rewooh Posted October 16, 2003 Posted October 16, 2003 I was wondering if anyone produced a pre-colored model kit that you just have to piece together with no coloring involved. Quote
williwoods Posted October 16, 2003 Posted October 16, 2003 (edited) the clear hasegawa valks and aren't there some metallic ones as well? They are clear so no painting involved. and then there was those pre assembled arii valks. Edited October 16, 2003 by williwoods Quote
cobywan Posted October 16, 2003 Posted October 16, 2003 The Hasegawa Battroid kits are pre colored. Quote
rewooh Posted October 16, 2003 Author Posted October 16, 2003 any civil defese forces? or Q-RAu's or battle pods any such? thats what i'm primariy looking for.. Quote
Graham Posted October 17, 2003 Posted October 17, 2003 The Hasegawa Battroid kits are pre colored. IIRC, on the Hasegawa battroid kits only the chest strip is colored, the rest of the battroid is plain white, so a lot of painting is involved to look good. Not sure about the Super & Strike if the FPs are colored or not. About the only precolored Macross kits which look fairly good with little or no painting are the 1/100 VF-19 Fire Valk & VF-19S Valks. Graham Quote
trueblueeyes Posted October 17, 2003 Posted October 17, 2003 I guess you could also add the Hasegawa Max & Milia 1J set. The plastic comes molded in red and blue. So, I suppose you could just put them together like that. Of course, they won't exactly look great though.... But, all you said was pre-colored so they do fit the bill on that count! Quote
yellowlightman Posted October 17, 2003 Posted October 17, 2003 Some of the older Macross models were pre-colored right? Maybe not very well, but it's something. Quote
Gerwalker Posted October 17, 2003 Posted October 17, 2003 Nothing like the Bandai Gundams in the Macross realm. The closest things are the M7 1/144 models. They have colored parts and stickers for some details. The Hase models are molded in the basic color and the battroids includes an annoying colored chest plate. You can build it without painting but the exhaust and guns need some paint though. Decals do the rest of the job. But: don't be lazy. No paint no gain!! Even a simple handpainted model looks much better than an unpainted one. Quote
Terrance Wong Posted October 17, 2003 Posted October 17, 2003 The old 1/200 Nichimos look pretty good on their own, and come with stickers that you have to cut yourself. Quote
tetsujin Posted October 17, 2003 Posted October 17, 2003 The old 1/200 Nichimos look pretty good on their own, and come with stickers that you have to cut yourself. The old ones have decals. The stickers that come with the Nichimo re-releases... each individual sticker is printed in a single color - so for a kite logo you might have the black outline, and then the red part would be printed as a separate sticker. I think they did that so they wouldn't have to expend any effort aligning the colors. However, the upshot of the re-releases color-wise is that each includes two whole kits, and the two kits are molded in two different colors. So if you were to buy, say, the Nichimo Glaug, you could take parts from the white sprue, and parts from the gray sprue, and put them together and have a Glaug that's fairly close to the original colors... and a second one that's all backwards. But the parts breakdown really isn't done for color, and all this does nothing about red parts. Just paint. Quote
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