DIY-ModelKits-Etc

[wild salmon]

Gundum

[vestal falcon]

GUNDAM

AAAA

[bold canyon]

holy fuckign shit the gnudam

[vestal falcon]

every time i get a new kit i am going to post SO MUCH progress pics here

[bold canyon]

guys

is this kit good

it looks nice

[wild salmon]

https://tenor.com/view/gundam-wing-hello-kitty-battle-fight-me-showdown-gif-14899212

[vestal falcon]

Haven't built it but seeing that it's an RG, it probably is

[bold canyon]

the only kit i built was a gundam hello kitty

[wild salmon]

I want

[bold canyon]

Very epic

[wild salmon]

IT'S ACTUALLY REAL?!

[bold canyon]

dont mind the mess

yea

[wild salmon]

HOLY SHIT

[bold canyon]

it is

[wild salmon]

I WANT

[bold canyon]

i like how OP in french iis POP

it cost me like 20 something

[wild salmon]

bet

[bold canyon]

they have a few

[bold canyon]

i think ill order it when i get a refund for my mouse or smt

[vestal falcon]

YEAAAAH

okay yeah from what I can find that kit is p-good

[bold canyon]

the only issue is

ive seen it has stickers

that look bad

and also

waterslide decals

i dont know how to do waterslide decals

[vestal falcon]

I don't either lmao

Just be careful where you're buying it from, apparently people on amazon got shipped an action figure instead of the kit

[bold canyon]

well ik you put them in water or smt

[bold canyon]

ya im gonna order it from big seller

[vestal falcon]

Nice that would be better

[bold canyon]

the only one where its in stock at a decent price anyway

[vestal falcon]

Amazon also tends to overprice stuf

[bold canyon]

well its their marketplace but still

[bold canyon]

sellers in general overprice stuff if they dont have a lot of it in stock

[vestal falcon]

No like, with Gundams, shit gets overpriced real a lot

[bold canyon]

this ones like

50-60

60 with shipping i think

[vestal falcon]

Ah

like I want this Gundam Unicorn kit

the uh

MGEX

shit

wrong image

[bold canyon]

💀

[vestal falcon]

here we go

it comes with LED lights and it's p-cool

[bold canyon]

sexy

[vestal falcon]

somtimes it's green

[bold canyon]

i never watched any gundam stuff

[vestal falcon]

you should

sometiems it's red

[bold canyon]

idk i just think the models r cool

is it blue sometimes

[vestal falcon]

there is a version with blue

not sure if hte lights turn blue

but there's a specific Unicorn kit/version that the psychoframe (the glowy red part) is blue

[quiet basalt]

I need a new kit

my Zaku II broke recently and i dont have any glue or anything

makes me sad

[lean grail]

Current backlog, 2 more on the way

Going to start on the Tallgeese once I get some free weekends

[quiet basalt]

Sazabi... 🤤

[lean grail]

And the builds I have done so far

[lean grail]

It is, a certain part of the arms apparently tends to come out sometimes but I've heard people who never had said problem

And, while some surface detail surely gives them more life, those Evangelion kits already look good straight build, decals aren't all that required

[quiet basalt]

I was looking at that same kit at a gaming related store and god are they expensive

made me sad cause i love eva

[lean grail]

Yeah, I guess it's both due to the size of the box and it being a rather known show, giving it an increase in value

[quiet basalt]

Yeah and the model is also quite large

from what i've seen

[lean grail]

Apparently it's said to be around the height of the RG Nu or RG Sazabi, right?

[quiet basalt]

I havnt done too much research on it

[bold canyon]

yea its what i was worried about

i mean if i feel like it i can add them down the line

ive also seen the same kit but w a platform

idk if the transport platform really justifies the extra though

[bold canyon]

its like 17cm tall

wait no

thats with the platformm

so like maybe 15cm

[exotic panther]

🖌️ 🛩️ 🤖

[bold canyon]

so true

[lean grail]

Personally, it doesn't, unless you really want to display it in a transport position, which is a shame, otherwise just get the standard release

[bold canyon]

yea i wanna pose it anyway

not sure where lmfao

but

ya

[glossy panther]

can someone recommend me a good first kit

[quiet basalt]

you got a budget?

cause honestly you can get a decent kit for under 20 bucks

my first kit was 13 dollars and lasted a while

until i dropped it and the arm join snapped in half

but now i just set it up to look like the arm was cut off

[lean grail]

Honestly, any HG is a good start, find a kit you think looks interesting and I would also recommend to search for reviews on said kit, just so you can have an idea of how the articulations are, how many color correcting stickers there are, etc etc

[glossy panther]

Ok thanks

[vestal falcon]

yooo, is that MG or RG QuanT?

