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==GIRLPLA GROUPBUILD==
Build a kit featuring any brand of Girlpla, including but not limited to:
>Frame Arms Girl
>Megami Device
>30 Minute Sisters/Missions/Etc.
>Figure-Rise Standard
>Megalomaria
Additionally, any "Feminine" mechs like the Nobel Gundam or Valsione are fair game as well. What you do with your build in terms of theming is up to you so long as your base is "Feminine".
Send a description along with both WIP and Finished images of your build to gunplaplamo@gmail.com
START: 4/15/26
END: 7/31/26
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Does anyone know if those third-party emotion manipulator style hands for 1/144 kits will fit on Late UC Gundams? I just now realized that I could give my MG Victory, V2 Assault Buster, Crossbone Full Cloth, F90 and Cluster Gundam full manipulable hands.
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>>11787047
Where's a good place to get a decent marker for lining a Spider-Man webbing
And don't say hobby shops, their aren't any near me. And I want a cheap but decent marker, not the shit they sell at Michael's
I'm testing this on a toy I bought on eBay for $1.99, I don't need to waste $14.99 for a marker unless it's going to magically force my hand to draw perfect straight web lines
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>>11787751
>pull my MG V1 out of mothballs to measure its hand dimensions
>it's bigger than the hands on my HG Calibarn
>and the V1 is smaller than the V2, F90 and Crossbone Full Cloth
So, I guess manipulable hands for Late UC kits are just not a thing, huh. Damn shame.
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>>11788822
I'm going to a Mall in Arcadia (suburban area in far north east Metro LA). Besides Orange County, it's the next highest concentration of SEA dispora in California. Apparently it has one of the highest number of hobby and model kit stores in one zip code. I plan to spend a few hours wondering around plus lunch there, before I go hit the nearby Walmart.
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finally began to build this cannon thing
it is a scaled down copy of the Metal Build Hi Nu beam launcher sold in a expansion set but it comes with LEDs and even a small motor to make some clear parts spin as if the thing actually works
it is stupidly big, I love it so far
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>>11790740
in case anyone else wonders, it is the Qianqu Shang 1/100 Heavy-Duty Blast Electromagnetic Railgun 2.0
I got mine from gundamit but I'm fairly sure they sell this thing too in Aliexpress
just mind mine was supposedly the "black" color version but it actually dark blue
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>>11790778
they are also making a stylized version of the hyakushiki megalauncher
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>>11790778
Yeah I definitely got the right one.
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>>11790905
Exactly 0
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>>11788830
It turns a little pink for this one.
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>>11790905
as long as you are careful and put even minimal effort, most plamo kits end up looking great
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>>11790905
I've built 2 HG (Aerial and Movie Clear Color Destiny) and am currently working on my first RG (Eva 01). Can honestly say just go for it. If you take your time and pay attention its really hard to fuck up just building
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>>11790905
I did a 30 minute mission and sister before moving on to something a bit more involved. The one i have that i really want to do has stickers and stuff and that's what I'm practicing for but by my third model i feel like I've got the hang of things mostly.
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Question for anyone who got a 30mm Liger Tail, I was wondering if you could build the gattling gun to fit in the left hand instead, or am I going to have to get the weapon set if I want that?
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>>11794411
I shop around depending on whatever's cheapest or in stock, the railgun came from Hobbyzone for example but I'll also buy from kikatek, gunpla UK, Kidultverse, OEshop which also has a replacements site called Hobby Academia even just Aliexpress if I'm going to buy things like stands and accessories.
Gunpla UK put out coupon codes pretty regularly so you can get a decent 10 to 30% sometimes.
Never Gunpla-San though. Their shit is almost always overpriced.
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>>11794635
I visited the one in Hong Kong not that long ago, if it's anything like that one it'll be interesting but ultimately meh. The Gundam Base exclusives mostly amount to the Clear Color or Titanium Finish stuff (though they also have Gundam Base color kits like Lunamaria and the mobile workers), and while they do stock regular stuff it's at MSRP so there's no reason to go there for non-exclusive stuff. So, overall you'll probably just go there once and then never again unless some new exclusives come out (e.g. HG G-Self Movie Version).
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https://youtu.be/slNuNy5oD_Q
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>>11794635
>still ends up cheaper to import from Japan than a train ticket down to stabbing capital of the world.
>>11795025
It will be like the HK one, I saw what was in the new Malaysian one in KL and it was pretty much all exclusive recolours and some normal kits.
Definitely not going to be worth the trip down, and those exclusive kits will just flood the more local shops that stock Gunpla anyway.
