Hi everyone, this is my first real post, I guess 🙂 I’ve been building the HMM Shield Liger Bang Ver. I watched Zoids back when it was on TV when I was younger but haven’t really kept up on it since. But recently I’ve started looking at them in shops and realised how awesome they look, so I decided to give one a go.
No difficulties so far, lots of parts though so it’s comparable to a Master Grade I guess. I guess the thing that has tripped me up is that it has a very ‘raw’ industrial/mechanical look so you have layers of parts, it can be a bit difficult to picture what will be visible (so which part to detail) and what will be hidden. The manual only has…[Read more]
my advice, is to detail it all, even if your pretty sure it wont be seen once built, the hmm kits have a great habit of building the layers up so the details is very organic looking but in any one static pose alot is hidden, however once you move this and that into a new pose a large swarm of detail layers deep pops out, the iron kong is great for…[Read more]
you havent missed much in the zoids anime world haha everything passed NC and CC arent worth the time it takes to read the terrible subtitles. liger is looking good though, still need to get me a liger!
I think it was Hobby Japan a couple of months ago that had an article on this kit, it was absolutely gorgeous. I’d never seriously considered building a Zoids kit until I saw the article. I hunted through shops in Tokyo for a good month looking for it until I ended up ordering it from a shop in Osaka… then the next week finding it in Tokyo…[Read more]
Looking good!
Wow , that’s look really nice ^^ awesome job, take more photos when its done or WIP ^^
wow nice looks awsome so far, difficult to build?
No difficulties so far, lots of parts though so it’s comparable to a Master Grade I guess. I guess the thing that has tripped me up is that it has a very ‘raw’ industrial/mechanical look so you have layers of parts, it can be a bit difficult to picture what will be visible (so which part to detail) and what will be hidden. The manual only has…[Read more]
my advice, is to detail it all, even if your pretty sure it wont be seen once built, the hmm kits have a great habit of building the layers up so the details is very organic looking but in any one static pose alot is hidden, however once you move this and that into a new pose a large swarm of detail layers deep pops out, the iron kong is great for…[Read more]
Ah I see, at the moment he’s more of a robot worm than a tiger so I can’t really appreciate the posability and viewing angles yet, haha. Cheers!
you havent missed much in the zoids anime world haha everything passed NC and CC arent worth the time it takes to read the terrible subtitles. liger is looking good though, still need to get me a liger!