Former Games Workshop Presenter Builds His First Gundam! - MG EX Strike Freedom
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Building Warhammer is fun, if you enjoy building miniatures how can you take that experience to a whole new level? GUNDAM's!! In this Video Peachy builds his first ever Gundam, the Master Grade Extreme Strike Freedom.
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Love all the warhammer people getting into gundam and all the gundam folks getting into warhammer that's been happening recently. A lot of the skills transfer over to each hobby.
I REALLY wanted to start Warhammer but I find it a bit too pricey for me.. on one hand I can get a 1/100 scale MG for 90$ whereas a medium sized Warhammer kit costs somewhere around 160$ to 250$ and even 30$ for singular figures. It's just a bit scary to me but I remain open to it If I can manage to afford it someday
First ever kit being a MGEX is defo a mental choice like god damn
Hahaha! Yeah we here at the painting phase like to go in HARD!
@@thepaintingphase Oooh MATRON! 😱
I foolishly went for an RG for my first, years ago.
clearly going to ease into it by doing PGU as a 2nd kit
@@thepaintingphase A not-crazy person would have started with the HG Gundam Aeris, which looks great anyway, is 'only' the size of a Canis Rex, and goes for $15.
Would have been epic to see Pat in perpetual forward motion during the Wayland Games ad
😂😂😂
@@thepaintingphaseDO IT
I too remember my first Gunpla. Gunpla is in my opinion one of the most accessible plastic hobbies. There's such a wide range of price ranges and build difficulties that anyone can pick it up and start, and the only tool you need is clippers. Then you can go beyond a straight build and apply panel lines to bring out more detail and even paint it if you want, or get real crazy and kitbash your own custom Gundam. As the saying goes "Gunpla is freedom"
After 30 years of making Gundam, Mecha, and more Tamiya/Asuka AFV kits than I've had hot dinners, I can't help but admit JP companies make GW sprues look like rubbish in comparison.
Totally agree, just built the doomsday ark and the gates were huuuuge!.
The emotional attachment is how I feel on a lot of my models, Warhammer or otherwise. I know I've kitbashed or painted things no one else will notice but it's the process of getting there that I enjoy. Thanks for sharing!
I just wanna adress a gripe mentioned. 12:20 (around here)
The MGEXs sales gimmick is the super intricate and detailed unarmoured body, because you are "allowed", encouraged maybe, to display it without its armour panels. (you'll notice that they show the inner frame off on the box, but other MG kits don't necessarily have this, not to this extent).
Some people decide to only add half the armour, others buy 2 kits, and probably the majority just finishes the build.
The MGEX Strike Freedom mostly has that as a gimmick because the Strike Freedom Gundam is designed with a rather unique golden inner frame, something that no other Gundam has. In fact, for the MGEX version of the Strike Freedom they made certain red parts of the armor transparent so the armor is visible underneath. All MG's though have a detailed inner frame, with some being more detailed than others.
My son and I built one, and put the leg together - Damn thing had knee caps built in, and fully moved! its amazing!
That was absolute timing with you guys doing a Gundam kit. I got my first one for Christmas, which was also a Strike Freedom (but not the MGEX, I got a Real Grade one). Was lovely seeing you both having the same reaction I did to the fully articulated pieces straight off the sprue!
It’s crazy good, and mind blowing, good to hear you had a similar reaction
my friend in work got me into gunpla, did a few and jumped into the PG RX 78 and oh my god it was beautiful to build
As Mecha Gaikotsu puts it: Bandai Black Magic
Discovering new awesome things is just the best! A couple of items that you may find helpful if you wan to do more but not 100% take up a whole new hobby would be to get a Glass File to file down the attachment nubs (you'll have a similar WOW moment like when you tried the Godhand clippers), and also the two sets of Real Touch paint markers. You can use them for quick and easy panel lining (wipe off with cotton buds like with enamel washes) and you'll get so much more return on your time investment with them if you don't want to do full paint jobs. They're like contrast paints in that they feel like cheating!
