-=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 (October):old.reddit.com/r/gunpla/1nokuv5Prior thread: >>23564070
-= 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
Post your WIPs!!!!!
When you nut but she keeps suckin'.
>Noooo Bandai to move these robots to P-Bandai because they won't sell as retail!Meanwhile what Bandai retails:
>>23568335It's arrived today and my next build
>>23568391ah fuck, it's only in 1/100? also a real pain in the ass to search for on ali
>>23568390Let's hope they learn from this flop and need to recover funds by releasing some good reprints of wanted kits.
>>23568400Watch it make billions
>interested in MG Amazing Red Warrior>at least 9000 Yen in my countryWhat the fuck man, the original price was like 5000 Yen.
>>23568400i dont think they expect it to sell well. its a model kit line to test their materials. just like the dinosaur model kit line was made to test limestone/plastic polymer, i think they made this line to test their clay material and its potential
THANK YOU CHINAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYFOzBaSu9Q
>>23568419thats what Bandai deserve for making God Gundam HiRM instead of making a MG 2.0 or ver Ka
>>23568418Bandai is a corporation, not a non profit charity. They expect things to sell well. >Test materialIt is the same KPS they have been using for the last 15 years, but now with some playdoh while at it.
>>23568419NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE BUY ONLY PBANDAI GARBAGE PLEASE
Fat Cat's God Gundam is as tall as their RX782, 18cm tall.
>>23568419FATCAT doesWhat bandont
>>23568428I’m interested in this but I sleep for now
>>23568428That should be the correct scale. God Gundam is tiny. What is their RX782 based off of again? I'm wanting both if they're good.
>>23568418You do know that Bandai spent millions of dollar into these lines, right? Saying they want to test and experiment is reek of copium.
>>23568428dropped, i expect it to be as tall as MG F91 or Wing but making it as tall as RX-78 is travesty
>>23568428Fucking chang retards can't do anything right
>>23568434Both kits based on Bandai's latest RG for them. >Correct scaleNah, RX78-2 is 18m, God is 16.6m
>>23568390>>23568418It's not even 10 AM, too early for me to bitch about the sheer incompetence combined with lunacy that comprises bandai.
>>23568434>What is their RX782 based off of again?The RG 2.0
>>23568439>Nah, RX78-2 is 18m, God is 16.6mMy mistake, I legitimately just came out of the universe that had 18m listed for both God Gundam and RX-78-2.
>>23568437They certainly can’t scale shit, like making the Jeddah 23cm, which is taller than the MG Hi Nu when it should be about 21.8cm
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).
>>23568446I'll be lenient with them, sure they're copying someone else's homework but they took someone else's homework and then transformed it into a schnazzy power point presentation.
>>23568446No, that scaling is abit correct. Hi Nu is 20m tall.
>nitpickingdon't care. china is the best. fuck bandai.
>>23568449I mean to be fair, Bandai has redesigned things more than once. Look at their HG Murasame Kai for example.
>>23568437Bandai already fucked the scale on RG God
>>23568453I meant Nu, not the hi-nu
>>23568437I'm a size queen and not a scale autist so I'm happy about it being big
>>23568458How so? Also has anyone posed it next to Nobel?
>>23568460Saying it being big is abit of a stretch. The modest height range of 15 - 18cm tall stops being impressive once you have collected bigger kits.
>>23568462
>>23568467ACUTE
Does the PG Strike Rouge really only have the one screw? I want to make sure everything came in the box for mine.
>>23568475Just look at the manual.
>>23568458How do RG God compared to Crossbone and Wing?
>https://youtu.be/YYFOzBaSu9Q?si=uaMNqDfKny7ls0YeOk im intrigued
>>23568485
Why is my Gunraid still not here :’(
>>23568498Yeah this is pretty correct. F91 is 15m tall, which is shorter.
>>23568504But anon, he was delivered a month ago (or longer).
Old HG boxes are so tiny
>>23568504If you ordered another kit that has a later ship date Bandai will lump them together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Zr6MFMxpwI'd like to see it side by side with the hi resolution one
I can no longer afford bandai kitseven HGs are 5000+ yen nowadays.
>>23568580Yeah.. that re/100 was just 50 doll hairs for me.
>>23568580anon that's like 30 bux, are you from india or something
>>23568576as seen here >>23568428 it appears one of the main differences is the head, the antennas seem much longer
>>23568582my monthly salary is only $500
>>23568591Maybe you have bigger problems in life than plastic toys costing too much
>>23568592I need bread & circus or else I'd kill myself in weeks
>>23568594You work for like 10 hours a week. You do not have real problems if your only problem is toys costing too much
>>2356859713 hours a day including commute
>>23568594
>>23568601Mein nigger you need a better job then. Borderline indentured servitude ass salary
>>23568580>even HGs are 5000+ yen nowadaysNo they aren't. I just bought the HG GQux Police Zaku for 2100. >>23568604He's another 3rd worlder. These threads have been swarming with them for months.
>>23568614>HG GQux Police Zaku for 2100will you be my online japanese friend
>>23568580Wait is this why you guys hate FSS so much? Never realized it might be a fox and the grapes situation.
its here, the bootleg MGEX Unicorn ver Ka. its code is 2201
>>23568635I hate it because theres no translations for the manga and we’re stuck with the autistic sperg translation.
>>23568642just read it in japanese
>>23568635yes. it's all poors and snapshitters that hate it
>>23568646It's not good enough to justify learning a new language for it
>>23568635>FSStoo elitist
>>23568650but by that logic I would hate mortarheadds AND GTMs and that's not true, I only hate GTMs
>>23568650rename your pic to "TRVKE"
>>23568654It really isnt. There are Chinese recasts for cheap and the plastic models arent much more expensive than Bandai.
>>23568646Teach me how while im on your lap.
>>23568650Please post one that you did. I think they're really ugly but you seem very confident that the paint salvages the stick figure design.
Here's a better FSS bro
Yikes stop it with the bootlegs.
>>23568530I don’t order from Bandai cause I’m a leaf
>>23568664fss is way better than gundamslop
>>23568669My favorite part about this is that I can't tell where the robot is.
post a cool fss custom
>>23568679Let us see some of your collection then.
I'm gonna hunt down the FATCAT guys in China and send their coordinates to Bandai-sama so they can get drone striked
>>23568689>you said something that upset me, now give me some ammunition to personally insult youLol why do you guys ALWAYS do this? At least you didnt say POST UR WERK this time lmao
>>23568692Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a chinaman.
>>23568693>>23568689
>>23568693I just wanna see photos of these things that aren't stock photos from the company.
>>23568693why immediately get defensive when someone just wants to see your cool models?
>>23568698no one owns them bruh.it's overpriced like 300% upcharge at least, and the design itself is just so ugly
>a long time FSS fan excited to build his very first FSS model kit
>>23568700That's the feeling I get. People shill them constantly but I've never seen someone post one.
>>23568699You are either new here or being facetious/disingenuous. It is extremely common for people here to say 'post your___' during an argument just so they can insult or belittle it. Literally every time.
Starting to see listings for the God Gundam go up on Ali, mostly around 40-50.
>look up FSS>typical 1/144 kits are around 12-17k yenthis is criminal
>>23568713Strange looking Shokew.
I lowballed a mercari seller on a zaku 2.0 and a sazabi ver.ka and they accepted my offer. It's being delivered today. What are the chances it's a box with a brick in it?
>>23568713>typical 1/144 kits are around 12-17k yenWhat? That kit is 6000 yen and it's closer to a MG Gundam in height.
>>23568706I wanna do a diorama with junchoon and 2 berlins and maybe the new 1/144 vatshu but I haven't gotten started on painting them yet
>>23568704Retard
>>23568704Are you ok, anon?
FSS is a fucking terrible manga.
>>23568335Can you guys give me any fees back in this? It needs to be cleaned up a bit still
>>23568765Derp, feed* back
>>23568704You can be a long time fan of something and never buy any merch, yes.
>>23568770>being a fan of a toy advertisement without buying the toysBut why though
>>23568721Maybe he was highballing and got what he wanted.
>>23568772I love Kamen Rider and i couldn't give two shit about those retarded toys Bandai have been churning out. Same with how you can be a fan of an anime without buying the bluray. No one cares.
>>23568774The difference is that mecha has no redeeming qualities other than the designs it wants to sell you toys of
>>23568776Cool bait, here's your (You) since you want it so bad.
>>23568776Oh believe me, Kamen Rider's current run is exactly what you are describing. The characters and stories are just so shit, they make the toys feel worse somehow.
>>23568776Anon, you're about to get a beating for this bait.
Experimenting with Citadel's contrast line to see if there's any cool effects I can do. Not sure what to think of this kinda result (also the photo is shit which doesn't help)
>>23568788Contrast paint on large flat panels is possibly the dumbest thing you could use it forIt's designed to add instant contrast to complex, detailed surfaces
>>23568591Average filipino
>preordered 2x Denan Geis>regret itShould I have ordered 3? Should I just bite the bullet and order the third?
>>23568788What exactly is different from their other paint lines?
>>23568790I was specifically interested in how it's kind of clear and what kind of effect I could do by slapping it over metallics. Didn't really have minis to try it on, thought I might experiment on a old HG
>>23568682It's in there bro.
Guys, the Digimon game has consumed my mind and I caved in.I just bought the Figure-Rise Standard Dukemon.I am fulfilling a childhood dream, but I also need to finish my group build project.
>>23568428The scale being wrong is a deal breaker for me. Dammit FATCAT you were the chosen one to save us from bandai's explicit exploitation of us.
>>23568790you can use them over large surfaces just not with a paint brush, you have to airbrush them. I've used them as a filter for post shading and to do a heat-stained effect over metallic and it works well. you just have to be careful not to overspray because they're semi-transparent, not fully transparent like a dedicated clear so it will turn opaque if you go too heavy.
>>23568835autistic lil faggot
>>23568805Now that we finally have a really good Digimon game, that means we can have a good single-player Gundam game, right?Right?
>>23568846gundam evolution 2, take it or leave it
>>23568788>>23568790Aren't contrast paints just for speedpainting Warhammer armies? Also can't you just paint solid colors then shade?
