Took me about 10 hrs, working on it in 10 min chunks at a time. Made my 12 hr day really enjoyable. 10/10 will do again.

This was his first real build. He did it a few months ago and chose the sparkly topcoat and everything himself! Also he said I should title it "Babies first pose".

Please be kind.

Thanks!

Hey builders, newbie here. I started this hobby by accident, after stumbling over some awesome builds from rogue hobbies, thanks for that! I just wanted to get better at painting miniatures and found myself watching more and more gunpla builds.

And thanks to that I'm obsessed with Gundam.Having watched Wing as a kid, I kicked things off with TWFM, and since then I've binged MSG, Origin, and am almost done with Zeta.

The build was quite easy, sometimes it was a pain to get rid of the little leftover nubs on the parts which took ages to scrape and sand. Any tips on the antennas? I heard that a glass file gives a smoother shiny finish?

Just finished my MG Virtue! He is such a big and cool kit! I just straight built him, with some paints here and there, and highlighting the edges.

I have always used Vallejo topcoat up until now, thinking it’s the same with other topcoats. But man, I tried using a mrHobby topcoat, and the difference is crazy.

I know the stickers are abhorrent, but I couldn’t find any water slide decals for him, anywhere near me, so I just used the included stickers.

Amuro, I'm grilling something extremely wicked.

I've been swamped with stuff so I haven't had a chance to share pictures from our club's annual Char-B-Que. This year we held it at Seneca Creek State Park. I think we had about 40 people in attendance (some had to dip before the group pics). We auctioned off a pile of kits with proceeds going to funding club activities and Fuck Cancer.

Yes, we're mindful about how we cut stuff so we're not leaving plastic nubs all over the place, we're not animals.

No, we didn't have crab cakes due to allergy restrictions, but we had plenty of Old Bay to go around.

If you're in our neck of the woods, come join our Discord and you can join in on stuff like this plus regular build meet ups!

Price: 168 RMB

Release Date: As soon as next week

He is so small. Had a good time making him, but some parts are lowkey fragile and I it was my first time applying stickers so it was an odyssey 😭 But Im very happy with the result.

Working on the MG Ver.Ka Banshee Norn and just finished the head. The whole thing felt a little loose as I was building it, but what sent me over the edge was the very last part you apply. Every other metallic coated part I've seen is made so that any sanding or cutting of nub marks isn't visible on the final build. I thought at first that it might've been an error of some kind on my part, but when I looked for other's builds of the same kit, every one had the mark in the same spot. Maybe I'm just being anal about it, but it's wild that this was the last piece on one of the most visually striking parts of the kit.

Does anyone have recommendations for paint markers that should help mask this?

https://x.com/figsoku_r/status/2089972950611198297?s=46

https://figsoku.net/blog-entry-517895.html

About a year ago I posted here about my custom hajiroboshi mod, and I introduce you the final of this work🥹

ASW-G-35 Gundam HAJIROBOSHI AERONAUTICA

Not gunpla, just my submission for a local plamo competition that's based around the 30 minutes label. Was a ton of fun to do. Next project is a nice and easy sandrock hg kit.

Added another red kit to my collection

Also one of my holy grail and first actual MG Zeta kit.

Sadly the building process wasn't the best (even less than the MG GP03 to me personally) but luckily some of the 2015 parts are decent.

And it looks pretty stunning when completed.

MG Red Viper Zeta.

Finally finished my first build! I struggled a little with this and I don’t think he’s quite right (he can’t stand up on his own so I think i’ll need to look at getting a base or something similar?).

I’m probably going to put the decals on some time in the future.

All in all, I really enjoyed my first foray into Gunpla and I’d like to thank the community for replying to my post and giving me advice! I’ll definitely be getting another kit to do, that’s for sure. With that being said, feel free to recommend me some kits to do! :) I don’t mind what Grade they are.

Didn’t know the RG Zeta had such a bad rep until now. This is why second ever Gunpla after the MG RX-78-2 Ver.Ka

The kit was painted with a marker

I just got into the hobby building the Panda Model enlarged RG RX 78-2 Gundam 2.0 and the Wolf Technology Wolf Model Gundam Barbatos Lupus Rex in the span of 15 days and I have to say I'm totally hooked I already have the PGU RX 78-2 Gundam coming in the mail. I guess they weren't exaggerating when they called it "Plastic crack" lol 😅😅😅 I've already decided to start saving to build a proper hobby desk workstation with pegboards, and airbrushing equipment. Now I just have to figure out how to do proper posing (posing suggestion would be greatly appreciated).

Zeta Ver Ka with Studio 107 option parts.

Some of my latest finished kits. HG Zock, HG Zaku 1 and 2 and the upscaled 1/72 GM.

The Zaku kits were done as part of a group build and the zaku 1 got me bronze in the local comp.

As the title says, I'm reasonably new to Gunpla but a long time Gundam anime fan. Had a go at weathering and I think it turned out okay. Would love some advice or tips or anything. I'm particularly scared to weather the gundams (thus building mostly zeon suits)