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Plastic Scale Modelling |OT| Gunpla and Everything Else
- Thread starter erd
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Yeah, that's my thinking. Having just done the Red Frame I should probably go for something else. It seems to be out of stock in a few places though, so I'll try not to wait to long.
I try to not do similar builds in a row. With time this has evolved in a self-imposed "variety" rule that is based on the absolutely arbitrary criterion of head sensor and it follows this sequence:
I will also try to not repeat sizes, often alternating between 1/144 and 1/100 but this I take way less strictly.
- GM-like. The sensors are covered by a visor. Nemo and Jegan fit in this category.
- Zaku-like. The sensor is a mono-eye. The O and Sazabi fit in this category.
- Gundam-like. The sensors are a pair of well defined eyes. Zeta and Nu fit in this category.
- Others. The sensors don't look like any of the earlier rules. Kits that fit this category will often not be gunpla like Valvrave or Virtual On kits but there are some that are gunpla like the Zedas from AGE or the Gaeon from Reconguista.
I will also try to not repeat sizes, often alternating between 1/144 and 1/100 but this I take way less strictly.
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I didn't know this guy existed. He looks kinda cool, and I like that it's the same base as the Red Frame.
The weapon set that comes with this is really cool and varied. Had to glue his purple faceplate on though, it fell off every chance it had haha. It's a really pretty though, glossy in all the right places
Yeah, I haven't thought about it as much as your rules, but I try to alternate between sizes and grunts/gundams/other types.
RG are the same size as HG, 1/144. They often have as much as or more detail than a lot of MGs (especially older ones), and they have an inner frame. They often have a bunch of stickers as well.
This is HG Strike Freedom vs RG Strike Freedom.
I really enjoy the RG line.
Wow, that looks a lot better than HGs.
Personally they'd be too small for my tasze, I like the 1/100 scale. But good to know that the lower scales are getting so good. :D
Yeah, there are some modern HGs that are fantastic too though, like most "Gundam The Origin" kits. I think some people prefer the HG The Origin Zaku 2 to the RG Zaku, for example.
It's great that modern kits are getting really good.
There are a few MG that are relatively small like Victory and F91 if you are ever curious about what the grade has to offer.
I have no problem building anything that is, at least, as advanced as a High Grade. The reason is that I build because I like the Mobile Suit and I know that for some of them even getting an HG is a struggle. If it has taken decades to get a HG Byarlant what hope is there for it to get a more advanced grade kit? There are other MS like the Baund Doc and the Bolinoak Sammahn that are still waiting.
On the other hand, I've never bought the HG Nu or HG Sazabi because it was obvious they would eventually get an RG. Sazabi is already here, I bet Nu won't take very long.
Same for Unicorn and Sinanju. I did get an HG Full Armor Unicorn in green psychoframe both because I was sure the eventual RG Unicorn would have red psychoframe and that if there's ever a Full Armor RG it will probably be P-Bandai.
On the other hand, I've never bought the HG Nu or HG Sazabi because it was obvious they would eventually get an RG. Sazabi is already here, I bet Nu won't take very long.
Same for Unicorn and Sinanju. I did get an HG Full Armor Unicorn in green psychoframe both because I was sure the eventual RG Unicorn would have red psychoframe and that if there's ever a Full Armor RG it will probably be P-Bandai.
Sorry if it's been asked before but I didn't see anywhere in the OP where it was mentioned so I'll ask.
What is the suggested order for Assembly, Panel Lining, and Matte Top Coat for Gunpla? Right now I have 3 fully assembled Gunpla. I'm planning on learning how to panel line those models, plus future ones, and I'm also interested in Matte Top Coats. From my understanding, both are very simple and relatively easy things to do that really make the models look so much better. I want to know if I should assemble, then panel line, then top coat, or assemble, then top coat, then panel line?
Also, are there any documents or maybe videos recommending how to do Top Coat? I just want to make certain I'm doing it correctly before I mess something up.
What is the suggested order for Assembly, Panel Lining, and Matte Top Coat for Gunpla? Right now I have 3 fully assembled Gunpla. I'm planning on learning how to panel line those models, plus future ones, and I'm also interested in Matte Top Coats. From my understanding, both are very simple and relatively easy things to do that really make the models look so much better. I want to know if I should assemble, then panel line, then top coat, or assemble, then top coat, then panel line?
Also, are there any documents or maybe videos recommending how to do Top Coat? I just want to make certain I'm doing it correctly before I mess something up.
Matte top coat always goes last in my experience.
You can either assemble, panel line, topcoat or you can panel line, assemble, top coat. I do the latter since some parts might be hard to reach after assembly.
Not for the Action Base 5, as far as I know, which is the one I was thinking of getting. I think I'd prefer them to be of the same type, since they'll be one next to the other.
It's hard to say. I bought both black and clear action base 5 while in Japan and for some kits where the connector is included and grey I think black looks better. If the included action base 5 connector is better then I imagine clear would be nice. I have a special Unicorn color based action base 5 too, white base and clear red psycoframe connector arm.
If I could only have one color for the bases it would be black, but I like having some of each color.
