TRINKETS
this thing came with so many weapons for some reason like, dude
you
can't hold all that shit. like, a pair of smg looking guns, a pair
of
pistols, a normal plasma rifle, a minigun, shoulder mounted
cannons,
3 swords, and a knife. complete overkill but it's sick
as fuck. it came
with a stand too so that's super nice, they
probably knew there was
no way people were posing this thing
standing with the heavy ass
wing pack
blue boy. blue ass motherfucker. get outta here. i like this
one
a lot, i've always loved the bulkiness of zakus. i want to
give
him a big ol smooch on his one big eyeball.
woah buddy, save some swag for the rest of us. the wings on this one
are really sick, like
mechanical angel wings almost. they can
collapse in on themselves too which is nice, but
it looks way
cooler when they're out so like, why would i pose it with them in. i
like the whip
but it seems hard to pose so i just posed it so
that i wouldn't have to think about that lol.
the pile bunker may be the coolest mecha weapon i think. fuck
lasers
and missiles and shit. you, me, big metal spike, in your
cranium,
now. the shoulder missiles are cool and i love the helmet.
i
still haven't played super robot wars but building this little guy
has
def given me a little extra shove in that direction.
got this one at a con. it's from 1988 so it's cool as shit, but tbh
idk if i'd wanna build
another lol. the build quality is kind of
poor and it's kind of fragile (which i expected tbh).
the big fin
on the back, as sick as it is and as much as i love it, feels like
it'll fall out if i
pick it up or if it gets nudged slightly.
plus it throws it off balance a lot so posing was tough.
sick
novelty though, i'd love to paint it one day
update: as of 9/10/24 it fell over and the fin came off and idk how to put it back on
so it's back in the box now, rip
cool asf. i'm really sad about this one cause i fucked up the minigun
it's
supposed to have, there was a bit of wire or something
that's supposed to be a
clip that attaches from the gun to a
backpack, but i clipped it short so that screwed
it up a bit.
originally i was just gonna not have the clip, which worked fine,
but
i ended up realizing that posing it so that it's got all the
in-built missile launchers
opened and facing forward could be
sick as fuck so i went with that.
lucky the wings on this thing are big enough that they basically
function as an
extra pair of legs, no way this motherfucker was
getting posed without a stand
otherwise. there's a rifle that
comes with it that you can combine with the sword
to make an even
bigger sword but honestly at that point it's like, comically big,
so
i just went with the little sword and shield for it.
i wanna have this one standing on its hind legs so bad it's unreal.
real
centaur shit. but alas, gravity and balance exist so he gets to
stand
on all four of his legs. i like the pose i got it in
though, it's kinda
flamboyant which i think is cool for a
horse-adjacent guy. i'm never
happy with the arms though, i feel
like they look kind of awkward.
i've redone them like 10 times and every time i end up going "ehhhh"
dude i'm so fucking mad i lost the box for this one. it's supposed to
have
a cool ass mask that i didn't put on it for some reason,
kick effects, a second
sword, fuckin TONFAS. an actual tragedy.
idk what i was thinking. if i had
a time machine the first thing
i'd do is shake my little brain and scream at
myself to not lose
that box. anyways, it's kinda cool ig. without the mask it's
kinda
generic. at least only having the one sword gives me an excuse to
do
a cool kendoish stance
red boy. red ass motherfucker. get outta here. since the bbg (big blue
gouf)
has its minigun out i figured i'd do the other gouf custom
weapons on this one.
the sword is kinda eh i think but i'm a huge
fan of the 3-barrel machine gun.
if i ever get a third one of
these for whatever reason i'll have to find a cool pose
to show
off the heat wire.
really nice for someone's first gundam. it was like my 4th but
y'know.
i found it super cheap at a local store and it felt like
it would be sacreligious
to not have an rx-78-2 in my collection.
i'd build like 30 of these though,
they're quick and easy and fun
so it's a nice little thing.
when i finished up this page yesterday (7/18/24) i had the description on the
strike e as p much "waowww shoulder mounted guns are so cool
sighhh
reminds me of guncannon.... i wanna build guncannon
sighhhhhhhhh........."
