Yea Dupes, the 1/144 Gundam vs Zaku is exactly in the meat of what this GB is.
Im going to be watching with interest to see what you do with those kits.
i see this page in wrong format, it’s only me?
I’m seeing it in a weird format as well.
[:XX] boh! can the effect of minovsky particles… someone has started the reactor of some mobile suit?
ops… immagine in the above picture a minovsky reactor [whstl]
Ahhhh, excellent. Glad those kits are going to pan out! Will probably go for the Zaku (vs the Gundam), just because I can use more armor modeling techniques on it.
BTW - this thread is also showing up really weird in my browser.
Any good sources for picking up kits of this genre at a reasonable cost? They seem to be hard to come by through my usual routes. Any info highly appeciated!
i’ll put you with the zaku for now.
For good sites to buy kits just wait the sure Smeaglo reply, also you can try what ebay offers, just keep in mind that gunpla are differents accuracy grades, yours are hg (high grade) ,kits before hguc (high grade universal centuri) standard.
For an istant grade compare just watch this picture , the rx-79g that you have , compared to the new kit of same subject
http://www.dalong.net/review/hg/h79/p/h79_41.jpg
http://www.dalong.net/review/hg/h79/p/h79_42.jpg
the new kit have better movements ,feet have two movable parts and plus the armor up the feet separated from ankle and movable. I have this kit and payed more than the double hg box [:S]
the red zaku seen before it’s in real grade, actually produced only two kits, the red zaku and the original gundam. have details as bigger 1/100 master grade [:|] but in 1/144
To avoid surprise i use dalong site for reviews
at the next
Yea, its weird for me as well. Om Dupes, this is the best place in the US to get gundam kits.
http://www.gundamstoreandmore.com/
they have the best prices, quite literally, and have a 110% price match guarantee. If you are going to go outside of the US HLJ.com would be your place.
Now dupes, dont think that just because the Gundam is white, blue, red, and yellow, in typical anime fashion, does not mean you can not weather it like you would armor. Honestly I would love to see you build both. I am always interested in seeing armor people’s take on mechs.
Flat out, when building these think of them not as a ‘giant anime mecha robot’ but think about it what it was portrayed as In the series. The next new weapon, like jets before it, and tanks before that, and bi planes before that, and rifles before that, etc etc etc. If you treat them like something from anime, it will come out looking like… well an anime thing, bright shiny fancy colors, which can look good but compared to what we know armor modelers can do, it would be disapointing.
Also Dupes, remember this, its 1/144th in scale, remember the scale when weathering, if you weather spots to much it will make it look out of scale
That picture(1/12 scale gundam on athe toilet) is mine. I took it when I was commissioned to build the 1/12 scale Gundam and Zaku by a local distributor for display at hobby shows. I don’t like watermarking my pictures but I do appreciate when folks ask my permission to use my pictures.
That sort of… doesn’t surprise me that it was yours. I found it on memebase.com or one of those sites.
ahah tht’s great! [H]
Can we use your image gamerabaenre?
if you want you can kill Smeagol with some plasma gun [:D[[]
if you don’t want i’ll remove the image
Was gonna post earlier but apparently can’t post on the forum through my Android… Sux. Anyways, I second gundamstoreandmore.com. They recently restocked a ton of their MG kits along with the release for the special clear armor kits.
No worries. I specifically don’t watermark my images so that folks can use them. I just feel better about it when folks ask. So yeah, you guys are more than welcome to use the images!
Not a lot for progress for me this week. Work, yard work, playing Final Fantasy and messing with my guitar. Today I did break Mr. Zaku apart and luckily for me most of the parts were not glued together. Tonight I started filling in the seams on the leg parts. Only got one picture taken before my camera died, waiting for the batteries to charge.
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well gamerabaenre, many thanx, i’ll give you the credits on top of the gb
are you too an axeman? great [H]
others play guitar in this GB?
Even if in different color the kit is the same i build some year ago (2006-2007 probably)
Was a good challenge and very fun to build.
the only hard part to paint was the elbow joint.
to make paint work easily remember to use c joint
Bys, you would be suprised how many musicians and guitarists are on this forum, including a famous one or two.
mh… then needed an official gutar gb to be started… [whstl]
this is one of my axe
Ooooh, nice axe…don’t think I have any pics of mine.
Alright, first off - www.gundamstoreandmore.com is pretty awesome. HOWEVER, it’s opened up ALL kinds of questions for me to pose for your fellas.
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Can anyone explain the different “grades” of kits to me? I have High Grade - assuming that’s good?
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What’s the difference between Gundam and Gunpla?
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Assuming there are two different sides in this conflict (Gundam vs Zuku?) - does it get any more specific than that?
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I notice that there are many different “eras” listed for kits - anyone able to explain a timeline for me?
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1/144 scale - assuming this means that a Zaku is ~ 50 feet tall? Maybe more?
Basically, I’m a total Gundam n00b. If anyone has a good link for some background info for me to read, it would be highly appreciated! I always feel better about modeling something when I have SOME idea about it’s back story.
Thanks guys!
In before anyone beats me to it, im gonna give him a full answer for everything, if noone minds. Im gona add it in in an edit
I didnt want to write paragraphs and paragraphs and have someone beat me to it