I find that black is easier for my brain to filter out, if that makes sense. YMMV though.
Warning: slightly long ramblings ahead. If you haven't watched Gundam anime feel free to skip all the following text and just have a look at the photos.
Next build has a couple of very minors mods. Keep in mind that I've never modded any kit so being my first try this is both very simple and of a subtractive nature rather than additive.
Starting for the rationale for the mod, I have to go to a bit earlier than the beginning of this build. While applying the markings on the Master Grade Ground Type Gundam I had to decide what pilot name to choose among these ones: Shiro Amada, Terry Sanders Jr. and Karen Joshua. Shiro was easy to discard, there's a Gundam Ez8 in the backlog that I have reserved for him. That's when I thought about a GM Kai Space Type I also had in the backlog. Being that Karen is never shown piloting anything else, I decided I would use her marking (see picture below in the cockpit hatch) and save Terry's for the GM Kai.
The thing is: Terry doesn't actually pilot a GM Kai at the beginning of 08th MS Team, what he pilots is a GM Early Type. This suited me fine because I prefer building mobile suits that I have seen animated and the Space Type GM Kai has not, to my knowledge, appeared in any of the canon series (Gundam Build Fighters/Divers doesn't count in case it appears there, you know that a series that includes a G-Saviour cameo will eventually animate anything and everything).
I may have said it before, animated appearances are a big factor on why I want to build a kit. One can see a Kshatriya and think "That's OK." but then you see Gundam Unicorn's opening fight and go "OMG get me that HG Kshatriya asap and while you are on it throw a Stark Jegan in there!". That's why my Unicorn shelf does have a Kshatriya and a Stark Jegan.
The GM Kai kit comes, among others, with South Burning markings even though you never see him pilot one in Stardust Memory so it is assumed he piloted one during the One Year War. I decided I would use South Burning's marking in a GM Custom that is to be built at a later date.
So, going back to Terry's mobile suit, I had to convert this http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/RGM-79C_GM_Type_C into this http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/RGM-79［E］_GM_Early_Type
Being my first mod, I decided that I would do the ones that involved removing things (the shoulder handles and the head antenna) and skip the ones where I had to add stuff (that would have meant covering the backpack opening and the various armour notches) so even though it is not completely accurate, I can live with it (the Ver.Ka RX-78-2 that this kit is based on also has these notches even though they were never there in previous RX-78-2 kits so I will conveniently consider this a GM Early Type Ver.Ka :P ).
Additionally I painted the following: the white rims around the chest vents (painting white on red is a pain in the ass) the face visor with clear green (it is completely transparent out of the box) and the shoulder exhausts with red (simply because it appears like that in the manual reference photos and box).
Further details to resemble its 08th MS Team appearance are: not using the beam saber or the shield (I built them and put them in storage) and choosing the bullpup machine gun among all the available weapons. For the machine-gun visor I used some left-over green borders from the sticker that goes in the sensor at the rear of the head.
The RGM-79C markings were cut to display just RGM-79 given that adding the [E] would be too difficult. The Terry Sanders Jr. marking was added on the chest in all of its Engrish glory (I guess Mr. Sanders' grandparents liked television so much that they gave that name to his father).
As for the 03 on the shoulder, I put it there because anyone who has watched The 08th MS Team knows that it is Terry's lucky number. ;)
Next build has a couple of very minors mods. Keep in mind that I've never modded any kit so being my first try this is both very simple and of a subtractive nature rather than additive.
Starting for the rationale for the mod, I have to go to a bit earlier than the beginning of this build. While applying the markings on the Master Grade Ground Type Gundam I had to decide what pilot name to choose among these ones: Shiro Amada, Terry Sanders Jr. and Karen Joshua. Shiro was easy to discard, there's a Gundam Ez8 in the backlog that I have reserved for him. That's when I thought about a GM Kai Space Type I also had in the backlog. Being that Karen is never shown piloting anything else, I decided I would use her marking (see picture below in the cockpit hatch) and save Terry's for the GM Kai.
The thing is: Terry doesn't actually pilot a GM Kai at the beginning of 08th MS Team, what he pilots is a GM Early Type. This suited me fine because I prefer building mobile suits that I have seen animated and the Space Type GM Kai has not, to my knowledge, appeared in any of the canon series (Gundam Build Fighters/Divers doesn't count in case it appears there, you know that a series that includes a G-Saviour cameo will eventually animate anything and everything).
I may have said it before, animated appearances are a big factor on why I want to build a kit. One can see a Kshatriya and think "That's OK." but then you see Gundam Unicorn's opening fight and go "OMG get me that HG Kshatriya asap and while you are on it throw a Stark Jegan in there!". That's why my Unicorn shelf does have a Kshatriya and a Stark Jegan.
The GM Kai kit comes, among others, with South Burning markings even though you never see him pilot one in Stardust Memory so it is assumed he piloted one during the One Year War. I decided I would use South Burning's marking in a GM Custom that is to be built at a later date.
