Previous thread: deleted
Arnval is out.
Read the guide:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17kIQkTbSQOIVahREFmycWhobDnftvuSPTOcz7aSMOnA/pub Official Skintone & Compatibility guides:
>imgur.com/a/AQ4aR Upcoming Releases & Restocks:
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>Megami device: • Asra Nine-Tails (reissue)[Dec]
• W.I.S.M. Soldier Snipe/Grapple (reissue) [Jan]
• W.I.S.M. Soldier Assault/Scout (reissue) [Jan]
• Sol Roadrunner (reissue) [Apr]
• Sol Hornet (reissue) [Apr]
• Sugumi Kanagata (Wakataki) [Apr]
>Frame Arms Girl: • Hresvelgr Ater (reissue) [Dec]
• Ayatsuki [Dec]
• Qpmini Gourai [Jan]
• Cross Frame Girl GaoGaiGar (reissue) [Mar]
• Kongu [May]
• Qpmini Styley [May]
>Humikane Shimada ART WORKS • Arsia Another Color with FGM148 Type Anti-tank Missile [May]
>Act mode • NAVY FIELD 152 Ray & Type WASP [Apr]
• Symphogear GX Maria Cadenzavna Eve [May]
• Symphogear GX Kirika Akatsuki [Jun]
>Sousai Shoujou Teien: • Ao Gennai [Dec]
• Ritsuka Saeki (St.Iris Gakuen Girls` High School Winter Clothes) [Apr]
>Arcanadea: • Velretta [Nov]
>30 Minute Sisters: • 30ms SIS-T00 Laranel color B [Dec]
• SIS-D00 Nevalia (Color A) [Feb]
• 30MS Option Parts Set 6 (Chaser Costume) (Color A)[Feb]
• 30MS Option Parts Set 7 (Evil Costume) (Color A) [Mar]
• 30MS Option Hairstyle Parts Vol.7 (4 Types) [Feb]
• 30MS Option Body Parts Arm & Leg Parts (White/Black) [Feb]
• Tokai Teio (Uma Musume: Pretty Derby) [Mar]
>Guilty Princess: • GP-04 Guilty Princess Underwear Body Girl Ran [Feb]
>Godz Order: • GO-02 Godwing Celestial Knight Megumi Asmodeus [Jun]
>Plamax Heavily Armed High School Girls • HH-01 Ichi
>Snail Shell • ASSASSIN [May]
>DarkAdvent: • Sophia relax ver. [Feb]
>Raider of Shadow: • RS-01 Rat [Jul]
• SIN-01 Gluttony [4th quarter 22']
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>>10161608 Previous thread got nuked. Wtf...
Anyway, Arnval is looking excellent so far. Hope she holds up in hand.
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>>10161611 I have to say her new hair sculpt is very round.
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For anyone interested in the garbage fire that was the last thread:
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>>10161615 I think it makes quite a difference with the vast improvement on the proportions.
Especially with the head armor on.
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>>10161608 you forgot the title, retard. i almost made another thread because nothing came up in the search. good thing i decided to scan the catalogue last second before hitting post
>>10161611 it was for the best. jannies decided to do their job for once, it looks like they got halfway through deleting the raid posts then gave up and just decided to shitcan the entire thing lmao
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>>10161681 Oops, don't know why the title dropped. Whatever, shit happens
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To the guy asking about the movable eyes. There's the plamax Ichi one, it's not adjustable with pegs but replaceable
https://www.goodsmile.info/en/product/13147/PLAMAX+HH+01+Ichi.html Anonymous
>>10161625 does anyone know if the the Shinki head compatitble with the MD neck joint?
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>>10161944 Yes, and it's also compatible with shinki heads as well
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>>10161944 If the fit is too tight you should sand it or else it will crack.
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>>10162024 Has anyone ever had the neck cup crack on an md? That doesn't sound real.
If you want to prevent the small ring visible in
>>10162009 from breaking I recommend cutting a section of it out to make it a clip. I do this mod often, especially when I seam weld the upper torso parts.
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Finally got around to painting Gourai's armour.
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>>10162076 Neck cup, no.
Neck ring joint, yes.
You put enough pressure on it, then yeah it cracks.
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>>10162096 Are you Tom Cruise
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> islander shopping habbit
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Finally getting good faces! The key was to apply less material it seems but I still applied a bit too much. But since green stuff is solid, it have less capabilities for escaping mold and thus can deform with too much in place and under too much pressure.
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>>10162151 Why.
Think of all those people who wanted Rishetta but can't get one!
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At this rate we will never see anything else after Strarf
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>>10161611 More than likely whonever made the thread got a serious ban. When that happens all their posts get auto deleted including any threads they made.
