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Q/A & Help Group 8 years ago Hello 🙂
I want to start building kits, seems like something fun.
But im not sure where to start, or better said what kit would be good.I would like a PG, because they are big and look awesome.
I saw the hobbylink episode where they said there is a PG Eva 01(im an evangelion fan), but I think i do not want to start with that one.Or do you think starting with a PG is too much? Maybe I should start with a MG or RG…
So, what kit would be good to start with?
I have never watched any of Gundam series so I dont have any prefference.Something with a nice sword would be cool
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I think starting with 1 or 2 HG’s would be good, mainly just so you can get used to working with plastic. After those you could probably build a PG, though it may still be a little tricky.
As for cool sworded HG gundams there’s the Astray Blue Frame 2nd L http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN981942/Gun other than that, ones I like are the Unicorn Gundam http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN961011/Gun and the Strike Gundam http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN985144/Gun .
Happy building :).
Thanks. These look nice and arent expensive at all. I think I will be buying at least two of these 😛
Does the Astray Blue Frame come with the stand for he huge sword?
Yes it does, though, just a small one to keep it off the ground. If you’re wanting a stand for the ABF itself for aerial poses then an action base 2 would work well for this guy http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN950540/Sup .
There is some truth in what Nick says, but if you’re confident enough and can read a manual, I my opinion, you should be able to do a PG without a problem.
My first Gunpla was a PG… And if I can do it, so can anybody else.
If you are planning to paint the kit in any form, and don’t have any experience, I suggest practicing on a HG or even a SD.
But building straight out of the box….? Go for it!
And a sweet PG with a great sword, I suggest building the PG Astray Red Frame
http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN958463/Gun
I hope this was informative. Best of luck and lots of fun building your first kit!
Thanks.
Definetely not going to try painting for now, specially a PG.
That one you linked looks cool, I might end with more kits than I initially planed lol
I’d say if you want to just test the waters then the SD line is a great and cheep place to start. and something like SD Quan[t] has a pretty cool sword. The reason I say this is cause they have few pieces use some polycaps and have a few stickers, so they cover all the basics and don’t cost very much but as mentioned a PG won’t have you doing anything radically different…well some older ones had some basic wiring going on….but for the most part nothing special just a larger scale with you’re average PG having a few hundred parts to maybe a bit over a thousand to assemble. Nothing any more difficult just more of it. The PG Eva though is a bit different and I’d actually not recommend that as a starting point. This is actually the very first PG and so is a very old model.
The complication with that kit though is that they didn’t want the joints to show as the Eva is organic in nature. They hid the joints by giving you a rubber body suit to put the skeleton in. This would be fine except some of the assembly has to be done within that rubber body. I wouldn’t think it would be overly hard but I hear it can get frustrating.
In the end it is your choice but I thought I’d put that little disclaimer in for you so you know what you’re in for if you get it.
Thanks.
Yeah, I looked at some pictures of the EVA semi completed and it looks very simple inside compared to other PGs. Taking away the one of the features the PGs have of seeing pistons move or other similar things.
Pg eva01 will be a tough first model.
Try 1 or 2 hg then 1 MG. Then just straight to PG. PG isnt that hard, just lot of parts