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Welcome to the Gunpla/Plamo General

Gelgoog Guy !!XOac6frt+Ny Wed 21 Feb 2024 15:06:29 No.10882224 View View Reply Original Report

>"If you're new, you're gonna fuck up. Don't worry! If you're experienced, don't make the new people worry!"

***READ THE GUIDE***

Discord
https://discord.gg/W973BmwERB

The guide:
Part 1 (Quick Start)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSBDfE8Iz-a86DZJCR5MHRW6tjkQX-y4-ZpUc_vHjRfx_i2FB0zR1usdrgUJ4wNTs1iDFZmTQHF66X_/pub

Part 2 (Deeper Dive)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQJG2SZo1O1PjExPrdU_-GnkrYTGiGLCgBcKaL4peEWxOGB4CNbpGaJBV1oF61eNE1lEhbQHYEAXLrw/pub

And a handy guide to other types of plamo: http://www.mediafire.com/view/1vf1aw7v91pz5pa/Airfix%20Model%20World%20Specia%20(Scale%20Modelling%20Step-By-Step).pdf
http://www.scalemodelguide.com

Some line art:
https://imgur.com/user/Gundaml1neart/posts
https://mechalineart.fandom.com/wiki/MechaLineart_Wiki
Previous thread: >>10853652

Gelgoog Guy !!XOac6frt+Ny

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Gelgoog Guy !!XOac6frt+Ny Wed 21 Feb 2024 15:08:42 No.10882225 Report

Quoted By: >>10883012

== VIDEO GAMES GROUPBUILD ==

Build a Mecha or vehicle (Spaceship, tank, etc) that appears in a video game!
>Any game series is fair game to source kits from (ex: Armored Core, Muv Luv, Virtual On, Mega Man, etc)
>For mecha anime appearing in video games the design must have originated from a video game, just appearing in a game like SRW doesn't count (ex: the Gundam Pixy is fine since it debuted in Cross Dimension 0079 for the SFC, but a plain old RX-78-2 is not fine despite appearing in the same game)
>Alternatively, you can kitbash kits in order to create a build inspired by a video game character (ie: a Samus made out of a Michaelis)
>Spaceships (ex: Vic Vipers) airships (ex: Highwind) and other vehicles (ex: Mammoth Tanks, Neotanks, those walkers from Halo) are also fair game as long as they're clearly mechanical and sci-fi - Don't go submitting the Shelby Cobra from Age of Empires II.

Submit your entries to [email protected] , include at least 5 finished pics and any WIP pics you took while working on your entry, as well as a brief description of your build.

START: 12/9/23
END: 3/31/24

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Anonymous Wed 21 Feb 2024 15:21:12 No.10882238 Report

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Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 01:57:52 No.10883012 Report

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>>10882225
Tamiya airbrush thinner is 50/50 butyl acetate and acetone (basically the same mix as Tamiya extra thin cement)

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 05:51:17 No.10883296 Report

Quoted By: >>10883328 >>10883334 >>10883382

chinks who can't spell "elusive" are cute

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 06:32:45 No.10883328 Report

Quoted By: >>10887073

>>10883296
What is this even for? Eating plastic?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 06:41:52 No.10883334 Report

Quoted By: >>10883342

>>10883296

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 07:02:19 No.10883342 Report

Quoted By: >>10883353 >>10883373

>>10883334
when was the last time you've seen/heard it in an actual sentence? though so

which probability would you bet on: chinks knowing an obscure word vs chinks misspelling a common one by blindly picking an auto-suggestion?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 07:12:46 No.10883353 Report

Quoted By: >>10883359

>>10883342
Have you never played or heard of Mass Effect 2?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 07:16:21 No.10883359 Report

Quoted By:

>>10883353
sorry, not a gaymer

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 07:28:59 No.10883373 Report

Quoted By:

>>10883342
"Illusive shadows" sounds better than "elusive shadows."
The former implies the shadows are or can create illusions. The latter implies the shadows scurry away when you try to find them.
If you were to name a tool that claims to remove nubs like magic, would you give it a name that implies it does some ninja magic bullshit or would you give it a name that implies you won't be able to find it?
Look, I'm not saying the Chinaman has a Master's in English. But it's more likely that he just pasted the chinese equivalent of "Illusory" in a translator and got "illusive" instead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 07:45:24 No.10883382 Report

Quoted By: >>10883968

>>10883296
Is this shit good or nah?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 21:41:13 No.10883968 Report

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>>10883382
I'll tell you when mine arrives... next month, I guess.
Fucking chink shipping, man.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Feb 2024 08:34:35 No.10884593 Report

Quoted By: >>10884720

How are Bandai's new Macross HGs? Particularly eyeing the YF-29. Any issues to watch out for?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Feb 2024 13:08:37 No.10884720 Report

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>>10884593
Solid aside from being a parts-former.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Feb 2024 18:34:56 No.10886558 Report

Quoted By: >>10886570 >>10886676 >>10886978

Man, spray booth is quite expensive

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Feb 2024 18:50:44 No.10886570 Report

Quoted By: >>10886580 >>10886625

>>10886558
I wouldn't really call 150 for something that should last for life that expensive tbqh

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Feb 2024 18:56:27 No.10886580 Report

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>>10886570
Well, i only paint some times not everyday so its quite expensive for me, the cheapest one look quite flimsy too

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Feb 2024 19:38:14 No.10886625 Report

Quoted By: >>10886731

>>10886570
>should last for life
I wouldn't say so. The fan will probably last 5 years at most and not all booths (especially cheap ones) are designed with easy fan replacement in mind.

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Anonymous Sat 24 Feb 2024 20:15:46 No.10886676 Report

Quoted By: >>10886978

>>10886558
Just diy yourself something like this but with bigger fan and some air conditioner filters

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Feb 2024 21:03:56 No.10886731 Report

Quoted By:

>>10886625
Gotta be honest senpai I've never had a fan die on me in my 38 years on this hell hole

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Feb 2024 00:40:40 No.10886978 Report

Quoted By: >>10887169

>>10886558
doubling what >>10886676 said.
made one myself when I first got into the hobby and never looked back.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Feb 2024 01:41:03 No.10887043 Report

Quoted By: >>10887072

>Premium Scamdai still hasn't shipped my Feb order.
>Already got the notification for my March order.
Fucking Nips.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Feb 2024 02:03:58 No.10887072 Report

Quoted By: >>10887077 >>10887080

>>10887043
See >>22484545

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Feb 2024 02:04:16 No.10887073 Report

Quoted By: >>10887432 >>10887673 >>10887696

>>10883328
it's an electric sander that makes sanding jobs much easier and efficient. here's a similar product in action https://youtu.be/hrf-73u0_sI?t=185

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Feb 2024 02:08:29 No.10887077 Report

Quoted By: >>10887080 >>10887083

>>10887072
>See a deleted post
Galaxy brain nip.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Feb 2024 02:10:09 No.10887080 Report

Quoted By: >>10887081

>>10887072
>>10887077
Yeah, I forgot to cross-link to /m/.
>>>/m/>>22484545

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Feb 2024 02:11:10 No.10887081 Report

Quoted By:

>>10887080
I'm not paid to think on the weekend.
>>>/m/22484545

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Feb 2024 02:12:06 No.10887083 Report

Quoted By:

>>10887077
>not using 4chanX
kek what a loser baby doodoo head

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Feb 2024 03:34:07 No.10887169 Report

Quoted By: >>10890533

>>10886978
What? Its work fine

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Anonymous Sun 25 Feb 2024 07:56:21 No.10887348 Report

Quoted By: >>10887359 >>10894573

Give me the basics on masking. Whenever I see pictures of people doing paint jobs on their kits, they seem to prime and paint entire pieces, including mating surfaces and nubs/holes. I don't want to mess with the fittings on my pieces, or worse have pieces of top coat and paint shedding and clogging up the joints whenever I pose it. Which parts do I mask and which can I leave untouched?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Feb 2024 08:16:41 No.10887359 Report

Quoted By:

>>10887348
a practice i've seen by professional modelers is
>snapshit the whole kit
>prime it as one whole thing
>turn all movable parts
>prime the areas you might had missed
>disassemble the kit
any unprimed areas you can ignore since they will be covered on the finished thing anyway. you'd also wanna paint on the joints to tighten it and give it more resistance against wear.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Feb 2024 09:53:26 No.10887393 Report

