Making the hotblooded people the bad guys.

>>22629681
Never plan on a sequel before it's greenlit

I think this movie is supposed to be ironic but it just didn't convey that correctly.

Depends on how you feel about making Ruri a protagonist and then getting rid of all the things people like about her. Like what's the point if she's not a sassy loli anymore.

I liked it until the ending, where Ruri just pressed the win button and then the movie ended. What was the point of gathering the whole crew?

completely going back on what made the original series so great in the first place. if >>22629869 is correct they are operating on some 4-dimensional humor way ahead of its time

>>22629869
Nah. Going by the Japanese wiki article, this is like the Eureka 7 situation, it's just we only got one movie for Nadesico. Basically the staff wasn't satisfied with the atmosphere of the Tv show and wanted to do something more serious, thus the movie's direction.

>>22631328
The staff was retarded and accidentally created something good, so they went back to try to improve it but just made it worse and unappealing instead?

>>22631328
>>22631606
If the staff wanted to make the atmosphere of the show more serious, they shouldn't have rapidly backed down from the plot revelations that <s>the "aliens" were humans who were wronged by Earth</s> and that <s>the "alien" civilization ultimately was corrupt against its own ideology.</s>

so this is what frierien ripped off...huh...now it all makes sense

What's with all the PoD threads lately? Make a regular Nadesico one next time.

>>22631315
Except it's not funny.

>>22631328
>the Japanese wiki article

None of the head writers for Nadesico worked on PoS

>>22631606
It's more common than you think!

>>22629681
It needed like 20 more minutes to show more of akito and what he is doing, but other than that, i liked it better than TV.

>>22632729
>None of the head writers for Nadesico worked on PoS
The director of the TV show was also credited for writing a few episodes and doing storyboards, and was the credited writer for the movie. I really wouldn't be surprised if this was a "we'll take turns putting our name as the credit" situation like so many writer's rooms are like.

Also food for thought since E7:AO was brought up: Sho Aikawa is credited as main writer for Nadesico TV series, wrote several episodes of E7, and was credited as main writer for E7:AO.

I get the impression this is a group of writers who just really like the "fuck you" version of sequels where everything goes to shit. It works sometimes, but if you don't pull it off everyone just hates you.

>>22632752
or maybe sho aikawa is just an awful writer. He wrote concrete revolutio and it was similarly retarded.

>>22632758
The guy's been around a while. I think he has some solid credits under his belt, probably most notably being credited a lot on the original FMA anime and of course Nadesico.

I'm not gonna write him off entirely but I will agree the majority of his work has been pretty forgettable. Though I think that goes for most writers if they've been in the industry long enough.

>>22632752
So he's the Lucas of Nadesico got it

>>22632763
I've never watched anything with him that doesn't have a stupid twist. FMA with the reverse isekai at the end is a good example.


[EG] Eureka 7 BD 1-50 (1080p, Dual Audio)

https://nyaa.si/view/1818926

I'm obsessed with these upscaling models.

>>22629510
I highly recommend you try it

Anonymous

>>22629510
I highly recommend you continue to be disgusted by it.

>>22629506
Thanks!! I was really excited after seeing your tests in the Gundam SEED thread, looking forward to this one.

The fuck is that cunt commenter on nyaa about?

>>22629838
He's technically not wrong, but as usual with internet discourse, people would rather shit on the effort rather than suggest how to improve it. More practically though, I'm not committing more time and money (electricity) than I feel like, so it is what it is. I think the results are still pretty good, and if someone wants to improve on them, that's cool with me.

Thanks as always man!

Just out of curiosity, what’s wrong with the official BD release?

>>22629905
https://imgsli.com/MjYzNjM2

See for yourself

Bumping this for the hell of it, I know some people were interested in the other thread.

>>22629838
Temporal stability basically means whether or not the upscaling model is stable in motion, which more often than not is more important than the actual "sharpness" of the model since videos have a temporal axis alongside the actual picture quality. If your model produces inconsistent results frame-by-frame, then it will look wobbly in motion. This isn't an issue for mathematical and traditional FIR filters.

[OZC]Eureka Seven E37 'Raise Your Hand'.mkv_snapshot_15.13.469.png

>>22629506
God the comments on there remind me of why I dont associate with anyone even remotely into this kind of thing. Autists of the fucking worst variety.

>>22631065
Looks like the same BD source as myself. Don't know if it's JP or US, but they both have the same shitty chroma bleeding.

>>22631065
I think this is nearly the same frame

>>22631102
Criticizing video artifacts is fair game, and Imgsli saves images as lossy jpegs so it shouldn't be hard to figure out why people might take issue with an uploader using that to showcase their encode or the output of an upscaling model.

A CHALLENGER APPEARS<br>Let see how those models handle having BOTH cel and early digital animation.

Was only gonna check the quality of one episode but instead ended up binging a couple.<br>Fucking hell... they don't make shows like this anymore...

>>22632023
You'd need to filter the shots separately.

>>22629510

This. Messed up colors and smearjobs just for the sake of it.

>>22632130
The colors are largely identical to the source. If you're comparing to OZC's version, do keep in mind he almost always adjusted the contrast of everything.

>>22629506
I feel like you should have compared to bonkai's release or used it as an input? OZC is fairly low quality already no?

>>22632225
Bonkai's is where I actually ripped the subs from (they were OZC's). It's the same gross source, and the filtering doesn't solve most of the problems, but I'll post comparisons later

>>22632053
This show is niche in such a way that I would not recommend it to anyone even though it is very good. It's something to get into on your own.


[Darkonius] Xabungle Graffiti (BD 1440x1080 H264 FLACx2)

Darkonius

https://nyaa.si/view/1819084
Xabungle Graffiti, official subs from the SD-BD, BD encode from U2, so you can finally watch it in decent quality.
https://nyaa.si/view/1812360
Also Xabungle TV batch, Hidive and AXSUS Hat subs, same U2 encode, since I didn't make a thread for it two weeks ago.

Anonymous

>Blurry, noise reduced encode
What is the fucking point even, the amount of these BD rips that are barely above DVD level up because the people capturing them decide to process them like this

Darkonius

>>22630212
The U2 encode is a simple 2pass. Sunrise shipped it that way. The BDMV's on nyaa if you want to try doing a better job, I'd appreciate if you could.

The BD is a big step up from the DVD master still, and the movie retains more grain than the TV show (which that screenshot is from, I wanted to use it for the TV batch thread that I didn't do since my internet was so unstable when I uploaded that).

Anonymous

>>22630202
I already seen it but that's pretty cool, thanks OP

>>22630212
>BD rips that are barely above DVD level
They’re like night and day, dude

>>22630202
>108 GiBs
damn, I can afford it but still.
How do is compare to the 2ndfire release?

>>22630202
>9GB
thanks for the BD release but that's too much for aan 80s show with low budget animation
can you do some encode?

Darkonius

>>22630780
I haven't compared the video directly, but this release is probably closer to transparent than 2ndfire, and it's not AV1 if compatibility is an issue.

The more important difference is the subs. AXSUS Hat subs are way worse TL-wise than the official Hidive/ Maiden Japan subs, and 2ndfire only has AXSUS Hat, while my TV batch also has the official subs. Those aren't perfect either but they don't have basic TL mistakes all over them at least.

>>22630809
Xabungle has some of the best animation of any mecha anime from 1982. It's far from low budget.

Also, this is an encode, even if it's on the bloaty side. What's on the BDs is probably three times the size.
I leave it to someone else to do a smaller encode of Xabungle, especially since I'm not an encoder and just grabbed this one from U2. This one's good quality while not being remux size, and the BDMVs are available on nyaa.

>>22630225
>>22630825
So I've said that the BDMVs are on nyaa, but it looks like the guy who uploaded it removed the torrent. Which is really fucking stupid ngl.
Since most encoders will have access to AB and U2 it's not that big of a deal, but still.

Anonymous

Nice, looking forward to seeing Graffiti. Thanks for your work!

Watched the series ages ago, you got me curious about the TL issues. Any comparisons available?

Darkonius

>>22631990
I'll do mostly stuff I can see at a glance in 1, but also some I remember from working on the show:
Episode 1, 5:54 Axsus put "Seems like he snapped out of it.", but the official subs correctly have "Looks like it's broken.", which is obviously correct, Jiron is constantly struggling with his broken arm in the first episode, and they even took him to a doctor over it.
9:08 is a question, "See any Walker Machines that strike your fancy?" that Axsus rendered as a statement: "Looks like there are some Walker Machines around."
12:59 Axsus has "I'll go have a better look." when he actually says "I've taken a liking to it."
13:49 Axsus is missing that Jiron is talking about "my future plans".
13:59 Axsus has "Well, it's hard being alone, right?" when it's really "Well, people all have their own circumstances, after all.". They misinterpreted the hito (person) for hitori (alone) and fumbled the jijou (circumstances) part.
15:50 both got this wrong actually, Axsus put that it's "right next to the Iron Gear", while official put it "inside the storehouse in front of the Iron Gear.", when it's really in the front storage section.
15:59 Axsus relates it to the previous line, "People aren't meant to be wrapped like presents." when it's got nothing to do with it, but with Elchi: "You can't judge people solely on appearances."
(I'll stop here, but rest assured there's a couple more later on in the episode)

Episode 15, 9:05 Axsus Hat inserted a joke about Horla's mecha having "plot armor" when he really said that "Its power's on another level."

Episode 30's title is "Atama ni kitara oshimai yo", which Axsus Hat translated as "If they get the head, we're done for", while the official subs put "It's All Over If You Get Mad". Atama ni kitara means "to get in one's head", i.e. to get mad, and AXSUS didn't pick up on this set phrase.

Official has its flaws as well (particularly the second half, they switched TLs halfway through), but it's definitely preferable to Axsus.

Anonymous

I dislike the new ending where <s>Arthur survives,</s> aware it's mostly a gag but still<br>even in the original ending, <s>Fatman surviving felt weird to me, his death was a really strong scene</s>

>>22632328
I liked <s>Fatman surviving. Him getting with Elchi made me happy.</s>

>>22632328
...doesn't he survive in the TV show? I swear he appears in the final shot.

>>22632970
Most of the civilians are unkillable maniacs. Don't forget even Timp took a nuke to the face.

>>22632060
>Episode 15, 9:05 Axsus Hat inserted a joke about Horla's mecha having "plot armor" when he really said that "Its power's on another level."

I really hated when subbers used to do things like this.

Darkonius

>>22632328
I think both work because of the gag, <s>Fatman because he's canonically indestructible, Arthur because it's Graffiti and anything goes.</s>
Graffiti has the added bonus of <s>giving Elchi a happier ending, since her losing eyesight permanently is kind of uncharacteristically dark for Xabungle.</s>

>>22632970
<s>Fatman comes running, but Arthur only appears as one of the Innocent when it goes through the people they met along the way; a handful of the characters shown there are alive at the end of the show, but most are dead.</s>

Anonymous

>>22632991
Eh, it didn't bother me in Xabungle. The show's not taking itself seriously enough (at that point, at least) for it to be a problem, unlike :3 or transgraham, which were irritating.