[lean grail]

The RG

I'm a "big" RG fanboy

[vestal falcon]

Ah okay, I've built the uh- RG QuanT Full Saber but clear cause I got that one exclusive kit that isn't that exclusive

The hardest kit I've built, in my opinion at least, is probably the MG Nu Gundam Ver. Ka

[lean grail]

Yeah, P'Bandai kits and what not are dumb sometimes on what they consider "exclusive"

[vestal falcon]

The fuckin fin funnels are so delicately attached that it's so annoying

[lean grail]

They are really loose right?

[vestal falcon]

the slightest movement will cause all of them except the one directly attached to the backpack to fall off

Yeah, they're loose as fuck because of the way they connect

Great kit but those damn funnels

[lean grail]

I've heard that from people of another group, not only that but for a Ver.Ka it really isn't all that good looking

[vestal falcon]

I like the Ver.Ka designs for Gundams though, I like the slightly more mechanical feel they bring

[lean grail]

Compared to the RG at least

[vestal falcon]

Including the Nu Gundam, I've built 2 MGs in total

The other one being the MG Command Gundam

not

command

hjold on

it's a suit from-

BUSTER

thats what it is

Buster Gundam

man i am stoopid

yeah it was the MG Buster Gundam from Seed

[lean grail]

I'm still debating if I want to buy a MG one day, Idunno, I just feel like MGs have very little detail compared to RGs

[vestal falcon]

RGs are meant to have the same amount of detail that MG's do

They're basically MG's but 1/144

[lean grail]

Oooohh the Buster Gundam is good, love me some on-board big weapons

[vestal falcon]

Some detail is lost because smaller size but you'll have a similar build experience and/or difficulty between RG and MG

The next MG I plan on getting is the MGEX Unicorn Gundam

[vestal falcon]

Aka this one

[lean grail]

Apparently they currently have even more detail than MGs, compare the MG Nu to the RG Nu, for example

[vestal falcon]

is the RG Nu the Ver Ka?

It likely depends on the kit you get tbh

[lean grail]

No, there's a MG, the Ver.Ka, and the RG

[vestal falcon]

Some RG's have lots of detail while others feel like a more complicated HG

like RG Banshee Norn

fun build, definitely has that MG level of detail but. god it was complicated to build

Also Nu Gundam is much more of a simpler Gundam design, so

[lean grail]

True, not only that but some joints are stiff like no other, most common thing to see posts of people who broke them in the Gunpla Reddit

[vestal falcon]

yeah

[vestal falcon]

this disappeared from my followed ones

there we go it's back

anyways i plan on getting the MGEX Unicorn Gundam

[vestal falcon]

why does this keep getting kicked out of the list of followed threads

[wild salmon]

Your probably just unfollowing by accident

[vestal falcon]

i'm not

even when i go to reput it back in the list it still says i'm following

[wild salmon]

Then discords probably just being dumb again

[vestal falcon]

prob

[vestal falcon]

gundum

[lean grail]

And here is another

Now all I need is the Nu, which is already in the way, and a Hi-Nu, an then I'll be done with the collection

Until Bandai releases another RG that catches my attention, that is

[restive hill]

what r good places to buy wooden models and shit

[lean grail]

Built the RG Tallgeese EW this weekend, gonna send some more photos once I get home, for now just the inner frame

[vestal falcon]

I want a Hi-Nu eventually

[vestal falcon]

hehe the tall goose

[lean grail]

This kit is beautiful, no denying that, doesn't even need stickers all that much tho some panel lining is very much needed, extremely solid too, but God is it a nightmare to pose, the legs are way too solid to move, a lot of thing get in the way of other things, like the gun and the verniers, the side skirts and the back skirts, and don't even get me started on those supports holding the gun and the shield, I have absolutely no idea how I'm supposed to use those things

Oh yeah, and while really cool those openings in the verniers can get out of pose really easily, considerably loose

Might be a problem only mine has, it can happen sometimes

[vestal falcon]

You said that was an RG??

Damn that's one hella good looking RG

[lean grail]

Yes, the RG

Most if not all the kits I post here are going to be RG, aside from one that isn't even from Gundam

[vestal falcon]

Damn, the Wing RG's msut be pretty detailed looking and nice looking

[lean grail]

Depends, Wing EW, Wing zero, or Wing TV.Ver?