>>23568788>Strike Gundam in red and blue, no whiteHmmmm Where did i see this before?
>>23568848I believe he is just using it as a wash.
>>23568842Just buy inks at that point, no reason to overspend for british jew paint
>>23568853i find contrast paints easier to control than ink. I find ink tends to bead up and spiderweb more
>>23568851Yeah, like I said I wanted to experiment with it and how I can toy around with metallic effects, not do a real complex finished work>>23568849Shoutouts to Axel, wherever he is
>>23568805Looking at the kit, I think I will have to make some big modifications. The shoulders are too flat, the waist too large,the neck too high and some seamlines in troublesome places.Any ideas how to make the waist thinner, scratch build it?How do I deal with the lance seam lines, separate tip part and glue later after painting?
>>23568869Maybe experiment with a spoon next time
>>23568880Plastic spoons aren't really a thing here anymore and I'm not fucking handing money to Amazon and paying shipping for that when I have perfectly good plastic I can paint and not miss the base color or finish of the kit
>>23568765I am not giving you your fees back. Can you post a pic of the gun next to the robot who'll use it ?
>>23568847based
>>23568907are you forgetting a lot of us here have lived in these generals for years and have seen the same pics reposted over and over again
>>23568910Thank your for your unwavering attention and support.
>>23568910Ignore him. He has been spamming these pics everytime someone disagree with his vocal "modeling tips". I just usually do you know what and hope the jannies tap on his ass.
>>23568910The only photo that I clearly remember is that thighfag who cuts his legs.
>>23568591Thats rough buddy, why aren't you trying to escape the shithole that you're living in?
>>23568913the BIC special
>>23568913Why are you such a sperg? Hell even faggots know how not to make their contents repetitive.
>>23568927Go on. Post about 30 more.
I'm noticing the bad modeling advice always comes from some guy shilling Warhammer related paint/techniques. Why can they not understand that scale models of anime robots don't use the same techniques that tabletop gaming miniatures use?
I'm noticing blasting basecoats at 50psi and calling it a ""technique"""""
>>23568793Let the fomo flow through you, you'll never get a chance to order Denan Geis again if you don't order them now.
>>23568933Warhammer has different aesthetic compares to Japanese mecha. The modeling advices for these kits don't fit.
>Warhammer>Modelling.
>>23568955>He doesn't know about homebrew factions
>>23568957>He thinks I care about Larphammer.the lore is cool tho, but the stupidly slow plot progress is just ruining it for me
>>23568953Outside of them having greebles that would make the Chinese blush, they also are tiny enough to where they need to paint on how shadows would work. Even 1/144 scale models are large enough to where you should just use real light instead of paint.
>>23568966Most of Warhammer are character kits, they need wash, shading and stuff Gunpla cannot use unless you want to weather your Gundam. These two are never gonna blend in.
>>23568970>>23568953t. follows a cookbook for anything creative
>>23568965>>23568966>>23568970>>23568955>>23568953>>23568933paintlet cope
>>23568788Holy shit, it's red cliff
>>23568635>>23568650bandaibabies typically encounter FSS as their first actual model kits that need glue + paint + cost more than a happy meal and so throw a tantrum about how they're being gatekept
>>23568992case in point >>23568713
>>23568992This seems like cope for substandard manufacturing ability.
>>23568992True, but Nagano IS a pretentious hack, they're right about that.
>>23568992how insecure does one need to be to see a gray model kit and think "this is a personal slight against ME!"
>>23568706Nigger nobody posts shit here unless it's stolen from Reddit or a ragebait snapshit. Stop pretending to be new.
>>23568992based ourtreasure
>>23568996>molded in one color = substandard manufacturing abilitythe shitposts write themselves
>>23568999i only post shit here but i finish like 1-2 models a year despite constantly building because i have unmedicated adhd and a chronic inability to finish anything
for the amount of FSS boxforts and GTM lusting I see here, I have only seen three FSS kits actually painted kits get posted (neither of which gothicslops) in the last six years.thread has a lot of 'splainin' to do
Our Treasure is the Silksong of mecha model kits
>>23568998Are you new here?
>>23568999I have posted like 5 fully painted builds in the last month.Almost fully painted. I leave one piece unpainted on everything to make nerds mad. Pic related. One of these blue pieces is unpainted.>>23569005They insist upon themselves
>>23569004i'll get around to masking and finishing it one of these days…but not now because i'm starting my ourtreasure gatexion mk3 tomorrow. maybe i'll finish that one
What are the most bandaibaby-friendly FSS kits?
>>23568992Fucking hilarious
>>23569012none. literally all of them need glue, paint, and masking at the very least
>>23569012Any of the L-Gaim HG's
>>23569014your average bandaibaby doesn't even know these exist
>>23569016l-gaim is only fss-adjacent so they don't count
>>23569018Well that's the only option you have because the only people that make Bandai snapfit are Bandai.
The FSSissies are making fun of us again babbies!
Five slop stories.
>>23569021>snapbuilding consoomer calling accusing something needing effort of being slopkek
>>23568614Checks out. If I was making 500 a month I'd off myself
>>23569009I like your orange. What brand or mix?
If you hate Five Star Stories that means you hate Nagano. If you hate Nagano, you hate Tomino. If you hate Nagano and Tomino, you LOVE Katoki and Bandai. If you love Bandai and Katoki, you are a certified niggercattle.A goyslopper to the MAX.
I am going to snapshit this one
>>23569026True Katoki lovers say fuck Bandai and buy his Virtual-On kits from Hasegawa. But those require actual modelling skills.
>>23569025It's like 6 layers of shit. It was primed gray, then painted gold, then painted red, then painted yellow mixed with gold, then a thin freehand mixed orange, then topcoated matte. I was just painting by feel until I got a color I liked.
>>23569027
>>23569027it literally won't fully stay together without glue, you can't snapshit it
>>23569027GTMs are ironically more snapshittable than MH.
>>23569035So like any other non-Bandai "snap" kit?
>>23569039gsc and modern koto snapshit just the same as bandai, just with more seams and less color separation. the vsms daccas doesn't have snapfit pegs at all. the tolerances on some of the little nubs are tight enough to mostly fit together with friction but others are like a balancing act without glue and will fall off if you move the kit at all
>>23569031I need to finish this in my backlog.
i could paint a fss kit super good but i won't buy one because i don't care for the source material
>Needing glue for a glorified figurineLMAO. Might as well buy animu figures.
>>23569044you need to try harder with your bait, here have a participation (you)
me when I take a couple week long break from painting a kit but don't take any notes so now I don't remember which shades of gray I used for which parts
>>23569037where's the robot?
>>23569048how is your memory that bad
>>23569047Why would I bait? When I'm just stating the truth.
>>23569051drain bamage
>>23569054Bare minimum consequences for sniffing paint.
>GTM lovers are brain drooling retardsthe posts just write themselves!
>>23569056forgot to post my latest build
>>23569056>brain drooling So the rumors about these threads being 99% ESL SEAfags was true?
>>23569061you can guarantee that any post complaining about prices and/or shilling bootlegs is a thirdie
>>23569031real Katoki lovers ditch Hasegawa and go for Kotobukiya for Kino Virtua On designs instead of over decaled garbage of the Virtua On Marz designs
>>23569061I like to invent figurative speechI typed that picturing your rotted, putrescent brain leaking out of your ear canals (like drool)
>>23569063>complains about Katoki decals>goes to KotobukiyaOkay snapbaby
>>23569064>I like to invent figurative speechNobody asked but thanks for letting us know your feelings got hurt
>>23569067you can say anything that helps you sleep at night, I guess
>>23569010That's beautiful.
>Check /gpg/ for some cool builds>See posts>See fssfags trying to be relevant>No builds posted or anything.At least post the boxes.
>>23569062GTM haters seem like a 50/50 split thoughthirdies that can't affordwestern FSS fans that hate post-senility nagano
>>23569074I posted my astray like an hour ago. Here's a box for you.
>>23569074>>Check /gpg/ for some cool buildslol who are you trying to fool>bitches about FSS in his safe spaceoh okay checks out
>>23569074Sloppy sisters only post their boxes because they can't actually build or paint the kits they grandstand about so much.
>>23569080>Blue logointo the trash it goes.
>>23569083I just got it from USAGS
>>23569082post your gritty gm
>>23569077>implying westerners don't also get assmad for not being able to afford thingsHalf these threads are whites bitching about P-Bandai
>>23569074Snapshitter trigger warningFirst time doing panel lines trigger warning
>>23569090That kit is also a great one to practice some painting on since it's got so much going on in the chest and shoulders. You can paint the machine guns and the rockets up and if they look like ass you can just close them.
>>23569086It's in the box.
Finished my first 1:100 IMS. Looks cool but it has tons of fitting issues, lots of seam lines and part separation is weird.
I am American, I:• Buy bootlegs• Throw putty on my kits• Paint my kits• Have a massive backlog• Never call a kit bad• Huff gaianotes• Am the second best builder in /gpg/• Avoid shitposting• Love ALL Gundam showsIf you follow these simple steps you can America too!
>>23569096Did you paint in those shoulders or are those decals? Immaculate stuff.
>>23569096wat paint you recommend for the eyes?
>>23569098Decals, but I fucked them up because it did not read the instructions (and I dropped one shoulder and opened a seam).You are supposed to fill the lines with putty and put the bigger ones. Thankfully they provide smaller ones for retards like me.
>>23569096>Looks cool but it has tons of fitting issuesYou don't understand. Having out of date injection processes is actually good because reasons.
>>23569096I don't feel like I'm on the skill level required to do my FSS kits justice.
>>23569088I like p-bandai when they actually print cool kitsmost of the time I'd rather spend money on motorcycle parts tho
>>23569101I used Gaia notes fluorescent red.
>>23569106oh my orange peel
>>23569107>can't distinguish between metallic fleck and orange peelNo wonder you retards love weathered garbage
>>23569104I felt the same way, so I started with a cheaper 1:144 kits and it went pretty well.