Quoted By: >>10887553 >>10887915

Ordered this last week and it got here on friday, it's nowhere near the best zoids kit but I'm enjoying it.
Biggest issues being way to many runners for the size of the kit and the blue is difficult to get rid of the nub marks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Feb 2024 11:06:51 No.10887432 Report

Quoted By:

>>10887073
Looks promising, but the noise is unbearable. Better wear strong ear plugs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Feb 2024 14:39:40 No.10887553 Report

Quoted By: >>10887915 >>10888664

>>10887393
Careful with the little rings that kind of just hang on there. They fall off super easily and I lost all mine just from moving it around after building it

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Feb 2024 17:12:44 No.10887673 Report

Quoted By: >>10887684

>>10887073
Look fine but my knife skill is better than any sandpaper or glassfile

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Feb 2024 17:21:09 No.10887684 Report

Quoted By:

>>10887673
Ayeee, another Hobby knife master race chad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Feb 2024 17:31:19 No.10887696 Report

Quoted By: >>10888361

>>10887073
Honestly, I bought one of these reciprocating sanders and I still just use the raiser glass file. I've used it like once

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Feb 2024 21:11:33 No.10887915 Report

Quoted By: >>10887922

>>10887393
>>10887553
What a shame, I was looking forward to this kit. No redeeming qualities? I've collected no zoids that are kits before but the desire has risen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Feb 2024 21:22:11 No.10887922 Report

Quoted By:

>>10887915
Its a cool kit with a kickass giant gun. It also has a lot of surface details. Its just the typical koto fiddly bits.
Their newer zoids are extremely solid. But like most of their older kits the tortoise is fiddly but good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 06:56:03 No.10888361 Report

Quoted By: >>10888602

>>10887696
These tools are meant to speed up your process. If you already have a streamlined workflow that works for you and your time concerns, then you're not likely to get much out of them unless you're willing to adjust. And in all due fairness, why adjust if you're already comfortable with your building speed and techniques?
I still order the dspiae one, but I expect to be in a similar boat.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 07:50:53 No.10888403 Report

Quoted By: >>10888410 >>10888413 >>10888432 >>10888566 >>10888623 >>10890032

I can't decide between a 100 bucks compress with tank or a 25 bucks mini portable compressor. Please halp ;_;

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 08:00:44 No.10888410 Report

Quoted By: >>10888411

>>10888403
I have a compressor with a tank and I like it quite a bit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 08:02:27 No.10888411 Report

Quoted By: >>10888421 >>10888436

>>10888410
What about a mini one though? like the Hobbymio HM03

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 08:06:20 No.10888413 Report

Quoted By: >>10888437

>>10888403
>a 100 bucks compress with tank or a 25 bucks mini portable compressor
Both will be crap, but the one with the tank will be a little less crappy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 08:21:14 No.10888421 Report

Quoted By:

>>10888411
I've never owned a mini one and to be honest never even seen one like that

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 08:59:34 No.10888432 Report

Quoted By:

>>10888403
I use a full-on 3-gallon air tank that makes a shitload of noise when it's on, but at full capacity it lets me airbrush with only the spray booth fans on for a considerable duration. I can also lug it around my house and use it as an air duster, which is very useful.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 09:16:30 No.10888436 Report

Quoted By: >>10888437

>>10888411
>mini
>portable
it's gonna be dogshit, just get a real compressor.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 09:20:53 No.10888437 Report

Quoted By:

>>10888436
>>10888413
everyone says stuff like this, but nobody ever explains why. what part will be worse exactly? what will the "full" compressor do better?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 09:42:55 No.10888444 Report

Quoted By: >>10888451 >>10888453 >>10888467 >>10888525 >>10888568 >>10888623

>Never touch airbrush before, don't know what the fuck is this even work
>Hey guys can you recommend some budget or beginner-friendly airbrush and compressor
>YOU NEED TO BUY THIS $5000 IWATA MR HOBBY CITADEL VALLLLEJOOOO 0.1 0.2 mm AIRBRUSH AND $1000 DOUBLE TANK 20L COMPRESSOR TO PAINT MINIATURE AND GUNPLA
>ALSO BUY THESE OVERPRICED "HOBBY" PAINT AND THINNER TOO

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 09:54:05 No.10888451 Report

Quoted By: >>10888467

>>10888444
The budget shit will literally fall apart in your hands after a few months or so. That's the main reason why all recommendations are always in the $100+ range or so. The other accessories like spray booth and respirator are there to make sure you don't develop debilitating illnesses later in life, so it's the last thing you want to skimp on.

If you don't want to paint, then don't. What you do with your plastic toys is entirely up to you. But if you do want to get into the hobby, then you have to at least put in a serious amount of effort.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 10:04:46 No.10888453 Report

Quoted By: >>10888459 >>10888468

>>10888444
Speaking of paint, what the different between normal paint and hobbyist pain?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 10:21:22 No.10888459 Report

Quoted By:

>>10888453
depends on what "normal" we're talking about here. hobby paints are formulated to be good for gunpla plastic. normal ones like cheap acrylics will just flake off easily, while spray lacquers are too strong that they melt plastic if you apply directly.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 10:34:27 No.10888467 Report

Quoted By: >>10888623

>>10888444
https://www.amazon.com/Timbertech-Airbrush-Compressor-Professional-Automatic/dp/B07VT3RV47
here's a $90 compressor and a $20 neoeco airbrush off aliexpress
you'll be fine.
>>10888451
i feel like you people are just saying this because muh brands muh china. china is number 1

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 10:36:37 No.10888468 Report

Quoted By:

>>10888453
Easier to understand if you look at their intended mediums. Paper is porous and holds onto paint easily while plastics are on the opposite extreme, meaning modelling paints need stronger binders to stick to plastic. Even then weaker hobby paints like waterbased ones still have trouble sticking to plastics.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 12:20:59 No.10888525 Report

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>>10888444
Hobby paint and thinner is pretty cheap actually. Much better than spray cans. Smells great too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 13:28:16 No.10888566 Report

Quoted By: >>10888606

>>10888403
The shitty mini compressor most likely won't go above 15PSI. And what it does get will most likely fluctuate giving you an uneven spray.
Tank compressor will be obviously store it meaning it won't be running the entire time you're using it, only when its close to empty. Which means your PSI should not fluctuate. It should also be able to output a higher PSI if needed. And because its not running the entire time you're using it it'll be much quieter, run cooler, and last longer.
Really those portable compressors are only good for use on food or filling a bicycle tire.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 13:34:00 No.10888568 Report

Quoted By:

>>10888444
>never touch an ATV/Snowmobile/Boat/Dirtbike/Car before, don't even know whatbthe fuck this even work
>Hey guys can you recommend some budget or beginner-friendly xxx?
>get mad when you realize you have to spend several thousand dollars on an old piece of shit beat to fuck machine or 10+ grand on a newer quality one
>then bitch and moan on forums like an autist for years about it
You're also like the console fags that want a PC and get mad when you realize to get a good one you need to spend 1000+ even though it'll get you better results than a console could ever hope for.
Or fishing, or guns, or hunting, etc.
This is honestly one of the cheapest hobbies out there even when you include all the painting supplies.
You obviously don't care that much about painting if you're going to bitch about the minor upfront cost of getting into it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 14:23:54 No.10888602 Report

Quoted By:

>>10888361
in theory it does speed things up, but it's just unwieldy to use what's basically a power tool. It's a lot bigger and clunkier than the glass file and the cord was a pain in the ass

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 14:27:40 No.10888606 Report

Quoted By: >>10888615

>>10888566
Pretty much all spraying should be at under 15 PSI so that shouldn't be an issue.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 14:34:26 No.10888615 Report

Quoted By: >>10888749

>>10888606
If you're spraying properly thinned hobby lacquers sure. I can 100% guarantee someone looking to buy a shitty mini compressor isn't going to be.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 14:46:25 No.10888621 Report

Quoted By: >>10888692

Only thing I can recommend is doing research into everything you're recommended and make your own decisions
People on 4chan are usually cheap (poor, jobless, neet, etc) and the same applies to reddit. So a lot of the people recommending you cheap things do so out of necessity, not because the product is actually good.
But as you should also know a higher price doesn't always mean it's better quality or worth the price
Take some time, do some research, look at everything people do and don't recommend and make your own decisions. You're an adult. You can do this.
My only experience with airbrush stuff is mid range to high end. So I can only speak to that. But I'll always recommend the iwata eclipse hp-cs and I would also highly recommend the harder and steenbeck chameleon or infinity cr plus (if weight doesn't matter)
But I've also heard lots of good things about airbrushes on the cheaper end, especially the Procon Boy and Badger Patriot
Some people also have good experiences with cheap Chinese ones, although I've bought enough cheap Chinese shit in my life to not want to bother with them. Stuff like that usually works fine at first and then quickly deteriorates and are usually unable to be fixed.
So that's all I'll say on this. Do some damn research and come to your own conclusions based on your budget and what you think you'll get out of it.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk

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Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 14:49:26 No.10888623 Report

Quoted By:

>>10888403
>>10888444
>>10888467
I bought and tested a bunch of those cheap chinese things, including a couple of mini compressors and posted the results here.
Can you make them work? Yes. Will they work well? Not really.

