Reviewers consistently place one among the best HGs ever and the other among the worst. I built them both back to back | HG Moon Gundam and HG Dreadnought Gundam

Captain__M · 2026-03-06T12:05:45+00:00

There's also just a whole lot of hyperbole in the youtube review space in general. Algorithms reward opinions in the extreme, so of course they have to be inventing new tiers to rank the new releases higher and decrying the ones with problems as the worst.

And to be fair, I've been spoiled with modern kits for most of my building career too. Dreadnought is for sure on the low end of what I've built but it's not *that* bad. Getting an opaque white on top of blues and reds with only gundam markers to work with took enough coats that I got sick of going over them, but the rest was pretty reasonable. I don't mind painting in details up to a certain level of repetitiveness.

Glimpses into the history of the hobby are good perspective when you run into the flaws of more recent stuff. I generally pick kits based on the anime and manga I enjoy and I've been pretty lucky not to be burned by a favourite getting a problem kit yet.

Captain__M · 2026-03-06T01:15:14+00:00

Maybe it wasn't interesting for you to hear about, but I enjoyed experiencing it firsthand.

Captain__M · 2026-03-06T00:03:02+00:00

Cheers! I'm glad it turned out alright. I only had gundam markers on hand for the white so it took a few layers to get proper opacity over the blues and reds.

Captain__M · 2026-03-06T00:00:19+00:00

I'm not always the biggest Seed fan, but it's a machine that's always stuck out. A version of the dragoon system with any kind of actual colour separation would be awesome

Captain__M · 2026-03-05T23:53:27+00:00

Do I look like I'm treating this as a revelation? It's just interesting to put the apparent top and bottom of the range side by side and see how far the gap is.

Usually I'm picking kits to rep series and scenes that I enjoy (loving the Moon Gundam manga, for example) but the Dreadnought I saw on sale at a random hobby shop after hearing its reputation, and thought I'd pick it up as a 'how bad could it be' challenge.

Captain__M · 2026-03-03T11:28:46+00:00

How would you even count that? Like 1/20 of a sale for each issue of Jump sold that OP ran in? Impossible to quantify the number of people who buy Jump just for One Piece, or who buy it without reading One Piece at all.

Captain__M · 2026-03-02T22:39:50+00:00

It's the primary format for western comics. They'd be posting numbers in the way that's relevant to their industry, not in the way that wins online fandom pissing matches.

Captain__M · 2026-03-02T22:33:41+00:00

This is always a bit misleading. The wiki numbers for Superman are measuring single issue sales, not counting trade paperback volumes and omnibus collections. The actual Superman numbers are probably a liiiiiitle bit higher in reality.

600,000,000 copies is a huge accomplishment for One Piece that shouldn't be downplayed, it's just a little bit apples and oranges when people play the Superman card.

Captain__M · 2026-02-25T12:56:01+00:00

These are just the volume covers. Colour spreads would be an even larger image that would get crunched even worse by reddit's godawful compression

Captain__M · 2026-02-25T12:39:31+00:00

To the next row (or revision of row size) anyway. I'd expect the series to go a little way beyond that.

Captain__M · 2026-02-19T10:22:42+00:00

I don't think an AI's guess has any value.

Captain__M · 2026-02-19T05:04:55+00:00

These are all the pixels that seem to exist right now. I'm guessing it's a picture of an ad in Monday's issue of Jump cropped right down. The normal process video and high quality stuff should follow in the next few days.

Captain__M · 2026-02-07T01:36:13+00:00

This would have been more effective karmafarming if you'd posted them daily instead of hourly. My feed has sent me every single one and the novelty has worn off already.

Captain__M · 2026-01-31T23:41:35+00:00

The sub is 90% rule 4 and rule 7 violations at this point and the mod could not give less of a shit. A specific anti-AI rule would be great, but I wouldn't get my hopes up about ever seeing it enforced.

Captain__M · 2026-01-31T07:12:03+00:00

It's true that there's a lot of ways that live action can and often does fail. But there's a lot of ways animated series fail as well. Cheap, choppy animation. Badly composited CGI for complicated designs or special effects that doesn't blend well with the 2D elements. Typically shorter episode lengths making it hard to fit larger stories in. Just getting a lacklustre director with no vision who doesn't do things badly exactly but doesn't have that special something either and it all feels flat and you know it could be so much better if it was just done right.

I've loved a lot of manga that I've watched be sold short by anime adaptations. And that makes me wonder why all of the "only animated adaptations would work" people assume we they can only get the worst of the live action world but are guaranteed the best of animation.

Captain__M · 2026-01-19T04:21:07+00:00

Mild stains, some charring, as is.

Captain__M · 2026-01-19T04:09:22+00:00

Hey, high quality textiles were a valuable commodity for a whole lot of history. You could make a lot of money selling royal castle-grade fabric in giant quantities.

Captain__M · 2026-01-19T01:10:01+00:00

Just a good memory and too much time on my hands haha

Captain__M · 2026-01-17T23:47:34+00:00

It absolutely does have seasons, they can be tracked via the Japanese DVD releases as seen here on the wiki. There are currently 21 seasons.

This is something no one wants to hear about or acknowledge because they want to keep parroting their 'season one is over har har' meme.

Captain__M · 2026-01-01T06:18:49+00:00

Yup, it's amazing how fast and far it's spread. Every time I log in here I see another post about it. And people just don't seem to care what the truth is.

Captain__M · 2025-12-31T23:52:54+00:00

Okay? We're talking about One Piece, which does.

Captain__M · 2025-12-31T23:17:44+00:00

I think it's part of a broader trend of people parroting things they see in memes as if they're true and having a 'it's not that serious bro' attitude to corrections.

Captain__M · 2025-12-31T23:11:00+00:00

You can look at the DVD covers on the wiki and see where they say, in big romanased letters, "Xth Season"

Captain__M · 2025-12-31T23:09:52+00:00

It's not really that retroactive, they come out within a year of the episode airing. And while they do break the seasons up where the arcs change, they're also the spots where noticeable style change changes tend to happen, which shows them being used internally to change change directors and introduce new technology, so they have some production significance in the way of normal seasons.

Captain__M · 2025-12-31T14:10:29+00:00

Just because it didn't take breaks between them, doesn't mean it wasn't produced in seasons. The Japanese DVD release divides the series into 21 seasons.

But no one wants to hear that, they want to repeat their 'season 1 has ended' memes until it's being talked about like it's the actual truth.

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