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Last thread Groupbuild Dude mentioned that he got surprisingly low amount of votes so maybe there will be an extension?
Which Zaku variant is the best and why is it the F2?
>>23979259It wasn’t enough that you got an extension on the end date, now you want an extension on the votes? What’s the deal with you people?
>>23979281I'll reply to you next thread.
>>23979269It's the F2000, actually
No more extensions please the suspense is killing me
>>23979284I found an F2000 for just under $100 and I’ve been debating picking it up. Should I go for it?
>>23979288>Should I go for it?What you should consider:>Will I ever see it for cheaperNo lmao they're never reprinting it>Is it worth ~$100 to me?This one's up to you
>>23979284>Gundam shit fighters
>>23979295It’s called shitpla now anon
>>23979290I really liked this guy from the stardust but his entire torso is just one big chunk. I've never torn a kit apart before to add articulation but this seems like a good place to start. Would a rotary tool be better or one of those tiny tamiya saw blades for hobby knives?
Came to the local hobby store just to meet Bandai's magnum opus. A true masterpiece.
>>23979290>Make a series about infinite possibilities >Some designs are really well received>Never reprint them ever ever ever ever againBandai has really good business sense!
>>23979303The torso is literally Zaku 2. You can just dispose a revive Zaku 2 or the classic one.
>>23979281What do you mean, 'you people'?
>>23979307Close but it’s a Zaku II F2 torso
REEE I regret not entering with my planned build because I didn't want to buy like 3+ kits to make the Black Lusty soldier
>>23979307I considered that, but I would still need to cut the model up before I can transplant a different torso into the crotch.
>>23979286stop the count!
>23979050That's what I was thinking. I would probably just make a stencil for that and paint it on.Pic is what it's supposed to look like. I've taken a lot of creative liberties already so far as colors but as you can see it doesn't have the emblems on the crotch and shield.
>>23979322It's only polystyrene, anon. You can glue and putty and Bondo it together quite easily again. The part you're about to cut up being replaceable also helps, you can botch an attempt without ruining a hard to find kit.
I really hope the floodgates open for more peak SDs... G Gen Eternal revealed the Sandaime Gundam Daishogun (which is permanent for those who want to learn more about him), so now I wish to see an updated version of the 1990 kit in the SD Gundam Cross Silhouette line (which inherited the soul of LEGEND BB and its contemporary main series releases).
I know that most common nippers was used is single edge but what about double edged nipper? What are the pros and cons?
>>23979350>ProsDouble edge are supposed to be more resilient.>consThey pinch and do a far worse job than the slicing that single edge do so your plastic is guaranteed deformed - you will have to put in more effort to clean up the nub.
>>23979350prosits slightly cheaper than a godhandconsits not a god hand so you're just throwing money away when you get rid of it and buy a godhand
Redpill me on reciprocating sanders and rotary toolsIs poverty the only reason not to use them over mundane sandpapers?
>>23979360>reciprocating sandersAnon, these are model kits. What recip sander are you looking at for model kits??
>>23979362So I don't have to spend hours of my life rub rub rubbing rubbing rubbing rubbing rub rub rubbing rub rubbing my gunpla and the super glue and the putty so its nice and shit.
>>23979365Reciprocating sanders are pointless in this hobby. Learn how to cut nubs properly and get a glass file
>>23979368>Snapshitter trying to give adviceThis is not about nubs you moron.
>>23979365Again, what reciprocating sander are you even looking at that can be used with model kits? The smallest rotary tool I have wouldn't work on PGs.
>>23979365just get robot damashii or fix figuration
>>23979369Doesn’t change the fact that a reciprocating sander is overkill and you are a retard
>>23979360You mean something like this? Honestly they just seem gimmicky to me. I don't see what that could do that a needle file and sanding sponge couldn't
>>23979373Please post your work. It better be good to justify having such a dogshit personality.
>>23979376>what that could do Gouge a hole in the plastic before you can blink.
>>23979378No. Fuck you and your shitty sander.
>>23979378He's talking about nubs and glass files. This little bitch probably snaps and topcoats and calls it a day.
>>23979382>painting means you don’t have to remove nubsI think you’re just mentally retarded
>>23979383>He thinks sanding starts and ends with nubs
>>23979385What? Try again.
>>23979382>topcoatsHaha yeah, haha.
I don't even know how to use sandPAPER. it always scratch the plastic surface, leaving ugly white marks everywhere. why would you use paper over sponge?
I just use god hands and then use markers on the weld lines!
>>23979393>it always scratch the plastic surfaceThat's what sandpaper is supposed to do...
>>23979304Make a note on how long that thing will remain on the shelf.
>>23979304Sometimes I think Bandai makes shit like this just to show their licensed resellers whose boss. Do you think there's an obligatory minimum purchase or the gunpla supply lines get cut? I hope so!
>>23979407In this case, bandai are just incompetent retards. They're trying and hoping to create the next big trend.
