-=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 (September):old.reddit.com/r/gunpla/1vobmxjPrior thread: >>23998239
== STOLEN GROUPBUILD ==Build a Mecha or vehicle built by one faction, but change its aesthetics and style to its rival faction! Examples include but are not limited to>Canon examples of mechs being stolen and used by another group (ie: Casval's Gundam, Feddie Zakus, Ashura Mazinger, etc)>Designs intended for one faction that were repurposed into a design for another faction (ie: Gerbera Tetra)>What-if scenarios (ie: A Titans color Zeta Gundam)>Stylistic interpretation (ie: What would a EFF version of the Z'gok look like?)When it comes to your build, really make it clear that your mecha is being used by the other side!START: 8/16/26END: 11/15/26
Post what you're working on!
I had more fun snapshitting things than before I started putting in effort. Painting is a drag sometimes, and even basic shit like panel lining is too much. I want to make it look nice, but I'm fucking lazy
>>24001784Last resin kit I'm working on. An authentic Kaiyodo Sirbine. All three of these resin kits are gonna be hand painted btw.
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>>24001799
>>24001795I'll be authentic for a second, everyone feels like that it's called burnout. If it stops being fun then take a break, come back to it later. Or hell, just snap that shit up bro it's your gunpla and it's your hobby. This ain't a competition. Have fun.
>>24001783I am still thinking about what to do for the group build.
In hindsight that Chink Ez-8 isn't really that different compared to what Naoki did to the Zeta back then.
Threadly reminder to contribute to mechadex.org
>>24001795same. it's also nice that I get way more feedback when I show my snap build or even my backlog. literally no one cares about fully painted builds aside from painters (<1% of the population).
Since there was no regular HG Dijeh in my place, i had to resolve to the clear version.
MGSD is such a wasted line. Instead of using it to rehash popular kits for the 67th time, Bandai could've used it to make MGs of kits that would be too big as a normal 1/100, like Dendrobiun, Alpha Aziel, Neue Ziel, Psycho, Destroy, Neo Zeong, other mobile armors or... Meteor Unit & Kshatriya. good job for that, I guess..
>>24001803greebling is only okay when japan does it.
>>24001849Dijeh has never seen a reprint for a long time, not even during the reissue of Narrative kits
>>24001854Because they printed the grey Dijeh in Narrative instead. Unfortunately that was Pbandai.
>>24001851>SD>Wasted potentialSD is stupid and should never be spoken about in a positive manner.
>>24001851Monoeyes are the best candidate for SDs and yet they chose the fucking Kshatriya of all things
>>24001854I bought a Dijeh from USAGS last week
>>24001817
>look how hard I can pee
Today I learned that Humikane also draws ecchi stuff of the very same 30MS girls he designed. Neat.So is there a guide out there on how to do the whole flushed / anime highlights in skin thing in pic related for girlpla, or am I gonna have to go around looking at some fucking makeup tutorial on youtube to learn how to do a similar effect?
>>24001817OP anon should put this in the header.
>>24001884Why is your pee coming out of your belly button?
>>24001817Can you list guidelines for adding stuff?
>>24001892It's complicated
>>24001817Buy an AdScalemates already exists and does everything that site does but better>bro i don't want gay boomer military unc kitsFilters>idk what that isalt domain gundammates exists that auto filters the boomer shit
>>24001795Same. I am happy with how my work turns out. Almost always look really cool. I then get giddy about thinking what to build next, but then drag myself to the finish line when getting the runners out of the box.
>>24001886Bandai must have a tight grip on him so he has to stop at ecchi for 30MS. He went full R18 shit on every other IPs he worked on.
>>24001893https://mechadex.org/guides
>>24001795I tend to alternate. And it also depends on the kit. Generally speaking, I find that a lot modern bandai kit with darker/ subdued colors tend to look good enough out of the box with some topcoat to make it matt. The GQ police zaku, the demi barding being my more recent snapbuilds.
>>24001795>take kit out of backlog shelf and put it in room>2 weeks until I open box>1 entire month to prep parts for painting >barely anything more than just sanding nubs>1 more month for paintingLast year at the same time I had already painted 5 kits and effort snapped a big chink kit. This year so far I only painted two kits and one of them is a very small one with less than 15 parts
>>24001924Snap Police Zaku is nice but you still need to paint it abit to bring out the "police" vibe, especially with how there is no white plastic on the thing.
>>24001924Old HGs have a special place in my heart. They look barely escaped from happymeal toy territory but painting them feels sastifying, like you just brought life to a souless object.
>>24001932A new Xeku Eins kit with full loadout would be magical, as would a new 1/144 Ex-S kit with more accurate proportions and a 1/144 FAZZ.
>>24001795I just do the occasional paint job on a kit I really like. Otherwise it's just paneli lining, maybe 10 decals at most, and a clear coat.
>>24001886Most simple way would be using a pink real touch marker, dot on the skin color parts then lightly blend the paint with thinner.For advance version then yeah, you start to learn how to apply makeup with Tamiya weathering set.
SDs are great though
>>24001932Gabthley looks amazing for a 2005 HG
>>24001945sad that our best bet for it is Zhang
>>24001945The old HG's proportion is ok, the shoulders need to be bigger but overall not a bad attempt. They might make a 1/100 kit if it gets a renewal which is honestly not what i'm hoping for. Btw, Xeku Eins never had those missile launchers in Sentinel magazine run. Katoki added them later on.
>>24001795IMO if your feeling lazy at the very least give it a topcoat, takes a few minutes and makes it look way better
>>24001932Older hgs are far worse than new ones. The only old ones I'd recommend are kapools. Have you seen the nadesico ones? Grim.
>>24001888Good idea
What should be the next Ver. Ka kit? I have high anticipation because the Ver. Ka Zeta was gunplantastic.
>>24001998G Self
>>24001998Gundam MK2 or Calibarn
all main character gundams arr rook same
>>24001998Hyaku Shiki
>>24001998Any Zeon Grunt. I'm tired of MC spam.
