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Gelgoog Guy !!qznFQjkRiks Sat 01 Nov 2025 15:10:06 No.11612428 View View Reply Original Report

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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

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Gelgoog Guy !!qznFQjkRiks Sat 01 Nov 2025 15:13:22 No.11612430 Report

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== BIOMECHA GROUPBUILD ==

Build a mecha/cyborg with a visibly biological component integrated into the machine. This can include:
>Mecha that naturally have some sort of organic component to them (Evangelions, Aura Battlers, etc)
>Mecha that have organic elements attached/fused to them, willingly or otherwise
>Cyborgs, androids, and human with mechanical attachments/enhancements (Robocop, Kamen Rider, mecha musume, etc)

Send your entries to [email protected] with at least 5 photos of your finished build along with any WIP photos and a description of your entry.
START - 8/12/25
END - 11/30/25

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 00:50:25 No.11612851 Report

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Thank goodness for sports memorabilia fetishism that created a market of convenient diorama display cases.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 00:59:03 No.11612859 Report

Quoted By: >>11612913 >>11614812

more bangdoll progress
the arms are among the worst experiences I¿ve ever had, the entire assembly screams WHY

why the everloving fuck you'd complicate and risk the integrity of the connectors this much? Nagano's autism is one thing but beauty in a mech is worth shit when you can barely put it together and everything falls off by blinking at it

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 02:22:22 No.11612913 Report

Quoted By: >>11612934

>>11612859
this took you quite the time, huh. what kit is this? does it have a lot of runners?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 02:45:48 No.11612934 Report

Quoted By: >>11612939 >>11613195 >>11613220

>>11612913
Its the 1/100 Bangdoll of the IMS line by Volks.

It is a infamous kit due to being the first, let's say, affordable plamo of the Five Star Stories mechas, which were exclusively resin kits by that point. It is like 15 years old since its release I think?

Being a plastic model it was easier to purchase and build than a resin one at the time, but it also suffers from being the first release and its bad fame is associated to plenty of issues related to things than range from flash remnants in the parts, fitting issues, large seamlines and overall fragility, especially during the assembly process, for which yes, glue/cement is a must, no other way around it.

As I have been building it I can attest to those issues. I'm basically doing a straight out of the box build, just using metallic black for the inner frame parts and flat topcoat for the light blue ones, but holy shit dude, the closer I get to completing it, the more fragile it feels.

The joints of the shoulders and arms connectors are really bad compared to shit like Bandai's or Koto's, in the sense in which they favored aesthetics first over practicality. The moment I manipulate them the parts are prone to fall off.

I'm still not sure I want to also use cement there because the problem is that they are composed by a series of parts that fit into each other like a tetris game and out of that mess comes the one with the polycap that houses the should balljoint, so even gluing them might end up making the whole thing brittle and prone to breaking.

Despite all those faults and issues, it remains a relatively popular kit because the design of this particular mecha is something else, even among the more modern Volks releases

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 02:49:50 No.11612939 Report

Quoted By: >>11613020

>>11612934
funny stuff, this month Volks will release this thing, the second oneof their VSMS line, especifically made for Nagano's gothic style mechs

this and >>11612934 are supposed to be the same mecha, you decide which version you prefer

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 04:44:26 No.11613020 Report

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>>11612939
I wonder how the DBB energy parts are supposed to work with it being articulated

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 05:58:18 No.11613051 Report

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Anyone get the star model varguil with gundam head and psycho plate bootleg? Do the colors match the bandai one? The one photo i could find has the psychopath in purple instead of navy blue.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 05:36:40 No.11613062 Report

Quoted By: >>11613077 >>11613105 >>11613116 >>11613126 >>11613148 >>11613192

Do people who paint feel obligated to paint every kit they buy? Like, when you see a well-molded, nicely color-separated kit, do you still feel the urge to paint it just to set yourself apart from snap-fit builders?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 07:07:37 No.11613077 Report

Quoted By: >>11613078

>>11613062
I've never seen a model kit that looks good without paint.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 07:10:28 No.11613078 Report

Quoted By: >>11613098

>>11613077

Any MGs from this current decade

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 07:55:37 No.11613098 Report

Quoted By: >>11613106

>>11613078
The bare plastic finish still looks bad and topcoat only does so much to improve that.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 08:02:31 No.11613105 Report

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>>11613062
>feel obligated to paint every kit they buy
They don't look very good all grey.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 08:02:39 No.11613106 Report

Quoted By: >>11613113

>>11613098
So you do look down on people who aren't autistic about painting

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 08:09:54 No.11613113 Report

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>>11613106
I don't, other people are free to do with their kits whatever they want, I just personally don't like unpainted kits.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 08:12:09 No.11613116 Report

Quoted By: >>11613130

>>11613062
>do you still feel the urge to paint it just to set yourself apart from snap-fit builders
Only "snap-fit builders" think that people who paint somehow care about them one way or another. They are sadly mistaken.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 08:33:29 No.11613126 Report

Quoted By: >>11613131

>>11613062
I don't paint but I do want Katejina to step on me

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 08:39:43 No.11613130 Report

