Thank you for finally getting around to including Gunpla on this channel. I would like to recommend the core gundam series if your looking to do a custom build.

Gundams, Tau. Basically the same thing.

🎼Heyyyyyy mech arena 🎶

Murray seriously said “WONT YOU SHAKE A POOR SINNERS HAND?” And you did, so “ARE YOU READY” There is no escaping the gundam addiction

That moment when you realize GW is scamming you.

Been doing gunpla for around 20 years give or take. Bought my first Master Grade back in 01, the kit was produced back in 97 it was the MG GP01 FB from 0083 Stardust Memory. The amount of advancement ive seen come and go over the years for plastic injection is astounding. It is one of the reasons why I became a Engineer.

I’m coming up on 2 and 1/2 years and I couldn’t agree more

Hey, been in it for 5 years now too! IBO was the revival of my love for Mecha and anime, I got my first Gunpla 11 years ago but I only thought of it as any other toy robot I have. Now I have a full catalogue of useless lore and have inhaled numerous paint chemicals, it's a thing I guess lol

As a warhammer40k painter, I’d like to try gunpla. The fact that I don’t gotta paint them is both convenient and a little disappointing lol.

@@orang7789 I can suggest the Gundam Artifact figures. They're built a lot more like 40k minis, in that you can paint them up too

Yeah, in Gundam you don't get some creepy guy with glasses telling you to paint the robot, you just get slapped.

Yes I wondered why 40k stuff costed so much compared to a gundam like we have 10-20$ kits that give a great build

After taking some time with the gunpla hobby i can only imagine it's that it's the Games Workshop brand. There's a whole game attached to it and there are locations where you can play that game for free and all that stuff, which is GW using that value to justify a higher price point. When compared to a a Real Grade or low end Master Grade gunpla, an Imperial Knight should cost about 20-40 dollars depending on the type you get, if you're judging it exclusively by the hobbying itself and not the added brand value. I'm not supporting or justifying anything on GW's end here. I don't like how horrifyingly their prices are marked up.

i used to build gundam but fell into zoids model kit lately, the pricing doesnt bother me cause i get more hours in the build compared to gundam , i could build 2-3 gundam a day whyle i build 1 zoid a day so its fun for me but yeah its fun to see people get into model kit building

@@ExTrEmEStOrW were you only building HG Gundam kits then? Because I couldn't even finish my MG Rx 78-2 in 2 days. My recent RG Force Impulse took me 5 days. Mind you that I wasn't even busy on the days I've built them.

@@joshuamartin7609 no i used to build mg and a few rg

To be honest almost every gundam kit is easy enough to build that people should primarily go for the designs they like. All it takes to build ANY kit is to be gentle and patient, hell, some of my friends had a PG (1:60 scale 36 centimeters tall gundam) as their first kit

@@va5780 I agree. I don’t think there much more skill in a HG to a MG, basically just more parts. I’ve been building Gunpla off and on since the early 00’s and the kits made today are so easy to assemble. I agree to just go with what you like and learn from there.

@@va5780 part of my reason for suggesting a simple hg is the price. A Warhammer army builder will be familiar with expensive plastic, but it's still easier to try gunpla out with a cheaper model kit rather than spending upwards of 100 usd and disliking it

I think the three kits I would recommend is the Leo from GundamWing, The GM or RX 78-2, or the Barbatos from IBO

I've started with a PG and it was easy to build.

100 percent. I built Zeta and now I'm gonna get 8 or 9 more to eventually build. Can't wait to build the RG Sazabi.

real. Bought a crappy sd Gundam (sdex strike) cause it was cheap and I didn't know any better and I got hooked anyway, and now got hg, mg and rgs

Gunpla sounds like a disease.

​@@jw70467A good disease :3 (bleeding wallet)

This is me! I built an entry grade Nu Gundam and now I have 4 more kits, two of which I haven't made yet. I'm also watching multiple shows simultaneously

Dave is doing a small tau army for one of the vids would be a great proxy to add for his army

@Lt. Lemon you've just given me a great idea! My gobbo revolushun army is going to have looted gundam mechs controlled by techgobbos!

@@revtwilight9308 He mentioned in the custom minis video that he has a Tekkadan-themed Imperial knights force.

Late response but if you can get your hands on a 1/100 Tieren, it might work well as a conversion for a Stormsurge. Has that wideness and stockiness you'd expect of Tau. Unfortunately it's an old kit that isn't produced much, so it may be hard to find. In lore it's also quite low tech, so you may want to do some customizing for its weapons.

Seeing the clash of these two types of modelling hobbies is fascinating, especially from my perspective as a Gunpla builder, exclusively. I'm interested to see these techniques or approaches I wouldn't know anything about.

I like to think that hg’s are a benchmark to see how much I progressed over time doing this hobby

i wanna convert it into optimus prime because it doesn’t seem too challenging but i do wanna do a kitbash

Becarefull with the joints especially the waist joint as the plastic they used on that one is quite britle.

