r/Gunpla

I held off getting the Epyon for 3 years because I was waiting for Bandai to make an RG wing zero

For anyone who hasn't seen my post on the main Gundam subreddit from a few days ago, I work in my family's pub The Jolly Roger on Sherkin Island, Ireland, and have recently been giving out entry grade kits to anyone who takes interest in the hobby due to the big display I have behind the bar.

When this family came in, both this kid and her older brother thought my models were really cool, so I offered him an EG RX-78 because he was more age appropriate for model building. But I felt a little bad for his sister, and on my aforementioned prior post u/PhiphL recommended that I stock up on the SD-EX line for younger kids, so I gave her a Rising Freedom that I've been holding onto for a while.

Now it turns out I was right to intially assume that only her brother was old enough to build a kit, because it turned out this girl straight up can't read. So I actually had to wait until the end of my work shift (Which only took an hour) and then gave her some direct assistance telling her which pieces to pop out of the runners and put together.

But what she really wanted to get to was painting the kit. Part of my display is a few of the pilot figurines that come with MG and RG kits, and I'd shown them off to the kids as well as the gundam paint markers I use on them. I can't remember exactly what happened but I guess she asked if she could use them. The final result is as pictured.

I don't intend on posting about everyone I give a model to but I thought this was an exceptionally sweet example that I should share.

(Also I did get permission from her mother to post this if anyone was wonderinh)

Used to build a lot of gunpla when I was a kid but never painted or panel lined any. Saw this post about micron pens the other day and thought I’d give it a try. Pretty happy with how it turned out. Think I’ll start to panel line and colour my other older kits.

i mean, I might be overdoing it a little, but eh, I don't really care, I like him

There were 6 colors for each of the 4 runners. This could make 1296 different variations.

I turned an MG dynames into zabanya, Im still working on it and still improving some parts

Another Gm added in my squad

A whole funnel rack supported with only these wimpy ass "rods"??

Goated kit. So happy with how it came together. I will buy anything they release in the future.

Only minor gripe is some of the engrish in the manual and decals. Thankfully it’s so small you will never know.

Secondary minor gripe is there is no LED kit for this since the kosmos kit is for the RG.

Updated gallery of Char Aznable model kits (Quattro Bajeena and Full Frontal included)

Customized model kits in the gallery

- Zaku I (HG)

- Zaku II (HG)

- Sinanju (HG)

- Casval Gundam (HG)

- Z'gok (HG)

- Gelgoog (HG)

- Rick Dias (HG)

- Gyan (HG - Kitbash)

- Red Gundam Gquuuuuux (HG)

- SD Neo Zeong (HG version way too big don't have space for it but someday...someday I'll have my own space for it)

Straight Build

- Sazabi (RG Mechanical Core Ver.)

- Hyaku Shiki (HG)

Pending Builds

- Char Zaku Gquuuuuux (HG)

- Delta gundam II (HG)

Looking forward to building

- Char Rick Dom (HG - this is a pain in the ass to find this days)

- Guntank early type

- Zeong (RG or HG)

- Nightingale (HG or the third party Nighthawk spec II)

This is second gunpla kit that I've airbrushed so far. I am a huge fan of Iron blooded orphans and I've been trying to get every gundam frame and variant. I couldn't get the p-bandai exclusive Hg Flauros Calamity war version so I said fine I'll do it myself. I used the Dspiae wash free airbrush and honestly I'm pretty happy with the results.

What's everyone working on this long weekend?

my first time doing any weathering beyond just sponge chipping, very happy with the results!

the kit was straight built with the exception of the gold parts, which were primed and sprayed with tamiya gold spray. applied a mixture of G-rework and aliexpress decals, did some sponge chipping, added rust with real touch markers and did some silver drybrushing. finished with matt mr super clear with the exception of the Shining Finger hand, which had gloss MSC used on it.

I combined a Nissan Skyline and a 30MM to create a Nissan Skyline Robot (tentative).

I painted a plastic model of the Aoshima Skyline to look like a scrapped vehicle (required 6 hours).

It turned out to be a car robot that looks like it could be found in a post-apocalypse.

If you remove your limbs, you'll enter car mode (lol).

Thank you！

Managed to get it over half off for $45 too