-=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 (July):old.reddit.com/r/gunpla/1ucog4lPrior thread: >>23916401
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GaoKing final form dropped after 25 years
Which way white man?
New Gaohunter form
New Gaomuscle is KINO
And the new Power Animals combines into....a Brave reject. Like what the hell is that head seriously. This doesn't belong to Sentai at all.
>all the new releases are P-BandaiIT'S SO FUCKING OVER
>>23921294your reflection?
Everything looks better with a Gundam head.
>>23921294anyone who picks right displays a disturbing lack of faith in gunpla and needs to leave the board asap
>>23921327but the groupbuild...
>>23921330pls extend.
I didn't know the scythe is also a rifle combo
>>23921356this is some Kamen Rider shit
>>23921294>dorito with ball jointimpressivevery nice
Does anyone like D-StylesBecause ones for the Ingram and Peacemaker are getting reprinted next yearYippie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Full Armor chink Zaku soon
>upscaled RG Zeong arrivedwtf this box is HUGE
>>23921313This looks like it belongs in newer Sentai instead of Gaoranger. I think the problem is that the arms lack the iconic shoulder design of Gao mechs
>>23921356Where was this weapon in gquacks
>>23921371yeah. feels like an afterthought to me. Will still get it for the Peacock.
>>23921324>Hazel (GQ)
>>23921294i believe Bandai intended buyers to kitbash Hambrabi and Ikuyo with each other.
>>23921397Nijika i mean
>>23921285while my GM III custom is effectively finished, I am doing the GM III chest as an option for good measure
>>23921409Where's his lil powerupsA buddy's gotta have his powerups
>>23921374>Where was this weapon in gquacksNo idea, it wasn't even in the official art. Which is a shame because a beam scythe fedayeen rifle is absolute cinema
>>23921120Shogun from one angle, a wizard from another angle now.
>>23921317New releases?
>>23921356awww shit, I guess I have to buy the harambe now
>>23921426the new Gaoranger set
>>23921411my buddy's lil powerups would slow him down and he's going for high-mobility
>>23921437>Cute kick little girly man
>>23921437Alright, you win this time, Although neither painted nor customized, my buddy on my end with his powerups has your buddy's back!Also I normally don't fuck with green but that's a very nice shade of green. Neither an overshadowing protag shade, nor a dreary military one where it feels like nameless grunts are all going to die. And thankfully not neon either.All of this reminds me that I have to build my GM II at some point, the very underwhelming middle sometimes-fascistic brother between the OG progenitor and the subsequent superbuddy
>>23921443>>23921437Like, it just looks like the right shade of green for a capable soldier, I don't know how to explain it
>>23921327>ugly quack slop or ugly little girlI choose neither
>>23921294180° and out of that store
>>23921313Deal with it. It's a concept from 25 years ago, you can't change that.
>>23921443>>23921445was going for a shellshocked Karaba pilot's jury-rigged GM III repaired with Night Seeker parts after the Dublin Colony Drop, a la the EZ-8 or Yazan's GM III. Even painted it an AEUG green, as if to give off the vibes of this nameless Karaba jabroni going full Martin Walker on Zeon remnants whilst the Neo Zeon War is fought in space.
https://schizophonic9.com/re10/30mp_nijika.htmlThis is awesome. Give the drums to a Scopedog, and Honoo no Sadame goes even harder.
>>23921462>Give the drums to a ScopedogI clicked this expecting drum magazines you sick fucking bastard
>GaoIcarus reissue is next year April>earliest is Gaoking on November>>>>>mere months after Gaoking Black's releaseare you fucking kidding me? And here I thought I could avoid painting the black set. That's too bad.
>>23921285Painted the tan parts. I was considering weathering but I like the bright orange a lot and want to keep it clean so maybe next time. Unfortunately I don't have any gjallarhorn decals so I'll have to do with less specific ones
>>23921449>>23921452Wow you are so cool and aloof.
Some faggot called me a newfag to the hobby just because I don't like clearslop and cross contrastlop. Is this true, /gay penis general/?
>>23921493I can see your new just from the way you walk.
>>23921493yes, now get on your knees and take the initiation ritual like gay newfag you are.
>>23921493Yeah you sound like it but not because of the clearslop
>>23921493There's nothing wrong with being new. Everybody was new at one point.
>>23921493clear kits and cross contrast are newfag bait anyway
Gave Hildolfr some sand weathering.
>>23921538Tank mode
>>23921538>>23921542This thing really needs a dark brown or black wash, it has so much surface detail but looks completely flat
>>23921552I just took a shit so the weathering resources is out of stock.
been out of the loop for a while, any interesting groupbuild entries I should aim to beat?
>>23921552Il second this, I can hardly tell that there's weathering
Has anyone here ever been to Anime Expo? I'm going to be in LA for the next few weeks and was wondering if it's worth attending. I'd mostly be going to look for rare gunpla, plamo, resin kits and MAYBE try to bring an Astolfo cosplayer back to my room.
>>23921294I envy Japan so much, they get walls of gunpla for cheapIn Europe I'm lucky to have one gunpla shop in my (large) city that's basically a tiny closet
>>23921580I went a few years back. There's various booths that sell plamo, and the gunpla booth is pretty prominent. The line for it wraps around and they only allow a few people into the booth itself at a time to shop. You'll find mostly clear kits and Gundam Base-exclusive stuff. You'll see a metric fuckton of cosplayers everywhere. Check the schedule to see if there are any panels you might be interested in attending on the days you're in town (there's no Gundam events this time, I already checked). Also check out artist alley, some people can sell some really cool Gundam posters/patches/keychains/etc.>and MAYBE try to bring an Astolfo cosplayer back to my room.You're on your own for that one.
>>23921589still better than me (also Europe), there's no shop within reasonable driving distance at all
>>23921552>>23921563Added more dark brown and sand. No wash, sorry. The looks of oil stain makes me sick to my stomach, this is from the real experience of cleaning my toilet.
>>23921606I'm really sorry because I know you put a lot of work into this, but I'm just gonna come out and say it. It kinda looks like shit. The colors look flat and the shading is just not working at all. I'd try this on a hg zaku before messing with this again.
>>23921026Thank you but I really do not do anything that special. I just do a lot of it because I enjoy it.
>>23921620I'm really sorry because I know you put a lot of work into this criticism but your mom is terrible at sex.
The new Keroro kits all look great... but the movie turned to shit after a director known for genuine theatrical works handled that one. Man, I wish we go all the way back to the heydays...
