>"If you're new, you're gonna fuck up. Don't worry! If you're experienced, don't make the new people worry!"***READ THE GUIDE***Discordhttps://discord.gg/W973BmwERBThe guide:Part 1 (Quick Start)https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSBDfE8Iz-a86DZJCR5MHRW6tjkQX-y4-ZpUc_vHjRfx_i2FB0zR1usdrgUJ4wNTs1iDFZmTQHF66X_/pubPart 2 (Deeper Dive)https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQJG2SZo1O1PjExPrdU_-GnkrYTGiGLCgBcKaL4peEWxOGB4CNbpGaJBV1oF61eNE1lEhbQHYEAXLrw/pubAnd a handy guide to other types of plamo: http://www.mediafire.com/view/1vf1aw7v91pz5pa/Airfix%20Model%20World%20Specia%20(Scale%20Modelling%20Step-By-Step).pdfhttp://www.scalemodelguide.comSome line art:https://imgur.com/user/Gundaml1neart/postsPrevious thread: >>11585170
== BIOMECHA GROUPBUILD ==Build a mecha/cyborg with a visibly biological component integrated into the machine. This can include:>Mecha that naturally have some sort of organic component to them (Evangelions, Aura Battlers, etc)>Mecha that have organic elements attached/fused to them, willingly or otherwise >Cyborgs, androids, and human with mechanical attachments/enhancements (Robocop, Kamen Rider, mecha musume, etc)Send your entries to gunplaplamo@gmail.com with at least 5 photos of your finished build along with any WIP photos and a description of your entry.START - 8/12/25END - 11/30/25
Thank goodness for sports memorabilia fetishism that created a market of convenient diorama display cases.
more bangdoll progressthe arms are among the worst experiences I¿ve ever had, the entire assembly screams WHYwhy the everloving fuck you'd complicate and risk the integrity of the connectors this much? Nagano's autism is one thing but beauty in a mech is worth shit when you can barely put it together and everything falls off by blinking at it
>>11612859this took you quite the time, huh. what kit is this? does it have a lot of runners?
>>11612913Its the 1/100 Bangdoll of the IMS line by Volks.It is a infamous kit due to being the first, let's say, affordable plamo of the Five Star Stories mechas, which were exclusively resin kits by that point. It is like 15 years old since its release I think?Being a plastic model it was easier to purchase and build than a resin one at the time, but it also suffers from being the first release and its bad fame is associated to plenty of issues related to things than range from flash remnants in the parts, fitting issues, large seamlines and overall fragility, especially during the assembly process, for which yes, glue/cement is a must, no other way around it.As I have been building it I can attest to those issues. I'm basically doing a straight out of the box build, just using metallic black for the inner frame parts and flat topcoat for the light blue ones, but holy shit dude, the closer I get to completing it, the more fragile it feels.The joints of the shoulders and arms connectors are really bad compared to shit like Bandai's or Koto's, in the sense in which they favored aesthetics first over practicality. The moment I manipulate them the parts are prone to fall off.I'm still not sure I want to also use cement there because the problem is that they are composed by a series of parts that fit into each other like a tetris game and out of that mess comes the one with the polycap that houses the should balljoint, so even gluing them might end up making the whole thing brittle and prone to breaking.Despite all those faults and issues, it remains a relatively popular kit because the design of this particular mecha is something else, even among the more modern Volks releases
>>11612934funny stuff, this month Volks will release this thing, the second oneof their VSMS line, especifically made for Nagano's gothic style mechsthis and >>11612934 are supposed to be the same mecha, you decide which version you prefer
>>11612939I wonder how the DBB energy parts are supposed to work with it being articulated
Anyone get the star model varguil with gundam head and psycho plate bootleg? Do the colors match the bandai one? The one photo i could find has the psychopath in purple instead of navy blue.
Do people who paint feel obligated to paint every kit they buy? Like, when you see a well-molded, nicely color-separated kit, do you still feel the urge to paint it just to set yourself apart from snap-fit builders?
>>11613062I've never seen a model kit that looks good without paint.
>>11613077Any MGs from this current decade
>>11613078The bare plastic finish still looks bad and topcoat only does so much to improve that.
>>11613062>feel obligated to paint every kit they buyThey don't look very good all grey.
>>11613098So you do look down on people who aren't autistic about painting
>>11613106I don't, other people are free to do with their kits whatever they want, I just personally don't like unpainted kits.
>>11613062>do you still feel the urge to paint it just to set yourself apart from snap-fit buildersOnly "snap-fit builders" think that people who paint somehow care about them one way or another. They are sadly mistaken.
>>11613062I don't paint but I do want Katejina to step on me
>>11613116You're literally maidenless.
>>11613126She's canonically mentally ill
>>11613131So am I, but maybe if she keeps stomping on me she'll get better
anything wrong with weathering on bare plastic and then using flat topcoat vs flat topcoat - weathering - flat topcoat?and can i topcoat outside with a can when it's cold but low humidity?
>>11613062More color separation just means it makes my life easier when painting. I paint because I enjoy it, if I couldn't paint my models I wouldn't be in this hobby.
>>11613148What are your thoughts on snapfitters who topcoat and do minimal detail work?
>>11613149Doesn't bother me, it's their choice as far as what they want to do with their models.
>>11613148>I paint because I enjoy it, if I couldn't paint my models I wouldn't be in this hobby.This is also why I'm considering getting out of the hobby, the selection of paints in the EU is just too limited unless I want to settle for water based paints
>>11613155Yeah I mostly use water based acrylics and recently started adding in alcohol acrylics like Aqueous and even those can be a pain to find here. I want to eventually switch over to lacquers but then I regularly see people complaining about how they can't get stuff like Gaianotes or Jumpwind because we only get shipments a few times a year.
>>11613160Not having access to brands like gaia is genuinely crippling for gunpla, to the point I'd advise those people to give up on the idea of painting, or consider getting into miniatures instead.
>>11613161What about the chinese paints on ali
>>11613182Unfortunately no longer price efficient since they've skyrocketed from 2-3 euro a bottle to 7-8, and 1-2 month shipping times means you always have to do big bulk orders in advance of projects
>>11613062I usually just paint for color correction. That said I bought a HG Shining Gundam for the effect parts so I might give it a Shading Gundam paint job.
>>11612934my god that's beautiful
>>11613155As a non painter, what makes water based paint so much worse than lacquer?
>>11612934Unless you've got an ethical objection to bootlegs, for most of the early IMS kits it's probably easier to buy a high quality resin recast for the same price and build that than to fuck around with the plastic kits. It's not like you're missing out on much of any real articulation.