The mini compressors are generally underpowered, 10PSI was the most I could get out of them and their output was not very stable.

The cheap airbrushes are functional, but poorly machined. You can use them for base coats, but I wouldn't try shading or any kind of detail work.

>china is number 1
I have yet to see a chinese-made airbrush that wasn't a weird mix of parts poorly copied from known brands (sometimes bits from different brands in the same airbrush). I have also yet to see a functional 0.2mm nozzle made in China.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 15:39:54 No.10888664 Report

Quoted By: >>10888671

>>10887553
Mines been pretty tight to the point the don't even swivle around on their own.
Putting the gun on the shell was the biggest hassle between the 2 wire pieces and keeping the gun/shell portion attached to the lower shell/body when swiveling thr entire thing around.

Ended up just super gluing the 2 wires to where they go on the bottom of the gun and fed them through to where they connect in the shell

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 15:44:07 No.10888671 Report

Quoted By:

>>10888664
Also
>looking at the finished buster cannon
>now kinda wanna get a 2nd
>want to somehow strap 2 of these fuck huge cannons onto a berserk fury

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 16:07:20 No.10888692 Report

Quoted By: >>10888710

>>10888621
>would also highly recommend the harder and steenbeck chameleon or infinity cr plus
What about reports about air leaks and air valves needing frequent replacement due to wear?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 16:29:25 No.10888710 Report

Quoted By: >>10888720

>>10888692
I've been using my chameleon since it came out and have had 0 issues with it. I see the air leak issue after googling it but it looks like it has an easy fix just by using boiling water.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 16:37:41 No.10888720 Report

Quoted By: >>10888739

>>10888710
>easy fix just by using boiling water
You don't need to cook Iwata airbrushes to make them work, that's for sure.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 17:04:59 No.10888739 Report

Quoted By: >>10888742

>>10888720
True, but ive not had to do that for mine, and there are other issues with iwata airbrushes. Ive spent $50+ in replacement parts for mine and to be honest the trigger action isn't nearly as smooth as the h&s even when it was brand new. I just use mine as a dedicated metallics airbrush and do everything else with the h&s. No complaints on my side.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 17:12:00 No.10888742 Report

Quoted By:

>>10888739
>spent $50+ in replacement parts
Specifically what?

>the trigger action isn't nearly as smooth
Discover Superlube. 1 drop and it's smooth.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 17:24:14 No.10888749 Report

Quoted By: >>10889440

>>10888615
Acrylics spray better at lower PSI.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Feb 2024 04:06:27 No.10889440 Report

Quoted By: >>10889446 >>10889449 >>10889515

>>10888749
But will it make your airbrush clog more easily?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Feb 2024 04:09:25 No.10889446 Report

Quoted By: >>10889503

>>10889440
Not if you thin them appropriately and clean your airbrush after every session.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Feb 2024 04:12:56 No.10889449 Report

Quoted By: >>10889503

>>10889440
I suspect that the people that complain about their airbrushes clogging with acrylics are using alcohol-based thinners on Vallejos or something like that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Feb 2024 05:21:58 No.10889503 Report

Quoted By: >>10889548

>>10889446
>>10889449
Can you like just use water to thin acryli paint for airbrush?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Feb 2024 05:44:26 No.10889515 Report

Quoted By: >>10889532

>>10889440
No, the opposite. Higher PSI creates finer aerosolization which results in the paint drying faster, including on the tip of the airbrush nozzle

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Feb 2024 06:17:59 No.10889532 Report

Quoted By:

>>10889515
This.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Feb 2024 06:54:06 No.10889548 Report

Quoted By: >>10889556

>>10889503
No. Water is fine for brush painting, but for airbrushing a specialized thinner (and sometimes flow improver too) will not only give you better results but also protect your airbrush.
Acrylic thinner and flow improver is super cheap, or you can even make your own if you like to play around with chemicals.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Feb 2024 07:12:30 No.10889556 Report

Quoted By: >>10889573

>>10889548
What is the difference between thinner and flow improver? Do I need to use both of them?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Feb 2024 07:51:54 No.10889573 Report

Quoted By: >>10889581

>>10889556
>What is the difference between thinner and flow improver?
Thinner breaks surface tension and makes the paint aerosolize better, but also makes it dry faster.
Flow improver makes paint more "flowy" since it has a soapy texture, allowing it to leave the airbrush in a more concise way. As a side effect, it's also a paint retarder.
>Do I need to use both of them?
Whether you "need" them depends on the paint. For example, for acrylic inks you may just want to add a bit of flow improver, meanwhile for standard acrylic paint thinner is a priority. So while you don't always need both, it's nice to have them.
I usually use a little bit of both depending on the consistency of the paint. The more runny and watery the less thinner I use.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Feb 2024 08:00:39 No.10889581 Report

Quoted By: >>10890001

>>10889573
What is some cheap and best thinner and flow improver?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Feb 2024 18:50:46 No.10890001 Report

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>>10889581
I use Vallejo for thinner, flow improver and cleaner.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Feb 2024 19:00:33 No.10890013 Report

Quoted By: >>10890383

Anyone use oil paints for panel lining?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Feb 2024 19:20:40 No.10890032 Report

Quoted By:

>>10888403
Get an $80 bucks timbertech one, mine works fine.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Feb 2024 00:22:30 No.10890383 Report

Quoted By: >>10890394 >>10890828 >>10891007

>>10890013
warhammer modelers use oil washes a shitload, their stupid name for it is "nuln oil" but it works quite similar to enamel washes just without needing solvents

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Feb 2024 00:29:15 No.10890394 Report

Quoted By: >>10890400

>>10890383
>just without needing solvents
Turpentine is a solvent, you know.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Feb 2024 00:32:37 No.10890400 Report

Quoted By: >>10890404

>>10890394
I thought they just wiped it off with a rag before it dried?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Feb 2024 00:36:37 No.10890404 Report

Quoted By: >>10890411

>>10890400
Lol, no.

I mean, you can, if you like that messy smudgy look, but for panel lining that doesn't seem like a good strategy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Feb 2024 00:42:41 No.10890411 Report

Quoted By: >>10890414

>>10890404
yeah true I guess normal warhammer techniques are all about making shit look smudgy and organic

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 28 Feb 2024 00:45:53 No.10890414 Report

Quoted By:

>>10890411
There's nothing wrong with that, as long as you understand what you're doing and why.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Feb 2024 02:44:12 No.10890533 Report

Quoted By:

>>10887169
I'm agreeing with you. I said 'Doubling' not 'Doubting'

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Feb 2024 09:48:46 No.10890828 Report

Quoted By:

>>10890383
Citadel washes aren't oil based

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Feb 2024 15:12:54 No.10891007 Report

Quoted By:

>>10890383
HAH, nuln oil is an ACRYLIC. Oil is just part of the NAME.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Feb 2024 04:35:48 No.10891840 Report

Quoted By: >>10891860

Well, I just chipped in and bought a 100 buck compressor along with a 35 bucks airbrush. What paint should I start with now, acrylic or lacquer?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Feb 2024 04:54:30 No.10891860 Report

Quoted By: >>10891867

>>10891840
>35 bucks airbrush
Expect to have to replace it in the not-far future.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 29 Feb 2024 05:00:51 No.10891867 Report

Quoted By: >>10891886

>>10891860
Welllllll, it looks kind of high end, and certainly look better than the 5 bucks aliexpress airbrush
https://www.largescaleplanes.com/reviews/review.php?rid=2198

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Feb 2024 05:21:53 No.10891886 Report

Quoted By: >>10891935

>>10891867
Well, if it's a version 2.0 then hopefully that means that it has less problems than a version 1.0, but you'll have to see for yourself. Worst case, a cheap airbrush like this won't set you back all that much if/when it breaks.