>>23921620post your builds>>23921606looking good dude
>>23921606Looks a bit better now that you can actually see the rivers and stuff but I've gotta agree with >>23921620, this just doesn't look good. I would start over because it doesn't seem like more weathering is going to fix it
how's surugaya shipping looking like nowadays? Havent kept up for the last year or two
>>23921634You know what? I agree. I should start over, give it more orangepeel, unthinned paint and soak it in the toilet to bring out its SOVL.
>>23921639Still free with promotions but DHL will ransom off your package for way more than the actual import tariff total
>>23921634You two talk too much. Paint your own Hildolfr.
>>23921642it looks like I can only use EMS so this doesn't seem too bad
>>23921294how big is the drum set next to a 1/144 gundam
>>23921649HG Scopedog is as big as a 1/144 Gundam so..
>>23921606IGLOO Kino
>>23921606looks super cool :3
Anyone have weird mental blocks? I want to paint and customize my kits but I also simultaneously want to just panel line with waterslides then fuck off so I have more time for my other hobby. So I just end up doing nothing in this decision paralysis.
>>23921639amiami is just better
>>23921664I don't paint every kit i own, just the one that i have an itch to do so. It is much less tiresome that way.
Anybody knows where I can get detail parts (especially bolts like picrel) for cheap? They're 10 whole ass euros on Aliexpress (5 on the cheapest similar-ish products, which is still way too much for a single runner)
>>23921664The only things I paint are HG's. Everything else is a pain in the ass. And only then when I have a good concept. People who insist you have to paint everything are people who this is their only hobby.
https://x.com/calpis_iwao/status/2070359102174400783
>>23921681I doubt anyone in here actually paint literally everything lol. Even the guys with a shelf full of painted builds probably have an unholy amount of snapshit kits they hide behind the camera.
are there any stores left that sell single runners for bandai kits? or alternatively a bootleg of the mg jegan? i seem to have misplaced by B runner and am missing like 3 parts from the backpack
>>23921620it doesnt look „bad“ it just looks boring and the effort put in is in no way correlated to the amount of money he spent on this thing. the whole thing really just needs someone adept at weathering else youll never get the big flat faces look interesting
>>23921690I like to think I paint almost everything but my actual paint/snap ratio is currently at 6/16 :(
>>23921697I have an MG Stark Jegan. If it has those parts as surplus I wouldn't mind parting with them.
>>23921699>is in no way correlated to the amount of money he spent on this thingLol what? It is expensive because i had to resolve to scalper. The real price is not even close to 200 bucks. You sound strangely salty.>Dat MK44LMAO. Poor example you got there. Find another example that's actually has thinned paint.https://x.com/modeoni_motoki/status/2044018229602070801
>>23921699Thin your paint, nigga
>>23921699I don't think it neccesarily *has* to be weathered to look good, but it absolutely needs something to differentiate all the flat surfaces from each other. a modulated style like image related would look really good on the hildolfr
>>23921707>Find another example that's actually has thinned paintlooks like intentional cast armor texture to me. you can see the same thing on the lower legs of your pic too
>>23921715snapshitters itt havent heard of texturing in their life, its wasted effort
>>23921667how so?
Anyone can know which megami device this is?
>>23921705i doubt it will, it's the big bell thruster and connecting part for the backpack and the parts that connect the shield to the arm
>>23921711Hildolfr is not your century old wartorn Krote or Kondo's sewer infused Mobile Suit. It looks relatively clean and bland with some sand it got from the desert. This is the real Hildolfr to me.
>>23921707> You sound strangely salty.projecting about your wasted money>Find another example that's actually has thinned painthe thinned his paint, he just put tamiya putty thinned with probably lacquer thinner as a paste onto the plastic surface to achieve a cast metal look before priming. but youve never heard of such a technique because you barely know basic airbrushing and half-arsedly putting on dry powder.
>>23921715Texture does not mean it makes your paintjob looks glossy in some places and matte in other. And what does Hildolfr has anything to do with Ma.K? It is a toyetic tank from Gundam.
>>23921720God I fucking love it.
>>23921720Looks like a combination of Susanowo Regalia and Lucifer's Wing.
>>23921727I don't feel like it is waste of money. It turned out the way i wanted, a tank robot with matte finish and some sand got into its track. You sound like you are salty because i didn't paint the way YOU want me to paint. Either that or you confused Hildolfr with a Ma.K kitbash lmao. Get a life.
>>23921736Ohhh it actually is. Thanks a lot.
>>23921727>he just put tamiya putty thinned with probably lacquer thinner as a paste onto the plastic surface to achieve a cast metal look before priming.Blablabla, go talk to random Japs on Twitter with better paint and texture.
>>23921606I think the main torso needs a bit more weathering. Like just the top part.
>>23921740We both have eyes. Look at the brown on the treads. It looks like it got spraypainted brown with the tread on. It looks ridiculous. Maybe it's the lighting but the green is way too light as well. It's like lime green and light sand. Weird color scheme.
>Threw a tantrum because i spent 200$ on a kit i wanted.>Posted builds of other people instead of his ownThis is stupid beyond comprehension.
>>23921727>Wasted money.Bro has an Hildolfr, do (You)?
>>23921748>Maybe it's the lighting but the green is way too light as well.>The track is brownWhat kind of nitpick is this? I'm not gonna argue with you anymore, this is making my retarded brain hurt.
>>23921744I don't believe you have any idea what you are talking about
>>23921752He might have one with Ma.K styled paintjob, who knows?
>>23921751Welcome to gpg. If its not orangepeel or some shit. Its whining about trump and /pol/ shit.
>>23921759Or boxhands
>>23921759that GM... it's undergoing a psychoframe transformation!
These instructions would kill your average gunpla snap builder
>>23921766that seam right down the middle of the thruster bell is nasty work
>>23921766This is super tame compares to an average Tamiya instruction
>>23921766>me btw.
>>23921766>>23921768Tamiya be like>Drill that shit, goyim>By the way, the instruction is in Hitler speech
>>23921766these are not instructions
>>23921755Yeah i know about unthinned paint. The part where the putty makes paint looks shit, i have no idea.
>>23921773The english text is right there you fucking moron
>>23921759When he starts nitpicking about the color and the money, he fucking lost me. This is the same place where they shame you for buying 5 dollars bootleg, btw.
>>23921776I think you should stop repeating the thin your paints meme, you clearly have no clue where it does or doesn't apply
I agree with retardanon that these kits look like shit, but not because of the cast iron look, they just look terrible in the first place
snapped this while absolutely sweating my tits off
>>23921780Said the guy who thinks everything must have putty texture and sewer styled wash just because they look slightly realistic.
Just finished God Mazinger. What are some other super robot kits with simple designs?
