O rly?

Amazon used to sell loads of old MG kits for USD$5 each. I recall someone reporting it happening quite recently too (forgot the site, some blogspot account, by a guy who frequently posts on dannychoo.com), whom bought 6 of them in one go o_O

I calculated before. Buying only one kit from them would cost you around RM70 including shipping fees. Buy moar = cheaper.

Bandai's overcharged plastic is nothing compared to SHE's ridiculous full-transformation Getter/Gunbuster. They're the size of a regular 1/144 Gundam kit, only that they cost 200000yen or so o_O. Though I'm very impressed by the amount of engineering they managed to cram on the figurines (can transform Getter 1 to 3 without any extra parts, Gunbuster can split into 3 parts as seen on animu, and can deploy the 3284358765 canons from its arms/legs)


1: buy paintbrush (nylon brushes FTW!)
2: buy enamel/acrylic paints (I'm sure there are loads of shops over there selling them at reasonable prices, unlike in Melaka >_>)
3: buy retarder
4: mix paint and retarder
5: spend some quality time painting carefully
6: ?????
7: profit

Why ToyCity...? O_o

Aren't the stuff they sell overpriced? At least, the Melaka branch does it. I can hardly imagine them making a profit otherwise (given how skyhigh their expenses should be, what with renting two HUEG lots in Parkson, and hiring like, 2 dozen of employees? O_O)

I'd say Gunze. I remember a hobby shop somewhere in Ipoh (I forgot where, it's in a building where a whole floor is dedicated to shops that sells animu crap/gaming crap/pirated CD/model kit crap) selling those tiny Gunze paints (small, rectangular, long container) for around RM6 or so.

For painting parts with paints of the same color, it's entirely on your personal taste. Some just leave it as so, some elitist paint everything over to reduce the plasticky look of it.

Stroke marks? What kind of marker you're using? Felt tip? Coloring the surface over a few times more after the initial coat's dried can reduce the stroke marks (at least that's what I did when painting my 1/100 HG Heavyarms Custom-EW)

NO. Toycity (at least the one in Melaka) is made of lose and fail. Don't ever go there unless you're a rich ******* with loads of cash to burn. There's no model kit shop here that sells model supplies cheaply (or at all). So far I've only seen them selling Tamiya's acrylic paints, going at RM14~18 a pop, and a Tamiya acrylic thinner (say, around 1litre worth of it?)for RM35... O_O

By right, 1/100 HG kits have a retail price of 2000yen, which translates to RM66. Which shop did your friend bought it from? There's two (not counting the third one selling Bendi crap) shops selling model kits at jalan Gajah Berang.

So it's felt tip then?

You're supposed to leave the paints dry (aka 'curing process') for a looooonnnngggg time before applying the second coat. Some even leave the painted parts over a day before applying the second coat.

Hurr I don't apply paints with Gundammu marker. I just black panel line'd them. Or outline the edges with the black panel line pen, before painting it with black acrylic for surfaces that are supposed to be black.

Teen@Com is the name of the shop having a booth promo thing in MMU's animu wap event thingy.

Ah yes, the pen. I think either there's some problems with the batch, with the retarder being ineffective in the markers (I got it from Teen@Com too, the emerald green marker) or they're meant to be made of lose and suck. I'm frustrated of all the stupid careful reverse pumping required before using it everytime. I eventually opened the pen and just drew ink to my 000 brush and paint the visors of my Wild Falken.

Maybe you should also do the same thing as I did? I applied 3 layers of the ink on the Wurger's eyes. Have no problems with new coat cancelling previous coat (PROTIP: paint it quickly, I find the ink dries up rather quickly... perhaps a case of old, old markers with retarder not working efficiently anymoar?)

I use Tamiya's acrylic paints. Basic colors (yellow, white, black, red, blue) Got them from Jusco's.

Yeah, I frequent that shop. Most of the overpriced plastic crap I have are bought from them. But whatever, given how screwed up Malaysia is with imported crap (I heard there's a compulsory 15% tax on everything imported, particulary hobbyist items), it's fine as long as you like them, I suppose... *has spent RM240+ for both 1/144 Wild Falken and Wild Wurger by Kotobukiya*

I think you're supposed to turn the white felt tip facing backwards, then push it gently on a piece of paper to draw ink, before turning it back again to draw... Then again the ink drying too fast may have been the problem of the ink content itself, so bleh. Nylon brushes are nice, I use them. I like how they would revert back to their original pointed tip whenever I use them.

