TonkkaSome one in the club tonightHas stolen my ideas.Registered Userregular
Next step is I twist the battery wires to the LEDs, and then route those to the head and sword handle. After that I prime the Gundam, and trim and sculpt the cloak. . .
I missed picking up the Aerial Rebuild that Lanz linked to me in the anime thread, but Mecha Warehouse has Darilbalde, Guel's Dilanza, and clear bases in stock so I did the thing. They have a Mother's Day promo too which is kinda funny considering the series I keep picking up models from.
cj iwakuraThe Rhythm RegentBears The Name FreedomRegistered Userregular
I think I enjoy building the HGs way more than the MGs, all those extra joints and things are more repetitive than anything, and the HGs still look really good(and are smoother builds) -
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
edited May 2023
I've still not been in a mood to build, as I'm still cleaning up lego and desk space and I've been doing a LOT of vidja gaming. I'm also still behind in G-witch again. All of this leads to me avoiding the thread for the last 100 posts or so.
That said? Today, the backlog grows. yet again. And after many, MANY years, I finally have something to use my Destiny wing effects on.
I’m trying to remember; Bandai seems to have two panel line pens that I know of
But it’s me of those things wound up basically eating through Athenor’s kits like nail polish remover does
Which one of them was that one and which is the one I’ve seen actually applied successfully to bare kit plastic
The fine tips like in the post above are safe on plastic. Pour type and paint types are oil based paint and are bad on ABS and probably most paints. Real touch are mainly for weather effects but they are water based paint so should be plastic safe.
Edit: There is a brush type which is basically a bigger fine tip but you usually only see them in paint packs like this. And Sakura Micron pens will function like fine tips as well.
The safe ones are product code GM01, GM02, and GM03. That's black, grey, and brown. They are actually pen-sized as well.
That's what R-dem has in the photos above. And the polymer erasers, which work perfectly to remove excess liner ink.
The ones you don't want are "pour-type". They are larger, sized more like a marker, and the caps are all black. The label has different coloring to match the ink color.
the pour-type pens are REALLY nice on the normal polystyrene pieces though, they make very smooth lines by capillary action through the grooves with only a couple smudges to clean where you put the pen tip down.
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
Yup. Use pour types for solid armor pieces and fine points for any internal frame or ABS / soft plastic.
Or just use fine point for everything. It's perfectly fine, just takes longer.
LasbrookIt takes a lot to make a stewWhen it comes to me and youRegistered Userregular
People have gone over it but any of the fine tip, real touch and brush type are safe on bare plastic. It's when you get into the gundam marker EX and other paint markers you'll have problems, they'll usually be the thickest ones.
Basically if it rattles when you shake it you can't use it on bare ABS. It's not the paint that destroys it, it's the solvent.
I've yet to see or purchase a full mechanics kit. Would you be willing to show off the contents?
I'll do my best, I'm bad at cataloguing my build experience!
Here's the overview;
Box is the size of a small MG (like the Gundam Wing EW kits)
Frame is just 2.5 runners. Mostly very simple looking parts, but! Anything that is visible on the finished kit actually has a lot of detail on it.
A gorgeous small plated runner and some nice dark clear parts for the "shell units" as they're called, the energy lines that run under the glass panels over the Gundam.
If I've got one negative with it so far, it's that the eyes, while a separate part, are solid green rather than clear. Weird choice, IMO. Also, no part or sticker for the rear of the head. I guess Aerial doesn't have a rear head camera!? edit; I have discovered that one single green piece extends out the back of the head too - it's both cameras!
Oh, also the one recycled runner, as is tradition - a pair of beam sabers from 2007! (And a very nice new effect for use with the gun. I believe this is meant to be a firing effect, as I don't think Aerial has a big crazy beam sword like this?)
So yeah, that's about it! A Full Mechanics is just somewhere slightly above HG in terms of construction, with the idea being that once it's complete it shouldn't look too put of place next to an MG. A fun way I've seen it phrased is that they're the opposite of MGEX - a sort of MG Lite.
Forgot to get a pic, but it comes with regular stickers too, a whole sheet, about an MG's worth. Not gonna use em, cause stickers bleh. But I've found a nice set of waterslides on eBay that are UV reactive for some reason!
