For those who were not impressed with Wave's Xevious plastic model, the company will be releasing a very badassalicious Galaga plastic model that looks FREAKING COOL!
Amazon.jp is accepting preorders for only ￥2720! I hate to buy so many model kits faster than I can build them... but dang! I was able to resist with the Xevious kit, but this one is too tempting.
EDIT: Upon second look, it's not actually sold through Amazon, but one of their subsidiaries. That requires a credit card, which I do not have (a Japanese one, anyway). Nuts...
Undamned is the leading English-speaking expert on the consolized UD-CPS2 because he's the one who made it.
I'm a giant Maschinen Krieger ZbV 3000 nerd and anything designed by Kow Yokoyama is an insta-win in my book. Also, my earliest gaming memory is of watching my dad play Galaga at a skating rink when I was but a wee lad. Heh, everything about this is awesome.
Sly Cherry Chunks wrote:I'm saving my pennies for Revoltech Vic Viper.
Kotobukiya has a plastic model of this "Vic Viper." I didn't know it was from Zone Of Enders. I have a ZOE game for the GBA. It's an SRPG game by Konami. I wonder if this Vic Viper is in this game, too? I bet. I've never seen the anime...
Undamned is the leading English-speaking expert on the consolized UD-CPS2 because he's the one who made it.
We have a pretty good import store here in Halifax so I got to have a look at both the Vic Viper and Ikaruga. I have an over abundance of unbuilt shmup models cluttering my apartment up though so its simpler to just wait for the Revoltech (it's the one from ZOE).
greg wrote:Kotobukiya has a plastic model of this "Vic Viper." I didn't know it was from Zone Of Enders. I have a ZOE game for the GBA. It's an SRPG game by Konami. I wonder if this Vic Viper is in this game, too? I bet. I've never seen the anime...
It's been a long while since I played through it, but Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars does not have Vic Viper in it. Neither do the anime shows, both the OVA (Idolo) and the series (Dolores, I) are Vic Viper-free, he only makes an appearance in Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner.
No matter how good a game is, somebody will always hate it. No matter how bad a game is, somebody will always love it.
They should really ship it with 2 combinable ships and maybe a red "captured" variant. Will get it if they do...hell, do up the invaders armada while they are at it..
edit: whoops, saw that combo pack in other photos..GOOD JOB! Now for the red variant...
No, it's a regular model kit. Here's the product's page on Wave's website. You can see dual ships linked together: one is painted, one isn't. I'd be surprised to see this much detail on a pre-painted model. They did a very excellent job drybrushing the engines for great detail.
Undamned is the leading English-speaking expert on the consolized UD-CPS2 because he's the one who made it.
I bought this kit off Amazon Japan and it arrived earlier this week. It comes molded in an off-white-colored plastic, so painting is definitely required. The main fuselage is one big piece, and there aren't very many pieces to assemble; only about 22 pieces, not including the stand or the polycaps. It will be about 18cm long when finished. It comes with a buttload of waterslide decals, so you could really go overboard with the detail if you wanted to. There are even decals of the Galaga aliens you can put along the side of the ship, indicating the number of aliens the pilot has shot down. That's a very cute detail. Since there was no size established for this early '80s game, it is a "non-scale model."
I haven't updated this in quite a while. Over my 16-day winter break (yay), I completed three plastic models. One of them is the Galaga starfighter. I have a full write-up and links to YouTube videos on my homepage here.
The paint scheme I chose definitely deviated from the box and instruction manual's suggestion, as I went for bolder metallic blue and red colors to make it closer to the arcade game's colors. However, the concept I had is that these starfighters are constantly dogging it out with overwhelming numbers of insectoid aliens, in which you shoot one and two more takes its place. The ships are constantly overworked, and crews focus mostly on maintaining the engines and weapons more than trying to clean them up and make them look pretty. Fighting against such odds, these fighters are constantly getting shot up and clawed, so I carved some blast points and claw marks into it. There's some rust, too. Here are pictures.
Undamned is the leading English-speaking expert on the consolized UD-CPS2 because he's the one who made it.
Thanks guys. As for the patience, it's something you gain from it. I showed this to my students at one elementary school. Here in Japan, there are lots of young kids (mostly boys, of course) who claim to put together models. But really, these are just Gundams that come in pre-colored plastics to that fit together without glue, and they come with stickers instead of waterslide decals. That's it. Anybody can do that. That's how I eased back into the hobby years ago after the frustrations I encountered in high school discouraged me and I gave up. I've just slowly gotten back into this, asking questions on modeling forums, and uploading videos on YouTube to get pointers from others. The patience is a learned discipline, and working with models is an exercise in patience.
Undamned is the leading English-speaking expert on the consolized UD-CPS2 because he's the one who made it.
That is great great. Wicked stuff. I've long been tempted by doing a shmup model kit, as I used to do a bit of the Airfix (a UK brand I think; is it know outside of the UK?), but then I've been tempted by various WWII Airfix kits over the years to the point of buying a few, and sadly too many languish unfinished. I admire your discipline and effort.
I'm slowly working through my kit backlog. I've been building for years, but only recently decided to really sit down and learn the proper way to prepare and paint models. It's been a lot of fun, but also quite frustrating at times; mostly because I'm somewhat inexperienced at the painting process, so it takes a very long time for me to finish anything. That said, there is something amazingly relaxing about the process when it does go well, and it's immensely satisfying to see the results.
That Galaga fightercraft looks awesome, Greg. Is there a bit of room to add optional micro LED lighting for that slick overall realism? In the Hollywood flicks, using micro-sized LEDs is the way to go with practical minature props indeed.
Ever thought about creating a diorama to go with the Galaga fightercraft?
I have yet to ever make anything with LEDs. Some guys on the Starship Modeler Forum can't even make a model without lighting it. I'm so far content to just make models as-is, especially since I have no confidence in doing a good job. As a kid, I put together train model buildings that were lit, and the light would show through the plastic and the cracks and look terrible. That was enough to stray me away from lighting model kits. As for dioramas, no, I live in Japan, so it's not like I have a huge house with space to put big dioramas.
So next on the agenda is finishing a Mitsubishi Galant model kit for a friend of mine, and my wife's been bugging me to finish the Knight Rider KITT model. I also bought another AT-AT to build for her. I have a Nausicaa diorama I've yet to build, too. Last night though, I was looking at my kits of the R-Type R-9A Arrowhead and the R-Gray 1 from Raystorm and thinking of how I'd like to get started on those. The painting on those looks rather intricate, plus I'd have to mix a lot of paints to get the right colors. Ah crap, but then there's that Snowspeeder I never got around to finishing, either. Decisions, decisions!
Undamned is the leading English-speaking expert on the consolized UD-CPS2 because he's the one who made it.