I didn't mix with any thinner. And no, my brush didn't get sticky or hard when it dried up. I just washed the tip with running water after use.

I use the bottled acrylics. Canned ones are too expensive and from what I've heard, have little paint in it.
GM01 FTW!

It's entirely a matter of taste. If you want your model kit to look like the illustration/in the animu, you use GM01 only (since they use black color as their outline and panel lines and whatnot). If you want to have a somewhat realistic look to it, use some GM02 in some parts.

Thankyou for telling us that, supreme master of the obviousness.

You're now doomed to complete the kit ASAP, and make even moar funny scenes out of it (slicing nodoka into half with the excalibur?)

I never liked those Transformer crap. They looked silly when they're in robot mode. Not to mention they have crap articulation for most of the time (legs can't spread, so they look retarded while standing).

Okay, so the markers we bought are busted >_>...

The special kind of weasel's fur used for a brush is much better than a Nylon (has the elastic properties of a nylon, only better), though it's very expensive.

I do mix the acrylics with thinners. It dries slower and allow you to give an even paintjob on a large surface. I don't know about the enamel though, never used them.

BLASPHEMY!

Lowe is far to superior and awesome to get slashed into two by an emo kid. You should've at least made RedFrame do a shining finger on Impulse's head.

Blue Frame second L = love child of Lowe.

Open the fingers of Red Frame's hand and make it touch Impulse's head or something. Lowe accidentally discovered that attack during one of his encounters with Gold Frame during the OMG-RED-FRAME-GOT-HIJACKED-BY-ONE-OF-THE-ASTRAY-GIRLS arc.

NO.

You'd see us posting scans and pictars of the new upcoming model kits all over the place if they were to be made.

You think RM165 for a MG kit is cheap? Heh, rich bastards >_>

There's some sidestory (MSV- Mobile Suit Variation) for SEED, mainly dealing with the three prototypes of the M1 Astray- Red/Blue/Gold Frame. The story is only available on the Astray/Astray R/Astray X/Destiny Astray, and on a novel Astray B.

The former deals with the story of Lowe and his Junk Guild, the latter deals with Gai's storyline which some parts were left out from the manga ever since he took off with Blue Frame that Lowe found.

Astray has 4 volumes, Astray R has the same story as Astray, only that it fills in the gap of some plots missing from the original manga. Both are done by different artists with very different drawing style. Astray X continues Astray/Astray R's storyline (you see Kira's defected clone here, piloting Hyperion, and Legend's prototype here). Destiny Astray takes part after Astray X, filling in some gaps that the failed SEED Destiny animu missed out (ie: original test pilots of the 3G, multi purpose of Impulse's sihoulette system).

Some interesting stuffs to note:
-Lowe used a OMG HAX pair of HUEG arms in the last volume of Astray R, which allows him to wield the OMG 100M LOOOOOOOOONNNNNGGGGG physical sword- Gerbera Straight
-Lowe > every pilot in CE universe. His creativeness in combat amuses me, verily (SHININGGGG FINGAAAA FTW!)
-Destiny Astray is about to get finished in Japan, and I heard that someone finally met with Destiny Impulse, yes, f***ing DESTINY IMPULSE
-Lowe suggested the black skin guy in AA to replace Freedom's head with GINN's head that he have in spare, in later volumes of Astray. There's even a drawing of it. I lol'd at that.

WINS FOR BUYING IWSP!

Fails for not coloring it.

I don't think 1/144 military men figurines are rare over there in Japan. People there are so obsessed with tiny collectibles (there are ALOT of 1/144 WWII planes/tanks/ships being produced, it's not even funny), I bet 1/144 military men are all over the place, only harder to find compared to the same scaled tanks/planes.

And yes, the guy who did the Sentinel in maintainance diorama deserves to get shot dead, not get a prize for his shitty work. I doubt the guy ever watched/read up about Gundam series to care about the fact that Gundam units are usually 18m in height.

The second guy modded his S-F (head and torso are obviously from MG Freedom, long, sharpened hip guns) to make it look superior

Paintjob's superior because he used airbrush. No stroke lines = obvious sign of usage of airbrush

Crazy batshit hax Japanese people have insane amount of modelling modification skills. You do not question their superiority in customizing/modding/scratch building a part of a model kit they have.

The head's clearly from MG Freedom, he just changed the V-fins (make the peg/hole smaller/larger to fit in the new V-fins)

This is rip off marketting scheme.