I've yet to see or purchase a full mechanics kit. Would you be willing to show off the contents?
I'll do my best, I'm bad at cataloguing my build experience!
Here's the overview;
Box is the size of a small MG (like the Gundam Wing EW kits)
Frame is just 2.5 runners. Mostly very simple looking parts, but! Anything that is visible on the finished kit actually has a lot of detail on it.
A gorgeous small plated runner and some nice dark clear parts for the "shell units" as they're called, the energy lines that run under the glass panels over the Gundam.
If I've got one negative with it so far, it's that the eyes, while a separate part, are solid green rather than clear. Weird choice, IMO. Also, no part or sticker for the rear of the head. I guess Aerial doesn't have a rear head camera!? edit; I have discovered that one single green piece extends out the back of the head too - it's both cameras!
Oh, also the one recycled runner, as is tradition - a pair of beam sabers from 2007! (And a very nice new effect for use with the gun. I believe this is meant to be a firing effect, as I don't think Aerial has a big crazy beam sword like this?)
So yeah, that's about it! A Full Mechanics is just somewhere slightly above HG in terms of construction, with the idea being that once it's complete it shouldn't look too put of place next to an MG. A fun way I've seen it phrased is that they're the opposite of MGEX - a sort of MG Lite.
Forgot to get a pic, but it comes with regular stickers too, a whole sheet, about an MG's worth. Not gonna use em, cause stickers bleh. But I've found a nice set of waterslides on eBay that are UV reactive for some reason!
They don’t use it much in the show but yeah, the rifle is capable of generating a beam blade instead of just firing it
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Dark Raven XLaugh hard, run fast,be kindRegistered Userregular
She's built! Still got the weapons to do, but I'm stopping here for the night.
The way the light reflects off the metallic bits, it's so pretty!
Construction wise, the vast majority of the nubs end up hidden. There's just a few annoying ones left visible that you've really gotta clean up - on the underside of the blue triangles on the chest, and on the round curved surfaces of the shoulders and side skirts. Those aside, it ends up looking clean with minimal work!
In terms of looking at the runners for clues to future variant kits; all the parts for the weaponry are sprinkled in amongst the armor parts, with no injection gates in between them. I think this is probably a one-off as far as Witch from Mercury FM/100 goes? Maybe the frame could be recycled for a Lfrith kit, but not much else...
Huh. For some reason I thought the FM line was pre-built frames.
That's the Metal Build line IRC
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Dark Raven XLaugh hard, run fast,be kindRegistered Userregular
Like CJ said, HiRM also features pre built inner frames with metal parts, where you still assemble the exterior armor.
The name Full Mechanics comes from it's origin as an Iron-Blooded Orphans line for No Grade 1/100 kits, and refers to "the mechanical detailing on these kits bring authentic details that cannot be fully realized in the anime" and while it was much lower detail than an MG, they all had full inner frames, so Full Mechanics!
Only 4 IBO kits released under the FM/100 name, and then it went dormant for a few years.
At the same time, Bandai had been releasing other non-MG 1/100 kits under the Reborn One-Hundred title, which from the wiki was meant to "work a compromise wherein mobile suits that were either too large (the Nightingale), too expensive (such as the Gundam "Gerbera"), or too obscure (the Gundam Mk-III) to be released in MG form will at least be released in the 1/100 scale but remain cost-effective"
For whatever reason, only Universal Century designs have been released under the RE/100 name. But as of 2020, the Full Mechanics name was revived for use on non-MG 1/100 kits from alternate settings. So as of right now, as far as I understand it, RE/100 and FM/100 are the same line, with a branding difference depending on whether it's from the main Gundam timeline or not.
Ironically the "Full Mechanics" thing doesn't make much sense anymore, since it's just an alternative name for RE/100 which notably do NOT have a full inner frame, only what's visible.
Oh brilliant
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
edited May 2023
Naturally, the day after gunpla build night, new sets come in...
Thankfully I was able to resist, other than a stand for now.
I also didn't post it, but last week they got in a big, chonky boi.
Edit: I keep debating buying that catapult display..
