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>>23948167>The Ez8's chest armor received major changes. Its chest armor plating was made using two Zaku II shoulder shields welded togetherI'm not seeing it. Looks like its custom made metal plating to me.
>>23948167Almost done with my lupus custom! All that's missing are gold parts to paint bc I forgot to buy gold, I guess I'll go buy some today.
>>23948170I can kinda see what they were going for when you see the internals and kinda squint and compare a littleI'm sure the intention is they cut them down and are using just pieces of them effectively anyway, it seems reasonable enough each side is formed of a portion of the curved bit of each shield.
What do you think about this paticular version of the Zeta?
>>23948178I love the shield design a lot and thought about picking it up for it but I've got enough on my plateNot as big on the backpack changes and transformation overall but it's fine
>>23948178I like it more just because of the shield design.
>>23948176Two weird implications from this. First is that the feds think a zaku's shoulder shield is better than Luna titanium. And the other is that they sourced a bunch of zaku shoulder shields and refabricated them into a perfect looking slab of chest plate armor.
What brand pla plate do you guys use?
>>23948217Tamiya and Green Stuff World
>now have to pay duties when ordering paint on aliexpress
>>23948214>betterMore like "available"The Ez-8 was just a quick and dirty field refit, while some bits are improvements it's overall just getting it back working again in proper form. They've definitely downed a handful of Zakus in their operations areas through the anime at that point so no doubt they have access to them as salvage
>>23948217dspiae, it already has a built-in grid guide, which is very nice, and also comes in thickness options that is the same as the usual gunpla thickness so no need to layer it
Born 2 paintForced 2 sand
>>23948217Whatever is free. The dividers used to sort comic books in comic stores are 2mm thick styrene. The local comic shop would just give away any old ones if asked when i was a kid.When I was older, I found out the local collage would surface their desktops with 1.5 mm styrene and replace it every term. That was as many large poster sized chunks of styrene as I could carry.For anything else, I'll buy Evergreen styrene sheets, tubes and strips.
>>23948233Born 2 paintForced 2 mask
>>23948229>>23948242I settled for dispae. Tamiya is getting priced gouged on my store, and the cheaper brands dont come with grids and I'm autistic enough to want them.I'm just going to use them to flatten the side of my GTO zaku upper chest, but plaplate seems easier than putty. For that sort of thing. Is cement enough if I'm covering something wide, or should I use superglue?
>>23948256Cement should be stronger, actually.
>>23948256If you're trying to bond plastic, cement is always gonna be stronger. If you're worried about coverage on larger parts then get some cement that isn't the super thin stuff, those exist for a reason
>>23948217dspiae the only one available here
>>23948305I'm worried that cement would do its job and melt both parts but in doing so, redistribute the material into recessed areas and as a result, leave some parts feeling hollow or uneven.
Looked at Gundam X and Freedom saw some similarities and went fuck it
Bandai is leaving money on the table by not releasing a jumbo version of Assemble that can be played with your 1/144 figures
>>23948320What's stopping you from doing that with HGs and terrain?
>>23948314Then put the cement on the price you are attaching, and wait a few minutes before doing so. It will mostly melt the inside of the new plate then.
Was that knockoff Exia Repair 4 released? Better than bandai?
https://youtu.be/8c08gBJGmhU?si=kcjHJsK7ZEPCxi5YAnother in era chinkpla.
>>23948320Nah, these warhammer 40gay figs are lame. Assault kingdom was where its at. Tiny, but still poseable.Just imagine if these were normalized, we could have reasonably sized ships and tiny gunpla fighting next to them.
these will be slaughtered for Ma.K. scratchbuilding
>>23948347I'm jelly of the guy whose job it is to animate the 3d mockups. One day I'll just create imaginary kits just so I can show fake mockups.
>>23948353I dont like the Methuss because I always thought Fa was going to die every time she launched.
>>23948356well noone seems to like it apparently because it was really cheap. i only bought it because it had lots of large armour shapes for the money
Is it safe to peel off masking tape before the (acrylic) paint is fully cured?
>>23948332I probably will desu, but there won't be a playerbase for it.Official support would mean that each Assault figure could launch alongside a tie-in HG that comes with their resource card and be usable in tournaments. Bootlegging everything means I need to find my own players, hope they have the 1/144s they actually want to play with, and organize everything for, at best, a couple successful 1v1s. Basically it would be a janky mess to get rolling.
>>23948320I think playing with HGs would also really sell the vibe that the conflict is between giant mechs.The default version of Assault being the same size as Warhammer doesn't really lean into that fantasy
>>23948164Thinking of getting either HG YF-19 or 21. Has anyone built them, what do you think of them? I'm also wondering if its possible to paint it without sanding or masking every joint or connecting part and not get all your paint destroyed after the first transformation.
