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Most people wash the runners before they start the building process. Personally I don’t. I snip the pieces of the runners, sort them by limbs, sand down the nubs and then do the washing as this gets rid of the dust from the sanding. Them I suggest getting a good plastic primer. You could do without, but for me in the past I noticed that paint…[Read more]

First spray the primer, then optionally a gloss black (due to the high shine, the shine of the silver “deepens”, you could first try the colours on a plastic spoon for comparison, that’s how I test colours out, how many layers and such without messing up the model),
the silver base, optional an enamel gloss clear coat (if the paint you’re using…[Read more]

At the start of every month Bandai will update this page http://bandai-hobby.net/site/schedule.html with the PDF of restocks and new releases for that month.
If you can’t speak Japanese then you can just copy the PDF’s url into Google Translate and open it up.
Unfortunately we can only see the month we’re in but it’s better than nothing 🙂

Well if they’re going to Tokyo then you can get all sorts of cool exclusive kits at Gundam Front Tokyo as well as see the 18m tall Rx-78 2.
The prices aren’t too bad at GFT but there are a few large shops which have wide range of reasonably priced regular release Gundams, easiest to find for me was in Akihabara. But if you’re keen on Japan…[Read more]

Of course, what Nick said is very much true, but for some more ideas I recommend checking out the YouTube channel of Mokanaman. He went to Japan last November and has some videos about this. He mentions some big places and even some little moms&pops places where you can get some really obscure kits for next to nothing. Knowing Alan he’ll be glad…[Read more]

I would say a metallic black for the orange and a midnight blue for the red, first colors that come to mind

Welcome to the hobby! Hope you’ll enjoy it as much as i do.
Myself, I use the hobbyknife”s point to peal off the sticker, insuring the blunt side of the knife is facing up, so I don’t cut in the actual sticker itself. I make sure the knife is placed on the long side of the sticker and as most in the middle of this side as possible. The knife is…[Read more]

Can’t believe no one has a 1/144 scale Barbatos here on this site……. Wait! The answer doesn’t obtain one a free Gunpla!!!
Anyways, looked it up for you, as I recalled Henry A.K.A. vegeta8259 made his own mace and shows a picture of the dimensions:

Hope this helps you out. Good luck and happy building!

There is speculation that the 1/100 Gundam Barbatos 6th form will include parts for the 5th from Barabatos as well as the mace which features and extending lance gimmick (and doesn’t have the point rounded off like the 1/144 version), but HLJ do not appear to have any official photos to confirm this.

Looks like lots of PGs are getting restocked by Bandai on the 24th (including the Strike Rouge), so if there’s one site you’re looking at getting it from then they may be getting some more soon. http://bandai-hobby.net/site/schedule_images/nouhin.pdf

Hi there,
1 I have got a 1/100 HG Wing Gundam from I believe 2001. It had “mechie” plated gold parts and those are as pristine as the day they came out of the box. So you don’t need to put anything on it. There is however a product from Model Master which is designed for putting over metalizers without ruining the sheen, which most clear coats…[Read more]

1: as Teetee said, the way that Bandai painted the gold parts they will survive fine as is. Although if you want to protect it from scratches then a gloss coat will be fine.

2: There aren’t really any “fixes” for the shield, so I can only really offer posing advise sorry.
For my Banshee I made sure that the shield peg is as close to the centre of…[Read more]

You need to cut the decal from the sheet. You can do this by either using a knife or a pair of scissors. There is no need to cut them along the pre-cut line, or else there would be no need for the pre-cut….
If you leave some excess paper next to the decal when you cut it, you can use this in your advantage to be holding the paper with a set of…[Read more]