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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

>>11816347 (OP)
Is the "ACKS No.MP-01 Patlabor 1/43 AV-98 Ingram Type 1 + Type 98 Special Command Vehicle Set Plastic Model" a good purchase / pre-order? I've always wanted an AV-98 but could never make up my mind about which one since there are so many of them by now. Is there one that is more accurate to the actual design?

I've been too cautious in the past and end missing up on pre-orders, but I also don't like dealing with buyers' remorse, nor like having more than one item per character / mecha. Basically I'm looking for an excuse to not jump the gun and pre-order it, specially since I've cancelled one too many orders lately and might be getting close to an unfavourable standing at AmiAmi (and it's hard to cancel at HobbySearch).

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>>11816384
Forgot the pic.

>>11816320
I hope so, I want to buy another and repaint it into a virus Metal.

>>11816689
5$ says they do a virus ver but its p bandai

>>11816796
Please don't jinx it.

The japanese are still seething at this something fierce >>11804986

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>>11818377
>Oh no no no how can the Chinese robs me of waiting for another decade if not decades for my design coming into 3d form?

>>11818432
I like that their argument is "the author doesn't get royalties" as if bandai not releasing them gets him any royalties. Tree falling in the forest.

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not really a gunpla person but this caught my interest. Are there any other vehicles or sets like it? also if I put a zaku on it will the gundam police get me?

>>11818723
There's a couple for Kyokai Senki, a ground carrier and a VTOL.

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>>11818723
There's also a carrier truck from another non-gundam show
https://bandai-hobby.net/item/01_3691/
>also if I put a zaku on it will the gundam police get me?
No worries as long as you don't put their competitor's toys on it...

>>11818743
>>11818745
Neat, I love utilitarian, chunky functional vehicles. I also just found out there was a whole line for little simple kits (30 minute missions apparently) so I might get the truck and a mech/vehicle to go with it (rather than just slap whatever transformer I have on it that fits)
Thanks anons

Are there any good sites, outside of cgtrader and cults3d, that has or sells conversion kits, detail parts, etc for 3d printing?

>>11818432
Didn't the actual artist get kind of annoyed too?

>>11818812
Aliexpress

>>11818869
eh?

>>11818867
Not gonna lie, i would be annoyed too if i was the artist, but also i would be even more annoyed at bandai for releasing a fuckload of bearguys and not give my acguy a shot.

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progress with the MG F91

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>>11818723
>>11818781
Pic related just came out today in Japan, should be out in the west in a month or 2.

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>>11818945
You can find a lot of things like that on Aliexpress because most of them are from China anyway. That's also where I buy third party kits because they sell them for pretty much nothing too.
I'd use a burner email though, the spam is the worst.

>>11819126
Wait I missed the 3d printing part. In that case I don't know, maybe you can find that there too.

The 30mm Steel Haze kit still pretty fragile?

Is RG Zaku II as much of a pain in the ass to build? I don't even care about gundam but i just kinda want a zaku.

>>11819305
I know the pipe segments suck, there's a few bits that like to pop off, and if you pose it a lot the joints will get floppy because it's an early RG with a full pre-molded frame.

>>11819412
Not gonna bother then. I have enough bad luck getting joints to stay still as it is.

>>11819419
I'd just get an HG kit

>>11819022
>should be out in the west in a month or 2.
more like in a year or two.

>PG Tier Laevatein kit from FMP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jhavHtewL8

holy shit

>>11818977
If I was the artist I would be making my own conversion kits.
3D Printers are cheap nowadays.

>>11819952
Isn't he busy drawing manga for a living? I've heard that industry is pretty brutal and a considerable number of mangakas work themselves into an early grave.

>>11819545
>https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0G2Q5B7BX/
pretty sure DHL can reach "The West" in a day or two lol

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Not sure if this or the star wars thread is the right one, but i'm still new to kits. About this gap here, is this when i should disassemble it and sand down the pegs? Or maybe glue is the solution?

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Let's say a part from your kit is gone and it's never coming back.
You take this opportunity to make the part more accurate to the subject, right?

>>11820696
Needs seam filler. Do you plan to panel line it later? That gap probably won't stand out if you panel line