>>24001998Strike Freedom
Any interesting unconventional kits to do something like pic-related to? Thinking of those vintage UC kits especially.
>>24002041Gerbera Tetra.
>>24001998exia
>>24002041
>>24002050Uninstall Uninstaaaaalllluwehttps://youtu.be/aTvexNLRwHw
>>24001998We already know the next Ver Ka is the Zeta Plus.
>>24002041Wing Zero Custom since it has a feminine grace. Or Gqux Zaku cause it has child bearing hips.
>>24002050
>>24002003PLEASE stop suggesting that nigger molest my beautiful Mk II
>>24001984My experience with old HGs has been positive. However the ones i don't recommend are Gaplant and Bawoo, they are too janky and unstable for my taste.
>>24002035>ver.ka>grunt
>>24002074Katoki's take is always at least decent, unlike whoever does RGs. Also you already have the normal MG MK2 if you like it plainer.
>>24002077Their joints are a lot better I would say that. But they lack the subframes and have zero detail.
>>24002088The details are fine for their age. You don't really have to paint Bawoo. But the primitive transforming gunpla didn't age well.
>>24002088Monocoque frame is quite rare in old HG. The ones that have it in my memmory are Physalis, Zgok, Jegan and Zudah.
>>24002085Katoki's taste in mecha design is either straight up kino or irredeemable garbage with no inbetween.
>>24002084Did I stutter?
So this is Girpla? Not an action figure?
>>24002154It's a model kit
>>24002154It's one of them arcanadeas, innit?
>>24002154Nig...
>>24002153FAZZ ver Ka exists so if Katoki ever produce a proper grunt MG, it is gonna be either Nero, Refined Barzam or Xeku
>>24002178Why didn't we ever get more artist kit lines? I wouldnt mind his suit preferences if we got more creators.
>>24002178Gundam ver Ka exists so if Katoki ever produce a proper grunt MG, it is gonna be GM (ver Ka)
>ver ka >grunt
>>24002183Naoki basically does those weird shit like Hyaku Shiki Raise Cain, Quebeley damned, Gundam Lindwurm, and those Stormbringer stuff
>>24002183Artist preference kits actually exists but they are just not as celebrated as Katoki's. MG Vidar is based on Gyobu's twitter illustration, almost every Seed kit uses Shigeta's take over Okawara's, the entire AOZ line. However the thing about gunpla is that it rejects type of curvy, unorthodox mecha designs from obscure source. The fact that Bandai have to sell Revival of Zeon kits via Megahouse subsidiary shows that they don't welcome these kind of designs to their mainstream HG.
>>24002185Katoki doesn't have history with the original GM, unlike Sentinel which was his stepping stone to fame. Nouvel GM Ver Ka? Hell yeah.
>>24002196More like it's because Kondo's designs are heavy derivations and not just minor style derivativesAlways has to be some grand conspiracy instead of just maybe it's not as popular
>>24001909>Scalemates already exists and does everything that site does but bettergundammates has pretty bad categorization / search experience imo since its whole tagging system is designed around tank/boat/plane autism
>>24002200yeah he doesyou can hope for something all you want but he has as much history with it as he does the gundam, ball, and various other designs
>>24002201>instead of just maybe it's not as popularFind me the people who actually give a fuck about D Gundam or Bolinoak Samahn. As long as it looks blocky in some places and not a kaiju covered in zimmerit, Bandai will try to make a HG out of it.
>>24002204sorry forgot image
>>24001998Atlas Gundam
>>24002204Can't believe Sunrise exploited the teenager Katoki into drawing GM and RX78-2 in the late 70s. This is a crime.
>>24002213me, I do, so does my friend who was just telling me how excited he was to get his D 2nd in today, D Gundam is probably his favourite release of the past several years honestly and something he's wanted for decadesBolinoak was the last Scirocco suit to get a kit and more people are interested in recreating the Zeta lineup especially of kits named, important characters like Sara pilot than Kondo's fattiesand I like Kondo's fatties it just isn't a mystery to anyone
>>24002185>GM (ver Ka)Already exists
>>24002214>>24002204Brother in christ, Sentinel was Katoki's first Gundam job. If Fazz was some random piece of shit from 00 or something, he wouldn't even acknowlege it's existence, let alone making a MG for it.
>>24002221Sir that's a patlabor.
>>24002221That's explicitly not the GM Ver Ka, that was designed from the jump to be a variantKatoki's first GM is here >>24002214which is from Sentinel 0079 as the "GM Late Type" and from the same work as his actual Gundam and Ball Ver Kas we got kits of. It would become the Early Type in 08th and the Type C in 0083, Custom is meant to be a derivative of the Alex and pulls stylings for Izubuchi, it's not at all "A GM is Katoki designed it" that's the Type C ultimately
>>24002188needs spider legs
>>24002153I would like 1/144 master grades. I understand very well what I am asking for too.
>>24002223yeah Katoki has free reign to make any MG he wants at any time and of course he only wants to make Sentinel MGs which is why we have like 5 times the amount of non-Sentinel MG ver Kas to Sentinel ver KasFAZZ especially is a case where it's not even really his design anyway, he just tweaked proportions and drew details but Akitaka did 99% of the work on it from FA ZZ already
>>24002154Looks like it's girlplaI don't buy that sort of thing but this one has me considering it
>>24002218All you are saying is the reception after the model kit reveal. Kondo's Geara Doga kits exist under Megahouse brand-Bandai's topdog figurine maker because Bandai knew it will sell, they just didn't want that thing to be in their HG line. It is simple as that.
>>24002064You will never manifest Zeta Plus Ver Ka into existence.
>>24002243Can confirm, I've been trying to manifest Virgo without success.
>>24002236It is still a sentimental thing for Katoki to produce Fazz ver Ka. He got abit emotional when talking about Sentinel, it was his first gig after all.
>>24002243I manifested HG Virsago into existence. Get better at Tulpamancy, chuds.
>One piece suddenly disappeared from the pile of parts on your desk then quietly slid back into existence after you flipped your whole room to find it to no avail.Always feel spooky when this happens.