What is the best way to strip paint other than Isopropyl alchool? I want to get rid of pre painted parts on SMPs and Moderoids
I did it anons, I bought the ultra gaudy cluster fuck kit of the century
>>23948320There's actually an I wargaming thingy for gundam and super robots called mechastellar and youre encouraged to use hg kits for it so theres always that. haven't played tho so it might blow chunks
New transformable chinkkinohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELXofIe7_5o&pp=ygUMYXp1cmUgZmFsY29u
>>23948396I swear by this stuff, it's very true to its title
>>23948396Purple Power from the automotive section of Walmart works quite well.
>>23948356God I wish
>>23948405aiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeee
>>23948368at least it should be touch dry. if you wait too long, the edge would possibly come out rough.
>>23948396generous amounts of lacquer thinner and a brush will kill any and all paint in seconds. but remember to wear a mask
>>23948426This will also damage the plastic.
>>23945294they just consoom and rush to brag and get upboatsI enjoy sanding and shit and take hours to finish too, it's supposed to be fun, not a chore that you can't wait to finish
>>23948401>hasn't dusted in years>chunks of garbage scattered all over the floor>carpet not likely vacuumed in months, if ever>greasy camera lensyup, it's snapbuild time
>>23948401what the hell is going on with the text on your monitor? Is this some kind of AI filter?
>>23948432Almost every modern phone uses AI upscaling to ruin photos
>>23948438Further evidence that allowing phoneposting was a mistake.
>>23948429there's a secret with it they really dont sand much and go straight to painting it immediately after snapshitting it. the picture quality conveniently hides any imperfections in their work
>>23948439How do you take photos of your work?
>>23948432Its my TV screen, its just out of focus i guess
>>23948320There's absolutely nothing preventing the ruleset and statsheet being used with HGs. you just need to scale up the board accordingly.
>>23948442Draw a representation of it in paint (windows xp)
>>23948438This is why Iphone posting should be the only thing allowed. Android users are animals that doesn't deserve to phonepost.
vurse the japs for their wonderfest. so much exclusive stuff thats goated and ony available in limited numbers on scene.best you can hope for is someone selling it for the price of a kidney on ebay or it eventually reaching serial production
>>23948442Read "phoneposting" as "posting directly from a phone in such a streamlined and low-effort manner that posters do not care to check the quality of said posts before submitting them, leading to a substantial increase in various artifacting, typographical errors, and similar." Using a phone as a camera is fine if you give a shit. This is a general problem, not a /gpg/-specific one.
>>23948493Iphone cameras use AI too.
>>23948501How does posting from your computer turn off the AI nonsense on the phone camera retroactively?
>>23948493Your fruit phone is also backdoored and full of AI slop.
>>23948505>Your fruit phone is also backdoored and full of AI slop.
>>23948511Why would you choose to depict yourself as morbidly obese?
>>23948393I built the YF-29. It's pretty good and makes me wish most transforming suits were part formers like it. I didn't paint it, just gloss coated it to keep all the decals on. Did it in my usual way of doing it as subassemblies with no masking of joints and it went fine. No obvious scratches but I only transformed it from robot -> gerwalk -> Plane twice and it was a lacquer gloss coat.
>>23948493Literally ever phone has used machine learning on its camera for about a decade now. Google and Apple are just the only manufacturers that are going for "real appearance, just sharpened and denoised" and not trying to default on beauty filters and the like.
>>23948517My S24U allows me to thankfully turn it off with the 12 mp camera.
why am I fighting people for the newer megami devices? why are they getting popular wtfffffffff
>>23948514>Why would you choose to depict yourself as morbidly obese?
>>23948522This is nice.
>>23948522I will never understand their fixation with the motocompo
>>23948347Actual picture of it. Feels less Gundam and more Macross, if only a little bit.
>>23948559>macrossArmored core perhaps?
>>23948561Kind of a mix. It just doesn't look strictly Gundam to me, like Nemesis or Fenrir did.
>>23948563Yeah both nemesis and fenrir had the typical gundam face on. Azure falcon has a different head structure and a lot more bulk on the shoulder line.Probably a pre order for me since they haven't disappointed me yet
Does pre-thinning paint actually affect them if they aren't used up within a few months? I've heard some modelers say the paint will get ruined if it sits too long so only pre-thin things you'll use a lot, such as white/black/primer/top coat/etc.
>only 60 bucksthat's not bad, they want 40 for rg now
>Get into gunpla because it's cool to build mechs even though I've never actually seen any of the Gundam anime>The noticable majority of MG and especially RG kits are variations of the same general designI'm sure the differences are important to some people, but as an incredibly casual fan, are chinese kits my only hope for some variety? I have no need to own multiple of pic related.