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>>11613116
You're literally maidenless.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 08:41:10 No.11613131 Report

Quoted By: >>11613133

>>11613126
She's canonically mentally ill

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 08:46:32 No.11613133 Report

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>>11613131
So am I, but maybe if she keeps stomping on me she'll get better

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 08:56:57 No.11613142 Report

Quoted By: >>11614271

anything wrong with weathering on bare plastic and then using flat topcoat vs flat topcoat - weathering - flat topcoat?
and can i topcoat outside with a can when it's cold but low humidity?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 09:03:10 No.11613148 Report

Quoted By: >>11613149 >>11613155

>>11613062
More color separation just means it makes my life easier when painting. I paint because I enjoy it, if I couldn't paint my models I wouldn't be in this hobby.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 09:03:59 No.11613149 Report

Quoted By: >>11613154

>>11613148
What are your thoughts on snapfitters who topcoat and do minimal detail work?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 09:09:58 No.11613154 Report

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>>11613149
Doesn't bother me, it's their choice as far as what they want to do with their models.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 09:11:36 No.11613155 Report

Quoted By: >>11613160 >>11613201

>>11613148
>I paint because I enjoy it, if I couldn't paint my models I wouldn't be in this hobby.
This is also why I'm considering getting out of the hobby, the selection of paints in the EU is just too limited unless I want to settle for water based paints

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 09:19:04 No.11613160 Report

Quoted By: >>11613161

>>11613155
Yeah I mostly use water based acrylics and recently started adding in alcohol acrylics like Aqueous and even those can be a pain to find here. I want to eventually switch over to lacquers but then I regularly see people complaining about how they can't get stuff like Gaianotes or Jumpwind because we only get shipments a few times a year.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 09:21:57 No.11613161 Report

Quoted By: >>11613182 >>11615878

>>11613160
Not having access to brands like gaia is genuinely crippling for gunpla, to the point I'd advise those people to give up on the idea of painting, or consider getting into miniatures instead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 10:55:25 No.11613182 Report

Quoted By: >>11613186

>>11613161
What about the chinese paints on ali

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 11:09:18 No.11613186 Report

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>>11613182
Unfortunately no longer price efficient since they've skyrocketed from 2-3 euro a bottle to 7-8, and 1-2 month shipping times means you always have to do big bulk orders in advance of projects

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 11:20:27 No.11613192 Report

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>>11613062
I usually just paint for color correction. That said I bought a HG Shining Gundam for the effect parts so I might give it a Shading Gundam paint job.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 11:30:25 No.11613195 Report

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>>11612934
my god that's beautiful

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 11:58:51 No.11613201 Report

Quoted By: >>11613339

>>11613155
As a non painter, what makes water based paint so much worse than lacquer?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 12:48:04 No.11613220 Report

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>>11612934
Unless you've got an ethical objection to bootlegs, for most of the early IMS kits it's probably easier to buy a high quality resin recast for the same price and build that than to fuck around with the plastic kits. It's not like you're missing out on much of any real articulation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 14:18:27 No.11613266 Report

Quoted By: >>11613333

Saw floating about on Jap twitter images of that Rozen Zulu Ep 7 version reprint, any idea if yall know if thats going to make it over here or is it over?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 15:57:44 No.11613333 Report

Quoted By: >>11613342

>>11613266
You realize every country gets more reprints than japan? There’s so many jp social media complaining about overseas shops shelf warming. Even the no JP PB shops are full of shelf warming p b kits from people who cancelled their orders

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 16:01:56 No.11613339 Report

Quoted By: >>11613360

>>11613201
For model kits with overlapping parts, easier for the paint to chip off or rub off. Think of inserting an arm into shoulder armor and the lower part rubs against the chest by accident. It used to be pretty bad but companies have been making their non lacquer paints stronger.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 16:05:20 No.11613342 Report

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>>11613333
lol
lmao

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 16:36:09 No.11613360 Report

Quoted By: >>11613823

>>11613339
What about "aqueous" paints like mr hobby or tamiya acrylics?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 21:25:08 No.11613665 Report

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>when the base you want doesn't quite exist

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Nov 2025 00:17:14 No.11613823 Report

Quoted By: >>11614040

>>11613360
those are alcohol based.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Nov 2025 05:35:04 No.11614035 Report

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>Paint kit
>Paint joints
>Now there's always a risk to chip the paint when posing

Paintfags live such a cuckedd existence

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Nov 2025 05:51:03 No.11614040 Report

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>>11613823
Yeah, but what are they like to use compared to lacquer paints?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Nov 2025 15:14:44 No.11614271 Report

Quoted By: >>11614324

>>11613142
please advise sirs
i was thinking to just put glossy topcoat on the decals and leave the rest bare, do weatherint and then full matte coat. will be using tamiya weathering and pigments

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Anonymous Mon 03 Nov 2025 16:18:08 No.11614321 Report

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For all their flaws, I still love these HMM kits. The abs on this one was rough, but the final product is great. Got three more to do in future.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Nov 2025 16:20:54 No.11614324 Report

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>>11614271
You need matte or satin surface for the weathering to stick to. You will have a bad time applying pigments to a gloss coat.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 00:19:29 No.11614734 Report

Quoted By: >>11614817

>>11612428
Hello, I just finished watching Zeta Gundam and really liked Four Murasame. How likely is it that they make a new Psyco Gundam kit?

