/m/ — /gpg/ - Gunpla/Plamo General

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-=GIRLPLA GROUPBUILD=-

Build a kit featuring any brand of Girlpla, including but not limited to:
>Frame Arms Girl
>Megami Device
>30 Minute Sisters/Missions/Etc.
>Figure-Rise Standard
>Megalomaria
Additionally, any "Feminine" mechs like the Nobel Gundam or Valsione are fair game as well. What you do with your build in terms of theming is up to you so long as your base is "Feminine".

Send a description along with both WIP and Finished images of your build to gunplaplamo@gmail.com
START: 4/15/26
END: 7/31/26

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Post what you're working on!!!

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What the hell... My new "supposed to be an upgrade" compressor turned off by itself after 40 minutes of usage and it's EXTREMELY HOT with burnt smell. This is AS-186 clone tat everyone recommended. How the hell is it this bad? this issue NEVER happened with my cheap ass entry grade mini compressor even after 2 hours of continuous usage. am I doing this the wrong way? am I actually supposed to turn off the compressor after it accumulated enough air in the tank?

I need something to help me cope with wasting money on what I think is a junk

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>>23905999
This is my entry level $20 POWERHOUSE that I currently use as a glorified airbrush holder. never turning off by itself even after long session. maybe I should by 5 of this instead...
I also upgraded by airbrush from entry level to supposedly mid-tier "real" airbrush and don't feel significant difference..

>>23905999
>>23906001
/gpg/ bros I need your thoughts on this and compressor/airbrush gear in general. is this entire industry a huge scam? I feel like I just wasted $200, which is a lot for a poorfag like me :(

>>23906001
Been around a while. This one is a repurposed aquarium air pump disguised as an entry air compressor to scam idiots. It doesn't shut off after an hour or whatever because it's designed to work under moderate load 24/7 for years...just badly.

>>23905999
Was it running, like compressing for the entire 40 minutes? With a tank that size as long as the pressure is set to something reasonable (sub 30PSI) it should finish filling the tank within a minute or so. If it was just pumping continuously like your older little one, that's fucking bad and probably why it has now fused itself together. Honestly China saved you from a house fire, so thank Chang for the extended warranty on life.

That's the one I have now and I've used it for about 6 years. My old one was the same without the tank and it's been going strong for a decade.

>>23906013
I'm new to this and here's what I do with the compressor
1. tape the connector
2. install the pressure meter and connect to airbrush
3. turn on the compressor
4. let it run for 1 minute until it reaches 30psi
5. lock the working psi
6. start spraying
7. air pressure gets refilled constantly as I spray
8. 40 minutes later, it turned off by itself and became extremely hot.

I expected something like 2 hours spraying session with very little break (for switching paint and cleaning airbrush). is this an unreasonable demand? but I did that just fine with my entry mini compressor. I'm baffled that this real compressor can't even do that...

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>>23906020
Ok, but you say "lock the working PSI". Realistically you turn it on and turn it up or down to the PSI you want and the motor kicks OFF while the air tank is relatively close to that PSI until it drops beneath a threshold upon which it kicks back on to return to that threshold. Again, even if you're using it for fourty minutes it's likely on 20 min or less and at intervals. 30PSI is also a fucking LOT for paint. I paint synthetic acrylics, waterbased acrylics, enamel, and lacquer. All between 14-23PSI and the shit I spray at 23PSI is like...sludgy polyurethane weird paint I don't like.

30 is getting close to leather and clothes dyes that have to penetrate in like a shotgun at point blank to stay in during washes. 30PSI is my vehicle tires lol. You likely need to be closer to 18, and in the future if it was on for more than a minute or so at a time, I'd check for air leaks. A drop of dish soap in a spray bottle with water, spray the joints and look for leaks.

What you're describing at the end is a safety shutoff. Thank Chang, learn2airbrush friend (don't be a kid, learn a bit then try it so you don't ruin gear), live and learn.

>>23906042

G-guys?

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>>23906028
I kinda know what I did wrong, which someone said it's step no.5. I'm supposed to let the compressor pressurized and stop, and then set the working psi. But I'm still not sure since it still got really hot after 30 minutes and it only takes like 1-2 minutes of spraying until the compressor turns on again to fill the air pressure. and then it gets full/turn off after 1-2 minutes of not doing anything. isn't this too short of a working/filling up interval?

I also just noticed that my compressor's pipe is bent and it was like this since unboxing. what the hell.

>>23906054
You turn it down all the way first as well. Kinda looks like you got a return. Either way this would have caused a new one to struggle if not damaged it permanently. Turn it down a lot then turn it on. Let it get to pressure then stop itself, then adjust pressure up where you want.

Don't spray 30PSI unless you're spraying your own goo out of it bro. A 1L tank like that and 30PSI it's going to constantly be on. The pipe sucks but it won't be mission critical.

what's up with these compressors they don't just shut off when they reach a target pressure, you have to turn it off manually?