>>23948167I have a fully painted Pg Exia that I need to build but I feel burned out and going to procrastinate on it.
begging, yearning and edging for a bootleg kit of Astraea IIpull a GBC and make a HG directly based on it onegai
>>23948600Damn, that is a pretty good deal
>>23948608Well, the problem is you're only looking at main character gundams. You can't really escape it in RG, but MG has tons of different grunts, villian suits, special suit customs, etc.I do think the main UC ones (RX-78, both Zetas, and Nu) are distinct enough to appreciate on their own, especially if you paint them/buy alternate colors or additional equipment like the full armors. It's also worth mentioning the size aspect, some suits are way taller (or smaller) and bulkier than others even if they seem similar and it gives them a very different presence in-person.
>>23948608Nothing wrong with chinaman kits aside from them being a bit too spikey on certain kits. Look into the SNAA line of kits, they are unique, fun to build and cheap on aliexpress
>>23948608I don't get it, are you saying all of these looks the same or what?
>>23948618>especially if you paint them/buy alternate colorsThis is huge and I highly recommend it. Look at that image again but instead consider each with a custom color scheme and realize how much variety there actually can be
>>23948608>chang>varietyHAHAHAHAHAHA OH WOW.
>>23948620Theres actually a lot wrong with them.
>>23948164do you guys see the vision(rough skeleton since im gonna sculpt most of it)
>>23948627Well, elaborate what is wrong on the ones you have built
>>23948632They come together poorly. Almost nothing fits together easily or particularly well. Subsequent prints of almost anything chinese are significantly worse than than the initial prints. However they make the molds is just worse and they don't age well.They're generally just not well made and the quality control is very lacking.
>>23948167redid the head on my chara and started adding more to the base. I'm quite happy with the asymmetry but I don't think I can get the helmet gimmick done.
>>23948654Finally done blocking bike bot and the head looks less of a basic roy roy now.
>>23948656I haven't come up with a paint scheme yet and I realized I'm so ill equiped when it comes to painting
>>23948654>>23948656>>23948663MADE FOR.. That's a dumb cute girlpla.
>>23948393I built both of them but didn't paint them. They're alright. They're heavy partsformers and have decent tolerances between parts so I don't think you'll run into too many problems.Personally the coolest thing about them being partsformers is that you can actually display them in plane mode with their battroid chest and head too since those are separate bits entirely.
are bootleg RGs a scam? I just can't imagine third parties recreating this kind of engineering precision and fixing that sounds way worse than on a HG or even MG
how do you loosen up joints on a kit that hasn't been moved in a couple months or years? the creaking is rather terrifying. I've heard it's from dust accumulating inside them and a little wash can fix it, would pressurized air work too?
>>23948729>are bootleg RGs a scamno?some of them have problems, there is like 3 different hi nu bootlegs
>>23948608you can fix this by actually watching Gundam
chinksisters...............
>>23948741literally looks good
>>23948742>giant gap>retarded mask panel linesyeah fucking amazing
>>23948729After building the fat cat 1/100 conversion of the RG 2.0, I believe anything is possible with sufficiently skilled bootleggers.
>>23948744anon I don't think we are looking at the same picture here...
chink-sama delivers
>>23948729If a company is capable of creating RG-quality bootlegs, they're more than capable of creating original works.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awr5DsOmp3Mfirst chink 1/100 hi nu rg, heads is bad, the rest is okthere is two more coming
>>23948733you fucking move themjoints loosen by moving period
>>23948746problem is no one else has done it even remotely as well as fat cat
>>23948608>same general designThe only commonality between all of the designs you posted are that they're humanoid and have a v-fin or something similarI would say you could paint them to make them look different but you're clearly a retarded snapbaby
>>23948760Well that's a shame, because theirs is fucking excellent.
>>23948757don't listen to this anon, that's how you break and snap them
>>23948734is there a bootleg of RG Nu? In 1/144 of course, 1/100 is useless to me
working on the GX HG. Any idea on what those purple parts on the legs, arms and shoulder are? I often see them glow in official art like the MG box art and the old hg.
>>23948772Have you watched the anime at all? Do you know what the Gundam X even does? Seems like a silly question to ask cus it's tied to the entire feature of the suit. They're just some manner of temporary energy storage for the burst of energy it receives from the Moon facility for the satellite cannon, same as the back panels and Double X's opening gold flaps
>>23948772Energy conductors. Along with the reflector, they are responsible for converting and storing the energy obtained from MW transmission and supplying that energy to weapons and other equipment.
>>23948772in addition to what was said, to be explicit about it, they only glow when they receive energyIf you wanted to have it ready to fire the Satellite Cannon, you'd actually want all those glowy parts to be really bright to be accurateLikewise, they're duller on the Divider because they've got no purpose on it
>>23948775I watched the series but I don't really remember those doing much. Could be the fact they don't use the satellite cannon very often>>23948778I was thinking of giving theme some kind of glow. Maybe a fluorescent purple over silver?
>>23948781When it receives the charge from the microwave facility they glow so bright they turn white/silver completelyIt's your model of course you can do whatever you think looks cool, the only reason they do this is to store the energy to fire the satellite cannon in-universe but do whatever you think's cool bro
>>23948749Wow, who would have thought a bootleg would have the same parts as Bandai's
Do You have electroplated kits?
