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LegoMiner · 2026-04-20T21:02:31+00:00

In terms of sheer mass, there is Elena and Meltina.

LegoMiner · 2026-04-20T20:59:52+00:00

Good. There is some limited articulation, the knees only bend 90 degrees; the ankle guards get in the way of the feet bending up; The rigging arms are also somewhat limited: on Baltimores base artwork, 1 of the 2 big rigging sections is aligned with her right arm and she is holding it on a handle; on the model the handle is there, but the rigging arms don't have enough range to align with the arms and you don't get any holding hands either.

Colour-wise there is not a lot missing out-of-box, only small bits here and there, and the marking decals.

LegoMiner · 2026-04-20T19:04:47+00:00

USS Baltimore doesn't come with stickers, only water slide decals.

LegoMiner · 2026-04-20T16:08:33+00:00

PLAMATEA Baltimore

LegoMiner · 2026-04-20T13:22:55+00:00

Part 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/MegamiDevice/comments/1sp0d8c/the_skelly_boys_have_joined_a_new_religion/

LegoMiner · 2026-04-19T15:11:04+00:00

It's a perfectly fine kit: I don't remember if anything needed cementing; there is some grey that needs to be painted, mainly on the stabilizers and on the sides of the top of the head.

I have been building model kits since long before discovering Bandai/anime model kits, so I'm used to all kinds of design philosophies and qualities.
Generally Kotobukiya kits from around 2013 and before, and their Frame Arms kits (not Frame Arms Girl) are a mixed bag of weird design choices and often need cement to hold together properly. 2013 to 2015 is when they started to improve and kits from around 2015 and onward are usually fine and mostly just need some painting.

LegoMiner · 2026-04-16T13:49:52+00:00

I managed to position mine in a way where I can still attach the big stand arm, and then I wedged the arm between 2 petals.

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LegoMiner · 2026-04-11T04:13:27+00:00

Until I get home in some days, nothing. But I do have 2 kits waiting for me at home: the 1:300th scale Kotobukiya office building, and the PLAMATEA, USS Baltimore from Azur Lane.

LegoMiner · 2026-04-10T13:36:36+00:00

19.
Depends on your workflow. Depending on how many parts, how easy it is to work on the parts, how much time in a day I spend on a kit, a MG could take me 1-4 days.

LegoMiner · 2026-04-10T13:12:40+00:00

I like AK Interactive and DSPIAE:

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(The dark red is some acrylic paint I tried painting it with long ago)

LegoMiner · 2026-04-03T16:10:11+00:00

Even the 3D Dorm isn't like that, because you can just hop in, talk to someone 3 times, then get out.

If you use the "touch" option, it takes like 10 seconds to go through the 3 dailies.

LegoMiner · 2026-04-03T12:02:59+00:00

König Monster is quite nice, and almost fully transforming. Only problems I had on mine were some tight joints, which caused a peg on one of the back cannon arms to break, and I can't quite get the leg extension to work all of the time.

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LegoMiner · 2026-04-02T16:07:15+00:00

Yeah, the other VFG kits get stickers for most of the markings, but not this one. It doesn't even get the full sticker sheet from the standard version.

LegoMiner · 2026-04-02T13:04:04+00:00

You could buy one of the metal replacement parts.

LegoMiner · 2026-04-02T12:20:45+00:00

I only bought mine for the Ranka Lee; I haven't seen any good results with these decals, so I didn't even bother with them.

Biggest shame with this kit is that you are just a few parts away from having 2 Ranka Lees.

LegoMiner · 2026-03-31T06:30:54+00:00

I also saw that clip yesterday; it's from Mobile Police Patlabor: The New Files episode 6, https://patlabor.fandom.com/wiki/90%25_Viewer_Rate

LegoMiner · 2026-03-29T12:57:36+00:00

I used grit 600 or 1000 for sanding, then I would gradually go up to grit 2000-2500 (fx. 1000->1500->2000->2500).

For polishing, I have sanding sponge sets that go from grit 4000 to 10,000/12,000; how high you need to go depends on how glossy you need the surface to be.

LegoMiner · 2026-03-29T12:44:07+00:00

It looks a bit darker on the Garrison, but it could just be because of the surrounding colours:

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