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Midjack posted:It exists. It's called Gundam Collection Tactical Combat and came out in 2005. The Gundam Collection 1/400 figures you see in stores and on eBay are used to play it. I don't believe an English translation exists though a Chinese translation does. Edit Goddammit, now I really want to do that. Stop making me want to buy tiny plastic war machines, I haven't even been employed a week! 
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ManSeriesBrofist posted:VOTOMS is a pretty good place for that kind of thing. http://www.hlj.com/product/ban949841/Sci
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Mar 12, 2014 06:23
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I loathe to recommend it... But try the place the local grogs go for their WarHams. Those little over priced army toys are assembled and painted very similarly to our little over priced robot toys.
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Mar 13, 2014 19:56
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I have a really strange question. Are there any decent model sets from Super Robot Wars? I know there's an Alteisen that's probably out of print for years (and thus an arm and a leg), and I think there's a Gespenst Mk. II one, that's probably just as expensive now, but I've no idea if they're any good.
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Mar 13, 2014 23:17
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Is the HG Build Strike Full Package a full model kit, or just an upgrader/converter kit for a standard Strike Gundam? It's kinda hard to tell, since the official pictures only show a few mold sheets. I'd feel dumb assuming one way or the other, and looking like an idiot when I'm wrong. Especially since it's going for like $12 before shipping on 1999. That's either a pretty cheap HG model or a really expensive HG conversion kit. ...unless it's very Last Season because of the MK-II, then I guess that'd make sense that it'd be a marked-down full model. v  v
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Here it is. They've got a 3-per-household limit, so maybe it's a kind of clearance sale or something. Except even at "full" price, it'd only be 1400 yen. Hence my confusion. BlitzBlast posted:I hate to keep hammering this point in, but seriously. If you have a question about a gunpla kit, you can probably find the answer at dalong.
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Mar 17, 2014 04:33
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BlitzBlast posted:Char never piloted a Gouf. v
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I still think the Turn X's feet look grossly out of proportion with the rest of it, and that's a shame because every other bit of it I completely love. I ever get into Master Grades, that thing is getting kitbashed so hard.
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Mar 21, 2014 17:25
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I've done a lot of studying up, and making an rear end of myself in the thread, I think I'm ready to stick my neck out again with a "what did I gently caress up this time" post. I'm considering grabbing the regular Build Strike (Full Package, not Star Build) as my first 1/144 HG Gunpla, since it's only like $15ish before shipping depending on where I look. That, or the Wing Gundam Fenice. It's been years since I watched any Gundam series, and remember very little, but GBF is goofy as gently caress and I love it. (Aside from that, I'm also maybe considering eventually grabbing the Kotobukiya Alteisen Riese (since the regular Alteisen is now a goddamn treasure) once I'm in a position to drop $50 on a plastic robot toy in a month or two.) Toolwise, I'm thinking I'll run to Wal-Mart or a hobby store and start with the Xuron 410s, a capped X-Acto knife, a mechanical pencil (0.3 lead), some Future, and a can or two of Testors Dullcoat. Figure that should be enough to start me off, if I sand very carefully with the metal file on my nail clippers. All in all, looks like I'll be getting in with my first kit and decent tools for, like, $40-60 depending on where I buy and how patient or impatient I am about getting the model I want. Is that a decent way/place to start, or am I falling into some giant idiot trap? I know they look fine "out of the box", and I could technically just buy the kit and use my toenail clippers as my only tool, but...  I like how matte looks, and it was payday today, so I feel like spending a few bucks on plastic space robot toys.
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BlitzBlast posted:That's a decent way to start, but you definitely want to think about how you're going to hold your pieces while you flat coat them. The usual method is to get a styrofoam block, stick something like this in them, and put your parts on top. Fauxtool posted:You can always build now and matte coat stuff later. BlitzBlast posted:And while you're shopping on Amazon maybe pick up some actual sanding tools, they really do make a difference. Fauxtool posted:dont use the back of your nail clippers. Invest like $2 in some fine grit sandpaper and glue it to anything solid. Fauxtool posted:Where are you located?
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Okay, looks like nowhere local sells gunpla, so I'll probably have to import. If I do, what's the general consensus on the two shipping methods? SAL is a lot cheaper for lighter packages, but the uninsured/3-week time is making me wary.
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It looks like I can actually get a Plavisky Wing Star Build Strike for the same price as the regular Build Strike + Shipping. I was going to have to get the tools on Amazon anyways, so I can throw that in there, and get free shipping.  ...anyone have any experience with putting Future on the translucent wing effect bits? I'm wondering if it'd make them look better. Since, from the pictures, they look pretty plastic-y.
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Hm... I wonder if there's a way to use Future, and then intentionally frost the plastic slightly. That seems like it'd make a cool effect.
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Mar 22, 2014 18:03
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How's the base that comes with the Plavisky-Wing Star Build Strike? It looks like it's decent for display, if not as dynamic as a proper action base.
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unpurposed posted:Finished the HG Build Strike Full Package. I enjoyed putting it together, but there were way too many seals. Probably going to be my last HG as I'd like to move onto MGs now.
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My Star Build Strike arrived early! I've got my X-Acto and my work station set up, but I'm still waiting on the flush cutters and the sandpaper (which probably won't be here until Monday). It is so very, very tempting to just get to it now, at least on cutting off some runners and messing around with what does and doesn't work.