>>23979407Idk how it is in Japan but official Bandai resellers in the US havent been forced to buy a single box of these
>>23979349Cross Silhouette was bad. It was SD made for people who don't actually like SD, much like MGSD is now. I don't want it back, I want BB back.
>>23979407That's pretty much how stores ended up with pallets of amaim. Bandai was forcing them to order 1 for every 4-5 gunpla.
>>23979306Not point in questioning Bandai and their ways, they are a anomaly
>>23979380>>23979382God forbid someone tries to improve on their technique and experiments with different tools when they're new. Everyone should get shat out knowing everything like you did.
Next theme for group build will happen in September
Art Deco theme groupbuild
Can you guys post the best "expert" quality Gundam builds? Specifically ones with good paint jobs. I'm not familiar with any creators.
>>23979442Just lurk around japanese twitter and you'll see some fantastic shit.
>>23979448But who is the most fantasticest?
>>23979452Ray studio
Do you feel pain?
>>23979448How do you usually search for Japanese gunpla build on Twitter? What kind of tagged did they used?
>>23979442Depends on your taste.
>>23979147>>23979186Wowie!
>>23979461Just look for modelers you like using the ガンプラ (gunpla) tag. It worked well for me.
>>23979404For endurance, Kyokai Senki is still king. Those kits have been around in that shop 3 years ago.
>>23979463Chonk
>>23979568they are really good to have as spare parts.
>>23979568atleast kyoukai senkai kits are now a good value kits. I hated that show but I got all the kits(except the russian guys)
>>23979568they are really good to have if you want to make a kenbupede
ah fuck it's another day where I'm discombobulated due to a crippling need for a Gaia Gear Alpha kitbloody hell it's physically painful, dysphoria type shit
>>23979360https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrf-73u0_sILink is an example, any that size or smaller is good for flats, but I suggest a rotary tool with a sanding sponge for curved pieces. Specially good with polishing compounds if you like extra shiny effect parts. Protip: use plaplate sized to your liking + double tape if you want to do smaller work areas.>>23979362Retard
>>23979246>>23979247>everything come crashing down all at once at the last moment>Now I am running lateMascot anon here, I would like to apologize for the delay, I have gotten caught up in so many thing past few month, I ended up running behind the schedule.I more or less managed to finish Akaitsuki's mascot, since I am not sure if I got the right pose, so please tell me if I got the wrong one so I make the other pose later. If I have the time, I will enchance this current mascot I madeAs for Nyuren's potraits, I am still working on it, please give me sometimeI have yet to open my request for this round, should open the request as soon as possible, or wait until the result got announced first?
>>23979580D Gundam Third is the closet you will ever get to official Gaia Gear kits.
>>23979580I figured since the rights to GG were not owned by Bandai, a company like Good Smile could make a GGA kit, but there must be something else going on that prevents GG merchandise from happening.
>>23979628do we know who owns it? Tomino?
>>23979628No one technically owns the rights to Gaia Gear, its fan fiction written by Tomino thinking since he was the "father" of gundam he could do whatever he wanted with it even though he didnt own it. BUT Gaia Gear is technically about the Gundam Universe meaning that is Bandais domain. So even though Bandai doesnt want to acknowledge it, a different company trying to make kits would just be picking a fight with Bandai.
>>23979645Slight correction, Tomino does "own" Gaia Gear but cant do anything with it.
>>23979568feel bad for my local store with like 20 FRS kyoukai senki female supporting character
>>23979627You mean the recent G-Witch pban that still hasn't gotten a bootleg unlike that 8 Gundam thing released at the same time
>>23979656If you mean this one yeah its pretty close, I think when the D Third eventually comes out it might be a better jumping off point for making a custom Gaia Gear, but the Naion has potential too.
>>23979322It really does use the actual torso and crotch of an F2 so you can just replace it with this with very minimal work.
>>23979627what did he even mean by this
>>23979259I didn't even know there was more than 30 anons posting in this general desu
>>23979672Theres at least double that but probably not more than 100. You'll never see us all at the same time since we're all spread out across different time zones.
>>23979672it's easy to get misled because a small amount of posters almost always account for the majority of posts compared to the total number of semi-regular visitors
If a psycho gundam actually survived or was rebuilt during the unicorn era, would it be a feddy asset, or a sleeves asset?
>>23979689Wasn't there a Zeon remnants? It would be their asset because the Psycho Gundam is horribly obsolete by then.
>>23979610I'm happy with it, thank you for your hard work. I enjoyed every mascot you did, keep up the good work.
>>23979689Realistically the Sleeves don't have the manufacturing and power base to actually build oneThe animation shoehorns in the Neo Zeong at the end but it's a complete asspull for a faction that was on a fairly shoestring budget of terrorism, the original novel and all setting details paint a very detailed picture of a group completely lacking in industrial powerFeds would be the most likely to as a resultA Quin Mantha shows up during F90 as I recall, as a relevant asideMars would be the most likely place for a Psyco Gundam to show up again I think, between Titans and Neo Zeon engineers being present who both could have worked on the Psyco Mark II. And I'm pretty sure at least a gigantic arms unit if not more Psyco parts ended up out there.