>>23569088P-Bandai complaining isn't about not being able to afford it. It's about how limited the distrubtion of the kits are. I have to get PB kits from Japan, which costs more obviously. I would much rather they have better distrubtion so I can buy them for a more reasonable price.
>>23569107It's not orange peel it's metallic paint.
>>23569110>P-Bandai complaining isn't about not being able to afford it.>I would much rather they have better distrubtion so I can buy them for a more reasonable price.Thanks for proving his point.
>>23569111>>23569108it's metallic paint, with orange peelyou guys are mouthbreathers
>>23569096looks good
>>23569112I'm buying PB kits from Japan, which costs more than if I was able to buy them locally. How is this proving his point when I have the money to buy them at the more expensive price? You would have to be retarded to want to pay more for something.
>>23569116>it's not that I can't afford it, it's that it's overpriced!Wow what an original post, never heard that cope every other fucking post in this thread before
>>23569114>posts car paint as a comparisonkek this thread really is filled with snapshitters
>>23569116None of this will convince them to open a pbandai india
>>23569116Most of retail imports cost alot more than their local price. At this point, it is either " Is this worth it?" rather than " how expensive is it? ". You just can't win them.
>>23569117Translation:>Oh, I just love rimming the assholes of scalpers! Mmm, please, Mr Scalper, overcharge me more for the out-of-print Piss Bandai FOMO kits you've stockpiled! Shit down my throat more!
>>23569117>Kit costs X amount in Japan>I have to pay X + markup because it is not available in my region That is above the retail price, so yeah literally overpriced. I get paid like 5k USD a month. Money isn't the issue. I just want them to have a distrubution point in Europe.
>>23569124>bitch about P-Bandai kits not being available domestically>they become available domestically>"but-but why do I acckshually have to pay for them?"
>>23569125Europoors are valid but the majority of complaints here are from Americucks like >>23569127 who expect HLJ prices before shipping on anything they buy even though they already have a P-Bandai store
>>23569119>u-um -t-t-t-that p-paint flaw totally isn't the same thing because it's on a different obj-ject guise!!! straws: grasped
Holy fuck why is the box for this thing so big and it nearly mg priced when it basically just has an extra leg?
>>23569133judging by the reviews the box isn't that densely packed either
>>23569133Maybe it's reusing runners from the UC version and there's tons of leftover parts.
>>23568765Why these colors? Why when all the guns are greys you want glittery gun? Why the blue? What made the glittery metal blue? Heat? Then the spots you put blue make no sense. 5 seconds on Pinterest is all it takes to find good examples.
>>23569133It is not even a big kit either, just slightly taller than UC Rick Dom. Most of the junk came from the 3rd leg and color separation.
So uhhhh Bandai where are Hathaway kits? At least an MG Xi Gundam would be something but anyway here’s tits.
>>23569145>CGI waterGod modern animation is so fucked
>>23569017There's one in the op you dumbfuck
>>23569090So you got to this point and thought now was the time for a photo?
What do you consider to be the cutoff for "modern" gunpla? I notice that sometimes people will say "X is a great kit but it's X years old so there's been advancements since then." What year did gunpla really hit it's stride in terms of materials and mechanics?
>>23569149MG Gundam 2.0
>>23569114Fuck! Why can't it be as smooth as glass?! I need it to be as smooth as glass! Am I the only person that breathes through my nose?!
>>23569155buffing compound exists for a reason
>>23569017My dude like every hobby lobby, hobbyshop, and anywhere in the US that gets their gunpla shit from bluefin gets those in. Hell, Barnes and Noble used to carry things like pic related.
>>23569149I would say 2019 generation of MG was when Bandai finally stopped retarded engineering choices. Zaku Warrior and Barabtos were rock solid kits and HG caught up with it sometimes later.
>>23569161The WFM HG line seems to be universally acclaimed.
>>23569158Dude the part keeps flying across the room! And I burned through my clear coat already since its just a single coat of hobby grade gloss! What do I do now?! Should I step up to 2k?
>>23569164>c clips
>>23569090looks fine bro it is about the same as I do my panel lines.
>>23569014I'd pick some of these up if the foot sculpts weren't all retarded for every single one of them.MG: any kit from 2004 and onward is modern. Quality has consistently gone up and down (some seed and wing kits are overly simplified) but anything from the ball ver ka and newer is decent to great. 2007-2011 was the golden age of MG (OYW MG 2.0s). HG: HG marasai was where a lot of improvements to engineering really started appearing, but HG is less consistent in overall improvement than MG was as a product line. 2005+ is still pretty good, but HG had a second renaissance in 2010 starting with the HG Zaku FZ. All RGs are serviceableAll PGs are unique and interesting
>>23569149Depends on the line. Even the early hguc and HG seed kits were a step up from the awful 1/44 kits of the 90s but I'd argue that they didn't really start hitting their stride until around the hguc CCA kits and the hg 00 kits which if I remember right were released around the same year. Thats when you started seeing hg kits have more detail, more articulation, and feeling a bit less flimsy. For mg kits what >>23569151said. There are some decent mg kits from before then but thats when the 2.0 kits were when they really started more consistently making solid mg kits. For rg just avoid the original gundam that was first in the line and they're almost all at least decent after that. Almost all.
>>23569160And how many of you have actually painted one instead of snapshitting it?
>>23569166oh no!should have bought the 1/144 scale orbital buffer
>>23569177most of this post was meant for >>23569149
>>23569171HG Gwitch was just an offshoot of 30mm's sentiment. What came before it: Revive Zaku, Baund Doc, Nightinghale and so on had the blueprint for good engineering. Bandai did Seed Freedom HG the same way they did in 2019 - 2021 period.
>>23569166NTA but some people use 2k paint for plamo. I've been wanting to try myself but I don't know what to buy, majority is sold in high quantities because it's meant for cars first and foremost
>>23569186Make sure you are in a well ventilated area. That stuff is like atomizing crazy glue it will fuck you up.
What kit would look best in typical military colors, green, brown, tan, etc?
>>23569180Dunno, but there are a bunch of painted ones in the display cases at my local hobbyshop made by local customers.
>>23569190GM ground type.
>>23569190Anything bulky or boxy.
>>23569190
Speaking of camo, what is this kind of camo with the white dots called?
>>23569164I haven't built any of them, but there are a bunch of painted ones in the display cases at my local hobbyshop made by local customers.
>>23569201Chocolate chip.
>>23569201Chocolate chip
>>23569096that looks dopehow much time it took you to complete it?
>>23569201I like, not sure what's its called, but there are a bunch of painted ones in the display cases at my local hobbyshop made by local customers.
>>23569096Beautiful.
>>23569201Erbsenmuster
>>23569149modern gunpla started with the Revive series, when the latest HGUC RX-78 came out in 2014.
>>23569203>>23569204Thanks. I've been looking up how to guides for painting camo recently and couldn't find one for that because I didn't know the specific name.
That's a weird ass gundam that i've got
>>235692054 months, but I only have free time during the weekends and I procrastinate a lot.
thin your penis
i wonder what new kits they'll pull out of this movie's ass.
>>23569212Last time I checked those kits were overpriced like crazy.
>>23569217new gustav is already comingprobably will see another messer variantprobably will have some final battle version of xi + pe with broken parts or somethign
>>23569217>new kitslmao
>>23569220oh they still are
>>23569217Probably just recolors at this point unless they insert some msv type varients specifically for this movie like they did with Unicorn. Otherwise almost everything from the novels has already been made into a kit.
I want the Stark Jegan from Unicorn as a MG.
>>23569231They already made one.
>>23569232A GOOD one. With modern molding and tech
>>23569231Sadly you're about 3 years late to order one.
>>23569234chinks made the Jieda, suck it up
>>23569237I will never support the Chinese.
>>23569234The mg Jegan mold is only like 6 years old anon.
>>23569236Jegan's mold is from 2018, it is not that old unless you are a litterall baby.
>>23569239then keep waiting another 200 years bro, surely somebody will drop the box with the model kit you want on your tomb
>>23569226i wouldn't put it past them to make "enhanced" versions of Xi and Penelope like what they did to G-self as p-bandai
>>23569243They will give them a different gun or bazooka and sell a "final battle" version for $10 more.
What's the kit with the most guns on it?
>>23569248pretty much thisprobably making a bundle with the xi and penelope, PBandai of course
>>23569250V2 Assbuster
>>23569250Hg Psycho zaku.
Who gonna pay a ps5 for a gundam lmao
>>23569254Counterpoint: FA Unicorn
>>23569217I am praying to John Bandai for an MG.
>>23569259I am almost definitely going to buy the PGU Nu, if only for the curiosity of seeing what they put into the thing. Just not the first flight batch, and probably during a vacation trip to Asia so I don't have to deal with tariffs.
>>23569263It would be a biiiiiiiig mg.
>>23569265That's a big guy
>>23569265It's wild to realize that even a MG Xi and Penelope would still probably be a head shorter than the Perfect Zeong
>>23569264>By some miracle Hobby lobby gets a couple in stock.>Their monthly 40% off model sale effects it.I can dream.
What is the holy grail of your collection? Mine is Unicorn with kosmos led. I feel like nothing will ever top it
>found MG F91 2.0 on 10/10 discount for $39Is it worth it? does it come with decals?I'm interested but wonder if I could get it cheaper at toy events
>>23569273Plamax Cherno Alpha. I was going to say that I wish they would reprint it and Gypsy but apparently they actually are reprinting it next year. So hooray I guess.
>>23569279Goofy but neat at the same time.
>>23569276It comes with dry transfers. It's a good kit.
>>23569279What size is that? Is it painted?
>>23568845Sorry chang, accurate scale is important.
>>23569280I had a love/hate relationship with it while building it. They did a lot of things great with the kit but you could definitely tell it was an early kit in the line and they were still figureing some stuff out. Weird looking inner joints, some gaps on things like the chest vents, and the waterslides were extremely flimsy and like they dissolve and tear themselves apart easily (Some of the dark line markings I ended up just masking and painting because the decals shredded themselves apart just sliding off the backing). I look forward to trying to pick up Gupsy Danger and going through it again. Here's what it looks like out of the box for comparison.