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>>10162227 For once I gonna say it's not OP fault anons started shitposting hard.
Anyway, I wonder if WISM soldiers will also get some upgrades. The new batch will be my first of them. I ordered 4 of them to have whole squad.
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>>10162227 Doubt it, mods probably just deleted the thread since it was 200 posts of autistic arguing, the Op wasn't even deleted and the thread was archived
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>>10162158 Koto already said they where planing the pre order open date for strarf. I'd imagine they'd want to show off her final colored version publicly before that happens though.
>>10162221 What ugly engineering. I wish someone would tell whoever keeps adding these sliding knee joints to stop. You can hide them in the torso just fine, but knees?
>>10162227 Naw. Still here anon. Don't see how it could be my fault for whatever the fuck happened yesterday. Not like I'm able to remove posts myself. If I could a certain spammer would have never lasted as long as he did.
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>>10162282 >What ugly engineering. I wish someone would tell whoever keeps adding these sliding knee joints to stop. You can hide them in the torso just fine, but knees? It's supposed to be covered by knee armor, and not stripped down.
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>>10162355 That's the bare leg parts, you swap the whole leg from the thigh connector for the armoured part
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>>10162096 Makes me think of ice cream for some reason
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>>10162155 Good for you anon
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>>10161828 I have Roll and she has the same replaceable eyes system. the holes on the face makes it east to customise
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>>10162139 Kek, no i just use my second monitor for easy backgrounds.
>>10162377 The lightest blue I used has a really bubblegum look. I kind of wish I muted it down.
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>>10162685 Does she have a fucking claymore taped to her forehead?
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>>10161621 >16 years of toy engineering.jpg magnificent
I wonder if the move to model kits made this possible, reckon the removed costs of assembly could be put into R&D
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>>10162689 I think it's what Humikane would have wanted.
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I love Harpy, she came together so well
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>>10162709 Agreed, she's probably the highest quality model kit I've put together in terms of plastic and mold quality. Now do the decals you coward.
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>>10162805 >5'11 vs 6' Looks like 1/12 vs 1/10
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>>10162689 That way the front is always toward enemy.
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>>10162689 It's for performing miniature S.L.C. dives
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>>10162805 They've all been big.
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>>10162805 They look really good together, Gluttony being a bit on the tall side but not too much that it can't work.
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>>10162805 I think I may actually prefer Gluttony's design overall, she looks properly regal. Makes Isis look like a little brat in comparison.
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>>10162221 She really only comes with 1 armored leg?
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>>10163556 The design is great, the ms general body execution... not as great. Kinda funny that she has roughly the same limb thickness, but is a good head taller. Imagine if she actually had thicker limbs, or at least hips and thighs...
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>>10163775 Yep. You only get the one. It isn't even ambidextrous either, so you'd have to scratch build to make the other side.
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>>10163911 >>10163912 So has anyone received their Lilinel from HLJ yet? It's out already and I'm still waiting to be charged
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>>10163927 Looks like you missed out on the initial wave
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>>10162076 It's a piece of plastic (a kotobukiya piece of plastic) and if you're forcing it beyond it's tolerance of course its going to crack, it even happened to old shinki models and those were built like brickhouses.
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>>10163952 I asked if anyone had ever had the neck cup crack, not a material description. Obviously forcing a tolerance is going to break something.
I'm talking about a very specific joint, has anyone ever broken the head cup on a megami device kit. The joint is known to be tight, and get stuck, I'm not asking about that, just actual breaks or cracks.
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That's not a 4 head, that's like a 8 or a 9 head
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>>10163984 You got your answer, if you're too stubborn to follow the advice suit yourself.
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>>10164023 You clearly completely lack any sort of reading comprehension. I never asked for advice, I asked for experience or evidence that the head socket on a megami device has broken, something I find to sound highly ridiculous. Why is that difficult?
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>>10163984 Yes. The neck cracked on my Materia. Eventually it broke. Don't remember how I replaced. I think I didn't.
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>>10164250 I didn't know materia was a megami device.
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>>10164250 ABS neckstem inside the torso broke, most likely.
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My Velretta popped into my warehouse super early in the morning. Pretty excited for her. 1st of this line I've gotten.
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Does anyone know why Amiami nor 1999 sell 30 minute sisters?
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>>10164420 They do.
Just not to overseas customers.
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>>10164425 Why?? How come HLJ does? Is there another known store that sells them?
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>>10163991 She's too smart
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>>10164223 ignore the attention whore, he's retarded
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>>10163940 >>10163927 Well fuck, fuck HLJ they were fucking taking preorders some days ago and didn't even let me know my order wouldn't be fulfilled.
How the fuck can't they know how many will they be able to procure?