[vestal falcon]

EW

and I mean the series, not Wing itself

I bet RG Wing Zero EW (if that's a thing) is pretty damn beautiful to look at

[lean grail]

There are 3 versions of the Wing in RG, 2 old ones, and 1 pretty new one

just a second

Wing EW

Wing zero

Wing TV. Ver

Last one is the most recent one

[vestal falcon]

I like Zero EW the most tbh

[lean grail]

I'm more fan of the TV Ver, the EW looks a bit much like uuuhh.... a toy? Idk it just doesn't really look like a robot from gundam, unlike the TV. Ver

[vestal falcon]

older RG kits have a weird plastic-ish look to them sometimes

[lean grail]

They do, that is true

Most of them really need a coat of matte varnish to look a bit better

The recent ones, like the Tallgeese, already have some kind of varnish on them sometimes, like the Tallgeese with a bit of a glossy varnish, or the God Gundam with kind of mix with matte and glossy

Not all, but some, and for a line with only 36 kits, and almost half of them are quite old, it's considerable

[vestal falcon]

Ah yeah

The only RG kits i've built so far were RG Banshee Norn, Exia, and QuanT Full Saber (clear edition )

[lean grail]

Man, clear versions are quite nice, but God they just don't work with old RG kits

Like, the recent ones have a full inner frame and all, full of mechanical detail, it looks cool to see those details trough the clear armor parts

But the old ones? They are just a skeleton, no detail, no nothing

[vestal falcon]

lmao

specifically it was the Gundam Base exclusive one, but amazon had it so

funny enough i'm pretty sure it was cheaper than the normal RG as well?

[lean grail]

I am not sure, P-bandai and Gundam Base kits are usually ignored around here, since they are usually expensivier and, quite honestly, not all that worth it

[vestal falcon]

Huh, weird.

Sometimes Amazon will carry Gundam Base exclusives and P-Bandai exclusives, but they tend to be a bit more expensive because amazon

[lean grail]

And another one

[vestal falcon]

oooh

seeing any nu gundam kit gives me ptsd though

MG Nu Gundam Ver. Ka's fin funnels

[quiet basalt]

i kinda want a new kit

what should i get

actually

ik what i want

[forest panther]

im building a tank atm

as in i started last week and haven’t continued

[umbral temple]

oh dont worry took me a proper 8 months or so to build my battleship

[forest panther]

i wanna build a battle ship

there’s a model shop near me but i’ve never been in there

i was meant to paint my tank but that was too much work

[restive hill]

i like building stuff but not painting, any prebuilt type things

prepainted sorry

[forest panther]

mine is just all green

i made the mistake of making something with dark green parts on a dark grey carpet

i lost a few pieces

now one of the rank driver is missinn a phone

[umbral temple]

yeah that happens

i do enjoy the painting part, not that im good at it but i try

[restive hill]

yeah I really really enjoy building stuff but not painting

I wanna buy ones but idk where from and what ones are good

[quiet basalt]

ion wanna worry about painting

I'll paint accents

but not an entire thing

[umbral temple]

dont have a chocie unless i want a completely gray battleship

[umbral temple]

i personally only know prepainted cars but im sure there are prepainted stuff for other vechicles

[quasi burrow]

We do a little model building

[vestal falcon]

i can never tell the difference between Freedom and Strike Freedom

but

the gold innerframe tells me that it's probably Stirke Freedom

[quasi burrow]

I think the wings and inner frame are the main differences

[vestal falcon]

And the head I believe too

oh

no it's not

weird

oh it's a little different

Base Freedom

Strike Freedom

[lean grail]

Current build, bad photo because I'm tired

[vestal falcon]

Oooh, is that a mix of something? I see strike, Gundam X

oh nvm

i zoomed in that's not X's backpack lol

[lean grail]

It's the Impulse Gundam, more specifically in this case the Force Impulse

It's from Gundam SEED, and in the anime the name changes depending in the backpack it is equipped with, like Force, Sword and Blast

[vestal falcon]

ah

I'm not entirely used to the Impulse, haven't watched Seed, more used to the Strike if anything

[vestal falcon]

Blazing Gundam is complete!

Bought this kit yuesterday and started it last night, finished it this morning

:)

[quiet basalt]

goes hard

[lean grail]

The difference some color markers can do, Jesus

[quiet basalt]

getting a barb and exia soon

feeling good.

literally picked out my christmas gifts.

