Gunpla Building Community

MG Gundam Astray Turn Red

Assembled kit. No paint or lining or topcoat yet.

MG RX-78-2 Ver. 3.0 Recirculation

My wife and I stood in line for 3 hours at Gundam Mobile Base Tour ‘24 to get an MG Exia Recirc but the were sold out so I got this as a consolation.

Strike Noir wasn't edgelord enough, so I fixed that.

MG Kyrios and MG Dynames

Kyrios has G-Rework waterslides, and Dynames has Delpi waterslides.

MG Wing Gundam My current work in progress. Nice kit that happens to be one of the cheapest MG kits available. My wife doesn’t like the standard Gundam color palette (RBYW), so I had to make sure that this one didn’t look “the same” as all the other ones on the shelf.

Having a lot of fun building my first kit. Just need to build the accessories then I'm done. I already ordered a few more kits.

HG Gundam Lfrith Ur for those wondering. https://gunpla.fandom.com/wiki/HGTWFM_EDM-GA-01_Gundam_Lfrith_Ur

So this community is titled and centered around Gunpla, but there are plenty of Gunpla-adjacent model lines out there as well. How do we feel about similar kits being posted here? Broadening the scope can encourage more posting and help build a larger and more active community.

Other Bandai mecha lines like 30MM or AMAIM?

Non-Bandai mecha kits? (Kotobukiya and other 3rd party studios)

Bandai kits that aren't Gundam or mecha related, like Figure Rise?

Mecha girls?

Anything else?

I think more traditional models like cars and military kits would be too far out of scope, unless related to one of the above categories, if people want to see those posted.

What say you all? Should we do a poll?

What is your favorite kit that you’ve personally built and why?

I’ll go first: MG Shin Musha Gundam because it was the first MG I had ever done. I was blown away by the difference between 1/144 and 1/100.

cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/12058383

This is continuation of SDBB 00 Gundam Eight Sword/G from a while back.

I finally took some time out to combine 0 Raiser with it and this is the end result.

With this done, I can move on to my SDCS Gunpla.

Without the Shin Ryusei Kochouken:

The ankles on this thing have like zero range of movement. 🤣 Also, the Shin Ryusei Kochouken arms are supposed to go onto 3mm pegs, but the seam lines end up making the sockets loose, so be warned that it might flop a little.

And with this, Bolt Gundam is the only Shuffle Alliance Gundam left for HGFC, although I continue to hold out hope for Rising Gundam.

bonus - guiz am i doing Spidey doppelganger meme rite?

cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/11726434

cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/11640395

For the most part, this P-Bandai kit is just a straight recolor of the MG 2.0 Zaku II, just with head vulcans and some extra weapons. You've got the fancy looking heat hawk, but also the S runner from the original 1995 MG Char's Zaku II for the sturmfaust grenade launchers (which I attached to the hips) and the 175mm cannon (not shown).

Incidentally, unlike, say, the Tallgeese 2, which had unique figures of Treize and Colonel Une, this kit does not actually come with any Garma figures. The S runner does, however, come with a pair of Char figures. So even in Gunpla, Garma gets screwed over by Char. I suppose that this, too, can only be blamed on the misfortune of his birth.

Took some posing inspiration from the statue of the man fighting four babies in Vigeland Park. The SD-EX kits are:

• Gundam Unicorn
• Gundam Barbatos Rex
• Gundam Exia
• Gundam 00

I've just got a new bookcase that's suitable for display of Gunpla, so I thought now's a good time to share my collection.

It's very amateurish work, with heavy usage of stickers. What little painting is done using Gundam markers.

Why are there only SDBB Gunpla, you ask.

I don't have the dexterity to handle HG and RG.

If I've got any MG (including MGSD) or PG, it would be wasted on me. Plus, I have neither the time nor patience to build it carefully.

SDEX is way too shoddy for me.

SDCS looks good actually. I'll be moving on from SDBB to SDCS; just need find the time to build them😭 (I've got Calibarn, Mighty SF and Barbie Rex lined up.)

My favourite: the kitbash of 00 series Gunpla. It's still incomplete; it's missing 00 Raiser parts.

This might be a little out of place but i don’t think Lemmy has any other plamo communities. Either way, here is my guts berserker armor. This is a fantastic kit. Simple and extremely easy assembly. Flexibility is a solid 9/10(I would’ve like a little wider if a stance tbh) but the ab-crunch, leg, and arms are fantastic. I highly recommend this kit, even if you’re not a berserk fan

Had some color left and had to change the battery anyway.

What do you guys think of this beast

A couple of things to be aware of about this kit.

1. The eyes are a couple of tiny clear green parts that slot into a black frame to show the silver camera greebles underneath. The manual says to snap the frame in place first, don't do that. It's easier to put the clear parts into the frame first, then do the frame.
2. Unlike with the ver Ka there's no action base adapter for neo bird mode, and only the one hole on the backpack that according to the manual is explicitly designed for one of the action base 7 adapters (but will also fit the action base 4/5 main arms). So you pretty much have to hang it from the stand and hope you've got it positioned so that it doesn't slide off.

Still, those issues notwithstanding I otherwise enjoyed the build. Definitely deserves the MG label.

This was done a while back, maybe a year or so. It was my first full paint job. Used Mr. Color rattle cans and went for a more military color scheme. I didn’t order enough paint so while waiting for deliveries I kinda kit bashed the OG Astaroth and the rinascimento. Made a few mistakes but learned from it.

This was back last year. I took a EG RX-78-2 and used hobby mio lacquer paints through my new iwata airbrush. Overall pretty happy. Used knight gold and mecha “black” plus red on the eyes. Only complaint was the black was purple. Idk who at hobby mio decided THIS was “mecha black”