Huh. It's interesting seeing the photo walkthrough of the process.
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I love building Gundam kits. Haven't done it in a while though. I'd KILL for this kit though. But I'm broke. :(
I remember one time building a 1/60 scale G Gundam complete with individual moving fingers. Told someone I knew about it. He didn't beliebe me do I showed him. Complete with the bird flipped. :P
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Whew! I clicked on the link bracing myself for a hundred dollar price tag or something, but it's not too bad. You'll be able to afford it eventually.
1/60 sounds... quite large. I don't know where I'd store something like that.
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Awesome. :) It's gotta feel satisfying completing one.
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I bought lots of model kits like yours, but don't have time to build them. lol
(1/144 scale costs about 10~15 dollars here. :P
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Wow- That's a great price, assuming what you're talking about is anywhere near USD. I'd certainly be more inclined to buy another kit if they were that much over here.
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yeah the price i mentioned was in USD.
maybe this site could solve the shield problem?
http://dalong.net/review/hg/h116/h116_p.htm
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It did! Thanks to those pictures I was able to figure out that I had attached the vambrace pieces upside-down. I flipped them and the shield attaches perfectly now. Much appreciated!
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I just finished MG Sinanju the day before yesterday
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Very nice! I was trying to see how the shield is connected to his arm(like I said in the imgur post, I couldn't get them connect on mine), but I guess yours is a different model(?) so it might connect differently.
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Cool model. Cute cats and dog.
Do you want a mouse?
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it took 8 hours for me and my brother to build this
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My god that Gundam looks amazing! Kudos for building it, I built about 6 small Gundam Wing models, they weren't nearly as hard as this one though!
Edit: OMFG... it costed you a $1... I'm so jelly
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Thank you! It was a nice little challenge.
If it's any consolation, this is the first good deal I've found at a garage sale in about a year. :P
Although I did get a gamecube and about 20 games for a Jefferson on the same day :o
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Wow... dude, you just collected on a shit ton of good karma on that day! Probably there was some guy who had a heart attack that his mom or spouse gave away his stuff for pennies, lol.
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Well, each of the 2 purchases was at a different house, and I spoke to the guy who used to own the cube. He just didn't want it any more. No idea about the backstory to the gundam though.
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Well.. I have a friend that collect those and pays a lot of money for them and collect them.. he has a whole side room full of gundum and other robot models. I use to go to his place a few times a month to help him build them because it's just so much works... But that piece u have probablly should worth way more then 1$...
3 hours is pretty decent timing for building a piece like that.
There are gundum out there 5-10 times of it's size for you to build if you can find them on some online shops.
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Wow- 10x bigger sounds enormous. I'd like to try one of those if I had the chance, but I don't know where I'd store it!
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http://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.M7c00c87c13d5e7919e54fbc2379c1113o0&w=300&h=300&p=0&pid=1.7
And here is some info about one of them and how much it cost.
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2007/01/30/life-sized-gundam-figure-released/
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Gigantic! And dat price tag >.<
It's not as big as those ones, but someone on the imgur post pointed out that the very model I built has a 3 foot tall bigger robot it can pilot:
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That's really cool! I'd probably never be able to build something like that on my own ahahah, I'm too stupid and clumsy :'D...
I loved the way you 'told us your story' ,so to say. It was fun to read 8D
+brownie points for adding pictures with the family's pets :D
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Don't be too hard on yourself! I'm a little clumsy myself and wasn't sure if I could build this one, but it was easier than I thought.
I'm glad you liked the post!
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BTW.. if u really had fun building it.. try to get a set of
1/100 YF-21 Perfect Variable
or
Evangelion Technique Impossible
or
Ome Oye Toys Banshee garage kit
They are much harder and fun.
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meanwhile thats too hard for me ;-; https://nevalalee.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/billy-instructions.jpg
well congrats on getting it and have fun building it :D
P.S. sorry for not making a link i am just too lazy to find out how to do it orz
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Har! I don't blame you though, those things can be deceptively hard!
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Congrats on your first Gundam! :D
I would have totally snatched that up too if I was you :)
I never built a model, but I made some figurines from scratch myself, for example Cactuar from Final Fantasy VIII.
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Yikes, I'd never be able to sculpt something from scratch. Pics?
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Oh wow. Used to build models as a kid too but they weren't exactly cheap. Good memories of Tamiya and Revell kits.
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I want to build an empire.
Do Legos count?
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well, the only model i ever did was a plastic plane so crappy that it fell apart in my hands .-.
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I have this Metal Gear Rex model, I'm still half way in completing it due to lack of time. :/
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Very cool! I love to build with knex ... I'll try to post a pic of something...
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I started to do something like this 1,5 year ago (made all engines), but then I lost motivation to end and it lays somewhere under tons of dust xD
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Aww! Too bad, it looks pretty neat. maybe you'll dig it out and finish it eventually.
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Yes, that was the worst part. I wish the pieces didn't come attached to those sheets, but I'm not sure what a better way to do it would be.
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Amazing work. Did you know there are videogames of the Gundam series?
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I figured there must be. I'm not a Gundam fan in general, so I've never really paid much attention. According to wikipedia, though, there's quite a few.
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Congrats on your Gundam, I hope to see the final result.
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A model robot. And I documented my progress on Imgur. Take a look if you want. Have you ever built something like this? How did you like it?
Related giveaway.
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