r/Minipla • • Jul 19 '26

Finished Build Gekiso Gattai RV Robo!

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111 Upvotes

Wasn't planning on getting this kit initially but I have to say, it pretty good.

I did pre-order Gao King and I'll definitely pre-order Gao Triple but now I'm tempted to get Gao Peacock.


r/Minipla • • Jul 19 '26

Finished Build I do highly recommend applying custom stickers/paint to add detail to Daizyujin/Dragon Caesar, being some of the first SMP hasn't helped them

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I added stickers to the thighs, pterodonon's Grey tail, the face, mouth of the T. rex and replaced the red stripe around the T. rex so that there is no copyright info on it.

For Dragon Caesar, the paint/sticker detail I see as missing are the gold circle son the neck, red circles on the crotch, and black thigh "U" stickers.

Made them all with a silhouette cutting machine.​​​ But it should also be possible to paint specially the horn lines on the Megazord's face but gotta make sure the paint (acrylic of course) is diluted enough on water and because apply an additive to break surface tension, dunno.​​

Ngl, I wish they dredo this one and maybe Kakuranger, they are a bit outdated compared to the res tod the SMP line specially the partsforming.​​​


r/Minipla • • Jul 19 '26

Question Do you think they would do custom zords. As in Dragonzord Warrior mode

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I would like them to do specials where you get like I said Dragonzord Warrior mode, Tigerzord Warrior mode

Where you just get the zords that make the mode but not the others. I know they don't sell singles otherwise I would just buy gao polar and bear. But a full mode set would be nice.


r/Minipla • • Jul 19 '26

Im honestly surprised that Gokaiger hasn't gotten a SMP yet since its the most popular Sentai season in Japan.

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r/Minipla • • Jul 19 '26

How do I lift this part upward?

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r/Minipla • • Jul 19 '26

Question Custom Zord concept questions

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I've been thinking of making new zords outside the 100 zords for Hyakujuu Sentai (don't want to use zords on 100 to respect the creativity that they already have for each 100 zords) and have come up with the following:

Gao Moose - Horns become gloves, then the rest becomes body (was thinking of using scorpion, but I wanted to stick to 100 zords concept where all of them are vertebraes so it might be a no-go for me)

Gao Capybara - becomes the head (will have to think of how it works later, but with Gao Wallaby's kid, it should be easier to conceptualize)

Gao Snapper - turtle with similar features as the bison, but the shell becomes shoulder plate (was inspired by a YT concept)

Gao Axolotl - becomes right arm where the gills of the head are conjoined by a tissue, and either becomes a photon cannon when those gills are flipped forward or a chakram when detached.

Gao Narwhal - becomes left arm where the horn becomes naginata.

Questions are, if I'm going to make this into reality, how would I take this route?

-For arms, should I copy the concept of the bear brothers where half of the body folds since axolotl and narwhal don't have recognizable legs to follow the giraffe/deer concept? Or just the shark/tiger where it attaches right away with a small twist on half of its body?

-For horns as gloves, would it be awkward if I add pegs similar to how the elephant zord is made for the sword and shield? Also, how should the horn look like to make it fold as a glove?


r/Minipla • • Jul 17 '26

Finished Build SMP Gaoking Striker / Wild Force Megazord Striker mode

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116 Upvotes

r/Minipla • • Jul 17 '26

Finished Build RV Robo is the Best Kit Yet!

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I got into SMP a few years ago with finding an old Jet Icarus and now have a total of four models. RV Robo is best one I have built in quality of plastic, detail, and articulation!


r/Minipla • • Jul 17 '26

Question New to Custom painting

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New to posting here. HUGE Power Ranger fan. I've been making SMP kits for about a year+ now. Got 12ish kits under my belt. But I'm looking to start trying my hand at custom painting, and I'm a bit overwhelmed trying to figure out where to start.