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>>11795621
the popup in germany was decent. they kept (and are still) rotating the inventory every few weeks. lots of the boring clear color and finish stuff but they had a lot of good exclusives too. namely all the gundam base limited kits, especially the fukuoka sazabi and rx93, the hg psycho zaku vs full armor gundam 10th anniv set (which isn't even available at the japanese gundam bases right now), the mg zaku warrior live concert version and to a lesser extent the gundam base rx78s and unicorns. that stuff used to be unobtanium here. i imagine london will be (and was) pretty much the same
in any case good to see that they remembered we exist. i really cant complain about the stock, they have more exclusives than any of the japanese gundam bases i've been to
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>>11794635
>have to go to London
Ah balls. I'll get stabbed for some [Clear Color], I love those goofy kits
Only been into this hobby for a couple weeks and seems I picked an excellent time, theres so much going on in terms of announcements and cool projects
My HG collection as tribute, the GFred and the Beargguy thats just out of shot were built by my partner, she wants to get more of the bears but they seem difficult to find
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>>11796751
There's a Beargguy Ohana at Waylan games but yeah, these things are pretty hard to find.
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>>11797552
broke of the arm and decided its battle damage
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ALL THIS ^ CRAP?
It's just cookies and identified unique to you, anon.
You certainly don't want to dox yourself and repost that crap.
EVERYTHING at and after the "?" was totally superfluous.
PROTIP:
You can just copy LIKE SO:
https://www.waylandgames.co.uk/hg-1-144-beargguy-ohana-aloharo-set-bai -mk66288
to share the link.
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>>11797674
Alternatively you could get some short wires in there, dip the ends in fluorescent orange and recreate this.
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>>11790705
looks pretty good
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>>11797957
it has some shortcomings, but this railgun thing is very impressive by sheer size alone, with a length of 30cm
the bright blue leds and the spinning motor with the whole thing being able to charge with a micro USB cable makes it quite a sight
I don't even know where I will display this thing
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>>11798122
Its a holder for some mine whips it does look like a space pack though
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>>11797957
is this the one that transforms or something?
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>>11799189
yes, the "transformation" consists in folding down the white segment on the front to fully reveal the barrel and close down the white covers over the spinning motor to reveal all the clear parts that shine when you turn the LEDs on
some sort of sniper mode I guess
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>>11797959
I finally have the time to start my one. It's going to look good next to my Hi-nu.
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>>11799627
It's Full Mechanics but it wasn't hard at all, it's basically a big HG.
The hardest part was doing the LEDs because you have to make some minor adjustments cutting and snipping here and there so they don't break the ribbon cables.
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I know this probably should be in sfw requests but what's the best store to ship internationally/Europe some Gaia/Mr hobby lacquer paints? They are at 10+ bucks in Ali and for how tiny they are it's not all that worth it
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>>11797674
maybe when it happens to a kit i care more about
>>11797833
thats a cool idea
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>>11791748
Nta, this was the kit where my eyes and hands started going to shit on me. I've had a fun time with various blokees so I'm kicking the wheels on grabbing a kit from walmart. I'd rather try something cheaper to see if I can keep the fun of building something going
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>>11800202
Anon, the actual thing that differentiates Ver. Ka is the huge waterslide sheet. The various Balls and Crossbones and Sinanjus and Unicorns use the Ver. Ka molds but aren't always labelled as such. So in this case, "normal" Master Grades are not actually any easier than a Ver. Ka kit, and HG kits remain the easiest for practice.
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Okay Gunpla General, old snapfag getting back into gunpla (mainly girlpla but have picked up some mobile suits and my first zoid for the backlog).
Redpill me on Godhands. Are they just overhyped nippers with only marginally better plastic nub trimming than a normal set of nippers and an x-acto knife? Or do they remove the need for a hobby knife all together? I’m just getting back to model-building after years and need to know whether I should splurge on such a tool. Way back I built one PG, multiple MGs, several HGs (both 1/100th and 1/144ths) plus some older gundam kits before Bandai started standardizing engineering such as the 1/144th Victory and V2 Gundams from the 90s. No experience with RGs, only have built 1 30MSister, 1 Figurerise Standard, and 1 30MPreference. All these were with cheap-ish plastic cutters and a hobby knife, which worked fine for me all this time but am I doing this all on hard-mode without a Godhand?
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>>11804656
You can get similar ultra-thin single blade nippers from Chinese brands like Dspiae and Stedi for half the price. IMO, what you should be checking out are nano glass files, they're more convenient for nub removal than hobby knife.
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>>11804699
>similar
Only if you don't care about plastic stress.
But if you paint stress doesn't matter.
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>>11804730
The issue is that on single blade nippers, the blade and the blunt side aren't perfectly level. So you'll end up with the tinniest nub that you need to clean with knife or files.
