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[grogall]

Third party add ons.... For HMR's?

 

Edited Monday at 04:50 PM by grogall

[Graham]

9 hours ago, grogall said:

Third party add ons.... For HMR's?

 

Very interesting. Any details?

I would buy those instantly if available.

 

[grogall]

1 hour ago, Graham said:

Very interesting. Any details?

I would buy those instantly if available.

No just saw it on X (Twitter) but without comments, If I see more I'll post it! But one way or other I'm sure we will be seeing this officially from Bandai someday...

[Graham]

24 minutes ago, grogall said:

No just saw it on X (Twitter) but without comments, If I see more I'll post it! But one way or other I'm sure we will be seeing this officially from Bandai someday...

I just wish Bandai would hurry up with releasing expansion sets for the Hi Metal R scopedogs.  So far, there is just the 1 set announced. 😅

By comparison, Bandai has already released 8 expansion sets for the HG Scopedog models. 

 

[grogall]

5 hours ago, Graham said:

I just wish Bandai would hurry up with releasing expansion sets for the Hi Metal R scopedogs.  So far, there is just the 1 set announced. 😅

By comparison, Bandai has already released 8 expansion sets for the HG Scopedog models. 

Diffrent devisions, différent stratégie. The HG line for the prise, probably sells ten times more then the Hi-Metal R Line, Besides it has to have more detailing then the 1/35 model kits. If they actually cooperate is another question? I think they killed their 1/20 model line since it might interfere with the HMR line in sales! I think they wanted to release complete units in the HMR Line at the beginning to show that that they can give the collector the complete experience, and not have to chase down expansion packs, which they are known for not rereleasing. 

I just wish they didn't include the base with the first expansion pack since this seems to be the most expensive part of that set! other weapons or side armaments would have been more preferable. I don't really like the bases that Bandai releases, the seem to be an afterthought!

@Graham Have you picked up all of the 5 HMR V.O.T.O.M.S so far?

[grogall]

One of the new mech's from Die Graue Hexe....

[Big s]

4 hours ago, grogall said:

One of the new mech's from Die Graue Hexe....

Kind of a Hi Zack Scopedog hybrid 

[Graham]

On 1/20/2026 at 5:47 PM, grogall said:

 

@Graham Have you picked up all of the 5 HMR V.O.T.O.M.S so far?

Yep, I've got: all five HMR releases so far. Here's what I've got:

1x Red Shoulder Custom (kinda regret not buying a second one when it was released).

2x Turbo Custom (my favorite Scopedog variant).

1x Scopedog in Space.

1x Blood Sucker.

1x Fatty.

And I've got 1 each of the Melkian Scopedog and weapons set on pre-order. Oh, and the standard Scopedog with the plated joints that's being released next month, nearly forgot about that,😅

[Graham]

8 hours ago, grogall said:

One of the new mech's from Die Graue Hexe....

Definitely more of a heavy class. It looks like it's gonna tower over a standard Scopedog.

Hope we get an HMR of it

[grogall]

1 hour ago, Graham said:

Yep, I've got: all five HMR releases so far. Here's what I've got:

1x Red Shoulder Custom (kinda regret not buying a second one when it was released).

......SNIP.....

Cool! Someone else who is all in!

By the way Nin-Nin games has a really good price on the RSC for ¥16,940 which is a steal, at that price!

I can confirm that they are brand new sealed boxes! I bought three from them.

Funny that you like the STTC the most because it's actually my least favourite unit! Although it looks great as a squad!

The RSC is still my favourite with Bloodsucker and Fanya's Space Assault unit close behind then FATTY. 

although I like all of them and wouldn't want to do without any of the releases so far.  and looking forward to the Brutishdog the most from the upcoming releases!

Great that after 40 years we finally get a first class series! 🤗

Well happy collecting 🤪

Edited 13 hours ago by grogall

[Graham]

Currently re-watching the TV series and  OVAs. It's about 15 or so years since I last watched the TV series.

Actually I haven't even seen some of the newer OVAs before.

 

[Big s]

4 hours ago, Graham said:

Definitely more of a heavy class. It looks like it's gonna tower over a standard Scopedog.

 

I don’t know, kinda looks like a somewhat standard lower body and the upper kinda looks proportional height wise for a modified Scopedog, but a wider look with much bigger arms. The gun kinda looks similar to the berserga  and gives a smaller kind of look to this A.T., so it may height wise be pretty similar to a basic scopedog, but I don’t think it would be a fun fight in hand to hand combat for the other pilot with those gorilla arms. I guess we’ll find out if the height stats are listed 

[grogall]

Hobby Japan Web has a nice overview of the new 1:24 Wave STTC! I received the Wave RSC kit last week and must say it's quite nice! The detailing is very com-parable to the Hi-Meta R figures in detail! Some features are more detailed on the Wave kit while others are a little nicer on the HMR versions, of course Bandai still has the upper hand since everything is tamp-printed and have metal joints and feat for posing.... 😉

Edited 2 hours ago by grogall

[Big s]

1 hour ago, grogall said:

Hobby Japan Web has a nice overview of the new 1:24 Wave STTC! I received the Wave RSC kit last week and must say it's quite nice! The detailing is very com-parable to the Hi-Meta R figures in detail! Some features are more detailed on the Wave kit while others are a little nicer on the HMR versions, of course Bandai still has the upper hand since everything is tamp-printed and have metal joints and feat for posing.... 😉

Make sure to post the progress on the kit in the workbench section. I’d love to see how it goes together. Personally I really only have space for the 1/35 kits these days and passed on the big brother, but still would like to see it built