They are less expensive than garage kits, yet have higher detail than regular plastic models. Although they are usually in scale, vessels such as the Argama and White Base are in Released in , it uses the scale for armored fighting vehicles. Kits can be bundled with soldiers, firearms, vehicles and MS parts. A large-sized Gunpla line in the scale, it was introduced on March 6, as part of the Gundam 30th Anniversary. Introduced in and made in China, the line was marketed to emerging markets in Asia.
As such, the kits were molded in one color and contained no polycaps, but featured the snap-fit assembly of current kits. The three Gunpla in this line used designs based on their Perfect Grade counterparts. As these kits are limited in articulation and require glue for the early kits and paint to assemble, these have retroactively been categorized as No Grade NG , to differentiate them from First Grade FG.
Most of these kits belong to continuities other than Universal Century and were released starting in the late s and throughout the '90s. These series include:.
A special limited release sold at events such as the "Gundam Expo. In , Bandai Spirits announced a series of model kits based on the design of the scale walking RX Gundam, located in the Port of Yokohama, Japan. These models are not assigned any grade, are in varying scales and have the detail level of High Grade model kits.
Since , Bandai has also released a number of action figure lines which feature articulation similar to Gunpla kits and which are often similarly sized to one of the Gunpla scales, although usually considered non-scale.
They range from toys to what could be considered finished models. For trade shows and toy fairs, Bandai displays some extremely large models in or scale.
True to the scaling, some of these models are well over 5 feet 1. Although most of these are one off promotional models used for display purposes, Bandai has produced a few of these for commercial purposes under their HY2M line. Upon buying a Gunpla model kit, the buyer will receive several "runners" that either snap-fit most post models or require glue older models prior to to put together.
The runners include all of the kit's parts inside of a tree-like mold. There is also manual used for building the kit, and possibly decals, which are sometimes not provided in lower-grade kits. Popular tools used to cut the molds out of the runners include side-cutters and a hobby knife. The runners provide a code used to differentiate each part from another.
By following the manual, cut out the according parts needed from the runner and proceed to snap the parts together. These steps will become a repetitive process as there are several parts needed to be cut and snapped together. Another step that many builders also do is to remove "nub-marks", which are leftover piece of plastic from the runners. Tools used to remove the excess plastic are sandpaper and a hobby knife. Overdoing this process could result in damaging the whole part.
The provided decals and stickers are used to display extra details, colors and markings as seen in the show, movies, manga or video games.
God help us modelers! Anyway, I have learned a lot in cutting, painting and building the parts. Let me enumerate my learnings for better comprehension:. Guess what happens to the paint when it has not fully cured and subject it to finger pressure during the attachment of the armor pieces.
What do you have? An uneven ugly coat of lacquer paint! And it takes longer to cure because of the thick coat! This KO kit is known for tight joints, so a really big mistake I made was painting the joints too!
A very bad idea! This is one of the most unwise things that I did to a kit! This is the part where my enthusiasm came to a downfall. Since the joints are already tight, painting the joints adds to the tightness of the joints!
I could have easily fixed this by scraping of the paint off the joints.. I broke the left shoulder joint, left hand joint and the left wing joint! After breaking these parts then that I decided to scrape off the paint on the remaining joints before I break everything. What do you expect?
I was too excited.. Here are my observations for this KO kit:. And the springs for the power connectors too! The armor parts are normally matte in finish unlike normal bandai kits that are semi glossy , a positive for those who want their Sinanju to be matte. If it were not for my stupidity and breaking of joints, the inner frame has an amazing articulation! Some of the red armor parts are too thin that it becomes translucent when shone in a bright light. The white parts have a very rough uneven surface.
Bosny lacquer spray No. After all you have been though in hand painting emblems and carefully rubbing the dry transfer decals and carefully panel lining.. So sad.. Put simply, waterslide decals are heaven for modelers compared to dry transfer ones, dry transfer ones are hell!
Plastic cement melts acrylic and lacquer paint. I laughed at myself for not realizing this earlier! So here are my unmotivated photos! I will definitely do better next time! But nonetheless, this was a great project! Sir sorry kung late, opo, sa dragon momoko, di ko lang po alam yung tt hongli, may hg at mg po, kaka bili ko lang po nung hg age 1 spallow pero meron din normal at titus dun or greenhills best bet mo para makabili.
Gundam 00, 00 Seven Swords, Condenser Type, etc…. Alam nyo po ba kung saan nakakabili nh PG na red astray na bootleg either hongli or momoka? Mind if I ask you where you got this kit from? Next is Daban, i would say details is average, minimum decals and plastic is a step lower in quality with DM. TT Hong Li, really feels cheap, that is how i would describe it.
Plastic feels very cheap, breaks off easily, and very little decals. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account.
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Maybe they wanna re-use the old defective runners in order to get more buck for their bangs Like Like. Or was it to get more bangs for their buck? Perhaps there is a possibility about your idea… Thanks for sharing bro!
My question is where can I buy legit gunplas and also where can one acquire these knockoffs both of them mentioned Thanks Like Like. They inflate the price of Gundam… That is why we are left buying from the grey market instead… Like Like.
I wanna buy a unit. All they have to do is lower the price considerably and that will solve the bootleg problem. I have spoken to Bandai Japan personel, this is a bootleg company and not related in anyway to Bandai Like Like.
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