>>23948559Feels Gaia Gear inspired. It'd be great if Chang stopped dunking on the Thunderbolt author by making more Acguys and made a Gaia Gear Alpha kit instead. Because I don't think Bandai ever will.
>>23948656>>23948663The robot could have been its own entry.
>>23948741>I Can't See
>>23948608>chang>varietyyou know there's more to mecha than gundam right. Koto and Bandai cover other mecha series and have their own OC brands
>>23948815I don't know what bandais problem is that makes them refuse to undergate some plated runners. The PG red frame astray drives me insane because it has nub marks on gold plated parts on the sword. I fixed it with paint but I shouldn't have to.
>>23948608Feels good to see someone who shares my opinion on this. The Gundam fandom is an echo chamber of people who like to pretend the mechs are totally different by justifying it (coping) with the show which are just forgettable ads for the model kits.
You like mechas so much that you only buy bootleg copies of Gundam’s. What kind of retarded cope is this?
I find myself enraptured by the sheer size of the Sazabi's booty
>>23948841But Chang now does original releases, show me the Bandai FA Hyaku Shiki and the MGEX KshatriyaOh wait You can't because Bandai never Made them, the latter they had to do a shiity SD garbage nobody wants due to how hard Chang flexed in themNow being a retarded Bandai dicksucker like You? That is cope
>>23948849It definitely has a nice buttI always liked that its fuel tanks are a little smaller and don't really cause any problems with weight or posing
>>23948853Like clockwork here he is. Have you stopped sucking your own cock?
>>23948608Check out Frame Arms, Hexa Gear, Zoids, and Maschinen Krieger. There's bound to be something you like in there.
>>23948861Answer the question You stupid retarded fuck
hello my good anonymous friends who are earnest postersI would like to make it clear to you that that post is a shitpost and it's all baitEvery bit of itThis anon replying now is also baitYou don't need to put him in his place everyone reading with a brain gets what he's doing and what kind of retard he is
How often Bandai reprints MG kits?I want the zeta plus from sentinel, only scalpers offer it now for like 150 bucks, fuck them
>>23948866Melty already? Not worth answering when you have that cock in your mouth.
Why does Bandai's site not work anymore? 99 times out of 100, you're going to get an error 500 no matter where you try to navigate and it's been like this for months.
If chang is so superior, how come theres no chang version of Katoki? Checkmate changs. Btw Sum Ting Wong doesnt count.
>>23948874It's the browser you're using. Switch to a different one.
>>23948883You're telling me these retarded nips intentionally built their site to break if you're not using a shitty malware browser like Chrome?
Big PBandai drop coming on the 23, along with a free shipping campaign. One thing I noticed is that MGEX Unicorn is coming back with a price hike of $328.
>>23948888Yeah they broke something recently. Brave stopped working but chrome works.>>23948889Any more info?
>>23948890Bunch of stuff. Free shipping over $99. A few things I noticed is RG Double Fin Funnel Nu, RG Sazabi FF, some Axis Shock Image Color kits, HG Varguil, all the Perfectability's but PG, and a ton of assorted kits.
>>23948888Yes. Elevens are known for being tech illiterate.
>>23948622You've gotten a few defensive replies, but you're right; outside out of a few unique designs like Zeta, Barbatos, Turn A and GQ, every last one of them are variations of the same general design. Even Tomino himself once said about Gundam mecha design: "The details on the exterior are drawn in a cool and meticulous way, but in the end if you remove everything on the surface, it’s just a copy of another character."The only real thing that differentiates them is the emotional connection, so it's not surprising they all blend together if you haven't watched any of the anime. Once you do, even irredeemably ugly designs like the Dijeh are saved because "Amuro piloted this in Zeta Gundam!".
>>23948905Oops meant to reply to >>23948608
>>23948893I didn't see Varguil, is it not on the US site?
>>23948889>>23948890Gold coating shitRetail shitGundam Base exclusive shitAction Base shitClear color shitSD shitAxis Shock shitTrans Am shitCross Contrast shitMetallic Gloss shitTitanium Coating shitSpecial Coating shitJust the usual shit. Nothing worth fussing over.
>>23948914It's on US. https://p-bandai.com/us/item/F2773822003
>>23948916Eh, I kind of want the Sazabi FF. I like the crab claw funnels/guns.
>>23948916Might get the ReGZ actually
>>23948918>Varguil>with gundam head and psychoplatesthat's not the fucking varguil then that's just the god damn moon gundam
>>23948916>absolute trash
>>23948916Oh it's the twice yearly drop of special coatings.
they should just ship all the parts in a bag, precut
>>23948923There was like a 10 chapter gap between Varguil getting spliced with G-doors parts and it actually being renamed to Moon Gundam
>>23948959that's cool but if it doesn't come with the varguil parts then it's a disappointment as a varguil, no one waiting for a varguil reprint wants this form
So I'm normally not really a Kaiju guy but I'm extremely interested in this. Anyone got any tips for painting these? Gamera was my first exposure to giant monster movies, even before Godzilla.