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>>10164582 Had to write them and ask and they told me that yeah I would HAVE TO WAIT for the reissue lol. Couldn't fucking be bothered to tell me they wouldn't be able to fulfill it in other store.
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>>10164407 YES. This would be an instabuy from me.
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>>10164582 It's not their fault you can't read the item description. Literally all Bandai pre-orders have had this in the description for at least 6 months now.
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>>10164650 Oh fuck. Well it's my fault then
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>>10164668 It happens, least you owned it lol. Shit sucks. Seems like Bandai isn't confirming total stock allocation till much closer to releases.
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>>10164678 I heard early on during the plague, Bandai stock was getting absolutely ravaged by foreign resellers, Japanese Salerymen were coming home to find the local hobby shops completely out of stock, while gaijin like us got the goods. So since then they've drastically reduced the foreign market allocation.
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Are expensive nippers like god hand worth it? I've heard with those you can just cut the pieces off the runners and there's no need to remove nubs with a knife, is it true?
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>>10164802 I'll give you some advice that works with every hobby. When you're just starting out do not buy expensive tools, just buy the cheapest and use it until it breaks/wears out. By that point you'll know if you want to even spend the money on that hobby, and what to look for in a quality product.
Also godhands are quite fragile and while I love mine, I would not recommend them to a beginner. just get the $2 shits on amazon.
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>nearly 10k for magatsuki houten >tfw you know you're getting jewed but go along with it anyway
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>>10164429 Bandai got pissed at ami ami and hobby search for allowing "scalping". It always sounded more like bandais distribution is fucked up, because stopping westerners from buying from them did nothing for the second hand market that is currently selling Lilinel at triple price.
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>>10164811 At leat Americans get her for $70, considering th amount of parts you get I think that's fair.
>>10164407 After full size Sylphy II, Tanya, and the fucking amazing Darius girls.
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>>10162452 For posing there will be sacrifice
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>>10164811 *cries in €120 Ayatsuki*
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>>10164407 >>10164841 Such a bad ass design...
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>>10164809 >>10164802 My niece grabbed my nippers and used them like normal pliers lol. Totally ruined the edge. Would've cried if it was one of those super expensive nippers
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>>10164802 I bought tamiya 123, after using some chink sidecutters (picrel) for a while.
I think I can live without the tamiyas, although it helps to get super close with it but I still need to nub clean although the amount of nub left is way less.
I still use the chink ones as a beater set for cutting thicker plastic.
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>>10164878 My tamiyas are damn near 10 years old, I've resurfaced them several times, and the spring is long gone. They have outlasted 2 gundam planet nippers and 2 god hand nippers.
That said all I use them for is the initial cut from the runners, the single blade nipper does the close cut. I use a retractable xacto (the one with the 4mm blade) for final cleanup, unless there is a really odd or large nub that needs a sanding stick.
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>>10164872 I'm really starting to like giant arm designs. Something about them just feels so powerful.
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>>10164582 It's not a preorder it's a backorder and they don't even charge you until they add it to your private warehouse
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>>10164899 Same. I've always liked big chunky designs, and I really like the contrast between the smaller girl at the core.
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>>10164885 Yeah I prefer to shave off the nubs with a knife. It's worked well enough that I don't really use sanding sticks or anything, though I probably should if I want to get it absolutely perfect.
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>>10164872 Only figma for you
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>>10164223 I told you to suit yourself.
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>>10164918 Properly sharp razor knife can be used to shave most nubs away with less damage than a sand stick in alot of cases. Especially in instances where a nub is very small, or in a spot with matte texture.
>>10164944 That's fine by me. So long as another Yomi situation doesn't occur. Has anyone gotten more info on the replacements yet?
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>>10164977 Ooh yeah, didn't think about matte textures. How would you even fix scuffing on a matte surface?
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>>10163556 Isis is little slutty brat tho.
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>>10164994 I gently use some super fine sandpaper to match the surrounding texture. I found some sanding blocks at home depot that perfectly match kotos skin texture, so I often use those when I do seam welds on flesh tones. They even work on a thick gloss coat if your trying to paint skin.
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>>10165051 It's been a long ass time since I bought them so I don't remember the exact grit, but I'm pretty sure it's the 120 and 150 that I use primarily on skin parts. The 150 is almost exactly the right grit, but I like how matte the 120 comes out.
I also use a 80 grit for roughing out shapes when doing scratch building.
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Not even gona lie, I laughed pretty hard when I saw this.
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>>10165036 why, custom peen(u)s weanus of course :)
hahah! :D
it's custom weeeeeenus pean(u)s! :) hahah
ITT: Articulation that unnerve me - my answer is, of course, custom pean(u)s weenus :D
hahaha!
