#gunpla

[newtype-difference]

I was gonna wait until I panel lined this kit before posting it, but I ordered some special markers to use for this and other kits but they won't be arriving for another while, so I decided to just post it out-of-the-box. It's the Beguir-Beu from the gwitch prologue!

What a lovely simple and quick kit to build! It only took me one night to finish it and I gotta say the colours and aesthetics of this mobile suit are stunning. It's like a butterfly angel bird and it's just beautiful. The unique weapons it has definitely add to the great aesthetics.

Lots of little details to panel line and I love how the stickers are used under the clear parts to reflect the light. You get stickers to put over the clear parts on the head which I don't get, so I went without head stickers. I think it looks a lot better with just the clear parts.

The drones on the backpack are cool and it's nice that they give you a little stand for them, but it's so flimsy that the joints on it loosened up massively within like 3 days and my efforts to tighten them have been in vain. i think they look better attached to the back anyways so I'm not too miffed about it.

My biggest gripe with this kit is the fact that the blades don't rotate on the hand when it's holding it's weapons. The whole apparatus for it is like 3 separate parts and the arm blasters attach to the blade (which is held by the actual hand) as well as the arm cuffs which don't rotate, meaning the blades don't really rotate and the hands are in a fixed position when holding the weapons. Bit disappointing but I still enjoy the unique design of the weapons overall.

The articulation on this kit is really good, though the arms are missing the double joints on the elbow which most gwitch kits have, which is slightly disappointing. That being said, the range of motion this thing can pull of is still really impressive, and despite the feet being really weird it stands pretty solidly.

[bell-art-design]

I know I’m not the biggest Gundam blog, but I figured I’d give an explanation of newtypes for new fans getting into the Universal Century. (Or at least my understanding/ perspective of newtypes.)

To start, as people in the universal century begin to live in space, their “souls are no longer held down by gravity.” Through, this, humans are and will be able to truly understand each other.

A lot of characters in Zeta Gundam talk a lot about sensing each other’s wills, I have always understood this as that understanding that newtypes gain of each other. Since they can understand the will of another person, they can understand their motives and their reasoning.

This makes them better pilots, because once someone tries to kill them, or fire a weapon at them, they can sense the others will, and respond accordingly quicker than a normal person would.

[lapsedpacifist]

Doing some colour tests for my next project

[l-crimson-l]

Somethin somethin trans your robot

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[pastelraccoons]

Now that I'm a bit more comfortable with sharing my builds, here's my most recently finished one.

Chuchu's Demi-Trainer was such a fun build for me. Something about the shapes for this suit and how it was put together was just so pleasing? Getting the arms to cooperate to make the weapon sit halfway decent wasn't so fun, though.

(Also, I noticed part of the kit didn't have its panel line cleaned up after I took these photos. I really liked these pics and don't really want to retake 'em. It's since been fixed c:)

[filthyneverdie]

GUNDAM AERIAL REBUILD

YouTube - ZEON REMNANT

[qqchurch]

would you download a gundam?

[die-nasty-warriors]

was in yodobashi camera yesterday and I saw this neat little lad

wait.. enhance

[paperfoxarthole]

I don't know how to use this site

[arcadebroke]

[winonaparadise]

streamer discovers misogyny still exists ⁉️

[icesisonline]

I know the feeling

[lapsedpacifist]

Hey, sorry to pester you, but I recently got into gunpla and heavily customized builds are my favorite thing, and your work is amazing. Do you have any videos or guides going over your process? If not then do you have any other creators you think would be good to learn from?

Not pestering at all. I have often thought about filming my process, but it's not terribly coherent and to be honest, I'd rather spend the time building and painting rather than editing videos.

As for other creators, I wish there were more english language creators I could recommend that show their process, I'd say check out Millennial Model Mayhem. He does a lot of kitbashing and hand painting, which if you are getting started is gonna be helpful if you don't want to invest in an airbrush setup https://www.youtube.com/@MMMayhem

Actually while I'm at it, Id suggest watching any youtube mini painter you see and vibe with, it won't teach you about gunpla, but there's a ton of good advice about colour and paint choices and general modeling tips that apply to both.

ZakuAurelius has several getting started type guides which are great, but he's more of a reviewer. https://www.youtube.com/@ZakuAurelius

GiantRobo love has got some good stuff too https://www.youtube.com/@GiantRobolove/videos

I also watch a lot of Japanese language creators and I know next to no Japanese so I just kind of watch and figure out what they're doing from the video (This type of learning suits me, but I don't know how other people might feel about it)

Crafta has a tone of cool builds, but a lot of his videos aren't necessarily about building/customizing so YMMV https://www.youtube.com/@CraftaChannel/videos

Ray Studio is amazing, I reblogged his work yesterday, but here is another link to his youtube https://www.youtube.com/@RAYSTUDIO2019

Best advice I can give is don't be afraid to fuck something up, grab some cheap kits and absolutely mangle them while you figure out how stuff fits together then learn to fix your mistakes. Do simple backpack or weapon swaps, those kind of things can completely change the feel of a kit, often with little to know "destructive" work to achieve it. Or, ignore everything I just said and "Go Big" if you want to do something really ambitious, you might not be satisfied with small changes and you will learn a lot by just going for it; If you are working on a build your passionate about you'll be more likely to stick with it to the end instead of shelving it because you got stuck in "The ugly phase" and nothing works, or looks right and you wonder why you ever started.

Err, I've kind of got rambly here (You see now why I don't have a video of my process)

[zazagundam]