As for paints, Gunpla always prefers lacquer since it's durable and fast-drying, which allows you to quickly top-coat your pieces, making for fast workflow. Their drawback is that they generate very dangerous fumes on top of aerosolization from airbrushing, so on top of a respirator you need to be on top of clearing the fumes out of wherever you're airbrushing. This means not only a properly set up spraybooth, but also proper ventilation of your room after finishing. You don't want to fuck around with VOCs.

Acrylics are mostly preferable on miniatures since they're water-based and thus lend themselves easily to mixing, shading and layering. Acrylic coats are very fragile and you'll certainly want to leave them untouched until they get a dose of top coat, however they generate no fumes and are thus very safe to spray indoors (still don't want to get paint particles in your lungs though). I won't say it's impossible to paint Gunpla with acrylics, but you'll likely have a harder time doing so.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Feb 2024 06:11:43 No.10891935 Report

Quoted By: >>10891936

>>10891886
Well, i have a soon to be DIY spraybooth plastic style and a respirator mask but i don't know where to places it yet since my room is pretty small and all. Maybe the balcony?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 29 Feb 2024 06:14:00 No.10891936 Report

Quoted By:

>>10891935
And my budget spraybooth

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Feb 2024 14:25:44 No.10892213 Report

Quoted By:

Can any one tell me where I can buy Gundam artifact in the UK at a reasonable please? I would like the Super Gundam but I'm willing to give almost any a go. Struggling to find them in stock or under a tenner.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 29 Feb 2024 16:16:50 No.10892331 Report

Quoted By: >>10892734

Cool Zaku arrived

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Feb 2024 20:52:00 No.10892734 Report

Quoted By:

>>10892331
browsing online after I bought this Zaku I noticed there are some third party preassembled inner frames made of diecast and plastic for kits like this one and other stuff like the MG Freedom 2.0, the Providence and even the Hi Nu
has anyone here ever bough them? So far I have only been able to locate some videos by chinese modelers that seem to agree those frames make the kits more stable, although some armor parts may have fitting issues

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Mar 2024 04:49:04 No.10893381 Report

Quoted By: >>10893391 >>10893414 >>10894131

>Glossy chrome fades away when I apply Tamiya gloss coat
I'm retarded but how the fuck do I keep the chrome glossiness?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Mar 2024 04:59:08 No.10893391 Report

Quoted By:

>>10893381
Use Molotow Liquid Chrome marker ink with urethane clearcoat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV9a1QxEw0A

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Mar 2024 05:09:03 No.10893403 Report

Quoted By: >>10897191 >>10898594

What's the difference between Butyl Acetate and hardware store lacquer thinner? They could both be uses to cleaning airbrush, right guys?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Mar 2024 05:17:15 No.10893414 Report

Quoted By: >>10893420 >>10893976 >>10894131

>>10893381
By not topcoating it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Mar 2024 05:23:06 No.10893420 Report

Quoted By: >>10893430

>>10893414
Then it 1. Rubs off with just normal handling or 2. Oxidizes over time and loses its shine

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Mar 2024 05:31:20 No.10893430 Report

Quoted By: >>10893438 >>10894348

>>10893420
>Rubs off with just normal handling
Don't rub it then?

>Oxidizes over time and loses its shine
See >>10853652 The last faggot who claimed this could not provide any evidence and had to stfu and gtfo in shame.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Mar 2024 05:37:09 No.10893438 Report

Quoted By: >>10893465

>>10893430
what does the OP of the last thread have to do with chrome?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 01 Mar 2024 05:41:22 No.10893441 Report

Quoted By:

Just built my first kit, a bit rough but it I think it's passable

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Mar 2024 06:03:42 No.10893465 Report

Quoted By:

>>10893438
It means "read the discussion in the thread". Or you can just see the conclusion >>10878609

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Mar 2024 09:26:35 No.10893579 Report

Quoted By: >>10893624 >>10893678

What type of brush would you guys recommend for putting down an acrylic primer with little to no brush strokes?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Mar 2024 11:25:36 No.10893624 Report

Quoted By:

>>10893579
The 0000 or 000 or 00 size

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Mar 2024 13:04:07 No.10893678 Report

Quoted By:

>>10893579
air brush

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Mar 2024 18:57:48 No.10893976 Report

Quoted By: >>10894065 >>10894176

>>10893414
Every tutorial I've seen uses some kind of top coat

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Mar 2024 20:41:12 No.10894065 Report

Quoted By: >>10894131

>>10893976
Did you watch the tutorial on how to think for yourself?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Mar 2024 21:35:59 No.10894131 Report

Quoted By: >>10894156

>>10893381
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB9wwCyG1dw

>>10893414
>>10894065
You dumb fucking moron.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Mar 2024 21:59:20 No.10894156 Report

Quoted By: >>10894431

>>10894131
I love how out of all those specialized hobby topcoats, pledge is one of the winners.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Mar 2024 22:24:29 No.10894176 Report

Quoted By:

>>10893976
it depends on the specific interaction between the metallic paint and the topcoat, depending the specific paint you use some solvents can fuck with it.
the super expensive terra krome is popular in part because it's a urethane-based paint so normal hobby lacquer/acrylic/enamel solvents won't touch it and it plays well with anything

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Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 01:04:50 No.10894348 Report

Quoted By:

>>10893430
It's literally brought up on show ups terra krome product page about oxidizing and losing its luster
Dumb fucking niggers in these threads always spewing out the wrong shit from your ugly crooked teeth

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 01:29:39 No.10894377 Report

Quoted By: >>10894423

>>10882224
whats the next yugioh plamo gonna be?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 02:01:15 No.10894423 Report

Quoted By: >>10894458 >>10894545 >>10894809

>>10894377
Plamax is making Divine Arsenal Zeus.
I saw I:P Masquerina in the WonFest pics but I'm pretty sure that's gonna be an action figure and not a model.
Who knows what Bandai has in the oven. I've heard rumors of Dark Magician, DM of Chaos and Red Eyes Black Dragon but I haven't seen a single prototype so don't quote me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 02:06:36 No.10894431 Report

Quoted By:

>>10894156
And I hate the fact that it's discontinued.
Is there an alternative that uses the same formula out there or something?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 02:20:58 No.10894458 Report

Quoted By: >>10894545

>>10894423
There's also the Moderoid Accesscode Talker.
Do these 'rumors' you mentioned have any substance at all, btw?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 03:32:45 No.10894545 Report

Quoted By: >>10894556

>>10894458
>>10894423
What's the difference between Moderoid and Plamax? Aren't both made by Goodsmile?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 03:39:54 No.10894556 Report

Quoted By: >>10894988

>>10894545
moderoid is 99% licensed robots while plamax is MOSTLY girl kits
but there are still some plamax robots and a moderoid hatsune miku so I dont fucking know.
just different divisions of the same company fighting each other for business or some shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 03:59:41 No.10894573 Report

Quoted By:

>>10887348
I legitimately never paint joints. Glossy joints is just something I don't give a shit about. Alot of my fimga and figurearts also have un finished joints. I've come to ignore it. Really prefer it over my shit scratching itself.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 08:35:13 No.10894809 Report

Quoted By: >>10894931 >>10895265

>>10894423
>obscure shit instead of DM Anime stuff
so they're basically gonna kill the line the same way playmaker killed the figma yugioh line

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 13:03:33 No.10894931 Report

Quoted By: >>10895304

>>10894809
If you actually played the card game at all in the past 18 years and aren't just an "og fan" you'd know about Zeus

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 14:01:29 No.10894970 Report

Quoted By:

Man it's such a pain in the ass looking for all the available versions of a given franchise's plamo. Currently looking for R-Type models

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 14:43:42 No.10894988 Report

Quoted By:

>>10894556
MODEROID is Good Smile's in-house brand, while PLAMAX is Max Factory's model kit brand.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 19:35:40 No.10895265 Report

Quoted By: >>10895304

>>10894809
>Zeus
>Obscure
lmao anime only peasant.
The game has such a wealth of characters, creatures, mecha and lore to pull from. People have been asking for an anime about card lore instead of the card game for years.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 20:04:22 No.10895304 Report

Quoted By: >>10895380

>>10895265
>>10894931
They should have at least done XYZ dragon cannon or Valkyrion. Genwun always wins. Zoomers dont buy toys

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 20:42:04 No.10895346 Report

Quoted By: >>10895564

Anons, I could really use some some opinions on how I should proceed with this. I got an old garage kit for the GM Land Combat type that I'm trying to kit bash with a GM Guards type to give it some articulation and I'm stuck on how to handle this chest piece.
Should I go with my first idea of sawing off these two side pieces from the chest to graft onto the HGTO chest so that I'll still have all the joints and articulation of the modern GM kit while retaining the features of the Land Combat GM chest piece like in my first two pics? Or should I use a drill/dremel to carve out space inside the resin kit chest to fit the joint sockets into so that I can just pop the arms and lower body onto the resin kit chest, like in the third pic?