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>>10164771 neat
i was thinking of doing something vaguely similar by just strapping a hexagear alternative sneak sight on the back of a handscale base
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>>10165064 Can someone get this anon an Exorcist?
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>>10164999 Isis is getting bullied and Gluttony is doing the bullying, is what I'm saying.
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>>10165036 How do you even get screws into an MD?
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>>10165723 Probably decoration.
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Anyone else really into the AGA kits without ever playing the game?
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>>10165973 No, cause I play the game.
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>>10165973 yeah i love them. i'm really not big on most of koto's original mecha musume designs, i think outside of a few exceptions most FAGs and MDs are either bland or overdesigned clusterfucks, but i like their engineering and i like alice gear's designs.
absolutely no interest in the game though. i watched some gameplay videos out of curiosity and it looks like trash, as you would expect of a mobile game
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>>10166063 What design would you choose as your favorite?
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>>10165723 >>10165756 The Japanese Twitter poster who took that photo said he used stickers intended for decorating manicures.
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>>10166504 So basically something similar to sequins. They could be the most common variety out there.
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>>10166467 NTA, but ninja is the the best MD and titty elephant is the best AGA.
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>>10166504 Why are you lying?
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Are you sure MD Shinkis do not have Charging Cradles? I could have sworn I saw a pic posted in the thread where Edelweiss is sitting in one, thought you could build a Cradle for them.
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What kit is this girl? Is it MD?
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>>10166536 Was that the Twitter user who used real rivets? I thought I saw someone else who used manicure stickers but I can't find the original tweet anymore.
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>>10166556 It's an older MD
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>>10162805 Looks to me like my serving of egyptian oyakodon is ready.
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>>10166898 What is that thing and what do you plan to do with it?
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Looks like she put on some weight.
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>>10165036 >>10166504 >The Japanese Twitter poster who took that photo It's my photo.
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>>10167199 So, did you use real rivets?
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Seems like all the FAG got their own Sousai reincarnation
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>>10167509 Would buy them all if they release FAGs as Sousais. Base has to be smol
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>>10164846 What's that middle figure? Is it custom?
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>>10167934 chitocerium XCII-urania
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Finished up on Arnval just now. She is certainly one of the contenders for the best Megami Device kit. She has done away with the noodle proportions of both Busou Shinki and Megami Device similarly to how Susanowo did before her. Her body proportions are very nice. The one fault in the body is that the Shinki style joint in her lower body doesn't play well with her md style hip shell, so the hips have a tendency to try to leave the thighs floating a fair bit in front of where they should be. Much improved is the way the shoulder butterfly joint hinges out, rather than the mushroom peg that totally locks it in place its a normal peg that can be pulled out should you so desire. Said peg pushes into a pom core inside the torso that feels quite rigid, so my fear that that may crack ar some point is minimal. What isn't so nice is the way the knees work. Arnval introduces a new "shinki" runner that contains the generic parts that can be used (and undoubtedly will be used in Strarf) for future kits. It has a rather unique structure for the knees that features a sort of inner frame. Problem is is that the 3mm peg that goes into the joint is quite tight, and rightfully so, it has to support the weight of any future hypothetical Shinki, said 3mm peg is attached to a 1mm strip of plastic that is EXTREMELY fragile. Should that piece break the structure of the knee is likely totally compromised since the lower leg shell holds no tension on the peg and would likely split should the remaining tab end up turning due to the joints tightness. It's not a good setup, though when properly assembled it works perfectly.
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>>10167985 The only other flaw in this kit is the sometimes atrocious nub placement. The worst offenders being on the tanks and leg armor. The tanks each have three spots of attachment to the runner. These are not undergated, and sit on the edge of the part, since there are six sections you wind up with a tedious amount of cleanup, or tanks covered in crappy pot marks. The legs are an unfortunate result of trying to mold the front and sides as one piece, there is a large mold line and very unfortunate nub smack dab in the middle of the sides of the legs.
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>>10167413 The detail is molded in, they probably just used silver paint or molotow chrome marker.
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>>10167998 Oh shit I lied.
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>>10167985 All together, she is a great feeling kit. Nice easy build, around the difficulty of a simple hguc kit. Faces are nice and expressive, she's very accurate to the original, and has excellent articulation.
Can't wait for Strarf in another two to three years.
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One thing I mentioned that I think I should elaborate on is the generic shinki runners. There a good few here that are definitely not designed with just one kit in mind. In fact, several of the Arnval specific runners are covered in places to turn off sections of the mold. The miniscule amount of hope that gives me that maybe the other reboot kits could se the light of day... who the fuck am I kidding fuck Konami.