>>23948980Look up how WH40K people paint creatures. It's probably going to mostly involve handpainting.
>>23948815Only a Delta Gundam that's still in the box and this thing.
>>23948663>>23948656Your mech's pretty cool. Arms could be longer though.
>>23948993Got it. Maybe some orks and tyranidstuff? I'll look up a few WH40k painting tutorials.
>>23949004Absolutely look into some larger Nid creatures yeahChaos Daemons too
I think I'm ready to admit I have a problem.
>>23949006I agree. I can help. Start by selling me that GM Sniper K9.
>>23948993Yea, definitely go to the Warhammer threads in /tg/, they will be happy to help. Probably
>>23949006>two hello kittyBut for what purpose?
>>23948167Decided to work on some non-anime mecha. Could not finish this one in a day unfortunately.Also ran out of matte clearcoat so some shoddy looking gloss is still visible. It will be fixed once I get more.
>>23949006>no MG kityeah you do have a problem
>>23949011It has 2 forms. One Gundam mode and one regular Kitty
>>23949006Meh thats not bad. Thats like 1/4th of my backlog
>>23948741I genuinely don't see what the problem is. It looks good to me. Great, even.
>>23948760The Solomon/Axis Works guys are probably the best. The managed to create two MGEX level model not based on anything pre-existing, did good quality control and used decent materials. They threw in some LED's as well. I wish they'd come back though. I'm afraid that the Bandai Assassins got them since they went silent not long after releasing the Osiris Dominator (1/100 Kshatriya)
>>23948167Update on Marler Marasai. Gonna give him some more stuff before moving on to MK44 Hammer Knight
>>23949046wow, that looks really bad, what were you trying to go for?
>>23949051Gonna do your mom with it
>>23949052>genuinely asks what the theme is>attacks anonWhy do you post your shit if you can't take any criticism?
>>23949054What attack? I like older women.
>>23948608Skill issue. Yeah, arr protag suits rook the same and have some of the worst, most uninspired designs in the franchise, but there are a ton of mobile suits besides them. As someone who doesn't give a fuck about the cartoons, you should have an easier time choosing distinct looking suits, differently from someone who actually cares about who they belong to and how they were portrayed.Just do some research. Here, I thought about it for five minutes and wrote down a bunch of suits that look nothing like each other. Just take a look and see if you like any of them:Farsia, Sigrun/Grimgerde, Turn X, Hyakuri, Rick Dom, Zaku II, Gadess/Gadessa, Gerbera Tetra, The O, Ball/Polypodball, Dynames, Lfrith Ur/Lfrith Thron, Grimoire, Xavier's Gyan, Baund Doc and Guntank.
Is this normal for moderoid kits?
>>23949065yes it's where your penis goes
>>23949066okay, go be gay somewhere else.
The peking duck
>>23949072>>23949046is this a nurgle marasai
>>23948167HG Efreet custom, had to paint it because the metallic gloss injection was gross.
>>23949073Sort of. I have two and decided to have some fun with one of them. The remaining one will be snap + topcoat.
>>23949080Looks like those 3D models in Battle Operation.
>>23948769yes, you want changlong version
>>23949080Nice
Does Gunpla General like these included stands?
>>23949096They're sovlful.
>>23949096yeah they're fine for most HGs and every other bootleg comes with one
>>23949098I like that they can self-collapse for storage, comes in pretty much one runner, and pretty much makes the action base 2 obsolete while taking up much less space while costing less.
>>23949101The only weakness of these action base is that they are too short, large HGs don't look good on them.
>>23949105Plus poses on them can be a bit stiff. But considering the fact you get so many of them in so many different official and bootleg kits, they're pretty damn handy. I will never complain if I open the box and there's an included stand.
>>23949096honestly they're pretty brilliant, someone cooked with thoseyou can plug in all sorts of crap like funnels etc in the holes it comes with and while the design isn't great for anything with stuff hanging off its ass you can flip it backwards and it works pretty well tooI wish they had one that was like twice as long so you could tier displays or pose bigger stuff on them, they're sturdy enough for pretty much anything in a normal pose
>>23949108Almost every Bandai girlpla has them, including the height extention while for Gunpla they are like gacha, some kits have them some don"t. They are less finicky than the retail base and require less assembly, which is honestly such a godsent. I never have enough willpower to build more than 1 action base in 1 sitting.
>>23949111Girlpla has the tall version since you can't just stick it to the girl's anus. They were designed for the back.
>>23948608it's no different from scale models, a manufacturer will release 1000 variants of the same Sherman tank kit. they do it as fanservice for the WWII/tank fans, but at the same time variants are easier to produce than an all-new mould kit.