>>23921782So this what they have gone to, huh? Botched paint = Cast Iron. Matte paint = Heresy againts God.
>>23921787Needs wash and more putty.
>>23921785its insane how salty you are if youre still the hildolfr guy. you built and painted it in like a day or two, did you really expect people to suck you off over that? doing hildolfr proper takes 1-2 weeks minimum. im seriously thinking about buying hildolfr just to prove how its done at least somewhat properly.
>>23921790It's insane how salty you are about another anon's build, my dude. I have an Hildolfr in my boxfort if you want to take your own challenge, yours for just €250,- + shipping
>>23921785not one person in the thread has said such a thing
Does Tamiya's lemonene cement works more or less like the extra thin one or is it much worse?
>>23921790>doing hildolfr proper takes 1-2 weeks minimum.Lol. LMAO even.
no amount of shitting on Ma.K is going to make your hildofr covered in splotchy panel liner you never bothered to clean up look any better
All those people getting worked up in the internet while not even having an Hildolfr.
>>23921801Grow up
>HILDOLFR>HIDOLFyeah totally not adolf-sama
>no flash trimming>no shading>no washing>not even detail painting >weathering amounts to drybrushing with two shades of brown>snapped to weathered in less than 48 hours>meltdown defending this thingthis is what happens when /gpg/ does anything boomer model adjacent, the lack of modelling skill becomes readily apparent
>>23921806Sure, but you still don't have an Hildolfr.
>>23921806>>no washing>not even detail paintingYeah the boomers don't either. kek. Most of them just blast the color randomly and then slap some decals on. 100 compliments from other elderly.
>>23921806Detail? What detail? This thing is a blob.
>>23921808that very obviously does have a pinwash applied tho
>>23921808it looks like nothing but thats about 2 hours of chipping work. thats probably one third of what work our ghildolfr champ put in.
>>23921806There is smoke coming out of your ears, anon. Are you ok?
THIS IS GUNPLA GENERAL FOR FUCK'S SAKE
>>23921805Hitler Adolf => Hildolfr
>>23921813>thats about 2 hours of chipping work.If you spend 2 hour of chipping then you must be spending 1 hour 30 minutes masturbating inbetween.
>>23921823you dont know boomer autism. they look at ww2 reference pictures just for the chipping
>>23921806Post your Hildolfr build
>>23921824Yeah yeah whatever, paint your own Hildolfr.
>>23921796>€It all makes sense.
The weathering melty is making me want to stay with my clean, factory paint job builds.
>>23921839Weathering is usually out of scale and overdone anyway. Unless you're painting camo patterns, very hard to fuck up a clean paint job scale wise.
>>23921841Also most mobile suits are made of Luna Titanium or other future alloys. They don't rust. Space mobile suits don't get dirty, as there isn't dirt everywhere. Ground mobile suits should only really be dirty up to like their knees with anything more than dust, unless they just went through a sandstorm. They stand tall enough for the wind to usually be strong enough to keep most dust from settling.
>>23921845Okay but what if they came across metallic archaea?
>>23921845nta, but while I'm fully aware that it would make no sense for a space-based suit to have standard green camo, that's not stopping me from planning that for an HG Kshatriya. Fuck weathering, though. It always just looks like feces smudged over a suit.
>>23921845Space mobile suits may not get much actual dirt but they absolutely would get dirty from space debris, scorch marks, radiation and possibly corrosive atmospheres if they're located further into the solar system. Irl spacecraft are essentially constantly sandblasted by space dust, and mobile suits travel a hell of a lot faster than they do.
>>23921871To the point it looks like it jumped into a sewage treatment facility?
>>23921872seethe, snapshitter
>>23921873Bathe, poopweatherer
>>23921874just know you will never create anything of artistic value. people who snapshit their clean 1/100 mgex and put it in a shelf with their 20 other ones might as well just buy lego because thats the equivalent amount of skill required to do what youre doing. youre just consumerist slaves with no artistic vision, its sad and i dislike sharing this board with people like you. you treat gundam as another goyslop capitalism treadmill to treat your mid 30s depression. people like you are sitting at bandai hq and thats why most new kits are garbage. pay respect to artists because they created your consumerist fantasy.
>>23921832I am not even OP, so what does me paying in another fake currency than Dollars have to do with it?
do I buy an ac or buy another girlpla?
>>23921872If your suit is not at least this dirty, are you even trying?
>>23921880TRVTH NVKE>>23921897Depends on which but I vote girlpla
>>23921289I want to see a model of the scrapped mecha with the bat head
plamor hath no fury like a poor paintjob scorned
>>23921184The cheeks and forehead parts are both from AlyzeusHere's a crappy little mockup playing around with the Alyzeus's chest unit but I think I'll save this chest for a different build. The shoulders are also on a silly attachment but it works for prototyping. Need to increase the torso and waist height next.
>>23921759This is what my penis looks like.
>>23921907Also the new legs are a whole lot longer overall so while it wasn't really my intent Penelope's gonna get a lot fucking bigger
>>23921903Patience, young grasshopper
anyone here has ever built this HEMOXIAN Starflower Lily MK3 kit? the whole flower motif looks cool as fuck
>>23921845nobody cares, rust and dust look cool
>>23921880You would not have a hobby without snapshitters subsidizing it.
>>23921240Lookin great anon, really came together. Feels like a stealth ship thing to me or something, or maybe a recon ship, I dunno. Either way it's neat. What do you imagine it as?
>>23921913There is also a dedicated paint set out for that kit these days, make sure you select the actual model kit if you buy it direct from China.
>>23921880>Artistic vision>GunplaI fucking laugh.
>>23921913its a pretyy unique kit, the girl is pretty big, taller than an average MG gundam and if you want to display the whole flower cannon thing as in that pic be ready because that shit takes A LOT of space
>>23921916Yeah we would. Snapshitters didnt exist back in the 80s-90s when gunpla got popular. If anything, it would probably just be more expensive without you.
>>23921916>t. doesnt know what a garage kit is
>this thing would be 41cm tall as a HGUC kit>the recently-released HGUC Psyco Gundam Mk-II was already 28cm tall, and the fucking Neo Zeong is 80cm in height with the boosters includedSo, what's Bandai's excuse? Not like there's a lot of articulation to take into consideration, it's just a turret on legs.
>>23921927>Snapshitters didnt exist back in the 80s-90s when gunpla got popular.Yeah, most of Japanese children back then just build those monochromatic kits without painting anything, their childhood imagination will do the rest. Only a handful of autistic kids like Kobayashi and Kow Yokoyama painted and they are still a minority in the hobby nowadays. Gundam and mobile suits in general don't fit the shitstain type of weathering. They should look clean and high tech with an acceptable amount of panel lining.
