Just remember, the clear parts are for little kids who dont want to paint the kit. You dont wana leave those parts clear unless you did one hell of a good job painting the internals
O Ta, Herr smeagol, I will follow my sages advice…[:|], but I refuse to drink the kool aid!
Sorry, G.M. (<- look; a pun!), no Gundam builds right now…[:'(], but I have finished painting my 1/144th Tieren, just needs some finishing touches.
I’ve been putting off finishing my Ma. K. Falke because summer session just started, and it looks like I won’t be able to go to the neighborhood model shop for a while.
I will still aptly follow your, what, 3 Gundam builds, is it now? Lucky. Keep up the good work.
Well at least post some photos of the Tieren [:P] I am looking forward to some photos of the Ma. K Falke as well! And as always good too hear from you.
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Oh yea, forgot to let ya’ll know the outcome of my bid f/ PG RX-78 on eBay, guy outbid me by $2.00 and won…[bnghead]. After all was said and done total f/kit was $111.00 and the next cheapest I have found is $149.00 + ship. [:'(]
Look, I know the draw of it. What you do is take that mega gundam kit there, and you send it to me. Its the first step to recovery
U soooo funnnnny [proplr]. I do plain to do a detailed build here on the Forum and I will share w/all! I have researched and from what I have found and for the price which was not that bad thru Tower Hobbies, and using a discount coupon, this kit is not too expensive. Or if you want, you can also purchase thru their Easy Pay, three payments until paid for. I used this once to purchase a Tamiya RC Clod Buster. The auto pay worked fine w/o a hitch. If you can get the discount coupon to work, you can get the kit f/$79.00 + $9.00 ship. Total $88.00, but be warned, the coupon only works 17 percent of the time, I do not know why, but I could not get it to work today! I paid w/ship $105.00 f/kit. Today’s coupon number 014B8. But as I stated, I could not get it to accept. From the reviews I have read, this w/it’s limited movement is really a nice kit. When I bought the 1/100th MG RX-0 Unicorn w/markers I paid more for it than I did this one!!!
Why are photos being removed from my threads? I have never seen this happen before on any other Forums I am a part of??? Not so sure if I like the Photobucket thing!!! [:@]
Roger that, will (attempt) do. As soon as I can get camera images onto computer, then CD, then laptop, then internet, then here…[blndfld]
Duh stupid me. figured out if I delete the photos from Photobucket, they can not post to the areas they have been posted too.[snStpd]
Well here is a up-date on the build. As stated before, I am a slow builder. I know you can throw them together in a few hours, but this is my learning curve for building them and I am taking my sweet time[O]. I will tell you something I found while studying/assembling this Gunpla. When you start working w/the leg, part J1/2, you cut from the runners and after all is done, you have several parts that move/swing into position. One of the movable parts has a small spreader you remove from that part to use on the shocks. Now both sides of this has a molded t in the center, when you go to attach parts C22 and C15, they too have the mounting t shaped stud as well. Now after careful study of the drawings, the parts attached to the legs was to have a t shaped hole f/you to mount these parts too. Mine does not and required me to glue these into place, when in fact, they were designed to open up on the back of the leg. Bandai needs to inspect the mold a little closer. Other than that, no problems w/anything else, do however see some areas they could improve on given the cost of the kit and giving it the BIG MG stamp! I am still attaching armour and did play w/the Beam Rifle a little. I glued together, sanded all flat areas flat and opened up the flash suppressor prototypical. Did work on he helment, drilled the vulcans deeper, but not all the way thru, I do have a problem w/front helment camera, on the box, lens is red, but many drawings show this a blue color which to me is more realistic since many lens are coated w/a blue tinit protective coating. I probly will go w/my gut feeling. Whether or not it is box color perfect does not matter to me! Wait till you see what I have cooked up for the white areas of the armour. [cnsod][View:/themes/fsm/utility/
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Just one other little item I wish too point out, look @ last photo of the Beam Rifle and notice the sweep of the fingers on the grip f/the rifle. This is why I cut this hands fingers apart. Looks realistic!..[H]
NICE[t$t]
Keep up the good work. Lookin good so far.
Do you feel lucky punk…well do ya! [:#][View:/themes/fsm/utility/
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G.M.
Great work so far. I love the detail of the fingers. I will have to remember this when I manage to get my hands on some of these.
Smeagol,
I have a few questions for you. I have doing some reading on the Gundam series and wanted to clarify a few things. Gundam 00 is a future timeline as to what the original Gundam series is right? Also been looking at some awesome builds online and saw one that I rreally like, do they make a 1/100 scale Geara Zulu in plastic?
Ill be honestly, I know nothing about 00. I stopped watching the new series after Gundam Seed. That, all it’s spin offs and as it would seem, every series after they made new, was just the stories plots and characters from the origination series just cut/pasted in with a name or design changed here or there.
According to turn A gundam 00 and Seed are both on alternate timelines, but everything else falls into the same, starting with the origional gundam and encompassing everything including G gundam Gundam x, Gundam wing, etc.
There is no Mg Geara Zulu released yet, nor do I know of any plans. Its a relatively new design from the Gundam Unicorn line which is in the Universal century time line of the original gundam.
I wholly recommend avoiding gundam Seed and Gundam 00 at ALL costs. There are nothing but a pop version of what the series used to be.
smeagol, again I must [:D[ to your knowledge of the Gunpla story and time line. And I agree you know what you are talking about, but I must admit I am a little [8-)]. I have I believe been to every English speaking site that has any info about the Gundam Story, Time Line and what part ea. figure plays, and I do admit you are dead on with your info, however!!! I do not think everyone feels like you do about the Seed and 00 Gundam the way you do. I again digress on the knowledge of who, what, and where, but with my Military back ground, I do understand development and that is what I see within the types of figures and their different time lines? Now as to how those time lines cross, I am in the dark. But on those sites I have been too, for example, the RX-0 Unicorn seems to be the big deal, I believe I read yesterday on a site from Japan, this would be the next PG release! I also read that the Riser and Red Frame (and all the other color frames) Astray were the top sellers bar none @ this time. Now again, I believe any individual has a right to feel and say what they think, but I also believe that same individual has the right to figure it out for himself as well w/o others views influencing the decision they reach on any given subject. Now please do not take me wrong, I look forward to your input very, very much, but please do back down the pedal abit on what you do not like. I for one do like the figures in the Seed line and I find nothing to dislike about them at all other than my not knowing the details, hey I just think they look cool. Again I do hope I have not come on too strong, I think we should be trying to get people involved, maybe some fella out there does build the Seed, reads these comments and for the neg. responce they read, they fail to post their build, that is not what any modeling forum is about! I do hope we are agreed my friend and you continue to be of help.
Its fact, not opinion that the majority of seed was just recycled Ms Zeta Storyline characters and mechs
OK, I understand your point, but when you say I wholly recommend, that my friend is your opion! And that does not make it a fact! [N]