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[Walrus]

This is a topic for model building. Planes, trains, armor, car (more). And I guess gundams+zoids+whatever but that doesn't rhyme with anything.

Post any pictures/logs of stuff you've built or stuff you're building at the moment. Try to keep the same project to one post, unless it's a completely different part of the build(like construction->painting/detailing->displaything).

If stuff actually gets posted I'll shove post links/dates into this post.

ALSO PEOPLE CAN COMMENT EVEN IF THEY DON'T BUILD.

[Rhiannon]

OH BOY TIME TO MAKE A POST THAT'S BAD AND TOO BIG

I LIKE ZOIDS I'VE MADE LOTS OF ZOIDS AND DESTROYED 90% OF THEM TOO. I PACKED AWAY SOME INTO BOXES AND DON'T REMEMBER WHAT I'VE DESTROYED AND WHAT I'VE BOXED BUT I DO KNOW WHAT I HAVE NOT DESTROYED AND WHAT IS UNBOXED. RANDOM CRAP FIRST:

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THIS IS A BERSERK FURY (UH, LIKE, PROBABLY AN AMERICAN HASBRO (MORE LIKE HASBEEN I HAVEN'T SEEN ZOIDS IN THE US IN AGES AND I KEEP DREAMING OF FINDING RANDOM CRAP IN TINY STORES BUT IT'S NEVER GONNA HAPPEN) RELEASE DUDE. THE SECOND ONE I EVER HAD. I believe this is boxed.

this is a crappy picture of a Genobreaker (again, oldamericalandthing). I think I've also had two of these.

This depresses me. It's focusing on some lame keychains but it's also the only picture I have of a kind of cool model I don't have anymore, the RAINBOW JERK (TL NOTE JERK IS ZOIDIFIEDMOON FOR PEACOCK YOU COCK). I remember when I was building I was thinking to myself about how shitty it was and how Zoids were seriously going down the drain with all these easy to build models that take like two seconds and have only a handful of parts to actually put together but I really liked the tailfeathers okay. :(

Here is a picture comparing the innards of my Berserk Fury and a Gairyuki. I just stopped in the middle of putting the Gairyuki together when I realized it and started stripping the other. And then I pasted random pictures from the back of the box or something for... reasons? I don't know, ask me eight years ago. Anyway, I really like the instruction manual for this Gairyuki kit so I kept it it was very pretty and had colors.

Gairyuki complete! I told its stand to go screw itself he doesn't need a stand. He's kinda cool but blox ruined the world. Pretty sure I once owned a blox Murasame Liger or something. It was so crappy I don't even know why anyone would.

THE LAST ZOIDS MODEL I MADE (I PUT THIS TOGETHER UH, LIKE 8 YEARS AGO OR WHATEVER) WAS KOTOBUKIYA'S BLADE LIGER. Some pictures will actually be posted in this spoiler, but they're small and that's why. JUST WARNING YOU.

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I took a lot of tiny and useless pictures and if I hadn't chopped off his legs and head and stuffed him into a very small box, I'd have way better pictures now. But this is all I've got.


The result of taking everything out of the box and removing it from the plastic bags. My god, what a mess. I think I liked this instructional manual a lot too.



Progress. I remember the mane parts had some absurd number of pieces so those took forever. At least the detail in this thing was great. Made up for being a pain that actually forced me abandon my usual habit of putting together the whole thing in one sitting. Forget one sitting, I had to finish it the next day. :( I'm also going to be honest, I'm not sure if I put the Zoid core part (the little red ball) in properly, because the torso was always weird about that. It was kind of a cool touch that they had Zoid cores, though. Hasbro/Tomy/whoevermadetheolder ones never bothered with that.

Completed Blade Liger standing next to the Black Impact Blade Liger. Just so you can see how much more badass Kotobukiya made this thing look.

Looking his cutest. My overall thoughts on this was that it made me very angry! Some things were stupid and didn't work seem to work right, and I distinctly remember parts breaking extremely easily. There was one part in the leg inside bit, the little gray parts in the middle (or was it the gold part?) if you look at the cutepicture, that definitely broke. I had to glue it. And something in the overly complicated blade movement mechanism was also way too fragile, and I basically had to glue one of the blades in the open/out to the sides position. These little things I wasn't at all used to dealing with in Zoids models frustrated me so much, but what was more frustrating was that I really had no desire to ever make anything that wasn't on Kotobukiya's level again, at least with things where that was an option. I'm sure I'll get over everything and buy more some day, but that got me out of Zoids models for so long, man.

I lied I was too lazy to take pictures of the other things that I can. Maybe next time. All that's waiting for you is tiny planes and bugs, a cardboard car (or two?), and a Death Stinger and Stealth Viper.

ZOIDS DEATH STINGER AND STEALTH VIPER

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HELLO I AM A CUTE STEALTH VIPER.

I LIKE THE STEALTH VIPER. But this one has at least one piece broken off (at the end of his tail, that out of place white is the brokenpart) and I would fix him if I only knew where the piece went. :(


HELLO I AM A CUTE DEATH STINGER.

