Welcome to Gunpla, bud. One of the best hobbies in the world imo. Here is a brush sold by Ammo by MIG (a line of products by a seasoned hobbyist). https://spraygunner.com/ammo-by-mig-brushes-6-syntetic-flat-brush/
Welcome to Gunpla! The brush I usually use for painting is a flat 8 brush, as the size is suitable for HG and MG, just control the amount of paint you use (I recommend Citadel Paints because they are thin enough to do proper coats and you only need small amounts to be effective, I also recommend Mr Surfacer Primer 1000 for priming for paint, just have ventilation handy due to the fumes.) Also you can experiment with different craft paints like I do but I'd say Citadel are my favorite thus far.
One of the best things about the Universal Century designs is how you can tell where each mobile suit leads into the design of the next. There's rarely too much of an outlandish leap from nowhere outside of mobile armors. It makes the world so much more lived-in and grounded, and that's coming from a diehard Wing fanboy. The tank there looks kickass too. Nice job.
Honestly here's the stuff I usually go with:
Are all of those guys in China? I bought a DM Heavyarms a couple years ago so you don't have to feel too bad buying that kit.
It really shows how much the series teams care about the background story. The Hildolfr has Zaku 2 arms and mini MMP-78's. Thanks for the compliment. I need to watch Wing again - I had my last viewing experience interrupted. My favorite suit in Wing has to be the Tallgeese 3. It is the ultimate gentleman's mobile suit imo.
Yea I agree. You don't always need sex appeal all the time and I like the kit. I may panel line I just need to remember to find one thats gray. I'm glad I caught you off guard with that remark about psychiatry, although it's painfully true in my experience, I can still joke about it
but yea, I may panel line sooner or later depends on how work treats me.
I have a spare Gusion hammer and rifle. The hammer is glued, assembled, and cleaned. The rifle is still on the runner. Funny thing is, I moved from Japan and lost a lot of stuff. A lot of my Gunpla stuff (paints too) were in the stuff that got lost. Look out for a PG MK-II Titans - if that shows up, then someone in your area has my stuff.
Samueldecal is legit. I think that's the site I used to buy the DM Heavyarms. As for Thunderbolt, yeah the Atlas is an off-the-wall design. It looks like it would be a Victory Gundam prototype imo. The skis are goofy but they made everything about the Atlas work in the anime. It's about as strange as Unicorn if you think about it. But, the Unicorn works in motion as well and has conventional propulsion. Transforming mobile suits make more sense than both the Atlas and Unicorn.Good news! I found a way to buy a great bootleg of the FA-G (Full Armor Gundam) without giving money indirectly to the CCP! You do have to pay for shipping, though, but the price is balanced out:
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I checked around and apparently the site's legit. Everything is from Hong Kong so even the cheapest option will cost you $60+ but hey, at least it's not the going asking price for the Ver Ka itself (well over a hundred dollars before tax and shipping). I bought one and once it comes in I'll tell you guys how it goes.
Honestly I'm disappointed Thunderbolt's mecha designs went downhill so fast. We started with a reach for realism, heft and bulk, having a fantastic darker redesign of the OG granddaddy RX-78 with the amazing Full Armor Gundam and a crazy booster monster in the Psycho Zaku. We went from that to...this:
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I can kinda see what they were going with for the "Perfect Gundam" (Left, piloted by Zeon hero Daryl Lorenz), even if I think the concept of mixing Zeon and Feddie tech was way better done with the Moon Gundam. However, it just doesn't do it for me like the FA Gundam does. Also the Atlas Gundam (Right, piloted by Io Flemming) just sucks to me. It looks like something a kid would've doodled in his Nickelodeon Rocket Power school notebook in the 90's (or maybe that'd be the Psycho Zaku lol). I just don't like how spindly it looks and how its thrusters were designed, and seeing a Gundam on skates is more funny than cool to me.
Thoughts?
I mentioned earlier in the thread how Bandai could streamline kit development. They did really well with the 40th anniversary kits and the revive kits - they just need to continue that for HG. Then, the Universal Maintenance Plan could release frame kits, armor kits, and weapon kits separately. A lot of the kits we get are retools of older kits. PBandai is very guilty of this when the exclusivity should warrant a better product. Weird suits are awesome and that's why I love Turn A Gundam (the Turn X and Gold Sumo are my favorites).
Someone has probably reviewed it. I'd consider buying it if I didn't own the FANU Ver Ka.
>RG SazabiI'm currently working on a MG FAZZ Ver. Ka, going for a white/blue scheme and wanna get some slides printed for it. Although I should have finished my candy RG Sazabi first
Yeah, I personally prefer mecha that either goes full on "Fuck IRL, we're strapping thirteen attachments to your suit" like the Perfectibility or organic looking ones, like Zoids.
Dude the perspective of that picture makes it look like it's as big as a person, as if you bought the world's greatest Halloween costume. lol
That's why I pre-ordered the RG Hi Nu, because it's the perfect blend of sleak Gundam designs mixed with that old school overpowered bulk. Zoids can be a lot of fun, too. A fan translation of a Zoids RPG for the GBA was recently released if you want to check it out: https://cdromance.com/gba-roms/zoids-saga-fuzors-english-patched/
If it wasn't as rare as gold and priced so high I'd need to remortgage my entire life I'd buy a Psycho Zaku in a heartbeat, even if it is just a Zaku II kit with a few additional bits. I'd buy a pack of 1/100 scale figurines used for architecture models, cut up one of their limbs, put little toothpicks painted silver on the nubs, sand and paint up the body into a Zeon suit...
