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Whats Lying on your Workbench MKIII
thegunny replied to HWR MKII's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Meant to say clear blue -
Whats Lying on your Workbench MKIII
thegunny replied to HWR MKII's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Gunze clear red & clear purple. approx 50/50 mix. Looks purple to me Top pic is painted side bottom pic is unpainted side. It's a bit uneven because it's brushed on. -
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Thanks. That was the big let down with both kits. The figures need no painting apart from a clear coat to get rid of the plastic look but the weapons were all one colour and it wasn't even close to what they were supposed to look like.
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I just finished mine the other day. At rest awaiting orders. Bug detected. Ready to go. A bit more firepower needed. Cleaning up the mess. Combat-san reporting for duty. Ready to go. Let me at em! More firepower. What you lookin at? Target aquired. See ya later.
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Here's a few shots of my Hildolfr. The EX kit also comes with the markings and paint scheme details to be able to make the captured Zaku used by the Feddies, so I'm currently doing up a HGUC Zaku II to give the Hildolfr a Zaku Machine Gun labotomy like it did in the Igloo episode.
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I've just finished marathoning Pailsen Files, Shining Heresy, Phanton Arc, Case Irvine & Finder so here's my 2 bobs worth. IMHO if you want to keep the memory of the original show untarnished then leave well enough alone. Shining Heresy was probably as close as you're going to get to the original show but it really didn't add anything and was pretty silly in places. Pailsen Files was for the most part as boring as bat sh!t. The action was few and far between. I'm afraid I'm not a fan of cgi battle scenes, lots of flashy explosions but too fast to take in what's going on. Nicely detailed but I felt it didn't really add anything to the story line as most of it was only elaborating on things that you got from the original series. Phantom Arc, yak, yak, yak! Some nice animation, the original gang was back together and that was it. Total waste of 2 and a bit hours. Case Irvine has absolutely nothing to do with the original series apart from the VOTOM's themselves. It's just another cgi fest. Finder. I didn't even finish it. How they can claim this has anything to do with VOTOMS is beyond me. It's just another cgi fest with smart arse kids thrown in. I suppose it would appeal to the Dragon Booster set but it should not be associated with the VOTMS series. If you want to keep the memory of the original series alive give the above OVAs a miss, I know I regret watching them
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It was still made by John wasn't it. The tachikoma is a Samurai Monkey kit and yet it's still made by John.
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Hmmm, zechs, troll. Troll, zechs. Why hasn't this waste of bandwidth been locked
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Another Chicken Little Be careful of anything that glows in the dark, at least you won't have to buy any display lights for your cabinet .
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You'd better run outside and check the sky as well, you never know
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This thread has been a bit quite lately so I'll start the new year of with my Defender, hot off the press so to speak.
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Whats Lying on your Workbench MKIII
thegunny replied to HWR MKII's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
This showed up in the mail yesterday. Stop or I'll kwai you to death! Pretty easy build. The longest parts were waiting for the paint to dry. Lot of pre-painted parts. They are removed from sprue painted then put in separate plastic bags. There is still a bit of painting to be done to make it look right.
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Whats Lying on your Workbench MKIII
thegunny replied to HWR MKII's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Don't you mean crash & burn Nice models. I like the Ferrari version, means it can crash & burn faster -
You've been spoilt by the plug & play kits Hard Graph and EX kits are real models
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Not without a 10 ton crane to support it. It weighs 800gr and doesn't really have the flexibility to get the pose right.
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Thanks
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Finally finished my Mega Char Zaku II. Damn it seems the bigger the kit the bigger the mistakes I coloured it using the RG Zaku as a guide but the photo's don't really show the contrasting panels all that well which is just as well because the so called pink came out a bit more like light orange (a bit of an accident when adding the yellow ). I built it straight out of the box with a few extra decals to supplement the kit decals. I tried not use any glue but it just wasn't possible in places, especially the power conduits. They looked absolutely awful with a seam the size of the grand canyon on every one of them. I couldn't be bothered mixing up a small batch of pink to paint them in body colour so I just painted them dark grey & black. I reckon they turned out okay and break up the pink. Ye gods is it pink I've seen enough pink bits to last for quite some time The Zaku machine gun doesn't fit all that well and it severely limits how you can pose the model as it fouls on the arm in just about every position. Not sure how they achieved the poses on the side of the box because as soon as you move any part of it away from centre it wants to fall over. The mega RX-78 is the same. Speaking of which, when I got the RX-78 out to pose with the Zaku it started to sag under it's own weight. Not happy Bandai, at least it could have kept its joint stiffness for more than 2 months Overall, both kits although imposing on the shelf IMHO are not really up to scratch. Too heavy for the joints used, not detailed enough for the size and way too simplistic for my liking. Holding a pose for the long term is a concern and I hope that one day I don't come home and find they have crashed to floor taking everything else with them. Side by side A bit of biffo
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Got it in one Would be interesting to see one of these kits side by side with a Bandai kit made with no holds barred by a professional model maker such as Master Kawaguchi or Fuhrer Sakurai who were both featured in action on a DVD in the Jan Dengeki Hobby magazine.
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Nearly $700 bucks to "at least look like a Bandai kit does." :wacko:
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My guess is Mrs Palmer and her five daughters.
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Good to see that HLJ is its usual useless self Haven't ordered anything from them for ages as I've found a far better supplier but they didn't have some decals I was after so I ordered them from HLJ. All were in stock when I ordered but one ended up being out of stock by the time it showed up in my account. I cancelled the out of stock item and waited for a payment advise. After waiting a few days with no advise, I logged in and there was the good old "we can't do anything till you pay for this order" screen. I paid with PayPal. Got an acknowledgement from PP and one from HLJ. A day later I get a Please pay for this order email from HLJ. I email them saying that I've already paid for it. Get a reply saying oh yes our mistake and we will dispatch the order straight away. 5 days later I get a shipping advise email Thank you very much for shopping with HLJ!
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I reckon the pic with the valk was just as a comparison and the OP has jumped to conclusions The original post the pics come from mentions nothing about a hybrid.
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Spoken like someone who hasn't got a clue
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Mr Mark Setter is used to help the decal fix to the surface. If you want it to conform you have to use Mr Mark Softener. They are two different products and yes DO NOT attempt to move the decal once you have applied the softener or you'll end up with a blob of goo, as the softener tends to dissolve the decal to make it conform. I've just recently started using Bandai decals and they are completely different to any other decal I've come across. They are extremely fragile compared to say Hasegawa and don't seem to like being moved around once applied. I think that's where the Setter helps but I'm not sure as I've never used setter only softener.