I feel like the first idea could be the least amount of work, but I've heard that resin kits can be pretty brittle and they're completely solid rather than hollow like regular plastic kits or 3d printed kits, so I'm wary of sawing off huge chunks or trying to hollow any parts out too much just to have the piece shatter or something.
What do, bros? It's my first time working with a resin kit so I'm not too familiar with how resin behaves when modifying it heavily. All I know is I shouldn't breathe in resin dust if I want to live long enough for the lacquer thinner and paints to kill my lungs instead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 21:07:44 No.10895380 Report

Quoted By:

>>10895304
Bandai is doing stuff from 'genwun', so it's good that these companies are also making figures for fans of other parts of the franchise. If the models don't do well and the line dies, that's just how it goes, maybe next time they'll make what you want. I personally don't know these monsters, but I still find it exciting to see these getting made.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 23:39:22 No.10895555 Report

Quoted By:

Hey everyone. I haven’t been on this site for YEARS and I vaguely remember someone online elsewhere saying Bandai permanently banned people/gaijans outside Japan from buying any of their products online from other websites, gunpla or not. Does anyone know the current status of that and where I should go to buy Bandai stuff like gundam and other shit? Ie P-Bandai and all their other offerings. I hate how this company has a monopoly on almost everything, shit sucks.

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Anonymous Sat 02 Mar 2024 23:47:08 No.10895564 Report

Quoted By:

>>10895346
>I've heard that resin kits can be pretty brittle
Yes, but not nearly as brittle as UV resin 3D printers use. It will crack if you try to stuff a peg into a hole that is too small or if you try to cut a piece off with dull nippers or something, but it won't shatter into a million pieces when dropped.

>I'm wary of sawing off huge chunks
You can saw regular resin just fine as long as your saw is sharp and you are actually sawing rather than trying to break off a piece.

>or trying to hollow any parts out too much
Anything will lose structural integrity if you hollow it out too much.

I personally would probably go with your first approach as long as you're sure the plastic parts' dimensions are compatible with the resin part (but if they're not you can just glue the sawed off parts back and no harm done). Adding joints to the resin sounds trickier and I would not count on anything "popping" into the resin: unlike plastic the resin has basically 0 elasticity, it won't stretch to accomodate anything larger than the hole you made.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 05:10:40 No.10895982 Report

Quoted By: >>10896012

https://twitter.com/8_tyan/status/1606245489401217024
Anyone here have any idea how to import paints from japan, it's not easy cause of the flammable liquids thing. Or anyone have any recommendations for transparent uv reactive paints?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 05:41:41 No.10896012 Report

Quoted By: >>10896015

>>10895982
Gaia, aliexpress.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 05:47:21 No.10896015 Report

Quoted By: >>10896026 >>10896032

>>10896012
I have some Gaia Fluorescence Color paints, but I wanted clear transparent uv paints that still glowed different colors like in that twitter post I linked.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 05:53:57 No.10896026 Report

Quoted By:

>>10896015
>but I wanted clear transparent
Gaia 110 is clear and glows blue.
There is also www.gloeffex.com. I bought their "clear" blue, green and red a while ago, but still haven't tried them. They do glow under UV but I have no idea how they will spray if at all.
You can also just buy some glow-in-the-dark pigments off aliexpress, mix them with clear gloss and try your luck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 05:58:48 No.10896032 Report

Quoted By: >>10896035

>>10896015
I also hope you realise that with clear UV paints your color choices are very limited to literally just green, red and blue.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 06:01:02 No.10896035 Report

Quoted By: >>10896044 >>10896046

>>10896032
I wonder how that guy got yellow working then.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 06:06:45 No.10896044 Report

Quoted By: >>10896052

>>10896035
>how that guy got yellow working
Anon, I'm going to blow your mind right now.

If you paint a yellow part with clear yellow UV paint, nobody will know.

What's more, you only need true transparent fluorescent paint if you want a red part to glow blue or vice versa, if you just want it to glow the same color, Gaia clears would work just fine.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 06:08:10 No.10896046 Report

Quoted By: >>10896052 >>10896100 >>10896112

>>10896035
Red + Green
I don't wanna be mean but this is kinder garden shit.

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Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 06:12:39 No.10896052 Report

Quoted By: >>10896058

>>10896044
I meant getting the clear transparent uv on the gray without the yellow showing.
>>10896046
Yeah, I was being kinda retarded there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 06:15:24 No.10896058 Report

Quoted By: >>10896109

>>10896052
The gloeffex invisible UV paint seems to be what you're looking for, but I'm afraid I don't know if it's the same quality as the japanese brand.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 07:02:18 No.10896100 Report

Quoted By: >>10896112 >>10896116

>>10896046
>Red + Green
I think you should try that with actual fluorescent paints and post the result.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 07:11:43 No.10896109 Report

Quoted By:

>>10896058
There's an anon here who sprayed their Unicorn's Psycoframe with the red, the pictures looked pretty excellent.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 07:15:41 No.10896112 Report

Quoted By:

>>10896046
>>10896100
>Red
>Green

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 07:24:28 No.10896116 Report

Quoted By:

>>10896100
I would... If I had them.
But the jp site says you're supposed to mix them to get new colors.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 08:33:28 No.10896157 Report

Quoted By: >>10896196 >>10896416 >>10896709 >>10896947 >>10897393

What are your expectations for 30 Minutes Fantasy?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 10:01:05 No.10896196 Report

Quoted By: >>10896207

>>10896157
Since it's gonna be fantasy themed mecha, I really want to see what they come up with for mages.
Maybe parts like lizard tails and claws, spider legs, samurai armor and a pharaoh/mummy themed mech.

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Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 10:37:35 No.10896207 Report

Quoted By:

>>10896196
Seems to be closer to power armor than full mecha.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 10:50:02 No.10896216 Report

Quoted By: >>10896303 >>10896650

>Bottle
>$0.2
>Hobby bottle
>$1
Why?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 13:48:35 No.10896303 Report

Quoted By:

>>10896216
Are you on aliexpress? I got 12 of these for 30 cents each. I need more though. 12 isn't even enough

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Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 15:58:03 No.10896416 Report

Quoted By:

>>10896157
>What are your expectations for 30 Minutes Fantasy?
IDK, something like 1/144 scale WarmaHordes, or like pic related if it's just mecha.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 19:33:13 No.10896650 Report

Quoted By: >>10896776

>>10896216
Far superior bottle: https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0C52Z5QGN

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 20:20:28 No.10896709 Report

Quoted By:

>>10896157
Modular zoids maybe?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 21:19:49 No.10896776 Report

Quoted By: >>10896878

>>10896650
Uh no
NTA but I store straight up lacquer thinner in my dspiae ones and have had pre thinned paints in some of them for a year plus with zero issues. The design looks fine for mixing stuff for a single session.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 22:41:25 No.10896878 Report

Quoted By:

>>10896776
>that tl;dr;
Works fine for me, been using them for a couple of months, 20+ bottles in one location, zero smell (which is how you know it is not airtight), very easy to mix (flat bottom, can put a magnet inside).
The main advantage of the new HQParts bottle over their old bottle (or Dspiae or other random chinkshit) is the pouring opening. The threaded one gets gummed up eventually and cleaning it is a pain, the new one does not get gummed up at all even with the thickest primer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 23:00:12 No.10896909 Report

Quoted By:

were you a mad lad who ordered the HG Destroy gundam?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wLFQma4FA8&t=303s

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 03 Mar 2024 23:30:30 No.10896947 Report

Quoted By:

>>10896157
give me some mecha dragons

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Mar 2024 03:03:14 No.10897191 Report

Quoted By: >>10897204 >>10898594 >>10898599 >>10898650

>>10893403
Uhm guys. Can you use Butyl Acetate for cleaning Airbrush?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Mar 2024 03:20:30 No.10897204 Report

Quoted By:

>>10897191
anything can be used to clean airbrush if you're brave enough

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Mar 2024 07:22:14 No.10897393 Report

Quoted By:

>>10896157
Dragons and Centaurs mechs

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 04 Mar 2024 12:54:35 No.10897577 Report

Quoted By: >>10897599 >>10897640

Guys Guys my first airbrush kit. Am I gonna fuck it all up?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Mar 2024 13:32:42 No.10897599 Report

Quoted By:

>>10897577
I live in eternal fear of my compressor

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Mar 2024 14:33:21 No.10897640 Report

Quoted By: >>10897665

>>10897577
I had the exact same one, make sure you have an airbrush tool to tighten the packing nut. It comes very loose out of box meaning paint will often flow back into the body. You will have to completely disassemble it every time and clean it if you dont do it.
Also dont tighten the nozzle to much, it breaks super easily.
Changing colours was a bitch with this airbrush. After I broke my chinkbrush I bought an iwata and it was so much easier to work with

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Mar 2024 15:19:24 No.10897665 Report

Quoted By: >>10897691

>>10897640
Where is the packing nut?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Mar 2024 15:55:55 No.10897691 Report

Quoted By: >>10897704

>>10897665
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0xriTrGj1w
its the thing he screws with the long tool

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Mar 2024 16:14:37 No.10897704 Report

Quoted By: >>10897705

>>10897691
>the long tool
It's called "screwdriver".