>RahXephon reviewthanks Zak
FATCAT IF YOU CAN HEAR ME ONLY YOU CAN SAVE ME, ONLY YOU HAVE THE POWER, PLEASE SAVE ME FATCAT
>>23569273i only have cheap ass common kits but i make them unique
>>23569291>really nice>very cool>awesome
>>23569285Hes around pg in size. Thats the mg 2.0 zaku ii next to him.
>>23569032Unfathomably based
>>23569272I have never seen them stock PG kits. Biggest I've seen are Sazabi, Virtue, Unicorn OVA with MS Cage, and Full Armor Unicorn.
>>23569300We can dream together anon. Even if it only remains a dream.
>>23569297How much does it cost?
I've been reading japanese forums and video comments about Bandai and chinese bootlegs.It's very surprising that the law and rule abiding nipponjin are very pro-china and indifferent about bandai.most of them are fatigued by stock scarcity & scalper price with Bandai acting like a "lord".A lot of them are blaming bandai for prioritizing overseas market, which I don't think is true because overseas people are having it waaaaay worse. 1/100 fans are also unashamedly bragging about having bought Osiris / Golden Warrior / Physalis / Tyrant Sword before they sold out everywhere.There also this comment that's quite interesting to me: >"China is filling the void that Bandai's abandoned (1/100 lines), so it's natural that consumers flock to them. they've also done the same thing with Transformer kits"is this about Blokees? that company's been releasing so many products from so many japanese & american IPs it's insane. They're probably THE hottest plamo company right now.
>>23569293Based, but I do recommend building a PG at some point, it's an experience
>>23569217HG Full Armor XiMG Jegan varientThat is all
>>23569303Around $100 directly from goodsmile but preorders are closed so you're gonna have to hope some shops get it.
>>23568447Ritual posters are so fucking lame. He thinks he impose its likes to us probably a 35 years old ojisan.
>>23569276It didn't even need a 2.0, its that good.
>>23569300They also had a Unicorn Ver. Ka. >tfw I missed the Virtue Pain, agony
thoughts?
>>23569317Do it
>>23569317>1000 yen slop sold at 1700 yenDon't do it
>>23569306Blokees also released their Migu figma line which costs a fraction of what Max Factory asks! Japan is facing serious competition from cheap chink products of comparable quality
>>23569133>sizeBigass leg parts. >pricelmao bandai
New 1/35 Maschinen Krieger soon
>>23569332>2 OctoberWHERE IS IT?
>>23569338My favorites are already 1/20 scale
>>23569265>>23569263>>23569267>>23569271the HGUC is out of scale (too big). the MG would be 26cm to the top of the head (10.25 in) which is about this big
>>23569346Maybe we can get fatcat to upscale the Xi and just call it a re/100.
>>23569306>A lot of them are blaming bandai for prioritizing overseas marketThis is just the answer to literally every problem in Japan. Blame foreigners. Even for stupid shit like supply of plastic robots, which you already get 99% of the stock.
>>23569342Artpla's releases usually have more than 1 unit inside. They are worth it in spite of the scale.
>>23569332Might cost a fraction but it also looks like an older Figma. The newer figma's are so much better.
What happens if I skip Z Gundam and go straight to CCA
>>23569355Z is trash
>>23569306bruh blokees got pokemon, saint seiya, star wars, transformers, whatever you name it they will probably make something>A lot of them are blaming bandai for prioritizing overseas marketwut, various stores literlly got banned by bandao from selling their plamo shit to us
>>23569355
>>23569361Does Char show up in Z?
>>23569355You miss basically nothing relevant to the story of CCA. All you need to know is that axis zeon collapsed as a faction and the EF took ownership of the Axis asteroid colony itself.
>>23569364no
>>23569366>>23569355Nevermind, I thought you said ZZ, not Zeta. If you miss zeta gundam you won't really understand Char and Amuro's characters in CCA and why they're acting like they are.
>>23569293R.I.P Zak
>>23569369Can I skip ZZ then?
>>23569371You "can" but you shouldn't. ZZ was fun if a bit goofy at times.
>>23569276>>23569284>>23569313Just got it for $36hopefully it's good and hopefully the decals are good enough. F91 looks naked without decals.
>>23569372I'll watch it if it's not 40 episodes long
>>23569371Don't listen to newfags ZZ mostly fucking stinks and has literally zero bearing on CCA (it's very easy to figure our what Axis is in CCA alone)I don't really suggest "skipping" anything but if you JUST wanna see CCA because it's acclaimed then yeah, just watch 79 and Zeta and come back for ZZ later if you want.
>>23569376What impact does Zeta have on CCA?
>>23569378Kill yourself Zetarager.
>>23569376>zero bearingAm I joke to you?
>>23569378Char mentions the Titans TEE-TAHNS, and Haman's Neo-Zeon in his speech, Axis Colony is a major plot point, ReGZ being a thing, that one mechanic from Zeta and ZZ appears and is unceremoniously blown up
https://x.com/n1WjG3GwTGslN1Q/status/1976135683820618195>showing the F91 MG frame inside the old Silhouette Gundam 1/100Holy fucking kino.
>>23569383>he doesn't remember Astronaige's name
>>23569376Yeah honestly I just want to watch CCA cause I like the Sazabi. Can I go straight to Unicorn aftwrwards?
>>23569385/gpg/ groupbuild idea: turning old plamo into modern plamo number of participants: 1
>>23569383>>23569388NTA but I really want to believe he was just injured and okay. I know it makes sense that war is stupid and people die pointlessly and instantly, and if we caught it we were supposed to find it sad and jarring that his death wasn't given any spotlight because that's just how things are, but he is such a friend and I'd be very sad if he died.
>>23569383Not the name calling but like, does Zeta's storyline has any significant presence to Char's last definance? Because CCA Char has nothing to do with his anti hero development in Zeta. You can just watch entire CCA movie without giving a shit about Zeta.>ReGZ being a thingNo one cares. It is not real Zeta Gundam.
Do you guys watch the anime or read the manga of every kit you build or is it just "this looks cool, I'm gonna buy it"?
>>23569402Well Maschinen Krieger only has a short film and it doesn't cover entire lore of the modelkit line, but i buy bunch of them anyway.
>>23569399>does Zeta's storyline has any significant presence to Char's last definance?Yes?>Because CCA Char has nothing to do with his anti hero development in Zeta.How the fuck did this meme start? I seriously don't get it.
>>23569402Generally as a rule I'll only buy things I've watched things for>got the HGUC Bawoo because it's cool, only saw Yuan Shao Bawoo in SD Sangokuden>likewise the R-Jarja (Ju Shou or some advisor in SD Sangoku) because it's a deluxe royal Gyan>same for Qubeley but it later showed up in Zeta>watched the F91 movie before picking up the F91 because I wanted to pick up a cheap kit>picked up the Barbatos because cheap, later picked up the show>same for the Leo and Wing Gundam>got the Turn A and haven't seen the show yetI'll still pretend they're all sentient robots running around, but I'll feel uncomfortable if I have zero understanding of its role or coolness in the source media. If I disagree I'll ignore it sure, but having 0 context makes the robot feel a bit out of place for me.
>>23569411Yeah because a handful of bad cops went rogue was totally the reason why Char wanted to destroy humanity. CCA was the direct sequel to 79 series, nothing more.
I'm starting to feel like Bandai is slowly trying to make all Master Grades P-Bandai exclusive. What with how few regular releases we've been getting and how more of them are P-Bandai only with an increase amount of those being whole new kits, it's starting feel like an attempt to squeeze more money of us, even if P-Bandai still doesn't ship to A LOT of places.
>>23569371You can for CCA but you need to watch ZZ to understand unicorn.>>23569374They're good dry transfers.
>>23569427We went from 5 MG per year to 1 MG per year. The writing was on the wall for this line.
>>23569429Marida can just exist without her Ple clone subplot. To understand Unicorn, you have to watch CCA.
I just bought 2 gunpla markers, tamiya glue, a tweezer, a small knife and a 1/100 stand base.
>>23569427>an attempt to squeeze more money of us,*to transfer our money to chinese companies who do make a bunch of 1/100>>23569431Thank you 30MM and 30MS!They're so cheap, but no one wants them!
>no beam saber for the EG Wing>don't want to steal weapons from other randos because autism>not even sure if the F91's blades will be the same size>don't even have black handles>own zero other Wing kits other than a Leo>would have to buy the HG Wing to give the EG its beam saber>there's no ostensible upgrade pack that would even come out for the Wing and give it its saberWhat the fuck man
>>23569448I would have simply lied.
>>23569448This treatment should be applied to all scalpers btw.
>>23569447Unironically, 30 Minutes have to go. The amount of MG started to fizzle out once they appeared.
>>23569448yummy. the BIG
>>23569461They fizzled out new MG releases because the back catalog is selling well enough.
>>23569469And 30ML's back catalog can, too. These shitty Vintage kit tier of engineering sludges have been flooding the hobby shelves for years and no one buys them.
>>23569472Dev cost for MG is way higher so the ROI is not worth it as much.
>>23569469>the back catalogbarely in stock
Gundamit has the Fat Cat RX 78 in stock, if you vehemently despise buying off of Ali.
>>23569481because they sell out fast. Why spend the money to create new ones when Bandai can just reprint old kits?
>>23569486because the new ones are gonna sell out fast too...?
No guys we need another version of the RX 78-2, a dozen more UC High Grades, and some more MGSD slop. No Master Grades for you.
>>23569479MG development cost is quite literally nothing. The Changs have been churning out 1/100 kits with super detailed innerframe and decent snapfit for years with 10% of Bandai's budget. 30MM doesn't make good return either because they sell like shit. The only thing had a good buzz was Spinatio Knight, but even that was quite literally nothing compares to how well an average UC MG does.
>>23569502neck yourself bandai slurper
>>23569506>The Changs have been churning out 1/100 kits with super detailed innerframe and decent snapfit for years with 10% of Bandai's budget.Ah yes the same Changs that steal entire CAD files from people posting them online and also who control the entire production site and factory while also being able to pay their workers slave wages.
The worst /gpg/ timeloop is armchair business majors.
