-=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 (May):old.reddit.com/r/gunpla/1srpyu8Prior thread: >>23839738
-=GIRLPLA GROUPBUILD=-Build a kit featuring any brand of Girlpla, including but not limited to:>Frame Arms Girl>Megami Device>30 Minute Sisters/Missions/Etc.>Figure-Rise Standard>MegalomariaAdditionally, any "Feminine" mechs like the Nobel Gundam or Valsione are fair game as well. What you do with your build in terms of theming is up to you so long as your base is "Feminine".Send a description along with both WIP and Finished images of your build to gunplaplamo@gmail.comSTART: 4/15/26END: 7/31/26
Show me what you're working on!
got a tax return of 2000 leaf dollar, what should i buy bros?
>>23846009Got done with this cyborg Chinese zombie girl (Jiu Lian by Hemoxian). As with the Starflower Lily, this one is very detailed, lots of parts separated just for a bunch of tiny details. And as with the Starflower Lily, some parts have very tough fit and needing a little sanding. Hell, there are two bits that were straight up too big to fit through the designated hole lol (the ball bit’s peg that goes into the top of the hat, the gold bit under the neck that goes through the blue ‘fabric’ to pin into the chest). But yeah, relatively minor stuff to fix. Overall, very good looking kit and comes with plenty of accessories and alt parts. I haven’t looked too closely but I think there might be enough parts for you to build a ‘normal human’ form of the kit as well.
>>23846015If you had told me a decade ago that chinkpla would overtake jappla I would have laughed at you but here we are. Wild.
>>23846009I finished it :DDD
How often do you disassemble your airbrush entirely to clean it? Or do you never need to do that unless there's a jam or something? Would simply running thinner through the cup and airbrushing till the output has no more paint enough?
>>23846023:)
>>23846026A cat piloted that?!!!
>>23846027He's a nyaatype.
>>23846027inside every mechanical war robit is a kitten
>>23846028
>>23846029And every jetfighter is piloted by puppies, that's how we got the term 'dogfight' for aerial combat.
>>23846018Japs love Sheik Mainland. The changs can go much further than making a bunch of sloppy bootlegs with billions of panel lines on them. https://x.com/6f4z9ncrq4/status/1977187015176470682
>>23846018Too bad they're frequently allergic to making good designs
>>23846042To be fair, even the Japanese don't seem to be making golds nowadays. Almost every good design are from the 80s - early 2000s.
We stopped getting good designs after 2009.
>>23846027A Mad Cat
>>23846009Finished painting and clearcoating this guy. Will probably panel line once the paint is a little less fragile
>>23845425Sadly I am the second-worst builder...>>23846037Are these good, they look pretty nice
>the fucking PGU RX-78-2 is out of stockDoes Bandai hate money or something? Is it sold at a loss and subsidized by the rest of the range? Are they mentally retarded?This is why people buy chinkpla.(Is the Daban PGU old man any good?)
>>23846007Slut.
>>23846014Canadollars are not real money, that 2k gets you like an hg or something? [Spoiler] get a PG Zaku II and safe/spend the rest on usefull stuff [/spoiler]
>>23846121Spoiler is case sensitive? Heh, learnt something today
>>23846125>he actually typed out the tags
>>23846095Some parts are abit tight and need sanding but overall they are decent.
>>23846142I'd want a green one but idk how to feel about desert colours, I don't have any desert friends>it can be your first oneOh!
>I can't buy x kit!>It's BANDAAAAI's FAAAAULTDo manbabies really?
>>23846166You don't even build
>>23846167my wip is in this thread right now.
>>23846166Here, take my (you). Don't spend it all in one place.
>>23846169It's not yours
>>23846173its for the plamogods of course.
>DABAN PGU RX-78-02 on Aliexpress:10000 yen>Bandai PGU RX-78-02 on Amazon:55000 yen (twice the original price of the kit)Bandai! Exterminate every last scalper from the face of the earth and unfuck your release schedule and I'll consider giving you my money instead of the chinkGODS.
>>23846166I mean it kind of is if they aren't printing it. Scalped stuff is one thing but some stuff you can't even find at scalped prices.
>>23846166>Out of stock for years>Can't buy it>Damn, must be those haters' fault
>>23846189He is acting like gunpla grow from trees or someshit
>>23846201technically your gunpla grows from dead dinosaurs.
