#jesta

[gundamfight]

[omnidespot]

i want this made and mailed to my fucking residence for the cost of approximately zero 💲dollars

[ephemeral-builds]

An older HGUC kit this week - the Jesta Cannon from Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn.

It seems weird to call a 2013 kit "older" - but it really feels kind of dated. There's lots of polycaps. A lot of the plastic feels very hard/brittle and marks-up very easily. It comes with the weird, stubby beamsaber effect parts. But that doesn't make it a bad kit.

We get some foil stickers... Largely color-correcting, but there's some nice lens stickers too.

There's also a sheet of sticker-style marking decals that I'm not going to use. You've heard me say it many times before - I don't like these things. They don't stick well and they don't look good on darker plastic.

We get a whole runner of hand parts... We won't be using the armor bits at the top of the runner - we've got color-accurate alternatives elsewhere. But we will be using all of those hands... And I've got to say that the hands in this kit feel unnecessarily complicated.

The closed fist hands are made of three pieces - palm, knuckles, and thumb - plus the armor on the back. That really feels excessive to me. I can't help thinking that could've probably just been a couple pieces.

This kit is molded almost entirely in dark plastic, which I don't love. It's hard to pick out the panel lines... But I guess this kit isn't real heavy on surface detail in the first place.

The head is kind of awesome. I love that orange visor. And the asymmetrical arms are terrific. Plus, we've just got tons of chonky armor all over the place.

We get a lot of options with this kit.

There's a whole pile of hands in this kit. We get two open hands, two closed fists, two holding hands, and a single right-handed trigger-finger for the rifles.

We get two different rifles... But, unfortunately, they're not set up to be ambidextrous. They've got little pegs on the handles that only work with the right-handed trigger-finger. So there'll be no dual-wielding without modifying something.

The backpack can be assembled in a couple different ways... It can be a plain backpack, or we can mount the shield on it, or we can attach the cannons.

Then there's the beamsaber and an alternate bit of side-skirting that holds the beamsaber when it's not in use.

And we wind up with a few extra parts once the kit is built... Several grey bits of hand armor, some standard Jesta shoulder armor, a bit of leg, some front skirting, and a few random bits I can't immediately identify. There's definitely some potential for kitbashing here.

I really like how the shield is attached to the backpack on a little arm. I wish there was more articulation here? But I guess that's too much to ask in an HG. Instead we just get a couple alternate, fixed-pose arms that don't allow for a whole ton of options. It's actually kind of hard to get the shield around in a natural-looking position.

We get two different rifles and they both look pretty damn good. The bulkier one even has a little bit of articulation on the back... But there's nowhere to store them when they aren't in use.

Of course we've got the big cannons on the backpack. They look pretty good. Pretty dramatic. But the longer one has some unfortunate seam-lines.

Like I said - this thing has the old, stubby beamsaber blade effect parts. You get two of them, but just one hilt. And then there's an alternate piece of side-skirting that holds the hilt when it's not in use.

This is really a pretty great kit... I just wish it wasn't so dated.

All the polycaps leave it feeling very floppy and loose. Kind of spongy? The limbs don't hold their position real well. It all feels kind of soft when posing.

And the plastic is all very stiff, hard, brittle, and prone to marking. Worse still - cleaning the nub-marks up is very difficult to do without scuffing the surrounding plastic. It's just very unforgiving.

And, again, the hands are just unnecessarily complex. Yes, I absolutely appreciate having so many options... But we don't really need three bits going into a fist.

But, at the end of the day, it's a very nice kit. It looks absolutely fantastic up on the shelf. Very militaristic and business-like. None of the drama of the typical Gundam protagonist suits.

It really makes me want to build a Master Grade version of this... Or even just a standard Jesta.

[vasacryptec]

I'm celebrating my anniversary today 🥳

[selkiesharkpla]

Starting the year off (relatively) simple with the HGUC Jesta! I think the kit I got must have been from a defective batch because literally all of the major armour pieces had flashing on them and I had to sand everything down so it didn't look awful. I also ended up removing the seam lines on the head, shoulders and arms mostly as practice.

Tried out the sticker decals for the first time with this kit and yeah I can see why people avoid these like the plague, they feel so cheap and look kinda terrible. I actually got a delivery for a bunch of water slide decals for some WFM kits and the RG 2.0 grandpa so I'm very excited to use those!

The next kit I have my eyes on is the Michaelis, which I don't plan on doing anything fancy with, just panel lining really. Will be a very welcome change of pace I imagine.

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💬 0  🔁 4  ❤️ 10 · Hey, so since people feel the need to bring private things out into the public... It's my turn to do that too because I've

Jesta is still keeping up their behavior of stalking, harassing and lying about people they claim are "bullies", "groomer apologists" and more

Here they are admitting to using a site called clearsky which shows accounts people have blocked, people's block lists, lists the accounts are on etc. Jesta is using this site to stalk people that blocked them, adding them onto a "toxic tumblr people" list and lying about them

Here they are stalking their ex and their accounts

Jesta's lists of their victims they're lying about and claiming they're groomers, bullies, apologists and more

people on these lists include owlstronomer/devilishdanse/darlingfoe, Jesta's ex, stols and wellcometothefuckhouse along with others who only called Jesta out on their behavior

anytime Jesta gets called out, they claim that they're being stalked and bullied while Jesta themself is guilty of block evading, stalking, harassing and making burner blogs

Jesta also constantly threatens to h//ar//m themself or com//itt/ s/ui//ci//de

the fact they're still continuing their behavior years later is upsetting and disgusting

names on socials jesta usually uses: jestaxmusing, j38t4, souljesta, 93x38xt, jestamusing, jestamusings, jestaxmusings

[absolute-matter]

Jesta and jesta cannon +kotobukiya weapon series

[tilde44]

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