What will Hasegawa do next?

[captain america]

FWIW, my 1/72 Graug proportions were based on this (official) diagram. Hasegawa seem to have just winged it.

[Thom]

IMO, it looks good. It looks like a Glaug and it's 1/72, which is two of three criteria, the third being shape. As for shape, again it looks like a Glaug and that's good enough for me. If the snub-look of the main body really bothers me, I can see myself adding some material to the nose to extend it forward and change the line of the canopy. Otherwise, it looks like I'll be happy with this purchase.

[kajnrig]

5 hours ago, tekering said:

The gun pods on Moscato's Glaug are a little large -- I'll grant you that -- but Hasegawa's are equally oversized, and weirdly detailed.

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the pseudo-picatinny that Hasegawa added to the top of the guns. I don't hate them enough to get rid of them... probably... but they look like they took a weird dip into tacticool military aesthetic for a second there.

(Although... a Regult appears in Frontier or Delta, right? Maybe it's taking from the CGI model and that's an updated part of the design? I don't have any episodes on hand to verify at the moment...)

It is indeed the angle of the shot that distorts the RTKF dio's real proportions. That thing is just so big, and the lower angle looking up, combine to emphasize the arms and legs and makes the cockpit seem smaller than it is.

5 hours ago, tekering said:

A 23cm height may be consistent with the official stats for a 1:72 Glaug, but your pilot would have to be 1:150 to fit in a cockpit that small! 😅

Rewatching the pilot episode a few months ago, I was bamboozled by the scene of a full-ass Zentraedi soldier basically bursting out the back of a Regult like a caterpillar shedding its skin. I think I've said before that I basically headcanon that all these setups have micronization tech inside to make the whole giant human in giant-er mecha thing work. But we know that's not it. Their universe relies on a far greater technology: intentionally loose animation standards.

[Big s]

to me, the Hasegawa looks closer to the size in the faceplate than the moscato. Form these pics the moscato looks more elongated at the top than in the line art, while the Hasegawa looks a hair short. But I think if it bugs anyone, a simple bit of styrene sheet would elongate it that extra hair. Maybe just a trimmed bread clip in the back. The feet on the hasegawa definitely look more like the line art though. As far as the gunpods on the arms, the extra detail is kinda funky on the Hasegawa and totally pointless. Its not like they were gonna put an additional adjustable sniper scope on top. But that looks like a thin rectangular piece that could either be smoothed or replaced with some styrene sheet or possibly even just flipped around, although I’m sure there’s stuff on the other side needing to be smoothed.

Beyond that, I think both versions are great looking and both versions have a bit of give and take with accuracy and both do some different things with added details. I think anyone that can afford the Moscato version and owns it should be very happy with it and anyone like me that can’t, the Hasegawa kit looks really great as well 

my only major complaint is the lack of articulation in the arms on the hasegawa version, and that might be an easier fix than I think depending on how big those ball pieces are in handI may still have a pack of white revoltech joints in various sizes that could work 

[Rock]

Congratulations Hasegawa on printing an instruction booklet in full color! 👏

[Bolt]

53 minutes ago, Rock said:

Congratulations Hasegawa on printing an instruction booklet in full color! 👏

Lol. They're moving up

I'm pretty excited with my private warehouse right now 

 

[Big s]

1 hour ago, Rock said:

Congratulations Hasegawa on printing an instruction booklet in full color! 👏

Yeah, the last couple years, they’ve stepped up their booklets and it really helps with their color guides.