T-12's Gunpla Thread - 56k Beware!!!!

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I have never seen so many Gundam model kits in one place before. :drool:

That AOZ Barzam garage kit (correction: looks more like a kitbash) looks really good to me right now.

Like I said, we don't get any of this awesome stuff here, and if we do it's going to be largely overpriced.

It's gone now. They disassembled it a couple of months ago. Luckily, I was able to get down there and check it out before the end of the promo. I also picked up a limited edition 1/144 HGUC Odaiba Gundam kit that I now know I will not have time to assemble due to family priorities.

Anyone interested in a special limited edition 1/144 HGUC Odaiba Gundam?
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I'd be interested. How long are you planning to hold it? The 00-Raiser kind of broke me for the month. :lol:
 
You guys have me interested in this Gunpla stuff. Is Perfect Grade stuff like the most sophisticated models they make?
 
Omnis
You guys have me interested in this Gunpla stuff. Is Perfect Grade stuff like the most sophisticated models they make?
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That's "regularly" released? Yes.

There is the HY2M line (Glorious Series) which is also 1/60 but is only for Zeonic mobile suits, whether or not the line will be continued in some fashion down the line is up in the air. The main difference and the difference is difficulty between PG and HY2M-GS is the former focuses on the suit as a whole (the perfect model from head to toe) whereas the latter focuses on testing your skills as an electrician. :lol:
 
I want that Nu-Gundam kit!!! They only had the Hi-Nu Master Grade at my local hobby shop. It just does not have the same appeal to me. I've never seen that many kit's in one place either.
 
LSX
I want that Nu-Gundam kit!!! They only had the Hi-Nu Master Grade at my local hobby shop. It just does not have the same appeal to me. I've never seen that many kit's in one place either.
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Like I said before, be weary of the hands as they won't be able to hold the beam rifle for jack 🤬.
 
LSX
PG don't have that kind of problem do they?
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No, but they have problems of their own.

The designs have drastically improved since 1998, where you could (or at least risk the chance) snap the palms, dislodge the fingers, or pretty much render the entire model loose (as in it won't hold any particular position without collapsing under the weight it can no longer support, or it'll simply drift back down to a rested position) with little to no effort whatsoever.

Now, most of the newer models are not only secured by screws, but also nuts and occasionally springs as well.

Don't let what I said discourage you though, you'll likely end up fighting with and probably swearing up the dead over the hands but the model itself is really worth it. It's a borderline collectible now.
 
Just for fun...



Couldn't find a good enough copy with an English dub, the action speaks for itself anyway. :p



 
Dude, when did the Gundam animation get so good? I guess it's been a long time since Gundam Wing.
 
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Omnis
What the heck is Gundam Seed?
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It's really not even important. To me, it was a sad attempt at modernizing any and every UC instance.

Seed Destiny was worse. It's actually written out as SEED because everything, and I do mean everything in that universe was an acronym.
 
Yeah, watch Zeta Gundam, then watch Gundam Seed and Destiny, it's like a re-run :lol: there are so many parallels.




Also, the Zaft mobile suits are pretty much remakes of Zeon suits from the U.C. era. I dunno, I got nothing but Zeta Gundam from these two series, you may feel differently. The animation is still nice, Seed being better than Seed Destiny. The uber powerful suits do detract from the coolness, but whatever, 00 Gundam had that problem too, but it was much more tolerable.

Still, for me, this is where it's at...



0080 has some of the worst animation and it's not a very good dub but it is good. 08th Mobile Suit Team is great, I love it's animation and story. AND! No uber powerful mobile suits, well there is an uber powerful Mobile Armor, but that's about it. And then there is 0083, but yeah, no need to carry on anymore. :lol:
 
Terronium-12
I'd be interested. How long are you planning to hold it? The 00-Raiser kind of broke me for the month. :lol:
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haha. i understand that. I am too lazy to put it onto ebay so I will have it for awhile. i also have the AKO hobby conversion kit to turn a MG Mk II Titans into a Barzam. Maybe we could work out some kind of deal for ya. I don't need lots of money, I only need to get rid of things I know I won't be able to build. (almost done my MG Lucas Strike w/ IWSP, though).
 
Terronium-12
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I have never seen so many Gundam model kits in one place before. :drool:
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It was difficult to take pics of the Gundam models a there are so many and the shops are so packed. When I tried to take pictures of individual models the shopkeepers stopped me. Basically, what you see there is an average model shop in Hong Kong ie absolutely packed to the ceiling with kits. There are around 10-15 of those shops alone in one street. This afternoon I will take some photos in Toys R Us for you. Are there any models in particular you are looking for?
 