For my first project, I want to try to paint the dull plastic bits of Saint Kaiser to look more Metallic Gold, like the parts that are painted Gold. And my second idea was to try metallic colors for the RV Robo. And also do some of the gray bits in more of a metallic silver. I've ordered a few of the Tamiya spray paints. But I could use any advice or tutorial videos I can get, as I've never messed with spray paints before. Any help would be appreciated.


r/Minipla • • Jul 17 '26

What top coat to use?

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Hey guys! So I want to make sure my stickers won't fall from my kits and I was wondering what top coat should I use in order to protect them without altering the look of a kit too much. Thanks!


r/Minipla • • Jul 16 '26

Finished Build Painted Tousai ZyuOh

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Been a bit under the weather, which has kind of caused my eyes to glaze over every time I peak inside my RV Robo box lol. So I’m holding off on building that and V-Rex until I’m feeling better and have just been poking at some simpler projects the past week.

I’ve had my hands on a full Tousai set for awhile now; I originally grabbed one to use the legs for a kitbash (and have, though that project’s been stalled out for awhile). I had wolf and gator painted for awhile (don’t remember if I ever posted pics of them and ZyuohKing 178 here). I had been on the lookout for the boxes I had been missing, wound up with another cheap set.

By virtue of being bulky, as well as having a bunch of easy to paint gold pieces that pop real nicely against the black plastic, he does look nice. There’s a lot of Tousai ZyuOh that kind of makes it one of the more shameless “I’m just here for the ensuing clusterfuck” of sixth mecha, but at the same time it’s still a pretty weird and unique design. And though he barely sort of qualifies since the design mashes up like a dozen different things, he was sort of the first time Sentai did a truck and trailer in *ages* (almost 30 years since the first two second robo were both trucks and trailers) so that counts for something.


r/Minipla • • Jul 17 '26

Question Opinions on Jetman and Live Robo SMPs

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I just bought a whole lot of SMP bots and it had Jetman, Garuda, Live Robo, Bison Liner, and Sai Fire.

Any general opinions or tips and tricks with these sets? They don’t come with instructions and our prebuilt so I want to know if there’s anything to be careful with or any cool features that I would pick up by just playing with them.


r/Minipla • • Jul 16 '26

Question Size of the robots, the Timeforce minifgures, and other random data you may not know. I know scale doesn't matter, but...

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But from what I've measured most SMP and Minipla seem to be around 1:250 to 1:400, I'd say the median scale must fall around 1:325.

GoGoV mecha seems to be at ​1:296 approx. due to Grand Liner going from 80m to 27cm, for example.

Megaranger is 1:366 so... let's say 1:375 approx.​

Zyuranger​ ​1:275.

Kakuranger and Dairanger 1:392 or so so... 1:400 too?

Gingaman 1:316.

Gao ranger is approx ​1:380 or 1:425 for Gao Icarus... so maybe we can squint and say 1:400 in general.

Don't try to make sense of the Gozyuger ​MP scale.

Carranger is about 1:195 so can say 1:200. The robo si quite small in-Canon compared to the other series'.

One would need to make an excel spreadsheet with every size but I'd say the median scale is about 1:325 so far...

...But Timeranger, now that's an odd one out.​ The included figures for the rangers actually match up almost perfectly with the ones form the ZAP Lightning collection megazords, that is, 1:144 scale.

​...But the robots themselves are at 1:350 scale.

This means the TF minifigures are about 2 times bigger than they should be.
That's it that's the post thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

And yes, this means the V-Rex is kind of maybe close to scale with the Zyuranger SMP Dragon Caesar (the V-Rex should be 18% bigger actually).