>>23921929It's only somewhat recently Bandai has really gone in on making huge HGs regularly rather than one off experiments, I wouldn't be that surprised if it pops up for the 50th Anni or something like that.
>>23921929Because the smallzam is superior.
>>23921928Yeah garage kits that went extinct after a handful of prints because the silicone mold couldn't handle it. Nice hobby you got there.
>>23921913It's a really good kit provided you sand down most of the balljoints, and also have the space for her two enormous foot-long weapons
>>23921936They still make new FSS and MaK resin kits every few months. Resin kits are actually more popular than ever but they're mostly lewd girl statues and kaiju nowadays. You should do some research about the Japanese market because it sounds like you're assuming the world is the same as your local market.
>>23921880>you treat gundam as another goyslop capitalism treadmill Because it is one of the biggest goyslop in modern time. It probably like this in the 80s too.
Trying to plan out how to finally assemble the Valimar I picked up years ago. I don't really want to reverse wash an entire kit. Am I crazy for thinking about doing just:1)Prime the whole kit.2)Hit the whole kit with lacquer gray metal (tbc)3)After a day use sticky tack and a putty mold to mask all the trim. 4)Hit the trim with a gold lacquer.5)Remove the tack after a day6)Clear coat the partOr should I just figure out how to use liquid mask? The sticky tack seems fine to me as it has always prevented paint from going under it when I use it to mount parts.
For fuck's sake stop replying and shut the fuck up and talk about what you personally are working on or what other anons are working on or anything more constructive than the same tired bait and vapid bullshit
>>23921949I did the decals I've decided on for my MG Nu ver Ka build. Decided to go pretty minimal as when I accidentally the off white pieces to a darker gray, it already breaks up the white a bunch. Will probably give it a matte coat tomorrow. Going to use the newer GGX clear I have on hand, so assembled pics will be next weekend. The GGX paint outside the drying has been pretty good. The white had crazy coverage power and the gloss clear sprayed easily. The fumes were noticably less when I entered the garage while they were drying after I turned off ventilation.
>>23921940>You should do some research about the Japanese market because it sounds like you're assuming the world is the same as your local market.Those resin kits are beyond your reach unless some kind bootleggers recast them and each of them cost an arm and a leg. Wow, such artistic vision. Wow, such a pure way to enjoy the hobby. Kill yourself retard.
Man I just want to get the bootleg F90 A L pack, AliExpress doesn't have it anymore and other places are more expensive than the legit kit
>>23921953>Decided to go pretty minimalBased. The surface details of the MG Nu ver Ka already do a ton. A little much for my taste personally to begin with, but it's a nice kit overall. Looks great. Haven't used GGX myself but I like that grey a lot.
>>23921960The gray is just the white and black GGX at a roughly 80/20 ratio (or rather that's what I tried to eyeball).
>>23921956Man I love that "head" shape. Super cool. Not so big on the exosuit for my exosuit generally but whatever, it's cool.
>>23921962I think it looks amazing on the legs particularly. It's a pleasing shade between the black and white.
>>23921956>got proven wrong>starts crying and screechinglmfao go ask mommy to change your diaper
I have an interesting question for Keropla collectors: Has any of the DX 5-packs been reissued in recent years? Considering the DX Sets came with a few extras (like cloth material on the God Keron and Keroro Daishogun sets) or cardboard fold-ups (the Great Keron and Platoon sets have ones that allow you to make a base, along with a Mois cutout that could easily be replaced in the future by 30MP), they should be a hot commodity, especially after Bandai brought back the LBX Hyper Function stuff that also use cloth material.
>>23921948Try it, worst thing you lose is time
>>23921948>Valimarlol Kiseki kits are bootleg tier
>>23921948enamel brush
>>23921978Go try to buy a resin kit on Japan's WonderFest with affordable price and let's see who is right and who is wrong. And what resin kit do you even own? Low quality bootlegs from E2046? Pfftt fucking faggot.
>>23921956i literally bought one 2 months ago loser. get gud
>>23921934>once I reach pg10. The federation is finished
>>23921984True>>23921986Also true, but Valimar made me spend a few hundred hours on the series. >>23921987My other reverse wash problem is I can't find an enamel I like for the gray. I'm thinking I want something along the lines of My Color Super Titanium 2 for it color wise.
>>23921990Based bootleg enjoyer
>>23921993Valimar's lines are gold, not grey
>>23921999The enamel layer is on top for cleaning it off to reveal the lacquer paint? And you clear off the higher layer on the parts.
>>23921997you can get the e2046 ones but i literally got an original. they rerelease the kits every few months to years. you just gotta wait and preorder at the right time. the other guy is completely delusional about how the process works thats all.
>>23922004just handbrush the gold bro.
>>23922008>you can get the e2046 ones but i literally got an original. Yeah sure, the original with a suspiciously low quality cast.
>>23922011Oh I'm too terrible with a brush to do that. This is my last hand brush attempt (posted here previously)
Plamo general, not Resin general.
>>23922019resin is plastic
>>23922014source: my ass
>>23922017then airbrush enamel gold and reverse wash.you'd go insane if you have to carefully mask the entire body to paint the lines
>>23922008You can literally read any document about B Club era of Gunpla. They used silicone molds and they died after a few prints. Not to mention resin kits are way too expensive for the average modeler and there is nothing badass about gluing a bunch of shit together. This is supposed to be a hobby for youngsters, not a pissing contest between delusional retards in their early 30s.
>>23922020Then why are they called Resin then?
>>23922022It has literally never crossed my mind that I can do the lacquer on top... Guess I'm making a trip to HL tomorrow to see what Testor's gold looks like.
>>23922028what the fuck are you even saying? your issue, question about the issue and answer to the suggested solution don't make any fucking sense, nothing to do with each other.
>Trying to find skelebros in america>find one in a jap bookstore chain after like 20 storeswhat the fuck why are they so popular?
Snapshitters raped my dog, killed my mom and castrated my dad.
>>23921993tbf the only kits that wouldn't be shit without heavy painting is El-Prado. Argreion is fine without the gold lines. The ones you have to look out for is Testa-Rossa and the future Ishmelga.
