I immediately take that all back.... Not ALL Gundam can spinzaku. - Okay, I am DONE with this base. At least before I do anything more to it. I panel lined the borders of the gray painted sections and the edges along where it meets the green lines. It needs a top coat to make my buffing marks disappear but for now, it's set to start building Exia. I set up the maintenance cage over it as I did with the Unicorn's base to support and store the work in progress to come, but it doesn't blend together at all like the other did. Eventually the cage will get to see its intended kit. I'm still leaning towards the idea of getting a few more of these cages since they're Tokyo Base exclusives now. At least when the opportunity arises at a better price than the typical scalp/import mark up.
YO ITS FINALLY HERE!!! 「ガンダム」百式壊の後継機「百式ライズカイン」がMGガンプラ化！ビーム・ライフルのパーツを組み替えればロングレンジライフルや大型シールドに変形！ BUT GOD DAMNIT THEY CHROMED IT UP FUCK 13,200 JPY eeeuuuughh edit: lmao look at this regal asshole
I don’t read Japanese. What is it? I can tell it’s the Hyaku-Shiki, but it looks a little stylized. Is this a Ver. Ka.?
It's the Hyaku Shiki Crash in new colors, no physical differences by the look of it. They also put this up for preorder, a flyer compatible with the MSD GM kits:
Making the Gundam Seven Swords begins with four sabers. Starting on Exia's beam sabers and surveying how to map out painting them. The model's armor is a double binary color pattern, light blue on blue, white over gray. The beam sabers are just solid white. The emitter, panel gap, and that indent detail will be colored differently but I'll put some light gray over the pommel and the raised, curved areas at the top. A primer coat for tonight and that's about it from me tonight. *it's hard to see it because I wound up combining a bottle of white primer with my gray primer because I reclaimed a mixing jar I kept it in. it doesn't negatively affect anything.* Neat. It just needs a GM of the proper colors to match it! It's a customized Hyaku Shiki from the Build Divers side-story. They produced four different Master Grade exclusives for it, the Polyball, this Shiki, Qubeley Damned, and the Gundam Stormbringer. The latter three getting recolored variations, this one done in traditional Shiki Chrome.
And to expand even further, the Hyaku Shiki Crash design owes to the fact that the original machine was designed by Mamoru Nagano, better known for the Five Star Stories manga, and the redesign of the Shiki here blends in some of the aspects of his Mortarhead mecha design for that series.
Hahaha is this general release? That’s funny. General release for P-Bandai figures. Oh, that makes more sense.
Holy shit, the Baund Doc box art is glorious. And also possibly RG SAZABI SIZED - when the box art is more square than rectangular, you KNOW it's gonna be a big one. Heavyarms also looks boss, naturally in the FIRE FUCKING EVERYTHING pose Also, there's Figu-rise Fumina with, because its Japan, removable jacket for sport bra mode. I'm interested in picking this up since Figu-Rise Ayame was pretty good, and it'll be interesting to compare this with the HG Super Fumina I built some time ago. Of course they use the mass released GM Interceptor. The one nobody wants because it doesn't have its actual accessory - honestly, still don't get who the hell at Bandai thought the goddamn GM Interceptor without the accessory it exists simply to use would be better than mass releasing the GM Sniper Custom which is one of the most famous non-Gundam OYW MS ever. Looking on gundamkitscollection, it's also compatible with the GM Guard and GM Sniper Custom, the latter being P-Bandai (and not being re-issued simultaneously), and the former requiring dropping the giant shield which really is the only reason anybody cares about the GM Guard. Honestly, Bandai, just give us a freaking NORMAL ORIGIN GM. We have the Zakus, we have an army of non-existent Gundam variations, why do we not have the backbone of the EFSF yet outside of specialized variants, the majority of which are P-Bandai?! No. It looks like a P-Bandai accessory for the mass retail version of the GM Interceptor, which is identical to the P-Bandai GM Interceptor with the critical exception of not having the Fellow Booster a.k.a. the only significant aspect of the Interceptor.
Recently finished 2.0 Gundam. Just a straight build, but could use some more clean up. No plans for any detailing or decals, I prefer the clean look of the original Gundam. RX-78-2 Gundam 2.0 by Michael, on Flickr
Been spending too much time in the last couple of weeks catching up on video games. Trying to get back to the Gunpla. Finally got the shoulder-armor add-on pieces in place: I originally tried to have them pegged in from the front, but I couldn't get the look I wanted. Then I figured that since I planned to have the "ring" to be the same color as that extra "fin", I'll just glue those two together, and slice away at the top-part of the armor to accommodate. The peg-hole that I originally drilled to my initial Plan A is still there; I'll probably fill it up afterwards when I start to putty things.
I finally started my Crossbones today and the nippers sure made it easy. Now I want so tweezers for the stickers, any advice.
tell me about it... my "makeshift gunboy" kit is still waiting for those 3d printed parts that i havent even started DESIGNING yet.....
After much consternation, and reading over the Exia's color chart for paint mixing, I decided to abandon a dramatic paint job on the beam sabers. The colors for this kit are unique to say the least, compared to the Master Grade or even the normal color Real Grade. If this were any other case plain Light Gray would be fine, but I'm not going to get carried away with the armor's surface colors for this kit. Instead, I'm focusing on painting the mechanical GN Frame. The best example of my plan so far is how I did the display base. Mind the now outdated WIP progress picture. The dark gray is my bottled mix of "PG Frame Brown," which gets its name from the obvious injection color of the model, framing in silver sprockets around a Gunship Gray joint cover and panel gap, with teal/clear green coated running lights. With that in mind, I bring these colors to the surface of the primary colored parts of the Exia. That includes the weapons. The sabers are getting that treatment right now. The emitter is PG Frame, the gaps are Gunship, and the outlined panels are Silver. The raised corners around that silver inset in the saber grip will be colored in PG. The teal coat is then applied to those raised 'notch' points on the ends, and will be painted over in Clear Green once these are assembled.
My PC's video card stopped outputting through the DisplayPort and HDMI so I can't use the VR or half my screens anymore ;-; but I still have my Core Fighter in there ^_^
Honestly just go into any hobby shop and ask for some good tweezers, what works for you is really a case-by-case situation. I've got like, five pairs of tweezers for all kinds of things - rubber tipped ones, pointy tipped ones, angle tipped ones, super tiny ones, and a standard pair because that came in a tool kit I got for Christmas about a decade back.
