u wont get mg x or dx by virtue of the series itself, its not popular enuf. If it's incarnation in bf is well receive then u'll hav a chance, else forget it. Plenty of other designs that r prime for mg-fied or 2.0-fied.

mayb not by a huge margin, Indonesia and Philippine r also big. We do however hav tons great modellers, champion for 2011 gbwc is a malaysian.

oh ya forgot bout bakuc. Good call

Just finish this for a friend.




Things that i hate:

1. the bloody bazooka. While it is not needed to hold it in place, it just look awkward posing without griping the handle and equally as awkward adjusting the damn hand to make it even remotely close to a griping position.
2. the bloody shield. Virtually unwieldable. Ur better off tossing away the damn thing and just pose with a saber instead.
3. the shoulder binder. Too damn heavy and would eventually collapse back down.

urgh, i nid to build something new to quench the horror of old kits.

Oh dun worry, i'll charge him for it. If not for the cost of paints n stuff, i can at least bill him on mental anguish and physical torture it gave me. And yes proto zero will hopefully be my antibiotics.

old kits dun hav pegging system, so the size and weight only exacerbate its fundamental flaws. The hguc 1s is better in both proportion and engineering. But honestly its an old mg, such flaws its to be expected.

tey will just not so soon, no way in hell r tey gonna pass up on such popular design with 2 variations to milk, especially 1 that r featured prominently in their most successful series ever and being piloted by a very popular character that fanbois and fangals will fap to in their dreams.

the fact remains, its too bloody top heavy and unbalance with 4 BFW hanging on the shoulders, friction alone can only take u so far, need new design/tech to make it posable and steady enuf.

This post has been edited by TheAdmiral: Oct 7 2013, 12:07 PM

screw is not really that helpful over a period of time it'll still sag; gravity still wins out in the end. Even display base hav screw and groves to "lock" it in a set position but with a heavy kit, that connection doesn't help at all. U can tighten all u wan but the friction between plastic just isn't enuf to hold it in place. Also there comes a point where the stress u put on the plastic as u tighten could deform the plastic itself rendering it useless. U can try experimenting this, get a heavy kit say sinanju for example and put in on a display base but tilt it at an angle, 9/10 the whole thing would come crashing down.

now we dun kno how much each binder's gonna weight, probably around hg-small mg. But u hav to take note that the each shoulder will have to support 2 binders that weight like a hg each. Shoulder joint cant take so much weight on its own, at least i haven seen 1 capable of such. Also take into consideration u need to pose with it, this further compound the problem.

with current tech, u'll hav to sacrifice either posability or stability. OR just use die cast parts in which case u'll hav to sacrifice ur bank account.

This post has been edited by TheAdmiral: Oct 7 2013, 02:23 PM

ur referring to elyn? Now i cant confirm this as i dun own 1, but from what ive seen so far non has posed in an action pose. Its just it standing straight with the binder's either spread open or close. Now i kno the binder is not lock in a set of position u can move it around but all the pics that ive seen so far hav its arm just straight down. Can the whole arm move around like normal mg with the binders attached? Can it hold its position say stretch out the arm perpendicular to its body (for the lack of a better example, can it do something similar to a nazi salute)? I'll like to be proven wrong on this but at the same time i wouldn't be surprise if it cant; just means it sacrifice possability with stability. While i dun particularly care wit it sacrificing possability as i think it still looks beautiful just standing there liek a boss, but Bandai themselves do as of late, and this could be whats holding them back.

we hav to see how the new sazabi is done. Its the 1st big kits post 2.0 (the-0 doesn't count, its made with old design from as far back as 2004) if this is done well, it'll open the flood gates for future big kits; and this includes the "totally-not-zeong" sinanju we got a glimpse of in epi6. Surely bandai is thinking how to milk unicorn further. If tey introduce someting so huge so hype but at the same time cant replicate in model form then tey just shoot themselves in the foot.