>>24002239Actually I think megahouse has made a number of gundam items which are very much on the "low demand niche appeal" side of things like the Alpha Azieru bust and catapult decks, it's not like they don't make unique somewhat atypical things compared to the main line already. We don't know what the deal is here. Megacorps don't operate so straightforwardly all the time and subsidiaries do compete with each other and have their own goals and projects to various extents. Aside from that, it's not like you have sales data Bandai doesn't about how much Kondo designs move. The Gei Drei released ages ago in the RD line, they know how much appeal that has in terms of real sales and it's one of the coolest Gundam designs Kondo conceived to be sure. But maybe the truth you don't want is that maybe his shit just ain't that popular. It sure as fuck isn't compared to AoZ if we wanna look at other designers and sidestories that get stuff. All his cool works were decades ago now and their reserializations haven't turned a bunch of heads. Revival of Zeon just isn't a wide reaching captivating work and neither is any of the rest of his Gundam stuff. There's nothing wrong with it but maybe the reason the SEED redesigns, AoZ and Sentinel get shit is because a lot of people like those, and most people would say "sorry what the fuck is a Breda?"
>>24002258WTF this anon had the One Piece!
>>24002258it's the plamo gnomes bro
>>24002258I almost always find it in the nub jar, and yet I never think to look there first...
>>24002259I wouldn't call Alpha Azieru niche since it appeared in CCA and Quess died in it. The thing is actually quite iconic, albeit not as popular as Neo Zeong or Psycho Gundam. Bandai made a 1/400 kit for it too if you are into mobile armors. Megahouse products have quite the budget put into them, the figurine of the same character is like 10 times more expensive than Banpresto's.
>>24002268It's niche because it's 1/144 scale and an enormous display piece costing a lot of money bro please just apply some common sense
>>24002269>because it's 1/144 scale and an enormous display piece costing a lot of moneyIf big and expensive means niche PGU Nu and RX78 are niche. People like you tend to throw around the word niche abit too unconsiderably. Megahouse sells expensive figurine for Lacus, too. Is she a super niche waifu that only 10 people beat their meat to?
Got burn out on robots and decided to go on a girlpla binge the past half year or so. 5 30MS and 5 Megami Devices later, I started feeling overwhelmed by tits and asses and finally got in the mood to build giant robots again.I'm surprised to find that I actually build stuff better now. I was a tad haphazard with handling robots, but my girlpla binge made me much more careful when sanding and putting the parts together. Gotta maintain her cute face and not fuck up her nice fleshy skin after all. Got much better with handling tiny bits and curves too.Thank you cute anime girls. I have become a much better builder thanks to you. Now I shall fuse you with giant robots and create unholy (but still cute) abominations.
>>24002268for what it's worth neo zeong is pretty niche toonot many people legitimately have the display space or desire to dedicate that much space to the design, just like mega size kits, all these things are products with niche appealif they released a 1/35th Nu Gundam tomorrow it'd be a niche product too>>24002276PGU Nu still takes up less overall display space than Alpha Azieru by a lot but yes, the extremely expensive gigantic model kit is not expected to sell the same amount of units as a high grade at all and is catering to a smaller market of people that can afford to get it, it's not a product that will ever move the same amount of units as the other Nu Gundam models or even close to itso yes, it's a scale of things, and PGU Nu is probably about as big as can comfortably be displayed somewhere in most people's homes though it still requires a whole dedicated area to itself but it's better than the Alpha Azieru which is basically the footprint of an entire TV or a few dozen high grades standing next to each other. What percentage of people building gunpla do you know personally that own one? A PGU Nu that is. I haven't even seen anyone building it in this thread that I recall. One of my IRL friends bought one, that's all I know personally.
>>24002282You aren't a true girlpla veteran until you at least tried out some chink girlpla. They're greebled to hell by girlpla standards and has tons of ill-fitting parts that turn to dust if you press on them the wrong way. Certainly an experience that needs to be tried at least once.
>>24002269Azieru has more toys and kits than the fucking Big Zam.
>>24002276PGs ARE niche, far fewer people ever consider buying them compared to smaller grades
>>24002282T. Devil Gundam
>>24002243Cope and sneed.
>>24002290No actually it doesn't but that probably seemed like a cool thing to say I guess
>>24002288>They're greebled to hell by girlpla standardsThey're also hilariously much more open about being fetishistic. I forget which maker it is (I'll be honest, their ching chong chang names are really hard to remember), but there was one release where the kit came with an "incubation chamber". You know, the whole cylindrical regeneration pod thing you see a lot in scifi. The promotional picture of that bulky bonus accessory is the girlpla inside the cylinder, banging her hands against the glass trying to get out. Bless those degenerate chinks.
>big >expensive >ugly as sin>4 minutes of screentime>2 of those dedicated to jobbingwhat were they thinking? this thing would be unsalvageable if it didn't have a MP Nu inside
>>24002292They are only that outrageous as imports since big heavy goods get taxed to death. The line is alive and well, it aims at adults with some spare cash. Unlike literal dead bodies of Ex Model, HG Mechanics and First Grade. They were just too overly niche that Bandai killed them off.
>>24002238
>>24002303It appeared in the same manner as Penelope: Big, ugly, jobber, expensive kit. To add salt to the injury, no one gives a fuck about Gundam Odysseus.
>>24002306at least the Penelope shows up in 2 out of 3 movies
>>24002307Monkey paw: It is gonna be another OC Donut Steel for the 3rd movie.
>>24002309oh heavens no don't give me an original design god I would hate that it would just be the worst to get something else new damn
>>24002309they still have that Argos thing to show off so
So, apparently Bandai showed off a ton of RG upscales to 1/00 at Tokyo Toy Show. Including...Nu Gundam Astray Gold Frame Amatsu Mina Wing Zero Ew Exia Sazabi Destiny Freedom Crossbone X-1And...Providence, for some reason, which doesn't have an RG?
The Providence.
>>24002301That sound like Black Swan Elysia kit.Koto also pivoted hard into the fetishistic realm now, Bandai probably would still want to keep their 30MS to be more public friendly though.
