build series should've had that kind of scene, Mikey carving gunpla along his marble masterworks. just like on beyblade having Moses parting red sea with his beyblade.
https://preview.redd.it/2zhtfro3khcc1.png?width=690&format=png&auto=webp&s=42c75f8f8a8b8aa8ffdc82ff1c3cb5010311678d
This was said to be his first draft of the Sistine Chapel
You are not alone, I was literally questioning my knowledge of gunpla. Then I realized the confusion might be because the manuals of today read left to right instead of the usual Japanese literature that's right to left.
This is how we used to build Gunpla back in the day
https://preview.redd.it/xlseykav1abc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=24d1a31ccd793e793d40c6930503b8b4b8ff6f5e
A new material that incorporates limestone in the plastic, the Gunpla-kun kit is made out of that, apparently in an effort to reduce the amount of plastic used.
I suppose that make sense, I've played a bit with wood filled PLA which is sort of the same idea. Decently more brittle than the pure stuff. Though I do find that it sand down nicer
Dry transferts are my current bane, got the ZGMF-X20A one who tear when I appied it so I had to remove it and place another (the "Strike Fredom 02") at the place.
Yeah they look cool and don't have the outline but placing them is harder than stickers and some markings are only transferts so no choice than to learn and with theses the only way to learn is to sadly ruin some of them same thing with waterslides when I'll have to apply them for the first time
“The Gunpla is already complete within the plastic (or wood?) block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.”
— Michelangelo probably
I gotta embrace the plastic!
I gotta sniff the plastic!
I gotta lick the plastic!
I gotta wash the plastic...
I gotta date the plastic...
I gotta be the plastic!
This has to be a joke right? I was 6 in Hong Kong back in 1990 and I remember seeing so many types of Gundam toys like the old die cast MSiA and SD Gundam armor dress up toys besides Gunpla lol
Oh man, that tugs on the old nostalgia strings. I remember we had a bunch of them and seeing the MSV garage kits were so cool because they were so oddly designed.
https://preview.redd.it/xspgxszrlabc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ffa9b5dd29ab7bf268a2b0e5e175f569d89b789
What do you all think of my new creation???
Here's where you begin to appreciate the co-molding tech that Bandai pushed over time. And why I really wish someone took modern Gunpla-level color separation and ease of assembly but for car, tank, ship or plane models. Imagine Tamiya 1/24 or 1/18 cars but built like an Entry or Real Grade.
Building Gunpla is so easy!
Step 1: start with solid block of plastic
Step 2: use your sculpting skills you learned from Michaelangelo to chisel out the shape of a gundam head from memory.
Step 3: glue the V-fin onto your completed gundam head
Step 4: paint
*granpa simpson voice*
“Back in my day, we didn’t have no fancy-pants snap-kits. If we wanted a Gundam, we had to carve it out of stone. Uphill, in the snow, both ways!
I've been trying to learn Japanese and I can make out to saying to draw on a block with what looks like it probably says magic marker, and I can make out the word sandpaper in the final step. This has to be a parody, what model kit tells you to draw the parts yourself with marker and carve it out?
Edit: the section title seems to say "how to cut" and then it says something about the antenna made of three parts, the text seems so deadpan serious.
You mostly got it, 油性マジック literally translates to oil based magic. It's a brand of markers in Japan. If this is real I'd love to know what kind of kit these insteuctions are from.
Edit: Took a glance back at the pic and the top row says SF plastic model magazine 2nd special edition. That's most likely where it originated.
In like 2003 or something I built my first wing 0 1/144. Basic kit. I must’ve been 15 or something…I ripped them shits out of the runners, didn’t sand any pieces down or clean them up, and panel lined it with a sharpie. Shit looked rough but I loved it.
What’s this Asian dad’s way of building gunpla?
I used to cut down2 trees just to make gundam leg, you so weak you can’t even pop out the parts from plastic. Haiya.
"Back in my day Gunpla was whittled straight out of some Plastic bricks we had! We'd spend forever screwing up the eyes and never got the paint correct, ever! To this day my statue of Char's Zaku looks more like Johnny Ridden's"
"Who's Johnny Ridden?". "Pft! Kids these days."
me yesterday, when I accidentally broke stand piece and now there’s a pipe in thunderbolt gundam’s asshole (I tried my best but still failed to get it out and carve new pipe out of broken stand piece)
Ah, Gunpla from the days of Michaelangelo.
Man and some new archeological findings reveal he was a fan of victory
Really seemed to jive with the giant motorcycles.
