Guess what jckk sent me yesterday?

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Kotobukiya's 1/144 Wild Wurger kit and a MS model stand (also a product of Kotobukiya, I think, as seen from an issue of Dengeki Hobby Magazine, although there's no indication of it being made by Kotobukiya on the packaging...(　´_ゝ`)ﾌｰﾝ

The stand comes with 4 holders that requires assembly:


It can supposedly be used for HCM-Pro, MSiA, HG and MG model kits, though I failed to see how for the HG and MG part. Three of the holder things have almost the same size ,with one having a slightly narrower spacing, which fits perfectly on my MSiA. The other two doesn't fit nicely on my HG kits, and even moreso for MG kits.







^ not a perfect fit

Though the holder fits the Wild Falken perfectly:

Fails.

I bought one for RM12 something, and it came with 20 blades, and a nice little container to keep the spare blades with a sealed compartment to keep the blunt ones.

narutokun83: why yes, newer MG boxarts are teh sex! I came, twice just at the mere sight of such godly artwork! D:

You can turn the waist. Something that the AEUG version can't do. Other than that, the rest if same as the previous one.

NG 1/144 kits are made for poor elementary schoolchildren who wants to own a Gundam model, but doesn't have much money to spend on stuffs like HG 1/144 (3 times as expensive), or MG stuffs. Besides, they're an excellent cheap source for you to test your paintjob/kitbash.

In Malacca? The cheapest I've seen was RM29.90 for a Strike Freedom. I lol'd all over myself imagining people actually paying that kind of price for one.

There was once a time when stores in Japan sells GSD NG1/144 kits at 50yen (yes, 50yen) each, because the model kits don't sell, at all. A guy bought like, 2 dozens of the Chaos kit, and made a funny photo of a dozen or so of them lining up on a bath tub, with a 1/144 Strike floating helplessly on a toy floating ring in the half filled bath tub, while the rest of the Chaos has its plastic trees floating in front of Strike.

Don't ask me to post the picture, though (I remember posting it sometime ago, most should've seen it). It's a tedious job to go through what must have been 20k pictures in my unsorted folder just to find that one pic >_>

Ze proportions! Zhey art silly!
The backpack canon thing is comically large, the wings are too short (I don't think they'll be giving out stands so shorter wings are to balance the kit, like what happened to the old 1/100 Freedom?), and the torso's out of proportionately large, then again, it could've been due to the angle problem.

Regardless, it still gets some cookies for having a slim leg (compared to the HUEG LEGS 1/100 SF has).

(○`ε´○)ぶーっ/

Yes. Yahoo Auction, if the modeller decided to actually sell his customized model kit that took him days/weeks/months and loads of monies to do, and godly amounts of rape monies.

Go make godly amount of money, blow it all on travelling to Japan and live there for a few years or so, and learn how to customize (everything's there, they even have shops that sells B-club or other company's customization crap).

Pretty sure it's Litt Tak (they have their stickers on all the wrapped model kit boxes I used to have), though I think many now import them without going through any 'official third party' to reduce costs. Or at least I don't see any such stickers anymore in the newer kits I bought (MG Freedom, Wild Falken/Wurger, HGUC Hazel and Advanced Hazel).

Yeah, I've started on my 1/144 Wild Wurger over the last few days, and to my horror... ZOMG the eye visor isn't painted, and there's no stickers for it.

Anyone here know of any stores that sells neon green (not bright colored, those that looked mid-light emerald green, like the ones used to color GM's head camera) enamel/acrylic paints?

How old is this brother of yours? I wouldn't give him a Freedom (given how popular SEED is right now >_>, non-CE FTW!) if I were you. I'd get him a Methuss instead lol (though given how kids thesedays knows nothing about Gundam other than Wing and SEED, he certainly won't appreciate it)

1) NO. Currently, Bandai has the monopoly in manifacturing every Gundam model kit. They have a smaller branch named B-Club that produces custom resin parts for certain kits, but that's another story (professional, expensive crap).

2) depending on the grade, one can use airbrush, paintbrush, acrylic/enamel, markers, sanding paper, plastic cement, plastic putty. But it's entirely optional. You could always fvck up your 1/144 non-grade model kit by just assembling it out of box without coloring it.

3) there's 1/1700 (for ships), 1/400 (DX collection, DX Neo), 1/200 (HCM Pro), 1/144 (NG, HG, HGUC), 1/100 (MG, NG), 1/60 (PG,NG) or heck, 1/12 (resin crap). A normal Gundam unit should be around 18m in actual height, so work out the scaling of the kits yourself

4) HG = High Grade, MG = Master Grade, PG = Perfect Grade, SD = Super Deformed, NG = non graded (they don't actually print it on the box), HGUC = High Grade Universal Century

Get a small cup of water by your table, and upon applying the panel lines, immediately dip your thumb/finger into the water, and rub it, before wiping off the water with a cloth (I usually use my shirt, since cotton loves water so much). It's much faster and environmental friendly (me, caring about teh environment? lol) that way.

Because they don't sell, given how GSD was teh suck after the first 12 episodes.

Whatever you do, DO NOT WANT the 1/100 Strike Freedom. It's made of fat and short legs, crap proportions, and obviously rushed job to cash in on a model kit based on its short spanned popularity.

Chaos and Force Impulse are good (though it would be much moar superior if it's for Sword Impulse). Get them. Chaos has the best design I've seen in GSD, apart from Windams and the newly designed ZAKU(s).

If you think you'll be buying moar model kits 10 years down the line, get an airbrush. It's god's gift for modellers :p

And yet you have no problems spending RM80+++ on silly overcharged plastic model kits.

What the staff at Bandai did to pull it off:
1: dig out old moulds for a model kit
2: make a new run for it
3: coat it with bling bling
4: ???????
5: slap a "limited edition" label on it, sell it at 6 times its original pricing
6: profit

1/144 HGUC = High Grade Universal Century, units from Universal Century (Gundam, Z, ZZ, CCA, F91, V, 0080, 0083 etc) would be made into model kits under this label.

HGUC is better than HG kits in most departments, ie: HGUC kits has hands that are moulded for better poses, where they don't have the same universal clenched fist, with a square hole in the middle of it, to hold beam sabre hilts, or HGUC kits can bend their arms 180', something that IIRC, none of the HG kit is capable of.

By the way, found the pictar I hosted on imageshack by accident, so here:

SEED The Hyper Hybrid.

Looks really good (particulary I-Justice, its proportions are great compared to the coming 1/100 kit. Its wings are HUEG, its backpack canons are slim unlike the FAT ones we see in the 1/100). Though it's kinda overcharged. A shop here sells the whole set at RM120 O_O

Individual runners of a kit, because you screwed up on a part?

It's available for Japanese residents only. IIRC, you're supposed to pay for the runner. They don't replace them anymoar.