>>24002313Looks like a 3D printed mock up. The joints don't have depth whatsoever.
>>24002312Unlikely, Argos is most likely to be a space-use armour for it focusing on bits/funnels, they can always do whatever they want but the little bits of lore we have suggest otherwiseIn the novels it removes some of the armour though it's never particularly described in detail (still firing out funnel missiles is about all we know that points to any detail they might look to retain for the next movie) and they certainly don't say Odysseus because that wasn't even a thing then for it really.Personally I would expect it to just be Penelope maybe with something tweaked where it actually loses its armour bit by bit over the fight but I'm just a random anon who loves HF too much.
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>>24002313>>24002314Aren't those the ones they picked for that slop Hololive collab?
>>24002304they've been niche since the line startedmost people who buy gunpla will simply never buy a PGmost people who buy a dozen gunpla? still probably won't buy a PG
>>24002313rg nu was a mistake
>>24002319>they picked for that slop Hololive collab?yesnothing ever happens
>>24002313OPEN WIDE MG COCKSUCKERS
>>24002322If they make brand new moulds for 1/00 RG's, do you REALLY think they're going to condemn them to a brand crossover exclusively? When Chang is already stealing their lunch with their upscales? Bandai, of all people?
>>24002320>most people who buy gunpla will simply never buy a PG. most people who buy a dozen gunpla? still probably won't buy a PGYou will be surprised by how well PG Astray and Unicorn sold. Even the latest PGU managed to woo alot of whales into buying. A HG fan can't understand what MG fan think and MG fan can't understand what a RG fan think. Arguably Gunpla is seeing a decline in term of new kits getting made, but the current surviving lines are definitely not niche. A niche gunpla line will die.
>>24002315>Koto also pivoted hard into the fetishistic realm nowHow so? I don't really recall any release of theirs that made you raise eyebrows compared to their already established niche of scantily clad mecha musume. Not unless you mean the Puni Mofu series with the scantily clad mecha musume lolis. In which case, 30MS already has a leg up on them. One of the earliest 30MS releases were the bunny loli twins, and the official main designer of the 30MS line draws them like pic related. And speaking of recent koto releases, I actually do like the Yggdrasis Megami Device line Koto released this year. The main premise seems to be tacticool /k/ girls with a few /m/ attachments rather than going full blown mecha musume. They'd probably look amazing riding some kind of mecha exosuit. Kind of like the FAG Gourai-kai one.
>>24002324these are just for display
>>24002330if enough people express interest they'll make them for sure
>>240023241/100 RGs would just be MGs for all intents and purposes >inb4 this is the RGEX meme that they filed a patent for
>>24002331No.
>>24002327God, I just know that Humikane has a secret stash of drawings of the 30MS girls getting dicked. But Bandai is keeping a gun glued to the back of his head.He already drew the GuP and SW girls getting dicked. Next to those, 30MS is probably his next biggest project as head artist.
>>24002326I buy kits of any and every scale, it's just how it is. The average person only considers a PG if it's of their fave design, and since there's only about a dozen entries at that scale lots of people just don't get one. Something being niche doesn't mean it is a failure or doomed to die at all, feels like you're conflating those. Fact is every model kit that's over a hundred bucks is starting to get into niche appeal from price alone.
>>24002333pic related?
do you NEED to epoxy the seamlines on hg? was kinda depressed and started painting my qubeley without it. i mean cant you just sort of put it off as natural separation of armour plates?
>>24002338you don't need to do anything but what makes you happy retard
>>24002327This >>24002154 and those FAG Kagutsuchi variations seem to aim at specific fetish niches for me
>>24002338>epoxy>seamlinesthis nibbla weetawdead
>>24002338>cant you just sort of put it off as natural separation of armour plates?do NOT assemble them like this, it makes mustard gas
>>24002335Well he also got those AGA girls too.
>>24002338Do what you want. You're the one who's going to be looking at it 99.9% of the time.
>>24002338isn't the only seamline on the qubeley the singular one on the back of the forearm?also don't use epoxy, use model cement, putty or flexible super glue
>>24002327>I don't really recall any release of theirs that made you raise eyebrowsNo they are getting very bold. FAG Kagutsuchi has articulated boobs, Sousai Shoujo appeals to otaku with specific archetypes like tomboy and gyaru, MD is getting more fetish based with boob squeeze, loser girl and orgasm heart pupils. They are publishing kemopla, too.
>>24002327Hilariously enough, you cannot make the actual Laranel kit do that pose without extensive modifications. You make a out of the box build do that leg raised pose, and that fucking leg is coming right off.
>>24002252I find it hard to believe people actually like those designs. Especially the Ashtaron. It has such an idiotic backpack
>>24002349I love both of themAshtaron's atomic scissors are awesome and its huge monoeye display on its back piece that becomes the MA mode head is sick as fuck too, looks so cool
>>24001783I'm thinking of doing a sort of appropriated Slaughter Dagger since I can't find a HG GM Quel to Zeonize, but I hate SEED and all of SEED's factions are one-dimensionally evil. Maybe I could do one as a custom from a Vulture in the AW timeline after a Slaughter Dagger somehow ended up there Evil Dead 2 style?
>>24002347Standard 30MS kits can't do that pose, currently only those action wear option bodies can, and they have to sacrifice the fleshly hip joints for mechanical ball joints.
>>24002345idk this is what he looks like rn. i feel like i couldve atlesst puttied the forearms and lower legs. but id have to redo like 3 layers of paint at this point.
>>24002355bro that paint is like a millimeter thick holy shit
>>24002355Paints a little thick.
