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Bimmi posted:I could probably do this from memory, but it would be one loooong rear end post. I had the old Johnny Ridden Zaku from the 80's I found in a comic shop a couple years ago.  Kits have come a long way. Thank god for polycaps and snap fit.
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AzMiLion posted:Best i can do is a gray scale one based on the imagery on the wiki, Any particular colors you have in mind for it? That's pretty good, thanks! I can work with that. I think I was going to go for shades of purple or something. Maybe darker bluish purple on the main parts while using a pale reddish one where the white is.
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THe right ones the base image I painted off of, just gave it my own interpretation
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BizarroAzrael posted:Have any of you guys build the 1/144 Hydra Gundam? Saw some pics of a custom build on GundamGuy and thought it looked neat. I'm not yet quite clear on what the kit itself is like. It's typical mid-'90s fake-HG shite. Cool design, deserves a much better kit.
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Balls, maybe I'll use it for parts to add to an HG frame. Edit: so I understand, what are the kit's failings compared to an HG? What would it take to turn it into something like this? Annoying it's not on Dalong so I can see the manual and get an idea of how it goes together. BizarroAzrael fucked around with this message at 13:40 on Dec 23, 2013 |
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Welp, the Ex-S came in today with the Sazabi tomorrow. Holy Christ this thing is bigger than I expected.
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BizarroAzrael posted:so I understand, what are the kit's failings compared to an HG? lovely parts separation, poor articulation, and iffy engineering. quote:What would it take to turn it into something like this? Paint. Notice how the model never does anything more extravagant than kind of hunching its legs (on an action base); that's because it literally can't do anything more. quote:Annoying it's not on Dalong so I can see the manual and get an idea of how it goes together. Check out an SD kit manual, they're about on the same level. EDIT: If you think it's cool, you might as well get it. All being a 1/144 mean is having to put in a lot more work into painting all the missing colors and removing seams, work you wouldn't have to do on a HG. The articulation is worse than your average HG, but that doesn't mean it can't strike nifty poses. BlitzBlast fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Dec 23, 2013 |
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My PG Red Frame came today, which means I now have that and the Sazabi v.Kai to work on over the holiday. Plus whatever my girlfriend got me for Christmas. The funny thing is that the Red Frame's box isn't actually all that much bigger than the Sazabi's. Speaking of the Red Frame, it came with a little color manual thing that has a genealogical chart of all the different Strike variations. Is there something similar to that on the internet for the various UC suits? A flowchart of Zeon grunt suits would be awesome to look at (and use as a shopping list  ).
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BlitzBlast posted:EDIT: If you think it's cool, you might as well get it. All being a 1/144 mean is having to put in a lot more work into painting all the missing colors and removing seams, work you wouldn't have to do on a HG. The articulation is worse than your average HG, but that doesn't mean it can't strike nifty poses. For 800y/£5 I may as well get it for the parts, I found a fairly complete gallery of shots of the kit and it definitely has aesthetic problems. I saw some neat pictures of the shoulders and skirt (so the cool bits) on an Astray, so a conversion should work. Would want to remove the unsightly peg and sockets joining two halves of the larger skirt pieces though.
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Jezus, the Fenice is sold out everywhere or hilariously overpriced. Didn't expect it to be that popular of a model. Any goons got tips on good euro sites that aren't listed in the OP? E:Nevermind, the problem got resolved by the spirit of christmas apparently. AzMiLion fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Dec 24, 2013 |
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http://gundamguy.blogspot.ca/2013/10/mg-1100-gundam-x-new-images-updated.html#more I can't conveniently post images on my tablet, but here's the boxart for MG Gundam X. 
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You know I really want to be excited at that, but I'm just appalled that someone managed to gently caress up "GX firing the satellite cannon at the viewer". Point the barrel right at us, not to some unspecified point in the sky!  It looks like the GX is doing some overkill version of waving your gun in air while firing it. At least Leopard and Airmaster are there I guess... even if G-bits would have been way more appropriate.EDIT: Like a minute into Gundam X you get a glimpse of what the shot should have looked like:  I guess they wanted to show off the cannon, but then they probably should have skewed the angle of the shot a bit like with the Proto Zero. Or hell, just tilted the angle of the GX's head so it was in line with the cannon. Anything other than  .
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Robot4Less' New Year Sale is going on, 25% off orders with the proper coupon code. Part of me is considering taking the plunge and finally buying the PG Strike...
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Well cool wish I knew that before I just bought some poo poo on hobbywave. Whatever, it was only a few things anyway.
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TARDISman posted:Robot4Less' New Year Sale is going on, 25% off orders with the proper coupon code. Part of me is considering taking the plunge and finally buying the PG Strike... i just compared prices with a lot of hobbywaves stuff. Hobbywave is still cheaper after the 25% off from Robot4Less
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Also, it looks like Robot4Less only accepts payment by bank wire transfer  I don't even know how to do that outside of Western Union, but that'd probably get flagged by my bank as suspicious activity
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Ignimbrite posted:Also, it looks like Robot4Less only accepts payment by bank wire transfer Unless something really drastic happened in the last month or so they still take credit cards.
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Midjack posted:Unless something really drastic happened in the last month or so they still take credit cards. Oh. I just looked up their shipping rates / payment policies and that's what it said on the page. That's good I guess.
