Poll of the Day > shitty gundam topic 8: so unbelievably mad right now

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ordered two kits, rg crossbone, and rg wing zero ew

both "new", both from a "reputable" and "recommended" store

both boxes are covered in a sticky gross dust. why sticky? because they both reek of likely years of ciagrette smoke residue. okay. they're sealed in bags though and i don't keep the boxes, so it should be fine, yeah?

https://imgur.com/DnLHIgn

even though the crossbone had the little plastic strips on it keeping the box closed, someone was very obviously in here. it's also covered in cigarette tar, and whoever was trying to build it used apparently regular fucking pliers on it because the gates are absolutely mangled.

the wing is fine, it's still all in its bags, but how do i even trust that at this point

RG Crossbone has tons of very tiny pieces; I'd get a replacement

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a new mobile game comes out tomorrow

well, "new", it's been out for a few years in japan

this mobile game is boring

my suits are all ass

the game expects me to be stronger than i am apparently because i have reached a point in the "story" where i can't beat because i'm not strong enough, but i literally an unable to actually upgrade anything on my machines

it's not for a lack of currencies or parts or whatever, it's that i physically cannot do anything to them anymore, they are as upgraded as they can be

i'm not even sure how they would expect you to be able to pay your way out of this, if this is a pay to proceed situation like old mobile games of yore

and i'm not even sure what the choice of suits in the game are, it's all over the place

we have apparently the entirety of the first gundam series and its related movies, and yet nu gundam is nowhere to be seen? this is like one of the iconic suits? supposedly zeta and zz are in the game, but i have never seen one, and checking all the drop rate lists in game there isn't actually any playable z gundam in the game, but you sure can go through its story!

i get the whole "they need content for later" aspect, but they have just wild shit in here i wouldn't
would you expect victory gundam over like, idk, sazabi?

we got full armor from thunderbolt, but no f91. hell, that gundam is even on the cover-art. so is zeta, for that matter.

also, i'm gonna try and complete the crossbone. i washed the runners in hot as fuck super dawny dishsoaped water, i put a little catch on the drain to catch any pieces that could fall off, none did to the best of my knowledge, i cleaned the two legs and the core unit/backpack as best i could.

then i trimmed them up so they at least look better and pieces fit better, and sanded surface scuffs.

i followed the guild for them enough to sus out that there isn't any missing parts so they used everything, and it all seems mechanically fine, the legs aren't moving weird or anything

i think we're good? i'm cautiously optimistic at the very least. i guess i'm lucky it's only the legs and core, and the core was molded out so the gates on them are easy enough to clean so it looks fairly decent imo. just don't look to closely at the feet or back of the legs. oh, and the stickers were untouched inside the booklet, so glad i leafed through that to check what's missing from the runners instead of just digitally. because i absolutely wouldn't have opened it for anything else, at least not while building it.

Hidden dagger is my favorite weapon

I'm confused on my RG Sazabi model. Started working on the arms and the image of the pieces implies that a part slides down or something when it looks solid.

RG Sazabi is in my backlog but I haven't gotten to it yet; I have heard that some of the joints can break if you aren't careful in assembling

my first thought was that it was a frame on runner rg, but looking at the book it doesn't seem to be, so im not sure what issue you would be having there

what step on it? im not seeing any pieces on the arm that looks like something needs to slide

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gunpla/s/qBEawH1pIE

Thankfully I dodged the shoulder bullet from what I can tell.

So, my issue is on step 06-4 with part B2/K12. The first step is to swing the big joint/hole down from the connecting piece that inserts into K12. But the diagram makes it look like the piece doesn't swing down but slides down. The physical part has an empty space but the drawing looks like it's filled with something.

i decided to customize the little pen cup i got from walmart, it was the same one that i had magneted to the top of the little runner shelf. a while ago i ended up just screwing it into the side of the table.

anyways, it looks like this

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/0/1/AAeEKDAAE9Cp.png

so i took the dimensions of it, then roughly changed it because i don't like using milimeters. i can do it, but it's not easier than inches for me. so it's very slightly larger. in mm it's an 87x87x87mm cube. that's almost 3 1/2 inches, so i just made it that.

anyways, i wanted individual slots for the nippers, and to isolate the markers and sanders. so

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/0/2/AAeEKDAAE9Cq.png

it would have rounded edges if i uh, knew how to do that in the particular cad software i was using.

it's printing now,

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/0/3/AAeEKDAAE9Cr.jpg

i was gonna use white, but uh, i happened to have a nice bright red.

this is what i got going on rn

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/0/6/AAeEKDAAE9Cu.jpg

so what i'm replacing. i'm hoping to just consolidate into the one printed holder. some of those markers i don't need so everything should fit fine. i also don't need that longblade there, i just use it to cut sponges, which

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/0/7/AAeEKDAAE9Cv.jpg

are over on the right there, so the knife can just go there. i printed the front tray a few days ago because i got tired of stabbing myself on that fuckin knife no matter where i put it because i'd inevitably put it in blade up. it's not custom, i just grabbed a box from printables and resized it, so while it works, it turned out to be pretty thin. i'll probably make one myself that's a little more sturdy. doesn't need to be that long, either.

anyways, long story to say i got tired of having them just hang off of magnets. i still think it looked cool, but i also know that it really didn't look cool and it wasn't as easy to use as it looked. this is better.

you may ask why i don't just put the other nips in where that knife is, and the answer is that i wanna remove that box entirely because it interferes with the tablet arm