>>24002356its 3 layers for chipping later:black, black metalic, grey. (with chipping medium inbetween)
>>24002358brother you have lost details from it, look at those collar pipes and the chest details in general
>>24002336I doubt the mainstream HG line will become niche just because the price keep rising up. Hobby is a test of tolerance, i have been seeing TCG guys spend ten of thousand bucks for literal cardboard. The price, the storage space and all things like that don't matter as long as it keeps giving you dopamine. When someone talk about niche, they talk about the lack of merchandise and public attention to their unfortunately unpopular and unloved IP. There are plenty of people like Kow Yokoyama, Kobayashi, Kondo and the similar guys. You see modelers try their best at mimicking Kondo and Kobayashi, atleast there is something to see and talk about in this specific gundam fanbase. It is like those youtube video essays where the zesty guy talk about "game no one have ever played before" and it is a relatively known indie game. Millions of Japs know about Kondo and his redesigns but the only material they can express their enthusiasm is a 2008 HG and epoxy putty.
>>24002355Paint so thick it turned it into a 1980s kit
>>24002355What happened to your Breda?
>>24002362judging from this model it probably melted after his fourth paint coat on it
>>24002355
I wonder if I can negotiate with a local game store that's had a PG Perfect Strike shelf warming for a few years to sell it for cheaper...
>>24002355kino army men build.
>>24002363I remember him boasting about his Breda kit several threads ago and shit on other anons. I'm not gonna judge his skill cause i'm just as shitty, but i hate pretentious modelers with every inch of my bones.
>>24002362not sure if satire but this was the final result
>>24002368i never boasted. i understand my style of painting is amateurish at times and especially the whole weathering stuff is not liked by everybody. so i can get a little heated at times when i feel treated unfairly in the latter regard. overall im definitely a middle of the pack hobby painter though, dont think im too arrogant overall.
>>24002370Please thin your paints
>>24002370Not trying to just dogpile here but you need to thin your shit more cus you're losing so, so much detail in these kits my dude
>>24002378also to not be negative your chipping technique on most of the armour surfaces looks really goodbut man look at some of those vents you just clogged that shit with paint bro
>>24002378>>24002370>>24002355This is the guy that freaks out if you say weathering is ugly by the way
What do you guys use for sprues holders/rack/organizer? Bough one similar as pic related from Amazon, but it was a total scam, the runners barely fit in there, and where they do its all loose.
>>24002370First of all, think out of box. Change it's pose with some putty and glue. Also, don't abuse paint chipping effect and weathering. I know you really love the gritty WW2 artstyle but think about rule of cool for a second and let it be what it is aka a giant robot. A coat of matte paint and some dirt on the surface is enough sometimes.
>>24002353I think SEED as a setting can be pretty cool when you look past the main highlighted facets. The "Earth Federation" is comprised of distinct nations and there are a lot of independent actors around in the world doing shit that only come up here and there. Basically more than just ZAFT might steal a Dagger, even entities within the Federation might steal a Dagger for their own purposes, you can do all sortsa shit with SEED's factions.
>>24001795Honestly for me it comes down to piece count and size. Something like HG zeong is so chill to paint. I would rather die than fully paint the RG one though. My RGs and most modern HGs I mostly snapshit but I'll paint EGs and older HGs
>>24002384I just rawdog it and never had any issues just leaving on the table
>>24002384I just clip all the parts out into the box it came in at once right away then I transfer them from that box half to the other box half as I process themfwiw if you really wanna you can make your own runner holder out of used runners, just clean them up and glue them parallel to each otherYou wanna cut out all the inner bits so nothing snags
>>24002384noname chinese collapsible dish rack from amazon
>>24002383I like weathering too but i think it shouldn't be a must everytime you paint something that looks slightly weirder than the generic tri colored gundam.
>>24002384Dish rack, those sprue holders are hot garbage.
>>24002383weathering in general isn't ugly, but *his* weathering is
>>24002395>>24002398It's never the people that are good at something who blow a fuse about it
Shading and panel lining >>>> Weathering
>>24002402I'm going to become the next gordon ramsey just so I can shit on your raw steak.
>>24002412>so I can shit on your raw steak.It better be a steak plamo, so we can all see you do it
>>24002414writing this down for my entry in the shitp- silly theme
>>24002414>Steak plamoWhat's the difference?
im gonna stop posting my builds here i hope you all kill yourselves or die unloved snapshitters
>>24002402Be aware of the thread you are in, anon. People in here might not be creative, but alot of them know how to weather their kits.
>>24002423thin your paints
>>24002424Not my build. Talk to the guy who made that thing.
>>24002421None of these would have happened if you didn't act like a grandmaster. Being defensive of your build is not necessary a bad thing but never leave a footprint to let people know what you said.
>>24002370Looks like a piece of shit
I'll toss in an example from my work ok what I think decent weathering looks like. In my experience less is more.
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>>24002430And this is an example that's the opposite of my previous advice. Heavy weathering can be done right.
>>24002429I think he can still salvage it by air brush shading and then panel line it with Tamiya pour type liner. Like this sample.
>>24002427that wasnt me someone samefagged
>>24002370The mistake op did here isn't how heavy the weathering is but the intent of the weathering. You gotta consider how the suit was damaged, what caused it. What corrosion looks like at that scale. Look up tank and train weathering techniques. This is a good start. I really hope you don't give up. This place can be cruel but you gotta understand we will not pull punches. Learn from this, try again and keep posting. You will get better.
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>>24002445the mistake is he painted with paint so thick that thing doesn't even have a fucking face anymore man
>>24002430the textured worn paint is really good but the dirt is far too uniform imo. some spots should be dirtier and some spots mostly clean instead of the whole thing covered in an even layer of grime
>>24002444to add on to this: i dont really give a fuck about peoples opinions here. im probably better than 75% of people here because most people dont even paint. including some of the people critiquing. i do thin my paints and i could care less at this point
>>24002450also, a lot of the „molten look“ on the breda is just the fact its a shitty ass resin mold and not a bandai hg
>>24002370>Paint so thick the cabling does a 360 and looks like lazily slapped on putty sausages and the hands solidify into chewed up bubblegum
>>24002412Gordon Ramsay is actually a notoriously calm chef amongst people in the industry. Dude had a really angry chef who treated everyone like shit (marco pierre white) and decided he would be better to his people. You saw a character on TV>t. guy who cooked in a michelin star restaurant
>>24002448You're not wrong. Like I said the effort was a good start and he hopefully learns from this and tries again. One more example.