Speedy Samurai
haha. i understand that. I am too lazy to put it onto ebay so I will have it for awhile. i also have the AKO hobby conversion kit to turn a MG Mk II Titans into a Barzam. Maybe we could work out some kind of deal for ya. I don't need lots of money, I only need to get rid of things I know I won't be able to build. (almost done my MG Lucas Strike w/ IWSP, though).
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We can definitely do that, HLJ person. :p

Rue
It was difficult to take pics of the Gundam models a there are so many and the shops are so packed. When I tried to take pictures of individual models the shopkeepers stopped me. Basically, what you see there is an average model shop in Hong Kong ie absolutely packed to the ceiling with kits. There are around 10-15 of those shops alone in one street. This afternoon I will take some photos in Toys R Us for you. Are there any models in particular you are looking for?
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Let's see...

If you could find the pearl-coated wing zero custom (PG) and take pictures of the entire box that would be great.

And the 1/60 V2 (which I have to scour the Earth to get again). That's about it. Don't wanna abuse my overseas connections so early. :lol:

Thanks for all of this. :D
 
Terronium-12
We can definitely do that, HLJ person. :p



Let's see...

If you could find the pearl-coated wing zero custom (PG) and take pictures of the entire box that would be great.

And the 1/60 V2 (which I have to scour the Earth to get again). That's about it. Don't wanna abuse my overseas connections so early. :lol:

Thanks for all of this. :D
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PG is Perfect Grade, right? This one?

And the 1/60 V2 is this one? What grade is that?

You'll need to school me in the Gundam grades and scales. I used to know and have many kits myself, but I can't remember stuff like that.
 
Rue
PG is Perfect Grade, right? This one?

And the 1/60 V2 is this one? What grade is that?

You'll need to school me in the Gundam grades and scales. I used to know and have many kits myself, but I can't remember stuff like that.
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The V2 (Yeah, that's the correct one) is old school 1/60 scale HG-EX

The other link comes up as Forbidden.
 
That's the original release.

One I'm referring to was re-released in said scheme sometime last year...

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That's the one.
 
Always appreciated.

Little bit of an update until I can score the camera this weekend I've both feet and one (one) leg done.
 
Man I wish I still had some of my old Gundam models (all wing series). When I was at Megacon this last year they had a lot of models from all the different series. iI was wanting to pick up the PG Zero Custom (though i dont think it was the pearl version like shown above) but i didn't have $100+ to spend at the time. Oh well maybe next time ill pick it up.

But I must say LSX did an awesome job on that model.

And im glad i wasn't the only one that thought Seed was just a rehash of Zeta. But one thing that really bugs me alot about some of the series is the mass number of new models that seem to appear at the end of the shows. Probably why the Wing series and the 08th MS team where always my favorite, they were just more believable .
 
NapoleonMikey
Man I wish I still had some of my old Gundam models (all wing series). When I was at Megacon this last year they had a lot of models from all the different series. iI was wanting to pick up the PG Zero Custom (though i dont think it was the pearl version like shown above) but i didn't have $100+ to spend at the time. Oh well maybe next time ill pick it up.

But I must say LSX did an awesome job on that model.

And im glad i wasn't the only one that thought Seed was just a rehash of Zeta. But one thing that really bugs me alot about some of the series is the mass number of new models that seem to appear at the end of the shows. Probably why the Wing series and the 08th MS team where always my favorite, they were just more believable .
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What exactly do you mean by believable?

Sorry to ask, but the word "believable" just doesn't fit in when it and Gundam Wing are in the same sentence.
 
Terronium-12
What exactly do you mean by believable?

Sorry to ask, but the word "believable" just doesn't fit in when it and Gundam Wing are in the same sentence.
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As in there were no "new types" in either series. The technology in both series were obtainable with lets say 2 century's of research. and the story's are likely to happen given the situation.

In other series you have new types with there telepathy and super human skills. The mass amount of new models that seem to appear in the last half of the other series which makes me ask the question of when they are having the time to do the R&D on said models.

Put 200 years of research into this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2Ok...D6BD2E07&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=24

And I'm sure you could end up with something that will have a better stability system and isn't so slow, better armament then a tennis ball launcher. will we ever get something to resemble Gundams? Maybe, maybe not. But can we obtain something like it with enough time and money. Yea.
 
NapoleonMikey
As in there were no "new types" in either series. The technology in both series were obtainable with lets say 2 century's of research. and the story's are likely to happen given the situation.

In other series you have new types with there telepathy and super human skills. The mass amount of new models that seem to appear in the last half of the other series which makes me ask the question of when they are having the time to do the R&D on said models.
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Have you watched Gundam Wing before? :p

Wing Zero was armed with a rifle that could destroy an asteroid base in not 2 shots, but one. The Zero system is a bastardized Exam/Pyscommu-esque system which seems to have given both Heero and Zechs unbelievable accuracy despite it being dangerous enough to either induce mental instability or just flat out kill the person. Heero fell from about 50-feet from Wing Gundam (or Zero, I can't remember which) and survived unscathed. :lol:

As for the increase in unit battles in the latter half of the series', that's usually due to other people getting more involved for whatever reason, more reinforcements and the technology as a whole usually develops rapidly.