Crafting!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/7/4/AAfYP-AAE9KC.jpg

well that's not ideal

Leg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/8/1/AAfYP-AAE9R9.jpg

it's proceeding well. they also refunded my whole order and let me do with them as i please

it was just these two though

the rg wing not the megazord i was just putting it back together after my kid played with it

Boner

aw yeah lets go with another failed print babyyyyyy

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/9/6/AAeEKDAAE9W4.jpg

it can still be made smaller, but that's not going to fix my filament issues which are causing the fails. it's fuckin tangled on the spool, from the factory it's tangled. i was using a while spool before i switched to red, and it took me pulling off around half the spool to get out all the tangles, so i'm just writing off every roll from this specific company

so that's about $120 to just throw away because i stupidly bought a LOT of this brand for some reason, even though it's only $1 cheaper than the known good brand i was using.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/1/7/AAFUswAAE9XN.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/0/1/AAfYP-AAE9ex.jpg

i snipped this part, 07-3 a34, and it flew across the room faster than i could even register and immediately wrote it off

i went to fill the animals water dishes down here and it was in the dogs bowl

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/1/9/AAeEKDAAE9fD.jpg https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/0/AAeEKDAAE9fE.jpg

I think the mouth is a heat vent or something in the manga

I had to glue the V-fin on mine; I assumed it was because I had accidentally over snipped something

And yeah Crossbone is a Smol Boi canonically

Metalsonic66 posted...

I had to glue the V-fin on mine; I assumed it was because I had accidentally over snipped something

no i just think it's loose by default

it's just a sample size of 2 now, but it happened to both of us, so...

https://imgur.com/a/lzFztPq

Shrek posted...

no i just think it's loose by default

Y'know who ELSE is loose by default?

My MOM!

that's a weird thing to say

but i'm intrigued at the looseness

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/0/3/AAeEKDAAE9mn.jpg

v4 is good. i am content.

why can't every fuckin gundam hold weapons like crossbone goddamn that is solid

i have a confession to make

https://imgur.com/ZXwEhDd

i don't know what anything is.

i think it's too, too far gone. we have everything except for pg, since i haven't done any pg's, in these boxes

i think it's time to just throw it up on ebay or something as a bulk parts misc lot, and start anew.

i'd be keeping all the still like, built parts. i can sus out shields and backpacks. and keep the weapons. but everything else needs to be written off

Should one order a $7000 love gundam?

dalongs website seems to be down, boooo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX9UDKW3aww

hng

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/9/5/AAfYP-AAE-_j.jpg

crossbone has lost his boney head

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/0/1/AAfYP-AAE_MJ.jpg

green on black or black on blue white

honestly I kinda want like a little itty bitty screen bar lcd lmao

wildly unnecessary 100% tho

ConfusedTorchic posted...

i have a confession to make

https://imgur.com/ZXwEhDd

i don't know what anything is.

i think it's too, too far gone. we have everything except for pg, since i haven't done any pg's, in these boxes

i think it's time to just throw it up on ebay or something as a bulk parts misc lot, and start anew.

i'd be keeping all the still like, built parts. i can sus out shields and backpacks. and keep the weapons. but everything else needs to be written off

Keep it on the sprue until you're ready to build my dude, don't be like me with 50+ warhammer models ready to be built scattered all over my living space

these are leftover parts that weren't used in whatever kit they came from

no reason to have them take up space by keeping them on runners

Green on black

Also I have several bits boxes going now lol

@Lokarin

they're making armored core kits now

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/20231030-22652/

they didn't really show anything, the video is a whole lot of literally nothing

https://youtu.be/AVzHh-MXeWo

i made changes to my table setup again, nothing big or huge. i removed the light strips because they weren't really doing anything for me. the idea was for them to backlight the runner trays but the actual overhead lamp just cancelled it out.

removing them let me push back the shelf again though. i had to move it forward to get the strips to where they could be and i never really liked that because it felt like i was losing space.

on the shelf i just lowered it to the bottom level, of which there are two. no real reason, just didn't need to be that high. also took off that bar i had in the back, always meant to for a long while since it made longer runners sit crooked and, particularly where i put the A runners at, would have them slide off when i moved the table around.

i removed the large metal plate i was using to magnetize the in-progress stuff + stickers to. i replaced it with the metal plate inside a bakugan card. https://i.imgur.com/QGU3zXh.png. dunno where it'd be best to place it yet but it's there for now. also got a ruler there on the side but i don't imagine i'll actually use it much. it's aluminum so i couldn't just use it to keep the stickers in place, either, else i just would. maybe i'll just look for an actual steel thin ruler. i also took the plate out of a bakugan hex token, so i could also try that over the bigger card

i'm just procrastinating right now

ugh, now i'm thinking that i could just rip apart a bunch of bakugan cards and just cover the table in little steel plates

i think the gaps where the plates meet would annoy me too much to try, but i can probably do another card and test...

i hate wings angel wings jesus christ so many lines

Ver Ka?

nah rg wing zero ew

the one with the angel wings

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/65e00bce.jpg

Steel's heavier than feathers

back to the spare aerial, to test out some new nippers

apparently i had already done the head (but i don't remember what i was testing), except for the clear plastic piece, and i guess i nipped it out but never put it on, because it's not on the head, or the runner, and it's not in the box

oops

i can prolly color in the area a bit to make it look better, but what do i do

https://i.imgur.com/OanhLEl.png

about the hole

Could probably make a replacement part with styrene sheets, but it wouldn't be the same.

i think i was testing out other ways to panel line, pretty sure i just used some form of sharpie on the head.