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Mar 2024 16:15:57 No.10897705 Report

Quoted By: >>10897707

>>10897704
>It's called "screwdriver".
it's called needle seal screwdriver

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Mar 2024 16:18:18 No.10897707 Report

Quoted By:

>>10897705
Any regular flat head screwdriver that's long and thin enough works just as well.

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[email protected] Mon 04 Mar 2024 22:14:39 No.10898031 Report

Quoted By:

anybody have a HG Ginn insurgent laying around? built or unbuilt,failingf that the older HG seed blue frame with the bazooka?
im needing the zook and ginn leg missiles for a project.dont need the entire kit necessarily.
contact in name field

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Mar 2024 23:04:16 No.10898091 Report

Quoted By: >>10898094 >>10907807

Saved 20 bucks after shipping on some HG mercury sets and a RG Wing from Hobby Jobby. Too bad they only had a couple to choose from, but 40% off is 40% off.

Blog continues: Building my first RG soon, the Epyon, and I couldn't be more stoked. The dragon mode looks fantastic.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 04 Mar 2024 23:08:22 No.10898094 Report

Quoted By: >>10898100 >>10898596

>>10898091
Transformable modes were not as highly accommodated for in the OG kits, so this satisfies a desire of mine from the days of Gundam Wing airing on Toonami.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 04 Mar 2024 23:12:49 No.10898100 Report

Quoted By: >>10898117

>>10898094
I still wish the transformations weren't so half-assed that you could still plainly see the entire torso assembly of the Gundam even in its alternate mode. Suits like the Zeta or ZZ did it right, where at the very least the head was hidden from view.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Mar 2024 23:23:02 No.10898117 Report

Quoted By:

>>10898100
ZZ and Zeta were on the tail end of designs that were mostly conceived as robots first, and toys second.
as a result the transformations have always been the make or break point for the kits in terms of overall stability and engineering.
by the 90s, Gundam was almost entirely focusing on toys (Main reason they started the shit to AUs) and as a result the transformations are designed to be simpler so all versions of the toys can do them, as opposed to the more expensive 1/100s only.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 05 Mar 2024 04:45:31 No.10898532 Report

Quoted By:

>youtube recommended
>huh, a woman talking about my niche hobby, how rare
>she looks kinda weird, doesn't matter just want to hear what she says
>it's a troon with vocal fry
every. time

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Mar 2024 05:41:11 No.10898594 Report

Quoted By: >>10898599

>>10893403
>>10897191
i think butyl acetate is what they used to make hardware store lacquer thinner out of before VOC regulations

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Mar 2024 05:44:43 No.10898596 Report

Quoted By: >>10898616

>>10898094
They should have killed the dragon motif and made it less overt. It looks supremely silly

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Mar 2024 05:48:25 No.10898599 Report

Quoted By: >>10898650 >>10898812

>>10897191
>>10898594
Tamiya airbrush cleaner (and extra thin cement) is 50% butyl acetate and it works well

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Mar 2024 06:20:18 No.10898616 Report

Quoted By:

>>10898596
wing is 200% rule of cool, of course it was overdone

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Mar 2024 07:06:43 No.10898650 Report

Quoted By: >>10898715 >>10898804 >>10898808 >>10899092 >>10899542

>>10898599
>he cleans his airbrush with plastic glue
Anon...

Yes, I realize that butyl acetate is not quite the same as Gorilla Glue, but how do you know our chinese friends didn't put any cheap plastic parts into >>10897191 anon's cheap chinese airbrush that will turn into sticky goo the moment butyl acetate hits it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Mar 2024 09:42:04 No.10898715 Report

Quoted By: >>10898844

>>10898650
Well, a lot of my country gunpla modeler recomended it because its cheap as shit and it could clean lacquer paint good enough, even stronger than stuff like Mr. thinner

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Mar 2024 13:37:35 No.10898804 Report

Quoted By:

>>10898650
the thing here is that the formula is almost exactly the same but with 1%~ differences in ratios AFAIK, and plastic "glue" isn't really glue at all

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 05 Mar 2024 13:40:03 No.10898808 Report

Quoted By: >>10898812 >>10898844

>>10898650
the thing here is that the formula of tamiya extra thin is almost exactly the same but with 1%~ differences in ratios AFAIK, and plastic "glue" isn't really glue at all

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Mar 2024 13:42:39 No.10898811 Report

Quoted By: >>10898890

So can you topcoat metallic paint with flat coat? or gloss coat is better?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Mar 2024 13:44:19 No.10898812 Report

Quoted By: >>10898844

>>10898599
>>10898808
Butyl acetate is safer on airbrush parts than acetone, right?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 05 Mar 2024 14:37:07 No.10898844 Report

Quoted By: >>10898848 >>10898886

>>10898715
>>10898808
>>10898812
Tamiya airbrush clearner/extra-thin cement/butyl acetate/pure acetone can all be used to clean an airbrush, but they are too strong for the job imo. Even if they don't damage your airbrush any spill can easily damage stuff around you: your desk, your clothes, any painted parts you didn't move away etc.
It's like washing your dishes with sulfuric acid: ceramic plates will be fine but a fork would get melted.
Hardware store lacquer thinner is weaker and more forgiving because of that, but it is more than enough to clean regular hobby lacquers, enamels and acrylics.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Mar 2024 14:42:45 No.10898848 Report

Quoted By: >>10898886

>>10898844
>Even if they don't damage your airbrush any spill can easily damage stuff around you: your desk, your clothes, any painted parts you didn't move away etc.
So true, I swapped to hardware store thinner because spraying my painted models with airbrush cleaner would damage them too much and make my boxer shorts melt too fast for my liking.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Mar 2024 15:16:54 No.10898886 Report

Quoted By: >>10898892 >>10899096

>>10898844
>>10898848
What is the name of this hardware store thinner?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Mar 2024 15:33:40 No.10898890 Report

Quoted By: >>10898901

>>10898811
Do you want it shiny or matte?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Mar 2024 15:35:15 No.10898892 Report

Quoted By:

>>10898886
Go to any hardware store (or Walmart) and pick up a jug of whatever the cheapest lacquer thinner there is. I just get mine at Walmart its like 10 bucks for a big can of it and it lasts for a long time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Mar 2024 15:48:13 No.10898901 Report

Quoted By:

>>10898890
I like matte, but isn't metallic is supposed to be shiny? Something like Dark Iron

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Mar 2024 19:33:23 No.10899092 Report

Quoted By:

>>10898650
>anon doesn't know the difference between cement and glue

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Mar 2024 19:34:30 No.10899096 Report

Quoted By:

>>10898886
depending on what country you live in it might be labeled "cellulose thinner" instead

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Mar 2024 03:11:22 No.10899542 Report

Quoted By: >>10899574

>>10898650
name 1 plastic part in an airbrush

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 06 Mar 2024 03:34:30 No.10899574 Report

Quoted By: >>10900011

>>10899542
Needle packing ring that is supposed to be teflon in a proper airbrush can easily be made of PET or any other kind of plastic in a cheap chinkshit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Mar 2024 15:23:52 No.10900011 Report

Quoted By: >>10900026

>>10899574
This is the cheapest shit to replace though

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 06 Mar 2024 15:34:47 No.10900026 Report

Quoted By: >>10900042

>>10900011
>replace
You have a solid block of teflon you're going to carve a ring out of? Because I don't think the thread on Iwata needle packing will fit a random chinkshit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Mar 2024 15:45:06 No.10900042 Report

Quoted By:

>>10900026
I usually just clean cheap chinkshit $5 airbrush with acetate, and used expensive hobbyist airbrush cleaner to clean expensive airbrush. My $5 chinkbrush still lasted 2 years though

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 06 Mar 2024 19:38:59 No.10900265 Report

Quoted By: >>10900337 >>10900478 >>10900482 >>10900642 >>10900882 >>10901886 >>10902295

The Chinese have been crushing it as of late with their kit designs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Mar 2024 20:58:35 No.10900337 Report

Quoted By: >>10900468

>>10900265
I disagree. The design is an absolutely overdesigned mess, and while the amount of frame parts are impressive, the inner frame looks pretty awful on its own due to the sheer amount of exposed pegs, peg holes and support structures that it doesn't look good on display beyond the "1 section."