Bernard Wiseman did nothing wrong

>>22630011
Ofcourse he didn't. Why was this thread necessary?

>>22630011
He did nothing right either though. What a tool.

>>22630011
He did everything neutral colony

He is the absolute state any men should strive to be

i can't remember which game it was where he has piss poor pilot stats but also has the "gundam killer" title i remember finding this amusing.

>>22630033
you think it tastes good
><s>the jap burger not wiseman</s>

>>22630194
Was it a Gihren's Greed game, or maybe a G Generation one?
If I recall, he has huge stat growth in those and ends up being one of the best pilots if you max out his levels.

ngl i thought 0080 would be even more depressing
>bernie comes back and beats the gundam
>zeon nukes the colony anyways.

>>22630011
If he ran he'd still be alive.

>>22630011
Bernard admits in the video that a major reason why he's going to fight the Alex is because he's imagining his comrades insulting him for not fighting and dying, even if he thinks fighting and dying would be pointless. Bernard admits that a big part of what he's doing is basically caving to peer pressure and not taking a stand against his inner demons. There was the concern about the nuke too of course, but it wasn't the only concern, and then there's the fact that he made the mistake of thinking Zeon wouldn't just nuke a colony anyway.

>>22630011
desu part of me believes that the ending would have been even more impactful if he had been completely stomped by the Alex.

>>22630821
Where would he run to? Nukes don't discriminate.

>>22630011

>Rookie pilot assigned to Special Forces unit due to man power shortage

>>22630025
he corrected Alfred and made him realize that wars aren't cool like he believed them to be

>>22630011
Only thing he did wrong was not putting babies in her before he died.


>you see there was another guy who looked just like Casval, same height, weight, and age who happened to be nearby and was going to join the Zeons
>Casval stole his identity and the other guy conveniently died
Please tell me this origin shit isn't the real backstory of the original Gundam. this is laughable.

>>22629672
How about your try, I dunno, actually watching it.

>>22629672
The Origin only gets worse from here.

>>22629686
is this supposed to be newtype shit

>>22629690
no because that would imply the guy who touched him is also a newtype

this is just straight up 120% chunnibyou retardation

>>22629676
OP obviously knows. He just wants to make another bitch-thread.

>>22629672
That part exists in written materials from the 80s. It's not even an Origin creation.

>>22629717
Isn't it just that Casval stole the Char identity from someone else rather than the whole identical twin stuff? I swear to God, if Fukui spins some weird Zeonwank Newtype cloning shenanigans out of this . . .

>and then i got in a guntank and destroyed 3 other guntank
>then i had a swordfight with a medieval knight in a space castle
>then there was one indian ninja assassin guy that i had to fight with just a shovel
>then i was in the FIRST mobile suit vs mobile suit battle (no not that one, the SUPER SECRET one) but apparently they weren't actually mobile suits or something idk
>hey Kamille are you still listening?

>>22629731
>if Fukui spins some weird Zeonwank Newtype cloning shenanigans out of this
What do you mean "if"? He already did that like 14 years ago

Somewhat related, the New Translation of Zeta's ending was basically U.C. the good ending

>>22629809
F91 and crossbone happen no matter what.

>>22629814
The Ronahs might have a harder time developing weapons when they relied on their salvage service to secretly harvest mobile suit tech from debris fields to develop their own homemade MS, but yeah, they'll still rise up

>>22629814

Yeah, F91 and Crossbone still does.

New Translation's ending just made ZZ and maybe CCA don't exist

Origin gets maligned a lot for the char wank by those who haven’t finished the manga and only watched the OVA. Essentially what they were going for is that Char’s upbringing as the prodigal son of Zeon gave him a massive superiority complex that bordered on psychopathic, and this stuff gets paid off in the final Amuro confrontation when Char realizes how much this complex has changed him. That said, having a 7? Year old pilot a guntank is still fucking absurd.

>>22629686
This and the Basketball scene was what cemented this awful OVA as a comedy.
>And then I- I mean Char fucking obliterated that little zabi shit on the BBall court and all the girls swooned and Garma was seething with jealousy

>>22629672
The Origin and Unicorn are fanfiction and should be treated as the garbage fire they are.

>>22629699
no it wouldn't, newtypes project feelings to other newtypes a whole lot

you're right that it's not newtype shit though and just retarded

>>22629900
Worst part of the OVA was how Char just happened to intercept Revil as he was escaping Zeon but lets him go because Char has to be the super genius puppetmaster who's secretly in control of the entire One Year War.

>>22629894
I mostly just dislike Origin because most of the changes are pointless. Making Bright older is stupid because the original Gundam already has a decent enough explanation as to why someone so young would be in charge due to circumstance anyway. It doesn't add anything, it's just different for the sake of it.

>>22629731
How do you an anon is still seething about Unicorn?
Don't worry, he'll tell you.

The Origin isn't canon. And neither are the '79 compilation movies despite how most of the franchise's own creatives seem to have only watched them and not the actual show.

>>22630094
>And neither are the '79 compilation movies despite how most of the franchise's own creatives seem to have only watched them and not the actual show.
The 79 compilation movies clearly are canon considering how the CCA flashback had the Core Booster which never existed in the original tv show.

Sometimes people reference scenes from the tv show that are skipped in the movies, but when both showed an event the movie version seems to take precedent.

>>22629894
>Origin gets maligned a lot for the char wank by those who haven’t finished the manga and only watched the OVA
I've read the entire manga twice and have the hard cover collector's release from a few years ago and it's still fucking retarded. Yas's only redeeming quality is his art, it's pretty clear he had nothing to do with making the story good in the original anime.

>>22630278
Core booster is just a visual anomaly. The show is the one that always gets billed as the version to watch by sunrise

>>22629686
Why does that guy look like a big lipped Amuro

>>22630036
Fanfiction implies the authors liked the original
It's worse

>>22630316

I wonder how you'll feel when you find out that Fukui and Tomino are friends and collaboraters, and that Fukui was one of the other creatives who worked with him on the original planning for the Himiko Yamato story Tomino has been trying to make with 20+ years, with Fukui using elements of it to write his Lorelei novel a few years later. And that Fukui is a huge Tomino fanboy, while Tomino has spoken positively about the first episode of Unicorn after watching it.

>>22630551
>spoken positively about the first episode of Unicorn after watching it.
yeah, that's the show's high point

>>22630551
>erm did you know people that work at sunrise work together? therefore unicorn cannot be bad! lawgic trapped!

>>22630551
>I wonder how you'll feel when you find out that Fukui and Tomino are friends and collaboraters, and that Fukui was one of the other creatives who worked with him on the original planning for the Himiko Yamato story Tomino has been trying to make with 20+ years,
NTA but I knew all that. Okouchi also wrote several episodes of King Gainer; that doesn't mean G-Witch and Code Geass are good.
>Fukui is a huge Tomino fanboy
So it's fanfiction. Also the Articles are super self-referential to Gundam's tropes, which just goes to show that fans of a franchise should never work on that franchise.
>Tomino has spoken positively about the first episode of Unicorn after watching it.
He also said Wing was good but later recanted. Take anything he says with a grain of salt.

>>22629672
For me the UC ended with CCA. Everything after the Axis Shock is some newtype fever dream.

>>22629738
>don't forget that me and my buddy Garma instigated the first true hostilities that would become the one year war in college
>i was also personally responsible for the escape of general Revil

>>22630284
Then why did it take them until the 20th anniversary to release it on home video.

>>22629686
>>22629738
>>22629900
>>22630053
I love how Char does all this chuunibyou keikaku doori shit, but ultimately still gets his shit pushed in by some space Canadian mofo.

>>22630798
>erm..did you know talking about mecha on the mecha board is...le bad?!??!!?

>>22630855
Because Banrise is run by retards who think SEED is good.

>>22630899
given this is a thread about The Origin, it just makes all of you look like children flinging shit at each other

>>22630855
Because it was re-broadcast by regional stations like every other year

I want marry Char Aznable and be his personal cunt slave. Is that normal?

>>22630798
Nobody likes Unicorn as anything but a venue for toy designs.

>>22630934
if you aren't brown, I have bad news for you...

>>22630798
>having an opinion about the past is...le bad
Ever hear of history classes, nigger?

>>22629672
yeah The Origin kind of wanks Char a bit at times, but I'd argue it's balanced out by The Origin making it a lot more blatant that Char is a psychotic manipulative bastard who ruins the lives of everyone on his side he interacts with

Kamille, have I ever told you about my insane basketball skills? I land 3 pointers like nobody's business.

>>22631653
>Lt. Quattro, how do you know the parts where you weren't there?

>Like the stuff with Kycilia Zabi sleeping nude in her bed along with her killing her brother, Dozle proposing to Zenna Zabi after the Dawn Rebellion, and Amuro Ray's life before he got in the Gundam along with his father Tem Ray?

>>22631675
I will tell you when you're older, Kamille.
For now all you need to know is that Char was the best. And very handsome, too.

>>22631675
I just know Kycilia sleeps nude, okay? I don't want to talk about it.

>>22631679
>>22631680

>Lt. Quattro, it seems like Casval Rem Deikun, who became Char got mentally damaged, and possibly infatuated by Kycilia Zabi. A 19 year old woman holding an 8 year old boy's arms, towering over him, cornering him to a couch, and looking at him with a deranged look. I kinda doubt that Casval, or Char, managed to scare Kycilia, this is likely just a thing that Char tells himself because I think Kycilia did something to scar Char during that part in your story.

>>22631693
Kamille, have you ever shoot a woman who sexually molested you as a child square in the head with a bazooka?

*sips straight bourbon from coffee cup*

Char Aznable! I challenge you to a 3v3 game of basketball. First to 60 gets total control of the colony laser.

If somebody draws Jerid, Scirocco, and Yazan playing basketball against Kamille, Char, and Haman dressed like John Dark from Clone High I will give you absolutely nothing in return.

Kamille, have you ever been in a Zeonic prison?

The Origin was decent for Charma and mecha scenes. We finally got some fucking food, even if Garma was turned into a waifish, clingy, scaredy-cat useless uke to Char's rough, aloof, cold and hypercompetent seme.

>>22629672
I will live and die by the headcanon that The Origin is simply what Quattro told Kamille during the fade to black after he said to let him tell the tale of Char Aznable.

>>22632266
That Haman Karn is one tasty piece of bitch! You should date the crap out of her!

>>22629672
>two forced threads about the two forced Char's.
How fitting

>>22630932
They could’ve been making money on video rentals like Zeta Gundam and the movie trilogy.

>>22629672
I get mistaken for one person all the fucking time as O absolutely believe it.

>>22629738
Kek I like this post.
>The Origin is just a bar story from Quattro that ends up being so hard to beleive cause of his ego, but he's so absorbed he lacks the self awareness to see how ridiculous it sounds
This is my headcanon. The ending gets interrupted with Kamille saying that never happened! And him storming off, Quattro looks around the room and sees the entire argama crew raising a brow, and he wakes up to the fact he just outted himself when all Kamille did was ask who Char was and how the OYW went down.

