Gundam Fans

[Jester1014]

Oh heck yea it does. It's holds poses like a champ, even with the heavy as all hell gatling gun attached. It's hips have full rotational movement, The skirt armor actually shifts with the legs (No more stiff and blocky upper body). The inner Frame is made out of the same wear resistant plastic that technic legos are made out of. It can take a full Kneel, stand on one leg, The 2.0's have some serious upgrades from the older MG kits. MY older Johnny MG can barely take the simplest of poses, so I frankened it with a destroyed Char zaku and came up with this.

Also the hands of a 2.0 are 9 pieces total, not 5-6 like the old MG's

Of course it really depends too. I have a few earlier MG's from 04 and 06 that still look great. Some kits have a Weak point at the Ankles and others (Freedom and G05) Are weak at the hips., others it can be the shoulder joints. Really just Depends on the kit. Probably my last Kit I will Get Will be the FA-78-3 2.0 Full Armor Gundam. It's Just one bad-momma-jomba of a kit!

 

[SchizophrenicMC]

See, I had a feeling the S. Matsu 2.0 could kneel, but I didn't wanna chance it, what with its bigger legs than the Zaku-J 2.0.

Anyway, I like the 2.0s and the whole '05-till-now line of MGs, really. Much nicer, and better designed. I have MkII Ver2.0 posed, with its beam rifle, pointed out, hyper bazooka on its back skirt, both HB mags on the hips, with E-Caps in the shield, and, finally, the vulcan pod. Nothing's sagged in the slightest, yet, and it's been like that since I finished it. All my older ones had settled by that point, and the rifle was slightly down. (I attribute some of that to the loose hold the hands on old ones provide. Yay, pegs!) Also, this guy's got his left foot bent, and behind him, with his right out. It's hard to get most older models to do the leg-out pose. This had no problems.

My cousin has an original Titans MkII, and it's just not as flashy or posable. I plan on going to see him one of these days and show of- I mean, compare mine to his.

 

[Jester1014]

I'm still waiting to Build my Gouf Custom Shark.

 

[SchizophrenicMC]

Very nice.

You know, watching 08th MS again a couple days ago, I realized the Apsalus sawed in half a Gundam from the 04th Team, and knocked over another 04th Team machine (with a shield marked "08") off, carrying a Gundam Hammer.

 

[SchizophrenicMC]

And, more relevant to the topic that had been at hand, I just bought some more paint for my GM Sniper. I think I can finally start working this weekend. (Hopefully, I get paint done before the temperature drops off below freezing; enamels and lacquers don't cure if it's cold. Sound familiar?)

To pay homage to the geographic location of 08th MS, I'm using USAF Vietnam Olive Drab as the primary, and, well German Grey is a very close approximation to the grey on the GMs' and Gundams' legs. Aside from that, it's all acrylic, and I'll be mixing a few different colors. (I think I may have finally cracked the code on mixing Tamiya acrylics to the right red color for MS thrusters!) Check back.

In a related note, I painted some Chrome Silver and Gold Leaf, finally, onto PG Strike's tubing details in his underarmor. The effect is impressive, from a distance, but I didn't have masking tape, so up close, it looks terrible.

 

[Jester1014]

Well, I finished and did a little bit of non Combat Weathering on my Zeta A1. It looks nice, Just need some USAF Decal to attach and She'll be perfect. I found Decals to make 1014WF (Whiskey Foxtrot) and I found a really small dry transfer Red, Green and silver Jester skull and hat decal. May put it on the Shield of Cockpit, Or i may go with a Pheonix theme.
You should add me on FB, a friend of mine in Maylaysia just finished a GM Sniper, His Woodland coloring is outrageously fantastic. He went Chinese Military themed.

I love Tamiya paint, though it's fumes do give me one massive migrain, testors can kiss it in my opinion. My next Break from my armor, I may Do the Gouf or Gelgoog.