>>23569486What new MG kits do you think they could realistically make that would sell well enough to justify the cost and realisticly sell well enough to compete with their existing catalog? Its harder than you might think to predict what will sell, RG Char's Z'Gok flopping seriously hurt that lines momentum for years and many kits they previously hinted at never materialized as a result. Yeah, people have their personal favorites they'd like to see kits of but which popular designs dont already have decent kits at this point? Bandai has to be smart about what gets the MG treatment, P-Bandai and RE/100 and Full Mechanics lets them make more niche kits but they cant just make anything, there is still the upfront R&D costs to consider when designing a new 1/100 kit. If you're honest with yourself the pool for suits that could justify new MG kits is vanishingly small. Aerial seems popular enough and feels like only a matter of time.
>>23569525MG Rising FreedomMG Mighty Strike FreedomThere I just funded the next 10 years of Gunpla R&D and at that point you can just release another SEED movie with more Freedom variants and do the whole thing again.
>>23569525>sell well enough to justify the costF80 Gunraid, DUH.
Brahmin, Vaishya and Sudra mecha when?
>>23569513Meanwhile Bandai directly modifying older frames and also treat their employees like shit, so it is not an excuse.
>>23569535This is a different division and has nothing to do with gunpla.>>23569530Because gunraid is cool enough to justify it.
>>23569538>Because gunraid is cool enough to justify it.Lol.
>>23569525>What new MG kits do you think they could realistically make that would sell well enoughAtlas, G-Self, AGE-FX, Reborns, Zabanya, Harute (zhang already did this), Raphael, Stargazer (zhang already did this), Barbatos Lupus Rex, Flauros, Bael, Pharact, Daribalde, Schwarzette, Aerial, Aerial Rebuild, Calibarn, White Gundam, Red Gundam, GQuaks, G-Fred Dom GQ.. and 2.0 of a bunch of old MG like Qubeley, Ez8 and Master Gundamalso this >>23569529
>>23569539Behead those who insult gunraid
>>23569543I started regretting buying it when it shipped. It reminds me of a knock off toy from the mid 2000s, that chest especially.
>>23569525> Bandai has to be smart about what gets the MG treatment, P-Bandai and RE/100 and Full Mechanics lets them make more niche kitsShut the fuck up retard. Bandai is making literall Shitpla and mass printing them. There is no such thing as "too niche to sell", it is all retardation and copium from faggots who believe there is a template to Bandai's descision.
>>23569546>from faggotsJust one. It's usually the same guy writing up these short essays. He uses the same shitty circular logic and reasoning each time so it's easy to pick him out.
>>23569538>This is a different division and has nothing to do with gunpla.Yeah keep coping. Bandai has bunch of divisions in SEA and China for cheaper labour. They are no better than the Chinese enslaver.
>>23569077>western FSS fans that hate post-senility naganoso-called western FSS fans hated Nagano's designs a decade before Gothicmade even existed
This du is obsessed with poopla lmao
>>23569544It's actually a very good build. It feels a lot like f90 for obvious reasons, but everything new for the f80 feels so much better designed. The nub placement on the new parts makes them all invisible and everything fits together in such a nice way. It's just a very good build.
>>23569398>he is such a friend and I'd be very sad if he diedWhich is the entire reason that Tomino killed him the way he did.>>23569402I used to go by the rule of "only buy a kit if you liked the show, the MS and the character who piloted it" but then I ultimately realized that you can separate the MS design from how it was used in the plot. It's not the mechanical designer's fault that the director and writer were hacks after all.
Bandai should spin-off its gunpla division as "Gunpla Company" or whatever that can act completely independent to maximize efficiency and especially artistic vision.The Gunpla Company only needs to beg for capital and pay dividends every year without corporate business decision meddling from Bandai Namco at all.
>>23569561That never works out well
>>23569551Anon, there are more than one retard who believe P-Bandai is meant for "niche things", you can see alot of them on youtube and twitter. Meanwhile Koto,Wave, Hasegawa, Tamiya and shitload of other companies retail some of the most obscure, niche robots no one has ever heard of.
Are hobby grits the same as regular grits? Is there any reason I shouldn't buy some 3M 1500 grit sanding sponges if they are cheaper than "hobby" branded sponges?
>>23569558Yanase shits the bed so hard. Metal Gear Rising was the last time he did good looking designs.
>>23569566Those other companies you listed combined don't equal one tenth the market distribution of Gunpla. Gunpla is a Lego competitor, they have to appeal to much broader, dumber swaths of consumers to be profitable because they need more income to survive.
thoughts on パニおじ? are you a パニおじ?
>>23569571Bandais profit margins are also a lot thinner and people flip shit whenever they get close to charging what their competitors do.
>>23569571>they have to appeal to much broader, dumber swaths of consumers to be profitable because they need more income to survive.And this group of consumers don't like 30MM and Shitpla.
Do you spergs really just go to hobby shops to take pictures of their inventory for /gpg/ narratives?
>>23569577Precisely, Gunpla is only so cheap despite being manufactured in Japan because Bandai's economies of scale rivals Lego's. And this is for franchises they own and don't have to pay a license fee for.
>>23569580I go to hobby shops because I really want to support local businesses and small businesses. But then I see the prices and I cannot justify shopping there, even with shipping, online is cheaper.
>>23568334How are all the groupbuild entries coming along anons?
>>23569584
>>23569582>support local businesses and small businessesMidwit opinion btw
>really want a Rick Diaz after watching zeta>25 year old HG at scalper prices>japan exclusive gundam artifact with shipping that costs 3-4x the price of the kit>20 year old MG maybe getting a reprint? who knows but vintage MG have less detail than newer HG>>23569584I gave up. In the end, I could bring myself to cut up a gunpla in hopes of putting putty all over it, and the supplies for all the things were really adding up.
>>23569577>Bandais profit margins are also a lot thinner and people flip shit whenever they get close to charging what their competitors do.Then why aren't people buy Unkosul Days then?
>>23569597The master grade is really good and the black one just got a reprint. The red one had one earlier this year.
MGchuds cannot comprehend the sheer majesty and popularity of Shitpla. Cope and Seethe.https://x.com/seikoba5/status/1973912022132965800
>>23569597Coward
>>23568335Tried to do a one day painted build on the blue frame astray. Got the suit itself but I'm burnt out for the day and will finish the equipment when I feel like it. Decided to do a full metallic paintjob this time. I think if anything could pull it off it'd be astray. The metallic white I mixed doesn't pop that much but I didn't want to compromise the brightness.I did hide two unpainted pieces on it though, to piss off that one guy. Decals will also have to wait since I do not have them yet.>>23569598good lord it's doodoo feces
>>23569597the mg is good. just add detail yourself
>>23569615I just don't get why a rick dias needs a lot of detail. The appeal is that it's big and blocky.
https://x.com/laughblackwhite/status/1976128447241212162This is Biomech right
>>23569618cute
>>23569618That's just a Gunmen
Would you dare buy this and kitbash it with other plamo? So far I hear it's compatible with frame arms girls.
>>23569615>just add the detail yourselfat that point might as well manufacture the model myself too
>>23569623forgot image award
I keep seeing more and more people on english and jp twitter complaining about p-ban/gunpla scarcity. Shitting on Bandai is getting out of /gpg/ territory.
>>23569618Puni Mofu Wataru
>>23569555you bring this up every time, but he didn't gradually change his MHs to coat racks prior to GTMs. The change from L Gaim Bat-Shu to Vashtu is insignificant compared to Vashtu to Daccas the coat rack. people will always complain about small changes, but you have to be brain damaged to find nu-nagao visually appealing
>>23569560>Which is the entire reason that Tomino killed him the way he did.I get that, it's just miserable. Which again is the point but I'm just so sad
Excuse me? Ghidorah kit finally?
gunpla builders are worse than funko poppers
>>23569639It's a general worldwide sentiment
>>23569671trying too hard, changpooper
>>23569623scribing and pla-plate detailing is a fairly common thing
more astray posting.>>23569671These have resale value at least.
>>23569617i intend to add to mine in a way that puts it more in line with the mk2 i finished a few weeks ago.
>>23569687I don't know how yours looks but I can tell you that the rick dias is very much in line with the level of detail on the other 2.0 era zeta kits.
>>23569686Needs some details, the white especially
hello can someone tell me about the new gundam assemble things? do they compare with sd gundams or prize figures?
>>235696713x MG FA Gundam Unicorns?
>>23569690It'll be getting that once the paint cures. This paint is only 1-12 hours old. I like to give it a few days to cure before I panel line. There will also be some decals once they arrive. I snagged a pack when newtype did the free shipping promo. I also hesitate to put mark setter on uncured paint since I do not know what it's made of.
>>23569692probably needed em for replacement parts, that kit is a fucking hand grenade.
>>235696924 actually. 3 on the lower right and 1 in the upper left.
>>23569598Bandai's turning into one of those chink mobage mills that just churn out dozens of shitty games on the android app store filled with ads and shitty monetization options. They're literally just throwing shit at the wall because they're in panic mode because gunotas are dying off. So they're milking the shit out of them while simultaneously shitting on them by making everything P-Bandai them putting them through this humiliation ritual where literal shit occupy the shelves. Man the japs are bad at business.
Why are the proportions so fucked up? like midgets or something.
>>23569695None of the parts from the full armor are fiddly or weird. It's only the base kit parts. There's no reason to ever buy another full armor for a replacement part.
>>23569703>gunotas are dying offWFM and GQ are super popular
>the chinese announced a bunch of YGO kits>they're all dragonsOh, well. Black Rose next, please.
What's the best Unicorn Kit that doesn't suck and also has the gatling gun shields?
>>23569727MGEX
>>23569730too expensive, next
>>23569730Ok and what if I don't care about gatling shields?
