Returning newbie trying to improve on gunpla modelling here.

Would like to ask which local shop has the most selection and stocks of official or even 3rd party Water Decals for both 1/100 and 1/144 scales.

Is Gamers Arena a good place to visit for those decals?

Will browse those shop this coming Sunday, thanks!

ar went there before but quite far for me, might go over if I can find any in TS

currently trying to reach this cool 3rd party named samueldecals

Still waiting for their reply
Will keep u update

another urgent question, is Tamiya TS84 Metallic Gold Spray and MR Clear Top Coat easy to find around major local gunpla shop?

My inbox is empty wonder if they do entertain any order for now since the FB also not updated much anymore

any idea how much they charge for shipping usually since its only a sheet of paper

May i know if spray paint can produce the same effect as air brush if i'm only planning to color the surface and not doing any shading or clouding effects? And does topcoat do seal off scratches that is left from polishing the nub marks?

My 1st straight build, finish with semi gloss coat, the only mild paint job is the V-fin
Regret buying Ova instead of Ver.Ka, trying to look for the decal but no result

If anyone knew where to get the original Bandai Decal for ver.Ka please enlighten me




This post has been edited by TheEvilMan: Apr 21 2015, 12:17 PM

why is ver.Ka unicorn not a good buy? Because of the lack of articulation on the leg?

I was convinced and bought the OVA but ver.Ka decals just looks so much cooler

so the original ver.KA use dry decals and stickers?
i'm still seeking for the gundam decal #44 ver.ka waterslide decals

the figure looks great but really have poor articulation everywhere
might want to get MG Nu Gundam Ver.Ka, my all time favorite Gundam

i gotten some 3rd party decals, probably not by samuel, the quality is bad since some alignment is off and the sizes are uneven among the same decal design

is water decals really superior against the stickers type? i notice that the stickers is thicker and usually come in square instead of following the shapes, will coating hide it or it will appear to be rather obvious that they're stickers?

This post has been edited by TheEvilMan: Apr 21 2015, 09:58 PM

yes precut, gotten it from a site call gundam.my
one of the most noticeable alignment issue is the chest decal where u have letters and a red lining, the red line actually cover up the text and the length of left to right are uneven

other than that it looks not too bad, but when i apply them they don't stick on, kind of regret that i didn't get the mark setter to do the job
can't be bothered to get another set

This post has been edited by TheEvilMan: Apr 21 2015, 10:07 PM

any places or website that offer a good quality decals for ver.ka effects?
i believe there's quite a handful of different product, of cos samueldecals will be rather good, gotten their banshee HG gold decals, yet to put it on, gonna get a bottle of mark setter to make sure everything stick on nicely.

Gotten my gold decal for HGUC Banshee, precut, but yet to apply it, need to do my MG Unicorn 1st, waiting to get the decals hopefully this Sat or next Monday

newbie question: For mark setter as i know i apply on the surface before i put on the water decals to make it stick better. How about mark softer? Do i apply it right after i dry the decal with cloth/cotton bud, or should i wait for it to dry completely?

This post has been edited by TheEvilMan: Apr 23 2015, 11:53 AM

I went thwre two weeks ago trying to look for some nice gunpla to build but its left only a few and most shelves are empty, are they closing down?

I actually wanted the Nu ver ka but then just bought the unicorn mg and lots of tools (newbie mode) and a few figures coming in end of this month

btw why is unicorn articulation seems like old released MG, I had the shcm unicorn which has way better articulation than MG, i know it's a figure but that's almost like the 1st batch of unicorn goods in the market. Why dont they slap a double joint for the knee, because they plan to sell that on PG?

This post has been edited by TheEvilMan: Apr 24 2015, 10:31 AM

but HGUC knees can only bend abt 95-100 degrees too, if u look at Nu, Destiny etc they can bend a almost 160 no problem at all

SHCM articulation beats even Robot Damashii and pretty well done for a 1/144 figure since it can transform. That's what caught my attention to own one even when it's pretty rare already.



anyway decided to get the water decal from 3rd party and start doing it once it arrive, the previous 3rd party has poor quality and no numbering, this current one seems to be a direct copies of FA Unicorn

This post has been edited by TheEvilMan: Apr 24 2015, 11:11 AM

planning to get this somewhere this year, still wondering about getting the LED or not