So, going back to Terry's mobile suit, I had to convert this http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/RGM-79C_GM_Type_C into this http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/RGM-79［E］_GM_Early_Type
Being my first mod, I decided that I would do the ones that involved removing things (the shoulder handles and the head antenna) and skip the ones where I had to add stuff (that would have meant covering the backpack opening and the various armour notches) so even though it is not completely accurate, I can live with it (the Ver.Ka RX-78-2 that this kit is based on also has these notches even though they were never there in previous RX-78-2 kits so I will conveniently consider this a GM Early Type Ver.Ka :P ).
Additionally I painted the following: the white rims around the chest vents (painting white on red is a pain in the ass) the face visor with clear green (it is completely transparent out of the box) and the shoulder exhausts with red (simply because it appears like that in the manual reference photos and box).
Further details to resemble its 08th MS Team appearance are: not using the beam saber or the shield (I built them and put them in storage) and choosing the bullpup machine gun among all the available weapons. For the machine-gun visor I used some left-over green borders from the sticker that goes in the sensor at the rear of the head.
The RGM-79C markings were cut to display just RGM-79 given that adding the [E] would be too difficult. The Terry Sanders Jr. marking was added on the chest in all of its Engrish glory (I guess Mr. Sanders' grandparents liked television so much that they gave that name to his father).
As for the 03 on the shoulder, I put it there because anyone who has watched The 08th MS Team knows that it is Terry's lucky number. ;)
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A quick and fun HG build. Gundam Gusion!
About 4 hours total. Minimal clean up.
Looking good. Still don't know why they call this one a Gundam since it's so radically different from the standard mold. Too different IMO.
Had to google this. They're companies that made KO model kits.
In IBO there is a thing called a Gundam frame. Supposedly there were 72 of those, based on the demons of the Ars Goetia. Anything that uses that frame is a Gundam in the IBO universe. The only one that is extremely Gundam-like is Barbatos. The rest have varying degrees of Gundamness (this is not a word).
This still doesn't look like a Gundam but it's on a Tomino series and it's officially a Gundam. Honestly, it looks more Qubeley than anything else.
I think I need to watch that series, those are some pretty awesome designs and kitsIn IBO there is a thing called a Gundam frame. Supposedly there were 72 of those, based on the demons of the Ars Goetia. Anything that uses that frame is a Gundam in the IBO universe. The only one that is extremely Gundam-like is Barbatos. The rest have varying degrees of Gundamness (this is not a word).
This still doesn't look like a Gundam but it's on a Tomino series and it's officially a Gundam. Honestly, it looks more Qubeley than anything else.
I've got to get one of these. The design and head are so odd, like a beetle. How are the stickers holding up on the funnels?In IBO there is a thing called a Gundam frame. Supposedly there were 72 of those, based on the demons of the Ars Goetia. Anything that uses that frame is a Gundam in the IBO universe. The only one that is extremely Gundam-like is Barbatos. The rest have varying degrees of Gundamness (this is not a word).
This still doesn't look like a Gundam but it's on a Tomino series and it's officially a Gundam. Honestly, it looks more Qubeley than anything else.
In IBO there is a thing called a Gundam frame. Supposedly there were 72 of those, based on the demons of the Ars Goetia. Anything that uses that frame is a Gundam in the IBO universe. The only one that is extremely Gundam-like is Barbatos. The rest have varying degrees of Gundamness (this is not a word).
This still doesn't look like a Gundam but it's on a Tomino series and it's officially a Gundam. Honestly, it looks more Qubeley than anything else.
Thought that thing was just called the Lucifer, but it really is classified as a Gundam. So strange.
If you mean Reco-G then don't bother. It's so, so bad.
Do not. Reconguista is all manners of weird, hard to follow and nonsensical. Leave it as one of the last Gundam series you watch.
The stickers on the funnels are fine. I built this exactly one year ago and nothing has peeled even though the model is displayed in a cabinet that faces a couple of windows oriented to the sun.
And that's why I said it's more Qubeley than Gundam. Apart from the color scheme both have an insectoid motif.
I mean, I'm watching by release date, so that's a while out. But I love nonsensical and hard to follow. Everyone always told me I'd get inception on the first watch (but I still haven't gotten around to it)
Also, planning to build the Zeong today, last build in the toy hauler, next one will be my first in the motorhome(I'm a touch nomadic right now)
I have just realised that I have a tank kit laying around. We gave it to our dad as a present (since he used to build those kind of kits when he was younger), but I don't think he's actually going to build it.
I'm not sure if I want to try building it though; all the pieces need to be glued and it looks to be a bit annoying. It does have some water-slide decals, so that's pretty neat.
I'm not sure if I want to try building it though; all the pieces need to be glued and it looks to be a bit annoying. It does have some water-slide decals, so that's pretty neat.
Colour me surprised on the RG Full Armor Unicorn not being P-Bandai. I have to guess the regular RG Unicorn is selling lots and Bandai wants that double-dippers money.
The Gun-EZ is a bit of a meh mobile suit. Sorry Victory fans but where the GM succeeds while being a less flashy Gundam, Gun-EZ is a less flashy Victory that does nothing for me.
For the HG Dijeh, having already built the RE/100 this is a very low priority buy.