Well My PS3 hit it's so called Red Ring for the 2nd time, so glad I got the warranty, but my Netflix copy of 08th ms Volume 2 is stuck in it! Hoping I can get it back.

 

[SchizophrenicMC]

Very nice. I always wished Gunpla kits came with waterslides, and I really don't want to go and buy different ones, especially when I'm going for the standard scheme. I'll see about adding you, if you, you know, pass me a link to your facebook account.

Yeah, I like Tamiya because they have a great line of Acrylics, which I can use in my room, because they're just alcohol-based. If I use enamels or lacquers of any type, I just go outside and spray 'em. When I'm spraying a lot at a time, I use my respirator, but I haven't sprayed that much since I finished my armor.

I'm using every paint color I have for this, plus one I forgot to pick up yesterday.
AS-14 Olive Drab (USAF Vietnam)
TS-4 German Grey
XF-2 Flat White
X-6 Orange
X-7 Red
X-11 Chrome Silver
X-12 Gold Leaf
X-19 Smoke
X-25 Clear Green
X-34 Metallic Brown (It makes a good rust color)
XF-66 Light Grey
TS-80 Flat Clear
I plan on spending a few days on this

Well, that sucks about your PS3. At least when my Xbox red-ringed, I could pry the disc tray open and get Halo Reach out. This is why I used more... Subversive methods to get 08th MS Team That said, Miller's Report is on my Netflix Queue...

 

[Jester1014]

Tamiya has a weathering kit that has an actual rust color. Going to make my Standard gouf look likes it's old as poo.

 

[SchizophrenicMC]

I know they do, but my local Hobbytown doesn't carry it, and I'm too lazy and impatient to order it. Besides, I bought the paint on accident, and they wouldn't let me return it, so I gotta do SOMETHING with it.

In any case, I just picked up some clear green, but due to my dad, I wasn't able to go over my stuff with its main coats, and now it's too cold, even in the garage, to paint, so I'm behind a whole day. >_>

EDIT: And it's going to snow tomorrow. THE ONE DAY, TEXAS, WHEN I NEED YOUR MILD CLIMATE!

Also, Bandai puts an incredible level of engineering into their Master Grade 1/100 kits. But, sometimes, they leave oversights. I just noticed one. I'm dry-fitting the leg of my new MG GM Sniper together, and I notice there's a little subjoint in the knee. Aside from the standard 2 joints of any mobile suit knee, sure enough, a third point of articulation appears as a part slides out around its connector pin. Based on the pattern of the part, it's supposed to do that. It added a good 20 or 30 degrees of articulation to the leg. And that's when I begged the question, "Did they change the leg since the '99 release of the RX-79[G]?" (This kit was released in 2004, just prior to RX-78-2 Ver2.0) So, I flipped through my Ground Gundam manual. And, sure enough, it's got that part. ABS D-12. There is no change, at all, to the structure of the legs between this and that. (Well, one, but that's an aesthetic change that has no effect on posability.) So, I examined my Ground Gundam.

This is where it becomes an oversight in engineering. That joint does not deploy. I stripped the armor, tried both legs, even came close to snapping the main pin off, with a tool I was trying to get leverage with. It just doesn't deploy. Now, it's possible I built it poorly, just out of tolerance. But that's unlikely. I didn't paint that model, and there's no gate flash on that side of either part. What's more likely is the knee assembly, when done, impedes its motion too much. I am sorely disappointed, and I'll likely modify the knees to do that properly.

 

[Jester1014]

Don't ya just love those little engineering surprises that make ya think!? I do. You would flip if you saw how much of a difference there is between the Zaku MG originals and the 2.0 releases. They're completely different suits. And I was wrong, the Shin Matsu cannot kneel entirely but can and will hold just about any pose, even a "round house" pose. I have the BFG off of it now, so it's just a Basic MS-06-R1a.
I got the Zeta Test Type Decaled and clear coated. It looks so pretty, perched atop my shelf. It's rifle actually has a hook to attach it to the back, inbetween the wings. Thinking about taking some soot coloring to it's Thruster ports, i didn't stick with it's original #018 I went 072nd Air Defence Force.