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>>10167587 I want new sousai shojos
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>>10168038 they better finally make a kit of ema
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Having nightmares tonight
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>>10168107 Nah, she's fine.
Lirinel (yeah, that's the spelling hey went with) is definitely not great, I'd almost say she's bad.
The limbs are run of the mill for 30ms, nothing out of the ordinary except that they are much smaller than the past limbs. Her big problem is her torso. Bluntly, it's absolute ass. The thighs and hips are redesigned around a drop down function to enable forward movement, yet forsake everything else in the process, she barely gets 45° of motion to the sides, greatly reducing actual poseability and looking horrible in the process thanks to the humongous empty cutout I. The upper inside of her thigh. Her upper torso doesn't fair much better since it has full on Taisha syndrome where moving the upper segment forwards or back at all horrifically breaks the sculpt to a degree I don't think even Taisha could pull off.
All that said, despite being a huge step down for 30ms I don't think that the sum of her parts are that awefull, in undemanding poses she looks fine, and her customizability is quite good thanks to the new back adapter and the alternate arms she comes with.
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>>10168131 Not that I'd ever build the armor the way bandai suggests to begin with though.
I probably should mention that even though the legs can get 90° forward, that's only with an alternate skirt that looks quite bad in any position but sitting.
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Size comparison with a standard size md, Richetta size 30ms, and a fag size kit.
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>8900 yen
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>>10168107 >>10168131 >>10168176 >>10168200 Could you post a pic of her side by side with MD Baselard (assuming you have her), please?
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>>10168387 Md base is somewhere around 3 or 4mm taller than little red, in case your curious.
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>>10168009 Too bad that when I saw her in EU shop, she had listed 120€ price. No fucking way I'm going to pay that much, even for such great kit.
It overall sucks, each new MD/FA I see have higher and higher price, often 80-90€. And Japan Post STILL don't want to send to my (central Europe) country so I can't try to get some from Mandarake.
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>>10168561 Gotta love modern geopolitics. I don't think I've heard anything positive out of Europe in at least a decade. I really wish Arnval came in a smaller box, there was no need for the Susanowo box. Besides the booster tanks there aren't any particularly deep runners, she absolutely would have fit in a strike raptor sized box no problem. She's a super simple kit and the majority of her parts count comes from small pieces used for color accuracy. I don't think her main body even has 50 pieces, and the weapons and armor probably barely hit 70. There isn't any reason she should be over... $75, besides the Konami tax that is.
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>>10168131 Bandai should just license the machinika body from megamis
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>>10168200 Is Arsia smaller than other FAGs?
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>>10168774 She is the size of a materia. The other girls armor parts make them taller, in some cases by a good deal.
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>>10166949 I thing this is a mascot from japanese prefecture, obviously to pose it with my FAGs.
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>>10168909 I see, well there are plenty of proxy services. Not too familiar with them but FromJapan/OneMap can forward packages for you. They have proxy instructions on their website.
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>>10168909 Tachikawa is in Tokyo. It's literally the setting of Tokyo Xanadu.
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>>10169151 Who are you fighting with your army of Arnvals?
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I honestly feel like shit now - two weeks of casting and mold making and I basically ended up with nothing. Maybe faceplates would be passable but I still feel like they are slightly wider than they should but arms are disaster - none is going to fit each other and trying to cast two halves out together face another problem - how to construct working joint on such way when apparently GS would react with superlgue and won't be melted by cement and thus cannot be fixed with plastic rod. I hate myself.
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>>10168583 I can understand her being more expensive than Edelweiss at €72 thanks to all the new engineering and the extra plastic, but not a full €50 extra.
Side note, looks like Susanowo has shot up to €140 from her initial €95 price point too.
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>>10169183 Casting isn't something that can be mastered in a short period of time. Even for those who are good at the trade there is still a 50% chance of losing the entire batch due to whatever reason.
There is always a reason for GK to be expensive.
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Built Gluttony's fella, very happy with him, he's hefty, well articulated and just looks damn cool.
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>>10169353 Oh fuck, forgot to pay attention to that. The gold's unpainted, right? Looks good.
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>>10169376 Yeah, that gold is straight outta the box, looks pretty good. A few bits bizarrely aren't undergated though.
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Would you recommend 30 ms kits for kitbashing?
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>>10169380 And it's not even $65 shipped to the US if I grab it from Taobao. I think I'm gonna have to do it.
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>>10169151 based but only if you build them all
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>>10169586 Yes. You don't even need a base girl anymore if you can find the hair options.
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>>10169353 Where did you buy them from? I cannot find Gluttony on Amiami, only BBTS, and I want to avoid buying from the latter if possible
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>>10169725 What did you use for forearms? The reason why I worked on casting for last two weeks is precisely because I wanted to make some forearms as I have body, legs and head secured from optional sets.