>>23922030>I can't find an enamel silver I like >>Just hand brush the gold>I'm bad at hand brushing >>Then airbrush gold enamel and reverse wash>(Me knowing that the raised surfaces have their lower paint layer in the wanted color) Oh, I can just do an enamel-lacquer sandwich instead of a lacquer-enamel sandwich. Good idea>>What a fucking retard, when did I say thatYou should stop huffing the thinner bro
>>23922025i got a breda pmx005 kit recently for 50 bucks. thats the average price of your snapshit kit. the detail might be a tiny bit less than a bandai model but who gives a shit? at least its models i actually give a shit about. salty nigger
>>23922043>50 bucks>Worse detail than a 30$ plastic kit when it is supposed to be the other way around>E2046 bootleg This is just so sad. No wonder you are such a sperg in the last few hours.
>>23922048show me the bandai 30$ kit of a breda pmx-005 then nigger. the whole point of resin is that you can have stuff that the market isnt pumped full off because 14 year olds have just seen the next gquux or whatever the fuck
>>23922026a subset of plastic is still plastic. ABS is plastic even though it's called ABS, polystyrene is plastic even though it's called polystyrene
>>23921562Mine but I haven't started yet.
>caring about how retards on the internet paint their plastic toys>caring about what retards on the internet say about how you paint your plastic toys
>>23921606I like a lot of what you've got going on here, particularly with the weathering on his ass. I would recommend doing a pinwash on all those tiny little details and lines he has everywhere. A dark brown or black, applied with a brush with a nice fine point would boost the overall look of this guy. Tiny details like the rivets will pop so much more.
>>23921680If you're willing you can make them from pieces of sprue. Cut them into tiny pieces with your nippers, drill some 3mm holes in the surface of your model (they don't need to be very deep), then glue the sprue pieces in there. Using a knife, cut a line bisecting the bolt's surface. Just go at it a few times with light cuts.
>>23921527t. second oldest builder
>>23921740>>23921751>You sound like you are salty because i didn't paint the way YOU want me to paintWelcome to /gpg/, by the way it's interesting that the people shitting on you also did not post their own painted buildsI think yours looks okay, looks a bit spongey for my tastes but I also don't paint
>>23922056Resin is not a subset of plastic. PS, ABS, etc are different types of plastic but Resin is a raw material that can be chemically processed to produce plastic. Basically Plastic = GM, Resin = RX78
>>23921934>>23921992Hurry up and get reprinted you goofy fuck
>>23922087I still don't get why my build caused such a meltdown for the other guy lol. It looks forgettable enough to scroll past it.
>>23922091>forgettableI didn't even know the Hildolfr got a kit, and I always peeked at the pictures whenever I saw it mentioned, I wouldn't call it forgettableRage-inducing tho, I don't know. Maybe he's just an earthnoid?
>>23921913It's good, I like it. Like the other posters said though, be prepared for some tight fit at some pegs/ joints. Very detailed, lots of part/ color separations, lots of accessories and options.
>>23922091It's expensive and he can't justify buying it. Remember how many people shill bootlegs here even for frequently reprinted kits during USA hours (I don't hold prefering bootlegs against SEA builders).
>>23922098I also recommend Hemoxian's zombie cyborg girl Jiu Lian. Not quite as comprehensive or as many parts as the starflower, but still pretty detailed and has plenty of accessories.
>>23922102I just got her in the mail the other day, very excited and the gold runners look nice
>>23922091>I still don't get why myI've stopped trying to understand how the brains of some the retards here function. I just assume they're some kind of MKUltra escapee/ rejects, so whenever some keywords or visuals get posted, the sleeper mode turns on and they HAVE to sperg out, it's not within their control, their fried brain literally can't do anything about it.
>>23922100>It's expensive and he can't justify buying it.>anon liked a thing>and so he bought it>he likes his kit>he likes his paintjob>but he can't justify buying itAre you well? Do you need assistance?
>>23921799Plz help.
>>23922091it was in fact several people that commented on your build being lackluster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKqtwMFqn8MWhat are these kits called? I've seen some jp modelers use these as a frame or joint updater for older gundam kits.
>>23922121I was talking about the anon (probably you) that had a melty that he didn't like the anons weather job. Please use context clues, it isn't ESL hours yet.
Is it the heatwave or something in the moon? /GPG is extra spergy tonight.
>>23922142Nah, as usual it's just the resident sperg forgetting to take his meds again. Sometimes I wish we stayed at 6+2 chan after the hack, just to so the ID thing allows people to see how many regular posters actually build plamo vs regular posters who mainly come here to stir shit.
>>23922142there's a mass sperg out every once in a while, I think it builds up over a few weeks/months and boils over. it's like the psychoframe transformation thing or the beam magnum thing that happened a while back.
>>23922100I don't get the hate against bootlegs, that's like bitching about pirating.
>>23922139>>23922130>>23921620 it's literally just you having a melty and then getting mocked at for stretching it out.
>>23922017Hand painting a small surface is way easier than painting a large surface. Just hand paint the gold with enamel paint straight from the bottle and clean up with lighter fluid.
I don't get the hate for most things here, really.It's a hobby, bros, it's a thing you're meant to do to relax because you enjoy it. I just don't get the point or have the energy to get angry because someone else, whose live choices have zero impact on mine, decide to enjoy a hobby differently from me.
>>23922149this was not the same person retard, go to bed
>>23922152I don't actually care, It's not like I'm going to lose sleep over how someone paints his toy robot, I just enjoy being a shithead online
>>23922149I'll stretch you out, cupcake.
>>23922157>I just enjoy being a shithead onlinesounds sad
>>23922153Manlet behavior but in the internet everybody can act like he's 6' I guess. You bought that Hildolfr yet? I'm real curious now how you would build it.
>>23922162Meant for >>23922157
>>23922152no no, i learned resin and weathering and texturing is actually le bad, so ill go buy a rx78-2 tomorrow and snapshit it badly then call it a day
>>23921362I love him so much
>>23922162all this energy you spend being defensive you could've been used to fix up the ugly wash and sand you have assedly put on your own hildolfr
>>23922105Normally, with gunpla I'll have to paint the gold since the out of the box plastic gold looks bad, but with this one, the gold actually looks good as they are.
>>23922166Dubs1Dubs you have to get that gramps now, bro. The EG will do.
>>23922145>>23922147Anon should give his Hodilfr a beam magnum
>>23922182Oh no not you again !
uhh the edge of my sand papers are yellowing for some reason. why?
>>23922171I did not even build mine yet, bro sperging out in advance.
>>23922182And replace some parts with transparent plastic so it can undergo psychoframe transformation.
>>23922200And get third part hands to replace ugly Bandai boxhands.
>>23922221nice try Feddie scum but the Jim is perfectly positioned to get blown apart by his skirt blastersez Zaku III victory
>>23922221Where is his standard issue gun?
