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I looked at sidesevenexports site and reviews and they mentioned it can take awhile for things to ship out so I went with the hangar bay instead, just one example I guess but it was shipped fairly promptly, think I ordered on 3/15 and it shipped 3/22 probably because of waiting for restock at Gundam Base.
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wdarkk posted:So, two semi-related questions. Blu tack and chopped up sprues as sticks. Not sure why people prefer clips tbh. Easiest way is to assemble small sections, apply the finish, then fully assemble once it's cured. Trying to get an even coat on a fully assembled robot sounds like a hassle. sassassin fucked around with this message at 11:31 on May 4, 2021 |
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Azubah posted:Yeah the dude is poo poo at communication, I had to bug him a few times for order updates. So far he's not worth the hassle of dealing with. Unfortunately it seemed like the best place for an AU luddite to get the Mercurius/Vayeate. Guess I'll shoot him another email.
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Oh yeah Side Seven takes forever for anything. I've found Omocha Japan to be faster but oof the shipping cost sometimes.
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sassassin posted:Blu tack and chopped up sprues as sticks. Not sure why people prefer clips tbh. Clips are way more secure than blue tack.
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Sup thread, I just spent over 1k on a resin printer + supplies to make my dreams finally come true vvv - absolutely. I have 0 reserves about this. Null of Undefined fucked around with this message at 23:23 on May 4, 2021 |
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Null of Undefined posted:Sup thread, I just spent over 1k on a resin printer + supplies to make my dreams finally come true Worth EVERY PENNY.
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Null of Undefined posted:Sup thread, I just spent over 1k on a resin printer + supplies to make my dreams finally come true HELL YES BROTHER Add this to the OP.
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May 5, 2021 00:09
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That's beautiful, I want one.
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Midjack posted:HELL YES BROTHER That's not the Lumber Gundam.  But it is still awesome, so added to the OP 
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Null of Undefined posted:Sup thread, I just spent over 1k on a resin printer + supplies to make my dreams finally come true Oh HELL yes! Now do Tequila Gundam!
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Null of Undefined posted:Sup thread, I just spent over 1k on a resin printer + supplies to make my dreams finally come true D...Does it transform?
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Suzaku posted:Oh HELL yes! Now do Tequila Gundam! yo to be clear I didn't design this conversion kit I bought a 3d printer so I could print it (and others). I thought the card in there would be clear about that but I just realized y'all have no reason of knowing that's not a name I use elsewhere, it's from this etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/927307547/nether-gundam-stl-files-only-1144th There's no tequila gundam conversion that I can find but you can print out a 1/35th scale bust https://www.etsy.com/listing/958392..._grid_organic=1
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Midjack posted:HELL YES BROTHER
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oh my god oh my god How much does it cost to actually print the big beautiful Tequila Gundam
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Midjack posted:HELL YES BROTHER
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MJP posted:oh my god oh my god I'll let you know the second I have it printed (printer gets here Saturday)
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Null of Undefined posted:Sup thread, I just spent over 1k on a resin printer + supplies to make my dreams finally come true Resin and that sort of money the way to go? I've not logged into it much yet but I'm thinking of getting a printer partly for gunpla bits but no idea what to expect to spend for something suitable.
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BizarroAzrael posted:Resin and that sort of money the way to go? I've not logged into it much yet but I'm thinking of getting a printer partly for gunpla bits but no idea what to expect to spend for something suitable. Elegoo makes great resin printers for around 300 that I feel like most people start out with. Basically you want anything with a 4k monochrome display (they use an lcd display to harden the resin into the right shape, not the display that like, you actually look at, that doesn’t matter) because it’ll give you a great print resolution, and monochrome displays last a lot longer. As for resin over filament printing for this hobby, filament usually requires a ton of sanding and filling to get a smooth finish, and since so many gunpla parts are tiny they can be a real pain. Back when 3D printers were first buyable, I hated the way the finished products looked, so I waited. Resin can give you a near perfect finish that in some cases you might not need to sand at all. I don’t recommend buying a super high end printer like me, it’s just that 3D printing is something I’ve been thinking about for like 10 years so I felt comfortable diving in head first. For reference I got the Anycubic photon mono X, which is 650 on Amazon right now, and then also bought their little wash+cure station for 270, which is completely 100% unnecessary because you can clean and cure it in a bucket of alcohol and a handheld UV light, I just went all in because I wanna build a stand for it and I thought they’d look good next to each other (and maybe I wouldn’t just smell like alcohol all the time)
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Null of Undefined posted:Elegoo makes great resin printers for around 300 that I feel like most people start out with. Basically you want anything with a 4k monochrome display (they use an lcd display to harden the resin into the right shape, not the display that like, you actually look at, that doesn’t matter) because it’ll give you a great print resolution, and monochrome displays last a lot longer. This is the way I went. I got a Mars 2 and the Elegoo wash and cure machine and while it wasn't CHEAP, it also wasn't over 1k.
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BizarroAzrael posted:Resin and that sort of money the way to go? I've not logged into it much yet but I'm thinking of getting a printer partly for gunpla bits but no idea what to expect to spend for something suitable. Resin is the way to go, you can do it with an FDM printer but you will be doing a lot of filling, finishing and scribing work to get a piece looking good.
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These came out of a Phrozen Sonic Mini 4k printer, $400-ish with the water-washable resin.  
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mllaneza posted:These came out of a Phrozen Sonic Mini 4k printer, $400-ish with the water-washable resin. god those look so good. I can't wait for mine to get here.