>>22635016
>Oh yeah Amuro was totally a smelly NEET before I came along

>>22632182
I like his seiyuu's performance.

>>22629738
>then i was in the FIRST mobile suit vs mobile suit battle (no not that one, the SUPER SECRET one) but apparently they weren't actually mobile suits or something idk
don't have problems with that. There were so flew completly trained pilots for that operation, and char was simply among them since i already got Doile's references for that.
Also i'm not against the idea that the federation tried some bootleg prototype of their MS, just to get curbestomped hard. Makes sense they took that big L as training wheel to develop the gundam.

>>22629894
also some stupid changes, like that one where char betrayed that guy who gifted him the glasses just because he discovered his identity; meanwhile in the manga he was just a guy char befriended a bit, died in battle, and char was holding his picture during the funeral march.

>>22629731
Fukui retconned Moon Moon to be a secret federation newtype project, don’t forget

I had a dream about Scirocco last night, no joke

>>22643015
He was with a woman that may have been Reccoa. It was weird, we were in kind of fancy restaurant. He wasn’t the focus of the dream, just part of a larger story I guess.

>guntank and guncannon predate the gundam by several years
So how can the Gundam still be the first federation MS?

>>22643104
Early Guntank isn't a MS (apparently?) and the early Guncannon was an Anaheim design so totally different thing
yeah it doesn't make much sense

>Captain, this retelling of your life isn't true.

>>22643104
>>22643114
Both are considered "main battle tanks" than "mobile suits". Yes, even the Guncannon First Type.

>>22643104
>>22643114
Early Guntank and early Guncannon are classified as MBTs.
>Although it is a humanoid mobile weapon, it was developed with an overwhelming emphasis on artillery attacks, and thus the Earth Federation Forces categorized it as an MBT in the same category as the Guntank Early Type.

>>22629672
So many normalfags swear by this OVA. It's embarassing.

>>22630855
The movies got a home release before the full TV series, they were released on VHS in 1985. The release for the 20th wasn't even the first LD release, it was just notable for being a 'special edition' with all the audio redone (and made way, way worse)

>>22635019
What's worse?
>Being a smelly NEET
>Never managing better than a draw against the smelly NEET

>>22629731
It was always that Casval stole his Char identity from a guy that looked alot like him so that he could slip in without drawing suspicion. I don't think it was supposed to be a guy that looked like his identical twin though, just another blonde Caucasian guy of similar build and age.

>>22629841
>ZZ doesn't happen

Someone wasn't here for ZZ:ANT thread we had in the early 2010s. Shit was wild.

>>22629686
This stupid OVA made me want to fuck Garma

>>22645952
Amuro, I'm about to do something extremely wicked.


Which nation that done dirty

>>22629715
>Which nation that done dirty

>>22629715
They intentionally chose the Zebra for Kenya. Not the lion, the animal always used in mecha for cool shit. They specifically chose the Zebra and gave that shit a spear. They didn't think Kenya was cool enough for the lion, cheetah or even a hippo, rhino or bison. They chose a fucking Zebra. So disrespectful.

>>22629719>
>Turkey and Lithuania loves Japan
In what way?

>>22629719
No it's not, also
>Turkey
>Map of Europe

>>22629722
Clearly, they just used all those cool animals in prior year's fights and the Zebra gundam is one of the cooler animals they had left for this new suit they had to build for this melee hell of a meta.

God tier: God, Zeus
Great tier: Maxter, Rose, Bolt, Dragon, John Bull, Tequila, Lumber, Spiegel, Ashura, Nobel
Meh tier: Everything else
Why tier: Arachno, Skull, Mandala
Shit tier: Magnat

>>22629722
Thats a fucking Masai, Masai's HUNT lions

>>22629715
I am fucking offended Magnat was so generic.

>>22629719
>Germany kills Jews
>Switzerland watches
Hehehehe

>>22630430
>dress in the skin of your preys prey when you hunt them
Masai are monhun irl

>>22629719
>Latvia
>Cannot eat potatoes
Lol

>>22629715
S-Tier: Minarat Gundam, Master, Burning, Zeus
A-Tier: Bolt, Rose, Dragon, Spiegel
B-Tier: Noble, Pharoah
C-Tier: Maxter, Neros, Viking
F-Tier: the rest

>>22629715
I'm built like Skull Gundam IRL

>>22629715
Of the "main" ones, I'd say Spiegel and Nobel.
The others are an attempt to represent their country of origin but Germany got a Ninja and Sweden got Sailor Moon.

>>22632697
I guess SS Gundam would've been a bridge too far, even for G Gundam.

>>22629715
As SEAfag, I'm confused about Neo Malaysia and Neo Singapore Gundam.
>Malaysia = Skull?
>Singapore = Ashura?

>>22630308
>Neros in Meh tier
>Skull in Why tier
Shit taste.

>>22632868
i can kinda-sorta see how they came up with those when on tours. Borneo has headhunter tribes which display trophy skulls in their villages, some of which are sanitized tourist attractions. Meanwhile in Singapore, there depictions of many-armed gods at Hindu temples along standard tourist routes and many-arms = Ashura for the nipponese tourist i suppose.

>>22632868
>>22632893
Honestly the first stereotype that comes to mind when touring Singapore would probably be the Merlion, but they already had a Mermaid Gundam I guess so that'd be too similar maybe.

>>22632917
Would the Philippines gundam just literally be Voltes

>>22632931
Nah, it should be a dynamite-themed Gundam that’s named TNT Gundam.

>>22629722
Zebras might not be lions but they certainly arn't like horses or anything. Zebras will fuck you up.

>>22629715
>Gundam Matador
>It's a non-functional Bull
Typical Spanish

>>22632953
A horse kick can end you instantly.

>>22635883
The American one reminds me of the Flag from 00.

>>22629715
Iraq with Scud. Iraq/Syria/Palestine in pre-2000s anime always gets the cool-designed reps but they're either ep1 jobbers or they're the "pure evil" characters for obvious reasons of Japanese parroting western media.

>>22629719
Last time I've seen it posted yesterday it was described as "Europea according to Mainland China" you fuckers

>>22629715
>No Macaco Gundam (Brazil)
This was their big mistake

>>22629715
At least the clown gundam put up a decent fight. They built up the tequila gundam fight for the whole episode, then its revealed to be some goofy shit with a sombrero and it gets taken down like a fodder enemy.


commiting warcrimes w my models

>>22631013
Well, at least it's painted. That's more than 99% of /gpg/ ever does.

>>22631013
I mean it's alright, but holy mother of Christ, what is that black smudge on the V-fin?

>>22631454
You can already hear the muffled screams while A Day by the Sea starts playing.

>>22631013
You forgot the feathers with all that tar.

>>22631454
paint thinning is for tryhards


Yoshihisa Tagami’s GREY

>>22631082
That is indeed Yoshihisa Tagami’s GREY

You need do more other than just ape template threads.

Grey was a short, fun romp in a world made of lie-covered shit. The mecha ranged from WW2 clunkers to a gigantic floating version of that Buddha dildo, all lovingly detailed. The MC, although described by the author as "a punk," is a determinator par excellence.<br>Grey's anime adaptation was, hmm, acceptable, but imo the manga was pretty damned good.


Sir, I have some suggestions. How about we added one more eye to our Mobile Suits to increase vision on our Mobile Suits?

>>22631130
We won't be able to fund the Fedkiller 9000 if we do that. In fact, an autistic teenager just blew up the Fedkiller 8999 so you have the honor of piloting the 9000 and leading the next assault on Jaburo.

>>22631130
>increase vision
that's not how it works

>>22631130
Got it, we will build a giant mobile armor eyeball. The ultimate monoeye.

>>22631130
Son, we can't afford feet right now, and you want to go in and give everyone extra eyes?

>>22631148
>Gundam has 2 eyes, always wins against monoeyes
See the picture here anon

>>22631130
Private, it will makes our Mobile Suits look silly

>>22631130
NO, FUCK THAT, WE ARE NOT GUNDAM SCUM!

>>22631966
Zeeks are orks.
>green
>axes
>spikes

>>22631996
zeon is woke in requiem for vengeance sadly. Not proud space warrior race...

>>22632033
Their entire shtick is about being le oppressed and whatnot
They were always "woke" in the classical sense

>earthnoid: brown globohomo one world country
>spacenoids: purebreed ,superior being, the samurai of the universal century.
cope earthnoids scum

>>22632076
Why does vengeance of requiem depict zeon as woke and diverse race rather than glorious warrior alien in 0083?

>>22631996
To be fair, majority of background humans look awful in CCA

>>22632082
Because jews fear the samurai spirit, and now that they are done destroying the west they're coming for glorious Japan, it's gonna take a while because the japanese aren't as """"diverse"""" as other western shitholes but the plan is in motion first the culture then it's people.
ANAHEIM WON
EARTHNOIDS SUBHUMAN LOST
SPACENOIDS LOST


Gunpla/Plamo General - /gpg/

=READ THE GUIDE=

THE GUIDE: http://gunpla.buyfags.moe/

=READ THE GUIDE=

For those new to gunpla/plamo or even just new to this thread; please read the guide. Please read it before asking questions, as there is a chance it has already been answered there.

For the unclear, "plamo" is a shortened form of "plastic model". If it's made of plastic, someone can probably help you here!
If you're new, you're gonna fuck up. Don't worry! If you're experienced, don't make the new people worry!

And don't forget to report shitposting and spam.

>Why won't anyone answer my question?
Try being specific, especially about your materials and process. Post images whenever possible; even if the kit/part looks bad, you are more likely to get help posting images.

>Why are my pictures sideways?
4chan strips EXIF data from images when they're uploaded to the site from your phone, including the orientation display tag. To fix this, save your images separately, or use an app that will rotate and save the images for you.
One commonly used app that works well on Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/<wbr>details?id=com.simplemobilephotores<wbr>izer

Links:
>A guide to other types of plamo:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/1vf1a<wbr>w7v91pz5pa/Airfix%20Model%20World%2<wbr>0Specia%20-By-Step
>Kawaguchi gunpla tips:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li<wbr>st=PLJV1h9xQ7Hx-SoCOivVEHNDOl16VWLB<wbr>3A
>Gundam lineart:
Explore our extensive lineart links collection:
https://pastebin.com/KgGJFkHa
>Funaka's gunpla guides:
Building Gunpla: https://files.catbox.moe/fj5azc.pdf<wbr>
Scratchbuilding: https://files.catbox.moe/2d9ppa.pdf<wbr>
>Falldog's gunpla guide:
http://otakurevolution.com/content/<wbr>laymans-gunpla-guide
>Saintism's gunpla photography guide:
https://www.saint-ism.com/category/<wbr>gunpla/photography/
>Dalong's gunpla reviews and kit documentation
dalong.net
>Schizophonic's gunpla and plamo reviews
https://schizophonic9-2.com

Past Groupbuilds:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/19789<wbr>1373@N06

Previous thread: >>22625085

==INDIRECT COMBAT ROLES GROUPBUILD==

Build a mecha or vehicle that is meant for an indirect role in combat. This can concepts such as:
>Electronic Warfare And Communications & Airborne Early Warning And Control
>Minelayers and long-range weaponry spotters
>Scouting and Surveillance
>Commanding roles
>Sub-flight units to aid MS (Base Jabbers)
>Field Repairs & Supply
Basically any kind of combat role that isn't just "Robot made to shoot/punch another robot"

Submit your entries to gunplaplamo@gmail.com , include at least 5 finished pics and any WIP pics you took while working on your entry, as well as a brief description of your build.

