-=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>Deals on gunpla/plamo:gunpla.deals>Past Groupbuilds:https://flickr.com/photos/197891373@N06>Monthly Restock List (September):old.reddit.com/r/gunpla/1vobmxjPrior thread: >>24012524
== 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
Show me your WIPs!
Seeing all these Japs get their hands on the VAKIT Geara Doga is making me excited to get ahold of one, looks like a gorgeous sculpt
>>24016559I want to buy Atlas but the detail painting would be absolute hell to mask and paint...
>Chinese make their third party kits larger than PGs>Upcoming release is even larger >Somehow charge 400 yuan (60 USD) when bought domestic You really have to appreciate how unhinged they are.
>>24016577Even their so called 1/144 kits are usually as big as Bandai standard MGs, they have no sense of scale.
>>24016545Many such cases, plamo is a chaos god after all>one time a piece landed higher than the ground it bounced off of>it also went in the opposite direction of where it fell
Sometimes the Chinese care about scale others they do not, their minds and thoughts are above whatever rules and sets we have, however they make some cool stuff at times
wtf is this misleading name. how many people bought this gunpla thinking it was 00 QanT lol
>>24016645It technically is, just modified and customized for the show or wherever, it probably has the parts to simply be the quant, since Bandai reuses runners. Don’t quote me on that tho
>>24016577>perfect grade tall-You shut your mouth heretic
Anyone got the model kit for Apollo from Galaxia Bots? That thing got a full inner frame and an LED chest core.
>>24016579>what do you mean made up designs aren't the same size as a HG Grandpa???
>>24016559Im so glad i've been vindicated by this guys videos proving the fear mongering around tamiya panel liner to be full of shit.I've been saying this for YEARS on gelgoog guys discord and on here that tamiya panel liner does jack shit to gunpla even on assembled kits. I've never had TPL crack on me for what 100+ kits i've done for the past 10 years now? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ecTuQCL4wPMhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/uflk4RJrkqU
>>24016645Illiteracy deserves to be punished.
>modelbuildlabbuy a AD, and stop shilling that braindead retards channel
>>24016645>how many peopleZero? No one buys gunpla from some text-only list, there are fucking images
>>24016560This is hand painted, yea?
>>24016677But what about other anons pieces that did break?
>>24016625I had a piece show up in my shoe a week later, shoes I wear everyday and Defentally would of noticed
I dont really like the color, but i am too lazy to repaint it. I hope a flat coat will make it better .
>>24016677The most confirmation bias thing I’ve read. So one guy like you has no tamiya breaking plastic issues, suddenly discredits anyone else saying otherwise? Absolute retard, many say that tamiya MAY/CAN break plastic not guarantee it. So thankfully you parroted your dumbassness to the void
>>24016727You can always spray paint, it’s easier and faster, since that color scheme is ugly af matte topcoat or not.
>>24016677The video literally shows the arm falling apart after getting dunked? The liner can weaken plastic, especially when it seeps in to nubs or joints that experience stress. It may not break immediately, but after posing or reposing it can break.
I've been using Tamiya liner on bare plastic for all my kits for the last 5 years and nothing EVER broke. It's most certainly a skill issue.
>>24016727ninja turtle ass zaku. Just paint the inner head piece a bright orange or something
>>240166451. If people actually fucking watched the movie, they would immediately know that this isn't from the movie.2. Even if they thought it was an MSV, they would just look at the box and see the Gundam Breaker markings. Anybody who makes that mistake doesn't actually watch the media, and thus it wouldn't affect them anyway.
>>24016705The word of a YouTuber is worth the word of 100 anons.
>>24016761Be right back, uploading a youtube video about gunpla.
>>24016753>>24016748It is a real type color but my paint was too bright maybe i will repaint to darker color
>>24016761It really does feel like that here, doesn't it?
>>24016769The colors you got can still work, just add those decals
steb's video is betterhttps://youtu.be/kPUQSVhB11U
>>24016771Anons aren't made equal. Like one anon from /pol/ is a truth sayer but an /m/ anon is worth a third of that.
>>24016645It still looks cool, so what's the issue?
>>24016777>the word of an Indian is worth 3x that of a 35 y/o white/asian boomer that likes mecha
https://schizophonic9.com/re10/30mm_pirate.html
>>24016577There was someone a month ago saying the reason they purposefully miscale and then still claim it's 1/144, 1/60, or whatever is so they can't be accused of making a direct copy if there's Bandai assassins snooping around. Since a direct copy wouldn't be the wrong scale
>>24016771>It sure feels like a fundamental and immutable truth of the universe still holds true here, doesn't it?
>>24016787>35 y/o white/asian boomer/m/ doesn't have those anymore
>>24016799No one under 30 knows what a Gundam is anon. Let alone a Patlabor or Macross
>>24016559I know these are from Armored Core but are there like any model kits, either from Bandai or any other brand that looks like super grunty, like mass produced fodder designs like such? Without 3d Printing that is.Even more grunty than the Zaku II.
