-=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/4KBEnVaN>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:https://flickr.com/photos/197891373@N06>Monthly Restock List (April):old.reddit.com/r/gunpla/1s1jcfyPrior thread: >>23803550
Vote for your favorite entries in the Ace Custom II groupbuild here:https://forms.gle/A5n9PgDTFJYuTdjF6Voting lasts until Monday.And reply to this post with suggestions for new themes for the next groupbuild! To commemorate our 30th groupbuild, the starting list of themes will include>Mahou Shoujo>Zeon>Squad>Silly>Animal>Armored Up>Criminal>Elemental>Giant Weapons>Gundam Frame>Kitbash>Knocked Out>Leo>Monoeye>Mythological>Restoration>Royal>Salvaged>Stealth>Stolen>Super Robot>Urban Warfare>Vintage>Winter Warfare>Witch From Mercurywith more suggested in response to >>23805157
And show me what you're working on!
>>23807274Finished snapping the main body of a MG Wing Zero EW Ver Ka today. Tomorrow I'll get started on the wing binders.
Hows your Easter /gpg/?
>>23807274That's my Zgok.Currently drying.Burnt Iron is really good, the color appears on the plastic surface really quick, so I don't have to waste much paint spraying for too long.
Not a fan of the Advanced Kehaar II design but the addon might still be worth getting for the leggings.
Why do we need to vote, we all know what the next theme will be.
>>23807311coming with the gundam shoes is a good appealthey look so cute on a Woundwort
what's he drinkin
>>23807368Tamiya extra thin
do y'all actually wait 24 hours before assembly post-coat
>>23807380depends on the part. For MG If it’s an out armor part that doesn’t rub on a joint or another part then it’s fine. Inner frame and otherwise, yes.
I swear to fucking god if silly wins this time.
a 6'0" and a 5'11" pilot figure in 1/100 scale.
>>23807404The average Chinese person is closer to 5'4", actually.
>it can stand with all that weight holy shit metal frames are Plamor's give to model kits
>>23807273Credit to everyone that entered, this was a good turnout.>Idol themeMake an idol themed model, something that could be an idols personal ride> mech x historicalCombine your build with a historical scale kit of some sort>walking battleshipGo for the Battletech feel and make a build that functions like a battleship, pre dreadnought or dreadnought. Lots of big guns, heavy armour, etc. It's place is on the centre of the line of battle
>>23807506>mech x historicalYou can cast a wider net and just make a mech representing some piece of history like say Genghis Khan mech, WWI mech, Roman soldier mech, caveman mech and so on.
>>23807506>walking battleshipFuck yeah, big fat fucks taken to the next level. I actually had this thought a year or two ago, that in the next AU inspired by 0079, the Guntank should be an impregnable mobile fortress that could shield the Gundam and Guncannon from incoming enemy fire and mount cannons powerful enough to threaten enemy ships, as opposed to just a mobile artillery platform with slightly bigger guns than the Guncannon. Be a tank to mobile suits as a regular tank would be to humans.
>>23806786Praise be on Plamor! Go get that qt, anon!
>>23807273Is "Transforming" a theme that's been done before? Take a non-transforming kit, and turn it into a build that is able to transform into some other mode. Be it a waverider or mobile armor, multiple part general-purpose transformations like ZZ or Victory, a land vehicle like Skells, a seafaring vessel, a mech that hunkers down into a large artillery platform, maybe even one that breaks into weapons for other mechs to use.I think it'd be fun to see anons bullshit alternate modes out of kits that weren't made to transform
>>23807543I suggested this a year or two ago, it was dismissed out of hand because nobody's going to have the engineering skill/know-how to build a transforming kit.
>>23807543>>23807570Thank god Im not voting for anything else but mahou shoujo.
>>23807576Not even idol theme?
>>23807584Mahou shoujo already covers that.
>>23807589No it doesn't
>regular P-Bandai releases from Bandai>whole OC kits from third parties like Re-Haze and Gelgoog III>Effect Wings doing add-ons that Bandai completely skippedI'm so excited bros
>>23807593Soon all the pieces for Exodia will be in place
>>23807591Mahou shoujo idol is a thing you know.
>>23807601Yeah but what about idols that aren't magical girls?
As far as I'm concerned, all girls are magical.
>>23807273what happened to duohas that been rolled into "squad"?
>>23807604But do I give a fuck?
>>23807610The least predatory liberal.
>>23807596are chinks bad enough dude to make the Fiver or the Inle?
>>23807596What is even left at this point to build a HG Queenly? I think the pieces on the legs and the connecting struts are all that's left.
>>23807610this anon fucks
>>23807273>/tv/ - television and film>Pick a non-mecha movie or show and build a mech that feels like it belongs there.
