Mobile Suit Gundam. Discuss..

[kien]

Originally Posted by gqlmao

OMG Kien those are SICK! I can't believe you built 5 already??? Must of took a whilef or each one when you are doing individual pieces.

Ha thanks :-). I actually only built the first two, Deathscythe and Wing Zero. The other three are not models. They are from the Metal Build series. Although if you count the dozen or so Real Grade and High Grade kits I built with my son, then Ya I've built a few over the last couple of months

For myself I'm working on a Master Grade Heavyarms at the moment :-)

[gqlmao]

Haha yup I had to watch it again just now.

Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

That's pretty awesome (or at least very late at night it is).

You sir are addicted, makes me wanna pick one up, just maybe... They have gundam x is mg now.

Originally Posted by kien

Ha thanks :-). I actually only built the first two, Deathscythe and Wing Zero. The other three are not models. They are from the Metal Build series. Although if you count the dozen or so Real Grade and High Grade kits I built with my son, then Ya I've built a few over the last couple of months

For myself I'm working on a Master Grade Heavyarms at the moment :-)

[kien]

Originally Posted by gqlmao

Haha yup I had to watch it again just now.





You sir are addicted, makes me wanna pick one up, just maybe... They have gundam x is mg now.

Yup. I definitely crossed over to addiction territory the good thing about Gundams is that they don't die one you for no apparent reason.

[Kraken]

This brings back old memories.....I rmember the first gundam I bought was a chinese knockoff...I could never put the legs together cause the parts didnt fit Think I was 8 years old...

[Trevor W]

wow this thread is awesome, I love Gunpla..... I just recieved an order from hobbywave last week.

Can't wait to snap this together... I will be painting over the orange with the blue green metallic.

[kien]

Nice Trevor! Gunplars unite ! :-)

[gqlmao]

Ahhh, that's awesome! I remember my friend ordered around 10 gundams all at once. All kinds... PG, RG, MGs from hobbylink to save on shipping, it worked out to be roughly 20-25 percent cheaper than retail stores. All I said when I saw the amount of gundams he had was "It's going to be a headache building all those for summer break." Long behold 2 months of summer has past, he hasn't gone outside for weeks and the only thing on his mind was to try to sell the unopened ones to me at a discounted price. :P

Originally Posted by Trevor W

wow this thread is awesome, I love Gunpla..... I just recieved an order from hobbywave last week.

Can't wait to snap this together... I will be painting over the orange with the blue green metallic.

[kien]

Originally Posted by gqlmao

Ahhh, that's awesome! I remember my friend ordered around 10 gundams all at once. All kinds... PG, RG, MGs from hobbylink to save on shipping, it worked out to be roughly 20-25 percent cheaper than retail stores. All I said when I saw the amount of gundams he had was "It's going to be a headache building all those for summer break." Long behold 2 months of summer has past, he hasn't gone outside for weeks and the only thing on his mind was to try to sell the unopened ones to me at a discounted price. :P

Funny, that's exactly what I did! LOL. I ordered a dozen kits from hobbylink japan and actually ended up saving quite a bit of money. So far I'm averaging one Master Grade kit a month.. but partly I also help my son complete some of his kits (HG and RG). They are addictive and I can't see the addiction subsiding anytime soon. The other good thing about this hobby is that you can pause , take a break and restart anytime you want and nothing will die on you. LOL.

I think I mentioned previously that I built HG Gundam Wing kits back in the mid 90s. These newer master grade and real grade kits are something else though. Definitely brings the hobby to the next level.

The other aspect that I'm enjoying again is watching the shows. I decided to start watching all the Gundam shows from the start.

At the end of the day it's a great pastime for my son and I to enjoy together. He's 6 and can put together any HG or RG kit together by himself. I help him with the decals. He's even started to paint now. I love that he loves the hobby.