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>>10170148 Look's like 30MM Alto aerial unit
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>>10170148 Alto flight type (navy) and the wrist extenders from the option backpack set. The upper as are the 3mm clip and tube from any of the older 30mm option sets.
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>>10169861 On the other hand, Hobby Search has 20% off all shipping to USA.
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>>10170694 >>10170184 Okay, thanks. Although I don't really want to "amputate" any of my 30MM kits to give arms to my custom 30MS but maybe I can figure something out with polystyrene.
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>>10170845 If you have the adapter runner you could just buy another alto.
Not like they cost more than ten bucks...
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>>10170528 I'll never understand the Alice obsession, but cute.
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>>10167985 The only mecha musume kit I've built is the Richetta and I was interested in getting a MD, because people say they have really good articulation and that intrigued me. Would this one be a good first MD to get?
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>>10171483 Susanowo is a really good kit but probably a bit expensive. The Bullet Knights girls are probably more widely available and also really good
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>>10171483 Get yourself an Asra girl.
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>>10171597 Wish Volks stuff wasn't so damn expensive to ship. EMS prices to the UK are still crazy.
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>>10170970 Actually, the cheapest I found was going for 16€.
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>>10171483 I'd say so, There isn't anything particularly difficult or complex about Arnval's construction besides the weird knees. She is very simple to build, not as simple as Richetta, she is about on par with a witch from mercury kit for a modern example.
>>10171532 Arisa is definitely a good choice for a first koto kit. Very bare bones and strait forward.
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Anyone here built Arsia already?
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>>10171794 Right here numb nuts
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Who else thinks this looks really good? I quite like the sort of bootleg wing zero vibe the new binders have going on.
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>Kongo at EU shop as preorder option cost 130€
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>>10171994 that's why you use japanese shops
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I want to make something like headphones but what parts should I look for in making the headband part?
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>>10172087 Plaplate. Two .5mm strips sandwiched together should be an appropriate thickness and hold each other in the right shape so long as they are bent before gluing them together.
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>>10172075 I know but Japan Post still refuse to ship to my country (in central Europe). Sure, I do have supply of models already but still.
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>>10172186 oh really? rip. western eu even has ems back now. still no regular airmail though
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>>10172075 Between shipping halfway across the world, the Euro being in the shitter right now, and 20% VAT on the entire order including shipping + customs fees you'd probably end up paying about the same anyway.
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>>10171285 Because Alice is cute and hot
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>>10172206 feels good being a brexitchad, our customs is really lax and i never get charged VAT on imports unless i use ems
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>>10171994 Fuck, I'm a sucker for cute faceplates and that's one of the cutest I've seen.
Shit's what made me get Kikka and Stylet XF-3.
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>>10171994 Do it for mya-nee
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>>10172546 How large are your orders, do they get really anal if you go a penny over the £135 limit?
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>>10172815 I couldn't say no to this face either. And then Tamamo came along and made me buy basically the same kit again.
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So, how crap is her skirt going to be? Seems like a decent idea in concept using thin flexible plastic for the skirt, but... Bandai...
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>>10172941 Can't be any worse than the figure rise standard one
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>>10168200 Get Lirinel some Magical Girl equipment and she'd be perfect.
>>10169353 Shit I gotta get on that pre-order through USAGS while they also still have the 1/100 Genesis for PO as well.
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>>10172941 >crap because...?
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>>10172206 First of all, customs itself are rare as they only apply to orders above ~120€ or something. Most Megamis/FA cost around 6000 yen on Mandarake - even with 23% vat and shipping (assuming that airmail would be finally back) it still means saving nearly half on kit itself. Remember that shipping within EU still cost you (20€ for me but DPD keep the price up to 20kg packages so I simply ship once per year in one bigass package).
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>>10172821 so far my largest order was around £120 so i'm not sure. done a lot of orders around that value and never got charged VAT.
i have one coming at the end of this month (or might be early next month since there's so many bank holidays around xmas) that's worth £200 so if i remember i'll let you know. i expect they'll tax me on this one
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>>10173239 I think the UK customs limit is £135 including shipping. Anything above that and they tax you.
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>>10173261 the VAT limit is £39, you're supposed to be charged 20% VAT on any import above that and i have been even on small orders when using japanpost EMS but never from any other shipping method (air, surface, dhl). the £135 limit is for the extra 2.5% duty, but i believe we have a duty-free trade deal with japan
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>>10173263 I could have been shipping giant expensive orders this whole time, shit
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>>10173181 >customs itself are rare as they only apply to orders above ~120€ or something Lucky bastard, here they charge €13 on top of anything just to get shit through customs, before you even get to the point where they start charging extra import duties. At least shipping is cheap, shops in the same country usually do free shipping and even my big orders have never cost me more than €16.