@@vernondelacruz7812 I will second this in a heatbeat. The waist plastic they use where they leg pegs into the waist, it can be stressed easily and snap.

That's a big kit to go for first good luck

@@samhardy4167 I have warhammer experience. For the emperor!

I wish you the best of luck, sinanju suffers of a weak waist

I mean it IS absolutely badass haha

I started with a strike freedom

Started with the Justice Gundam, but I got screwed because his "glassy" hip joints (which I gladly changed with metal hips and solved). Last year when Eclipse launched i felt nostalgic when I saw this freaking f******* joints again HAHAHAH

I started with an SD Ganso Deathscythe Gundam

started with moon gundam (broke hips out of my own stupidity)

@YellHeahTris try an HG (High Grade) kit, they can be put together much quicker than the MG (Master Grade) kit. They are the normal entry point to Gunpla, cost about $10 - $35 USD, and only take a couple hours to build.

they dont really take that long

Some take longer than others, HGs (High Grades) are much quicker and can be done in two hours if you really focus while MGs (Master Grades) usually take a day. But even between the same grade there can be a lot of difference in how complex they are. I would actually consider the Barbatos a relatively quick model to build since the armor is simple.

@@ZhysaytheBandit theyre remaking Entry Grade rn so maybe HG wont be the "Entry Grade" anymore with the new Entry Grade Strike Gundam, and Entry Grade Granddaddy (RX-78-2) Gundam. we should update this kind of... policy(?) for beginners now and that beginners should start ACTUALLY start with Entry Grade like Bandai always thought of xD

Well.. the Deepstriker ist basically just a statue and it is quite expensive.

The way they justify it to themselves is we're shouldering the cost of making the metal master templates for each kit. The reality is that in times past they were the only majorly successful wargame miniature company. They'll realise in the next few years though that their price range needs to be be lowered before they fully lose out to custom 3D printing for a fraction of the price.

My main hobby is gunpla, but minis are fun for me because I can see tiny stuff easily, like I can count the pixels on a 8k TV, yet I can't see from a far without glasses. I wish warhammer was cheaper. But then again I could just probably play gundam skirmish if I want to fill that war gaming void.

@@fagocol98 me and my friend use gundams in gamma wolves, we use actions bases instead of the different base sizes

@@Neg4Cubing nice

The MG Barbatos kit runs $84.00 USD so the price of 160 might be about right for the Aussie Dollar.

@@cyridath right now it’s like 55 on USAGS and they aren’t the absolute cheapest place to buy kits in the states (but still my favorite and preferred seller) and it’s one of the most common kits I see from site to site so if you pay more than 65-70 bucks your kind of getting ripped off in a major way. So if these guys have to pay 160 at a brick and mortar store to get that same kit I truly feel sorry for them because that sucks! Even if they bought it from usags the shipping would still kill you and it would probably be close to 80-100 bucks at least. Probably better to order from japan at that point like hlj or the likes.

That was hilarious. 😂

Same. Got one for Christmas!

Same I got one for 25 usd at barnes and noble

You missed RG, combining the 1/144 scale and affordability of HG with the Inner frame and gimmicks of MG, and the high parts count and exterior detail of PG. Real Grades aim to replicate the appearance of a suit as if it was built in real life (in fact all of the life size Gundam statues in japan and the freedom Gundam in Shanghai are based on the RG designs. The exception to this is the RX-78 F00 in Yokohama which is an original redesign of the RX-78). RG is also known for the ‘Advanced MS joint’ where some single parts are able to articulate, this was cool but it lead to stability issues in early RGs since they relied on the advanced ms joint for most of their inner frame and they had a tendency to get loose over time. Recent RGs however, have been absolute masterpieces. Since Bandai phased out the Advanced MS Joint frame, they’ve become more like mini MGs but sometimes they even surpass MG. The RG Nu, Sazabi, Crossbone, Unicorn and Wing TV are some of the best kits I’ve built.

If i remember correctly the barbatos kit they got is about the same price as a box of space marines

And the HG line tends to be a third of the price but a bit smaller 1/144 scale vs the master grade's 1/100

Honestly, if you buy a warhammer mini with 100 mm height, it easily costs you 100 USD. A Gunpla kit with 120 mm height costs less than 30 USD.

@Rat I normally use Hobby Link Japan ((I’m in the uk so getting them is a pain)) but they’re very rarely in stock so you have to be patient

Yeh UK sucks, for anything craft/DIY related theres fuck all xD

@@RM_3D the only thing semi available in the uk is 40k lmao

now you know how everyone else in the world feels about games workshops stuff

Semi-available? It's made here.

ATM the entire world is experiencing a gunpla shortage thanks to the pandemic; all gunpla comes out of one single factory, and japan's state of emergency absolutely destroyed their production.