>>24016802Or an Armored Trooper
>>24016677The first kit I ever used panel liner on was the MG Ez8 and after applying some to its hand parts the fingers fell apart. Using panel liner on the panels works fine, no real danger but it does weaken the material, so using it on or near joints poses a risk.
>>24016727Looks like lego tree colors
>>24016803Chinks got a few boxy shitbuckets exactly like that, check sheikh mainland stuff
>>24016777>one anon from /pol/ is a truth sayerlmfao more like the complete opposite. /pol/ is retarded
>>24016804Or Transor Z
>>240168033D printing :)
>>24016809Lol that was a deep cut, yet I knew immediately
>>24016846Would be great if 30mm did battle packs with MTs from AC alongside the MC's.
>>24016846CHICKIN NUGGETS
Honestly I dont think bandai makes enough Strike Freedom models
>>24016852I wish I was brown enough to enjoy SEED I'd probably be happier then
>>24016777That doesnt make sense /m/ is full of whites and high tier Asian (Jomon) while /pol/ is full of brown third wordlers
>>24016848mts are big though. and bandai sucks at making grunt kits that's not from gundam
Dom heat saber but.. beam saber
>>24016787>>24016864Are you really gonna sit there, look at the current state of /m/ and tell me we have mostly white Boomer and elevated Asian posters?
>ordered clear RG Nu for an actually decent priceNever fucked with clear kits but kind of excited to mess around with it, and nu is my favorite. I want to do something with the clear nature of it though, I was thinking either>fluorescent paint and/or LEDs to simulate the psycho frame.or>painting only the inside of the panels in metallic paintLooking at completed build pics like pic rel I think LEDs would be difficult unless I can find some truly tiny ones. I've only used the official bandai ones for kits that support it so far.
>>24016749That youtuber is functionally retarded. Youtube keeps raping my feed with his content and I don't know why. I mean just listen to him speak.
why does that one guy keep bumping threads from page 10
>>24016915I saw one short of his where it was just straight up pointless, didn't say much in it either, just him snapshitting and making nasty noises with his mouth, like negative ASMR.
>>24016902Things have taken a downward turn in recent years. But I still dont think we should ring the doom bell just yet. /m/ has been largely shielded (relatively) from the the cancer thats overrun the site the past 15 years
>>24016926/m/ held the line for longer than most but G-Witch opened the floodgates for a certain type of people that I don't think ever really left.
>>24016932How many anime troons would even know about the plamo general on the mecha board of evil hate site 4chan, let alone come here and post? It was a few months of obvious tourists and then nothing.If you want to see a hobby board that has truly been raped, swing by /o/.
>>24016935You and I aren't thinking about the same people. One group rarely crawls out of /u/.
>>24016941anon, /u/ is for troons by troons
>>24016947Was that I implied, yes.
>>24016561oh, my orange peel
>>24016961pyw
>>24016962I'm not posting my wife, creep
'pyw' he screeches out, like a cornered animal with nowhere to run and no other defenses left
>no one pywed I won
>>24016645it literally is
Working on cutting out and cleaning up all the Valimar pieces. Still waiting for the humidity to get low enough to start painting though. Which gold should I go with for the edging? Its going with a metallic graphite and a titanium silver colors (finally found a good enamel that I liked for the silver - one of Barbatos' ME92101E).
Why did Bandai discontinue adding extra parts holders to runners?
>>24017002It's not that they added extra parts, they were just left over.
Why does Bandai refuse to Reissue Zaku F2000 but keeps printing shit ass Zaku Amazing? My LHS has like 4 Amazings and 6 F2s rotting.
>>24016577Their sense of color theory is fucking crazy. Some of their kits have 10+ colors for their runners https://youtu.be/pd1mD4HdB4Y?is=MturyIebfFzrX-5Ahttps://youtu.be/pd1mD4HdB4Y?is=M2i7AVZDqr4iiHuT
>>24017006becuz funny
>>24017011the first chink designer that knows when to stop drawing will single handedly bring the second golden age of mecha
the hardest part of this hobby is my cock
>>24017006>Rival MS>Had so much screentime>Actually kickassI wonder why...
>>24017021>Shitty outdated HG Zaku with one more shoulder pad and trash slapped on his feet so he can't walk
should I get the hg messer from the 1st movie or the secondno bootleg for these?
>>24017020ABS is harder
>>24017024>>Shitty outdated HG Zaku with one more shoulder pad and trash slapped on his feet so he can't walkKino
>>24017027Get the MG third party Messer
>>24017024>Shitty outdated HG ZakuIt's actually a unique mold that was only used for this kit and the HGUC zaku high mobility. It's a decent kit with significant modernization that they easily could have used as the new zaku mold, but didn't for some reason. The modern zaku HGUC only kept the weapons runner from it.