>>23906058
Some don't have a target pressure because they're too cheap. To pressurize you need something to pressurize. But a lot of them are like pancake/diaphragm with no place to put the pressurized air but the tubing to your airbrush. They tend to come with single action airbrushes as a result that have no air control. It's full blast all the time and tends to be ~12PSI fluctuating. I janked together one ages upon ages ago when I realized the fish tank pumps I had around was just itching to become the worst airbrush compressor it could be. Their PSI has this weird surging to it because of the nature of the diaphragm pushing like a lung pumping. It's so fast and small it's hard to notice until you realize how shit your paintjobs are. My kid's first one was one of the rechargeable ones like this, now he's using my old tankless one like everyone has from harbor freight.

>>23906061
NTA but I bought a chang compressor with my first airbrush
and then I bought an air tank that's like thrice the compressor's value, i let it run for a while to fill the tank and then spray
funy

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>>23906057
it's so fucking bent and worrying.. I'm definitely going to try returning this faulty compressor. Idk if I'd be able to since I live in a backwards country with rampant anti-consumer business practices.

>You turn it down all the way first as well
what do you mean? turn the regulator all the way left until 0 psi? I just cleared the air by pulling off the plug at the bottom (HUGE BOOM AIR SOUND) and the regulator is at 0 right now.

>Let it get to pressure then stop itself
Does it matter if the regulator lock is locked/unlocked while pressurizing?

>adjust pressure up where you want.
I did this by spraying the airbrush, not by turning the regulator valve. that's incorrect huh?

>Don't spray 30PSI
How much Psi is ideal for lacquer painting?

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Carried three models to local scale models festival, luckily some don't stand out as much as I feared they would.

>>23906068
I didn't know Poland had scale model festivals. I should have figured, I've been buying from mojehobby for a while.

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>>23906068
grandpa.....

>>23906070
Everyone over 18 is category "senior". Let that sink in...

after a lot of reading, I came to a conclusion that the bigger the tank, the better the compressor. more spraying session, less overheating. but with noises.

>>23906080
Senior is over 65.

>>23906087
30 is the new grandpa.

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>>23906083
Have no regrets buying this absolute unit of an air compressor, as noisy as it sounds when pumping air.

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A bootleg of Metal Build God Gundam kit

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>>23906097

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>>23906100
It gives two heads, one Metal Build and other RG

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>>23906097
Will the Chinamen be cool and include stuff for the 2nd form?

>>23906092
kafkaesque...

>>23906047
You have a unicorn fetish.

>>23906101
look at that fucking vfin
wew

Jun Toy Craft is my GOAT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMx2F171iwg

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Huh, I have never seen these box arts before. Are these some sort of special editions?

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>>23905969 (OP)
bandai xisters did we get too cocky?

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>>23906105
it includes a more chinkfied back fins if that's what you're talking about

>>23906165
Feels phoenix gundam inspired.

Redpill me on chinkpla, are there any reputable makers?

>>23906171
see the image 2 posts above you

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Done with the Hazel Icarus.

My yellow paint ran out in the middle of it so I tried to make up for it by adding thinner straight into the bottle. But that led to a whole other headache.

Basically, never cheap out bros. Ain't worth it.

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>>23906171
The only good ones are the ones that remake p bandai sets at non ass raping prices like JMS. I also like their box art.

>>23906171
SNAA and IN ERA are some big ones I think
I taken a look at a couple called Hemoxian and Earnestcore Craft and I think their stuff looks good

never bought anything thoughie

>>23906177
it pisses me off they did the Half Cannon but never the actual Zaku Cannon

What do you guys use to add weight to a kit's legs?

>>23906177
>at non ass raping prices
Pbandai kits are priced the same as retail, why are you poor and brown?

>>23906186
>why are you poor and brown?
I'm not, I'm british. You get p bandai sets for £70 on ebay or you don't get them.

>>23906182
Super glue some ball bearings inside of the feet.

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>>23906188
Im also british mate, why the fuck are you on ebay? You (and I) live in one of the few countries where the government won't demand you to pay extra tax to import.
Stalk mandarake or Surugaya (during their free shipping sales ) or buyee instead of looking at nigger scalpers on ebay and chinesium goyslop off temu.

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I'm American and I still don't know who this is.

>>23906200
Gunpla????

>>23906201
Maybe. Thats why I am asking the Brits. I dont know what a crumpet is either thats made up.

>>23906196
>chinesium goyslop
The absolute irony of saying this while building plastic robot toys as a hobby

>>23906196
>Stalk mandarake or Surugaya
Or I could get a slightly worse kit 10x easier for £10, think I will just stick with aliexpress.

>>23906200
That's a horse.

>>23906210
Is this like an Umamusume thing?

>>23906188
>british
>not poor and brown
?????

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>>23906213
Not brown, just poor.

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>>23906208
>waiting
>hard
>but praying the for the paki or nignog evri/yodel driver to not leave your package outside for some other brown to nick le easy
lmao
>>23906207
Cope and sneed. I will never touch bootleg shitters or those "third party" spikey chinkshit wannabe gundams.

>>23906217
My evri driver is a 50 year old bald white dude, we normally have a chat when he drops my stuff off, sorry you live in a city infested with browns though anon you should move to the countryside.

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American here. I'm glad we're all friends. :D

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What would he pilot? I said the Messala.