and then today i went to a hobby shop and
boom, they had guncannon. it
was meant to be. he's so fucking
cool man, the legs on this one felt a lot more
articulate than a lot
of others i've built, which makes sense seeing as you can't
have
guncannon without putting the little freak on all fours. it came
with a core
fighter too which was really cool. you can have it
inside the gundam like usual
but they also gave it a second fake
core fighter that you can put inside so you
can have the real one
out which is really nice. i love you guncannon.............
this one's pretty cool. i like how the shield can stand on its own, feels very
fitting for a sniper. there were pieces here and there that felt really weird
to work with, the hands didn't feel quite right but held together fine and the
legs were really tough to click in the sockets but the rest feels really sturdy.
not a ton to say, just a really solid model all around. i wanna fuck with the
pose more and get it aiming down sights or something eventually but i'm
tired rn and don't feel like fucking around with that lol
my first ever real grade. conesensus? eh. i really like how posable the legs are,
those feel really good. couple weird pieces here and there that didn't really wanna stay
put. i accidentally snapped a joint in the right arm because i'm stupid so i can't really
pose it, if i try to position it at the elbow it just flops back down. on the plus side the
katana is so fucking cool. i love the reflective color they used for the blade and the goldish
color on the guard and hilt is pretty nice. a little detail i like a lot is that the blade
kinda sticks in the sheathe and you have to pop it out like an actual katana. all in all idk,
it's got its ups and downs but all in all i think it's pretty good. definitely prefer
master grades still though
this one's really cool, not a ton to say on the kit itself. it's solid, the little nylon bits
you put on some of the tubes on the legs are a neat little detail. my only complaint about the kit
itself is that there's a connector piece in the legs that the instructions tell you to put in backwards
which was kind of shitty. i liked the kit a lot all in all and when i finished it i though "hm.....
this would be a cool kit to try doing decals on........." i've never done decals beyond the easy couple
of stickers that are part of the instructions. so i gave the dry application decals a shot and hooooooly
shit i am not built for that. i decided to start with the shield since that's pretty flat and seemed easy.
first decal i kinda flubbed but it looked fine, second decal was pretty good, not only did i put the third
decal on upside down so it got stuck to the masking tape instead of the model, but in the process of putting
it on i scuffed a good amount of the second decal off. the second and third decals were the only two that
there were only one of each of. so yeah, womp womp. after that i just did the two shoulders before getting
bored and giving up. i wanna go back and finish the job eventually but damn, i can only scribble on masking
tape with a pen so many times before i need to do something else. sorry this one is 65% me complaining
about decals i really like this kit
felt like doing something easy today. this guy is tiny, having built so many hgs lately it felt a lot
smaller than it actually is, but it's still noticable smaller than my other hgs. super simple build, only
3 sets of sprues, no unused extra pieces, no extra sets of hands to swap in and out, just the guy and
a few different choices of which stickers to use on the chest. went with pink cause i thought it was cute.
he feels pretty fragile, the limbs are all a little weird to move around cause they can just slide out of
the socket if you're not careful, but for a kit i got for like 15 bucks and as just a quick build to give
me something to do he's awesome. it's weird that this is only my third zaku i've built cause i love how bulky
they are so much, a lot of them are way cooler than a lot of gundams i think
guncannon phenotype, instant good. i fucked up a bit of the chest piece and now there's a little crack under
the vents but it's not really noticeable. also i really do not like the hands on this one. the only hands in
the kit are articulated and they kinda suck at holding the weapons it came with. yucky yucky. like, i get the
idea of articulated hands, i can grasp the concept, but in practice molded hands are just so much more
convenient 99% of the time. anywayz cool guy idk how long this pose will last but it looks neat and the guy's
neat and fuck yeah
my first non-mecha model kit (excluding a stealth bomber i did when i was like 13 that is probably in
pieces in my closet rn). very nice kit, got it at a con from a really nice old japanese guy who also
happened to sell me the okayu figure in the background at a different con. while i disagree with some of
his gundam opinions (thinks a perfect grade rx 78 ii would be more worth it than a perfect grade zaku ii)
he sold me the kit for a really good price so we're chill. anyways, the kit, it's weird to see how much
more flexible she is than the average gundam, it's very freeing. i probably could've done some cooler
pose than this but i wanted to kinda have miku sicking tamotu on someone and i think it looks good enough.
my only complaint is the waist, when i was trying to attach them to the rest of the body they kept kinda
bursting apart, took like 4 tries. can't argue with the results though, thank you hatsoni mikey.