>>23846200Sounds like a skill issue. What kit are you even looking for?
>>23846203Does that mean everytime we make a dinosaur toy, we are bringing them back?
>>23846207>Skill issueOn Bandai's side
>>23846210what kit are you even looking for?
>>23846211None of your fucking business
>>23846208Yes they come back alive when you're asleep, so you better watch your toy dinosaurs.
>>23846212this kit that you're looking for what is it? Is it so hard to find that you can't even say what it is?
>>23846208>>23846213>gunpla have the spirits of dead dinosaurs in themmetal as fuck
>>23846216Your cars have the spirits of the prehistoric ages in them. When your engine runs, you're hearing the roars from a bygone era.
>>23846215First of all, none of your fucking business. If you want an answer, i want to buy alot of stuff. G Reco HG roster beside the protagonist, MS Igloo kits and probably that fucking weird robot from ZZ.
It's crazy that Bandai has done nothing but shit on our mouths since the pandemic but anons ITT still go to bat to defend their honor. Scat fetishists GET OUT.
Is Bandai never really gonna reprint the P-Bandai SMP kits?
>>23846207nta but GaoIcarus
>>23846216Now everything come full circle
speaking of dinosaurs when will Bandai make an Imaginary Skeleton kit of Spinosaurus before it gets retconned again next year ?
>>23846227>complains about bandai>anon asks politely what kits he wants>ITS NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS.Are you by any chance an autistic sperg? Some of the g reco kits are getting reprinted this year, the lucifer, arcane and g self, maybe the rest too by 3rd quarter or something.
>>23846234Lol good luck. Pray that Bandai even bothers to make a clear or black version come 2031 for the 30th anniversary of Gaoranger.
>>23846248>Some of the g reco kits are getting reprintedI said the entire roster. I want that green Jahanam and G Lucifer. Would be nice if the original Grimoire gets reprinted.
>Appeared on Pbandai once>Disappeared forever
>>23846262Good riddance, early bandai girpla was awful
>>23846262I have that kit but I only build the normal version thus far and it's jank af.
>>23846265She is only Bandai girlpla with some fat. Respect the only one of her kind.
RG/FM/MG G-Arcane plz... bandai, chinese... whatever.Also pls make kits of older mecha properties as well. L-Gaim needs more kits, Gasaraki needs more kits.
Bandai owes me an RG Daizyujin
Gyanko owes me sex
>>23846258It may take ages but you should be happy bamdai has the reprint policy it does at all. So many scale model brands do one or two runs and then never make the thing again, or like Lego where the product is available for a period and then gets discontinued, so if you are not in the hobby at that time/miss the release for whatever reason the Only way to get it is trough resellers. It sucks to pay more than retail but if you Really like a kit there is always a way to get it.
>>23846272It definitely feels like a kit for intermediate builders.
>>23846279Bandai never reprints SMP kits if they're not the main mecha(s)
largely finished mech. feedback is welcome except on the 3d layer lines, i think weve all heard that one enough now. maybe ill get a resin printer one day for stuff like this but for this one doing tens of hours of sanding just wasnt feasible for me.
>>23846282another angle
>>23846265What did you say about Gyanko?
>>23846274>L-Gaim needs more kitsIt has a ton already
>>23846283Looks like cleaning up seamlines wasn't feasible as well
>>23846279>you should be happy bamdai has the reprint policy it does at all.Literally a business runs on re-issue, what are you on about? They stop reprinting something that they deemed not profitable enough, however for Bandai's case they behave like a rabid dog and keep reprinting dogshit no one asked for like 30 Minutes trash while abandonning slightly unpoppular things from Gundam that deserve a reprint every 5 years.
>>23846288well the lines on the backpack are lines dividing metal plates. other non natural seamlines were puttied
>>23846283The cracks on the back and shoulder look cool, they give him a sense of being really old.
>>23846288>>23846290not trying to be snarky but which seamlines exactly do you mean? maybe mark in picture
>>23846283That bazoonga is too huge.
>>23846274Changs should make their own G Arcane but with optional big breasts like Nobel bootleg.
>>23846279>It may take agesPeople are not immortal
>>23846289The 30MM stuff sells a lot, it's just not aimed at people in this thread. Especially compared to G-Reco stuff.Also yesterday we literally had someone autistically screeching that Bandai reprints too much and needs to make new kits, while you are doing the opposite (despite being told that a chunk of what you are looking for is already scheduled for this year).