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Mar 2024 21:51:53 No.10900391 Report

Quoted By: >>10900401

If I only wanted to top coat once, would I apply weathering effects before or after the top coat?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Mar 2024 22:10:19 No.10900401 Report

Quoted By:

>>10900391
>only wanted to top coat once
>weathering effects
If you want to weather you will need at least 2 matte coats: one for the weathering to hold on to and one to stop you from rubbing the weathering off.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Mar 2024 23:14:23 No.10900468 Report

Quoted By:

>>10900337
If only we could marry China's overdesigns with Bandai's modern twig frames.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Mar 2024 23:22:21 No.10900478 Report

Quoted By:

>>10900265
If you mean crushing the eyeballs of people with its loads of unnecessary edges and spikes, you would be correct.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 06 Mar 2024 23:23:39 No.10900482 Report

Quoted By:

>>10900265
as far as big spiky chinese robots go I much prefer Bai Qi to this

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Mar 2024 00:56:23 No.10900642 Report

Quoted By: >>10901514 >>10901886

>>10900265
This things box is bigger than most PGs boxes. Has included photoetch parts which is unusual. $50 equivalent in China. Will most likely be over $100 by importing and $150+ at domestic stores

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Mar 2024 02:56:35 No.10900866 Report

Quoted By: >>10901354

I need some inspiration for scribing details on my 1/144 Kampfer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Mar 2024 03:11:37 No.10900882 Report

Quoted By:

>>10900265
Eh, its big but extremely ugly to me. And i owned a lot of chinkshit since i'm a seanigger and chinkpla is cheap as fuck here

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Mar 2024 15:54:11 No.10901354 Report

Quoted By:

>>10900866
what tools do you use for scribing? I saw someone use some crazy pro hobbyist set, went to the HOBBYTOWN store to look for something comparable and they didn't have much of anything.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Mar 2024 18:21:28 No.10901514 Report

Quoted By: >>10904666

>>10900642
Are they PG or MG sized?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Mar 2024 21:42:00 No.10901772 Report

Quoted By:

>>10882224
has anyone received their BLS yet

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Mar 2024 23:36:51 No.10901886 Report

Quoted By: >>10901888 >>10902122

>>10900265
>>10900642
according to this video, the box weighs 4kg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gATFXnDoGwk

with over 1,110 parts the structure seems very similar to the MGEX Strike Freedom

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Mar 2024 23:42:43 No.10901888 Report

Quoted By:

>>10901886
>its the size if a fucking PG
oh wow, I thought it was like a standard 1/100 size but no, its really big

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 02:04:09 No.10902080 Report

Quoted By:

Does anyone know which scales of model trains look best with 1/144 gunpla?
Doesn't have to be perfect, just what you think looks the most aesthetic

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 02:37:36 No.10902122 Report

Quoted By:

>>10901886
The frame looks like the PGU RX-78-2

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 03:22:41 No.10902155 Report

Quoted By: >>10902298 >>10902299

I decided to go ahead and buy an Ultra Sonic cleaner, but the one I wanted isn't available anymore. Does anyone have any recommendations? I heard the degas feature is important, but if it isn't, then I don't care. I would like to use this to clean my airbrush as well as the gunpla parts.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 03:41:00 No.10902191 Report

Quoted By: >>10902231

anyone here has gotten aany of the new kits from the seed movie?
I preordered the Destroy even though I don't have the space to display it lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 04:05:02 No.10902231 Report

Quoted By:

>>10902191
>seedshit

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 04:50:50 No.10902295 Report

Quoted By:

>>10900265
Goddamn, its ugly and overdesigned as shit. Typical Chinese recipe copied gundam and make a lot of pointy wings/swords or some kungfu shit

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 04:54:36 No.10902298 Report

Quoted By: >>10902299

>>10902155
>an Ultra Sonic cleaner
Any noname #34278 industrial cleaner will be fine, but you need to consider the possible sizes of the parts you are planning to wash (and whether you're planning to take an occasional bath in it yourself).

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 04:55:50 No.10902299 Report

Quoted By: >>10902308 >>10902329 >>10902626

>>10902298
>>10902155
Fuck do you need Ultra Sonic CLeaner for?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 05:04:56 No.10902308 Report

Quoted By:

>>10902299
I didn't believe in it either, until I bought a generic Chinesium one on Amazon and tried it out. It's handy for getting stubborn paint residue off of pieces that have already taken multiple 91% baths and scrubbings, and putting airbrush pieces in can help finish off anything that survives a good general cleaning. Once or twice I've had what I think was a clogged nozzle on my airbrush despite multiple scrubbings, I gave the pieces an overnight alcohol bath and then ran it through the cleaner and it fixed the issue.

It probably won't make or break your cleaning/stripping process unless you shell out for a really good one, but if you're neurodivergent about getting your shit perfectly clean it can help.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 05:42:52 No.10902329 Report

Quoted By: >>10903463

>>10902299
High-speed degreasing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 14:02:30 No.10902626 Report

Quoted By:

>>10902299
Easily cleaning resin parts and stripping paint

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 14:33:35 No.10902655 Report

Quoted By: >>10902678

My first time using thinner. How do I know if I'm thinning properly? This is the 300ml bottle btw

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 14:58:35 No.10902677 Report

Quoted By:

Anyone use the dspiae soft tip markers?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 15:00:30 No.10902678 Report

Quoted By: >>10902702 >>10902757

>>10902655
With mr color and gaianotes its easy
Mr color thin everything 1 part paint to 2 parts thinner
Gaianotes everything can be thinned 1 part paint up to 3 parts thinner

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 15:24:35 No.10902702 Report

Quoted By: >>10902730 >>10902757

>>10902678
>1 part paint to 2 parts thinner
1:2 is too thin for primers and regular paint can be thinned 1:3.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 15:47:17 No.10902730 Report

Quoted By: >>10902757 >>10902767

>>10902702
I thin all their primers 1:2 and have 0 issues. I'd also argue 1:3 is way too thin for their paints. They don't have nearly as good covering power as gaianotes do.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 16:17:15 No.10902757 Report

Quoted By: >>10902767

>>10902730
>>10902702
>>10902678
What? But they say the mr color primer thinner ratio is 1:1.5

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 16:28:56 No.10902767 Report

Quoted By: >>10902771 >>10902776 >>10902796

>>10902730
>I'd also argue 1:3 is way too thin for their paints.
Nope, it's just right (for the 0.18 needle that is) and the coverage is excellent.

>>10902757
I've been thinning all my primers (Tamiya, Creos, Gaia) 1:1 and it worked out great for me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 16:33:45 No.10902771 Report

Quoted By: >>10903321

>>10902767
The vast majority of people are not using a 0.18mm nozzle for spraying basecoats, primer or varnish you fucking idiot. The standard is 0.35mm. Spraying regular mr color thinned 1:3 with that will produce wet shit and you'll have to make lots of extremely thin layers if you want to avoid pooling/running.
>inb4 some other retard fucknut says something stupid like most idiots here do

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 16:37:17 No.10902776 Report

Quoted By: >>10903321

>>10902767
You're just wasting money. Technically you don't need to thin any of them. But you're doing your wallet a disservice by not thinning them to their max. Not to mention metallics come out much nicer when thinned high with rapid type thinners. And you get much nicer glossier colors when thinned higher with a leveling thinner. And you can get 2x-3x more out of your jar just by thinning more.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 16:55:53 No.10902796 Report

Quoted By:

>>10902767
I poured my thinner into the surface primer jar until its full. so i guess its kind of like 1:1.2 or 1.3

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 19:05:14 No.10902935 Report

Quoted By: >>10903393

I airbrushed one layer of Mr Topcoat GX113 flat (thinned with Mr Color 110 thinner) on an unpainted, panel-lined model.
Is there any reason to add more layers when there isn't really any paint to protect?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Mar 2024 00:20:01 No.10903321 Report

Quoted By:

>>10902776
>disservice by not thinning them to their max
I use primer and surfacer mostly to fill in imperfections. 1:1 gives me the perfect amount of fill with one coat, 1:2 doesn't (so I would have to spray a second coat which wastes time and nullifies the "savings" of money).
I thin the rest 1:3, but I get the feeling that you didn't actually read my post, so that's okay.