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>>10173599 I'm sorry, I was thinking about duty aka the extra payment from importing, aside from VAT. Since last year's every imported package to EU have to be taxed (small local assholes were too buttblasted by Chinese) just not every one is subjected to duty.
Fun fact - in Poland, they figured out that checking every package makes no sense... so they hold EVERY package and send letter asking to do declaration online, yourself. And you have to pay extra for both this declaration and to be able to pay taxes at postal office (and you don't have other option). So you do their job and pay them for it.
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>>10173647 Yeah, they started holding every package and making you do the customs declaration yourself here too since the €21 no VAT limit got dropped. Fun times.
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>>10172941 That just looks like paper...
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>>10173664 It'll probably be the pastic they used on the Digimon amplified kits, which is fine, but it's super easy to bend and fold wrong, as well as easy to accidentally crease. That or some kind of shitty pleather.
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Suytas next dumpster fire protos, don't think I've posted this one.
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>>10173675 Next? First time I hear of them. What did they do before?
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>>10173955 The Hunter’s Poem, a pretty mediocre female kit with a decent bike, and two other girls. This one looks great, but I’d be wary based on their other work.
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Arnval is great
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>>10173675 >>10174100 Oh right, that girl. Looked kind of boring to me.
This new one you posted looks way better.
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>>10174175 Better than this at least
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>>10174177 How tall is her compared to megamis/fags?
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>>10174272 i love the armour design on this one
…but i don't really like the girl. always on the fence about getting her
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>>10171994 Just import her you fucktard. I'm tired of americans being scared of a $70 shipping. Boohoohooohooohoohoo sucks for you! Everyone worldwide pays about that for imports
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>>10174481 I'm (central) European ya git. € in post was not enough to notice?
I wish I could import but Japan Post is STILL refusing to service my country, first because of Covid, now because of war and who knows what next because some assholes just can't stand peace and quiet.
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>>10174508 >some assholes just can't stand peace war, war never changes.
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looking at lumitea customs makes me want to get a second one and do one in default colors and one in edgy colors. but my backlog is so big at this point i don't think i can justify getting duplicates
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Is there any koto kit with this hairstyle?
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>>10174581 Innocentia and Laetitia have reconfigurable hairstyles, so you can give them a single sidetail if you want. Not quite as long though.
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>>10174580 >duplicates And I was so happy to grab the only copy of Lumitea that arrived on Hobby Frontline last summer, even rushed to finish work at lab faster to get earlier back at home and purchase her. 80€ hurt a lot but I was happy anyway and people buy dupes without effort in meantime.
I hope that once war is over, shipping will be restored as differences between Mandarake "used" kits and EU shops prices are scary.
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>>10174581 https://en.kotobukiya.co.jp/product/product-0000004615/ This could be close but will be hard to get I guess. Check this line however.
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>>10174594 damn, i feel for you eastern europe anon. the japanese stores have plenty of stock of her and shipping is cheap via surface. i'm sending bad vibes to putin for you as we speak
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>>10174580 Would get if not for the knees
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>>10174588 >>10174581 You could use Innocentia's head with the ponytail from Jinrai as a side tail. I think the indigo Jinrai has the long one as a spare.
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>>10174305 Taller than both, smaller head than both.
Head is around the size of a figma head, so she looks weird as hell with most kits, but looks better(?) with girls like Sophia who while being taller than most other kits has a head size in between.
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>>10174580 If I knew how to do eyes I would do dark skin mods...
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>>10175301 Can't you just use waterslides for the eyes?
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Holy shit
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>>10161608 >Gourai: OK GRANDMA... LET’S GET YOU TO BED... >Grandma: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! Here we see a Regular Gourai taking care of an rare elderly Busou Shinki Murmeltier Desert Version... Hang in there Gourai, she's not long for this world anyway...
#fagirl #busoushinki #grandma #epsteindidntkillhimself
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>>10171994 I will hug you my Brother as I transmit feel good vibes towards your general direction...
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>>10175453 Man, imagine if we'd gotten this instead of Edelweiss as the first MD Busou Shinki
Like, Edelweiss is fine and I'd love to get her someday if there's ever a reprint, but it still boggles the mind they didn't remake the OG pair first instead of a girl who could have passed for a normal MD.
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>>10175552 To be fair, at the time Arnval and Strarf where both planned to use the normal md body. Alot happpend it the SEVEN years it took from Arnvals announcement to now.
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>>10175572 Here is Koto's wonderfest booth summer of 2016. If I'm getting my facts strait, Stylet was not even out yet. Wild how long it took for Arnval to see the light of day.
