What would be...

Omega · Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:14 pm

A good grade to go to?

Here's how long it takes me to build the kits;
FG/NG:half an hour.
HG:two hours.

Would you guys recommend 1/100 or Master Grade?

SNT1 · Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:37 pm

protip: get the design you want; size and number of pieces and time to construct vary on any 1/100 and MG from 800 yen to 10000. you get the picture.

Yuusha Tokkyu Might Gaine · Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:01 pm

SNT1 wrote:protip: get the design you want; size and number of pieces and time to construct vary on any 1/100 and MG from 800 yen to 10000. you get the picture.

I like to avoid buying the same gundam again though. Regardless of scale if it was a Zaku or a grunt or something with multiple modes(IE: Impluse, Strike) then yeah I wouldn't mind buying more then one

Nightwing03 · Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:49 am

1/100 ones take a lot of time and patience (well for me), my Astray Blue Frame 2nd L took me 8 hours in total (I did it all at once!) to complete after all the panel lining and painting (in some parts), so i'd recommened you spread the building time out evenly between a couple of days. I was mentally and physically broken after building it.

I'm not sure about MG kits since i've never actually built one...but im planning to

quasadra · Fri Oct 10, 2008 2:19 am

i go through my 1/100 exia in one day as well. in 4 or 5 hour but i didnt do the paint just panelling. i wouldnt recomend the older 1/100 kits if you can get it in MG.

MG will take twice the time to finish. as there are usually twice the material to work with. but you can garrantee that it will look good when finally finish it.

G-Slayer · Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:06 pm

Building 1/100 Gunpla can take much longer depending on how much work you put into them and how accurate you want them to be. If you'll just rip the parts off the trees, put on the stickers and leave it at that, then of course it'll take less time. With every 1/100 that I own, I devoted two hours a day to building each body part, applying stickers, coloring whether areas needed color, and panel lining each part before fully assembling the model. And I'm so careful about it knowing that when I'm done, I'll be holding something that I can really appreciate. Because THAT is my level of commitment!

GorFrag · Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:49 pm

FG can actually take much longer if you want it to look at all like its cartoon counterpart.

G-Slayer · Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:41 pm

FG can actually take much longer if you want it to look at all like its cartoon counterpart.

That's what I learned with my first FG, but the finished product was worth all the time put into it.

Yuusha Tokkyu Might Gaine · Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:46 pm

G-Slayer wrote:
FG can actually take much longer if you want it to look at all like its cartoon counterpart.
That's what I learned with my first FG, but the finished product was worth all the time put into it.

For that matter, you may as well just get yourself one of the high grades. Just apply the foil stickers and away you go!

I just finished my first MG kit(Which was the Freedom BTW) it took me a good three days to finish. But that's because I was working on it on and off, and doing the panel lining as I was going along. I must say though, I really like the MGs. There a little more expensive, but I think there worth the price tag.

They don't really feel too much like an action figure and they feel REALLY durable too despite being a snap together kit