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Ignimbrite posted:Oh. I just looked up their shipping rates / payment policies and that's what it said on the page. That's good I guess. From looking at that page it appears wire transfers are the only payment they accept for international orders; USA domestic you should be good with a credit card and I think paypal. International you probably may as well get HLJ or amiami, I doubt R4L is price competitive when they ship outside the USA.
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BlitzBlast posted:Be very careful with the B plates, that's about all the advice I can give. Oh and seriously don't try to put all the decals on. I realise I'm replying to a two-week old post, but is there any source for this information? I'm currently short some small parts from a couple of my kits, mostly due to a combination of clumsiness and not checking what was left on the runners before I discarded them, and I'm really hoping to be able to fix them some day.
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BEARGGUY-san complete! Ill see about getting some better pictures up later. This is my first HG build since those terrible US release wing kits. Im really impressed by the build quality. It has 2 different kinds of polycap materials and I counted 3 different plastics. The frame is a harder plastic compared to the softer yellow pieces. The bow on the back is a soft rubber. The model as a whole hides the sprue marks very well, I barely sanded anything. The manual was very concise, I never had to double check what I was doing. I noticed some light swirls in the plastic leading me to believe the pigment wasnt fully mixed. I dont know if this is common or just in my batch. I dont care since i will be painting it. Lots of leftover pieces including the head plates from the Acguy 7/10 If i can expect this quality I may switch off MGs
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You should get the HGAC Wing Gundam, and prepare to have your mind blown by how much better it is over its 90's version.
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TaurusOxford posted:You should get the HGAC Wing Gundam, and prepare to have your mind blown by how much better it is over its 90's version. I actually just got the HGAC Wing for my 11 year old nephew for christmas, because he seemed pretty interested when I was building a Gerbera Tetra over the summer and he loves the poo poo out of legos, so it seemed like a logical step. I'm not entirely sure if its going to blow his mind with the number of parts or not.
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quantumavenger posted:I realise I'm replying to a two-week old post, but is there any source for this information? A friend of mine got that as a response when he queried... I think HLJ about the situation.
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Fauxtool posted:BEARGGUY-san complete! It looks good but really what I'd like to hear is your rating of the dog. How's the build quality on that?
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The Muffinlord posted:It looks good but really what I'd like to hear is your rating of the dog. How's the build quality on that? Does it have the Fighting Action frame?
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ManSeriesBrofist posted:Does it have the Fighting Action frame? It looks a bit small to be a Master Grade. Is it a High Grade or a Real Grade? Fauxtool posted:BEARGGUY-san complete! Just out of curiosity, what's the deal with the faceplates on those? Do you just pick a set of eye stickers and be done with it, or does it have multiple detachable faceplates with sticker grooves for several expressions?
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ManSeriesBrofist posted:Does it have the Fighting Action frame? What about a core fighter? Does that dog have a core fighter? In the show that model had one, but the last dog Bandai released didn't have one.
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The Muffinlord posted:It looks good but really what I'd like to hear is your rating of the dog. How's the build quality on that? 2/10 random kit bash of several dogs, constantly leaking fluids. Neddy Seagoon posted:It looks a bit small to be a Master Grade. Is it a High Grade or a Real Grade? It comes with 2 faceplates and 12 sets of eyes. The face plates are grooved for 3 of the eyes    I paid extra for the hobbyshop exclusive Full Armor version. Like every FA kit, all the pieces fly off as soon as you turn your back Fauxtool fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Dec 27, 2013 |
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So I ordered my first gunpla (HG Build Gundam Mk2) today, along with the Tamiya basic tools set. The tools will arrive about a week after the kit does. How bad would the kit look if I put it together before getting the tools? I'm mostly concerned about not having snips.
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 It'll look pretty bad. If you have a hobby knife on hand you can at least twist the parts off the runners and trim the nubs a bit, but there's really no replacement for a good pair of cutters. BlitzBlast fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Dec 27, 2013 |
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I want to meet the person who built that and then took a picture of it to put on the internet. When they announced Gunpla Builders, my first thought was that I wanted that thing to show up. They better do something like it in Build Fighters, but they probably think it might scare potential buyers away...
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Well that looks abysmal. Guess I'll just look at the box!
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BlitzBlast posted:you can at least twist the parts off the runners and trim the nubs a bit Don't do this. Besides looking like cold poo poo you run the risk of breaking a small or oddly shaped part outright. Wait for the nippers to come in.
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BlitzBlast posted:
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Hey azmilion can I ask what you used to edit that clanche lineart for me? I need to do some tinkering and it's pretty apparent I'm a massive retard and can't do much with paint.net or, worse, mspaint
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muike posted:Hey azmilion can I ask what you used to edit that clanche lineart for me? I need to do some tinkering and it's pretty apparent I'm a massive retard and can't do much with paint.net or, worse, mspaint Paint.net actually. using layers and filters a bunch. If you give me the colours you want in RGB or something i can paint it up for ya.
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I appreciate that offer but I should probably figure it out myself. Having the parts in front of me means I need to try futzing around with altering what parts are colored compared to surrounding parts and whatnot.
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Fauxtool posted:2/10 random kit bash of several dogs, constantly leaking fluids. You're doing god's work here, son. Do they have plans for any Master Grade stuff from Build Fighters? How does that usually work, do they just throw out HG models first and see what sticks, then upscale, or what?
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