START: 4/24/24
END: 7/31/24

>>22630214
The legs and half of the arm shouldn't be blurred in this image.

>>22629796
Not quite. Just counted my unbuilt kits and I have 41, but I have another like 20 on preorder or waiting shipping right now.
Counted my paints and I have 113 unique gaianotes paints, 57 unique mr color paints, 22 unique born, 19 unique tamiya, and 80+ mix of vallejo and pro acryl for minis.
I'll have a backlog until I die I'm fairly certain with how slow I am to paint anything.

are there any good battery compressor + airbrush combos? Or am I gonna have to buy the compressor and airbrush separately<br>asking about the battery compressor because I'm in a small space and can't make much noise so I can't get the other big ones

>>22630216
Need some touch up on FX and to still build the Bazooka but this silly little project is almost done

>>22630274
You'll be sorely regretting getting one

>>22630274
This combo is pretty great and it's quiet and cheap, it's on sale right now. I've been using it almost every day for five months and I don't have a complaint other than the airbrush holder doesn't like to stay in the compressor lol. If you're concerned about space and noise and you're just starting out it might not be a bad place to start

>>22630274
Hobby mio HM-01 with the miniature valve is a good option for a battery powered compressor.

Does anyone here ever did or commissioned 3D printing parts for gunpla?

has anyone put together the hg mechanics neue ziel ? i like the fat cock thruster but it’s s so old idk if it’s worth getting scalped for

>>22630356
No, but I've printed some before. What are you looking for?

>>22630360
You can get it for $40 and under pretty regularly

I just want artifact designs in 1/100 scale. They're too good to be so tiny.

>>22630382
I don't like artifact designs because all their feet look retarded

>>22630386
you are a modeler, just change them

>>22630386
Depends on which one but I think its generally because there's no ankle or its a weird little tiny ankle. Like the nightingale, palace athene, ex-s and hi nu all look good. But then the tallgeese, super gundam, wing gundam etc look weird because the connection between leg and foot are so weird

Mr Hobby smells better than Tamiya' lacquers

>>22630372
i’ll wait it out on ebay then ty

>>22630418
the suicide squad

>>22630418
based, designated chud-stompers

>>22630395
it is the loss of ankle armor combined with how they either get weird cloven feet or get rid of cool big zeon hover feet. the Zaku III randomly was given dijeh feet. the Ricardo Diaz was given weird feddie style feet instead of the cool pointy toes. Nightingale lost all the ankle skirts.

>>22630360
I found one for dirt cheap at a local store for 15 bucks, but honestly its not really worth more then that

I've been stuck on one HG for months<br>How do I get the drive back

How serious is HLJ with their "ship this shit by friday or we're canceling it"?

>>22630481
if they give you a written date you need to ship by, then they are serious.
if they say "x days until this needs to be shipped" they are not serious yet.

>>22630498
Sorry to break it to you, snapshitter, but all your precious gunpla is toys.

>>22630274
>asking about the battery compressor because I'm in a small space and can't make much noise so I can't get the other big ones
big ones with tanks are quieter, they only need to run to pressurize the tank and then go silent. and then again to bring it up to the target pressure if it gets low
the little ones are constantly making noise the whole time you airbrush

>>22630485
I double checked the email and they did give a hard date but only for items bought august or earlier. The only thing in there is from december, so it's their problem for a few more months.

>>22630510
The small tanks don't last as long as you think, you'd need to start at like 2 or 3 gallons for it to really last you a paint session. The little compressors can handle most paint brush requirements while being fairly quiet even when running, like a gaming PC, whereas large compressors sound like fucking lawn mowers. Sure, you might listen to the noise for longer, but it's still a lot less unpleasant than a big ass compressor coming on for a few minutes.

>>22630521
>large compressors sound like fucking lawn mowers
maybe if you're using a giant overpowered one meant for whatever garage/garden tools use compressed air, but the smaller sized ones people use for airbrushing aren't very loud at all. if you have it directly on a hard floor you can hear the rumble of it vibrating through the floor in the room below, but you can curb that by putting it on some rubber or something soft. the actual thing itself is quiet.
my spraybooth fans on the other hand are as loud as a fucking vacuum cleaner

>>22630507
>snapshit defense of SD GUNDAM
Rich. Unlike your $7 hollow kits that need zero effort

>>22630533
>need zero effort
post (you)r painted SDs

Have you ever looked at a design and thought that they went too far?

>>22630572
I feel that way with the majority of new kits being released.

>>22630572
it already went too far the moment the regular version transformed into NTD mode

>>22630572
I love the Unicorn so I'll gladly take more variants

>>22630572
I want to build it but don't want to keep that ugly thing in my house.

>>22630572
Individually each of the Unicorn gear equips are okay. Strapping all of them on at once is overkill though. Although, I'm not a big fan of the standard Full Armor either. Neither of them actually attach more armor to the Unicorn, despite the name.

>>22630572
Half of all new UC designs added since the turn of the century have made me feel that way honestly.

>>22630604
Technically the shields are armour.

Finished my second kit. The first one was the HG RX-78-2, so this was an entirely different thing. A lot harder, and i’m not sure if it was due to my lack of skill or because the quality is not the same as Bandai. Does that make sense? Some of the parts didnt fit so well. One of the shoulder pads is really loose.

Anyway, I like the result though, mostly because I love the Ingram.

I have 4 kits in my backlog. This is a great hobby, i’m loving it. I hope to talk more about it here in the future. The next one is HG Zeta

>>22630574
Unicorn mode looks like shit with all the random creases and edges too. What's wrong with simple flat surfaces?

>>22630627
>I cannot comprehend more than 5 connected shapes at once
actual 2nd grade mentality

I'm literally lmaoing at the bootlicker that was defending square enix model kit prices. Watched some reviews of the xenogears ones and they're like kits from the 90s. Smaller than a typical hg, have seam lines on almost every single part that has to get fixed, printed in a single color, and poor fitting joints all while costing way more than an HG. Its seriously pathetic that anyone would defend that.

>>22630631
Unicorn is just a lazy design. It has absolutely nothing interesting going on in its shape, so it just gets a bunch of random lines slapped onto it to make it busier.

>>22630639
Because the gimmick is the entire thing opening up and revealing red glowy bits. If it had a crazy silhouette it'd be a bigger mess, just like the FA Unicorn Perfectibility.

>>22630640
>Because the gimmick is the entire thing opening up and revealing red glowy bits
Cool, it still looks like shit. Destroy mode does too.

>>22630276
You're missing the best AGE Gundam.

>>22630637
never seen any square enix kits but seams are fun to fix and plastic colour is literally irrelevant because it's getting painted anyway
comparing to bandai prices is a recipe for failure

>>22630484
NTA but you sound like a candy assed faggot

>>22630619
>Finished
No you didn't. All you did was put it together. You're still at Step 1.

>>22630572
>Katoki specifically designs a Gundam to be difficult to turn into a toy
>Bandai makes more toys of it than seemingly anything else

>>22630637
>he thinks $20 is overpriced
Get a fucking job

>everyone dogpiling on SD hate but can’t bring themselves to say anything good about the shitty SDs
Le kek

SD kits and square enix """"""kits"""""" are overpriced slop

this thread has been particularly shit over the last three days or so

>>22630696
havent had a good thigh post in afew days it seems

>>22630671
Yeah I'm reading about panel lining rn as per >>22630638 suggestion

I wish they'd stop making those tacky SD fantasy warriors and just make some higher quality normal SDs.<br>Also SDMG 00 Qant when?

>>22630619
It's a bit of both regarding difficulty because your nub cleanup is shit (buy sanding sticks and sponges, as well as a better nipper) but the vast majority of non-bandai kits are also generally slightly lower quality in comparison. IMO moderoid/koto/etc. kits all feel to be made with the expectation of the modeler putting in the work to make it look better (welding seams, painting) so it's probably better that you're trying other stuff sooner than later. Otherwise you'd end up like the bandaibabies who cry about the initial real grade frames and kotobukiya having "brittle" plastic.

>>22630696
It's been exceptionally shit since that faggot started spamming images of his fucked up thighs

>>22630728
nah that's not the problem. It's the usual "x slop" shitposting and so on that has gotten more egregious. Again.

>>22630728
Thighs aside, Thigh-anon actually posts builds and wips and is actively making an attempt to progress in terms of skills in the hobby, he even started painting and asks genuine questions and participates in discussions. I don't think he is the problem lol

>>22630737
>lol
You are him, stop shitting up the threads.

>>22630572
I fucking hate all versions of the Unicorn except the main one

Can mr surfacer be mixed with colors? I've run out of mr color white, but have plenty surfacer white left. Don't wanna wait for a delivery before continuing this project if that works

>>22630805
1500 can be used in place of normal paint, lower grit has a noticable difference in finisg

>>22630676
It's ok but get the super Gundam if you're not going to get the revive version.

>>22630859
good, that's the one I have, ty anon!

>>22630276
I’d like this to be the next thread image. It’s wholesome

>>22630737
retarded nigger. every time he posts the thread gets shitted up by faggots who think it's funny to be ironic and pretend it's appealing and not disgusting

>>22630479
>>22630925
just stop thinking about doing it and actually do it and you will get your motivation back

>>22630871
Allow me to interject, the "Gunpla G35 Revive Project" was a limited branding used for 5.5 kits (Guncannon, RX-78-2, Freedom, Mk II (normal/racist) and Qubeley) during the Gundam 35th anniversary event. The branding was subsequently dropped for all following kits and removed from subsequent reprints of the original "Revive" kits. "Revive" isn't a denotation that was used subsequently by Bandai, and is merely terminology that was incorrectly applied by reddit to kits never released as such.

>>22630965
um akshually, that's branded as "REVIVAL" not "REVIVE"

>>22630871
I was thinking Build Mk II actually.

>>22630965
Have I been doing it wrong in clipping the back of the v-fin off?

It's crazy that original HGUC RX-78-2 still remains the best "modern" 1/144th interpretation in terms of proportion and style.

I wish Bandai do Amplified IMGN for SD Gundam

>>22630479
put on a podcast while working to distract yourself from procrastinating

>>22630985
The best in what way? People seem to fetishize stout and bulky depictions of the RX-78-2 but that's never what it looked like in the show, it was lean, flexible and moved like a human being.