The Death Stinger is actually one of my favourite Zoids. A scorpion seems like such a clever design choice. Just look how sturdy that thing is, and how many weapons they've got hidden on it. Plus the anime made it a total badass, way more dangerous and cool than the actual final boss was. I'm missing one of his leg armor plates, but feel like it's probably just on the floor under my bed. Either way, this my second or third Death Stinger and I know I kept the corpse of one of them, so I'm sure I can fix it if I just go through those boxes. Also putting him on that book was a mistake. He's too big for his legs to touch the book, so he kept sliding off because... he has wheels... why does he have wheels again? Did he have battery-operated wheelsmovement?!

Why didn't Kotobukiya make a Death Stinger. :(

OKAY HERE WE GO WITH LESSER-KNOWN STUFF GUYS. FIRST, SOME CRAPPY $2 CARDBOARD CAR SNAP-TOGETHER MODEL I KEEP FINDING AT EVERY CUB/CASHWISE IN MINNESOTA AM I BANNED FROM THIS TOPIC NOW

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It is a wonderful green car of cardboard. I have made like ten of these and destroyed every single one of them because I'm going to be honest, I just like building models. If I break them, I can make them again. Make sense? Except I don't think I've ever been responsible for breaking them. It's always airplanes, or my brother, or horrible accidents, or, like in this case, cats. It's already missing a piece in the second picture.

And then recently I've been getting into these models called Metal Earth, from some Fascinations company. They don't need glue, but they don't really snap together either. Most things are held in place by twisted or folded metal tabs. I only found out you were supposed to twist some of the tabs like, after I made all of these. You're also supposed to use a pliers, but I never did. This means I used shenanigans to put together all of these poorly, and that it hurt my fingers a lot and ruined my thumbnails (which I used to fold tabs down, not paying much attention to the fact that my nails are just as fragile as my skin/blood vessels/joints/whatever). AND YOU'LL SEE, THEY STILL LOOK AWESOME FOR LITTLE $10 THINGS THAT CAME FROM A SINGLE SMALL SHEET OF METAL NO MATTER HOW CRAPPY YOU ARE

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Mustang P-51
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This was the first one I made and somehow I made no disastrous mistakes. I could have bent its wheels better, but it didn't occur to me to just wrap it around a pencil soon enough, so there. I don't like it very much, but that's because I don't like the plane itself. The model's fabulous. It just happened to be in a set of three I got. There was also some helicopter in it but I broke it because I'm too forceful with things so I glued it and then the crappy glue I bought (since I couldn't find my old stuff) broke anyway, so I just threw it away. It was a lame and crappy helicopter anyway. NEXT.

Fokker D-VII
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I love this thing so much. It helps that I like the plane to begin with. But then there's all that glorious detail on its wings and, like, proppeller... thing. fuck plans. The random pinks you see in these pictures is the reflection of my pink blanket. Gosh these things are so shiny and reflective.

Anyway. This one is really solid and stuff, and I'm pretty sure I remembered doing some step out of order when it came time to attach the wings, because it looked like it wanted me to do something that would make it impossible for me to access parts I'd still need to access. Ignoring the instructions went perfectly. I kinda messed up on the tail part, which you should be able to see really well in 2. You were supposed to twist those tabs, not fold them. But I didn't know about twisting tabs since I didn't bother to read the words in the instruction sheet (I'm used to it all being moonrunes so leave me alone) past "RECOMMENDED: A TINY PLIERS", so the whole thing is really shaky. Somehow, though, it's never come apart. I even put it to the ultimate test inspired by my dreams (CAN IT SPIN SIDEWAYS TO TAKE OFF?). Let's see how it fared.


This one's a winner.


Praying Mantis


I don't like him very much. When I was building him I got confused at some point about which way to put on the metal strips that made up its butt, and then I missed a step with his head so that's wrong. The whole thorax part never made any sense to me, either, and I'm not sure what it expected me to do with his legs. He can't really stand on them without shenanigans, and if I put him down on a plastic surface it'll make him sort of hop a bit to the side until he loses momentum (which is fast). I don't know. Those eyes murdered my fingers.

If you look closely in the buttpicture, you'll see the raven design from the book its on reflected on his wings. After seeing that myself, I decided to take him outside. I stuck him in an exploded tree root and then he Mantis'd it up and prayed for green pigment ha ha I'm so clever. BUT THIS IS REALLY CUTE GUYS OKAY I LOVE THIS PICTURE

THAT IS ALL UNTIL I MAKE SOMETHING NEW, WHICH SHOULD HAVE MORE IN-PROGRESS TYPE PICTURES AND BLAGGING SINCE I LIKE THOSE THINGS.

But one day... I will buy the appropriate glue and I will build the Yamato. Stepping very outside my comfort zone after being traumatized by some stealth bomber model kit I tried when I was like 8. This is a good topic. This could be a healing topic.