This post has been edited by TheAdmiral: Oct 7 2013, 04:12 PM

ah from the pic it seams the shoulder itself doesn't move but the joint under the shoulder armor does. so with this it can stretch out while the whole weight is supported by the armor itself connected to the body in effect making the body itself bearing the binders weight, sparing the joint. Interesting this does work to a certain extent.

hmm at 3800 yen, its safe to say there wont be any chrome parts for the satellite cannon then.

Just back from the expo, sazabi looks better in real life then in pic although abit disappointed tey din't bring any of its riffle.

my loot:


although didn't intend to get anything from the expo, but my hand got itchy......

This post has been edited by TheAdmiral: Oct 12 2013, 09:34 PM

real world explanation: in the late 90s small and sleek is the trend.
in universe explanation: as a weapon of war the smaller it is the better, smaller target, smaller heat signature, lighter, more agile, easier to concealed.

sf on the other hand is the exaggeration of everything. It is blink bcuz ppl like shinny stuff especially kids. Its disproportionately large wing span compared to its body is cuz overly complex retarded backpack is seeds signature. As a weapon of war, sf is pretty much useless.

hence ur question should be the other way around. The bigger elephant in the room is sf.

This post has been edited by TheAdmiral: Oct 14 2013, 08:37 AM

yes its science fiction. And yes its retarded in all the red white blue yellow color scheme, yes its retarded in building giant robots that shoots pew pew lazer; virtually everything in gundam robot wise is retarded.

now thats out of the way, lets talk bout gundam as a whole. the basis for gundam is to portray warfare, the robot is just the selling point; that is what the original gundam that tomino wanted and that is what gundam as a franchise is spiritually. However, when u compare between 2 obviously retarded object then u'll have to compare it in which is the bigger offender. Hence ur original question of why wing is small should be phrase as why sf in particular its wing is overly disproportionately large. At the very least, for wing i can came up with some sort of a realistic excuse/explanation that conforms to the franchise spiritually, can u think of 1 for sf, real world explanation aside of course since its easily explained as kids like blink blink and cool wings.

now i dun quite get ur point of "uc ms is indeed shorter". uc hav all kinds of sizes. Pre zeta r 18m ish, zeta-unicorn r bout 20-25m ish (some r even bigger), victory is 16m ish. UC covers up pretty much everything in terms of height and size. Also it gives actual technical explanation as to why its so big/so small.

This post has been edited by TheAdmiral: Oct 14 2013, 09:48 AM

and why is that a problem?

i can put my f22 raptor besides my mig29 no problem. Different weapon different spec how it looks whats its size is not an issue. In fact its the opposite really. The differing in size actually makes it even better, further highlight its uniqueness.

This post has been edited by TheAdmiral: Oct 14 2013, 10:38 AM

wow thats makes so much sense, so gundam is just a giant bong and when every1 is expose to gn particles cough-weed-cough every1 gets high and start to understand weed is the best medium of communication. So setsuna is just a weed dealer.

u sir deserve an award.

space weed cartel.

tey can display whatever tey want wherever they want. It doesn't really matter, if u wan to look at it as its own thing within its own universe then ur brain will automatically filtered out the rest anyway. If u wan to look at it as a whole u can let ur imagination runs wild and think of it as another iteration of David vs Goliath story.

at any rate as a knowledgeable fans, it doesn't really matter which approach ur going with as u can always discern what is what and belongs in where. Honestly the only real life ppl that i know of that hav a problem with the size are ppl hu never watch any gundam show or doesn't understand the concept of scale model. U seems to be a knowledgeable fan so the prob of size coming from a fan like u is abit of a surprise.

ah ic gotcha.

anyway has any1 seen sazabi beam tomahawk? No pic or info of it anywhere, seems weird that its signature weapon did not get any attention.......

this guy

u forgot the inevitable sf base custom design in bf. So all of the above x2.