>>22631004
>People seem to fetishize stout and bulky depictions of the RX-78-2 but that's never what it looked like in the show
That's literally what the picture you just posted looks like. It's barrel chested, has thick thighs and calves, and overall built like a strong man

>>22631008
anon the shoulder is half the width of its head

>>22631008
>barrel chested, has thick thighs and calves, and overall built like a strong man
ah yes

>>22630479
This >>22630939. Take a deep breath and just do it.

>>22630938
>doesn't deny the issue
i accept your concession

>>22631010
No it's not, it's just receding into the background. Whenever there's a clear shot of the Gundam it has boulder shoulders, thick arms, thick waist, and broad torso

Mobile Suit GUNDAM 0079 - Ep. 01 - Gundam Rising (720p DUAL Audio).mkv_snapshot_20.49.498.jpg

>>22631021
...and stick legs
Anon, consistent proportions in MSG were more of a lucky coincidence than anything else.

>>22631008
Also, human shoulders aren't that big, so half the width of the head would be a pretty good accomplishment in terms of physique. The Gundam has the proportions of a strongman caricature and always has. A lot of the MS do. They have thick trunks, wide torsos, and thick limbs like someone who needs a lot of functional strength. Modern day MS designs all have tiny waists with long slender legs, especially slender thighs.

Mobile Suit GUNDAM 0079 - Ep. 01 - Gundam Rising (720p DUAL Audio).mkv_snapshot_20.13.555.jpg

>but it only looked fat because of in-betweens where it was in dynamic motion!!

>>22631027
>...and stick legs
No, legs receding into the background dumbass

>>22631031
I just wish a kit came close to these proportions.
the ver anime doesn't get close as it exaggerates the bad keyframes instead of the nearly perfect ones like this.

>>22631039
I like skinny robots too, but some brick shithouse robots are needed to keep things mixed up. Nagano understood this before he went senile and incontinent.

>>22631039
i like both
gundams are supposed to be fat
mhs and gtms are supposed to be skinny
simple as

>>22631034
The knee is in front of the waist

>>22631041
Could a modern Nagano EVER design the Blue Armour?

>>22630572
yeah, I feel that way for the later unicorn stuff and some chinese kits. It's a bit ironic though, because my first kit was the HG psycho zaku, which wouldn't be out of place among those kits. I guess they keep making these overdesigned kits because they have their own sort of appeal.

WIP, HG Ez8 is 80% painted, EG RX-78-2 is 80% primed. Spoons are in experimenting with translucent colors over metallic instead of the usual alcad chrome. Doing one gloss clear and one flat clear

>>22631049
not unless he gets some new flavor of dementia that makes him flip to doing fat designs only

>>22630935
And yet you shit up the thread even more than anyone else by constantly whining like the fucking woman you are. Do us a favor and fucking kill yourself you putrid mongrel because you're the only one still here shitting up the thread. Fucking tourist.

>>22631041
>Nagano understood this before he went senile and incontinent
Did the two ever actually coexist in the series outside of the stretch from Traffics to the beginning of the Majestic Stand
Feels like before then everything was beefy and after that everything was wasp waisted with heels

>>22631038
The closest is probably the MG 2.0, but even that one suffers from being kind of gangly looking.

>>22631054
Wasn't the Hermine considered an ugly piece of shit in universe

>>22631064
I really like the 2.0, it's probably my favorite incarnation. But it still lacks the more idealized "heroic" presence that the Zaku mask pull keyframe above has.
>>22631067
Ugly things can be cool.

>>22631074
The vast majority of Mortar Headds never do anything cool.

>>22630991
Alex
Perfect Gundam
Hyaku Shikki
Zaku III
08th MS Team Gouf

>priest headliner and shota fatima
what did nagano mean by this?

>>22630991
nothing needs a 2.0
we need 1.0s of
kampfer
qubeley
hyaku shiki

>>22631069
>I really like the 2.0, it's probably my favorite incarnation. But it still lacks the more idealized "heroic" presence that the Zaku mask pull keyframe above has.
I think if the limbs and waist were just a few mm thicker it'd look better, but yea the proportions are too off to get it just like the anime. Even the old kits don't really get it right. This >>22631035 thing is more of a recreation of the old toys, rather than an anime accurate kit

>>22631095
>is more of
You mean literally is. It's a remade, snappable and colour accurate version of the original kit bro.

>>22631101
It's the fucking Antichrist is what it is

>>22631097
that just needs any kit, really

>>22631099
rather that then reddit reposts and shitpost central

Haven't seen all the Shizuoka news, please tell me there was an update on pic related.

>>22631055
>nothing but ad hominems
i accept your concession

Retard impulse buyer here, where the fuck do I sell the excess kits I'll never have time to build in <s>the GTA</s>? My backlog is beyond 140 and I have no more space for kits.

>>22631146
Glad the Barzam II hasn't hit yet, I've spent too much this month.

>>22631159
If you want to get rid of them quickly, list them on Ebay for reasonable prices instead of scalping.

>>22631159
I'll help you out, and even do it free of charge
just send them my way

>>22631169
>ebay
I'll try that, just not sure if people usually prefer kijiji/facebook/some other platform. If they were local it would save me having to ship it and I don't mind handing it off in a parking lot desu.

>>22631146
>bunch of repeats
Meh. But I'm spending way too much on this shit as it is, so I need to work on the backlog instead.

>>22631183
Craigslist and FB Marketplace are great places for local listings.

>>22631159
go to a local hobby shop and do some sweet talking, offer to sell to them for a reasonable price

>>22631159
I live downtown and would buy some but I'm antisocial

Saw the Dendrobium at one of the Gundam Bases, it's massive.

>>22631225
Shytarn certainly has to be one of the least popular gunpla kits ever made just for being a pretty random V grunt. <s>It's dope as Hell though.</s>

>>22631231
What are the biggest models anyways?
I can think of the Neo Zeong, Dendrobrium, Deep Striker, Psycho Gundam, and the Hathaway Gundams.

>>22630994
>tfw we're absolutely going to get another fucking zeta that people are going to bitch at nonstop, shelfwarm, and then more bitching about why isn't there a new zeta kit

>>22631237
I assume you mean official kits. There are some 1/35th Resin GKs, Ex-S for instance, that are enormous. But going even further, the 1/12th HY2M is solidly the biggest gunpla model you can get.

Why do all the toyfags get all the good shit

>>22631242
Anon that literally got a kit about 2 months ago.
Now the Enryugo? We're going to be waiting on that for a while.

>>22631233
I was alive when it was just released. It was a heavy gun platform with multiple gun ports all over its body.

>>22631004
I wish the ver.ANIME figure looked more like that.

>>22631008
Yoshikazu doesn't draw the calves that thick, they're usually pretty in line with the thighs, but his shins are thinner.

>>22631054
>>22631067
lol retconned even when it was still an MH
>>22631056
>Did the two ever actually coexist in the series outside of the stretch from Traffics to the beginning of the Majestic Stand
Nope. Nagano's greatest trick was pretending that the Gothicmade redesigns are something different when he was slowly retconning all his existing designs into that direction even when they were still MH.

>>22631254
I was too but I was barely cognizant of the world. I'd kill for a Royal Guards type to get a modern model honestly. Gengaozo is my real desire from V though.

>>22631242
Damn that is an UGLY ass stand.

>>22631261
>in that direction
Just because MH got skinnier and more elegant doesn't mean they became GTMs. GTMs have an entirely new joint structure and are completely different in design to anything that appeared in any pages of the FSS manga. There is a very distinct jump which is why they are all their own designs. It's a much bigger difference than flat footed LED Mirage with meat on its bones vs high heeled supermodel LED Mirage.

>>22630619
I myself just finished the anime again and am watching the live action series.

>>22631268
>GTMs have an entirely new joint structure and are completely different in design to anything that appeared in any pages of the FSS manga.
No one cares. The biggest difference between the old and new designs were the proportions. Nagano was in the middle of giving all MH longer waists and zigzag limbs and would have done it with or without the rails and rebranding.

>>22631277
Show me one design with the retarded GTM joint assemblies.

Screenshot 2024-05-14 at 23-40-51 Making Gothicmade - Panel by Mamoru Nagano Maria Kawamura and Shinichirô Inoue Niigata International Animation Film Festival - fullfrontal.moe.png

>>22631049
>>22631054
He still does when he feels like it.

>>22631286
>the limit was pretty much around the gastness temple
>I couldn't keep changing them bit by bit
>so you went for changing them all at once
Exactly, there is a fairly hard delineation between the GTM designs and where MHs ended up.

>>22631324
>hard delineation
>"Its silhouette was just so troublesome, just getting closer and closer to a GTM. "
Are you dyslexic?

>>22631339
>and I'd be desperately fixing it as I drew it going "No, Mortar Headd, Mortar Headd."
Are you?

>>22631309
that's a headdliner, not a GTM

>>22631388
>literally admits to struggling to keep MH from becoming GTM body type
>hard delineation
Cope harder

>>22631406
>acknowledges his design isn't fitting into the classification because he's trying to draw it too much like his new designs
>this somehow means the designs are interchangeable between the series despite it being the exact opposite of his point
Just learn to fucking read.

>>22630619
>>22631275
Jesus Christ the live action series is a full on comedy.

to the bro a couple threads ago, let me just finish the grey zeta then i'll put this together.

>>22631242
moderoid villkiss just came out

>>22631051
"Overdesign" was never a cons. The problem with Chinese kits is that they look boring, like those hyper-rendered artworks you see on Artstation.

>>22630675
With 20 dollars you can Bandai kits with colors, anon. These colorless stuff is just not worth it.

>>22631461
Why does that matter when I paint my kits?

>>22631461
But you're supposed to paint it anyway so why does it matter what color the plastic is?

>>22631467
>>22631470
It is like when you buy expensive set of new clothes but the clothes have shit stain all over it. You are gonna wash them anyway, right?
Have some standard, you fucking faggot.

>>22631474
This doesn't make any sense. It doesn't matter what color the plastic is since you're gonna prime it all white/gray/black. You sound like someone who complains about paying more than $1 for a burger just because you're used to McDonald's

wow cool this whole retarded bait exchange again what a novel series of posts

>>22631475
Yes i will complain. I buy 30MM's colorless parts all the time and they cost me 5 dollars. Colored stuff are for snapfit stuff and they deserve the price tag. You don't to go extra just to buy something worthy of 5 dollars.

>>22631467
Why would you paint your kits when they're molded in the correct colors already?

i applaud the chinks for making a genuine bandai gunpla look like a knock off!

>>22630604
the "full armor" name is actually a misnomer. "full armament" or "full weapon" is more appropriate. ironically, HWS Nu Gundam looks more armored than armed. i have a feeling they mixed up the names and Unicorn is supposed to be called Unicorn Gundam HWS while Nu is Full Armor Nu Gundam.

>>22631570
Have you put any thought into this beyond the 5 seconds it took to type that post?

Like that Nu HWS existed for well over a decade before FA Unicorn?