>>23948608gundams started to look good only when witch from mercury and gquuuux kits released, everything before that looks like a cheap robot toy for 5 year olds
>>23948835
>>23949116pic? What kits come with an alternate one to compare?
>>23949123>>23949116This one?
>>23948835you have the intellectual and spiritual life of a termite
>>23949127That's megami device base. Bandai Girlpla base usually have a height extention.
>>23948608Excellent bait anon
>>23948608I am reminded how bulky ZZ was
>>23949119They are all toys for 8 years old. What are you on about?
Did you preordered?
>>23949176I missed the qt woof and I am mad about it.
>>23949176Did you learned Engrish from Chinese takeout menu?
>>23949176>buy a bunch of these>customize them for degenerates>???>profit
>>23949190I know a handful of furries and they like either art commission or costume.
>>23948815What topcoat suitable for electroplated kits to avoid fingerprints mark?
>>23949201Matte
>>23949190you're not good enough for that honestly
RG Nu or HG Nu HWS?? answer please ヾ(≧▽≦*)o
>>23949211RG Nu with HWS bootleg. HG if you can deal with polycaps, lack of sub arms and hollow parts.
>>23949176I pre-ordered the special edition that comes with a 1/12 dakimakura.I am very annoyed that Aoshima's own store is Japan only because I like the version of him with the jacket and the boots too.
>>23949190Furries only car if it appeals to their niche degenerate fetish, stars their own sparkledog self insert, or owning it gives them clout.>t. recovering furry medicating myself with mecha
>>23949227damn I feel bad for you
>>23949227What was your OC like?
>>23949229Please dont, I am genuinely much happier now that I have left that social space entirely. It's nice to meet people and make friendships that are not predicated on sexual availability.>>23949230It was a dog.
>>23949238>DogMale or female?
>>23949238yeah you're ruining your life now
>>23949238>It's nice to meet people and make friendships that are not predicated on sexual availability.Trust me, there is no friendship in mecha fanbase. It is an endless pissing contest and can devolve into political nonsense at any momment. Atleast in furrydom, you can just be horny and happy.
>>23949227>>23949238Hello poser who likes to pretend you ever were a furry for online attention>t. furry
>>23949227I’m in the same situation and I just want to let you know you’re not alone anon
>>23949250Spoken like a true 4chan addict
>>23949253I saw alot of shit on twitter, too. There was that self made " best gundam protagonist " poll and Suletta won againts Amuro resulting a fanbase civil war. And don't me started on mecha designer elitism.
>>23948608I'm also allergic to red-white-blue-yellow MC color scheme. so I mainly build villain units, grunt units or custom paint MC units
>>23949256Twitter and 4chan are the same fucking thingGo talk to people irl
>>23949238I'm the opposite, using furry and other weird fetish to distant myself from mecha. The modeling thingy is just an old habit dies hard.
New season whenAll of my favorite designs are from this show
>>23949262the only good build fighter series. ALL the sequels flopped hard.
>>23949259Irl "mecha fans" are a bunch of impressionable 15 years old and i don't want to look like a predator.
>>23949265Counterpoint: Divers has May and i jerk off to her alot.
>>23949238as someone who's been on both ends of the social spectrum, i admire your will to change. plamo spaces irl are very welcoming and as long as you stay away from the worst, you'll make good friends and possibly network into doing other cool stuff.i came in here underage 15 years ago, delved into the depths of weird animeshit while also dating and making friends with the cool kids in college, getting married next month. I've let go of a big part of my hobbies, but my local plamo group is a place i guide other nerds into a healthier social life and its proved results on the people i've tried helping. It feels like cleansing my soul for the times i've misbehaved.Pic related latest build wip for a contest.
>>23949266Genuine question: have you interacted with a single person irl in the past year? REALLY sounds like you haven't
>>23949265Try gave us Tryon3, Denial Gundam, and Hyper Gyanko, ain't all bad.
>>23949265Isn't the only true sequel Try? The others are just webseries or OVAs?Either way they are glorified advertisements so I don't know if how successful they were in the eyes of Bandai follows the same metric as most anime
>>23949272I come to the hobby shop physically. How do you even buy your shit? Online pre order at home? Pffttt.
>>23949276You conveniently answer my question by telling me how you buy your shit and not about your social interactionsVery telling
>>23949274Fighters, Try, Diver and Re Rise are the main shows.
>>23949277I saw a literall 13 years old lesbian who was downbad for Suletta. In that very same shop. Social interraction including seeing the bad things in people, not whatever you imagine in your head.
>>23949280Oh nevermind I assume people I talk to online aren't americans, here's the issue
>>23949250me and my buddy just watch mecha and talk about how cool it is
>>23949293Yeah, you can buy one here:https://
Anyone have pic related? I'm on the market for a desk vaccum specifically for gunpla, just so I don't have to dig through hair and feathers when something goes missing.
MG Alex for $60 at A-Z Toy Hobby
There is nothing worth panel lining on this set desu.