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>>11804745
The lip is there so you can grip the edge of the part. The blade goes flush with the part and the blunt side gives you the leverage to cut.
Of course, theres exceptions when the sprue is on a flat face, but generally the lip is an advantage and not a problem.
Though I will agree that dspiae nippers are definitely good enough. Cutting 3 mm runner isnt a realistic comparison, especially when the speed and force of the cut also matter a lot.
Source: I can get perfect cuts on my chink 3.0 nippers.
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>RG Refined Barzam modification kit
>HG Serpent
>HG Gelgoog 3
>Now this
does not our faith in official bandai gunpla deserve to be rewarded instead of being slapped in the face by KO companies?
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A long gone /gpg/ oldfag once said in this thread that your skill level is not about how difficult a kit you can build, it's about how big of a mistake you can recover from.
The mistake was not to liquid-mask a super-brittle part and hope the mask will somehow come off without the part breaking, the mistake was not replacing those 0.7mm plastic rods with steel ones from the very beginning.
Oh well, natural STAHL looks better than plastic painted with Alclad Stainless Steel anyway, so I guess it worked out for the better in the end (the hardest bit was dremelling out a groove for the rod in a tiny part).
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>>11806369
Soft tips that you put a small amount of thinner on to clean panel lines. They're reusable. Probably use them for other things as well.
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Getting back into the hobby after a long time out.
What's the strat for getting things smooth after sanding? Running my finger over the sanded part it always feels off.
Also been using an exacto knife to file nubs down but it feels like they always take more than they should. Like if I'm trying to file things to be flush it feels like they end up chipping inwards a little bit and creating a divot.
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What do you mean by off? Is it not flush enough or does the sanded part have different finish and texture than the non sanded part? If it's the latter you can get some cheap nail buffer to sand that part until it matches the surrounding area. If you want dedicated tool for it then you can get Gunprimer Balancers.
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>>11807396
My process is generally to double-nip the piece off the runner, hobby knife the nub down as close to flush as possible, then glass file until smooth. As long as the surface feels smooth to the touch, the extra sheen from the glass file doesn't overly matter underneath some paint.
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I kinda like these mini/micro versions of regular power tools. They are obviously quite useless for any legitimate woodworking, but for cutting plaplate and such? Perfect.
They also run on the same variable 12-24V power supply my watchmakers drills run on.
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>>11811196
I've been dancing around the idea of buying one of these and a desktop drill and sander, since my other available options are industrial grade shit. Unfortunately, it'll have to wait until I get a bigger desk (and bigger workshop room).
>>11811547
I literally found one today at Hobby Lobby, snagged it since I've wanted a second one for kitbashing purposes for a while. That being said though, I'm a stupid crazy fuck who makes terrible irrational decisions.
Conventional wisdom regarding RG Zeta is, it's fine so long as you pick one form and leave it in that form forever. The Revive Zeta is fine as a kit, because it doesn't make any structural compromises to facilitate the transformation the MS mode is quite good (at the very least it's a damn sight better than the old Delta Plus). So, your purchase of the HG was probably fine, unless you like the large amount of greebling that the RG gives you. You don't want to transform the thing unless you buy a metal frame that's more expensive than the kit itself.
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>>11811598
>The Revive Zeta is fine as a kit
The collar gets in the way of the head and the numerous stickers will wear off, and I found it very underwhelming as a kit for some reason, but you're absolutely right that it does its job without exploding. Granted it chose to compromise nothing for the Wave Rider, instead opting to give you a big adapter to plug half the Zeta's parts onto, but still
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>>11811709
The honest truth is, the Zeta transformation system isn't going to work at 1/144 scale without some serious advances in engineering and materials. The RG Zeta was an impressive achievement at the time, but much like the MG Victory it's something that works more as a showcase of engineering than an actual product. Besides the fact that these are model kits and not toys, the vast majority of people are content leaving the kit in MS mode since it's a lot cooler-looking and more posable that way. And in that sense, it can be perfectly fine to never give it a transformation system in the first place.
MG and PG can get away with transformation systems because they're bigger and you can use larger volume of plastic to make the transformation pieces stronger and more able to withstand the transformation process, but even they end up making compromises (for instance, how many of them implement ab crunch?). At RG scale, you may well need a metal frame, which could end up costing more than the entire original kit.
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>>11811710
>some serious advances in engineering and materials
Can you do it
Please
>the vast majority of people are content leaving the kit in MS mode
The Wave Rider mode for the HG is impressive and I want my Mk-II on it, it's just that the reassembly between modes sparks zero joy.
Do the MG and PG Zetas have no issues, both for transformation as well as in general?
>RG Metal Build
May as well buy a PG with that money...
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