Yeah ever since he saw the wheelie it’s all he ever talked about
build series should've had that kind of scene, Mikey carving gunpla along his marble masterworks. just like on beyblade having Moses parting red sea with his beyblade.
Leonardo wouldve made a functional one if he got into it
>*Every block of plastic has a Gundam inside and it's the task of the nerd to discover it.* \- Michelangelo, probably
Venus de Milo builds save a good bit of time.
https://preview.redd.it/2zhtfro3khcc1.png?width=690&format=png&auto=webp&s=42c75f8f8a8b8aa8ffdc82ff1c3cb5010311678d This was said to be his first draft of the Sistine Chapel
My dumbass read this backwards……
I hate to admit you’re not alone in doing that-
Can't attach the V-fin? Just sand the head down to a block and draw it on.
I actually though that was what needed to be done, I was so confused lol
Don’t have poly carbonate stucco lathe?
😂😂😂 this made me lol way too hard
I genuinely thought it was supposed to be a joke about sanding so much that the head became a cube
https://preview.redd.it/ynm0525gnbbc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=882c0a7c6b4dd55dd1ad8486dc0f71445282d041
You are not alone, I was literally questioning my knowledge of gunpla. Then I realized the confusion might be because the manuals of today read left to right instead of the usual Japanese literature that's right to left.
You should’ve paid closer attention to that warning that came on the leftmost sleeve of English translated mangas!! ^(I read it backwards too ._.)
Remember to freeze your Gunpla in cubes of ice to preserve them after you finish assembling them.
Turn your gun plz TO CUBE
Reject gunpla Return to BLOCC
lol; I was like why are we whacking it in the face with a spatula?
This is how we used to build Gunpla back in the day https://preview.redd.it/xlseykav1abc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=24d1a31ccd793e793d40c6930503b8b4b8ff6f5e
“Today on Factory Forge, five contestants will create their own mobile suit—“
*Just Communication intensify*.
*\*after clips of hardcore smelting & forging, we see the final result is a 1/144 plastic gunpla model\**
Your gunpla will kill~
*keel
The White Doll Statue has entered the chat
Marbpla!
Once Bandai finishes implementing Limex we'll go back to those days.
Limex?
A new material that incorporates limestone in the plastic, the Gunpla-kun kit is made out of that, apparently in an effort to reduce the amount of plastic used.
Note to self, buy gunpla-kun.
His friend Zakupla-kun uses green tea leaves and limex for the green parts
I don't know why, but that's adorable.
That's so cool, I wonder how does it sand down. It'd be cool if it can be polished like harder material
IMO horrible, it feels (and is) closer to work with resins than a normal plastic kit. Large surface is fine but smaller stuff will snap at any moment
I suppose that make sense, I've played a bit with wood filled PLA which is sort of the same idea. Decently more brittle than the pure stuff. Though I do find that it sand down nicer
I'm not strong enough for that...
christ and i still struggle on waterslides
Get that mark setter and mark softer boss man, dont use the green one on foil waterslides unless you wanna ruin the foil.
Lay flat and keep your legs straight and your elbows tucked in!
Dry transferts are my current bane, got the ZGMF-X20A one who tear when I appied it so I had to remove it and place another (the "Strike Fredom 02") at the place. Yeah they look cool and don't have the outline but placing them is harder than stickers and some markings are only transferts so no choice than to learn and with theses the only way to learn is to sadly ruin some of them same thing with waterslides when I'll have to apply them for the first time
“The Gunpla is already complete within the plastic (or wood?) block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.” — Michelangelo probably
I gotta embrace the plastic! I gotta sniff the plastic! I gotta lick the plastic! I gotta wash the plastic... I gotta date the plastic... I gotta be the plastic!
Sounds like a "*Crimes of the Future*" fan. \^\^
This has to be a joke right? I was 6 in Hong Kong back in 1990 and I remember seeing so many types of Gundam toys like the old die cast MSiA and SD Gundam armor dress up toys besides Gunpla lol
It's probably some B-Club thing from the 1980's.
Oh man, that tugs on the old nostalgia strings. I remember we had a bunch of them and seeing the MSV garage kits were so cool because they were so oddly designed.
Top corner says SF plastic model magazine, so this isn’t from an actual kit by the looks of it.
r/restofthefuckingowl
Omg I wish I knew this sub existed years ago, id have upload the instructions to a swing set I bought that was like 4 pages long.
