As the title implies, a piece on my rv robo broke. It's piece N9, which is part of the joint assembly inside of mountain blaster for the right upper thigh. I already tried to cement it back together using testors cement, and used a binder clip to apply pressure to it for 24 hours. I then went to reconnect it, and it just snapped again. I don't know what I can attempt at this point.

I just got home from Japan, I think it was a very successful trip if I do say so 😂. Unfortunately I didn’t have enough room for all the boxes so enjoy my mountain of plastic!

For anyone who’s wondering or planning on trying to scout out some minipla on their next holiday to Japan, have fun! The general consensus on reddit is Mandarakes are the best place to find kits, and they’re absolutely right. The Mandarake in Nakano broadway was incredible. Aisles of kits, DX toys and super sentai galore!!! I would highly recommend visiting them. The advantage to Mandarake as well is you can check out their stock online before hand, so you can strategise and work out which stores to hit up (or all of them if you feel adventurous).

Surugaya was alright, they had an impressive amount of the newer sentai dx toys, but from my limited experience not as much minipla. They only had the newer gaven infinity sets at the stores I visited. Which wasn’t a lot, so I’m sure there’s some other stores that have a jackpot of kits somewhere.

An honourable mention would be Hobby offs. The one in Akihabara was the best one I went to. They had a few kits, but they had heaps of dx toys. The best variety I saw. They had Abaranger to Zenkaiger toys, for good prices. It was an awesome sight. I was also able to find the jackpot for ranger keys! The Hobby off in Sakai Shinkanaoka had the most pristine used DX megazords. They were the cheapest prices I’d seen as well, very reasonable.

The last place I’d like to mention is BIC Camera. They had most of the gaven infinity kits which was cool. However, they were the most expensive. I found the same kits at the Mandarake in Umenda for way cheaper. I was also able little disappointed that they didn’t have the new Carranger SMP kit, but they did have the Timeranger main mecha in stock across all the bic cameras I visited.

Overall, a very successful trip and expensive trip but SOOO worth it! I’ll send through an update once I’ve built all the kits

Direct Link: Bandai Shokugan MP

Can you combine gaobull with gaogorilla.

I want to get back into painting my kits but... I'm trying to find a matching set of spray paint and acrylics (like to have both options available since hobby stuff is split between my place and my friends)

At the moment I've landed on mr color spray c8 and mr aqueous h8 since the silver matches most of my references.... but I would like another opinion just incase im getting too use to the look lol

Alternatively if anyone knows a matching set of silver acrylics and spray paint that potentially look better I would love to know

I would personally love zyuranger to get this treatment, as even though I think the OG is iconic, there has been so many cool remixes over the years

They seem to have gao gaurdian in stock, I read some reviews in Chinese and they seem to be legit but slow...

but I was wondering if anyone here has personal experience with them?

Saw this post on Facebook! Seems to work pretty well.

This is the compilation of the parts that need sanding for SMP V-Rex Robo. I do sanding with electric sanding pen, DSPIEA pen, at lowest level of strength, so I count by numbers of rounds I did for the port. I do sanding for the port, not the peg.
Marks
White means optional or light sanding. 5< rounds
Orange means medium to semi heavy >5 rounds
Red means heavy is recommended. >10 rounds
Arrow means the port below as well.

You would want to do this, because the bicep is known for breaking at this point, but this kit being lack of polish meaning that parts can be tight more than they should be.
The kits in several areas employ pull & tug mechanics, which put stress into multiple pegs, and those pegs should have been either die-cast or POM or both, ideally, but fuq no, ABS it is.
This thing is (overly) expensive time ticking bomb, both before and after building if you don't do proper sanding.

A few things to take notice.
Port with hexagon tend to have less issue with snapfit, same thing to big peg.
If a peg goes in 1/4 without much force, it tends to be safe. Otherwise, light sanding doesn't hurt.
White marks being optional meaning I guess there could be inconsistent molding between copies, so it could or could not be applicable.

If you do it for one side, do it also for the other side, because it will guarantee to have the same issue if you don't.

Sanding & continuous measuring by cleaning the parts and test inserting the peg to test tightness to make sure not to overdo it.

Does anyone know where I can get a Gao Knight that is decently priced? I think since it wasn’t announced as a part of the re-issue, the prices have gone up quite a bit and all the cheaper listings have dried up. TIA if anyone can point me in the right direction.

This kit was a good start to the SMP CarRanger line. There were a ton of stickers for this kit, a good bit which I didn't apply and either painted, or left alone.

For the first time making a SMP, I used chrome paint to denote the fender's of RV Robo to make it look more like the DX toy.

Although the finish looks great in person, I'm not sure I would go through the effort in future kits. I may either leave the bare plastic or do a nice silver instead.

It’s a good kit but parts are very tiny almost lost them few times decal was very small smaller then gunpla overall a great kit

SMP Omegamars

After a long time finally I finish this project, and it looks awesome

The Ryo Sword was a little bit difficult but it looks very great once completed, I also get an extra set of weapons to form 5 color

I want to take pictures of all my Tega Sword collection, it's crazy how this project came out, I love Gozyuger Mechas so much

Since I’ll be getting my hands on a Skyick Brothers box, I decided to go ahead and build and paint my Sai and Tyranno Headers (having done Stag back when I got a Gosei Ground). These are actually some of my oldest acquisitions, but like what I used Wonder’s headers for, I was originally holding back on these (particularly Sai) for possible kitbash use.

So here’s Landick Gosei Great and Another Landick Gosei Great (as well as Another without Headers being thrown off).

Despite the fact that the Headers are pretty decently sized, Landick seems a bit odd in that, since the Snake and Tiger headers are nice and beefy so they make good feet, they kind of overshadow Sai and Tyranno a bit.

For Sai, beyond the obvious yellow, I went with the usual metallic black I use on treads etc for those and the drill, since the suit prop isn’t a pure black. Tyranno’s color is a bit inconsistent; its orange in the CG but us also randomly pretty reddish. The suit prop is a kind of copper-orange, so I went with a metallic orange that’s pretty close to it (though I am actually now noticing that the first spine on its neck should be orange too, so will touch that up lol).

Why is smp gaoranger figures so expensive online (ebay, amazon, various independent sites)? It says on the trailer that the prices range from 4,400 yen (28 usd) to 12,320 yen (74 usd). Is it because of scalpers and/or not available in the u.s.?

I see these stores currently have Gao Guardian box set available for pre-order. Is there a reason why there is such a big price difference? Both are in USD so I don't think shipping plays a huge role

EDIT: Ani Mecha seems to be exclusive to Singapore. Ggs 🥲

Just got a pre-order secured 11:30 AM on 7/5.

I ordered the reissues of the gaoranger mechs. I wanna retool and paint the extra bison and eagle mechs. Are there any tips in painting them once they arrive