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BlitzBlast
Jul 30, 2011

some people just wanna watch the world burn
PG FA Unicorn was announced as a web exclusive. :allears:



We finally have a picture too. Thankfully it's closer looking to the HG than the MG.

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signalnoise
Mar 7, 2008

i was told my old av was distracting
Remind me not to attempt a full repaint of a MG in the course of a month again. I don't have nearly the amount of free time I thought I had.

ActionZero
Jan 22, 2011

I act once more in
imitation of light

BlitzBlast posted:

PG FA Unicorn was announced as a web exclusive. :allears:



We finally have a picture too. Thankfully it's closer looking to the HG than the MG.

How much work do you think it would take to scratch build the extra parts needed for a PG Plan B?

ACES CURE PLANES
Oct 21, 2010



BlitzBlast posted:

PG FA Unicorn was announced as a web exclusive. :allears:

Goddammit. God drat you Bandai. drat you to hell. :negative: (Going by the small image, no green frame though? That's odd.)

ActionZero posted:

How much work do you think it would take to scratch build the extra parts needed for a PG Plan B?

Too much. Far too much.

BlitzBlast
Jul 30, 2011

some people just wanna watch the world burn
Entirely too much considering PG Banshee and PG Norn are literally guaranteed.

PG Phenex is less likely, or at least that's what the part of me that believes in Bandai's sanity thinks.

Zedd
Jul 6, 2009

I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here?



BlitzBlast posted:

Bandai's sanity
Yeah, This year has been utterly bizarre.
I mean it must be making them money cause drat that is a poo poo ton of big and weird kits.

ACES CURE PLANES
Oct 21, 2010



Well, since a PG Banshee is guaranteed, I wonder if they'll go even more insane and start releasing psychoframe and armed armor expansion sets? Anything to avoid having them pull the "You'll only get these parts from our web exclusive version of this kit" poo poo again like with MG Norn.

W.T. Fits
Apr 21, 2010

Ready to Poyozo Dance all over your face.
HG 1/144 High Mock & HG 1/144 Mock Armory Set - Announced!

quote:

HG 1/144 High Mock (Release Date: Jan 2015, Price: 800 Yen)
HG 1/144 Mock Armory Set (Release Date: Jan 2015, Price: 600 Yen)

God dammit, Bandai, why you gotta make me wanna give you all my money? :shepspends:

Broken Loose
Dec 25, 2002

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HITLER HELLASS THIS IS BEST NEWS I EVER HEAR 2014

Suzaku
Feb 15, 2012
Goddammit Bandai, why you gotta make me buy kits from lines I had sworn off! First Build Burning, now the Mock!

...and several of the G-reco suits...

I hope Bandai doesn't run out of whatever special kind of crack they've been smoking this year.

TARDISman
Oct 28, 2011



ACES CURE PLANES posted:

Goddammit. God drat you Bandai. drat you to hell. :negative: (Going by the small image, no green frame though? That's odd.)


Too much. Far too much.

I think the FA is just the parts instead of a separate kit sold with the PG Unicorn. It'll probably go for about 7000 yen, maybe 10000.

W.T. Fits posted:

HG 1/144 High Mock & HG 1/144 Mock Armory Set - Announced!


God dammit, Bandai, why you gotta make me wanna give you all my money? :shepspends:

Oh hell yes, time to make a target range.

everythingWasBees
Jan 9, 2013




W.T. Fits posted:

HG 1/144 High Mock & HG 1/144 Mock Armory Set - Announced!


God dammit, Bandai, why you gotta make me wanna give you all my money? :shepspends:

God drat. And they're so loving cheap too.
Now I just need an HGCC Kapool or an HGUC Capule...

BlitzBlast
Jul 30, 2011

some people just wanna watch the world burn

TARDISman posted:

I think the FA is just the parts instead of a separate kit sold with the PG Unicorn. It'll probably go for about 7000 yen, maybe 10000.

Correct, it's titled as the "Full Armor Set". It'll be an extra bazooka, two extra shields/gatlings, the backpack, and the fuel tanks.

We can probably expect a PG Awakened Unicorn to follow shortly after.

girl dick energy
Sep 30, 2009

You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?

W.T. Fits posted:

HG 1/144 High Mock & HG 1/144 Mock Armory Set - Announced!


God dammit, Bandai, why you gotta make me wanna give you all my money? :shepspends:
That is really cheap and really cool. I might end up getting one. Or, like, three. Just for having them be blown apart in dioramas, once I get the money and space to start doing things like that. Was already looking for one to be on the receiving end of a Revolver Stake once I get my Alteisen built.

Bimmi
Nov 8, 2009


someday
but not today
The RE/100 Mk.III looks really loving weird.

