MG Wing Gundam My current work in progress. Nice kit that happens to be one of the cheapest MG kits available. My wife doesn’t like the standard Gundam color palette (RBYW), so I had to make sure that this one didn’t look “the same” as all the other ones on the shelf.
As someone coming from the mini wargaming space do you folks ever paint your models or is all the joy in parts assembly?
Yes, and they look fabulous!
I’ve been fairly busy lately and haven’t been building Gunpla at all, but when I do I usually custom-paint them.
For instance, here’s a Jesta Cannon that I repainted and mildly customized (replaced the head and weapon) to reflect a hypothetical scenario where Kai Shiden gets back into a mobile suit some time after Unicorn.
Here’s one I made more recently of what Justin Fox’s (a Canadian Gunpla builder who’s name is seen in the tournament brackets in Gundam Build Fighters but who never actually appears on-screen) mobile suit might look like, with a colour scheme inspired by the fact that he was knocked out of the playoffs in the first round (I suppose if he competed again this year he might make it to round two.) It used a Gundam Barbataurus as a base, but included a lot of customizing, basically with the goal of using up as many of the spare parts I had laying around as possible.
Depends on the kit for me, usually. For MG kits the color separation tends to be pretty accurate already anyway, so unless I’m doing a custom paint job (like the Wing Zero Snow White I posted a while back) I tend to leave the external colors alone, but paint the pilot minis. For HG and SD kits that don’t have the same degree of color separation, though, I’ll add paint to try to replicate the intended color scheme.
The majority of my builds are custom painted. That said, I also enjoy the building process, and I really enjoy kitbashing.
99% of my builds have some kind of extra detail work, even if it’s just panel lining. But most have paint too.
Per the title, I’m gonna try to be more active here until others pick up the slack. There are almost 500 of us in this community so if we take turns, we could get a fresh post every day for a year and a half. We can do better that 1 person posting a project once a month.
As a meta note, the .world Gundam/gunpla communities have been pretty dead for awhile. Mods are long gone. There was a more active Gundam comm on an instance that got shut down earlier in the year. A lot of us (relatively speaking, active users etc.) moved to !gundam@ani.social. Which isn’t much livelier but at the very least it’s actively modded.
Anyone can post wherever they like, just wanted to put the FYI out there.
NGL, I was trying for the same a while back by posting my projects, but stopped because it felt like I was only showing the same handful of people (which is probably accurate) and frankly, uploading pics here is kind of a PITA compared to Reddit or Discord. Also, I’ve been working on fewer actual Gunpla projects as of late, and was unsure on the exact scope of this community. I should post about that.
Not a mod, if it’s plamo it’s cool. Whether it be Gundam or Evo or Zoids. I don’t think this community is big enough to exclude posts just because it’s Kotobukiya and not Bandai.
Sadly, haven’t really had the opportunity to build as much as I’d like recently. I’ve basically run out of display space and most of my kits are already put away. Suppose I could put up pictures of what I have out at the moment, though.
Love the color scheme! This looks really sharp.
I built the Ver Ka not too long ago (not sure if that’s what this kit is). I enjoyed it but did find certain aspects irritating, such as how the shoulder armor pieces do not like to stay in place. And how it absolutely will not hold the included buster rifle.
This one is the el cheapo Wing EW, but it has the same problems with the shoulders that buster rifle.