>>23922225>*A.E.U.G. scumftfy
>>23922227Ewwg? sounds like the pleghm that comes out of a Zaku's exhaustfeddie lapdogyour soul is still chained by gravity
>>23922226YOU OVERSPENT ON THE GM III REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>23922233Actually, GMIIIs can't be held down by gravity ever since they helped push back Axis.
>>23922148Pirating gives you identical quality as it's a digital good. Bootlegs are not identical quality. Also note I don't really consider things like the Osiris Dominator or the Star Abyss as bootlegs. Those are just copyright infringement which is the same as piracy.
In this house the AEUG are heroes and that's final
>>23922233bro, we're Spacenoids who are just as sick of the Feddies' shit as you are; we just don't drop our homes on them
>>23922243Jesus. Do you just rip parts out of the runner with your fingers? Judging by those stress marks, it looks like you do.
>>23922243You can get some sanding sponges on amazon for like 10 bucks. You get a lot of them and it'll help your stuff look better.
>>23922226>AEUG pilots >"standard issue"We literally just get whatever crumbs Anaheim throws our way, the wonder weapons we stole from the Titans and that's it.>>23922267>>23922270This Zaku III was built way before I got nippers and sanding sticks. Real talk, we need a revive of the HGUC Zaku III and we need it yesterday. It's way too good in GBO2 to just have a shitty 26 year old HG with baked-in arm pegs.
>>23922279Feels very likely we see a few more ZZ kits crop up with its anniversary, a Reboot version feels more probable sometime after the Reben Wolf showed they do care about the Zeon designs
>>23922279>We literally just get whatever crumbs Anaheim throws our way, the wonder weapons we stole from the Titans and that's it.In my heart, the GM III IS a wonder weapon! ;_;
>>23922284I mean, it was mass produced from the Gundam Mk-II's combat data. Wish I could have taken a swing at piloting it during the Gryps War and see what that movable frame could do.
>>23922286>he wasn't posting here during the Gryps WarYou'll always be a newfag, but you're at least one of the better ones, the GM III is a friend.
>>23922279Sometimes it's fun to get an old kit and spice it up with your more developed skills.Pic related. I snapbuilt this shining gundam a few years ago. I cleaned up all my shoddy work from back then and painted it last month.
>>23922286The basic GM IIIs exist in a middleground where a lot incorporated basically no movable frame, being upgrades of GMIIsAll Nouvel GM IIIs are the high spec new production ones (according to Sentinel) though new Gundam sorta glosses over this for just there being new production GMIIIs that maybe (?) incorporated actual movable framesPersonally I think it's cooler in the Sentinel details and makes a bit more sense given the actual designs of the GM III vs Nouvel GM III so just wanted to share them anyway.
>>23922291I'm intending to do the same thing with my very first kit, an HG Origin RX-78. I think I'm going to paint it as a G3.
>>23922295That's an idea. I may do that with mine. It's a high grade chaos gundam I grabbed at a used game store on a whim.
Hideous nub marks being posted. Snipped in one cut right at the root
>>23922279clean your skirting boards, you animal
>>23922134Titan 13/Dummy 13It's a 3D printable action figure and another company "stole" the design to sell on their own, it's a weird history: https://youtu.be/L4ThABdLCZII think in Japan they sell them in stores in a model kit package like in pic related
>>23922134>>23922324Can get them in the 100 yen stores in Japan, Daiso or Seria. Bought a few of them last trip. Cool playability.
Neat little kit
It's been forever since my last snap build. feels really good not having to think about sanding, washing, disassembling, painting, reassembling parts for once, man. just SNIP SNIP SNAP SNAP SNAP and done.$5 JMS HG Schwarzette + stand base & waterslide decal (gonna do it later) includedGreat snap fit, nice plastic and stickers quality. insane value. JMS doesn't disappoint.
>>23921285Working on the Lynx
is zippo usable as replacement for mr weathering solvent? can it crack the plastic like tamiya?
>>23922404Lighter fluid is basically the same as mineral/white spirits. Yes, it absolutely can crack bare plastic if it's left to pool.
>>23922404I use zippo to erase enamel panel liner over painted surface.I tried using isopropyl alcohol once
SMP chads...https://x.com/figsoku_r/status/2070810390133604522
>>23922451that's it? no missles? holy fuck
>>23922451>no missiles>no effect parts>no articulation>>>>>>>>>$400IT'S SO FUCKING OVER
>>23922452>>23922455just roll a small bit of tissue, chuds
https://x.com/Kuma_h_umimin/status/2070800758069723463
>>23922455>>no articulationwhat, it can't even turn its head or bend the knees or something?
>>23921285finished my ball
spaceship progress
>>23922476>>23922486balls are touching
>>23922487b-b-b-but we're both b-boys we can't touch balls kyaaaa >-<
>>23922455Don't worry anon, there will be a premium bandai version available at a greatly increased pri->The link at the bottom leads to premium bandai store pageThis can't actually be happening.
Who out here 旧キット maxxing?
>>23922451It's kinda neat but a bit underwhelming
>pissu bandaiuyikes
>>23922570I'm going to buy it anyway and so will you
>>23922576No. I'll buy the Alba Steel Haze Ortus and Orbiter 4 VIOS instead with that pricetag
>>23921467Everything is technically really well executed here, but t's missing a certain je ne sais quoi, I think it needs a bright spot colour or some waterslides or something.
>>23922474it can, that anon is lieing
i brainstormed something but cant find any shitpla locally and dont wanna pay 500 dollars for shipping from japan. should i just visit dog parks and collect their poop and use that?
>>23922576Unless they add to the american premium bandai store, no I will not.Theres already importing policy changes going on for burgers coming down the pipe early next month That raises the knowledge floor someone in japan needs to know sucessfully import things into the US especially with toys.So theres still a non zero chance at the moment that whenever this ships, customs can just decide to eat it leave you out of your entire purchase.
can someone explain to me what p bandai is and why its so hated
>>23921958yeah wth is up with that
>>23922591Man, I have an Aerial Dominator in the mail right now from Ali that's supposed to get here mid July. I hope I don't get hit with that shit.
>>23922599It's a direct bandai to consumer store.People hate it for several reasons.1. It's region-locked, so regions not serve cannot buy products offered there.2. Some products don't show up in every store. Which means some, SMP, may not show up in the US store except for the SRW OG line. 3. The kits produced there are exclusive products usually which means they skip retail entirely, are produced in smaller quantities, drive up the base price, and depending on the kit, are harder to find and repressed so infrequently that many kits come into striking range and maybe if I did more research, exceed the amount of time more previously rarely repressed retail kits like the MG The O went out of stock for.