W.T. Fits
Apr 21, 2010

Ready to Poyozo Dance all over your face.
Also, the Mega-Shiki and Mega-Shiki Build Custom set, because why not?

quote:

HGBF 1/144 Mega Shiki (Release Date: Dec 2014, Price: 1944 yen)



HGBC 1/144 Mega Shiki Build Custom Set (Release Date: Dec 2014, Price: 648 yen)

Suzaku
Feb 15, 2012

Hmm.. It looks kind of like they're recycling the ancient HGUC kit for this one. Hopefully I'm wrong about that.

I like that little jet transport thing, though. So that's cool.

TaurusOxford
Feb 10, 2009

Dad of the Year 2021

Suzaku posted:

Hmm.. It looks kind of like they're recycling the ancient HGUC kit for this one. Hopefully I'm wrong about that.

I like that little jet transport thing, though. So that's cool.

One comment says they only took some parts from HGUC Delta Gundam.

ZenMasterBullshit
Nov 2, 2011

Restaurant de Nouvelles "À Table" Proudly Presents:
A Climactic Encounter Ending on 1 Negate and a Dream

W.T. Fits posted:

HG 1/144 High Mock & HG 1/144 Mock Armory Set - Announced!


God dammit, Bandai, why you gotta make me wanna give you all my money? :shepspends:

It's 864 yen? That's under 8 bucks isn't it?

God I'm gonna buy too many of these. Gotta make my Mock Grimoire Tallgeese mix. The Sage Tallgeese.

ChaiCalico
May 23, 2008

everythingWasBees posted:

God drat. And they're so loving cheap too.
Now I just need an HGCC Kapool or an HGUC Capule...

HGCC Kapool would be amazing.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

sure hope no-one throws me off a bridge

ZenMasterBullshit posted:

It's 864 yen? That's under 8 bucks isn't it?

God I'm gonna buy too many of these. Gotta make my Mock Grimoire Tallgeese mix. The Sage Tallgeese.

I hear Grimoire and Mock together, and I assume you're building Vectorman

At 864 yen, I wanna buy like a dozen of them, and just build a small army of them.

Gyro Zeppeli fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Oct 23, 2014

KoB
May 1, 2009

Hey lets take the awesome gold color scheme and make it a bad blue color!

TARDISman
Oct 28, 2011



KoB posted:

Hey lets take the awesome gold color scheme and make it a bad blue color!

To be fair doing it Delta Gundam gold would crank the price up by about 15 bucks.

And I don't mind the blue. :colbert:

Zwingley
Sep 20, 2011

"My dear Seth, you look absolutely dashing!"

Hair Elf
Hey BlitzBlast, a number of months ago you made a good post about handpainting.

I was wondering if you could expand on it a little with specific brush/paint recommendations. It's probably about time I stepped up my game a little bit and incorporated some painting, so I'm looking for some advice on how to make my model robots look prettier.

Anyone else with advice can chime in to, the above post was just the one that stuck out in my head. :shobon:

e: because I refuse to not spell/capitalize/etc. the names of goons the way they are written (sometimes)

Zwingley fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Oct 23, 2014

signalnoise
Mar 7, 2008

i was told my old av was distracting
I dunno man I paint miniatures, is there something specific you want to know?

Dire
Dec 31, 2007

Inspired by this thread, I just assembled my first plamo! :toot: A cute little 1/20 Scopedog (Pailsen Files ver):


More images (with both legs) in the album.

I've done some miniature wargaming figure stuff before this, so I wasn't completely clueless on how to handle it. This was by far the biggest thing I've ever put together though, and it was loads of fun. I wasn't too anal about the nubs since I wanted to just enjoy building the Scopedog, but I did file off the vast majority of them. Will probably try painting it at some point. It's all snap-on, which was cool! Working with glue (and/or warhams) sucks.

Now I just feel like I need more things to assemble. Time to order some MGs I guess!

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747
Scopedog is one of the five or six things on my shortlist, that's such a dope-looking kit.

I'm in the middle of MG 00 Raiser and it's easily the most involved kit I've done so far. I've been working on it since 11 and in that time I've taken one break for food and I've only finished the Raiser and GN-Sword III and two action bases that I ordered with it. Dope kit, though.

Zwingley
Sep 20, 2011

"My dear Seth, you look absolutely dashing!"

Hair Elf

signalnoise posted:

I dunno man I paint miniatures, is there something specific you want to know?

What size a brush do you use and what kind of paint, to start? :shrug:

I'm sort of guessing miniature techniques would overlap a whole lot with very fine stuff like eyes (and pilots :v:) in particular, so pretty much anything you hafta say about how to not paint like an idiot is very welcome.

Wibbleman
Apr 19, 2006

Fluffy doesn't want to be sacrificed

TaurusOxford posted:

Just gonna give you fair warning now: If you want RG Zeta to be a model kit you can play with occasionally and transform, don't bother. It's a kit that you literally build, pose, and then never touch again cause it's a fragile mess.

