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

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Sharpie is real hard to clean up IIRC

not me feverishly googling for monochrome lcd displays about 20 inches long and an inch tall and getting increasingly disappointed that i either don't know what they would actually be called or they just don't exist, and the answer is probably both because that's a weird thing to exist

i have 45 books, but i'm missing 7 of them.

the missing ones were all ones i pretty much started with so my record keeping apparently was garbage because i threw them away, or they're just in some random box or drawer somewhere. i know exactly which are missing

so 52 kits total i've done, some of these i have no memory of even doing

i don't remember doing z2 or reborns or agefx at all

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f66235d2.jpg

i still plan on putting them together in some bigass fuckin frame somehow as decoration

Many many models, man

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e3c6065b.jpg

sinister aerial

and the spring fell out of my tamiyas

holy shit are these hard to use with no spring

i even complained that the spring felt really weak and it didn't do much!

no, it does a lot!

idk why i bought an mg rx78 1.5 when i still have yet to even build the mega

Warhammer: I've had a eversor assassin sitting in front of me on my desk for like 2 years, will paint it eventually

well i didn't mean to buy yet another order of kits, but then newtype just had to fuckin bait me

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

i couldn't just wait a fuckin single day, coulda got a hg guntank for that $10 instead

the joints on the eg nu leave a lot to be desired, they are very weak in a loose way

like the dude just becomes floppy after a while

https://i.imgur.com/9tD3KyV.png

he's already slipping. i had him standing straight up and his gun was more level, now his legs are sliding out and the knees are bending him backwards and the funnels are being braced by busters gundams gun

how do i tighten joints

ConfusedTorchic posted...

how do i tighten joints

Try putting some matte varnish on them

the mega size shield is bigger than a regular hg entirely

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

Larg boi

clear acrylic nail polish

is what i've been told to use to tighten joints

and it was 98 cents so whatever if it works it works, i know ibo kits have weakass joints so that's what we're testing on, a base astaroth

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

the cooler special ultra version of it was out of stock, and it's the one i actually wanted. never seen more than like, 4 episodes of ibo, so i have no idea what's anything in that series.

gotta say tho, these itty bitty helping hands i found, love em so much. 12pc kit, cheaper than buying like, a set of 2 regular helping hands. i don't have confidence the metal rod will withstand much bending, because i think it's just a thin metal rod, but man, 12 of them for 13 bucks i don't really care. and absolutely i found a purpose for the metal cards with em too

Might wanna make sure there isn't any acetone in the nail polish

there's not

still don't know what acetone being in nail polish would achieve since it removes nail polish

ibo kits build weird, but also build fast

I think it's used as a thinning agent or something, I've heard people warn about it before

this plastic seems not very good

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c166a16e.png

and what is this trying to tell me, there's no marking on this piece that is directional

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b09186e8.jpg

well now im just mad, got stickers on the box model but nooooo I gotta color it in myself grumble grumble

Shrek posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b09186e8.jpg

well now im just mad, got stickers on the box model but nooooo I gotta color it in myself grumble grumble

The models used in the manual images are painted

it's a sticker you can see the crease

https://imgur.com/RaXXta0

now i can finally start the mega next

i don't understand how to build this, everything is far too big than my situation is able to handle and i'm just deadlocked

i'm just blanking on everything
this says runner g
"what the fuck is runner g"

this says runner 6, i don't have a runner 6.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/28cb782f.jpg https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/ef2840c7.jpg

runner 6 is the combination of runners h1 and h2 combining together while they are still a runner

this is absurd, this is the shadow realm

Now THIS is Gunpla

https://imgur.com/a/NC99xtr

Don't mess with my son ever again

https://i.imgur.com/eVbb8M9.jpg

lah gundam

i really like its shield design, and the naginata is pretty cool too, but i dunno how to pose it without it just looking like i have dscythe

it was fun to build. it definitely skirts the line between eg and hg

i have the other eg, but hg hi nu is what got chosen by the randomizer

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/35a3ed0b.jpg

Oh snap

Everyone says the Hi-Nu is the best RG

well this is the hg

Oh NvM then lol

there's something nice about this build, and i'm not sure what

it's one of those symmetrical to a fault straight forward mostly x2 builds, but it's not as repetitive as the others i've done? at the very least it isn't soul crushing like banshee norn destroy was i suppose. seriously, that thing almost made me stop wanting to build these in general and it was one of the earlier ones i did

it's just comfortable, i'm sure it'll probably change when i get around to the funnels

speaking of banshee, i see newtype just got unicorn destroy megas back in stock...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b02b881a.jpg

neat

That is impressive

i don't know if it's because i build something wrong or trimmed something that wasn't meant to be trimmed, or if it's a inherent issue with the model itself, but posing it is floaty.

there's like several joints that are weak? but nothing actually seems weak, but then i try and pose it and the torso is either leaning weirdly forward or backwards, but even

i don't know how to explain it but it feels not great to manipulate.

i gotta get some stands because i think it'd be better to have this guy in the air than on the ground

https://i.imgur.com/YgCrpy4.png

i can't get anything decent going on on the ground

i don't blame the kit i suppose, though

Probably too top-heavy

i do enjoy the regular strike gundams overall look as a base design for other gundams

Seed has some cool designs in general

https://imgur.com/Z8snjcF

build strike exceed galaxy

really cool model

40% off kits, applied to an rg hi nu that was already on sale

got an rg hi nu for $25. absolute fuckin thievery

the tamiyas i got to replace the ones i had that the spring fell out, i uh

broke, already

i didn't realize which nips i was holding to and i just fuckin squeezed the piss out of them

now they cut not flush like

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/43a55fc6.jpg

and this fucking thing fucking SUCKS dude

i know it's a super early mg, the rx78 1.5

but this is like, not good

i'm just doing the one leg so far still, and panels just...don't like up, because of the gimmicks they want to implement, so things just have gaps and look bad.

https://youtu.be/RNRQa_Ssc3E

480p video baybeeeeeeee i didn't want to switch out for the other camera

Shoulda sprung for the 2.0

dunno if i want to even panel it, the bad seams kind of ruin it

i hope it gets better, but the legs don't inspire confidence

oh white polycaps look nice

the waist was good.

chest not so much, this plastic is just almost knockoff feeling. also in the big blue piece you can see a fold in the plastic from when it was injected. it's big, looks like a hairline crack but it's smooth.

this mg kit is ass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce-jbAluPUw

i'd say 2.0 version when, but like even the 2.0 version apparently wasn't good enough because there's a 3.0 that is still considered butt

and then like a 2.5 or some shit idk what the origin? anime? whatever version it is is

The 2.0 is actually considered the best

The Origin one has the most surface detail but I don't care for the redesign

the jank is growing on me

i think i like this

the head is all that's left aside from the weapons and shield

it's one of those do 18 steps in one step ones