>>10902771
>The vast majority of people are not using a 0.18mm nozzle for spraying basecoats
Are you their duly elected representative, lol?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Mar 2024 01:11:19 No.10903393 Report

Quoted By:

>>10902935
If you just wanted to remove the plastic look, no reason to do more than one coat. Some gloss jobs become shinier with more than one coat, but you have to be careful of orange peel.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Mar 2024 01:55:07 No.10903463 Report

Quoted By: >>10903686 >>10903958

>>10902329
Do you use alcohol or a detergent? The Vevor may be what I get.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 09 Mar 2024 05:18:57 No.10903686 Report

Quoted By:

>>10903463
99% isopropanol.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Mar 2024 12:30:17 No.10903958 Report

Quoted By:

>>10903463
I've never heard of detergent in an USC, do people do this?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 09 Mar 2024 13:46:01 No.10903998 Report

Quoted By: >>10904056 >>10904149 >>10904665

Fuck me
How do I fix this

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Mar 2024 15:41:00 No.10904056 Report

Quoted By: >>10904120 >>10904149

>>10903998
I'm far from an expert but I think you can fix that with a brass rod. Drill into both sides, insert and glue the rod.
Probably remove the ball joint from the leg first. You might want to use plastic cement or cement + plastic paste to "mask" the broken part. Also you might want to sand the ball joint slightly to keep some degree of articulation and avoid this happening again, unless you plan on fixing the pose.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 09 Mar 2024 16:49:03 No.10904120 Report

Quoted By:

>>10904056
Sounds like that'll work, thanks anon.
I never tried using a pin vise and brass rods but this would be a good opportunity to try it.

My last "repair" was me placing extra plastic onto the broken joint and putting a shitton of glue on it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Mar 2024 17:02:54 No.10904149 Report

Quoted By: >>10904665

>>10903998
>>10904056
personally on something that small I wouldn't bother with brass, but would use steel instead. brass is only used because it's soft enough to cut easily, but with the size of a steel rod (a section of a nice paperclip for example) that you'd be using there'd be no issues with cutting it.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 09 Mar 2024 23:10:42 No.10904665 Report

Quoted By: >>10904701

>>10903998
With a pin.

>>10904149
Most of the time you want your pin to be easily bendable in case you didn't drill your holes perfectly aligned. Aluminum, copper, brass, any old piece of stripped electical wire is fine. Steel works better as an axle or something imo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Mar 2024 23:11:41 No.10904666 Report

Quoted By: >>10905503

>>10901514
1/72 scale. Its over 10" from foot to head and over 13" overall with backpack. For reference PGU is just under a 12" tall.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Mar 2024 23:46:35 No.10904701 Report

Quoted By: >>10904782

>>10904665
When not doing repairs, I would mostly agree, but seeing as he is fixing a joint peg that will be under force any time it is being articulated, any flexibility is a terrible idea.
Typical toolfag mouthbreather post.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 Mar 2024 00:50:05 No.10904782 Report

Quoted By: >>10906213

>>10904701
>that will be under force any time it is being articulated
But it shouldn't be. We are not building heavy machinery here, there should be no need to apply a lot of force to work the joint. If there is, the joint is poorly assembled or the parts were poorly molded and need to be adjusted (sanded, drilled out etc).

In any case, if the force sufficient to bend a short copper or aluminum pin is applied, the plastic will break somewhere else long before the pin encased in plastic bends enough, so the need for steel is purely psychological.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 10 Mar 2024 15:31:16 No.10905503 Report

Quoted By: >>10905567

>>10904666

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 Mar 2024 16:36:52 No.10905567 Report

Quoted By:

>>10905503
katoki was a mistake

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 10 Mar 2024 17:14:43 No.10905603 Report

Quoted By: >>10905879 >>10906292

Rate my handmade spraybooth, fags

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 Mar 2024 21:18:41 No.10905879 Report

Quoted By:

>>10905603
Looks okay I guess, might need a better filter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 Mar 2024 23:34:49 No.10906093 Report

Quoted By:

Is gamsol safe to use over top coated plastic? Or primered plastic? I have a lot of oil paint.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Mar 2024 01:00:08 No.10906213 Report

Quoted By: >>10906359

>>10904782
at that gauge, copper or aluminum are barely stronger than glue.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Mar 2024 01:38:50 No.10906292 Report

Quoted By:

>>10905603
nice. try and get a bigger table though

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Mar 2024 02:38:54 No.10906359 Report

Quoted By: >>10906580

>>10906213
At what gauge?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Mar 2024 07:31:21 No.10906580 Report

Quoted By:

>>10906359
small enough to fit a hole drilled in the broken hip peg in the pic that we are discussing without the drilling compromising the surrounding plastic whilst being strong enough to actually provide any meaningful rigidity (~0.8mm).
not hard to follow the conversation, but the toolfag must input his irrelevant contributions as usual.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Mar 2024 10:09:20 No.10906653 Report

Quoted By: >>10906807

For painting plastic, am I supposed to be using opaque or translucent primer? If so, what kind? I have only painted GKs before and the polyurethane primer I use seems too flimsy to work with plamo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 11 Mar 2024 16:10:37 No.10906807 Report

Quoted By:

>>10906653
it doesn't matter, but can help for coverage depending on the final color you are spraying.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 11 Mar 2024 18:31:50 No.10906910 Report

Quoted By: >>10907399

>I want to buy my second kit ever
>Proceed to buy picrel instead
I did save on shipping tho

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Mar 2024 03:08:09 No.10907399 Report

Quoted By: >>10907630

>>10906910
Well, congratulations on the backlog, I guess.
Were they doing a clearance sale or something?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Mar 2024 10:35:00 No.10907630 Report

Quoted By: >>10907674

>>10907399
Nope, i just wanted to buy a guntank, then I saw the gogg and then I repeated the process...
I basically bought everything I liked from that ebay seller but the RG zaku II, which I think it's too hardcore for me

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Mar 2024 12:17:09 No.10907674 Report

Quoted By: >>10907678

>>10907630
What was your first kit?
I think some of those older HG's you bought are too hardcore for me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Mar 2024 12:29:25 No.10907678 Report

Quoted By: >>10907698

>>10907674
From the screenshot it's the zaku II mass production type
I bought a second one otherwise I would have too many char's
Also oh shit what are the hard hg I bought??

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 12 Mar 2024 13:13:57 No.10907698 Report

Quoted By: >>10907702

>>10907678
I'd say the amphibious ones from the OG series, since those are some of the earliest releases, but if you were able to build the older Zaku, then it shouldn't be a problem for you.

It's just that the newer releases have benefited from technological advances, so they can be easier to build, and may have better parts/color separation compared to the older kits.

The OG RX-178-2 Gundam Mk-Ⅱ had this, for example.

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Anonymous Tue 12 Mar 2024 13:34:30 No.10907702 Report

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>>10907698
Sorry, RX-178 Gundam Mk-Ⅱ.

There was also the "All Gundam Project" thing that coincided with Gundam Build Fighters, where kits going forward would have "a new shared format" so that they would be "easy to build and easy to kitbash!"

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Anonymous Tue 12 Mar 2024 16:23:09 No.10907807 Report

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>>10898091
>Saved 20 bucks after shipping on some HG mercury sets and a RG Wing from Hobby Jobby

Blog update: Hobby Jobby fucked up my order. Two out of three Gundams I chose were the wrong kits.

Is this model particularly hard to find? I've been to about 8 hobby shops and never seen this thing in the wild. I'm wondering if I'll keep this one and request they send one of the others back or give refund. I already bought the special forces Dilanza and don't really need this one, but the sheer rarity of it in my area makes me kinda want to keep it. I guess this is one of the first mercury models, so that could mean it's harder to track down since it's already circulated around for a long time.

The fact that he jobs in the first episode and is replaced forever from that point makes me care less about it though.

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