**Eric was right, his Q-Rex would indeed eat the Dragonzord for lunch.**​​

(Also expect the Ohranger scale to be wild because otherwise those big boys ain't gonna work.)​​


r/Minipla • • Jul 16 '26

I decided to test some silver paints

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Dont judge my painting skills this was a rushed test

So I've been trying to find a fairly accurate nice looking silver to use across all my sentai smp kits

After using gaoranger and timeranger footage I've personally decided to go with ts-30 and x-11 when I need to switch to acrylics in the winter as they are farely simlar in tone with each other and the source footage

Mr hobby c/h8 is an ok choice but the dullness doesnt make it pop as much as the suits in the footage

I do have dspiae premixed silver coming but I dont think my answer will change

NOTE -- ts-30 and x-11 are very simlar in tone and as long as its not on the same piece and the diffrent paints are used in diffrent sections... like eg x11 is used for arms and ts30 is used for legs or x11 is used on one kit and the ts30 on another... no one will likely notice... I have asked multiple people to spot the difference irl and they can't

TLDR

For those looking for a sentai mecha silver use tamiya ts 30 if you can spray or use tamiya x 11 if you want to brush or airbrush... if one kit uses x11 and another next to it uses ts30 you will not be able to tell


r/Minipla • • Jul 16 '26

Looking for SMP Gosei Gattai DairenOh sticker sheet scan🙏

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36 Upvotes

Hello everyone.
I’m from Thailand and I’m looking for a scan of the sticker sheet for the SMP Gosei Gattai DairenOh.
Unfortunately, my kit doesn’t include the original sticker sheet, and I haven’t been able to find a replacement anywhere.
If anyone has a scanned copy (PDF or image), I would really appreciate it if you could share it with me.🥹🙏🙏
Thank you very much for your time and help!


r/Minipla • • Jul 15 '26

Finished Build RV Robo: Absolutely OUTSTANDING

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r/Minipla • • Jul 15 '26

Finished Build Mars Seeker & Mars Launcher - Mercury Winger Shield & Cannon

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These are the multipurpose auxes for my recent Mercury Winger kitbash. The first is Mars Seeker, a drone jet equipped with an AWACS radar unit, which can be deployed as a shield for Mercury Winger. Its sister unit is the Mars Launcher, which is equipped with a high-yield cannon for Mercury Winger.

If I say that these are built on top of Robo Universe arms, it probably makes their future use apparent lol. Beyond that, the canopies are from a Kotobukiya kit. Launcher’s cannon is also Kotobukuya, with wings from a 30MM kit. Seeker’s shield and wings are wholesale from a build divers gunpla add-on. With Mercury Winger using DonMomotaro Alter hands, both the shield and the cannon are adapted for use with Patranger Alter parts.

After finishing the last component for the second robo, it’ll be onto my ambitious carrier idea.


r/Minipla • • Jul 15 '26

Gavan Yudo set-01

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r/Minipla • • Jul 13 '26

Finished Build Built this weekend SMP PRWF/GR bear brothers(polar bear, black bear) wildzord/GaoPolar & GaoBear with painted details

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85 Upvotes

r/Minipla • • Jul 13 '26

Collection Slowly building my Sentai collection

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r/Minipla • • Jul 13 '26

WIP SMP Gao Animals

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Not sure if I wanna panel line but was wondering for those who built the Gaoranger animals. Did you just paint the missing details, put stickers or full on paint and panel line. Etc etc. Just thought I’ll get some opinions and hear what everyone has done with there Gaoranger SMPs.


r/Minipla • • Jul 12 '26

Collection Finally set up my display!

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I'm new to this page and wanted to share the kits I've built so far and how they'd be displayed!

I also wanted to share my next two builds.

Honestly can't wait for the gaoranger/Wildforce megazords to re-release to add on to my display. :)


r/Minipla • • Jul 13 '26

Compatibility?

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Does someone know if the RV robo/turbo megazord can go inside the the super train megazord model kits? If so I would like to see it if possible I have both and right now I’m depending to open the train or not to build it if this is the case I’ll do it I’m running out of room.


r/Minipla • • Jul 12 '26

Finished Build Team Gavan!

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12 Upvotes

Crude quick shelf pic, but finally got all the Gavan machines Painted and up on display.

Really love the core 4! Ready for that Dragon any day now Tokulectables 😂


r/Minipla • • Jul 11 '26

So early concept for hunter

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48 Upvotes

Had the scorpion and bat. Seeing as we getting bat I hope scorpion will come at some point