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theyre fun builds, but theyre definitely sticker hell, and not very poseable, but they do look really nice
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It would have to shuffle because its skirt armor impedes movement and its pauldrons are so far forward it can't reach anything in front of it.
If I wanted to watch jet fights, I'd play Ace Combat.
A 2 for 1 review today! Today's subjects are the standard-figure rise Kamen Rider Gemn and the High Grade Gundam Heavyarms Custom Clear Version.
Kamen Rider:
The Kamen Rider Gemn was not a really difficult build, only thing is everything fits one way, but as long as you use brain power and instructions its not that difficult. What is difficult however was the amount of stickers (about 90+ of them, essentially if it was a fine detail, such as the stripes and chest part, its stickers and I was kinda tired of the stickers. It came with 2 versions of stickers I opted for foil due to it being easier for me to work with. (thanks mini-pla))
His weapon also has a gimmick to transform as beam weapon (photos) and "chainsaw" mode (not pictured but the only difference between the 2 is the main unit is unpegged rotated and re pegged in and extend the white "blade"). Why did I get this? 2 reasons, one, I like this design more better then ex-aid (the purple black mashes well then pink) and second I wanted to see what figure-rise standard felt like before getting dragon ball kits and getting disappointed in them. So overall fun build too many stickers
Heavyarms Custom:
The clear version is interesting, but the stickers barely want to adhear (my guess is the stickiness of the stickers has gone down due to age of kit and possible changes in storage.) Unfortunately it is very fiddly, small parts didn't want to tab in, especially the head, the side antennas didn't want to stay in, same with the v fin (next picture shows without the v fin because I lost it temporarily due to clear plastic being hard to find...)
Overall, it was fun to build, not as posable but its a high grade so it gets a break there, just the small pieces barely stayed on so I would recommend getting the Master Grade version (if you can afford it). My next model kit is gonna take a while, because the Heavyarms ew Master Grade is getting a custom paint job done on it (i have my paints and my space is ready for action!) So hopefully I don't fuck up too bad.
Kamen Rider:
The Kamen Rider Gemn was not a really difficult build, only thing is everything fits one way, but as long as you use brain power and instructions its not that difficult. What is difficult however was the amount of stickers (about 90+ of them, essentially if it was a fine detail, such as the stripes and chest part, its stickers and I was kinda tired of the stickers. It came with 2 versions of stickers I opted for foil due to it being easier for me to work with. (thanks mini-pla))
His weapon also has a gimmick to transform as beam weapon (photos) and "chainsaw" mode (not pictured but the only difference between the 2 is the main unit is unpegged rotated and re pegged in and extend the white "blade"). Why did I get this? 2 reasons, one, I like this design more better then ex-aid (the purple black mashes well then pink) and second I wanted to see what figure-rise standard felt like before getting dragon ball kits and getting disappointed in them. So overall fun build too many stickers
Heavyarms Custom:
The clear version is interesting, but the stickers barely want to adhear (my guess is the stickiness of the stickers has gone down due to age of kit and possible changes in storage.) Unfortunately it is very fiddly, small parts didn't want to tab in, especially the head, the side antennas didn't want to stay in, same with the v fin (next picture shows without the v fin because I lost it temporarily due to clear plastic being hard to find...)
Overall, it was fun to build, not as posable but its a high grade so it gets a break there, just the small pieces barely stayed on so I would recommend getting the Master Grade version (if you can afford it). My next model kit is gonna take a while, because the Heavyarms ew Master Grade is getting a custom paint job done on it (i have my paints and my space is ready for action!) So hopefully I don't fuck up too bad.
Yum, excessive armor that makes it hard to maneuver and looks awesome! I would build if I had the money to pull off buying it.