>>24002411why should i paint fake shadows instead of using studio lighting to photograph my model with real shadows
>>24002456uoooooh glaive erotic Really need to pick up one of the new plastic kits
>>24002318>SunshineHell yeah. You better do oil streaking and modulation on it.
>>24002453i also do scartchbuilds. think about it like this: what has your creative output been in the last couple of months other than sucking your own dick and consooming girpla slop? maybe you in specific are a rare case of someone who actually does stuff, but i suspect not. most of the negative nancys here are literal whos with 0 builts posted because they dont have the balls
>>24002370>Bro if you use oyamaru you can clone your kit for free>The clone kit
>>24002461scratchbuild for you to gouge your eyes out over
>>24002462actually laughed at this
>>24002457Because a large robot scaled down into a tiny robot doesnt quite catch the light the same way
>>24002450>i do thin my paintsit's not just a binary on/off thing but whether your paints are thinned enough to flow and spread smoothly without leaving thick clumpy textures behind. when people tell you to thin your paints it's because they see those clumpy bits and can tell the paint was not thin ENOUGH to self-level and leave a smooth surface
>>24002461All you have to do is thin your paint. Why won't you just thin the paint? It only takes a few seconds and it'll make your models not look like shit.>>24002457You can do both of those things at the same time. You can also use shading to make broad surfaces more visually interesting and break up shapes.>>24002450>im probably better than 75% of people hereYou might actually be the least skilled person here. Everything you do actively makes the kit look worse. Bare plastic would look better.>i do thin my paintsNo you don't.
>>24002450Check the Breda's right shoulder from this image to your final>>24002370You straight up murdered that vent bro it's dead now that is pooled paint clogging that mfer up cmon
>>24002384I use a wrench rack from Amazon. Let's me change the width to accommodate runners with large parts. The walls are tall enough that even vertical runners stay in place. Also the bottom is metal so it doesn't slide around.
>>24002450You're not supposed to use the entire bottle of paint on one toy you retard
>>24002430hello I love pin washes. those bits of grime around every rivet are calling out to me.
>>24002430>>24002440Beautiful models.
>>24002469>All you have to do is thin your paint. Why won't you just thin the paint?because youre retarded and dont understand you will NEVER achieve the same level of flatness with 4 layers of paint required for the chipping techniques i use. >muh but i dont like that, build your soop the way i want you tofuck off>Bare plastic would look better.thanks for outing yourself as a faggot in my eyes
>>24002475Chipping technique???More like dipping technique!!!LMAO!!!!
>>24002470 its literally not, the resin mold was just that sloppy
>>24002475>you will NEVER achieve the same level of flatness with 4 layers of paint required for the chipping techniques i useyes you can. those layers just need to be a lot thinner and more level. and applied with significantly more skill.
>>24002445NTA, while really terrible at weathering, i do enjoy the story telling aspect of it. My guerilla warfare Gans has more damage and chipping due to constant exposure to rain forest and mud, while the arctic recon Ammoknight looks relatively new and less beaten up because the environment he operates at is snowy and dry, along with constant repair and repaint due to the human element.
>>24002473This is good advice. Thanks bro I'll try that out on my next build. Here's one I did 7 years ago.
>>24002475Bare plastic would look better because the details are still visible. You smeared your kit in doodoo and chipped off the doodoo. If the "technique" you're using can't be done on thinned paint then it's a worthless "technique"You're just slopping on unthinned paint and chiseling on it or some shit. Real paint on real 1:1 scaled things is thinned and can chip. Do you think real chipped paint on real things is completely unthinned?
>behind the scenes footage of anon's chipping technique
>>24002481how am i getting all the flak when this guy literally smeared doodoo putty levels all over his whiteknight and noone even mentioned it? not to be the ass here, personally i still find things about it appreciable but its very telling how some people seem to have gotten dead-set on critiquing my builds while leaving stuff like this unmentioned. lots of hipcrisy
>>24002457Because shading is meant to give it a specific highlight and shadow that natural lighting can't. Without that shading, the Marasai kit would look like a red blob with white highlight which is ugly.
>>24002485Don't compare his work to this lmao
>>24002489yea, mine is better
>>24002490There's no mechanical detail left on it. You've slathered everything in so much unthinned paint and doodoo that the details are unrecognizable.
>>24002485well I don't think that anon has claimed he's a better modeller than 75% of the thread so probably because he has humilitybut also because the details are still visible unlike the qubeley and breda that legitimately appear to be begging for a merciful end
>>24002494you can check out the mechanical detail on my dick sweetheart
>>24002498You're doing a great job convincing people you're good at anything right now
oooh check out this mechanical detailxDyou people are hilarious
Fresh factory paint jobs are still the best.
>>24002500This just looks like it was rusted out and painted over. It worked because these are a much larger scale.Why are you so desperate to shit on everything? First your own models, then this guys work.
I suck at painting but I still try. I still want to revisit him with some westhering and a proper decal sheet (cant find any in stock in my country).
>>24002504i think you snorted too much of whatever that guy pasted all over his whiteknight, frankly
>>24002498DFWFW?
>>24002507I used to have an old BBQ grill that looks just like that from me spray painting over the rust every year.Maybe you should just thin your paints.
>>24002506>I suck at painting but I still try.Being able to say this makes you a better modeller than the other anon
>>24002485The trick is to make it a really disgusting, unregconizable doodoo feces instead of turning a good looking robot into a less good looking robot. Dedicate to your bit. Hope this helps.
>>24002515I dont think its about being better.I don't want to just paint a kit in its canon colors though for my next one. Felt a bit silly putting in a bunch of effort just to make a normal ground type but with a medicore finish lol. Could have just top coated him.
>>24002506Looks pretty good to me. Maybe try to do some stenciling for the numbers. I like the more muted colors you chose.
>>24002518>I dont think its about being better.being able to say this makes you an infinitely better modeller than the other anoncongrats on the healthy approach to the hobby bro you've achieved enlightenment most people already have but autists struggle with the idea of non-universal value
>>24002506>>24002520Here's a finished photo too. I didn't have a completed photo with the shield very visible.As you can tell, we took very different approaches to the paintjobs.