>>22630637
to be fair to Squeenix, they aren't a plastic model company in the first place, so they don't really have an incentive to "innovate" and adapt modern technology for a very limited run of toys that would only see like a few thousands in print.

>>22631571
i'm aware, i just find the mix-up funny.

>>22631573
Fair then. They could certainly be swapped. Nu's is definitely more about adding weapons though so HWS fits. Unicorn's is the one that really doesn't.

>>22631555
For real, i only repaint if the kit has a colorscheme i don't like. I don't care if 4chan faggots call me a snapshitter or not, it is not mandatory task.

Quick question, /gpg/, if I don't ship this before the 10 days, what happens to the model kit that's sitting in the HLJ warehouse? I'm asking because I want to wait a bit more (a month) until a few more kits get released so I can ship them all together.

>>22631623
You'll be alright, they're changing the time from 60 to 180 days, and they're only really forcing people to ship stuff if they've had it in the private warehouse from last year or longer.

>>22631625
I saw that email, they're only changing that from June. I'll email them and ask them if they can keep this kit a bit longer. I just want to get the BFF 063AN Ambient, Nineball=Seraph and Interior Union Y01-Tellus all together in one parcel.

>>22631632
I got this from them a few days back, I doubt you'd need to email them

>>22631637
That's fine then, I don't have anything older than Noblesse Oblige in my private warehouse. Thanks, anon.

>>22631656
god damn fss people are too autistic

>>22630737
I for one think he should cut deeper. Really get in there ya know? Into the meat of things so to speak.

>>22630332
will probably grab this one, thanks

>>22631704
on second thought I might not, after digging deeper seems this one has its issues too
looks like all these battery ones are weak chinkshit. Guess I'm gonna have to look into getting the real ones, what a pain

>>22630572
I liked it better without the tail stabilizers.
Also, the Perfectibility Divine is worse.

>>22631138
https://x.com/sakuramochi_s/status/<wbr>1789457712100852038
Still in the soon(tm) phase.

>>22631562
me every time I see the Eclipse Gundam.

Did Luxemburg anon die? I hope it was painful!

>both are non anime gundam
>both received most of the grade lines
Why are they so popular while other non anime Gundam isn't popular enough to get this treatment ?

>>22631763
Because they're really good designs.

>>22631734
Figures. Thanks for the confirm.

>>22630216
Painted the frame, only weapons, eyes and decals left to do now

>>22631792
Whole thing is topcoated with fluorescent clear. I was surprised by how much the brightness is influenced by the coat under it, only used it a single color at a time until now. Doesn't look terrible though.
I do need to get a bigger blacklight though, my current one is too small so it only lights up one part of the kit at a time which isn't really cutting it for photos

>>22631797
>>22631798
YOU'VE BEEN HIT BY
YOU'VE BEEN STRUCK BY
A SMOOTH CRIMINAL

>>22631763
Its funny that you question the ways of Bandai. Their thought process is a enigma to us all

>>22631827
Native Japanese companies (read: not sony) all seem to be weird. Take Nintendo for example. However, bandai takes the cake for everything they do being nonsensical. They truly stumble their way into accidental success.

>>22631827
i mean in this case there's really nothing enigmatic about it. Crossbone and Astray have both been very popular for a long time, it's not a surprise they get RGs especially when each has a number of variants they can reuse the molds for.

>>22631562
Why did they turn my boy Providence into a stupid ass looking muscle car with flames. Im calling the manager, absolutely unacceptable

>>22631562
okay the flame decals are pretty funny

>>22631835
They have less than zero taste.

>>22631183
I almost exclusively use Ebay, theres a big market so you should have no issue selling, especially if you sell slightly cheaper then others with the same kit

>>22631622
You do care, or else you wouldn't feel the need to announce that you don't. Snapshitting faggot.

>>22631832
But there are numerous lead gundams from shows and OVAs that aired on TV that have yet to get a RG kit. As much as I like Crossbone, the lack of a RG V2, RG Double X, RG ZZ, and RG Turn A is just odd.

>>22631851
none of these would sell as well

>>22631853
this, an RG would offer next to nothing that the HGUC doesn't already.

What top coat should I use on pearl paints?

I am so sick of paying upwards of 70-100 CAD for a regular sized HG pbandai kit. I've used many different proxies and middlemen services but it all basically adds up to this price range due to shit like shipping, and customs rape tax. Why is it that bluefin or whoever the fuck is in charge of distribution in North America, still hasnt fixed whatever was the reason for pbandai canada's shutdown in 2019? And how is it that some local stores here are somehow acquiring some pbandai kits to sell to desperate leafs? They're buying from bandai directly right? Then why are they reselling them for prices as low as 99 CAD (BEFORE TAX (AND SHIPPING, assuming you're not closeby))? My local store has a bunch of stuff like HG Aqua Hambrabis for literally 99 bucks, rotting there on the shelves, I'd buy it if it was 30 CAD, not 99.

>>22631853
Turn A wouldn't sell because it's ugly, contrarian ameriniggers will never admit it though

>>22631851
Bro, it got an MG before literally all of those except ZZ, too. Crossbone is one of the longest running Gundam manga out there. There are a lot of simple recolours with minor part variation for variants. It's a very standout design in the sea of Gundam for being a pirate. It's one of the few designs that to both UC grogs and younger fans. Almost all the same shit applies to Astray as well, except it's even more popular. Hence why it has a PG.

Always remember that manga is a huge deal in Japan. Not being in an anime isn't really a debuff like here.

>>22631868
Why do burgers hate reading so much?

>>22631865
>I'd buy it if it was 30 CAD, not 99.
The Aqua Hambrabi is 36 USD on the US p-bandai store. That's 50 CAD

>make mom smell mr hobby surfacer and gaia surfacer
>says mr hobby smells sweet
>says gaia smells like death
Bros will gaia surfacer kill me in my sleep ? <s>I'm eager to finally try out gaia paints</s>

>>22631868
it was also in a time where bandai wanted to sell bolder designs and took more risks.
even more risk tolerant designs (MG Geara Zulu anyone?) are still being skipped over. Zulu could be milked into infinite P-Bandai variants.

>>22631865
Everything in Canada is heavily marked up. Why? No idea. I guess it's to pay for the "healthcare". In the US we also have marked up prices but nowhere near as bad as you (most of the time) so we have no recourse to offer you.

>>22631886
Burgers just read capeshit. Manga has never been particularly accessible in legal formats. Manga still has to be translated even today, too, unlike nearly every anime already having English subs when airing now.

Just waiting on the moderoid linebarrel and AMAKUNITECH gaogaigar this month before shipping the 27 things I have in my private warehouse. Shipping looks like its going to be around 250 dollars

How much have you spent on gunpla /gpg/? Do you regret it?

>>22631914
>Burgers just read capeshit
Demon Slayer outsold the entire American comic book industry. Not even Americans read comics anymore.

>>22631949
I used to, then I spent more money on a single resin kit than I have on all of my gunpla kits combined and that put things into perspective

are there any places that report on newer bootleg releases? those guys who made the woundworts and the lfrith jiu made me go back into chinkpla and now that someone made the origin gundam im eager to see whats next. I even have a bootleg backlog now.

Pic related, my favorite bootleg build

>>22631949
Realistically around 5000. No. Most other hobbies are a lot more expensive and I have a lot of fun with it.

>>22631975
I've been looking at the bootleg Woundworts on Aliexpress. Do you happen to have a name/link for that one? It looks good.

>>22631975
best method I have is checking bilibili for updates from them - search "星峰社" to get results. From there I found out they recently made the Psycho Blade version too, and before that TR-6 Hazel II. Also some other stuff like HG Hi Nu and Windam.
Other than that these things tend to show up pretty soon on aliexpress and for once the awful search engine will work in your favor as you're gonna see these things when searching for other stuff like the Woundwort.

>>22631986
huh, neat
here's hoping they make hrududu I and primrose soon

>>22631237
>What are the biggest models anyways?
bandai makes a 1/12 rx78 as part of the "Hy2M" line
mostly seems like it's for stores to use in displays

alright bros newtypepill me on quick shine floor polish?<br>can i use it without an airbrush?

>>22631986
neat, didnt think of billibilli before. My aliexpress feed is pretty much chinkpla and accessories. thats how i spotted the mk-ii they released a couple of days ago but since the real deal is like $2 more its not worth it.
I got the hi nu on the mail yesterday and its pretty nice. Preshaded wings and prepainted gold parts.

>>22631980
just search 1/144 fighter or woundwort and check the stores that ship to you. Im probably on the worst region to find stuff (south america) and i still get a couple of stores at reasonable prices.

>>22632069
theres the giant arms and other stuff released as standalone sets already. not sure about the primrose.

>>22631975
>are there any places that report on newer bootleg releases
gundamit seems to get almost everything chinese, just look at the new updates page there.
they have preorder pages up even for shit that's nothing more than a weibo post with no pricetag up

Rising Freedom Perfect Grade unleashed when?

>>22632072
there's also a Zaku II from the same line, but it's even more rare

>>22632074
>just search 1/144 fighter or woundwort and check the stores that ship to you. Im probably on the worst region to find stuff (south america) and i still get a couple of stores at reasonable prices.
Fair. I thought you might have an exact name for that kit.

>started working on painting mirage before learning anything about airbrushing
>now assembling some parts
>the earliest painted parts look like shit
>cba to redo them entirely
it’s just practice it’s just learning i’m not going to kill myself it’s ok to not be perfect reeeeeeeee

>>22632124
it's fine, make it number 32 and you're halfway to a diorama

>>22632078
>>22632102
It's the least ugly of the Freedom series, but its "transformation" sucks ass and I wouldn't expect even an MG for at least another three to four years.

>>22632153
i could make it a bit weathered i guess, replace the gloss coat with matte maybe
or just accept that it’s a learning experience and see what happens when a gloss coat is applied to shoddy paintwork
it was only like thirty five bucks tho so i’m not gonna beat myself up over it, glad i didn’t start with an hundred dollar volks kit at least or a thousand dollar resin kit

>>22632156
huh?
it's a freedom, it'll get a MG in a year or less while everything else gets ignored.

>>22632077
Yea id say Gundamit too, the ammount of models/ figures they have that you would never know about otherwise is crazy. Good deals as well as a decent loyalty program too. Also- free shipping to the land of burgers

>>22632158
MG releases are pretty slow nowadays, Rising Freedom will definitely get one but I wouldn't be surprised if it takes a few years. It took the Narrative like 6 years to get an MG.

>>22632172
narrative wasn't one of bandai's infinitely milked golden geese (seed and unicorn)

>>22631949
Why would I regret spending money on a hobby i genuinely enjoy? Few thousand at least. Theres very few hobbys that dont require cash. Bird watching maybe? Day hiking?

>>22632176
It's the epilogue to Unicorn.

does anyone have pics of Unicorns equipped with the new psychoframe runners from Narrative?

>>22632244
cover up your shame, menhera-kun

>>22632244
I want to make you happy for the rest of your life.