>>23922451>>23922570>absolute brick>barely any articulation>no effect parts at all>500 dollarotosyeah I'm sticking to chang for obvious reasons
>>23921948I've built and fully handpainted Ordine last year. I did all the silver trims with tamiya enamel over an acrylic gloss varnish, cleaning up any mistakes with thinner.I'm also planning to do Valimar eventually. I'd recommend you use Tamiya enamel titanium gold for all those details.>>23921986They look fine if you paint them and fill all the holes with putty. The articulation is the worst I've ever seen in my life, they can barely pose and stand up
>>23922599bullshit excuse to drive up the price to ridiculous amounts under the false argument of "MUH LOW PRODUCTION RUN BRUH" so you most likely will need to buy whateer p bandai item you want through a third party, thus greatly increasing the price for no reason beyond the "exclusivity"the problem is that that business model began as an exception but now has become a rule and it is one of the main reasons why chang has been able to flood a market that bandai had shown nothing but destain in the last decade or so
>>23922486The fine line between a HR Giger sex toy and a Ma.K vehicle
>>23922620Some Japs said Pbandai is the revival of Bclub, super exclusive, limited kits that you have to fight your way in to get them.
>>23922614I didn't realize Tamiya had two holes in their enamel line. Did some quick searches, and X-31 doesn't have the same issue with reverse washes that X-12 apparently does (saw some posts about it not cleaning up with enamel thinner). Ordered a bottle to give it a try. Also your Ordine is what made me move it out of the permanent backlog into the "after I learn to paint" backlog.
>>23922451SMP has to be worst line of plamo products in recent history, cheap garbage made with the worst sculpt and quality, as bad as a nograde but as expensive a MGEX. To bad they seem to get all the coolest franchises
>>23922644Cheers, that was actually my first full paintjob, glad it turned out ok.Do post progress on Valimar
>>23922648I have no idea what kind reasoning lead Bandai to believe Super Sentai and Yuusha belong to the super premium pricing.
>>23922606Better hope the man from China filled out the custom forms with the right esoteric funny numbers and has all of the information related to safety testing (he doesn't) in case the custom agent decides to flag it anyway because they think it's for kids.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCS_hzI167g.And to pre-empt the Europeans lmaoing at burgers, you guys are actually getting something kind of similar a few days ahead of us. https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/news/guidance-and-legal-text-temporary-flat-fee-low-value-imports-which-will-apply-until-1-july-2028-2026-06-08_enNote the parts about safety testing.I would advise you all if theres anything old you want that has zero chance of making it over to your country through retail/online sellers,Get it however you can.I work with someone in the UK who optionally established a presence in the EU to be ultra-compliant with EU imports for customer convience and he has no idea how these changes work.I hate to get political, but, I'm feeling like we're at start of a global crackdown on international shipping for anything that isn't business-to-business at mass quantities that will be fully visible in the next five years.
>>23922393What's your opinion so far? I saw him once at local shop but just one and it went out of stock next day as a result but I was curious.
>>23922671>can't import plastic girls from Japan to Europe without fuss because some people can't get along and absolutely MUST wage economic warGrim.
time to build next my MG Gundam mk II titans 2.0
>>23922671These guys already make me fork over 30€ in taxes every time i order from japan. What's really grim is that it's still cheaper than my local reseller. Anything that isn't Bandai has a 200% mark up, it's insane. Missed my chance to get the Ideon ACKS on AmiAmi and now it's 150€ here
300 dollars MSRP. Probably 500$ in Burgerland. ACkeks can't stop losing.
>>23922713koto's Steel haze of their new vios line is very good, I'll prefer to get those kits instead of... this garbo >>23922713
>>23922620Pbandai isn't even expensive compared to retail, anymore. Unfortunately.
>>23922721>>23922713Non-ortus steel haze is ugly. At least >>23922570 could be fun to add your own twist to. The main problem is it's way overpriced. At this point I would just look for AC crap in the after market, all the good ACs have been released and re-released, you can find them out there.
>>23922713I rather buy the robot damashii Great Zeong
>>23922734at least that one has great configuration and playability value with the whole turn x gimmick
>>23922124Just get the extra thin dude
>>23921783Is that the one with the bigass crescent weapon? Great line of kits, every one of you faggots should build at least one. Most are on sale on aliexpress right now
>>23921697Theres a seller on aliexpress that allegedly has replacement runners/parts.
>>23922703I can guarantee the cause for that is, I doubt anything isn't part of Bandai's gunpla line outside of odd things like SMP isn't manufactured at scale enough where they can wholesale things at very low prices like bandai for products of similar size/mass. Add in the niche nature of Ideon compared to Gundam, the cost to ship directly from japan, The same taxes you pay, business overhead, and the fact it's probably harder have a pallet of mixed products from Aoshima & Bandai ship to the store.All of this isn't cheap and adds to the cost needed for businesses to import things significantly.The end goal is to soft regulate that method out of viability by imposing more and more restrictions and regulations till normal people and smaller business outside your home region don't want to have to deal with knowing all of the esoteric importing information and dealing with the bureaucracy of it all. To bring this back to the 90s and before wherecustomers can't easily get things directly and have to rely on local businesses to special order things and the governent can collect taxes twice on highly inflated costs.
>>23921580Went to it probably 20+ years ago now, its fun dude, Defentally go
>>23922755Those are legit. I replaced a few parts on my AoZ Gaplant by buying it from one of those guys. Wasn't exactly cheap, but cheaper than getting a new one.
someone explain to me how sometimes a random manga suit can get an HG or MG announcement within a month of its first appearance meanwhile a Strike variant doesn't have anything at all besides a g-frame over a year after it showed up. Like, I don't even care for it very much but why in the world would Bandai randomly decide not to milk Seed of all things?
Another month and another group building. Try it sometime, it's fun.
>>23922837I would if I could find one anywhere near me.Also not sure if bringing a half naked girlpla to the groupbuild is the chaddest or stinkiest move, does anyone sit near that guy?
>>23922841>half nakedThat's 99% naked anon
>>23922841Nobody gives a shit, anon. Everyone is here to have fun time together. We even have some based dad bringing his teenager sons with him to build Warhammer stuff.I'm bringing some plastic girl with me next time, btw.
>>23922837Wish there was something like this near me.
>>23922755>>23922806do you have the store names? or what terms to search to find them
>>23922833Because the manga was written for the Gunpla release not vice versa.
>>23922837where at? panda?
>>23922891It was Warsaw one. There might be some near you but entirely dependent on location, usually those groups organise themselves on social media (FB and such), lately also on Discords but I learned about them on anime con.