>>23949299>$12>Battery operatedwhat a fucking scam
>>23949299Buy a 1 gallon shop vac. THey even have one with a face on it.
>>23949310I want something small and easy to sift through if I need to find a missing part.
>>23949312If all you're sucking up is gunpla related stuff, a shop vac is very easy to sift through.>SmallYou can only get so small before it is worthless. I literally just threw away one of those "portable" style vacuums. Complete garbage. Pic related, in fact pic looks stronger than the chinesium that you're looking at.
>>23949313You know what, you're right. I'll just get the 1 gal shopvac and reserve it exclusively for gunpla.
>>23949262Metaverse made sure bandai will never touch the build series ever again
>>23949250I've already made a few online friends and gotten close enough with a hobby store guy that we have linked up at his place to practice painting.>>23949271I appreciate your kind words. It is difficult to change and leave a long lasting social group, but for me, it was seeing my peers and friends spiral in to worse and worse situations and realizing I was on the same path. The ammount of people I knew personally that got v&, contracted hiv or died from drug use is honestly depressing. Not to mention people bankrupting themselves to maintain their unbroken con circuit records to make sure they're constantly trending on xwitter.My dad used to say that you are an average of your 5 best friends, and it took me too long to realize that he was right. RIP.>>23949251Yeah let me pretend to be a degenerate to make friends on an anonymous image board where no one knows who I am or used to be, what a great idea. You got me.
>>23949307That's mostly true of all the transforming Unicorns. The transformation makes most of the panels seperated already so you have natural lines.
What jobs do you want get 30M Fantasy kits? For me, it's ninja
>>23949325>I've already made a few online friends and gotten close enough with a hobby store guy that we have linked up at his place to practice painting.I'm waiting for your sincere discussion about a mecha designer you dislike, a show you despises without holding it back with said friend group.
>>23949325>Yeah let me pretend to be a degenerate to make friends on an anonymous image board where no one knows who I am or used to beYou sound like a pickme girl lmao. Fucking faggot. >Look look i gave up my furry way. Please please be friends with me, mecha chads
Jun Toy Craft is too good...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ_SMdfQl3I
>>23949366
>Was going to go and prime my groupbuild entry today>Thunderstorms all day todayGuess I'm waiting until tomorrow. How's everyone doing on the home stretch?
When are the quels hitting the market?
>>23949299Ive heard of people sticking a sock at the end of a vaccum hose to have suction without the part getting sucked up all the way
>>23949377Already have one so I don't care.
>>23949280Teens are allowed to be down bad for fictional women, it's the way of things.
>>23949377Its being reprinted next month so expect them to start showing up around October or November
>>23949364You need to seek professional help
>>23949262My favorite design from those Gunpla shows came from Breaker instead.
>>23949394>Pencil eraser missile launcher
>>23949046This looks like something from that movie called Mad God
>>23949080Good stuff anon
>>23948167
>>23948608>why does the protag's Gundam look like the Gundam>hasn't watched the showthis is why you're retarded. Of course the protagonist's mobile suit would look similar to the Gundam that spawned the whole franchise. If you actually bothered to watch the show you'd know there's tons and tons of variety
>>23948608because money, because it sells and retards buy it, because the same reason why hollywood remakes the same 3 movies a million times, lack of creative juices. Ironically, the original Gundam RX-79-2 started looking less and less like a Gundam as its line developed.>RX-78-2 > Gundam MK II > Gundam MK III (already doesn't look like Gundam at this point) > Gundam MK IV (back to looking like one ) > Gundam MK V (doesn't look like a Gundam
When are we getting a bootleg GM Cannon?
>>23949039Those aren't upscaled RG's though.
How exactly do watercolors fit into the whole concept of "hot" paints, specifically the rule about always having the hot paints below the "cold" paints?Pic-rel is a test I made with AK Weathering (watercolor) pencils to see what would happen. The brownish-red squiggly bit on the top of the head (which is the bottom of the pic) was applied dry over a matte topcoat then the entire piece was painted over with gloss Mr Color Super Clear UV-cut not that it's relevant here but there will be another matte coat on top later. I was expecting the watercolor pigments to run but was pleasantly surprised to see them hold even though watercolors are extremely weak.Are watercolors an exception to the rule, or is the exception when the hotter paint is just a topcoat? Or did I just get lucky here? Or does it have to do with the fact that I applied the watercolors dry instead of wet?The topcoat is 2:1 thinner:paint ratio, applied with an airbrush on low-pressure in a single pass. Maybe it works since I'm carefully topcoating in very thin coats such that the solvents don't build up?This is definitely a positive development as I did not want the watercolors to run, I'm just trying to understand how this works before I put more brown and black squiggles on every sharp edge.
What should I do?
>>23949435Show us your backlog and we will go from there
>>23949422with the Hazel HG bootleg out I'm struggling to think what else what be useful to have on the dirt cheap
>>23949435ZZ ver.ka is fun. Go get one.