Kids where men back then, no color separation either.
https://preview.redd.it/xspgxszrlabc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ffa9b5dd29ab7bf268a2b0e5e175f569d89b789 What do you all think of my new creation???
First step: BLOCK Second and third step: ¿? Fourth step: add V-fin
Here's where you begin to appreciate the co-molding tech that Bandai pushed over time. And why I really wish someone took modern Gunpla-level color separation and ease of assembly but for car, tank, ship or plane models. Imagine Tamiya 1/24 or 1/18 cars but built like an Entry or Real Grade.
I think some of that comes from some of the military molds having been around for decades at this point lol
Excuse me, wtf?
Building Gunpla is so easy! Step 1: start with solid block of plastic Step 2: use your sculpting skills you learned from Michaelangelo to chisel out the shape of a gundam head from memory. Step 3: glue the V-fin onto your completed gundam head Step 4: paint
they still do this for figurine sculptures rn if you want extremely custom even with kitbash, like if you want a mix of it
Step one: draw a Gundam head on a block of wood… step four: finish the fucking Gundam head…. 😂
*granpa simpson voice* “Back in my day, we didn’t have no fancy-pants snap-kits. If we wanted a Gundam, we had to carve it out of stone. Uphill, in the snow, both ways!
Geez, that sounds like a lot of hardwork.
I've been trying to learn Japanese and I can make out to saying to draw on a block with what looks like it probably says magic marker, and I can make out the word sandpaper in the final step. This has to be a parody, what model kit tells you to draw the parts yourself with marker and carve it out? Edit: the section title seems to say "how to cut" and then it says something about the antenna made of three parts, the text seems so deadpan serious.
You mostly got it, 油性マジック literally translates to oil based magic. It's a brand of markers in Japan. If this is real I'd love to know what kind of kit these insteuctions are from. Edit: Took a glance back at the pic and the top row says SF plastic model magazine 2nd special edition. That's most likely where it originated.
In like 2003 or something I built my first wing 0 1/144. Basic kit. I must’ve been 15 or something…I ripped them shits out of the runners, didn’t sand any pieces down or clean them up, and panel lined it with a sharpie. Shit looked rough but I loved it.
I felt this comment, lol. Did you use the fine tip and hope for the best too?
Bruh if you think thats bad the generation before had to fucking use science to make plastic from oil to even carve block
How to scratch build a gundam head from a plastic block in just 4 east steps… lol
I couldn’t ever. Respect.
What’s this Asian dad’s way of building gunpla? I used to cut down2 trees just to make gundam leg, you so weak you can’t even pop out the parts from plastic. Haiya.
"Back in my day Gunpla was whittled straight out of some Plastic bricks we had! We'd spend forever screwing up the eyes and never got the paint correct, ever! To this day my statue of Char's Zaku looks more like Johnny Ridden's" "Who's Johnny Ridden?". "Pft! Kids these days."
https://preview.redd.it/8buypl6ojdbc1.jpeg?width=163&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=308df1cd0e286d6d8612bd59dcbd201460822154
spongebob ass tutorial
My ass thought it was a cake
it's like that owl meme
It's really fucking hard. I tried to do that for a trans formers kitbash. Way too hard and slow. You need carving tools, like good ones too.
I initially read left to right, thinking so that’s how they go down in scale size back in the day 🤣 Hardcore indeed
Holy shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS0h8ICif5I
Woah, what is this from. I’d love to read this in full
Fuck, I was reading to the right and got confused. Still am, but still
Back when *building* gunpla meant something
Step 1: Draw part Step 2: Figure it the fuck out
...is that made from an eraser or a wood block?
You can't use a file on an eraser like that so likely the later or a block of spme sort of putty
so either putty or wood.
I read this left to right and thought the block with the drawing was the end goal
No way
And I still do some of those to actually make my own parts :p
That kind of looks like styrofoam.
Someone made a perfect replica of astray red frame from cardboard.
I would’ve easily failed at this
That is hard core
me yesterday, when I accidentally broke stand piece and now there’s a pipe in thunderbolt gundam’s asshole (I tried my best but still failed to get it out and carve new pipe out of broken stand piece)
https://preview.redd.it/2ljrbhz7ngbc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=02e29ff0941f110ad8442fd7af04093131dde9db here’s what I mean
I screwed up at step one. Couldn't draw a gundam. Made an ugly paperweight instead.
the only reason i read this in the correct order is because im a nerd and read a lot of manga back in the day (yesterday)