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Nice! That Kamen Rider reminds me of that one cartoon from the 90's about a weird superhero with a blue face and hair just like that. Forgot what it was called. Neat design. However, that HACustom is rad! It's like if a Heavy Arms was given a Gundam UC's Newtype treatment. Shame the hands aren't translucent like the rest of it but it makes sense. If you're going for a custom paint job for another Heavy Arms I suggest Tamiya TS-38 Gunmetal. You can get it for under $20 mostly and a little bit goes a long way. Really makes the innerframe and weapons look cool. I saw it in a youtube video once.
lol What a perfect picture to paint. Still, at least it doesn't have a swan peaking over its head in my version. Plus that's what makes the Penelope better than the what'sitsname--Penelope can get naked.
What a shameless Gundam...
Good point. That's part of what makes latter UC less interesting to me, honestly. Everyone is just zip-zooming like DBZ characters. High speed action is cool ( I love Armored Core 4 and For Answer) but you can't show me what's basically a laser light show to avoid having to animate proper mecha brawls. Then again I never finished Unicorn so maybe I'm totally wrong.
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As someone who did finish Unicorn, you're spot on. Despite superior animation technology, it's unlikely we'll get detailed, drawn-out brawls like these any time soon:
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It's also a really fun build
Edit: if you guys have $74 to splurge, i recommend Penelope. It comes with a buildable action base so if you don't want to have the swan jet/amour on the figure itself you can place it on said stand. Penelope might be the biggest 1/144 in my collection to date.
Next gunpla i plan to get is the 1/100 Tallgeese III
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Thanks for the recommends
I already found the paints to use though but I will keep it in mind (my plan is to paint it to kinda look like it was taken over by guyver unit 1 (from guyver the bio boosted armor) and i was able to get some paints from a locals i go to because they also do Warhammer 40k minis.) All I have to do is wait, but im also gettin the covid jab today too so I may be out of action and it should arrive today i hope but still thanks for the recommends friend 
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It IS LBX. It's called Danball Senki (lit. Cardboard Chronicles) in Japan. From what I've seen, for kits that made for kids, they're decent, especially those from the second and third season of the anime. They're easy to build (no nipper needed), quite fun to play, and relatively sturdy. I have one kit from the third season, Dot Blastrizer, that I bought back in 2013 or 2014, and it still come together. No broken parts, almost no joint problem, and overall still in good condition compared to some other kits I bought around the same time.
The biggest problem of the kits is the amount of stickers you must put on, while the color separation is really not good, especially with the colorful ones. If you want a good LBX kit, look for the Hyper Function line. To put it simply, it's a watered down RG version of LBX. Still quite easy to build, with great color separation and details, and much better proportion and articulation than the standard LBX kits.
Current parts built so far is Head, Arms, and Upper Body.
I literally am a flipper hands because it looks nothing like guyver, more like Optimus prime if painted by an idiot (oh wait... thats me...) that has no patience for the art. I know not to be harsh on myself but I fucking suck at painting, I hate myself for not having the patience required to paint properly and screwing up this bad... believe me, you're not the only one that wants me to Kermit sewer slide.. I just need a break, tomorrow is gonna be long and any left over painting from when I decide to go back to it till I decide to call it a night is gonna have to wait till Friday. So if I go silent till Friday, don't worry I'm still working on it, I'm just not good at it so I fucked up... sorry.
EDIT: Stayin alive lol managed to get to final assembly and whoo boy this kit took a while (I actually like MG build wise just not painting it) so prepare you butts for...
The Heavyarms w/ custom paint job
Yes! He can do the guyver's mega smasher pose! Now I know I need to touch up some things but I'm just done with it for right now. I did a main blue paint using a light greenish blue and navy blue (green blue was citadel paint and the navy blue was testors craft, I thinned it with 91% isopropyl) and some subtle metallic pink (gundam marker)
The eyes came out awesome
I'm proud that I managed to wield a Gundam marker on something so tiny that I was able to forego the sticker.Same pose but farther out. Overall I'm actually quite impressed with how this came out especially since I hand painted the boy for the most part.
