gets reprinted (lots of fucking plastic) but is the base Sentinel that much plastic? And those boosters can't be too crazy.Wonder if we'll see this go up soon with all the other sentinel reprints.
Where are the biomech updates