>>23846300>The 30MM stuff sells a lotThe novelty wore off long ago. Back in 2019 - 2020 it might have a good opening due to curiousity but most of japs nowadays are just apathetic toward it. Bandai likes to shill this trash but most of Japs prefer Gunpla.
>>23846037damn the sheik mainland looks good. never heard of it before but it looks like something out of wolfs brigade. is it a purely chinese design?
It's been five years now, but the vigil continues.Older kits have gotten bootlegs, someday this war will end.
>>23846298Changs should have optional big breasts in all of their kits
>>23846306oops i just realized sheik mainland is a brand. the mech i meant is the za11 zyklon
>>23846308>MKIII without 4 eyesGaaaay
CHANG I BEG YOU RELEASE MORE HORSES
>>23846312It never had 4 eyes despite what the lineart suggests. Even Fujita's own other drawings of it from the 80s don't have that.
>>23846304>30mm line had a 153 billion yen in sales last year>Not selling wellIdk about you but clearly theres a high demand for 30mm which is Bandai is releasing more kits with better designs.
>>23846318unrelated but this kit looks pretty neat yet I'm incredibly confused by the clear parts for weapon holsters
>>23846314did you preorder Moshow Toys Galloping Horse Model Kit (Metal Frame)? no? your own fault then
>>23846320I think they are supposed to be floating via magnets or magic.
>>23846324No I'm still waiting for Motor Nuclear's Lightning Divine Horse Red Hare and Xiang Yu with the Black Dragon Horse
>>23846328That's a really peculiar choice for a kits-first line that can't replicate that visual
>>23846318Why the fuck did they even go with this game that was already memory-holed by everyone. If they really needed to branch into something other than AC6 surely there were better choices out there
>>23846324I thought those weren't kits? Just chang metal build equivalents
>>23846331Well go make it float then.
>>23846336pre built metal frameinclude waterslide decals and LED
>>23846095I own both the depicted mech, the Zarov, and the Zabol. They are very good. I recommend the Fenrir.>>23846310The one in your image is the ZA-11 Zyklon. The one in the post you replied to is the ZA-10 Zarov.
>>23846318Got into gunpla mainly for their engineering in plastic models. At this point, Bandai has proven how capable they are at engineering stuff that the only way to go further is to add more parts that just increases the price. Makes sense that they focus more on older MG re-releases because they're still on the more affordable side with how fucked up the current economy is. Now I'm more interested on how far they can push their cheaper products after seeing how much autistic detail they've managed to do with them recently.
>>23846318>153 billion yenBut enough about Gundam ip
>>23846347> that the only way to go further is to add more parts that just increases the price. Makes sense that they focus more on older MG re-releaseOr and I know this is a shocking novel concept, they can produce any number of the hundreds of giant robots they still have in storage.
>>23846347>Now I'm more interested on how far they can push their cheaper productsNot completely what you are talking about I guess, but the EG RX78-2 is a little marvel of minimalism. I also got the EG Wing but I did not build that yet.
>>23846023>>23846026I love itexcellent work
>>23846023>>23846026This is so great. Awesome work!
>>23846320>>23846328The effect is a little more subtle in game to be fair.
>>23846360The ac6 30mm line is pretty interesting. They're pricey but the fact that they've managed to preserve 90% of the details despite the size is impressive. You get a better appreciation on how the parts and runners are designed while chasing a specific retail price target if you're aware about the limitations of injection molding.
>>23846368Hmm I think a thin metal rod would have conveyed that better. They could have painted it (lmao right Bandai pre painting) blue and it would look closer
>>23846361>>23846365thank you :)
>Finally find grail kit>Spent too much on a HDD for backups this monthFuck me
finished
>>23846450and a collage of my recent daidalos cause im bored
>>23846422Do you not have some money stashed away for emergencies such as this one?
>>23846450wasn't sure about the weird ass design but it rounded up pretty good and interesting, nice work
Good news: Ex S has a new kit with modern engineeringBad news: It looks like shit
>>23846483>first not-MGSD, now thisNot a good time to be ExS fan
>>23846483Can someone teach modern designers the principle of "KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID" already?
>>23846483>MechanicoreThey would be great if they actually made kits that looked like the source material rather than a over-greebled spiked mess in the vague shape of the MS and then charge $500+
