No. At least for most. I can't think of any recent ones with articulated hands that also had fixed posed ones.
The index fingers on my MP-10 keep falling off too... so, again, NO! Part of the reason I've never painted any of my MGs yet(aside from laziness) is because I seriously want some fixed pose hands for them, especially the stupid interchangeable fingers on the Gouf Custom. I could swear though, aren't there scaled builders parts from Bandai for that?
They need to get on that then! Lol hopefully they start putting out 1/100 scale system weapons and include hands just like the 1/144 ones.
A quick browse through hobby search reveals these 1/100 MS Hand 02 (ZEON) 1/100 MS Hand 01 (FEDERATION)
What can I say? You must have er, 'bad luck' because my MP-10 index finger has never popped out. Missed your post but yeah, they do sell the hands but they are not painted.
I would rule out luck as having anything to do with it when nearly every poseable hand I've worked with has issues. And yeah, they're not painted, but hell I'm gonna pain the MGs they go on eventually anyway. Although more quick research has turned up the Zeon hands are bit oversized
lol you must have had some of the worst luck for hands. Only real problem I've had are hands that don't hold things very well, a la MG Wing Zero Custom, or fingers that love to pop out of their sockets.
If nearly every poseable hand you've had has given you problems the issue may not lie with the hands themselves. >__>
Ok so I'm planning on doing the "OG" way of Gunpla. Say I was a kid in Japan seeing my friends play with these awesome plastic robots. They tell me they're from a show called Gunpla. So I watched a couple of the episodes for the first time and I get super hyped. I stop by a model shop on the way home and they sell the Original Gunpla. And I choose this one: I saw it on the show and I thought it looked cool. But I noticed that it's not as colorful as it was on the cover. So I need some stuff to make it look like it did in the show. I want to make Gunpla in the original way, the way they used to. Meaning I want to make it look as accurate as possible, using ONLY the tools they had back in the 80's to build models. So. I ask you guys, IN JAPAN OF 1980, what supplies would I need to make that happen. That we don't have nowadays.
cutters, a hobby knife, glue, sand paper. and while you're at it. some good old fashioned. lead based enamel! you and I are on similar paths. i've got an OG Gouf coming my way!
How hard is it to paint those 80's gunpla models? I was thinking of getting a few 1/100 80's real type gunpla, as it shows you which pieces on the sprue to paint what color, to start myself painting.
Dude, are you a big fan of the Gouf?! For me, if one doesn't have the tools or equipment it will be extremely difficult! If I remember correctly, the 80s kits came all in one colour...I bought the RX-78-2 Gundam and back then as a kid, I was surprised that it was unpainted...I didn't know about anything about model kits. Fast forward to 1999...and you can see why I'm so grateful to Bandai for releasing MG kits! Looking back, advances in the MG kit is so amazing in terms of colour separation and articulation.
LOL! I knew you would post that! I too like the Gouf as the design makes it look so 'fierce' (we Asians put it). The curved spikes and the 'brow' in the helmet really makes it intimidating! I think I have 3 versions of the MS? The first release, OYW version and now the 2.0. It's a pity that it doesn't hide the nub marks like the Zaku 2.0 so I'm going to use your top coat tip!!!
The different sprues come in different colors, but none of the sprues have multiple colors. Its mostly just to practice painting, and also because they're so dang cheap. I'll have proper tools by christmas, i'm just thinking ahead.
Ha. Seriously though, Lt. Ral's one of my favorite characters. I don't have the 'full lineup' of Gouf models, but I do have the old 1/144 HG from 08th MS team (OAV release) of the Custom, an SD model, and the Version 2.0 Gouf. The R35 and the BMC kits are somewhere in Amazon's warehouses.
Oddly I couldn't care much one way or the other about any given gouf variant, but the Gouf Custom somehow occupies my number 2 slot for favorite MS of all time. I have the old HG, HGUC, MG, MSIA, and Zeonography Gouf Customs compared to a single HGUC gouf that I only really got for arbitrary reasons.
Oh, I didn't think about using the kits as practice! That's a good idea. Unfortunately for me, I don't have the time to assemble and paint the kits. Heck, I don't even have a place to do any major painting. So all I can do us assemble my kits during lunch or after office hours, then just do minor touch-ups like minor painting on the eye pieces, top coating etc. Why don't you try a MG or RG kit? I recall you like the Zaku II? You should get the MG 2.0 or RG. Just assemble it, sand down the nub marks and spray a top coat - it does look good. Oh yeah, Rambal Ral struck me as an 'honorable' warrior as compared to M'quve. The former was respected by his troops etc. I enjoyed the bar scenes with his troops. Speaking of which...I can't believe the movies reduced M'quve's role. In the series he was such a devious character. Eg breaking the treaty on non-usage of nuclear weapons, lying to Ral about the Doms, using 'dirty tactics' against Amuro etc.