@Dark Raven X dumb question: does the FM reproduce those cables/hoses that the Aerial has under the arms in the show and art, or are they left off like on the HG?
It’s a cool shoulder detail you don’t normally see on mobile suits, but it’s also I’m sure a pain to engineer at those price points and preserve articulation so I’m curious if the FM does it or if it’s a detail they’re working on/saving for an eventual MG release?
EDIT: one thing I hope an eventual MG does: being able to have the staves form the shield mode without having to have a piece for them to mount on, but can be transformed into supporting themselves accordingly.
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Dark Raven XLaugh hard, run fast,be kindRegistered Userregular
@Dark Raven X dumb question: does the FM reproduce those cables/hoses that the Aerial has under the arms in the show and art, or are they left off like on the HG?
It’s a cool shoulder detail you don’t normally see on mobile suits, but it’s also I’m sure a pain to engineer at those price points and preserve articulation so I’m curious if the FM does it or if it’s a detail they’re working on/saving for an eventual MG release?
EDIT: one thing I hope an eventual MG does: being able to have the staves form the shield mode without having to have a piece for them to mount on, but can be transformed into supporting themselves accordingly.
Nope, no cable detail! There's some mechanical looking stuff there, inside the shoulder armor, but not on the side of the chest it all connects to - that's blank / functional rather than pretty.
I imagine an eventual MG will have to do a crazy lighting gimmick, right? Maybe recycle the MGEX Unicorn style color shifting, but I think a crackly style flicker look would work too...
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Dr. Flamingo49 Gilded Disc Perceives the SunRegistered Userregular
Went to an out-of-town hobby store today.
"Oh hey, they have Gunpla! Oh hey! They have Witch From Mercury! OH HEY! They have Aerial Rebuild!"
So now I have it.
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See, while I no longer feel like I'll find surprises when I go to a place like Target, I still feel I get a surprise when my store gets in cool stuff... and I haven't checked their socials to see what new has arrived.
That out of town hobby store didn't happen to be in central IL, was it?
I'm kind of surprised we don't have a big gunpla store in the city. there's a couple of the big chain store out in the suburbs maybe that's just easier to pull from a wider range if you can get city people to come out and also the rest of the state in the opposite direction
The hobby stores near me are almost exclusively tabletop and wargaming shops. If there are models, they're real world trains and military vehicles and such
The closest anime-related shop is about 40 minutes away and it's called Senpai's Corner, so,
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that's neat, any idea how poseable it is?
Not sure, announcement just hit so probably be a bit till we get a better idea
so we gonna get more Ad Stella you think
That said? Today, the backlog grows. yet again. And after many, MANY years, I finally have something to use my Destiny wing effects on.
It's gonna be very, VERY lavendar.
So I guess I'll go buy a kit and panel liners and such to panel line later!
But it’s me of those things wound up basically eating through Athenor’s kits like nail polish remover does
Which one of them was that one and which is the one I’ve seen actually applied successfully to bare kit plastic
The fine tips like in the post above are safe on plastic. Pour type and paint types are oil based paint and are bad on ABS and probably most paints. Real touch are mainly for weather effects but they are water based paint so should be plastic safe.
Edit: There is a brush type which is basically a bigger fine tip but you usually only see them in paint packs like this. And Sakura Micron pens will function like fine tips as well.
That's what R-dem has in the photos above. And the polymer erasers, which work perfectly to remove excess liner ink.
The ones you don't want are "pour-type". They are larger, sized more like a marker, and the caps are all black. The label has different coloring to match the ink color.
Or just use fine point for everything. It's perfectly fine, just takes longer.
Basically if it rattles when you shake it you can't use it on bare ABS. It's not the paint that destroys it, it's the solvent.
Steam
Also lol at that ad on the packing paper
I'll do my best, I'm bad at cataloguing my build experience!
Here's the overview;
Box is the size of a small MG (like the Gundam Wing EW kits)
Frame is just 2.5 runners. Mostly very simple looking parts, but! Anything that is visible on the finished kit actually has a lot of detail on it.
A gorgeous small plated runner and some nice dark clear parts for the "shell units" as they're called, the energy lines that run under the glass panels over the Gundam.