>>23569722Diabellstar and Tachyon Dragon please
>>23569720Most of inflated numbers are due to gundam's existing products contributed to the sales. The individual performance of those shows in term of merchandising are average
>>23569727unironically SD FA Unicorn
>HLJ now only lets you cancel stuff within a month of orderingShit, 50 bucks down the drain
>>23569657No I'm the one who usually brings it up, and it's always correct. That you can't rebut that image after all this time says it all. >The change from L Gaim Bat-Shu to Vashtu is insignificant Doesn't matter if you think it's insignificant, people back then already thought Nagano had gone too far with changing his designs. The truth is that you mouthbreathers will always shit on his latest work while pretending that his old works were classics even though you shit on them back then too, just like his Zeta designs. Be honest like the rest of the Nagano shitters in this thread and just say you never liked his stuff and wish he would just produce more easily digestible rehash Zaku slop.
>>23569722Kinda surprised Accesscode got a kit but Utopia doesn't have one.
What would be the best grit to use if I fucked up rescribing a line and scratched the surface?
>>23569767a drop of butanone welding agent and let it sit for a bit. If you can still feel when running your fingernail across it, then it will be visible after painting.
>>23569657>you bring this up every timeAre you a schizo? I saw it on Discord. >people will always complain about small changesSure "small changes" which is why they compared the changes to Turn A. Don't pretend like you were jacking off Nagano's designs before Gothicmade existed instead of shitposting about how garbage LED Mirage was because your ass couldn't handle a fake SRW meme.
>>23569774>Don't pretend like you were jacking off Nagano's designs before Gothicmade existed instead of shitposting about how garbage LED Mirage was because your ass couldn't handle a fake SRW meme.Like actually tho. This embarrassing shit >>23568650 was posted on an old /toy/ Gunpla General not in response to GTMs but because some asspained snapshitter got mad that people were talking about the IMS LED Inferno Napalm. Look up the thread if you want.
are you bad enough dude to build the greatest kitbash of all time?
>>23569783that's rad as fuck but also about 500 dollars of kits
>>23569783Honestly makes me want to kitbash with scraps and kits I didn't like something vaguely similar looking for my Laranel but I have no idea where to start.
>>23569757>Be honest like the rest of the Nagano shitters in this thread and just say you never liked his stuff and wish he would just produce more easily digestible rehash Zaku slop.He already made the best Zeek successor suit
>>23569810Rick Dias was so good explicitly because it wasn't just a lazy Dom/Zaku rehash like the Hi-Zack even though its design lineage was obvious.
Why can't gunpla battle be real IRL
>search for MG Rick Dias on youtube>no ZakuAurelius or MechaGaikotsu videoIt's trash, then.
>>23569003>I have a made up conditionlol
>having a mid-life crisis and want to start a gunpla store. >ask a owner of a fairly successful gunpla store how did he start>he says that it started because he has no more space in his home because of his backlogs he started to sell his gunpla and it got the ball rolling from there.I realize that I will be a bad gunpla store owner since I only buy MGs and put in backlogs
>>23569820>MG Rick Diasweak
>>23569820ZakuAurelius is a fool
>>23569842No he's just an employee for USA Gundam Store and has no opinions of his own other than to sell whatever they want him to sell.
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>>23568939This sentence makes no sense. You're too dumb to put your thoughts into words.
>>23569021Gunpla is the biggest slop in the modeling hobby. Everyone just mindlessly consooms and snapshits with zero thought or effort. There are even people in this thread right now who think topcoat and panel lines are good enough.
>>23569617>I just don't get why a rick dias needs a lot of detail. The appeal is that it's big and blocky.Those aren't mutually exclusive.
>>23569870>t. lacquer huffer upset low investment normies might have fun
>>23569657>insignificant
>>23569061I actually found someone who posts here through P-Bandai social media comments. He talks EXACTLY the same as here. Not gonna post him though because I am anti doxxing but yeah, if youre the 'slops and garbages' guy I found you and know what you look like.
>>23569841>>23569871If only that kit wasn't over $1000
>>23569883The recast was like $90 last I checked from GK-M. Don't know if it's still in stock.
god my memory is dogshitwhich MS was it that had the same type of head as Zabol (picrel)? I recall it having a white and purple color scheme.
>>23569876>have funYou spend more time bitching about kits being overpriced than actually building them, fag
>>23569888psycho doga?
>>23569891yeah that's iti had the image of it in my head but the name had completely slipped me
>>23569889Dunno who you think I am, but I don't. Hell, I paint kits - I'm the contrast retard from earlier in the thread.
>>23569893and now that i'm looking at it, Psycho Doga's stock gun is nearly identical to the gun that comes with the grunt counterpart of Zabol, the Buckhmmm
>>23569895so you're too insecure about painting b/c you want to blend in with the slop snappers in this thread and call yourself a lacquer huffer, got it
>>23569421Every single time. You speedwatchers should just rope all of yourselves.
>>23569903wait are you thinking this whole shitflinging is all samefagging or something lmao?
>>23569142UC Dom looks so much better it's unreal
>>23569142I was initially on board but the chest looks like someone slapped a hunk of metal over it and it looks kind of bad.
>>23569916yeah i have no clue what the fuck they were thinking with the chest plate
>>23569916I like it personally. Feels like extra reinforcement specifically for the cockpit
>>23569924The cockpit is right under the giant reinforced plate lmao.
>>23569883>over $1000If you're a disingenuous retard, sure
>>23569931It's regularly selling for that much on yahoo auctions
>>23569935my bad thought you were trolling about msrp
>>23569722>no Cyber End DragonIt's like the perfect thing to be made into a model kit.
>>23569941That kit was available for 1 day at a single event, MSRP is kind of irrelevant here
How did Nagano even get a reputation as a great designer? Didn't he get fired from working on Gundam like 3 times?
The future looks bright.
>>23569959can't wait for people to start scalping model kits because they have parts that are meta in the VR game
>>23569957>tell me how to form opinionsFuck off.
>>23569957>is it bad that an artist who makes art was fired by a toy company that makes toysNo, unless your definition of success are Happy Meal toys.
>>23569957If people like his work, they like his work. That doesn't mean he's bad if his style just doesn't fit with gundam. I hate his shit but I mean different opinions exist, anon.>>23570000Chill, model kits are all cheap plastic with a brand/IP markup. I enjoy my model kits but I have no clue who needs to elevate one over the other except in regards to quality of kits or plastic, not brand loyalty itself, sperg.
>>23570003>Chill, model kits are all cheap plastic with a brand/IP markup.This what you tell yourself each time you buy that cheap ass high grade and then rage about people buying kits that cost more?
Is there any kit or even brand that isn't considered slop or overpriced
>>23569959>VRYeah, nah.
>>23570009The one you can afford. Every post on here is just confirmation bias of someone wanting to feel superior about their purchase and not having wasted their money.
>>23570000>artist who makes art was fired by a toy company that makes toysSounds to me like he was too pretentious to do his job right
>>23570003>brainless slop snapshitter hates NaganoWhy do you retards make it all so predictable?
>>23570009the reason why Bandai shit looks overpriced is because retail is selling it for 2x the SRP usually. malls are notorious for this. there's a reason why they still gain profit even during discount sales period.
>>23570012Nah, Tomino wanted him on each time and Bandai never wanted him to begin with. They never cared what designs he made. But that doesn't help your narrative because you want to pretend that Nagano is somehow blocking you from learning how to glue and paint models.
>>23570019>Nagano is somehow blocking you from learning how to glue and paint modelsyou say that like FSS resin kits aren't the easiest shit in the worldvolks is basically bandai for resin
>>23570024Resin that you still need to know how pin, glue, mask, paint, and potentially fix warpage. For $200+ if you buy the original - recast will need even more work like rescribing or entirely scratchbuilding. Average Mecha Gaikotsu follower here gives thumbs down,
>>23569722>>they're all dragonsBased.
FSS gets shit on all the time in these threads yet I rarely see the Bandai slop enjoyers here touch non-Bandai stuff like Zoids and Armored Core kits. Only occasionally do you see some FAGs and Moderoids.
>>23570032>pinVolks marks the spots where you have to pin for you>glueNon issue>maskChinks sell pre cut masking tapeThe hardest part is really getting the exact right color mixes down, and surface prep + getting a perfect finish on your paint job but the building process is easy unless you're buying old pre-2000 kits or kaiyodo or our treasure kits
>>23569569the same yep
>>23570019>Nagano is somehow blocking you from learning how to glue and paint models.The biggest culprit of blocking people from learning how to glue and paint models is Bandai themselves. There are people right now here who don't know how tighten or loosen joints on a kit because they think those tolerances should be built in like an action figure.
>>23569906Nah, you don't need any of the thematic background of newtypes forming intensely deep connections and tragedies resulting from it regardless of their attempts to understand one another. You don't need to go in with any background information or opinion about people striving or having given up on trying to understand one another. After accomplishing his vendetta, Char just becomes really sad and evil and tired, and somehow Amuro's similar and on the same wavelength because of this, considering they're talking to each other like they know one another. But anyway, Char just finds some asteroid where Zeonic remnants are happy to elect some captain as their head of state. Also technology's developed insanely quickly during however much time passed after 0079 (there is no media depicting this gap).Daily reminder that you should just skip anything that's longer than a movie or 13 episodes. The ideal is to eventually skip eating, sleeping, or breathing, because anyone this illiterate or impatient about their own supposed hobby and interest is a waste of space. The sheer amount of times I've seen "you can skip x and skip to CCA" here is fucking astounding. That isn't to say that I've seen it spammed every day - it's closer to something weekly or monthly - but it's astounding that anything that walks on two legs has communicated this opinion at all.
>>23569906>>23570056Holy fucking shit, apparently you don't need the fucking context that Amuro and Char were once fucking friends, this charismatic head of state only made multiple cries for help to his rival because he's a giant lonely fucking loser! I'm genuinely mad after typing that out.>you can just ignore someone's character developmentWhy not just start with CCA and skip the original series as well, at that point? Holy fucking shit why do we even engage with the illiterate?
>>23569906So wait Char motive is the belief that moving people to space will make humanity as a whole awaken as newtypes which will then allow people to understand one another which means a world of peace and love? Something like that and he's going to drop axis on earth, killing billions of innocence to accomplish this and Amuro more or less has the same goal but disagrees only on the way to accomplish this task? He disagrees on the method just not the goal?
