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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]

Now it is time forrr Kotobukiya's highendmastermodeldeblargalarg Genosaurer, Raven version. Because yo, I enjoy having more red and absolutely no random light purple. Plus, it came with a little Shadow figurine and even though I already have one (one that actually has wings, too) I think this is a very good thing.

Unlucky me, three whole pieces were already fully detached from their spruuuuuues when I was cutting open the billions of plastic bags they come in. :( Sniff. Also one of these other pieces was kept in at eight different parts. That seems unnecessary and it is a thing to complain about them being too careful after complaining about things coming out prematurely. Yeah. I actually built this thing like months ago and didn't write good notes so my commentary could

THE HEAD.

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PUTTING A LARGE SHAFTICAL-SHAPED OBJECT IN ITS MOUTH I SURE DO HOPE I PUT IT IN THE RIGHT WAY.

The U pieces are awful in this, because they're obnoxious inflexible transparent orange/red/something plastic. I tried to twist out the pieces for his eyes but they weren't budging at all, so I decided I had to take a scissors to at least one of the connecting parts. So I lowered it deep into the box and got ready... snip. Tiny red piece goes flying, bounces off of box edges and lands about a foot away from workspace. Thanks, physics.

But that was not my end of problems with those pieces. These pieces are really small so it's incredibly difficult to shave off excess stuff, and transparent plastic is always extremely interested in showing off every bit of damage it possibly can. Except they fit so tightly into his eyesockets that they NEED to be absolutely free of any possible excess plastic. Despite slashing at these pieces randomly with a scissors in my angerrrr one of them would not fit in its place nicely at all, which meant that the clear strip that goes over the eyes couldn't stay in place. I'm pretty sure I only got them all the way in place with magic, since the one eye piece never did go in right. The clear strips themselves are like impossible to not damage when removing from sprues, too. So impossible they apparently weren't able to hide it in the pictures all over the box.

Also the gun on his head likes to fall off. :(

NECK AND BODY THINGS

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Have some random neck and body parts. Some of these look like crazy futuristic inventions right now and I can't imagine their use in the model.

I really hate the body. Really hate. I don't know. Things didn't seem to be attached in any logical way, or in a way that would never work even in my dreams. Some stupid red ribesque part was particularly frustrating for me, though I don't really remember much details. The cockpit is super dumb, too. It's basically non functional, since you can't open it without removing it entirely, and it's held in his chest in an extremely shoddy fashion that makes me ask "IS IT IN RIGHT OR WHAT" but that is the only way it can go in. :( Also sliding all these pointless wires through tiny curved bits and making sure they end up in the right places while connecting the torso parts, with a hooklike part that also requires force. Thank goodness there was room enough for me to stick my finger in while my other hand held it steady and trying to tell the wires to screw themselves for a few seconds while I got the piece connected. Guh.

TAIL

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The tail was stupid in similar ways to the body. These flap parts in the tail require everything to fit literally perfectly and never lose in any way any of their size. Which doesn't happen. Ever. So the flaps flap around with gravity, and some parts just won't stay together at all because like every part in each tail section is put together with a similar requirement. I actually had to pull out the glue for this because some pieces in one of the tail sections were not staying together no matter what I did. I shouldn't have to glue a noglue model, yo.

THE FABULOUS CANNONS ON ITS BACK.

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I've got nothing to say about them. I was putting them together while watching some movie called Piranha that only had like one piranha in it ever and it was never of any relevance. But look at them guns. The size impresses me. But the amount of pieces does not. I expected at least fifty.

THE ARMS AND THE LEGS.

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I don't know what to say. I didn't take any pictures of arms or legs while making, so I just pulled them off and put these arms together. Cutely. Those elbow spikes are super extremely sharp. The claws are also really sharp, which makes me sort of not care that the wrist pivots and the claws can, like, clamp. Because I don't want to put my fingers over there at all. I was also really excited for wires when I saw extendedhands on the box but it turns out extendedarms is just a longer plastic part to hold the hand in. Laaaame.



I made a leg do this because it could and I'm not entirely sure why it can. Except I know that it is to accomodate a low body position for reaching for things at lonely tea parties. Also I don't like how small and unimposing the leg seems near the middle of the whole thing. You've got this small chunk of random plastic bits, and some random armor flap that isn't even attached to anything else and that's it. At least the footlock part is kinda cool. You see that little gold pipe attached to it in this picture? When you put the footlock back up it slides over that silver bit. It's cooler to slide it out, actually, but it's generally cool.

I also have some vague memory of some claw part going flying off behind my music stand (ver far away) right after cutting one of the connecting parts. They, too, are sharp.

FINISH THEM

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All these parts to stick together. How am I even going to.



Probably should have put all that tea stuff away before taking this picture. But there you go. I like making him stand like this instead of his whole body being horizontal always and I thank Kotobukiya for poseability.



Stupid tailflaps. You have to pull them each out individually. They're not pushed out by some clever design or anything. And they're still subject to gravity, which is why some of them are imperfectly placed. Perfectly placing them would have caused them to hang limply from the thing and that's dumb. stupid tailflaps. There's no red expandy bits. I don't like them. They're bad. They're stupid. At least my glue held up. Also that light was really intense. Oh well.



The butt picture you've all been waiting for.



THE TEA TIME PICTURE YOU ALL DESERVE