It does look like that, which is why I think I want to try another RG kit first, so this doesn't end up rolled up into a ball and then thrown into the corner. From the transformation step-by-steps on gunpla-gaijin I was expecting in multiple steps for it to fall apart.

Would it be best to treat it as a model and glue everything and not treat it as a snap kit?

Zwingley posted:

What size a brush do you use and what kind of paint, to start? :shrug:

I'm sort of guessing miniature techniques would overlap a whole lot with very fine stuff like eyes (and pilots :v:) in particular, so pretty much anything you hafta say about how to not paint like an idiot is very welcome.

make sure you thin your paints (unless you want brush lines), use brush cleaner, maybe ghetto up a wet pallet (wet to the touch sponge with paper/thin fabric over it so the paint doesn't dry out while your using it). Good brushes are infinetly better than cheap brushes, but there is a bang-for-buck curve so don't buy the really expensive ones either. Don't try to mix different brands of paint together (ie tamiya acrylics + ciditel/vallehjo<sp> doesn't work).

if you are doing coats ie primer then basecoat then filter then topcoat, you need to alternate different types of paint (ie enamel primer, then acrylic basecoat, then enamel filter, then acrylic topcoat) otherwise they will eat/activate the previous layer and mix up all weird looking (the exception to this is the tamiya acrylics as they are a weird resin/lacquer variant that when cured is crazy strong).

Wibbleman fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Oct 23, 2014

AVeryLargeRadish
Aug 19, 2011

I LITERALLY DON'T KNOW HOW TO NOT BE A WEIRD SEXUAL CREEP ABOUT PREPUBESCENT ANIME GIRLS, READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE!!!

Dire posted:

Inspired by this thread, I just assembled my first plamo! :toot: A cute little 1/20 Scopedog (Pailsen Files ver):


More images (with both legs) in the album.

I've done some miniature wargaming figure stuff before this, so I wasn't completely clueless on how to handle it. This was by far the biggest thing I've ever put together though, and it was loads of fun. I wasn't too anal about the nubs since I wanted to just enjoy building the Scopedog, but I did file off the vast majority of them. Will probably try painting it at some point. It's all snap-on, which was cool! Working with glue (and/or warhams) sucks.

Now I just feel like I need more things to assemble. Time to order some MGs I guess!

Really nice photography work there, it looks great! Add some panel lining and flat coat and it will look even better, if you do so post some more pictures! :D

signalnoise
Mar 7, 2008

i was told my old av was distracting

Zwingley posted:

What size a brush do you use and what kind of paint, to start? :shrug:

I'm sort of guessing miniature techniques would overlap a whole lot with very fine stuff like eyes (and pilots :v:) in particular, so pretty much anything you hafta say about how to not paint like an idiot is very welcome.

I'm not gonna touch brush size on this one because they're wildly different scales but

General protips:
Do not get paint in the ferrule. The ferrule is that metal piece between the bristles and the handle that keeps the hair together. Getting paint in that basically fucks up a brush. The bristles won't come to a point, etc.

Topcoating, or Varnishing, is done not just at the end, but also as a protective measure between steps or between sessions. With the right varnish you can do cool things like put paint over paint and wipe the top paint away, which leaves top paint around details but shows the undercoat otherwise. Testors Glosscote is the standard for protective finishes. Use that and your paint will not chip or rub off. You can use it between coats, just don't be too thick with it because you don't want to obscure detail. The final topcoat shouldn't even be thought of as protective. The final topcoat alters how light reflects off the model, so you can choose a satin, glossy, or matte finish. If you have an airbrush, I recommend Vallejo varnishes. You can also brush those varnishes on if you don't have an airbrush, but I only recommend doing that to pick out specific parts for finish differences, like glossy armor with matte skin. If you want the same varnish over the whole model and don't have an airbrush, I recommend Testors Dullcote for matte and Testors Glosscote for gloss finish. Google them because they keep changing what the label looks like these days.

Thin your paints, DEPENDING ON WHAT PAINT YOU USE. Thick paint hides detail. It's much better to use thin coats and build the coats up in layers, so all that detail comes through. Put thick paint over one of those little panel lines and it will just about disappear. You know what's an even better trick though? Using an airbrush. But even when you're using an airbrush, you want to use thin layers, because otherwise the paint will pool up. It's repetitive, sure, but it'll look better in the end. And don't worry about the extra time, because thin coats of paint dry faster than thick coats.