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>>10175572 Here is a shot from wonder festival summer 2016, right before Soldier and Scout where released.
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>>10175591 And the og announcement of the sol kits
Arnval and Strarf where in development hell for a looooooooong time.
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For those wanting to see the armor.
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And a new Ms General kit to throw into the piles and piles of prototypes they have shown and never delivered...
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>>10175612 She kinda looks like a cross between a budget stylet and innocentia. I'll probably get one just to see what they have in store...
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>>10175611 >>10175612 as someone who only got into this after busou shinki became irrelevant and has no attachment to it or the characters, this is by far the best shinki design of the 3 so far. might actually get this one
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>>10175861 Introducing, Tempesta.
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>arnval shipped
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>>10175453 Will she be available for PO on other sites, or only Kotobukiya?
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>>10175910 Konami can afford not to give a shit
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>>10175910 Honestly, though new versions of Brightfeather, Proxima, or Eukrante wold be wonderfull, I would totally be happy with only Altines/Altlene and the mk II's ever being remade. Those are special.
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>>10175924 Hopefully China can make bootlegs soon
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>>10175927 That would require them to reverse engineer 15+ year old figures that had molding problems to begin with. You can keep that idea...
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Why does she seem like such a smug bitch?
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>>10176023 SERIOUS brat energy
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>>10175435 Not every model kit has them
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>>10176057 Chitocerium does not :(
I don't want to do brown skin mods with them, but I want to fill-in the gaps in their pieces and thus repaint them
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How do the 30 Minute Missions, not Sisters, limbs fit on FAGs?
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>>10176072 They don't, you would need mid-piece of sort. Arms have "male" insert and legs "female" socket, opposite of FA Girls and Megamis, elbows and knees have C type connection too.
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>>10175454 >>10175453 Old one has better boobs
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>>10176019 All they need is a 3d modeler
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>>10175453 Fugg, my weird nostalgia for early BS is going to make this hard to resist.
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>>10176129 What about proportions-wise?
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>>10168583 >>10169229 Guess I should be happy about being able to grab Susanowo for 110 yuros this summer.
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>>10171994 >130€ Let me think for a moment, I can't exactly know the box size so let's pretend it's arnval sized:
>cost of the kit is 71€ at HLJ >delivery options: >surface parcel, 33€ >fedex, 69€ >dhl, 97€ Let's pick parcel, even though it has a delivery time measured in months and it ends up at 104€ before VAT.
>VAT is 25%, customs declaration fee is 10€ >104*1.25=130 >130+10=140€ ...seems like I'm better off getting it from the EU store as a swede.
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>>10176430 Registered Airmail or Airmail Small Packet isn't available for Sweden from HLJ?
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>>10176468 Since I used the Arnval box as an example and I don't expect the Kongou one to be tiny either, the box is too big for those shipping methods.
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>>10176312 Let's put it this way, 30mm is rx78-2 style 1/144 scale, frame arms is F91 style 1/100. The sizes work fine between the lines they go with since 30ms and fag are 1/12 and 1/10 respectively but would look rather odd intermixed.
Also, the lower arms on a Frame Arms (girl or otherwise) would technically work fine on a 30ms kit, though it would probably look quite weird.
>>10176373 It was all the plasticizer she leaked.
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>>10176373 If you aren't white or a very specific range of brown you're ugly
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>10175490
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>>10176667 Anon, he's in his 60's and has had multiple strokes, his brain can't handle twitter.
He uses facebook.
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>>10176571 Better get used to it whitey
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New shinkis look kinda lame. Do you think they’ll make the mk2s eventually?
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>>10176997 >New shinkis look kinda lame. Do you think they’ll make the mk2s eventually? Do not bet on it Brother... Konami being Konami will make this as difficult as they can...
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They will announce her kit on the stream right...
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>>10175453 >>10175611 >>10175612 Her new frame parts actually use Overed Manipulators or something? Well, something that looks like one.
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>>10177204 >https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail?gcode=FIGURE-148667 Good Goddesses, yes please. It feels like we've been waiting for her forever. I don't get into the Sousai Shoujo stuff much, but I'll gladly buy several of this little devil.
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>>10177240 Whoops, meant that for this anon
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>>10177204 they better
one of the top comments on every sousai video i've clicked on for the past year has been "please make ema a plastic model"
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>>10177204 >cute and funny senpai I'd buy multiple copies too.
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>>10177204 >flat as a board Hot
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>>10177336 Not until Fuckonami pulls the stick out of their ass.
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>>10178511 Loose socks time
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>>10178537 sliding ball to better look up/down
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>just a teaser
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proto-ema design
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then she became cute and funnu
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