That does it for me, I plan on doing the weapons and touch ups later due to me just getting over the painting part, so hope your builds go smoothly and I'm out.
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Mini rant about mecha girls because I dont understand whey they use female spokespersons when the main buyer is adult dudes. Just wondering if I am not alone in my thoughts
While im not into kits per-say, I was vaguely interested in modding a meg device as an affordable desk activity. but the price always put me off (for someone interested in the base body anyway) and I lingered in the groups i joined for painting tips, news ect.
One day I was told about FAGirls, the budget, more adolescent, less articulated sister to meg devices. Aside from the small backwards joy i get from saying their name in non modeler groups, Ive been interested in the community consensus on who the hell they are for and why most look like little girls. The anime they made does not help, as the first scene is a pan on a 12-13 year old girl and one of the FAGirls is moaning as a plug is inserted. Its obviously for a 'certain', demographic. Though with the kits being $30+ and requiring sharp tools/paints ect that I doubt 13yo boys would be funding, why is the mc for the anime showing the toys, a girl in a trainer bra
I bring that up since Bandai is making a Girl gun lady live action series/toy line where high school girls, have guns. Like a gender bender of 2007 Virginia Tech. Their adverts have been pretty focused on getting girls into the kits, for some reason.
Coming back to Meg Device , idk if they use female spokespersons/mc often as I only remember the one official demo I ad seen on yt. But their kits are more honest in my opinion, with older looking figs, sorta.
While im not into kits per-say, I was vaguely interested in modding a meg device as an affordable desk activity. but the price always put me off (for someone interested in the base body anyway) and I lingered in the groups i joined for painting tips, news ect.
One day I was told about FAGirls, the budget, more adolescent, less articulated sister to meg devices. Aside from the small backwards joy i get from saying their name in non modeler groups, Ive been interested in the community consensus on who the hell they are for and why most look like little girls. The anime they made does not help, as the first scene is a pan on a 12-13 year old girl and one of the FAGirls is moaning as a plug is inserted. Its obviously for a 'certain', demographic. Though with the kits being $30+ and requiring sharp tools/paints ect that I doubt 13yo boys would be funding, why is the mc for the anime showing the toys, a girl in a trainer bra
I bring that up since Bandai is making a Girl gun lady live action series/toy line where high school girls, have guns. Like a gender bender of 2007 Virginia Tech. Their adverts have been pretty focused on getting girls into the kits, for some reason.
Coming back to Meg Device , idk if they use female spokespersons/mc often as I only remember the one official demo I ad seen on yt. But their kits are more honest in my opinion, with older looking figs, sorta.
The main demographic of models like Frame Arms Girls and most scantily clad girls of questionable age are more different than horny 13 year olds. Remember they market a lot more exclusively in Japan, where stuff like this is not looked at as desperate behavior of young men looking to get their rocks off, mostly its to collect figures that look nice with maybe a slight pull of lewdness added in for fan service for older model builders. Over here in US, model kits are not promoted as widely and tend to be more looked weirdly upon due to past connotations in the early days. Due to that some people grandstand saying "(gasp!) The figures are too sexy and amoral!" Or "Wow! You're a loser that can't even get a real girl!" So while the marketing is questionable (I am aware of Frame Arms Girls anime, haven't watched it because I'm not into slice of life ecchi stuff as much anymore, thanks medications...) I just sit and say "Do what makes you happy!" If you like big robots? Build big robots and if you want to build kits of girls? Go ahead! It's wierd at first (I built 4 models of girls from variety of subjects) but it becomes more of an appreciation of the human form and how articulate we are (i know it sounds wierd by me saying that but I have difficulty explaining it sanely.) So don't let the marketing from Japan fool you too much its a lot different than American marketing and while the outreach can be weird, its trying to appeal to bigger groups to sell more kits.
So TL;DR japanese marketing just tries to reach wider base in quickest way successfuly while in America we barely get marketing and there is less pull and more snide remarks thrown our way.