>>24002500Ammoknight anon here. That mechanical detail doesn't actually exist. I scupted that shit with putty lmao. The feet is a spare part from Hammerknight with some other spare parts glued on, it is not very detailed from the start but most of MK44 looks very minimalistic. Your Breda has too many existing details so when the paint coats piled up, their density loss became noticable.
>>24002523wrong photo lmao
>>24002523How did you make the eyes and sensor glow? Thats dope. That is the MG right?For colors I just used stock tamiya colors for it all. Except for the frame and gun, I experimented with mixing colors, I wanted the frame muted with a slight hint of metallic. I kinda like the slight two tone to the gun with the body being shinier.
Anyone have experience in fixing seamlines for heads like pic related? How would I close off the head without the face part being stuck inside, for easier painting? I know the whole c-clip thing for fixing forearms, but how about something like this?
>>24002524i didnt intend to shit on another mak anone it was just my intention to point out the difference in treatment. i remember well i got shat on when i puttied my seapig a while ago. theres definitely a clique of retards who recognizes my builds and spams the thin your paint meme just because.
>>24002529sometimes you can cut part of the back of the face so it can slide in from the bottom
>>24002527It's the master grade. I used fluorescent paint and a 365nm blacklight to make them glow.The drawback to that is that certain plastics also fluoresce so I couldn't cheat and just clearcoat the white parts.>>24002529Paint the face first, then put masking tape over it before assembly. Then you can remove the seam and paint the head safely since the face is masked.>>24002530Maybe you always get shit on because your work is bad and your attitude is worse. You just have nothing good to offer. You refuse to learn anything or do better and you freak out every time someone correctly tells you to thin your paints.
>>24002527Floursecent paints are your friend. Add a little UV flashlight and things glow.
>>24002534>You just have nothing good to offerfactuall wrong. ive gotten very positive feedback in this thread over the course of a year, sometimes to the point where i myself found it excessive. this alone proves ive provided stuff to the thread. now get off my balls, you faggot.
>>24002540You post models smeared in shit and then freak out when people tell you to thin your paints. I have never seen a positive comment about your work.We're all just fortunate that you can't afford enough paint to post more than a few of these pieces of shit a year.
>>24002541>We're all just fortunate that you can't afford enough paint to post more than a few of these pieces of shit a year.lmao. youd probably start crying if you ever saw my backlog. it is true though, i have other hobbies and a life.
>>24002542You start crying every time someone tells you to thin your paint.Thin your paint. It's not hard.
>>24001784Finished the 1:35 core fighter. Most of the time was waiting for clearcoat to come in the mail.Fun kit. I might try to track down some more of this line.
>>24002543and some people here are incurable about their holy grail of „thin your paint“ being corrected. ive had people tell me wrongly to thin my paints when the cause was putty underneath. now people talk about clogged vents when i saw the blank resin mold vents and those things had 0 mechanical detail to begin with. theres just no leeway with the thin your paints garbage, its just a catch-em-all for „i dont like your stuff“ for whatever personal preference. theres a lot more to be said but itd be wasted energy here
>>24002549Thin your paints.
>>24002530Anons here shit on me all the time and i also being defensive when i'm in a bad mood like that time i posted my Hildolfr, but then again, what is your goal to modeling? Is it to seek validation or is it to pursue art? People around here cut me some slack because i don't post my peking duck Marasai and then claim i'm better than 70% of people here, it is just a fun passion project and it stays that way. If you want praise and validation then you will have to give something better than that Breda and Quebeley because this result is not it, man. Give them whatever the rust and paint chipping you want but don't drown their details into glossy coat of paint.
>>24002548the navy blue to light blue gradient right behind the cockpit is real nice
>>24002534>Paint the face first, then put masking tape over it before assembly. Then you can remove the seam and paint the head safely since the face is masked.Is there any way of removing the that particular kind of seamline where I don't have to do that?
My enemies are not painters. My enemies aren't snapshitters or even longsnappers. I want people who mainly build SDs and recent (last 4 years) HGs to go away
>>24002564>>24002529It's all about turning the helmet into a clamshell and the face as an insert partHow you do it depends on the specific design but the basic doesn't change, you find where you can insert it in from (usually the bottom, you just clip off pegs etc that get in the way of it) and prepare it like that.
>>24002569For instance with that specific design you probably only need to cut the three circled elements. I'm not 100% sure without checking the assembly myself but I think that bit on the top of the head is a locking slot for the forehead. Just cut em off and presto, you can slide that whole block directly up into a seam removed helmet.
>>24002564Use liquid masking fluid and use it on the face by a handbrush. Remove it on once you are done.
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>>24002573I think he shouldn't do that. The face is also the socket for the neck and locks at the forehead. Cutting the pins will ruin the head completely.
>>24002582I don't own the kit to reference but just from this instruction display I'd still absolutely do it that way, it shouldn't interfere with anything. Especially not "ruin it completely." It'll be just fine.
>>24002582Just print a socket and glue it in afterwards.
>>24002583My concern is how the face will be dislocated from the supposed position. Zeta Plus's face is quite literally in the free reign with nothing else keep it in place beside the the pins because the helmet is full of hollow space. I still suggest liquid masking over trimming.
>>24002579My bad for not assuming every gunpla nerd knew the industry chitchat
>>24002587You glue it into place man, it's not rocket surgery. Guarantee you a bunch of surfaces are still touching on the inside and it lines up nicely, but if not, if you can't see it looking off then it doesn't matter if it's a micron off centre.
>>24002590Not the seam removing anon but i literally can't stand it even if it is a micro meter off. Gluing it back is not the problem, it is that possibility of it being dislocated that bothers me.
>>24002370Dunno why people are clowning on this anon so much. Looks like one of those designs Kondo or Kobayashi shits out.
>>24002593This is why I recommended masking off the entire face. It lets you keep the alignment.
>>24002594Breda is Kondo's design lmao. And don't you dare shit on my man Kobayashi.