>>23949404Nice shield
I am the only one that remembers and likes this bootleg. Wish I got it back in the day, 15 years later it's probably impossible.
>>23949462Allegedly this is becoming retail very soon.
>>23949464what does that mean even? it was always regular retail as much as any other bootleg
>>23949353I'd like to see a jester.
>>23949465I'm referring to the official bandai version.
>>23949467and that's completely and utterly irrelevant here? I'm so confused
>>23949467You mean the official bandai version that looks nothing like this bootleg?
>>23949464What it did is get in the top spots of a poll. But we all know how much Bandai respects the results of their polls.
>>23949462Damn I actually vaguely remember this Gundoom brand. I think they did a 1/144 Xi kit that looked pretty close to the Fujita redesign way back in the day.
>>23949473yeah they didit was kinda ugly as sin, so glad the official HG is radically different
>>23949470>>23949471It's close enough to the real version and it's not that big of a deal.
>>23949475your autism is out of tune
>>23949474Maybe but if they don't redesign the kit for the third movie this might end up being the closest to the Fujita design we're gonna get.
>>23949478and I'd like to keep it that way, some things should stay buriedTheir Penelope just looked pitiful to be honest.The Nu HWS, however? SEX
>>23949475As someone who owned the standard Nu Gundoom back in the day no the fuck it ain't. I threw it out when the RG came out but it's off in so many places it's not even funny
>>23949176wtf it's a boy
>>23949485>flipped chest vents
>>23949486Link?
>>23949485it's based on the Evolve design you uncultured fucking swine
>>23949495https://kemopla.com/item/mainkits/products-394/
>>23949439Excluding the ones I'm saving because I'm not 'ready' for them yet. >Ramba Ral gouf>GTO Zaku 1 x2>Zaku Mariner>Unicorn Dra-C>CCA Geara Doga
>>23949500>I'm not 'ready' for them yetWhat does this even mean?
>>23949480Looks like the Katoki Penelope to me. Which is one of those designs that were butchered when translated into his style.
>>23949501Common kit that I havent figured out a color scheme for yet. Uncommon kit that I want to wait till I'm a little more skilled.
>tfw my boxfort is such a mess it's easier to look at my purchase histories to decide what to build next
>>23949505but you then need to find it in the box fort...
>>23949507true but the less time I look at that pile the better my conscience feels
>>23948167Paint is done on the ZZ. I don't know how Judau was making the moves he did in this thing. It doesn't like to pose. The big issue is the wrist being a peg. Makes it hard to make it hold the gun well.Paint is done though. All I need to do is panel line the thing and it'll be done. It needs no decals,>>23949504Oh I get that. I sat on an MG gogg for like 6 months trying to think of a color scheme I liked for it.You can always do a kit and go back to it later once you can do better. Lately I've almost exclusively been painting years old snapbuilds.Pic related. I snapbuilt this ZZ a few years ago. Having so much fun with it I might get an enhanced ZZ just to paint it the minty color from the show. Unfortunately I am planning a long motorcycle tour soon so I can't buy anything. That's why I am painting old kit instead of getting new ones. I also can't buy new paints to that end which is why this is painted with gundam blue and sazabi red,
>>23949395would be deadly in build fighters where it's plamo clashing against plamo
>>23949510>go back to it laterI've had a bad experience with a gp02a my brother brought back from japan of all places. I was excited and snap built it but after a couple of months when I was ready to paint it, parts of it literally crumbled when I tried taking it apart.Mind you, my room is a cave that only sees artificial light, and its behind glass all that time.After that I sort of have a weird autism that a kit should be painted within a week of the plastic being exposed to oxygen.
>>23949510Also experimenting with adding fleck to paint and using glossier paint for the post shading to make the texture a bit more interesting. Also leaving tiny imperfections that appear instead of correcting them. I think it adds some charm.>>23949513That's crazy. I painted a 3 year old ez8 that I had sitting in a room near a window a few weeks ago and had zero issues.
Pic is the ez8 I did. I am very happy with how it came out and how little issues it had from age.
>>23949443Thanks, still wip, but should be done this week.
>>23949514It literally crumbled like a dehydrated candybar that melted and refrozen too many times.
>>23949517Whack. I've never had that happen to me. Maybe I'm just lucky or you're just really unlucky.
plamo soon
>>23949353Cuirassier. We got a hunter with a crossbow already.
>>23949353Bard would be nice.
>>23949372Sittin this one out, just couldn't find the time or the concept.
>>23949513that's some kinda freak accident and you've schizopilled yourselfI've got kits on display older than some anons here
>>23949496it doesn't look like that at all though
>>23949497Why did they give him tits if he's explicitly stated to be male? Wild choice
>>23949353Amazon
>>23949497>no bulgePass
>>23949353Alchemist, sous chef, Australian
>>23949562>Australiangive me your 30mofo a big knife and hat
>>23949572I need a boomerang for a custom build theme I have planned