I gotta go to class but when I get back (or while I'm in class) I can expand on paint brands, how much it costs to get into airbrushing less than 100 dollars, what you need in order to airbrush at different levels of detail, the two basic types of airbrush, a recommendation or two for airbrush brands, some interesting tools for weathering and special effects, regular paint brush types, paint brush hair types, and some neat regular paint brush brands. On request I will also tell what I know so far about spraypaint and custom paint markers.

As for painting well, you're on your own. I'm a gear junkie and I have all the knowledge that has been imparted to me by the masters in the miniatures thread, but my skill level is pretty low.

In the meantime go read this thread and think about what you want your finished models to look like and what you're trying to acheive. And for your own sanity do not look up posts in that thread by Bachtere or Serious Gaylord. Or do, and check out what they have to say about painting because their work is awe-inspiring and that's just two names I could think of off the top of my head. There are seriously good painters in there.

HairSlut
Nov 29, 2011

Suzaku posted:

Hmm.. It looks kind of like they're recycling the ancient HGUC kit for this one. Hopefully I'm wrong about that.

I like that little jet transport thing, though. So that's cool.

looks like bandai is going to use the delta gundams frame, with obvious changes on some parts and colors, but it has the exact same wings with addons to where the rifle would be stored and the elbow joints and rifle are the same.



EDIT: sorry didnt know about timg

HairSlut fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Oct 23, 2014

TaurusOxford
Feb 10, 2009

Dad of the Year 2021
[timg] please.

For my 2 cents on it, the PG Unicorn looks pretty good, but WTF is Bandai thinking with putting a FA pack on this? The MG can barely tolerate it, so how the hell do they expect the PG to pull it off?

AVeryLargeRadish
Aug 19, 2011

I LITERALLY DON'T KNOW HOW TO NOT BE A WEIRD SEXUAL CREEP ABOUT PREPUBESCENT ANIME GIRLS, READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE!!!

TaurusOxford posted:

[timg] please.

For my 2 cents on it, the PG Unicorn looks pretty good, but WTF is Bandai thinking with putting a FA pack on this? The MG can barely tolerate it, so how the hell do they expect the PG to pull it off?

Hey man maybe the PG unicorn will be incredibly solid and stable. :colbert:

Bimmi
Nov 8, 2009


someday
but not today

TaurusOxford posted:

For my 2 cents on it, the PG Unicorn looks pretty good, but WTF is Bandai thinking with putting a FA pack on this?

$$$, of course.

edit: seriously, I am kind of mad about this. It seems anytime Bandai kits something that's been on my most-wanted list for a long time they whiff the hell out of it. I mean, who looks at this mess and says "Yes, the robotic equivalent of Marfan Syndrome is exactly the look we want here, no further justice could possibly be done for this, our one and only shot?" gently caress.

Bimmi fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Oct 23, 2014

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
For my future HG plans after the GN-X and Throne Zwei, how are the Arche Gundam and Kampfer Amazing as kits?

PoptartsNinja
May 9, 2008

He is still almost definitely not a spy


Soiled Meat

Bimmi posted:

$$$, of course.

You mean using rolled up hundred dollar bills to provide a cushion for when it inevitably falls off the shelf after collapsing under its own weight? That's genius!

BizarroAzrael
Apr 6, 2006

"That must weigh heavily on your soul. Let me purge it for you."

Darth Walrus posted:

For my future HG plans after the GN-X and Throne Zwei, how are the Arche Gundam and Kampfer Amazing as kits?

Arche Gundam is a bit plain looking, it's soooo red, and it's not broken up by much. Panel lining it improves it a great deal.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

BizarroAzrael posted:

Arche Gundam is a bit plain looking, it's soooo red, and it's not broken up by much. Panel lining it improves it a great deal.

Well, I was planning to get into panel-lining from day one (all I need is cotton swabs and a mechanical pencil? Easy), so that's not a big deal. No glaring flaws with the actual kits, then?

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BlitzBlast
Jul 30, 2011

some people just wanna watch the world burn

TaurusOxford posted:

For my 2 cents on it, the PG Unicorn looks pretty good, but WTF is Bandai thinking with putting a FA pack on this? The MG can barely tolerate it, so how the hell do they expect the PG to pull it off?

It's a web-exclusive, they're not obligated to the same engineering standards. :ssh:

See: MG Norn's beam magnum falling apart if you point it down.

Zwingley posted:

I was wondering if you could expand on it a little with specific brush/paint recommendations. I

signalnoise covered most of the main points, so all I can really add is don't worry about your brush/paint choices too much. Like yeah, cheapo $2 brushes are crap and you're not going to get a very good finish if you use watercolors or something, but the skill of the painter matters waaaay more than the tool they use. And you're not going to start as a genius, so just sit down and practice.

It took me like, three kits before I really nailed down handbrushing. Two for airbrushing.

EDIT: I will say that for brushes, you basically only need two. A finepoint one for details, and a broader one for painting whole surfaces.

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