>>22632244
Finally, thighs in full HD. Those scars aren't as bad as I thought they were, you're still small time.

How do I get an emotionally damaged gunpla twink bf bros

i think this be more runners than sazabi was, very intimidating desu

>>22632262
the rest of my life (2 months)

>>22632263
deeper scars are covered up, but yeah i’m lucky i haven’t had to get stitches yet. just steristrips for the deeper ones and those are years old by now since i’ve gotten better at using dbt skills
that’s why i got into gunpla lol, to have something other than drugs or self harm to do to help get through tough times

>>22630722
Moderoid's quality feels all over the place to me
I have like zero complaints about some but the others they couldn't even bother getting color separation on some parts right out of the box when it would've been 1 or 2 more parts of a color the kit already did have elsewhere

>>22632280
They are a Nendroid company first and a model company second

>>22632280
iirc they use several different manufacturers for different kits and QA is lacking so yeah the quality varies

>>22632280
moderoid is based though cause a lot of their model kits were shit people would never think would actually happen. I'm hyped for the upcoming Robocop moderoid

>>22632284
Yeah going for the weird shit is appreciated, their Xabungle was pretty good too

>>22632278
After the SMP Banpreios no amount of runners will ever scare me

did you guys managed to preorder your axe shaped parts separator? :)

>>22632289
>selling the axe from some model as an extra and calling it a parts separator
ingenious.

>>22632287
>smp banpreis
maybe it’s just me but that is a very unappealing design

>>22632289
just use your hobby knife dummy

>>22632293
>very unappealing design
Yeah, it's just SRX but worse

>>22632124
If it was really practice, you'd strip it and get the real learning experience in fixing fuck ups like a real modeller

>>22632325
baby steps, i don’t have to be a real modeler right off the bat. i’m ok with being a lazy snaplarper or whatever the cool term is while i learn at a comfortable pace

>>22632342
>>22632344
>no cool flower decals like on other Ieyasu
Lame

Did a quick search for flower waterdecals, for now all I get is stuff for the nails, are they any different than regular model kit decals ?

>>22632342
>>22632344
Of all the kits to not have a v-fin.

>>22632277
come to the panda hobby SNEED theater night brwo, one sucked me off in the bathroom

>>22631146
WHY ARE WE GETTING NEW DROPS WHEN THE SHIT FROM APRIL STILL ISN"T BEING FUCKING SENT OUT
FUCK OFF

>>22632387
I find it concerning I still haven't gotten a shipping preparation notification for anything for May either. What the fuck is happening?

>>22632369
>expecting a v fin on a literal samurai robot
Don't be ridiculous lol

>>22632403
Dumbass, v fins are directly inspired by samurai helmet ornaments, the most common of which was swept back horns
As for why this one doesn't have them, if I remember correctly the Ieyasu suit it's based on either has a very small ornament or none at all

>>22632390
canadian terrorists have been staging attacks onto the pbandai warehouse in the US

>>22632293
>just use your hobby knife dummy
That's a great way to snap your hobby knife and gouge your plastic. Fat fucking bald retard

>>22632413
Dude was joking with you. You have genuine autism.

>>22632413
Please preface your post with NTA if you're going to jump into a reply chain saying some retarded shit. You're really tanking my credibility here, anon.

>>22632344
>literally just a shitty batsch the black knight ripoff

>>22632429
NTA but NTA has reddit vibes and i hate it

>>22632432
I wouldn't know, as I don't spend time there. I'll take your word for it though.

>>22632403
>not expecting samurai armor to have a v-fin

>>22632413
>>22632369
If I remember correctly, this is based on Ieyasu's armor worn during the final battle with Mitsunari

>>22630418
>Slapping decals all over the GM & GM III
GM III looks decent with them though

>>22632429
ntayrt but i love cock and also gunpla

>>22632342
>>22632344
>>22632369
>>22632403
>>22632403
>>22632413
this Musha Mk II is based on this particular armor, which is Ieyasu's armor worn in the battle of Sekigahara against Mitsunari where he won and established the Tokugawa shogunate

>>22630276
SD Gundams are the only real Gundams

why aren’t there more mobile armors having kits made

So
For candy finishes its common for people to use a chrome undercoat with a translucent color on top, with a clear coat. However using a metallic color like gold or silver also gets you a really cool effect. Another cool effect is if you use a flat clear on chrome base you get a really neat satin, almost anodized finish. I decided to try this with a metallic undercoat.

Verdict:
Waste of time looks like fucking shit im not even gonna post the spoon

>>22630211
Usually the hyper mega cannon looks like a big blue chunk of plastic but this paint job makes it nice

>>22631763
astray has a fair few anime appearances and it's own two part ova
not always that exact design for all of it's appearances but still

it's just more proof that Nagano's original Zeta design is the most important and influential one in the entire franchise :-)

>tfw all the exciting new kits hobby lobby got are gone and they're back to stale shelfwarmers
It's been the same dozen kits for the past 3 months.

>>22632078
I left out the nose cone when I built mine.

>>22632499
Too big and expensive for the HG pricepoint, it's a hassle to produce and ship. Xi/Penelope are probably the biggest they can go before getting into top niche territory

>>22632499
were on the on the cusp of getting the psycho 2 bro

Fuck I hate the color separation on Macross kits. At least the stickers kind of work for masking, but even those aren't always cut well.

>>22632523
The good shit gets sniped early in the week. Just this week mine had the MG Duel, Buster, Proto Zero and Strike. Go there on a Sunday and you'll see the shelves fully stocked.

>>22632523
Ask one of the assistant managers what day their restock truck gets in every week, and drop by the day after. They take that day to restock, so a lot of the stuff won't be on the shelves until they do.

>>22632667
>Go there on a Sunday and you'll see the shelves fully stocked.
Don't know if you're an idiot or trolling.

>>22631763
Is Gundam that appeared in video game like Blue Destiny, Pale Rider etc doesn't popular or something? Most of them only got HG but never MG and RG

>>22632667
>>22632708
I don't think the issue is they're getting snipped, I think it's they're not even stocking new kits because why would they when there's zero room on the shelves for them? There's a MG Kyrios, and 3.0 that have been there for months, and RG RX-78s and wing zeroes and EFSF Zaku IIs and battlelogues and Barbatos Rexes for over a year.
There's room for maybe one new kit, today it was a Zeta ver Ka which I passed because I don't care about it.

meng model unit 01 ive been working on :)

>>22632799
Gluing everything to your roof is a bold working strategy.

>>22632800
it makes it easy to find pieces if i drop them because they fall upwards

>>22632790
Given how much word has been spreading that Hobby Lobby is the place to go for cheap Gunpla, I'd say there's plenty of room on the shelves. Numerous anons have said that their Hobby Lobby associates that they talk to say that the Gunpla constantly flies off the shelves, so it's almost a certainty that the fresh non-warmer kits are getting sniped as soon as they appear. Anecdotally on my part, I've only seen RG Zeta, RG Exia and HG Narrative A less than a handful of times each across three stores, and I'm sure there's a few that I would see more than once if they weren't getting picked up before I got there.

Is Gundam Market good? I want to do some basic touch up colouring on the kit

30MM Color Variation Grand Prix<br>Spinatio [Knight Type] (White) won, as did the silver bike. Like the previous one, they're likely going to get kits with variations.

>>22632799
Damn you could turn that thing into a fleshlight

>>22630216
Couple more things left to do but overall I'm super happy with how it turned out

>>22632602
No armor, and she looks like a certain Taimanin with blond hair. No, seriously.

On a different note, IMGN Ryuoumaru really looks amazing in person. Question is, how do you think will they make the Metal Jackets and Kouteiryu?

>>22633066
IMGN Ryuoumaru video for reference
https://youtu.be/TMIohUxypgQ?si=Yj_<wbr>CzQIe-OQOn2Fr

>>22632364
No, I remember awhile back a anon used them and they looked pretty damn good. It was also flowers

>>22632289
Dumb. The tiny flathead screwdrivers in eyeglass repair kits work great and can usually be had for a dollar

>>22633084
Nice, thanks. Don't have anything planned yet but that's good to know for the future. Maybe on a MG red frame

>>22633022
Looks really good with just paint. Most builds I've seen floating around involve insane scribing and adding of panelines. Which honestly makes the nightingale look greeblied.

>>22633116
The design is too streamlined to scribe. Lots of smooth flowing curves that end in sharp angles which don't lend themselves well to chunks and blocks randomly cut out. The people who do what you describe generally have no eye for design theory. They're like my neighbor who puts up 100 blow up Christmas decorations in his yard un-ironically until you can't even walk through any more to get to anything.

>>22633028
Thank you!
>>22633116
Thanks! Yeah I'm not much a fan of excessive panel lines, HG Nightingale is the perfect amount if detailed imo

>>22633122
Good scribing on compound curves like this can be done incredibly well, but the issue is most people purely scribe straight lines with hard angles. Addition of oval, circular and heavily rounded quadrilateral access hatches (like seen on real aircraft) can look incredible, but no one does this and tends to just do straight lines from part edge to part edge that look magma dogshit

>>22632823
>I'd say there's plenty of room on the shelves.
You'd say wrong, the shelves are densly packed with shelfwarmers. There is literally not room for more than one new kit on the bottom shelf unless they remove old inventory.

even this guy is trooning out now, i need to go find another hobby

>>22633168
Get into ATVs, dirtbikes, snowmobiles or boats. They're about the only thing that isnt completely infested with them at this point. The car scene is littered with them. Or just don't go online and there's a 99% chance you'll never see one. I only ever see them when I'm on here because you fucking idiots keep posting about them

>>22633168
Just stick to watching japs, retard

>>22632862
yes, touchups are fine. Shit like painting the eyes or innerframe that pokes through armor stuff. Do note that the official gundam markers tend to be a little hard to use since they are drippy, they look bad on big surfaces and non metallics dont cover very well

>>22633168
what the fuck, I remember watching this guy's early gunpla reviews if it's the same citrus guy I remember.

Snapping some Hexa Gear Governors.<br>They're fun.

/gpg/ this is my first time using an air brush and I am running into some problem (pic related)
when this happens what do I do, I am still on my first layer so do I just ignore it and hope it will go away on my 2nd/3rd run?
am I doing wrong with my paint (I was doing paint:thinner 1:1.5 in pic)/airbrush and how do I avoid this.

I fucked up really hard on a particular piece that I had to dip it in thinner to start over, it felt pretty bad when it's behind a 2 layers of surfacer and 2 layers of undercoat.

>>22633248
It won't go away, and your paint is too thick. Clean the piece, and make sure your airbrush is clean also

>>22633248
What paint are you using? For most lacquers you can aim for 1:2.5 paint to thinner. What is your psi? For most scenarios 20-25 is pretty good

>>22633256
well shit, thanks for answering.
the undercoat went well so I thought I could be a bit laxer with the paint compositon, serves me right for being a smartass.