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Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 01:52:33 No.11614812 Report

Quoted By: >>11614923

>>11612859
>you have to glue each blade in the shoulder armor individually
>repeat x12
>they are barely held together by tiny pegs that will totally no break or simply fall off when attaching them to the arms/body/both/anyttime you touch this thing due to the almost nonexistent contact area with the actual armor

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 01:58:14 No.11614817 Report

Quoted By: >>11615622

>>11614734
Well, they did just make a Psycho Mkii, so I wouldn't call it impossible. They could probably use a lot of the same parts on the inside, honestly. I'm with you, though; I'd fucking love and upgraded Psycho Mki

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 04:35:07 No.11614895 Report

Quoted By: >>11614969

how come every SD kit I've purchased smells like laundry detergent (I've purchased two but it's strange that it's happened twice)

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 05:45:52 No.11614923 Report

Quoted By:

>>11614812
metal pins are a thing

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 08:00:14 No.11614969 Report

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>>11614895
Which SDs? Some of bandai's are made in china, check the box.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 21:21:30 No.11615452 Report

Quoted By: >>11615455

>put waterslide in water
>try to put it on the piece
>doesn't work
>wtf
>it's a sticker, not a waterslide
fuck this shit, he'll be naked

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 21:25:14 No.11615455 Report

Quoted By: >>11615469

>>11615452
Waterslides have a blue backing, stickers have green.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 21:40:40 No.11615469 Report

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>>11615455
looks more aquamarine to me

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:30:17 No.11615622 Report

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>>11614817
Yippee!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 04:03:50 No.11615716 Report

Quoted By: >>11615777 >>11615817 >>11615937

Hey, I need some guidance. I’ve been thinking about getting into airbrushing, but honestly, I’m scared I’ll mess things up badly. I have zero airbrushing experience, but when I was in Japan about a year ago, I bought a bunch of lacquer paints, painting tools, and an airbrush. It was kind of an impulse buy since where I live, paint imports are restricted and supplies like that are hard to find.

Now I’m wondering, should I invest more money to get the rest of the gear I need to start (like an air compressor, and probably a dehumidifier since it’s tropical and humid here)? It feels like a bit of a hassle. Or should I just call it quits and try to sell the airbrush?

No one in my local Gunpla circle airbrushes; they all use spray cans. So if I go ahead, I’ll have to figure things out entirely on my own through trial and error. Is airbrushing hard to learn? Like, can someone reasonably figure it out after a few tries, or do you really need hands-on guidance from someone experienced?

Would really appreciate your input here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 05:33:24 No.11615777 Report

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>>11615716
>like an air compressor, and probably a dehumidifier
What you need the most is a spray booth and the space to put it and a window or an air duct to connect it to. If you can't get that, the whole thing is probably a non-starter.

>can someone reasonably figure it out after a few tries
Yes, it's not rocket science, as any craft it takes some fine motor control and some time to practice to get the muscle memory going (if you only airbrush once a year, you will probably never get good at it). Which means you want your setup to be ready to go in minutes and then to only take minutes to clean. If you need to put everything together for an hour every time you want to airbrush and then take everything apart for another hour, it's probably not going to work.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 06:22:47 No.11615817 Report

Quoted By: >>11616009

>>11615716
>hands-on guidance from someone experienced
sounds homoerotic ngl

plamo is a hobby for shut-ins who never leave their rooms, everything is designed for you to learn on your own and from youtube videos

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 08:59:35 No.11615878 Report

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>>11613161
Gaia is expensive as fuck though

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 09:47:41 No.11615914 Report

Quoted By: >>11616041

Which is the best 3rd party kit?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 10:52:58 No.11615937 Report

Quoted By: >>11615949

>>11615716
Airbrushing is genuinely super easy to start, I'm close to being an actual retard and I can do it. Mr Hobby stuff thins pretty well so you'll get a decent bit out of paint from every bottle. If you're just doing simple stuff like making a part a different colour it's pretty much just point and shoot with your primer and then desired colour. Get yourself a cheap kit, pick out some colours for it, and just get in there and paint it. You'll learn in no time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 11:20:53 No.11615949 Report

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>>11615937
>Airbrushing is genuinely super easy to start, I'm close to being an actual retard and I can do it.
Now I feel extra bad for having so much trouble with it, I always get either clogging or super watery paint spray, nothing in between
And that's with lacquers

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 14:12:04 No.11616009 Report

Quoted By:

>>11615817
>sounds homoerotic
Can you not say stuff like this next time?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 14:52:39 No.11616041 Report

Quoted By:

>>11615914
Comes down to personal taste. Im a fan of SNAA kits

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 19:40:37 No.11616202 Report

Quoted By:

months ago
>see the Police Zaku
>Hype
now
>it's in store
>watch a review first
>lose all interest.

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