#qan

[baqsy]

ootd

[wally-b-feed]

Anthony Fineran (B 1981), 'Al Qan Haddi', 2025

[zaurgasimliofficiallamekan]

#Unudulmazlar #Qəhrəmanlar #Kahramanlar #Bütövvətən -

#zaur_gasimli_official_lamekan

[nynehells]

Local warlock new on the job, subjected to fireteam hazing lol

[baqsy]

"Korkyt, the tool you created looks like the tibia of a six-year-old camel. Now it lacks a resonator covered with the skin of a nara camel, a string stand made of wild goat horn and strings torn from the tail of a five-year-old stallion. If all of this happens, then your instrument will sing like a nightingale."

National Museum Astana ( Kazakhstan )

[gundamfight]

[ankaa-avarshina]

Stupid sexy Gundams...

[ephemeral-builds]

I was looking through my backlog, trying to decide what to build next, and realized I'd never built this bootleg pink Shia Qan[T].

Unlike my last AliExpress bootleg kit - this one came in a box. But I'm not sure what that box art has to do with the kit itself...

The instructions are decent. A little small and hard to read, but definitely serviceable.

The kit comes with a sheet of foil stickers as well as some waterslide decals. I'll use the stickers, but I'm saving the waterslides for something nicer.

The fit and finish of this kit leaves quite a bit to be desired.

The molded surface details are decent... But the parts really don't want to go together nicely. Everything feels either too tight or too loose. I actually had to glue a couple bits because they kept falling off. And I needed to use pliers to apply enough pressure to get some other bits together.

I'm not sure what kind of plastic this is molded from but I don't like it. And, again, it seems inconsistent. The white and pink plastic feels almost oily. And the grey bits feel very stiff and brittle.

I tried to do some panel-lining, but gave up about halfway through. It just didn't want to stick. It was rubbing off just when I was handling the kit.

I've never built a Qan[T] - Shia or otherwise - so I'm not really sure how this build compares. I don't know what accessories should or shouldn't be included. But there's a neat sword, an open left hand, and an absolutely massive shield thing.

Right off the bat the kit feels very loose and squishy. The hips absolutely do not want to hold any kind of pose. The legs keep sliding apart, flopping the kit on the table.

Well, it certainly does look striking. The glossy, transparent blue definitely stands out against the pink. There's lots of molded surface detail that I'd love to panel-line, but the ink just isn't sticking.

The weakness of this kit continues to frustrate. That giant shoulder shield thing keeps popping off its support arm. And, again, the legs just don't want to hold anything up. I have to leave it standing almost straight. I can't do anything terribly dynamic.

I guess I'm not disappointed with this kit... I mean, I didn't spend more than $10 for it, so the bar is set pretty low. But it was certainly a little frustrating.

Ultimately I'm not sure that these bootleg kits are worth it. Maybe for something that's exceptionally rare and hard to find and expensive? But it really didn't give me the satisfying build experience that I'm looking for.

[robotsareneat]

This is amazing and I really need to start topcoating my kits

MG Qan[T] Full Saber done!

Straight build with panel line, water decals, and matte top coat

[howmanydeaths]

RG 00 Qan[T] is done! I actually own one of every Gunpla grade this Gundam was made in (not counting MG or RG Full Saber, but I do have a variant of its RG) and I’ve been calling them the Quantum Council.

[baqsy]

almaty chronicles

[athena-gunpla]

RG 1/144 Celestial Being Prototype Mobile Suit GNT-0000 "Gundam 00 Qan[T]"

The RG Qan[T] has had my eye for a while now. I picked this up at a black friday sale to go along with my RG Exia.

The Qan[T] is a much newer kit than the Exia. While it still uses the old RG pre-built inner frame, which is just as floppy at the hips as the others I've worked with, it also incorporates a lot of normally built sections like newer RGs, giving it a stiffer set of knees and arms, necessary to balance the large, heavy, weapon pieces.

Like other RGs, there's perfect color correction out of the box, including some subtle two-toning with slightly grey and white panels, as well as lighter and darker blue accent panels. The end effect looks a lot better than the larger difference between Exia's grey and white paneling.

RG Qan[T] comes with several hand options, like most RGs - two closed fists, two open fists, and two articulated hands, which I just got rid of as these old articulated RG hands are really brittle and loose, and don't really facilitate posing. Oddly, there's only a single left-handed open hand option, rather than one for each arm.

The kit comes with a series of really pretty trans-green parts to create the GN sword V, which, like the 00 Gundam's sword, can switch between rifle and sword mode by rotating the blade horizontally and tilting the handle and guard. The guard connects to the upper part of the forearm, rather than a shield on the side like with Exia.

There's also a series of 6 GN Sword Bits, also in trans-green and solid blue. Small attachments flip out of the Zaku II-style pauldron shield (GN Shield) and clip into the bits, which can flare out to be posed in a firing mode.

Handles fold out from each of the bits to allow them to be wielded as individual daggers as well.

The sword bits can also join with the GN Sword V to form either the Buster Sword or Buster Rifle. There's a clever bit of engineering here that lets them all clip to the sword blade securely without needing obvious attachment points. There's also an added stand for the Buster Rifle mode to help support everything.

You can also remove the GN drive from the back of the kit. A little latch opens up and you twist the sub-assembly out, revealing the main quantum GM drive. The other of the pair is hidden within the GN Shield.

The kit has some great, super flexible articulation. As is common for RGs, certain panels shift as you flex and extend the joints. The raised sections on the forearms limit flexion at the elbow, but the legs are really well designed and can bend all the way back.

You can also rotate the support arm of the GN Shield back behind the main body, allowing for the Quantum Burst pose.

Unfortunately, the design of the neck and a panel at the back of the head make it impossible to freely turn the head side to side, greatly limiting posing. I'm really disappointed at this, although oversights like this were common in this era of RGs.

Overall, I had fun with this kit. I really like the inclusion of the extra green GN conduits on the arms and legs - they reflect light in a way that makes them appear to glow, and the dark trans-green isn't so dark that it obscures the foil sticker detail underneath. The decal stickers also aren't too onerous or over the top, which is another common RG complaint.

I definitely think the RG is worth the price, although the best of the 00 Gundam series suits are probably the MG kits, as these allow for proper lighting inside the GN units. I think the kit I've wanted the most is of course the PG Exia, with its elaborate lighting system out of the box. One day maybe...

[wally-b-feed]

Anthony Fineran (B 1981), 'Qan Totnes', 2024

[philosadness]

'Biz ətrafda insanlarda səmimilik, doğruluq axtarırıq. Amma unutmuş oluruq ki, bizi özunə cəlb edən insan əslində bizim güzgümüzdür.Biz travmalarımızı sevirik, sonra öz travmalarımızdan yenidən acı çəkirik.'

[alphamecha-mkii]

GNT-0000 00 Qan[T] by 0621utak

[gn001-re]

ELS Setsuna, the celestial being