>>24002599Awful. This needs an inch thick layer of shit smeared on it
>>24002593Things are imperceptibly off even with OOB fits, if you can't tell you can't tell. Like I said the piece is still going into a frame meant to accept it, it's not just going into a void and those were the only contact surfaces. That's basically never true. It's a nonissue.
kek it's been a while since I saw the oil spill guy has a chimpout
>>24002455That's why his UK shows are better. He still swears but it wasn't over the top in his insults.
>>24001784Back on Penelope. I've been tearing my hair out with indecisiveness about what I specifically want the final form of the shoulders to be but I've made a little work anyway. Filling out the chest shape framework a bit more too.
>>24002594I think I‘ll just stop posting here honestly. The negativity is really off the charts. You post one picture of a primed model thats not even get finished and get 10 thin your paint clowns. This thread is really just ritualistic mockery for anyone who actually posts builds. I‘ve gotten some good responses and even made it into Op picture like half a dozen times but it just gets tiring now that the same clowns seem to recognize me. Ive got other places I can post and I get several hundred likes there. Really no need to put up with this bullshit anymore.
>>24002569>>24002573>>24002582>>24002583>>24002586>>24002587>>24002590>>24002593>>24002596Same Anon here asking about fixing seams for that head. The face part is used for the ball joint on the bottom part with the back of the head being the part that would secure it in. The top side of the face piece in red, slides in the other red circle part on the front half. I still don't know how to fix the seamline of the head without having to resort to liquid mask. Anyone have any ideas?
>>24002610Despite not being completely sure how the front and back faces of the shoulders will look in the final form still, I've got the fundamental form of the shoulders down. I've shifted to a three block design where there'll be a central unit between the front and back panels. I wanted it like this because I want the entire shoulder unit to be able raise and lower instead of having a fixed position on that axis. It also makes room for stuff on the inside of the shoulder.
>>24002621Just don't snip the forehead bit, you can use it as an anchoring point, it has room to slide inYou may just need to trim the depth of the "peg" a little to work with the room there isThe solution I'm presenting is the way you do it
>>24002618Then leave, you drama queen.
>>24002618>You post one picture of a primed model thats not even get finishedI believe the issue here is that it is not actually primer, but actual gray paint. When he posted his Breda build several threads ago, i assumed it was a wip until he finally gave me the answer >>24002370I still think this is salvagable. It is a resin kit, just strip the thick paint and start over, or raw dog it with matte coat and panel liner but i don't think he is willing to do that.
>>24002618
>>24002618Ill also never start thinning my paints to an autistic degree because I dont even enjoy airbrushing. I eyeball it and to me its just a tool to get to a result, not a science. I design and draw mechas in my free time. I like to come up with paint schemes and modifications for models. Maybe that was too creative for this consumer culture thread thats all about shitting out the cleanest looking MG build with RBB lighting (which some malaysian at a con will have done ten times cleaner before you anyway). So, mayhaps, fuck this thread and its autistic „culture“.
>>24002618all this just because you won't admit your paint was put on so thick on a qubeley you lost detail
Why are your quotation marks so fucked up?
>>24002632I used to nickname him as the cataracts guy because he has the aesthetics of well, how someone with cataracts see the world. But his sinaju stein saga is the moment when he goes from regular autist weirdo to full on lolcow tier, because he went from >this is just my style, respect itto >fuck you, i'll double down on the oil spill and sludge on the sinaju just to make /gpg/ angry, that'll show them!
>>24002001People love to bring up the Ver Ka poll, but neglect to mention how only 2700 people voted and G-Self barely won at 16.8%, followed by Barbatos Lupus Rex at 16.0% and God Gundam at 15.4%. Bandai's never going to base their next release on a loud minority, not after they made a big stink about the MG Turn A Gundam only for them to end up in stacks at 70% off just weeks later.
>>24002618Nobody is going to beg you to stay and nobody asked for your little sob story
>Muh clean build. Muh weathered buildDon't care, i play both sides. It is way more fun that way.
>>24002642it's as if the spirit of piccolo himself resides within your dijeh
>>24002642diseasepla
>>24002642The issue has never been whether you should do clean build or not. The issue has always been specifically with that guy who clearly doesn't understand and just slap thick gobs of stuff . It's paradoxical, but it takes control to make a mess that looks chaotic. Like with weathering, it's a thin line between making something look as though it's gone through wear and tear but in a artistic manner vs looking as though it's just been dumped in the mud and then dragged along the road.
>>24002642you only played yourself retard *dabs*
>>24002643I painted it based on Se-R. Might give it Sazabi face if i feel like it.
>>24002642The biggest problem is that he thinks he's gods gift to gunpla while making absolute shit
>>24002642>machu wallpaperBased. I just started building machu a little bit ago. She's so pretty.
>>24002649This is how I look like irl.
>>24002618>Ive got other places I can post and I get several hundred likes there. Really no need to put up with this bullshit anymore.I could have sword I've seen you say that multiple times now.
>>24002647Here is my serious take instead of being mean. His problem even if the paint is super thinned is how his chipping breaks the overall appearance of the robot, it would still looking less like a Breda and more like a visual noise. He probably tried to paint it using Licoln Wright's guide but here is the thing. His build has a specific design in mind. Regardless of the chipping and weathering, you can see the body is green, the face and pauldron are sky blue with some brown accents around the whole body. Anon's Breda is a grey blob with some tan as the finish, it doesn't have a base finished design to "destroy".
>>24002662This also doesn't have shit piled up on all the details. The details are all preserved.
>>24002660just making up bullshit now i see
>>24002677I thought you were leaving forever
>>24002684well im definitely not posting builds anymore anytime soon
>>24002690Not until you learn to thin your paint?
>>24002610Epic build, been following it over multiple threads, keep it coming!
>>24002690Can you post WIP?
>>24002690but how will I give it the hundreds of updoots you deserve kind stranger?
What the fuck is this thread
>>24002738gunpla, can't you read?
>>24002738Just dudes hangin' and talking shit.
Why is bandai sending me an "exclusive pbandai page" about a card game? This is not gunpla.