>>23979693To be fair the feds also had old shit in torrington, they even deployed a byarlant. >Psycho gundam Titans, but some titan suits went sleeves>Psycho gundam mk2Glemy Neo ZeonMost of their shit also went sleevesWould be cool for feds to somehow field museum class newtype weaponry piloted by a nameless ace.
>thinner would melt and fuck up plastic>use it with paint to spray>nothing happens to the plastic place despite it having thinner in itHow does this work? Also:water based acyrlics>takes longer to dry than lacquers>despite this, there's a chance to clog the airbrush more than lacquers>lacquers dry faster than acrylics yet the airbrush will never clog no matter what when using lacquersWhat's the science behind all of this?
>>23979701The harsher the solvent the less likely to clog it is. Water is not an aggressive solvent and also evaporates slowly.
I forgot how cool dinosaurs are. Question: What’s the best way to cement painted parts on a car or motorcycle model? Been trying other types of model kits and it’s been a blast learning everything
>>23979693It's not really obsolete. Maybe the Psyco 1 but not really. Tech advancement isn't as brutal as you seem to think. It might be overly large and expensive and 100% isn't running state of the art technology at a certain point, but it's still an utterly monstrous psycommu machine covered in high output beam cannons with minovsky craft and an I-Field. Obsolete? Not so much. Feddies are fielding Jegans for 30 years and while they're mostly getting crunched by new MS they can still get some kills. Heavyguns and Javelins by V of course.The Psyco II would mulch all those, no question, it's not some paper tiger just because it was made years ago. It was made years ago by the Federation at the absolute peak of their power in their most advanced development projects. F90 itself makes a whole point of how even older MS can still be a threat.Just cus it's old doesn't mean it is ineffective, it's a fucking monster. What do you think something's gonna do to it? Better have an I-Field to even fight it quite frankly, nevermind it being guaranteed to have a Newtype in the cockpit. All the speed in the world of faster MS don't help you too much when it has the ability to fill the space 360* around it with mega particles. Absolutely not obsolete - prohibitively expensive yeah, built with older tech sure, but not obsolete.
How often do you guys replace your airbrush o-rings? They're cheap as fuck but its annoying wrangling such a tiny thing. I'm using an airbrush cleaner sold by my hobby store, so either that's too harsh, or the o-rings I'm using are too shitty.
>>23979701Lacquer paint does actually melt the top layer of the plastic, which is how the pigment sticks. It's all about exposure time. The lacquer solvents are dry in a few minutes, vs leaving a part in a pool of thinner for an hour.
>>23979709I'm now imagining an alternate timeline where the feds and zeek invest in psycho fortress technology and actually man the damn things instead of putting one guy inside it. Just have something like a mass produced Geminus deploying conventional suits while also providing support with its newtype weaponry.Like, why not? Just put an I field on a battleship and add some incoms. It can't be that bad. You probably dont need a new type if you have a bunch of crew control incoms.
>>23979722It's from SEED, but I actually always loved the Pergrande for that. It's three normal dudes working together to control DRAGOONs when that's supposed to require SEED's not-Newtypes.Crewed/multi-seater crafts are just cool, I'd love for Gundam to embrace a little more of them. Always thought the OG Stark Jegan was cool for being a two-seater. Gundam definitely doesn't appreciate the mental load of a single person doing everything, having someone just monitoring systems and running comms in an MS would be perfectly fitting.
>>23979722I think I like it better when it was just an octahedron.
>>23979727Didnt seed also have a ship with incoms?
>>23979735Yeah, Freedom has some ships with remote weaponry.
The contents of surprise bundle O, stolen from reddit.Pretty good value.
>>23979750>HG Destiny, which comes with wings>wings for RG DestinyBut why...
>>23979750PG Banshee Norn Final Battle = $302RG Talgeese III = $41HG Aesculapius = $50HG Destiny Spec II final battle color = $36RG Wings of Light for Destiny = $23RG Astraea parts set = $29HG GM Spartan = $32$513 value in todays monopoly money
>>23979756pretty cool you could get your money back selling off the PGonly thing I really woulda enjoyed receiving from that box is the Spartan though so glad I passed on this one, but they're all turning out to be good deals if you don't care what you get.
>>23979756I should buy these bundles just to resell.
>>23979761why would anyone want the pg though? Bandai included it because it wasn't selling
>>23979766you can sell the PG for 200~ bucks and make all your money backit might be more tempting to a number of people at a discountalso this may be shocking but a lot of people unironically don't know P-Bandai exists or if they do don't actually follow the store regularlyor they might live in fucking Canada lol lmao
>>23979769>live in fucking CanadaA fate worse than death.