>>23922580>some waterslidesIf you were capable of reading you would be able to tell that I already mentioned that I'll be adding decals, the photo is just with all the airbrushing done
Can this be applied on gunpla?
>>23922920If it did, then we wouldn't still be buying gloss black bases and chrome coats.
>>23922920I dunno anon, do you have any glass model kits?
Also, dem hips man.
>>23922934just like me IRL
So those vtuber collabs aren't actual kits, right?
>>23922942yes they are
>>23922942china-sama will make them real
>>23922944>no Bandai Hobby branding anywhere>site doesn't mention anything about gunpla>random Providence breaks the patternfag idea they're pumping out RG recolorsI'll believe it when I see it.
>>23922580agreed, something like this perhaps. needs something it make it stand out.
>>23922920Just get mirror finish paint.
>>23922833Because Bandai is an idiot
Should I buy regular RX-78F00/E or the "Chemical recycle version" or does it not matter in the slightest?
Can't believe Bandai put more effort to an old Super Sentai than fucking ACVI Balteus
why do MaK kits always come with the head of some random german boomer
>>23923008Depends if you like the Glass Feathers part
>>23923058They both come with the backpack, I'm not talking about the EG version. Or do you mean the clear blue parts on one version or another are total dookie?
>>23921285Definitely the most involved I've been with a kit thus far. Fun! But time consuming. Air gunned flat white for body, grey with a touch of chrome for joints, gun metal grey for black parts. Brushed on all the little details, tomorrow I think I'll touch the edges with some silver for wear and tear and call it done.Tested enamel panel liner on my gloss coat on a spoon and it eats through it. So still using the gundam pen and trying to be careful for panel lines... Tamiya topcoat is unobtainium right now too.
>>23923098>Tested enamel panel liner on my gloss coat on a spoon and it eats through itWhat varnish are you using? I use tamiya enamels and thinner on waterbased acrylic gloss clears with no issues
>>23923128Vallejo gloss coat. I left a drop on it for a hour and it ate through it.Also with the 180mm cannon. Only realized after assembly but some of the gunmetal parts have more shine than others? They all got a even coat, it's like my air gun decided to make some parts extra shiny lol.
Despite both having been released in 2006, the inner frame of the F91 seems more impressive than that of the Mk II 2.0This one is too... Blocky
my FSS wishlist has gone extinct already...
>>23923160You may have applied to little varnish on it. I'd suggest you use vallejo mecha varnish, it's my go to, way better than their regular clears. Beware of using a tamiya spray can on any acrylic, laquer will absolutely destroy any acrylic it finds underneathI'd also recommend you use a decal solution like microscale's in the future
I think MG GM 2.0's are about to start hitting US shelves, if people are interested. I'm already seeing it at msrp at some places.
>>23922683I got mine for 70$ and at that price it's an incredible value. The base alone would sell for that price considering all the gimmicks. The model itself is incredible. Multi layer inner frame, tons of detail without looking like a grebble mess, lots of cool gimmicks like multiple hidden sub arms, and a huge gun. Go and grab one now.
>>23922920Need a clear kit for that because that is applied on the rear side of the glass, note how there is glass 'between' you and the shiney part of a mirror of you look on one.
>literally half of Figure-Rise Lacus' eyebrows came off after being fine for months>the halves closer to her nose, except on both fucking eyebrowsI fucking hate water decals
>>23923293Let me guess, you applied them to bare plastic and didn't apply a clear coat over them.
>>23923296>no, you were supposed to buy the thing you use for painting kits and then apply it before using the decals they freely gave you to simply apply without any troubleWhy not just have us paint the eyes and eyebrows ourselves at this point, or just mail me a bag of petroleum for me to build plastic from scratch, I'm so fucking tired
>>23923056said Super Sentai is one of the most popular. a single AC6 boss never stood a chance.
>>23923308Doing models generally requires you to have incredibly basic modelling skills. Girlpla is a bit more advanced than most gunpla and it's expected you have the bare minimum skills and supplies.
>>23923308Spraying a topcoat is not That hard, anon.
>>23923195Just buy a recast
>>23923341find me one for phantom naias brunhilde
>>23921285Just snapshidded my first MaK kit. Still got a lot of work to do. It makes me appreciate Bandai a little more even if their sculpts are gummy rounded out dogshit most of the time.
>>23923345chink bootleg-tier
How do you usually handle eyes? I think that using really bright fluo paint over white is better than just using metallics over black, can't really see those when not in direct light
>>23923178is that dreadnought back there a model or a figure?
>>23923382Do the fluo paint over silver. Trust me.
>>23923402a figure
>>23923319not a paintchud
>>23923313>"muh paint is the minimum"fags again
>>23921285
>>23921285>>23923484
>>23923484>>23923485I love the scribing on the top portion of the shoulder. What size did you use for that?
>>23923483They sell topcoat rattlecans for a reason
>>23923484>>23923485beautiful hand
>>23922877Sorry I dont, just try searching for related keywords, i have no clue how I eventually came across it. Try-Gundam replacement parts or something similar
>>239234870.15mm
>>23923515Same anon here, I typed "Gundam replacement parts " into aliexpress search bar just now and it popped right up. Get to it anon
I’ve just started painting my model for the group build.
>>23923345if you have access to medium black ca glue, use that on the seam lines. it has the same density as plastic when it cures and it's easy to sand. do not use clear ca that shit is not rubbery and will mess up the build.
>>23923484>>23923485nice job dude!
>300+ dollars but has zero of the dozens of effect parts that Hyperlion haswhat the fuck was Bandai smoking with the SMP Balteus?
>>23923484show soles
>>23923478Then you decals will peel, you don't even really need softener/setter but a topcoat is essential.
https://x.com/Offlinecage/status/2071100962215985438
>>23923345Calling sculpts, gummy rounded out dogshit while posting a Ma.K, anon...
>>23923589Dude half of these mak guys can barely paint while huffing their own farts for building one of like 4 overpriced model kits of dogshit subjects. Let him watch his tard youtuber then fail to replicate the weathering in shame.Last thread or so there was a dude who's paintjob was so bad, the paint so thick I think he was possibly using his own reduced goo as a medium.
>find out about short run model kit I long after the preorder window has closed>really want it, looks sick>being scalped for 2x the price on japanese auction sites>3x the price on ebay, amazon and other western shitholesCan these scalping faggots go back to stabbing eachother for pokemon cards in a walmart PLEASE
>>23923632They're finding its natural price. Blame the manufacturer for limiting the supply.
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>>23923589MaK has sharper detail than any gundam kit
>>23922279AEUG are literally terrorists. feddies are the good guys and zeon are nazis