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BlitzBlast posted:If you have some sort of lining tool, you could always just line the parts while they're on the runners.  Gonna try to hit up an art supply store in town on Monday.
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If she's really into Gundam Build Fighters, why not just get her a Zaku Amazing? You can still find them in stock at decent prices in some places. I got my Plavisky-Wing Star Build Strike on Amazon for like $20. Was here in 3 days flat (with the 5-9 shipping you get free with +$35 orders). You wanna grab her and yourself a couple of kits (which would definitely be enough to hit the free shipping), and build them together, you'd probably have a lot of fun. New HGs are very forgiving, I've been assembling mine with very little but an X-Acto knife & some nail clippers for segmenting thick runners, and some Future for the translucent pieces, and it's coming together quite nicely, despite my complete lack of experience. You may need to help her with the smaller stickers, though, there's a couple that are way too easy to gently caress up and lose forever. I had to adjust most of the head stickers on my Star Build with the X-Acto knife. (Especially that loving tiny back-of-the-head camera! )Edit HobbySearch and Amazon both still have the Zaku Amazing in stock. Edit2 You may also wanna find somewhere to pre-order the Bearguy-III, because she is going to be willing to kill for one. Edit3  Apologies for potato picture, it's currently 6:30 AM, so phone pics are the best I can do. Working on better ones. Progress report on previously-mentioned SBS. I'm about halfway through, got the base body built. It's been a fun build, has taken about 6-8 hours, between cutting pieces, removing sprue nubs, and trying to sand what I can of what's left away, then scrambling to pick up the pieces I keep dropping with my big fat fingers before the dog eats them. The model itself is fairly nice, though the right thigh's pivot joint has stubbornly insisted on staying very loose despite several dips in Future. It's not a huge deal during posing, since gravity keeps things together nicely, it's only really during moving it around You can't really tell, but I also dunked the red head 'gem' in future for a gloss coat, and the contrast looks very good against everything else. I hope I can figure out a way to preserve that (as well as the translucent bits on the sides of the shins) once I eventually give everything else a matte coating. girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 11:52 on Mar 30, 2014 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:The Crossbone Maoh's finally gotten some fully-stickered pictures. I was worried the standard holdy-hands were going to sag with those huge cutter/beam gun weapons, but it looks like they skipped that by just making the wrist joints too short to tilt. Though I have no idea why anyone would use anything but those "V" hands
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Just when you thought you'd seen the last Unicorn Gundam, There's a special-edition 7-11 one coming However, I also know it's gonna be up to like $150 by about 10-12 hours after release. 
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. That said, I actually kinda like it. The transparent pieces make it look like it's full of green slurpee or something.
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I wanna kitbash some HG stuff that has multiple arms, and make a Gundam holding as many weapons at the same time as is humanly possible. At least six swords, a chest cannon, maybe some bits, all incorporated into a body that doesn't look too bad without having to repaint everything (I'll save that for when I inevitably make the MG version). Right now I'm thinking of just bashing a Sengoku Astray and a Crossbone Maoh. Is there anything else that'd obviously go well with these two?
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Suzaku posted:Got a surprise arrival today. Also, a couple things from earlier this week because who doesn't like mustached butterflies and this thread can be super convincing when it's not trying.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Well, you'll all be excited to know that there's apparently an RG-Mode Star Build Strike HG kit finally coming. And then disappointed to learn that it's a P-Bandai Hobby Shop Online Exclusive
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Bimmi posted:Not a model kit, but the new Robot Damashii G Gundam figure looks pretty flippin' fantastic.
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Fauxtool posted:Why does it need a foregrip when its a robot that should have no issue holding a gun stable? BlitzBlast posted:90% of giant robot design is about looking cool, not being practical.
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Fauxtool posted:a practical giant robot design is a gun with several thrusters and no pilot
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That looks drat cool, but the paint seems to have been laid on pretty thick. Is that just because metallic paints are a bitch to work with and thin properly?
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PoptartsNinja posted:Found it!
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TaurusOxford posted:Since we're on the subject, let me show you guys a REAL Chogokin:
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runwiled posted:I'm not dead.
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Koopa Kid posted:Oh man, that's big. The local store where I live has a single Neo Zeong box, it's being used as basically a table to stack the other new gunpla releases on top of. I don't know what they'd do if someone bought the drat thing.
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madpanda posted:Is there a place to buy assorted polycap sheets or even replacements for kits?
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Gaius Marius posted:And worse than that is when you realize you pulled it apart but didn't actually put then polycap in it and have to pull it apart again.
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PoptartsNinja posted:I finished my attempt to rehabilitate the AGE-1 Spallow
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If there's one thing that being a shameless toy addict has taught me, it's that even just making a regular old transforming toy is a lot easier to gently caress up than it looks. Make that toy into a model kit, you got some real problems to overcome.
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PoptartsNinja posted:I'm hoping PG Unicorn's "third mode" isn't just a polite euphemism for what happens when it collapses under its own weight and falls off the display shelf.
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Silentman0 posted:One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong. That Deathscythe Hell is completely without any kind of panorama or base at all.
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I choose to believe the question is being asked because the poster is homebrewing a Genesic GaoGaiGar.
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