Great episode! Hope other kits from the double O line will be released in RG too. The prize of this week look great! Just wondering if Bandai will release UC kit in RG like RG Unicorn Gundam lol.
Also, Sazabee, your account on GE has been active since January 21st. Any account you’ve tried to register afterwards that share that ip would have been rejected.
Another cool episode! As I noticed from the gundamguys blog, there will be a 7/11 color version of the HG Unicorn Gundam. Since you guys are living in Japan, is it possible for you guys to grab one and film in on […]
Painted a few more parts last night. I got home late and didn’t have much time but I got the gold parts painted and I painted the thrusters with a gloss black base coat. Tonight I’m hoping to get a layer of Future onto the gold parts and possibly the frame parts as well. Might paint the 100% black parts while I’m at it.
Seems to be a surprisingly good metallic paint, pain to clean out of the airbrush though, or if the mix just a smidge too thick and having to give a quick blast into the exhaust fan.
1: I was able to get the frame parts of the Banshee Norn painted up. I used German Grey for the frame parts, on the 1.0 version I used a Gunmetalish paint. It really made the kit to dark in my opinion. So this time I went with German Grey, it’ll retain the dark scheme of the kit without making it, to dark.
I’ve been a fan of German Grey since I painted my MG Kampfer with it. It’s great stuff. And I think it’ll really give the Banshee a good look and feel. Better than my 1.0 version anyways.
And yeah, only time will tell. But hopefully this time it actually works.
If you look at the plate with all the Armed Armor DE parts. You’ll notice a long gray piece with a peg on each end. That part, is what the Unit 3 Phenex HG used to mount the twin DEs onto it’s backpack.
No kidding? That’s convenient. Especially since I’m going to pass on the Phenex; too expensive, and the gold plastic is ugly.
Speaking of gold, I might…MIGHT…paint the Norn’s “crown” with Gundam marker. Should be easy enough; I dig the orange look, but the gold might look a bit better.
Of course, this is all just idle speculation. The Norn…[Read more]
So over the weekend I was able to finish up de-nubbing the framework parts to the Banshee Norn. So it’s finally time to start painting. So far I have all the frame parts, all the Armed Armor DE parts, the entire backpack + Armed Armor XC, the entire waist section, parts of the chest and feet, and the entire head.
The head will most likely be completed 1st. But we’ll just have to wait and see what get’s done 1st.
It would also seem that I might be doing a favor for a friend of mine while I paint the Norn. We’ll see tomorrow as a few friends and I are making a trip to HobbyTown.
I bought the HGUC Norn Destroy Mode because of you. Should be arriving any day now…and I’ve got the head base to build, too. Dunno if I’m going to paint them, as they do look kinda cool by default, even if they’re not 100% “screen accurate” that way.
Yeah that is my goal with the Unicorn Mode. Make it as close to screen accurate as possible. The Destroy Mode on the other hand, will be a bit more personalized.
I kinda do want to keep it, but in the end it really doesn’t matter. One thing I noticed was that the Psycho Frame I painted in Display base is almost the same overall shade as the clear parts.
I received an email from MCGundam as I was leaving work yesterday. She was not aware of the issues with the forum, but said that she will get the tech into the process of fixing the issue as soon as she can. And to hopefully fix it so that it doesn’t happen again. So I guess for now, the waiting game continues.
That’s good, we got a response pretty quickly. I echo Zeta-G’s frustration with this, especially since it’s looking like the same exact issue that we were told wouldn’t happen anytime soon again.
Yeah this only happened untill the hacker, and after that it’s been a s*** storm, I don’t see how one hacker, screwed it up for months to come, either A. The IT Department needs an overhaul, or B. Someone is still f***ing with us and we just don’t see it.
When Bandai released the Build Strike Full packet, it’s reasonable to use the Strike RM’s frame since it is Remaster, but coming to the Build Mark II, I don’t really see the reason for using a frame from 2003. I […]
Hello Syd and Ryan.
I have a question: with the new Patlabor series live that will get out this year do you think we’ll have new kits going out with it?
Except for the D-Style all 1/35 kits are discontinued or out of stock and they are from a bit too old technology (2001). So I hope new MGs wil come out with the this new live series from Mamoru Oshii.
The zaku on this episode reminds me of the Unicorn gundam with full weapon. To be honest, I have not idea with that kind of design cause it result in low mobility. I wonder when will be my turn to win some kits. sign. lol
As always I’m first to comment to win the prizes.
I have a feeling that some people are waiting that a lot of comments appear before posting because this way they have more chance to win.
But guys it’s totally random, so number one has the same chances to win as any other numbers.
And as always very good show Syd and Ryan with lots of interesting…[Read more]
Nothing for me so far. I’m able to log in like normal.
Yep. I can’t get in. Keeps booting me out.
Same here.
I was just looking at posts 20 minutes ago, and now I’m looking at squat. ****. That didn’t last very long this time :\
It just started acting up for me, in the for sale trade section.
I tried it again just now and sure enough, it conked out.
Damnit this shit is pissing me off. If it wasn’t so expensive I’d open my own forum.
Where is this being hosted?
I mean surely our traffic isn’t that much… migrating this to a different server wouldn’t be too bad right?
Sad that it went down again though
Haha, maybe we should take up Squee’s offer and see if we can get a sub-forum on GE for us refugees.
I actually just finished registering there.
How? I can’t manage to get signed-up…
I don’t get the confirmation email though I signed up on that before Gundam Forums actually…
Did you play that video? You have to play the video and right down a phrase from in the field below it.
I did before and even had 2 Accounts registered without being approved by a Admin lol.
Just registered again and hopefully this one goes through 😐
Yeah, me too. A forum crash so soon? Got to draw the line somewhere.
Yeah, I’ll sign up there now.
We’re you approved already?
No. Well just have to wait and see what happens.
What’s GE?
Gundam Eclipse 😀
Gundam Eclipse.
Yep its down for me as well… kinda disappointing just started visiting it a couple of weeks ago.
It’s down for me as well. Can’t say that I’m surprised.
Forum seems to be back up again.
Sorry guys, i approved all your accts on GE, we have it set for admin approval so that we avoid spam and bots. Buuuut GF is back up so whatever lol
Also, Sazabee, your account on GE has been active since January 21st. Any account you’ve tried to register afterwards that share that ip would have been rejected.
Thanks Squee. And honestly when I saw that all new accounts must be approved by an admin, I thought that it was a great idea.