#old model kits

[hemiamae]

These are spreads about some of my favorite things other than tea: Big robots and model kits

[asuccessfulbusinessman]

You know, the new Gundam SD Sen-Goku-Den line is kinda garbage at times. Like, sure, I’m not gonna pass up an SD Tallgeese even if it lacks the hyper verniers... but the line’s simultaneous reliance and omission of complicated stickers for color accuracy is staggering. 

So, when I stopped at my ‘local’ Gundam store, I picked up an old 1/144 Tallgeese II kit from twenty years ago for the same price as the SD Tallgeese I and III - $8 before tax.

Now, I had searched for Tallgeese kits way back before the real grade came out; reviews stated that color accuracy was borked back then, and you’d have to paint it. I thought to myself, the same could be said of these SD kits, so what the hell.

Now, what I didn’t expect was that this kit would have all the pieces that should’ve been blue were on the same runner. I originally thought “oh, if they used blue plastic in the runner then you’d have to paint other things back to white” but they literally could have just used the same mold with blue plastic instead. Sure, there would still be color accuracy issues like having the rooster crown be in black plastic for whatever reason given that it’s on its own runner. 

But I’m honestly tempted to just use red paint instead and turn it into a rooster now that I realize that all this work could have been avoided.

[fyeahmodelkits]

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