>>23570064>apparently you don't need the fucking context that Amuro and Char were once fucking friendsWhen the fuck did this happen? Did you watch gay sex hentai of him and Amuro before watching CCA?
>>23569569depends, if you were using japanese hobby sanding products the japanese use a different grit system to the usa (and europe uses a different one still). there's conversion charts between each of the 3 standards floating around online
>look up gunpla review>not mechagaikotsu>oh nice>click video>pink nailsHELL NAW, NIGGAWHY'S EVERY SINGLE WHITE GUNPLATUBER FAGGY AS HELL?
>>23570098
>>23570056>Also technology's developed insanely quickly during however much time passed after 0079 (there is no media depicting this gap).Holyshit, no one cares about in-universe mumbo jumbo. Do you need a longass prequel to tell how tecnology progressed from year 0000 to 0079? No, it is scifi giant robot studity. Oh yeah and apparently between Zeta and somewhere near the end of ZZ, there was this Gundam who thought of itself as a woman, a GM offshoot that stopped appearing beyond that year and several test units for Full Armor ZZ. These things are not real context, focus on what happens in that self contained story.
>>23570098white superiority lol
>>23570098Painting your nails and painting models require basically the same skills.If they have nicely painted nails, you know they know how to paint and aren't snapshitters.Captcha : GAYGX
>>23569878
>>23570064>context that Amuro and Char were once fucking friendsThey were arch enemies in 79 and CCA continued that rivalry.
>HGAC Gundam Wing ( Revive )
>>23570098let me guess, he's flip..or indonesian
I genuinely have no clue if these are just shitposts at this point or they actually have a room temperature iq that they didn't understand the UC setting especially what happened from 0079, Zeta and CCA. No wonder Wing Gundam is very popular, you don't need an actual iq to understand what's going on.
>>23570098I just watched through one of his videos a few minutes ago, and honestly the tone of his voice rubs me the wrong way, like he's trying to be enthusiastic but in a canned influencer type way that works well among focus groups or some shit.
>>23570121>he's flip..or indonesianHe is a white skinned Burger living in Washington. Also he uses neo pronouns, so, transgender. https://youtu.be/LRYHn0wtTdg?si=3kTfeBkbvW-FTdrJ
>>23570113is this an actual kit or homemade?
Newish to Gunpla within the last month, have built HG Calibarn, HG Lfrith Jiu & HG GFreD Have FM Aerial, HG GQuuuuuuX, HG Moon Gundam and getting the RG RX-78-02 2.0 today in the mail, which do I build this weekend?
>>23570126>UC setting especially what happened from 0079, Zeta and CCA"Universal Century" is what Sunrise and Tomino call their continuous storyline with constant updates, no those specific favourites of yours.
>>23570131looks like a kitbash from the RG Evangelion
>>23570131It is a custom build made from Flametoys's Arcee kit.
>>23570134>>23570135ah that's cool, looks really good
Here is your new Hathaway HG bro
>>23570143Penelope Repair as p-bandai exclusive
>>23570110Yeah that's not the design change anybody complains about, it's when he started giving everything wasp waists and high heels
Will you buy one?
>>23570128Technically everybody uses pronouns. It's kinda hard to avoid unless you're an inanimate object. Why are conservatards like you always so stupid?
>>23570164did you miss the "neo" part you illiterate retard?
>>23570164Neopronouns are those alternative ways to address someone without assumming his/her gender, most common one is "they/them" for a singular entity instead of a crowd.
>>23570176They/them for a single individual has been grammatically correct since forever. You're telling me you're never used "they" to refer to someone you don't know the identity of? Quit being a retard and talk about plastic toys instead of pushing your stupid culture war, glowie.
>>23570186>You're telling me you're never used "they" to refer to someone you don't know the identity of?Every anon here adress each other with masculine pronouns and it has been this way for a very long time in real world, too. Sure there might be some femoids here, but who the fuck cares?
>>23570186>Gunpla reviewer with deep male voice>Addresses himself with They Them pronoun and paints his nailThere is nothing culture war about this, Citrus is a transgender and that's a an obvious fact with proof.
Femoid here fuck you all fags. Post your new purchases or something.
Time to own the chuds
>>23570201>Own the chud>Post a picture with a woman and a manCurious
>>23570132HG GQx is 99% the same build as GFreD, so unless you have a double pose in mind delay building it so it feels more fresh.HG Moon is pretty good. RG RX-78 would be my choice so you can try something more complex with an inner frame and figure out if you want to do more RG/MGs instead of HGs.
>>23570222Personally I'd suggest delaying RG RX78 2.0 until they build an older RG or MG just to have a feel for how different and how much better RG 2.0 engineering is.Otherwise, older kits might just feel like a straight downgrade.
>>23570199
>>23570164>ACKSHUALLYHello Gaikotsu
>MG Dom>no stickers>all water decalsAAAAAAAAAA I HATE WATER DECALS I JUST CAN'T MAKE IT WORK NO MATTER WHAT.I just double taped that mono-eye cuz it just won't fucking stickFUCK WATER DECALS
bandai refusing to reprint this thing again.
>>23570232I got baited into replying, good job.
>>23570232>Peel off shitty monoeye>Buy a red sharpie>color it in???>Profit!
>>23570232bandai's target audience
>>23570235I think I'd just glue some red cloth.the pink for an eye looks realky bad
>>23570232Ok so I dip the blue shirt in the water for like 30 seconds or so.and then I slide the decal off the blue shirt into the gunpla surfacethen I slide it to the right position.rub rub rub rub and then wait until it's dryexcept it doesn't dry and won't stick to the gunpla no matter whatI don't understand.every youtube video makes it so easy but I just can't do it.stickers and dry transfer are fine, but water is my nemesis
>>23570242>Making it even more difficult for yourself for no reasonI don't get it. Just find a red sharpie and color it in, it's piss easy and looks great. If you don't like it you can immediately wipe it off. Have this redditor's photo to judge.
>>23570233Bandai doesn't like Victory. It was a huge flop.
>>23570247I see that bandai doesn't like victory so much that they made 3 additional recolors of the one kit. I normally do things like that when I hate things too.
>>23570225They are starting on WfM, GQx, and Moon gundam kits, they are already going to notice how worse older HGs are.Besides it's not like any RG or MG is bad, some kits just have quirks.
>>23570233kinda want to buy 4 Gunblastor to pair with my MG V2 AB
>>23570246I don't want to buy another marker :3
>>23570245You don't rub, you dry any excess water with a q tip to make it dry faster. They take like an hour for Bandai decals to dry.
>>23570250I didn't even know this thing existed. What the hell? That's never even been on the US pban store. >>23570252You will buy the marker and you will like it.
>>23570253>an hourbruh. dry transfer takes like a minute.
>>23569584>>23568335only just started mine, planning to turn a 30MF knight into a mutant robocop type thing.
>>23570249Fair enough, I just thought having a bigger frame of reference would help amp up the "wow" factor of RG 2.0
>>23570248Recolor is one huge red flag, anon. They made alot of recolors for Kyokai Senki and we all know how that went> I normally do things like that when I hate things too.You do know that these RE100 has 2000 leveled of engineering with polycaps and empty clamshells, right? If they love Gun Ez, it should have been MG.
>>23570255And they are more difficult to apply and you can't reposition them.Do one side of the torso, then switch to a side of the arms, then the legs, then go and rotate the torso and repeat.You can do a Katoki set in like 3 hours on an average sized MG.
>>23570263>it should have been MGThat's a different conversation as Re/100 basically should not exist. Every single Re/100 SHOULD be an MG.>has 2000 leveled of engineering with polycaps and empty clamshellsThat was basically when bandai was just about at their best.
>>23570266>Every single Re/100 SHOULD be an MG.That proves my point. It is a cheap cashgrab line for things they deemed to be flops. Bandai doesn't like Victory.
I don't care if it's re100 or MG, as long as I get designs I like
RG & MG Unicorn fucking sucks, there i said it
Bandai made RE1/100 and FM to be CHEAPER alternatives to MG, but RE/FM stock are so scarce that they end up being more expensive than MG in my country. shit is fucked up. I hate Bandai gunpla. I can't afford them.
>>23570271>deemed flopsNo, there is no logic of reasoning behind why something is re/100 or not. Why is the Jegan MG but the Gun-Ez not? Well, maybe the Gun-EZ is really small. However, why is the Zaku II FZ Re/100? Guncannon Detector? Hamma Hamma? There's no logic of reasoning behind these other kits other than bandai wanting cheap cash grabs like you pointed out.
>>23570193Imagine being wrong on purpose holy shit you're retarded
>>23570279>logic of reasoningI don't know why my fingers kept typing "of" instead of "or".
>>23570222thanks yeah that's why I've been putting off the GQX but I do love it might just flip a coin between the Moon and RX78, I think the Moon is an amazing design but I do wanna try out RG! >>23570225>>23570249>>23570262i thought about this too having started with some of the most... solid(?) kits but I'm sure I'll still like some older kits when I get to them, I just really like the GQX & GWitch designs a lot so started with them!
>>23570279>Why is the Jegan MG but the Gun-Ez not?You explained that yourself. Jegan is very popular in Japan and even Sunrise themselves pushed this thing hard. It appeared in Unicorn, F91 and fucking Hathaway. Gun EZ? Hamma Hamma? Who?
>>23569783And you wonder why Bandai invested on 30Minute's despite this general went>no one want 30MLNips unironically hoard those kits simply for kit bash spare parts
>>23570263Unironically, that Kyokai Senki series that you posted actually sold out tho. its the main anime that flopped
>>23570292Build Fighters stuff are still much more popular compares to 30 minutes shit. Most of the custom builds use 1/144 hands from GBF rather than 30MM. There is very little reason why 30MM should exist, especially those standalone robots with parts you are not gonna use.
>>23570291>Hmma Hamma>Who?Ah, I see we're back to the flimsy "popularity" excuse. of which you ignored two other robots I mentioned because you know your bullshit holds no water.
>>23570298Sold out because Bandai doesn't print more. 5 years from now, these kits will soon become an anomally.
