[Review+Battle Report] Battle Suit Alpha

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@Chief Lackey Rich: Yeah, I might be too boring to be really into giant robots based on animals or magic, but I like the angle of high tech viewed as magic through the lense of a more primitive people.

@Easy E: Oh, I love a Scopedog. There's a dude on twitter who does great conversions with them and adds detail and so on.

@Herbert Tarkel: Yeah, your assessment is probably correct there. I find oldey-times robot anime impressive to look at, and with digital stuff it's just "yeah, they made that on a computer". Which somehow does not click with me. I mean it depends on how it's done, and I think they got WAY better at it the past 10 years. A negative example to me is the Battle of Loum from MSG:The Origin: , whereas this to me looks like it should, even though it's also just made on a computer:

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Well, it seems like youtobe video links automatically are turned into an embedded video, eh?   Good to know that now.

Btw, Bandai announced their own miniature board game now (looks like a board game. Hexes, very small board. Verymuch along the lines of  what GW sell in department stores these days). Either way, by the looks of it, the figures will be 1/400th scale, which of course is much more sensible to wargame with. I still don't think I'll get into it (unless there's a really good excuse). I got miniatures, I got sci-fi rules.

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My Gundam have been arriving this week, and the rules/cards Tuesday it looks like.

Looking forward to getting into these!

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@Ultravanillasmurf: Yeah, same for me. When I click "watch on youtube" it works.

@HerbertTarkel: Cool, have I asked yet what you got?

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@Ultravanillasmurf: Yeah, same for me. When I click "watch on youtube" it works.

@HerbertTarkel: Cool, have I asked yet what you got?

Some similar to yours, all HG kits except one.

The “baddies”
Red Comet Zaku
Green Zaku
Blue Gouf

The goodies:
Three of the thinner mobile suits:
- Witch from Mercury aerial rebuild kit
- RX-78(2) Beyond Global
- RX-78 version 2 (RG)

That’s six to start, and opening the first box was INTIMIDATING! I’m used to building models and lots of complexity, but to take these from the basic build to your level is going to be a real challenge. Wish me luck!

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Oooh, nice. Yup, gotta start with the classics. Are the Zakus from the Origin series of models or regular HG kits?

Hadn't even known of the RX78 Beyond Global! That looks good.
Very jealous of the RG RX-78 (ver2).

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Oooh, nice. Yup, gotta start with the classics. Are the Zakus from the Origin series of models or regular HG kits?

Hadn't even known of the RX78 Beyond Global! That looks good.
Very jealous of the RG RX-78 (ver2).

It’s all just what I’m finding on Amazon, believe it or not; the specialty stores mostly seem to sell out quickly.

I’m looking forward to getting building!

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That is such a funny thing I noticed about the whole gunpla thing - there's a billion kits out there, but availability is the bottleneck. I order via a Spanish importer (Mecha Universe). Also got a HG Origin Zaku II recently from Anime Import in Italy via a gunpola model group. Picking that kit up this week.

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That is such a funny thing I noticed about the whole gunpla thing - there's a billion kits out there, but availability is the bottleneck. I order via a Spanish importer (Mecha Universe). Also got a HG Origin Zaku II recently from Anime Import in Italy via a gunpola model group. Picking that kit up this week.

I do something similar when I want GW stuff - I get it from a Quebec shop as they sell out of French but not English product 

I picked up a set of the “Godhand” cutters today as well - I have no idea how good they’ll be, but for $90 they should be … I’ve already pointed out to the Mrs that the “blue ones aren’t for outside the hobby room” 

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Wow. I mean I'm all for "spend as much as you can on tools; it's always worth it", but in practice it took me until last year to get plastic clippers at all, and I didn't go for Godhand ones. I didn't even go even slightly expensive on them to be honest; just some Italeri ones my local model store had. I'm sure the godhand ones are brilliant.

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Wow. I mean I'm all for "spend as much as you can on tools; it's always worth it", but in practice it took me until last year to get plastic clippers at all, and I didn't go for Godhand ones. I didn't even go even slightly expensive on them to be honest; just some Italeri ones my local model store had. I'm sure the godhand ones are brilliant.

I’ve been using a pair of train track cutters, which are insanely strong, and obviously can cut metals cleanly and accurately. The Godhands are smaller, more delicate looking, and I’m with you: tools are tools, these were a big splurge! I don’t mind spending on things like brushes (or airbrushes for that matter, I have a new Iwata to replace a SATA coming mid month), all the reviews are great on these. And made in Japan, which is rare. I have one kitchen knife that is made in Japan, and it was almost $500 - it gets the most ridiculous care  One episode of destroying a black cod with my everyday Henkels and I was convinced that the right knife was needed. Next round was unbelievable in amount of fish made!