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I promise* we won't make fun of your model choice.*at least i won't
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pls stop I'm on nofap.
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Fair take, fair take. I forgot to mention something else I noticed ant that is a lack of male figs? I have seen my share of diy and legit risque futas, but not an actual legit male in the same vein as the females.The main demographic of models like Frame Arms Girls and most scantily clad girls of questionable age are more different than horny 13 year olds. Remember they market a lot more exclusively in Japan, where stuff like this is not looked at as desperate behavior of young men looking to get their rocks off, mostly its to collect figures that look nice with maybe a slight pull of lewdness added in for fan service for older model builders. Over here in US, model kits are not promoted as widely and tend to be more looked weirdly upon due to past connotations in the early days. Due to that some people grandstand saying "(gasp!) The figures are too sexy and amoral!" Or "Wow! You're a loser that can't even get a real girl!" So while the marketing is questionable (I am aware of Frame Arms Girls anime, haven't watched it because I'm not into slice of life ecchi stuff as much anymore, thanks medications...) I just sit and say "Do what makes you happy!" If you like big robots? Build big robots and if you want to build kits of girls? Go ahead! It's wierd at first (I built 4 models of girls from variety of subjects) but it becomes more of an appreciation of the human form and how articulate we are (i know it sounds wierd by me saying that but I have difficulty explaining it sanely.) So don't let the marketing from Japan fool you too much its a lot different than American marketing and while the outreach can be weird, its trying to appeal to bigger groups to sell more kits.
So TL;DR japanese marketing just tries to reach wider base in quickest way successfuly while in America we barely get marketing and there is less pull and more snide remarks thrown our way.
If you are interested in model building, come and join the fun
*at least i won't
With Bandai doing their weird girl modeler campaign, I was passively surprised that they did not make a 'little brother' or elder sibling line alongside the main crew. For me personally, I know two people, including myself who would like to make male focused models rather then hunt down flat busts or buy them, as I have seen others say.
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You got it pretty backwards mate. FA-Girls are humanized versions of Kotobukiya's Frame Arms series of mecha, which they've been producing for years and years. Every FA-Girl kit is based on a full mecha. The first FA-Girls were pretty-much the first 'mechagirl' model kits out there, and were pretty experimental. Then they got massively popular and began selling far, far better than Kotobukiya's regular Frame Arms lines, so they started turning more of them into mechagirl forms.
Their Megami Device line came a bit later as I'm aware, and is original. It's also a line that supports many tie-ins from other franchises, and several of the designs are based on characters from games or media in Japan. Bandai has tried to rather clumsily piggy-back onto the trend in recent years, but their offerings are frankly pitiful in comparison. They're outclassed in that particular market, and I recall kits like the Super Fumina getting absolutely laughed out of the room by everyone.
Going back to FA-Girl kits. They're made by the exact same company, it's just that the original trio (Gorai, Stylet, Baselard) are older and still experimental. Their designs are solid, but outdated. Modern FA-Girl kits are vastly superior in terms of articulation, stability and detail.
Here's the complete line of MD kits, as well as FA-Girl kits, in rough order of release. As you can probably tell, they become far more detailed the newer they are.
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I am aware they are the same line and how the newer models fixed some shoulder articulation and made better thighs ect, but are they still not sister products? Same family, two different lines. Was it because i said megs were older? I meant more mature, FaGs usually have a loli look to them.
Im not that green to the mecha munsume/ or mecha girls scene lol. I probably could have clarified that I was aware the company makes both, but I also assumed that there were different (teams?) behind promotion and question why one line is obviously little girls, and the other feels more teenage or older.
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Okay, can we back off the autism a little bit and go back to talking about the slightly less autistic anime robots instead of the heavily autistic bikini anime waifus that spergs ejaculate on? This is getting super gay. Go start a FAG thread, fags.