>>24017031>third partyunlicensed 3P is not a thing>messerbarely looks like it
>>24017027new one>>24017031don't do this
>>24017031heard it was shit plus i don't do 1/100welp found out huaxia made a good bootleg of the 1st one
>>24017027They are very different designs, just get both. The new kit is slightly better since it is newer but the original one aren't bad.
>>24017027both are goodpick the one you think looks coolerthe head vulcans are AIDs on the first movie kit and require a dremel to look right, but otherwise it is an excellent kit
>>24017027The F01 Messer got a bootleg a little while ago. Don't know how good it is. But the M01 Type is a better kit because it has parts separated eye.
>>24017035>that they easily could have used as the new zaku moldZaku Amazing actually uses the 1.5 joints from Black Tri Star Zaku. Bandai updated Zaku engineering and posability several times, the ones from GTO were brand new molds as well. The revive HGUC is the total upgrade to previous Zaku kits, completely molded in KPS with no polycaps whatsoever.
>>24017054KPS sucksgarbage to sandscratches with fingernailsI would rather have polycaps than all KPS construction.
>>24017062The worst thing about kps is how it opened the floodgate to ecopla joints. If you see a kit with black plastic for the joints, prepare to have a bad time.
What if my prosthetics were made of KPS
>>24017137you would crumble and die
>>24017137You would instantaneously explode into 10000 pieces as an offering to Plamor.
>Motor Nuclear 1/72 Lu Bu>SMP 1/300 Gaohunter Blue Moon>RMZ 1/100 Blade Liger Panzer>RMZ 1/100 Geno Saurer (Guardian Force ver.)>Supernova 1/100 Mugen Liger>Supernova 1/60 Death StingerWhich one of these kits in my backlog can I just topcoat and panel line? Can't be assed to set up the airbrush.
>>24017179Aren't Motor Nuclear kits prepainted and have shit loads of parts separation? Other than shading and topcoat i dont know how you would "elevate" Lu Bu beyond a snapshit.
The chinks are close to leaving the japanese in the dust with there knock off designs but will thet ever stop over designing there kits? They have to realize that more pointy bits != more better
>>24017189Gundam fans says they want PGU and MGEX, chinks do it better with Mechanicore and Sky Defender. Transformers fans say they want Masterpiece Bayverse, Chinks do it better with Third party Masterpiece. Supply and demand.
KPS is pretty based actually.
KPS is allegedly magic super plastic meanwhile no other model company on earth has bothered to use it. How very convenient.
>>24017207It is just PS but with slightly altered chemical properties to give it better tolerance. Most company stick with polycaps so they couldn't care less.
ABS > KPS
>>24017207Bandai's KPS is a company ""secret"" to begin with.
>>24017189>will thet ever stop over designing there kits? They have to realize that more pointy bits != more betterthat's why Sheik Mainland is the best Chinese model kit maker
>>24017241What's the middle one called?
>>24017242Buck IIit's coming out soon
>>24016564As the guy who posted this last thread, your completely right. The Full Armor or Psycho Zaku look passable without paint, but the atlas not only looks bad without paint, but the included color correction stickers are awful(flat sticker on curved surface). Always wondered why it never got a MG when the HG looks like this snapped, the MG would benefit greatly from the larger parts color separation.
Imagine an upgrade to the Mighty Strike Freedom with the Perfect Strike Freedom's weapons. It might be easy to make, but with little cutting involved.
>>24017245Did you mask it or freestyle it with the brush?
>>24017245>Always wondered why it never got a MG when the HG looks like this snappedThe MG would have looked the same but with more colors. The paint texture will always improve the looks of your kit, even if you make it looks less colorful afterwards.
>>24017252Freestyled with a brush. I'm not even sure if its possible to mask off areas like the yellow leg/joint circles with how curved and small it all is.
>>24017243I wanna break these bucks
>>24017258What yellow did you use? In my experience panting yellow on black is always pure misery.
>>24017275Vallejo "Flat Yellow'. While some of their other colors are pretty good, I do not recommend their yellows or oranges.
>>24017276Yeesh. I do have a HG Atlas on the 'log but I'm not gonna start it until I can find an yellow that plays nice with the brush in dark colors. I can tell you that Tamiya acrylic, Mr Color acrylic and lacquer ain't them.
>>24017258Get some liquid mask, very useful
>>24017031>>24017042Yeah from what I've seen and heard the 1/100 Messer 3rd party is a brick with questionable plastic choices
>>24016746Funniest part is I saw this on accident recently and it actually crumbles the plastic. The inner frame bits are mostly unharmed but the other 99% of the RG RX-78-2 are absolutely disentigrated.>>24017002Reading comprehension fail. The runner itself has a part holder.
>>24017179Lubu, and I doubt you even need to panel line that thinng.
>>24017336
Damn, desert scheme Gustav Karl looks cool as fuck and I don't normally even fuck with desert schemes like that