Pondering whether to start Green Frame, Gouf, or Deathscythe Ka.... Decisions.

 

[SchizophrenicMC]

In this case, it's just problematic. It's THERE, and it always has been, but it doesn't work, and it frustrates me to no end.

 

[Jester1014]

Maybe they addressed it in the re-release with the Clear parts as extras.

 

[SchizophrenicMC]

No, I kept the sprues to the original, and they're identical. I checked out the part from GM Sniper and it looks exactly the same as the Clear Parts release. I'm upset, to say the least. I'm going to find some way to make this work, though. I'm an engineer. Problem-solver. I solve problems.

 

[Jester1014]

I f I can get one I will.

 

[SchizophrenicMC]

Oh, definitely do. They may not be up to par with the Ver2.0 releases, or, really, anything after 2005, but the -79[G] kits are all amazing, considering they were mastered in '99. Ground Gundam and Ez8 look to have good prospects on being close in line for Ver2.0 releases. (I mean, just about everything else either has one, or is still considered fairly new in its first release) We already have every Zeon suit except Gouf Custom and Zaku I. Even then, we have Gouf and Zaku II. And, there are already Ver2.0 kits for Gundam, MkII, Zeta, and I could swear I remember a Hyaku Shiki Ver2.0. Still, Ez8 and -79[G] are essentially the same thing, and are lead Gundams, more than 10 years into their first release. I'm surprised they haven't got PGs yet, considering most of UC has them already. Even the GP-01! And no one even remembers GP-01!

 

[Jester1014]

Zaku 1 and Gouf Custom are both Add-ons to the Zaku II 2.0 and Gouf 2.0. They won't see 2.0 realease as individual kits, I believe.

Yeas all UC gundams have a 2.0 release, Even Full Armor.

Completed Zeta PLUS!

 

[SchizophrenicMC]

But, see, that's my point. There's a Ver2.0 Zaku II, Gouf, Gelgoog, even MSV for those, as well as nearly every UC Gundam, and literally every Feddie suit from 0079, except the Ground Gundam and Ground GM. For that matter, PG. I'm just disappointed that we don't. That said, they're bound to be next on both list, seeing as we already have everything else.

Anyway, nice Zeta. I don't really like the Plus, but you've built a nice-looking kit, there. I wish it was warm enough to paint, but right when I need Texas' mild weather most, we get a freeze - even some snow.

 

[Jester1014]

I believe it's the Dom 2.0 that is to be made next. While the entire Wing series is actually getting the mastergrade treatment as well.

I just keep a fan next to me when I paint, my house is warm enough. Got the Chest and Head built up for my Gouf, won't start the resin kit till I finish the standard.

 

[SchizophrenicMC]

Well, the HOUSE is warm enough, but the outside and garage aren't. I'm working with lacquer paint for my main coat, and that stuff'll kill you, not to mention it smells bad. Dad was always on me about the incredibly faint polyurethane smell leaking from my curing parts in the open garage, as they wafted from the large bay door to the back of the closed door to the house. He doesn't like it when I paint with the water-based acrylics in my room. He'd never let me spray methyl ketones and butyl acetates around

Yeah, I think that's next, too, and it just kills me that the -79[G] has the least love of all the lead Gundams since F91.

I'm gonna try and get my Gundam fan cousin a Deathscythe Hell EW for his birthday in March. It's one of his favorites, and now it's finally getting a MG, so I'm gonna try and force him back into Gundam with it.

Right now, all of my GM is zipped in sandwich bags, waiting for the weather so I can paint them all.

 

[Jester1014]

Zeon has the most 2.0 kits now. 15 zeon kits total, and EFSF has 10 (That I know of). I believe 79(G) will get the treatment within the next year or so.