[cursive plaza]

Did I hear gunpla?

I have more kits on the way

[lean grail]

Looking good

Two small problems tho, 1. Where is the panel linning on that Nu, and 2. Needs more RGs >:[

I'm kidding

[cursive plaza]

Yeah I need to panel line my Nu haven’t had time to

[twilit mason]

I need to pick up a rg hi nu gundam

They look so cool

[lean grail]

HG MAILeS Jogan, slightly customized with markers

[quiet basalt]

thats sick

[quasi burrow]

Is the anime good?

I’ve never heard anything about it but the suits look cool

[lean grail]

Kinda, I really liked the first season, not all that mind blowing or serious and heavy of a plot like Gundam, but it's good enough if you want to pass time, the fights are nice and the suits are what I call "grounded", no beam technology, no space fights, just physical bullets and some kind of heat melee weapons

The second season however, things start to decay a bit, plot starts to get bad, beam weaponry is introduced, fights are kinda meh, and some episodes feel like filler

[quasi burrow]

Sounds like ill just build the kits

Id probably have more fun 😭

[quiet basalt]

My poor zaku.

Missing and broken parts

[lean grail]

One of the first builds?

[quiet basalt]

my zaku was my first

poor thing

dudes got a severed arm and missing parts

as well as bad cuts.

you can see on the lower left leg.

as well as the feet

[lean grail]

Oof yeah, the first kit is always the one get it worst

[quiet basalt]

i still keep him on display tho

[lean grail]

Who knows how many times I used my first as a test dummy for new things

[quiet basalt]

im probably going to attempt painting on my barb

only thing i'd need to paint are the pauldrons.

or whatever theyre called

the shoulders

[lean grail]

It would be really welcome, IBO kits got it bad when it comes to stickers

[lean grail]

Shoulder pads? Shoulder armor?

[quiet basalt]

yeah

those

but other than that

kit is really good

I'll be doing exia tomorrow

went from 16 dollar kit

forgot the grade

(zaku)

to high grade

then real.

first 3 ktis

kits

but hey

it'll be fun

maybe

[lean grail]

You should be fine, my third kit was a RG as well

[quiet basalt]

the only pain was stickers really

but as time goes on and i continue this hobby i'll get better at it

[quiet basalt]

Phone died before i could sendd this

blury asf but

bro doin the stanky leg

[vestal falcon]

UNICORN BABEYYY

MGEX

none of the body lights work but the head does so

[quiet basalt]

hell yeah

[lean grail]

RG Force Impulse

And a whole bunch of photos of the build process of the RG Zeong, because goddamn is this thing's inner frame beautiful

[vestal falcon]

i didn't even have to scroll all the way down to know what kit it was

zeong is so goofy

i love it

[quiet basalt]

i still need to finish my damn exia

But its back at home

[quasi burrow]

This kit is just so cool

[amber onyx]

Smol

[lean grail]

Current project, not sure I like where this is going but it sure is going

[lean grail]

Almost, oh so almost done with this thing, only the Finn Funnels left and then I can finally move on to the Sazabi

[quiet basalt]

Been a while

I can finally return to my hobby

Bought nippers, sandpaper, cutting mat, and some tweezers

Aaaand a new kit dispite not finishing my exia.

Favorite mobile suit in all of gundam.

[amber onyx]

update a whole year and 3 months later i finally managed to order one

[hard pivot]

It’s done

[lean grail]

Starting a new build

[hard pivot]

Are you using a ballpoint pen to paneling?

[lean grail]

Nop, I'm using the pour type pannel liners

The ones made by Bandai

[hard pivot]

Oh I see lol

[lean grail]

Woah wait hold on

What is that?

Probably not supposed to be a diorama, but it looks weirdly on scale

or close to

[hard pivot]

It’s a 1/144 section of Akihabara made out of paper

It was free online

[lean grail]

Maybe it's just my copy, but God those shoulder are annoying to pose, and the pistons inside the knee pop out a LOT

[hard pivot]

Not done but it’s a Gundam

[lean grail]

Oh damn, nice painting on the mini Kamille

Is that the recent Ver.Ka?

[hard pivot]

Thank you and yes it is

Still need to apply all these decals

[hard pivot]

Ooo fancy

Is that the RG?

[lean grail]

The RG, yes

Tried to bring out more of the internal detail of the leg panels, sadly didn't work that well

[hard pivot]

Built my favorite Gundam

[hard pivot]

Finished my zeta Gundam