If I've got one negative with it so far, it's that the eyes, while a separate part, are solid green rather than clear. Weird choice, IMO. Also, no part or sticker for the rear of the head. I guess Aerial doesn't have a rear head camera!? edit; I have discovered that one single green piece extends out the back of the head too - it's both cameras!
Oh, also the one recycled runner, as is tradition - a pair of beam sabers from 2007! (And a very nice new effect for use with the gun. I believe this is meant to be a firing effect, as I don't think Aerial has a big crazy beam sword like this?)
So yeah, that's about it! A Full Mechanics is just somewhere slightly above HG in terms of construction, with the idea being that once it's complete it shouldn't look too put of place next to an MG. A fun way I've seen it phrased is that they're the opposite of MGEX - a sort of MG Lite.
Forgot to get a pic, but it comes with regular stickers too, a whole sheet, about an MG's worth. Not gonna use em, cause stickers bleh. But I've found a nice set of waterslides on eBay that are UV reactive for some reason!
Ultraman Decker Flash Type Figurise and everyone’s favorite fire pig!
They don’t use it much in the show but yeah, the rifle is capable of generating a beam blade instead of just firing it
The way the light reflects off the metallic bits, it's so pretty!
Construction wise, the vast majority of the nubs end up hidden. There's just a few annoying ones left visible that you've really gotta clean up - on the underside of the blue triangles on the chest, and on the round curved surfaces of the shoulders and side skirts. Those aside, it ends up looking clean with minimal work!
In terms of looking at the runners for clues to future variant kits; all the parts for the weaponry are sprinkled in amongst the armor parts, with no injection gates in between them. I think this is probably a one-off as far as Witch from Mercury FM/100 goes? Maybe the frame could be recycled for a Lfrith kit, but not much else...
That was a pretty big disappointment when I got the Astray HiRes.
That's the Metal Build line IRC
The name Full Mechanics comes from it's origin as an Iron-Blooded Orphans line for No Grade 1/100 kits, and refers to "the mechanical detailing on these kits bring authentic details that cannot be fully realized in the anime" and while it was much lower detail than an MG, they all had full inner frames, so Full Mechanics!
Only 4 IBO kits released under the FM/100 name, and then it went dormant for a few years.
At the same time, Bandai had been releasing other non-MG 1/100 kits under the Reborn One-Hundred title, which from the wiki was meant to "work a compromise wherein mobile suits that were either too large (the Nightingale), too expensive (such as the Gundam "Gerbera"), or too obscure (the Gundam Mk-III) to be released in MG form will at least be released in the 1/100 scale but remain cost-effective"
For whatever reason, only Universal Century designs have been released under the RE/100 name. But as of 2020, the Full Mechanics name was revived for use on non-MG 1/100 kits from alternate settings. So as of right now, as far as I understand it, RE/100 and FM/100 are the same line, with a branding difference depending on whether it's from the main Gundam timeline or not.
Ironically the "Full Mechanics" thing doesn't make much sense anymore, since it's just an alternative name for RE/100 which notably do NOT have a full inner frame, only what's visible.
Thankfully I was able to resist, other than a stand for now.
I also didn't post it, but last week they got in a big, chonky boi.
Edit: I keep debating buying that catapult display..
It’s a cool shoulder detail you don’t normally see on mobile suits, but it’s also I’m sure a pain to engineer at those price points and preserve articulation so I’m curious if the FM does it or if it’s a detail they’re working on/saving for an eventual MG release?
EDIT: one thing I hope an eventual MG does: being able to have the staves form the shield mode without having to have a piece for them to mount on, but can be transformed into supporting themselves accordingly.
Nope, no cable detail! There's some mechanical looking stuff there, inside the shoulder armor, but not on the side of the chest it all connects to - that's blank / functional rather than pretty.
I imagine an eventual MG will have to do a crazy lighting gimmick, right? Maybe recycle the MGEX Unicorn style color shifting, but I think a crackly style flicker look would work too...
"Oh hey, they have Gunpla! Oh hey! They have Witch From Mercury! OH HEY! They have Aerial Rebuild!"
So now I have it.
That out of town hobby store didn't happen to be in central IL, was it?
The closest anime-related shop is about 40 minutes away and it's called Senpai's Corner, so,