Reply To: Hobby Weekender 01/06/18 – Schools out

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@a27cromwell – if the liquid greenstuff has become more difficult to work I found a tip that suggested adding small amounts of water and shaking vigorously. You do need to be careful of how much you add but it made a pot I brought last another  year before it fully hardened, and if I’d taken better care probably even longer.

@mage Gunpla is the shorthand for Gundam Plastic Kits,  and the most common term for the hobby. RG and HG stand for Real Grade and High Grade respectively. RG is the premium 1/144 scale kits, featuring articulated skeletons on which the mech is built and offering a finer finish without the need for paint, labels or lining with markers. HG is what I call the baseline kits, and offer a good compromise of complexity vs ease of build, but still leave you with a very attractive figure. Once built they are comparable to a deluxe-class Transformer in size. I’ll see if I can’t get some comparison pics taken a somepoint (maybe tomorrow as I have an early finish due to physio).

HLJ is HobbyLinkJapan, my preferred retailer of Japanese goodies. They are a Japanese based company so they ship everything over to you. Being able to stack items up for a couple of months and then ship in one go makes one hell of a saving 😉 They have do most nerdy stuffyou can think of, including a lot of historical military kits and have carried the Space marine Heroes kits in the past as well. Not the  only player but one I trust.

And you asked about my Wolf Pack. Well I’ve been working on  these for most of the  last year now, slowly but surely, and have put up pics in previous Weekender threads on the old site, but as that’s been archived here are some up-close shots:

It was nice to finally  put paint to those wolf Scouts, given I’d built them back when the 5th edition Codex came out >_< (I think that’d been the best thing this year – using 8th and what I’ve learnt painting non-GW stuff over the last few years to really crack on and get some of these projects that have literally been sitting around gathering dust completed).

Oh, and @biggabum ? I recommend full tactical cleansing of the site by low-yield nuke from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure 😀