I picked up a full-size green plushie Haro for my youngest (who adores him from Dynasty Warriors 2 and 3). I also have smaller (though in-universe full size) Mr. Pink and Mr. Yellow for my oldest.Sades wrote:I want a Haro.
The older Wing and G 1/144 series can be really hit or miss, and they really do almost require a Gundam marker. (The Gundam Rose really just requires a lot of outright PAINT due to the arms). You can get good sets on Amazon, and I strongly reccomend the SEED and Zeon marker sets to cover most of your needs.Hound wrote:I wish, but really, we've only got money for the cheaper 1/144 scale kits and I'm not minding them much. The Heavyarms looks awesome and the only thing bothering me about the rest of them is the stickers and only because I suck at putting on the ones for the head.
You CAN use a thin marker to do the panel lines, but I found that using a paint wash works far better. Look up "Badab Black" for minatures paints, and that's a really good way to get this seams and some weathering in without a huge amount of effort.I've gotten some paint markers and am taking a shot at filling in some of the details and am panel lining too. So far I've done the Sandrock, and it looks like crap but I figure I'll get better. Probably no one gets it perfect their first time.
I suggested this, but I think he stopped listening to me when we got married. *rolleyes*TFVanguard wrote:
You CAN use a thin marker to do the panel lines, but I found that using a paint wash works far better. Look up "Badab Black" for minatures paints, and that's a really good way to get this seams and some weathering in without a huge amount of effort.
The original Gundam has some pacing issues initially, which do work out once the overall plot gets going. I would try to get her interested in the original Char Aznable and go from there, but he does have a rather extended abscenes once the White Base makes planetfall...Hound wrote:My real problem is getting the wife to watch Mobile Suit Gundam after watching 00 with me. MSG is such a slow burner compared to 00 and the animation is sooooooo much older. Plus she has the attention span of a gnat so I'm not sure how I convince her to stick with it cause the whole story is fantastic.
SEED has one really big weakness, and that's the constant flashback pieces. Otherwise it's a pretty solid Gundam series.Hound wrote:Also, I've watched the first 10 episodes of SEED. I've gotten through the retread of the 5 or so episodes of the original anime, which didn't really bother me that they were using the same plots from the first Gundam cartoon. That's fine to me really, plus I knew it was coming.
Kira does a remarkable improvement after the first arc and, unlike a lot of Gundam protagonists, he figures things out. Sadly he becomes too much the Gundam Messiah near the end and he becomes near unsufferable in Destiny... But he does it a little better than some OTHER Gundam leads...Kira's attitude is getting on my nerves a little though. I think it's just my having seen the whole "whiny kid pilot that doesn't want to do all the fighting" so many times now that even though I understand that he probably should behave that way, I'm just kind of sick of it.
Keep with that thought...Flay is also stupid...
The new HG Wing sets are pretty solid and look as good as the rest of the modern line up. However, be sure to avoid the 1/100 HG series from last decade, they're not all that great and definately not worth it if you find them marked up. The new MG Wing suits though... gods.. so very sweet.I still want to get the 1/144 scale Endless Waltz Gundams but I don't think I'm going to paint them. They're HG anyway, so they won't be as simplified as these Wing kits I did anyway right?
Yeah, Flay needed some moments of redemption or a moment of awesome somewhere and never really got one. It took her DEATH to realize what a bitch she had been... and even that felt like a writer's afterthought. It's no wonder why she's one of the most unpopular characters in all of Gundam. (And easily the most unpopular female.)Hound wrote:I finished SEED.
First, what I didn't like:
The crying by like everyone. Lots of over-emoting.
Flay is annoying and I cheered when she got killed. "Ohhh, he saved her... Wait! YESSS!!!!"
The flashbacks. I knew and expected to see a lot of them and even then I was still annoyed by it.
It basically is a retelling of MSG, but it does it well and does find its own space from time to time. I do wish that we would have seen more sympathetic characters on the part of the Federation, though... this is a problem that gets grossly exacerbated in Destiny, since the producer of both shows is apparently a huge anti-Gaijin bigot, and it shows in all his work. :SPeople say that it's bad because it's basically a retelling of the original Gundam but I disagree. I think it does a good job of retelling that story. SEED does it well and manages to incorporate it's own elements to set itself apart.
I've never been a fan of the Freedom, but the Strike is one of my favorite suit designs. I've got .. six? .. variants of that suit already. :PThe Mobile Suits were all beautiful too.
Without spoiling you, I'm going to say ONE thing that'll make watching the show a whole lot easier... Shinn Azuka is not the main character, Athrun is. Basically, Destiny is an inversion of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. Keep that in mind.After a break I'll try Destiny and hope that everyone is wrong about this series.
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