>>22633265
mr. clear color 102
my compressor doesn't have a dial telling me how high it was going but I just found out that I had it all the way up to max (30 psi) so that's probably part of the problem.

>>22631225
1/144 Victory kits are obscure, rare and take a lot of work to look good. most were only 1-2 colors of plastic and a few stickers, everything else was left up to you.

a lot of them had a neat little polycap inner frame which was kind of neat, everything else is the bare minimum of size, detail and parts separation.

>>22633168
painting your nails doesn’t mean you’re a tranny, plus if you’re into autistic fiddly model kits and painting why wouldn’t you move on to painting your nails at some point

>>22633304
>if you’re into autistic fiddly model kits and painting why wouldn’t you move on to painting your nails at some point
I can be completely honest with you and say that I have given that issue exactly zero thought, just because I am autistic doesn't mean I am gay even though I understand there's a correlation between being autistic and trooning out.

please just drop the subject here.

>>22633308
i am gay and have painted my nails so maybe your argument holds some weight
still, straight men can paint their nails and still be straight men in the same way that trannies who paint their nails are still men; being a man is solely a function of biological sex, not behavior

>>22633315
why would you greentext terveisin?
are you some kinda newfag?

"Alright. I've got to hit the doctor today, so I'll swing by Hobby Lobby after and see if they have the Zaku II F2 and if 40% is still running." And I ended up getting another $36 large kit. I love Hobby Lobby. Also saw a single Zeta Ver Ka was $90, and a few MG Epyon for $70 before 40% off.

I’m in the mood for a Unicorn Gundam Destroy Mode. I’m not getting MG because it’s old.

Is the RG still good? Otherwise I might just go with the vanilla HGUC version.

Anybody know how mandarake shipping prices in bulk usually are? i live in israel so i wanted to know how much their shipping to regions like it usually are, also do they have an option for a warehouse so i can ship kits from different stores in one order?

>>22633371
He's quoting the other person so that's how you're supposed to do it.

>>22633375
>Anybody know how mandarake shipping prices in bulk usually are?
Bad, you're going to get plowed regardless if you order 1 kit or 10.
>I live in israel
LOL
>do they have an option for a warehouse
LOL

>>22633375
they don't merge orders together if you are buying from different regional shops as far as I know.
>the rest
lol
just get a middleman or someone you know to store it for you somewhere, you are not gonna get that shit anytime soon.

>>22633392
Only if you're stupid and/or hamhanded

>>22633392
do you paint your nails? same as that answer

>>22633396
there is literally nothing wrong with mecha gaikotsu

>>22633392
as real as transphobe talking points

>>22633392
Fact: Some early RGs are bad kits.
Fact: Some early RG kits share the same design problems
Fact: Not every early RG has problems
Fact: it is foolish to say 1/3rd of the line sucks because it was made before RG Unicorn or whatever.

>>22633398
His nails are too long and his manicure is chipped to hell which is disgusting

>>22633310
you are lucky you have nice thighs, I would beat your ass if i ever came across you

>>22633426
bruh
his thighs are 75% scar tissue

>>22633432
do fem bottoms that dont have severe mental issues exist?

>>22633435
Being gay is a severe mental issue

>>22633439
being here is a sever mental issue

This is not a gunpla or plamo related concersation topic.

Just got my Artpla Ingram. Gonna see how this stacks up compared to articulated kits. I can already tell the covered joints look way better than anything Bandai has ever attempted.

>>22633422
This is the closest you're gonna get.
>>22633431
Because.

>>22633451
I think I could've got something really close but I'm still at work so my time to goof off is limited.
I'll give it another try later tonight.

>never notice the thighs unless the pictures focus on them
Am I retarded ?

>>22633478
No it means you're here for model discussion not gay shit.

>>22633392
Yes. Not every kit suffers from it as bad. The problem is the skeleton of a lot of the early ones is made of a softer, shittier plastic that doesn't hold weight well, and gets worse the more you move it.

>>22633400
Pretty much this. But it is easier to blanket "Early RG=Bad" because a lot of them kind of are. The skeleton problems aren't the only ones, after all. Are they all bad? Nah. But the Unicorn onward was a massive turning point in their stability in general.

That said, luv me MK2, luv me Tallgeez, 'ate Sinanju, 'ate Zeta, not raysis they just shit kits wit 'orrible problums.

>>22630216
Finished. This thing is hard to take pictures of so I'm just gonna post one that encapsulates everything pretty well.

>>22633528
I like the reds, but I think using actual yellow instead of gold would pop more

>>22633392
It isn't. The only people who say such a thing are hamhanders who treat the models like toys.

>>22633591
>snapfit robot toy kits are srs bsns!!

>>22633604
Alclad metallics are very good, but some of them more fragile, it's usually never an issue

>>22633528
This picture ain't bad actually
>>22633540
Thanks anon, the whole thing is a lot darker in person so the glossy gold really stands out in contrast to the flat red, it's just hard to capture that with my phone lol
>>22633612
Thank you!

>>22633627
I appreciate that this doesn't have a million waterslides plastered all over it

>>22633184
This. I painted the RG 00 Raiser with the metalic markers as a test once. It looks fine from a few feet away, but there's a lot of streaking up close.

>>22633700
Pic related using a lightbox at my work if anyone wants a laugh. I even used matte top coat cause i'm retarded.

my US friends, do your local stores still sell pbandai kits despite having an official pbandai store? and is it usually marked up?

Huckebein Boxer 2nd drop soon, right bros?

>>22633750
The closest store to me is gpanon's store and I have seen some pbandai stuff on there.

>>22633775
doesnt matter since P bandai is shutting down

>>22633750
I don't think I've seen any PBandai stuff being sold outside of occasionally at a con stall, but I only shop at small hobby shops or the big chains.

First time topcoating here. <br>Would a Mr Super Clear (flat) make the panel lines made with a Marker fine type (GM01) leak?

>>22633953
There's a very real possibility if you spray it too heavily, doing a mist coat will help

Do you let mr color paint cure for a day before topcoating? or should it be fine if its dry to the touch?

>>22633971
Lacquers do not cure, they offgas and dry

>>22633982
aight thanks, guess I have been wasting a lot of time waiting a day between primer, paint and topcoat

>HLJ refuses to charge any of my credit cards
If I lose my order because of this...

When the hell did shipping get so expensive for 2 kits? My last order of 9 kits was cheaper by $10 for surface and $30 by EMS

>>22634057
Almost like Japan's economy is in the shitter, innit

>>22633392
I built the Z'Gok and it's great

What do you do with your boxes bros? My box fort is getting too large so I was thinking of throwing out most of my HG boxes and just keeping all of my Gundam Base Limited ones and a few RGs/MGs.

>>22634227
Toss the majority of them. I keep some of the larger ones I like more and store extra parts and stuff in bags inside them. I keep all the manuals though.

>>22634227
Get rid of the bottom, compact the top and save the manuals. I have one box saved for storage, the MG Sazabi box. Was thinking of getting rid of it and getting a plastic container. The boxes I keep are of the kits I haven't built yet.

After organizing a large amount of plastic it became a private model shop 1.png

>>22634255
Thanks for making me feel better, anon.

>>22630627
I like it. It was a consistant geometric texture that had a strong consistent visual theme. if it was all over the place I might agree, but I think its just solid.

Might as well call every zeon MS crap since they got that gothic flutting thing going on.

>>22634227
Once I am done with a build I put the manual in a drawer with the other ones, clip out any unused parts to go in a plastic bits box, clip out any option parts to go in a small container for the model, clip out any unused polycaps to go in my polycaps storage and then put the box in the bin. If there is a particularly interesting sprue colour (mostly transparent effect sprues but sometimes just weird colours) I will clip it into rods and put those in a box too for later kitbashing.
I used to hold onto the boxes and try to find uses for them, but I ended up with a wardrobe sized box fort of empty cardboard. The hoarder in me wishes I had held onto the tops like >>22634255 did, but I know that is just my childhood stinginess combined with my hoarder mentality (seriously, in my teens I wouldn't even throw the sprue bags out).

>>22634338
Yeah. Everytime I look at the box of compacted tops, I keep thinking I should get rid of them. I have a few hung up on my wall as posters. Maybe when there get to be too many I'll huck them. I guess what makes me feel like keeping them is the nice art. But when they're in a box in a closet out of sight I guess the nice art is moot at that point.

is there some kind of problem with immortal justice's and rising freedom's ankles?

I think I get now why cheap nippers are, in fact, shit, pic related.<br>Time to get some proper tools, I guess.

>>22634382
i can see it happening using ZZ Ver Ka's parts, but it depends if bandai is in the mood to make one <s>it will be p-bandai</s>

>>22634404
get a Tamiya if you don't want to spend too much for one.

>>22634403
>>22634382
wait for Daban to cook something.

>>22634404
The realization for me was when I got some Godhands as a Christmas gift. The difference in quality was enormous. It unironically cut down my build time by a massive amount because every cut went from needing trimming and sanding, to at most a very minor slice with a hobby knife after a cut.

>>22630216
Working on a custom Arbalest. I finished the basic shape of knife and arm sheath. Need to work on the gun. Ill add smoke launchers and wire to the sides of the shoulders. Got the idea to add the bars on the top from votoms.

how easy is it to DIY a lightbox for pics?

>>22634928
Since you are incapable of performing the most basic first step, for you it is next to impossible.


Real life inspiration/likenesses

I never really thought about Gundam weapons being based in real life since so many of them are so sci-fi-ish but now that I see the resemblance I can't get it out of my head.

Anyone have some good examples of Gundam or other mecha weapons or items that come from the real world?
I don't think we need to mention the Re-GZ's AK.

Jesta's beam rifle is very heavily based on SCAR assault rifle, even has a silencer-looking barrel and a targeting sensor that looks like EOTech holographic sight.

Geara Zulu's beam machine gun is basically the STG44/MP44, in keeping with the Nazi aesthetic. The rocket weapon seems to be more of a Soviet RPG-2 despite being labeled a sturm faust though.

The 100mm machine gun used by the Ground GM and Ground Gundams (and also the early Zeon MS from recent depictions of Gundam the Origin) is vaguely based off the MAT49 French submachine gun, the main difference being a sliding instead of folding wire stock, and differently shaped ammo magazine.

Check out the ReGZ Custom's sickass Kalashnikov.

>>22631425
The Guards Geara Zulu has a G3-styled beam rifle.

>>22631459
I always figured the bullpups were based on something.
A lot of the later UC grunt suits have some grounded weapons.

Weird how we start off with beam rifle/pistol and funny topfed machine gun

>>22631425
>The rocket weapon seems to be more of a Soviet RPG-2 despite being labeled a sturm faust though.
Looks more like the unproduced panzerfaust 250

>>22631342
funny thing is the Tallgeese Dober Gun pre-dates the Lynx Rifle.

>>22633261
need to update this with a few newer additions like >>22631536 and the Jesta Cannon rifle resembling an XM29 rifle.

>>22631342
Dobergun was inspired by WW2 anti tank rifles. like pic rel The M.SS41 on particular