>>23807617The world isn't ready for HG Inle
>>23807273>LoTR
>>23807629
>>23807593Aoz chads can't stop winning.
>>23807273>Diorama I think this got suggested before, but make a small diorama showing your mech in it's natural environment.
I want to hunt down a HZII Rah on the aftermarket but at this point I'm worried that EW will announce a bootleg as soon as I buy it.Normally wouldn't be an issue, but there's a chance they will include gimmicks that Bandai skipped over like functioning shoulder weapon pods. Their TR-6, for instance, included a longer TR-1 style CSB blade and a ReBoot variant of the blade. That wasn't a big deal because I need a myriad of Woundworts for my collection, but one HZII Rah is enough.
>>23807272i really like the whole 1st row
What's the most efficient path to practicing my painting with as little assembly/prep as possible? My endgame is still gunpla, but right now I just want to grind painting, masking, weathering until I achieve a reasonable competence.
>>23807693Paint your nails like the youtubers the troons here love to talk about.
>>23807693Order bootlegs and paint them.
>>23807693build your gunpla as if it's a statue (which means gluing joints permanently), and paint it that way.
>>23807693train 20 years on spoonsthen you will be allowed to train on pla plate (30 years)don't assemble anything until then or you will puncture the fabric of reality
>>23807693Start with brush painting minor details. That would also make for a nice masking practice
>>23807380I just screwed up my Zaku 2 by not waiting. I put it together before applying top coat after the paint had cured (48 hours). Figured I'd top boat by limb, but ended up with some small chips and scratches that I'll have to go back over before coating. Do you guys coat individual pieces before assembling?
>>23807273Toku theme: Make a mech inspired by some tokusatsu series
https://x.com/46uzSurn/status/2040467238680248373
>>23807719https://x.com/46uzSurn/status/2040766075974123746
>>23807720Ooof. Even /gpg/ can do better
>>23807273Racist theme
>>23807721But can (You)?
>>23807723No...
>>23807721>OoofBack to plebbit you go. There is prolly more paint on that mech than you ever used in your whole Gunpla hobby career.
>>23807729Is that your build? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you.
>Jegan A-type kit gives you leftover parts from other F91 types>Doesn't give you the fucking runners to finish themDamn you P-Bandai!!!
>>23807604That's just a bunch of posers
>>23807695But aren't bootlegs more prep intensive because of the fitting issues?>>23807696I'm actually thinking about buying robot action figures that just need to be unscrewed. No prep, just get rid of the stickers, prime and repaint.
>Let myself be tricked into doing family stuff today because 'we already said you'd come'>Aunt I have not seen in ages shows up>ooh, you have grown so big anon, I remember you had these when you were a kid and your mom says you still do model building, so I brought you something' Oh my... I did indeed build a few of these when I was but a wee lad, fully (badly hand) painted and rigged and all but when I say ages ago I mean ages ago. It is a full hull but maybe I make it a waterline because the scale is close enough to fit N scale and Gundam stuff
>>23807754Based aunt.
>>23807754That's a nice gift, it'd be a funny companion piece to the Gogg.
>>23807754Turning a gunpla into a sailing ship would actually be a pretty fun group build if enough people participated in it.
>>23807729>There is prolly more paint on that mech than you ever used in your whole Gunpla hobby career.yeah that's the problem. the fucken thing's caked in paint
>>23807782
>>23807729>There is prolly more paint on that mech than you ever used in your whole Gunpla hobby career.That's the problem
So does tamiya fine surface primer have a bad rep? I used it for the first time because my shop was out of Mr surfacer. This stuff seems to actively repel paint (ironically tamiya paint). Shit chips and scratches if you look at it sideways. Never had this problem with any other primer, it seems worse than just not using it at all.
>>23807797
>>23807797Me in the bathtub.
>>23807570I've done it a couple of times for the groupbuilds...
>>23807800I've had nothing but good experiences with their primer in jars. Never used the canned stuff.
>>23807273Gladiator theme
>>23807273Kondo groupbuild doko
>>23807273I stand by Grandpa theme being a great anniversary theme. Everyone has to use an RX-78-2 and can modify it in whatever them they want.
go nuts on the shitass themes, i need to skip a couple
For me, it's mahou shoujo
>>23807755>>23807756Yeah, real sweet of her to get me this. Wierd/fun thing is, when I was 12 I would go 'whoa cool model boat' and just slap it together I can and could paint within the lines but I'd paint it with matte and gloss paint whichever I had in the color needed, never heard of primer or panel liner or a wash and just had fun with it. Now I feel intimidated because I am a grown up modeller and supposed to know better. Regardless, this will be a cool build. Maybe I will post pics but I need the right mindset to start something like this and see it trough so please subscribe to my plamo blog in /gpg to see when I do.
>>23807273Emergency response team