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wdarkk posted:After some more experimenting, it turns out that while brushing on the paint absolutely will not work, airbrushing it works fine The metallic paint is probably still a little transparent, another coat of it and then black primer over the top should make it stand out a bit more. Sort of like painting backwards, for stuff like chrome finishes you usually want a gloss black surface to paint it onto, you're just kind of using the reverse of that technique in this case. Similarly I've been wondering if I could use Molotow liquid chrome or similar to improve the light piping on some MG kits.
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So, I’ve always loved Gundam, and loved Warhammer as an adult. So, I finally am jumping into Gunpla. ...I may have ordered four kits, and preordered two others, over the course of a 36 hour period. Now I’m just waiting impatiently for GS-USA to ship everything out to me. I may have a problem.
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The plus side is that Gunpla is much more affordable than the equivalent plastic for Warhammer.
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Tanon posted:So, I’ve always loved Gundam, and loved Warhammer as an adult. So, I finally am jumping into Gunpla. welcome! Handy fact, unless it's p-bandai you'll probably always be able to get your hands on a kit for msrp so just take your time with buying stuff. A big collection of unbuilt boxes isn't as cool looking as a collection of built kits
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Null of Undefined posted:welcome! Handy fact, unless it's p-bandai you'll probably always be able to get your hands on a kit for msrp so just take your time with buying stuff. A big collection of unbuilt boxes isn't as cool looking as a collection of built kits This is true until you hit that critical threshold where your backlog becomes physically intimidating. Then it's cool again, and threatening.
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Null of Undefined posted:welcome! Handy fact, unless it's p-bandai you'll probably always be able to get your hands on a kit for msrp so just take your time with buying stuff. A big collection of unbuilt boxes isn't as cool looking as a collection of built kits Absolutely, I shouldn’t have gotten so many. It was just a rabbit hole. I first put in the Ez-8, because I absolutely love that design and 08th MS Team. Then I decided I wanted another, so I grabbed the Origin RX-78 because of course you do. Then the next day I was looking through the different high grades they had and saw the Second L; which gave me all the nostalgia from back doing early 2000s PBP roleplaying on EzBoards. And then I also saw Wing Zero. And then and then, I saw the preorders for the new Deathscythe kit, and my buddy is a huge fan of him. So I bought two so we can build them together. Again, it’s a problem 🤣
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Tanon posted:Absolutely, I shouldn’t have gotten so many. It was just a rabbit hole. I first put in the Ez-8, because I absolutely love that design and 08th MS Team. Then I decided I wanted another, so I grabbed the Origin RX-78 because of course you do. Sounds like they're all high grades, which only take an evening or two, depending on how much you want to modify them. Doesn't look like you grabbed any particularly old kits, either, so they should look fine even without painting. It's a decent starting lineup, but it doesn't seem like enough of a backlog to be a problem. It's just enough to keep pleasantly busy for a little bit.
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Having experience with both Warhammer and some of the more complex LEGO kits, I figured stepping into HGs wouldn’t be a big issue. One thing I was looking for and didn’t find much information on is the Sword Calamity. Did it never get a kit? Being a variation, I would have bet on it being designed strictly for a model, and I haven’t found much information on it at all.
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Arcsquad12 posted:The plus side is that Gunpla is much more affordable than the equivalent plastic for Warhammer. The Shuffle Alliance Gundams still only being available only as 30 year old HGs is the Gunpla equivalent of Aspect Warriors still being resin.
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Tanon posted:Having experience with both Warhammer and some of the more complex LEGO kits, I figured stepping into HGs wouldn’t be a big issue. Nope. I have seen some resin conversion kits for it but other than that, nothing.;
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Tanon posted:So, I’ve always loved Gundam, and loved Warhammer as an adult. So, I finally am jumping into Gunpla. That's happened to me too. Today I managed to resist buying 4-5 more kits.
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I'm trying to just keep it to P Bandai or other limited edition kits. It's too easy to get a massive backlog.
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grassy gnoll posted:This is true until you hit that critical threshold where your backlog becomes physically intimidating. Then it's cool again, and threatening. My shame room demonstrates that this is not true.
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I set up a little shelving thing just for my backlog, and if it fills up i make myself empty at least two shelves by building stuff before i buy any more(and theres 4 shelves total so thats half the backlog). its worked out pretty well so far, except that I keep preordering things and my brain doesn't count those against the shelfspace limit no matter how hard i try to make it do this. though now that i've picked up an airbrush, and the paints i ordered finally got here today, i think i've got a bigger incentive to do customs and kitbashes so things might end up slowing down like this megaman/roll kitbash that i'm gonna prime and paint (hopefully) this weekend https://twitter.com/SleepySeaLily/status/1389587052610691075 want to do a glossy metallic/candy finish on the red bits and a more matte look for the darker 'bodysuit' parts, and i think it'll look really good. rebuilding the helmet interior to fit a different kit's face and have a hole for a ponytail in the back, was a mess though. just weird plaplate strip scaffolding in there all over the place.
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Looks good and who cares how ugly the inside is anyway!
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It's payday tomorrow and a long overdue payoff of my credit balance. I don't need a new toy, I don't need a new toy...
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Sea Lily posted:I set up a little shelving thing just for my backlog, and if it fills up i make myself empty at least two shelves by building stuff before i buy any more(and theres 4 shelves total so thats half the backlog). its worked out pretty well so far, except that I keep preordering things and my brain doesn't count those against the shelfspace limit no matter how hard i try to make it do this. Yeah once you start customizing that's when the backlog creep really sets in. When I was starting out I could get through multiple kits a week. Now I've been working on the MG RX-78-2 3.0 for... 6 months?
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