honestly? I am very much anti-common thought, I started with nail clippers as A kid 30 yrs ago & still use them today, only using nippers on really wierd oddball gates
You guys should take on a challenge of coming to Serbia and finding ANY kind of hobby shops here. PlaMo nippers? We sell small wire cutters that double as hobby nippers. You buy one two and get two for the price of one. A wire mini cutter and a PlaMo nipper! As for the actual choice of PlaMo or anything other from this kind of hobby for that…[Read more]
Having stuff shipped straight to your door does help a bit for not having that much stuff at stores. I was amazed when I saw a photo on this blog of somekne doing shopping. Pair of slippers, shorts and one HG Banshee Destroy… Oh well…
‘least you see stuff like that in shops, here only the FEW real ‘hobby’ shops aka non chains, carry anything. only one shop in town carries gunplay, but i’m not dropping 80$ on an HG 1/100 wing kit (aka prices are insane or read why all his gunpla has 12′ of dust on it
80$ for a HG?! That’s just… WOW! 😐 It’s a price you should pay for an MG. It’s a price MG’s go for in stores. Damn, a guy that sells them here, ordering them from a dealer, with customs tax and other crap like those, his interest etc etc would sell you a Sinanju Stein for that price. Maybe 5$ more. And I consider them expensive and go straight…[Read more]
I guess it’s the same thing all over the world. If you want to cut costs, order your own stuff. Having to go to the customs office every time they “can’t read something” is another pain I feel whenever ordering anything from China, sometimes even HLJ stuff. It’s not that they can’t read, it’s that they’re lazy and don’t want to do so.
$20 + another 15 to get them shipped to me. If it is a highly recommended item I guess it’s worth having them. My old cutter’s going pretty dull and it ain’t going to get any better.
You’re as much of a money stealer as HLJ is! 😀 I’ve added it to my “to buy” list. About that Peak we’ve talked about, I’ve browsed what HLJ had in store and found the last HP-CS they had which surprisingly enough came out some 20€ – 27-8$ cheaper than the cheapest ebay Eclipse. It is more or less the same as that C3 but I went for it just b…[Read more]
I started with cheap nail clippers that I just had lying around as a part of a set that I never got to use. But they went pretty quick. Weak in nature and generaly not made to cut through plastuc they went dull and stopped closing propperly in a matter of 2-3 months. After that I had a pair of mini wire cutters that worked pretty well but they’re…[Read more]
Go big or go home. The largest HMM model is the Iron Kong – Schwarz custom. It is larger than the big Berserk Fury and the Geno Breaker. It will be fun to build.
Of course this guy isn’t out yet. hes just a prototype. Im thinking of getting the Psycho geno saurer myself, I’ll get ravens after I think. Would have loved to get a lighting saix. I’ll have to wait a while for hat to come out again.
Here’s another, the only other actually, complete HMM kit of mine, the gun sniper leena custom, unfortunately i didn’t have my photo booth when i build this one but i did take lots of WIP photos
A short question, of sorts. I’ve done seam lines before but sanding them propperly always came out hard to do or left surface not smooth enough for painting. Any advice? Using files and sanding sticks will do the trick but what grain? What would be my basic for sanding down excess glue roughly and then what grain should I get for that fine finish…[Read more]
Basically, to eliminate sanding scratches, you sand the surface again with a finer-grit sandpaper. The finer-grit sandpaper will make its own scratches, obviously, but they’ll be smaller. Continue the process through a few stages and the scratches will be small enough to be indistinguishable.
For most of my modeling work I use four sanding…[Read more]
I’m using polishing files for fingernails to sand things down. They are very flexible so you can use it on round parts and they have parts with very high grit to buff up and shine your nails. But it works on plastic parts really good to.
I myself am using a 240 for rough sanding, followed by a 1000 and after that I run it down with a flexible fingernail file for some fine polishing. I guess a flexible nail file is around 1500-2000 or so. A knife’s good too for that exess glue that’s easier cut than sanded. But still watned to read what the others use. This is a hobby where one can…[Read more]
Thanks a lot guys. I’ve already filled my bookmark list with some nice stuff. At the very least I have this year’s “to buy” list set. I guess I won’t be getting that Perfect Zeong any time soon so why not give this a go while I can!
Thanks again. If someone else has something to add, we’re all here to learn and compare our knowledge. You’re all welcome.
Question to anyone who can help me: I have finished panel lining my Gundam Kits, and i want to put a flat clear coat onto the kits, if i do this will this affect the panel lines in any way? or will it be completely fine? Thanks