I'd watch Wing or Endless Waltz any day of the week as it was one of the first series' related to Gundam that I saw, but knowing everything else you realize they pushed the envelope a bit too far. Even for a Gundam series.
 
My lone mech, a VF-27 Lucifer from Macross Frontier:



Might order up a VF-25 Messiah next week...
 
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I don't like what I'm about to do, but because I still won't be able to get some pictures here until the weekend, I'll borrow some progress photos from a model site I frequent regularly.

Just a couple of basic photos....

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Front of the box. The biggest PG box to be released since the PG GP01/GP01-Fb. As you can tell also like the aforementioned PG model, this is the second two-in-one kit. You're getting both the 00 Gundam and the O-Raiser and should you choose to combine the two you get the 00-Raiser.

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Back of the box. In the lower right hand corner you see the advert for the GN Condensers and the Twin GN Drives. The former is neat and new gimmick as the condensers (which I'll show in pictures during the weekend) act as a clutch. Should you depress the condenser you can bend the arms and legs, should you leave it stationary neither will bend and can withstand something to the effect of 100kg. Making it one of the most weight stable models around.

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Right side of the box. You see GN Particles fluttering about (no, they don't actually flutter...they're particles fool. :p)

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O-Raiser. The 00 Gundam would be unstable without it.

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Top.

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Inside you see the two boxes; one for the 00 and the other for the 0-Raiser. If you can't see it, next to the 0-Raiser's box is the Twin GN-Drives which are boxed separately (and I wish they weren't already assembled.)

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Inside the 00 Gundam's box. Wee!

A lot of runners, plenty of stickers, some screws and nuts, sole decals (a continuing trend since the Red Frame Astray), springs, batteries, and two sheets of hologram pieces.

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Inside the 0-Raiser's box. In the simplest description everything in this box is huge.

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Here we have the 2-way display stand that's included only in the Initial Production Version (which is still well stocked and hasn't been discontinued like the Astray, which was basically discontinued right after I brought mine. :sick:)

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Twin GN-Drives which are motorized and make a subtle racket when turned on. They're turned on and off by pressing down on the nozzle of the drive.

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Another photo of the Twin Drives. The core essence of the 00-Raiser's awesome might.

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Instruction and Construction manuals. The first to be length-wise, as opposed to the others which are as your typical book and/or magazine - height-wise.



Finally, a video of a GN Drive being turned on and then off. It really isn't as loud as it sounds in the video, but it's not exactly unnoticeable either.
 
Thanks Napoleon. I agree that 08th MS Team is very believable.
Just having a Mobile Suit of the same scale and weight, would be very hard to achieve. Putting many many tones into a contact area as small as two feet, would be very hard on most kind of ground surfaces. But 08th MS Team did show the Suits being somewhat clumsy. But imagine them trying to walk through streets, or loose sand, I doubt it would turn out well without a very good internal stabilization system. Then powering them. Maybe if we really did have ultracompact fusion reactors it could work, but I'm not even sure we've got fusion down to being very usable in a large reactor, not that it seems far off from what I see on Science channel and stuff. Moving with thrusters like they do, I think would be the hardest thing of any Gundam to real life type project. Being they are massive and weigh so much. The amount of stress that would be put into the suit would be immense, imagine what joints on just an arm would have to go through to swing a beam sabre, or a leg joints from landing. Perhaps in zero gravity it could work, but that would take a lot of propellant to operate for any significant amount of time, then of course all the fine movements in the shows that the suits make. If anything, they would be no where near as agile as they seem in the animation, but that's not to say they never could be, like you said with time and money, lot's of things can happen. We've come very far since just 1900-2000, in two more centuries, who's to say what we will be able to do. Just my opinion on things, I know I'm not good at explaining things, if it does not make sense, I tried. :lol:

I think it would be awesome though. 👍!

Edit: Dude, Terronium, I hate you, those GN Drives are beyond cool!
 
You have to remember mobile suits not only revolve around and rely on the reactors (in the case of UC) but they also rely, perhaps even more so on the Minovsky particle. Take a look at the V2, the only canon mobile suit capable of near light-speed travel (20G) because of the Minovsky Drive, and the awesome "Wings of Light" which uses the particles to render the V2 even more of a walking weapon than it already is (another thing which was modernized in SEED Destiny. It was called Destiny Mode, or something) Every mechanical aspect down the temperature of the cockpit is constantly monitored by computers (something we never see because it isn't really critical to the story, unless otherwise shown), and most of the suits were built in space so the effects are compensated for, whether it be aerial, space combat, high-speed combat, or just plain ground combat.

UC is one of the most scientifically significant (and possible) Gundam series' that doesn't stretch it too far, and to me 00 isn't too far behind it.

 
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