>>23570292The average Nip is a snapshitter and isn't buying 20 kits to make one girl.
where do I even get a RG sazabi that doesn't cost a kidney
>>23570300Literally who cares about Hamma Hamma or anything you listed? Re100 totally having a logic behind it: To cash grab the autistic retards without putting too much efforts into it.
>>23569727PG but only includes 2 gatling guns/1 shield
Is Ray Studio Chinese or Japanese?
>>23570314Chinese who got too popular in Japan, just like Mahjong Soul
>>23570310>Who cares about the gun cannon>Who cares about the ZAKUNot sure if bandai employee or baby.
>>23570314Chinese. It is actually a small company, not a single person.
It's criminal that G-Reco doesn't have a single MG kit
It's criminal that G-Savior doesn't have a single MG kit
>>23570320And you are correct, the REAL Guncannon and Zaku have MGs and people cares about them, not some wacky offshoots no one have ever heard of.
>>23570326>not some wacky offshoots no one ever heard ofDEFINITELY A bandai baby. Arguments are poorly thought out and emotional only. The same logic does not apply consistently across the board except to win his arguments.
>>23570324mg ver ka g3 saviour when
>>23570329I dunno, you are the one sperging out here. Seems pretty emotional to me. >GundamYou once again, proves my point.
>>23570287It's fine to start with new stuff. I just don't like people who insist you can only go forwards with kits or that anything pre 2013 is garbage.
>>23570336>you are the one sperging out hereLmao, and now we're at the projection part of his arguments. By the way bro, who the fuck has ever heard of Shin Musha Gundam and its infinity variants?
>>23570340That's still a Gundam. Fanatics buy Gundam no matter what and most of current MGs are Gundam. It is not the same as random GM expies and monoeye grunts no one actually care. Bandai made shits like Re100 just to throw these bad boys into it and gave them the bare minimum investment. There is a template and you must be very retarded to ignore its existence.
>>23570340Still a Gundam. Did these inside jokes not teach you anything?
>>23570344>>23570351>That's still a gundam
>>23570299Sure but if we talking about customization 30M in general is far more versatile since all GBF gunpla was you standard gunpla. some were despite the popularity were hideous and straight up different from the anime(Like Miss Sazabi or their Fumina series). 30ML was all about making your own kit instead of making an established character making it more versatile to build and make .not to mention Build Fighters owe 30M team for making Fumina cuter.>Most of the custom builds use 1/144 hands from GBF rather than 30MMWhy does this matter? you said it as if both line cannot be used vice-versa.>especially those standalone robots with parts you are not gonna use.for these type of modeler, it ddoesnt really matter. Since these part always went to part box and waiting for future kit bash.This is why P-Bandai 30ML were focused on package deal instead of brand new "niche" mold
>>23570279somewhere out there, Bandai has data on the popularity of every single MS. they deem that GunEZ as kinda unpopular MS and will cost them money if they push it as MG. like this, in the PBandai store, its already going for a month, but MG F90 Nigger type and Denan Gei is still available, it just proves that late UC MS is not popular.
>>23570376>Denan Gei Re100 is a flopWell that explains alot why it ended up on that line kek.
>>23570376>Bandai has data on the popularity of every single MSIn theory. In practice, they may as well be a rabid animal whose actions are entirely unpredictable. Pic related.
>>23570376>Bandai has data on the popularity of every single MS.They do. They are the owner of Gundam.
>>23570376Didn't Bandai just opened new pre order window today?
>upcoming new chink barbie
>>23570376>Malaysian currency
>>23570388That south east asian's PBandai store on Shopee app. What the Pinoys buy and don't buy has fuck all to do with how a plastic model perform in Japan.
>>23570329F90 is an interesting case, it was already announced in the early 2000s, but was canceled, most likely because F90 is not popular enough for Bandai to push it as retail after all even among the Japanese, it was not well knownI think the PBandai division made Bandai confident enough to push F90 as a MG
>>23570352>Gundam MK3Who? Never heard of this robot before.
>>23570407>He's never heard of the GundamSasuga /gpg/
>>23570256
>>23570406Let's be real, most of RE100 Gundam are just very weird to look at and are things never materialize into anything worthwhile. Lindwurm is a Bawoo with a paintjob, MKIII is a literall concept art in MSV and Gerbera is just an explanation of what Tetra looked like before total monoeye overhaul. Meanwhile F90 has tricolor, has the traditional Okawara looks and the protagonist of its own manga. It has a formula for a PBandai MG rather than dogshit like RE100. Sure Bandai will definitely turn Hamma Hamma, Jagd Doga, Gun Ez and so on into MG if they decided to make them 5 years earlier, but this is modern Bandai we are talking about.
>>23570410NTA but to be fair, I only know FA Mk III because of an old book i saw, and only learned what MK III looks like because of old GGen games
>>23570410Oh sure anon. I have never heard of Gundam Ballsack Tranny, appeared as a single lineart in Gundam ver Gyobu encyclopedia MSV( Special edition ). How foolish i am.
>>23570406Interesting argument, stating that pbandai can be used for unpopular suits like F90 being MG. Very interesting argument.
>>23570419Stuff like that is why Bandai refuses to make MG for them on the current climate. I bet most of people don't even know what Gundam Burai is.
>>23570422Alot of RE100 are Pbandai, too. There too layers of scrutiny from Bandai when it comes to things that are not both: Manga protagonist and tri colored Gundam.
>>23570314Laotian
>>23570412looking nicehow do you bend pla plate like on the peg legs
>>23570417while I do understand Bandai's decisions, I am a firm believer that Bandai can make everything as MG release as long they hype it enough. its a shame, Bandai even used to make MGs of non Gundam and it was fine. imagine if Bandai put effort enough and hype it enough, there would be like MG Dragonar-1 ver Obari or like MG Abarlest,Laevatein or like MG SRW stuff.but Bandai is stuck in the old ways and their marketing is stuck in magazine shoots and little blurbs or like boring presentations in fucking hour long youtube streams shame really, I was expecting the Billbine to be MG and it was just a big 1/35 hg
>>23569584I just started mine. The bulk of the work will be kitbashing some 30MM stuff with a Digimon, and then I'll paint him.
even if its a real Zaku, i dont think a MG Zaku tank would warrant a retail release
>>23569584finally happy with my bash, gonna prop up for paint soonish
>>23570376Just because you Filipinos dont care for it doesnt mean its unpopular. It sold out on the japanese site, which is the only one that really matters. Japanese people make up the majority of gunpla sales so Bandai doesnt give a FUCK what flips, americunts or singapoors like.
>>23570406The UCNext100 push at least gave a popularity boost to a portion of the post-CCA to late UC era so far. It's better than another 25 years of OYW wanking
>>23570406I wish I saved a screenshot of that one anon who went on a several day long rant about how Bandai is NEVER gonna make this into a kit. Fuck that retard, I hope he's mad about the mission packs. I hope he's pissed off and hates life rn
>>23570412This is insanely cool. Please finish it I need to see it complete
theres also a consideration of the popularity of the show and its sales. wasnt there an interview back then that during the Flit arc, the ratings was cratering and the hg sales have been so lackluster that it kinda shifted their plans?so unless its very popular and/or Bandai really want to push it, an unpopular MS will not get gunpla release or at best, release as PBandai
>>23570435>I was expecting the Billbine to be MGYou shouldn't have.
>>23570464How many more years until they release it?
>>23570435>I am a firm believer that Bandai can make everything as MG release as long they hype it enough.What i'm saying is not about how certain designs don't deserve to be MG, but how they are eligible for RE100 treatment. Modern Bandai has this very greedy mindset of the absolute profitability. They don't want kits to just perform well, they want everything to be mega hits. Making everything MGs is totally what they are capable of and has more than enough budget to do so, it is something they have abandonned and gaslit people into believing they have much less money than how much actually have.
>>23570466Dunbine was, so I was at least expecting Bandai to
>>23570420>Gundam Ballsack TrannyYou're broken in the head, kid.
https://schizophonic9.com/re9/eg_winggundam.html
>>23570469i think theres also a consideration of how much customers are willing to pay. Bandai has made gunpla, in particular MGs as very cheap. in turn of course it made MGs popular in the early days, but now is suffering because people now expect MGs to be cheap.I dont think people will be willing to pay at least 250-300 USD for a MG-detailed Nightingale, so it was made to RE1/100. thats why MGEX Strike Freedom is reprinted more often than MGEX Unicorn since it is too expensive for people
>max file limit reachedDammit.
>>23570469Would have been better for my arguments to post an image, but I don't think it's greed. What the hell is Gundam Astray Mirage Frame 2nd issue?
>>23570485It shares a lot of parts with the MG Astray, which is an extremely popular and high selling design. Thats literally the only reason it got a new MG. If the MG Astray didnt already exist this thing would never see the light of day.
>>23570098>look up gunpla reviewThere's where you went wrong.
let's see if purolator fails to deliver my re/100 dijeh today
>>23570490Does the MG Astray transform into a dog too? They had to do new engineering for this thing to accomplish that right?
>>23570481>250-300 USD for a MG-detailed NightingaleI would, what the fuck are you talking about?
>>23570485Astray has a very strong cult following in Japan. Bandai has been milking red frame with all sort of wacky variant and the japs ate it up. Also as i stated above, Gundam sells.
>>23570500>They had to do new engineering for this thing to accomplish that right?Pffttt, you can transform any Gundam into a dog by making it stand on 4 limbs. It is not that hard.
>>23570506Well, some anon has to now take their MG Astray and transform it into the dog.
>>23570506Bullshit.
>>23570500The rear leg change is entirely in the foot and the arm change seems to be a swinging part that covers the original hand. The arms and legs are identical otherwise.
>>23570469You think just because the west doesn't like x kit, doesn't mean the japs (which is their major market) wouldn't gobble it up. The jap market is still selling close to a million kits per year.
>>23570507Mirage's "dog" mode is literally just him crawling on the ground. https://p-bandai.com/hk/item/A2805108001
>>23570481>I dont think people will be willing to pay at least 250-300 USD for a MG-detailed NightingalePeople already did. China made "Firehawk", a 1/100 Nightingale. $400++
