This is just a follow up post. Here is the finished Gaplant TR-5 Hrairoo I picked up for our Gunpla/chili party. Thanks again for the shout out, gentlemen.
Hi all just want you guys to know that I’m a complete NOOB to Gumpla.
Came across Gumpla tv while searching for kits to purchase @ Hobbylink , and found out how accessible the hobby is to all ages & skill levels .
I’m four weeks into my first build & loving it! Can’t wait to complete the build & paint job so I can upload some image…[Read more]
WOOHOO, The VF-1S has arrived. oh, sorry Ryan, Yay! Ryan is showing more PG 🙂 seriously, i’m jealous Ryan, i haven’t built a PG yet. soon…..very soon 😉
if your concerned with scraping and such, specially on an frame, your best to yes use enamal or lacquer. enamals can take a bit of wear but lacquers will stand up the best especially in joint areas. while acrylics will be totally shredded
IS this the Wing Gundam that’s coming out in MG version? Looks slightly different from the photos someone shared. This guy is the 1/60 version (displayed at my office cubicle which is starting to look like the HLJ office! 😛 )
@superxvegito, yes, it does transform (@ryan, *winkwink* again) but it’s quite a simple transformation process, nothing complicated. You kinda put the shield over the head, spread the wings on the backpack, fold the feet and that’s pretty much it. But then again, this is technoiogy circa 1995. Pretty good for its time i must say…
i’ve got this one sitting at home on my shelf, it was the third gundam i had done, when i started……well lets just say quite awhile ago 🙂 (mid 90’s sounds familiar)
back then it was hard to find gundam where i live so you grabbed whatever you saw. i gave it my best effort back then but had to do touch ups later once i got a little more skill
While it looks like the Wing Zero Gundam the MG coming out is the protozero, what this really means I have no idea but expect revisions to the actual design much like what they did to the other wing MG kits
proto zero means it’s prolly the original wing zero, It is mentioned somewhere that one was made by the scientists before Quatre Raberba Winner made the one thats seen in the show. However at the time it was , like the Tallgeese , too powerful but also because of the Zero system too dangerous for anyone at the time to safely use so they destroyed it
I may as well answer the question of the week regarding birthdays, I certainly don’t request any Gundam/ model kits as gifts, while I would have excitement to what someone would choose. But I generally prefer to receive other non-nerdy things.
Don’t you wish Pacific Rim was full of Gundams instead? I need Del Toro to wash away the memories (or rather nightmare) that was G-Saviour. Belch. But having said that I look fwd to the movie!!
My thoughts exactly. Sitting there with the previews, I thought wow this would be sort of what a Gundam movie may look like today. I hope it happens. I heard that a Japanese company was working with Sony Pictures in the states on making one. But we all know how rumors are.
What?? For real? Hmmm don’t the Bandai execs ever leave their office? Lol… by the way the mechas in Pacific Rim looks like they are much larger than Gundams I think?
I remember Rrobbert184 said http://www.gundammovie.com (or slight variation) had been bought by Sony. I’m hopping if Pacific Rim does well it’ll show there is a market for a Gundam movie in the mainstream West.
Nice work, this reminds me of one of the first kits I bought in Japan, it might be the same 🙂
Thank you. When did you end up coming to Japan any way Ryan?
End of 2009.
It may very well have been, the kit came out in December 2006. The model is very robust when compared to the other HG 1/144 gunpla we have.