Awesome! Thanks for theses suggestions 😍👍
I grew up building gunpla, then became a hobbyist for 40k in my adult years. It just amazes me how different the sprues are. Quality, quantity, mold lines, instructions, not to mention things actually fitting together? With the amount of articulation and moving parts on Gunpla, it makes me wonder how GW can't make two arms that line up proper.
Still buy a damn load of those guys, but it is still a wonder. A Perfect Grade kit in the horizon? Maybe a custom paint job on some Gunpla? *wink wink*
Gundams are pretty amazing and the tech gets better each time! Congrats on your first build experience!
Also the Gundam kits comes in a variety of "grades". Medium, high, master, etc etc. the lower the grade the easier the build and less parts. The MGEX are amazing and that strike freedom is top marks.
Keep in mind you can glue parts and you also can do panel lines, weathering and all that there is an entire industry of products for GUNPLA kits.
Excellent, really make me want to try one. You should try a vacform kit, it's like the complete opposite.
The Painting Phase 1st self published Gunpla kit is the PEG. It's one point of articulation and just several pieces of MDF. Retails for 125 GBP. Preorder yours today!
🤣 NEED!
That was awesome! I’m definitely going to have to have a go as building is one of my favourite parts of the hobby, love the intricacy of it might do a Pat though as I’m not that brave
Watching a model kit builder experience the sheer black magic of BANDAI plastic models for the first time will never cease to amaze me.
Super Sentai (aka Power Rangers) minipla robos (megazords) are also made by Bandai and are snap fit like gunpla. They are also really fun to build. The newer ones are fully transformable and articulated, something the deluxe version usually lacks.
its fun to hear the results of others peoples take on gundam specificlly but I have to say, the standard is high if thats your first gundam kit and you will not see the other "grades" the same AT ALL and i would highly recommend if you ever want more past that, is perfect grades(which are pricey for sure) OR the recent master grades(MG) and real grades(RG) releases
my recommended picks after that hot pick of the MGEX:
PG red frame
PG RX-78-2
PG exia(light edition)
PG freedom strike(for a bigger take on the designs)
MG dynames
MG virtue(the recent release)
RG god gundam
RG astray gold frame
RG sinaju
RG msn-02 zeong
Yeah I do believe I was spoiled, but I expected as much with the master grade, I’ve seen Pat build a smaller and less expensive kit……still bloody impressed though.
And thanks for the recommendations
They'll definitely make a version with a clear armor.
As a lifelong gundam fan, this was a heartwarming video. Great cinematography as well!
Next try painting and panel lines! 😊
"I wasn't expecting it to be this big"
- that's what she said!
4:12 Everyone’s talking about the MGEX as a first kit, but I’m just staring at the RG RX-78-2 💀
"I'm an experienced hobbyist," lol. Peachy, the modesty is enduring, but we all know that's a gross understatement.
Going to do a 2nd part where you upgrade it with detailed paint and panel liner?
I hope so yeah👍
The endoskeleton is great even if you don’t consider customisation because it adds to the realism so much.
Broadly speaking, mecha anime can be split into two categories. Super robot and real robot. Super robot is where the mecha are like super heroes with magical powers like Mazinger, Gurren Lagann or Tetsujin 28. Real robot meanwhile tries to make mecha appear more grounded as if they actually existed. Mobile Suit Gundam is considered the first show in this genre as it debuted in 1979.
That endoskeleton contributes massively towards convincing you this is a real machine built by real people.
It is the ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom Gundam built ZAFT to fight in the Second Alliance-PLANT War. The model kit completely sells you on the lore by way of sheer amount of detail.
Edit: do a video on the MGEX RX-0 Unicorn Gundam next. That or the PGU RX-78 Gundam.
Normal people start with a 1/144 HG, it's cheap, it's fun, it's fast. There's bigger scales for HG, you went and picked one of the harder kits to build, you had to go for a MG ex. I do find RGs harder to build than most MGs, the bigger scales makes it a big easier, RGs have as many details, some times even more details, but the parts are really small & fragile. This is how you avoid breaking parts when you take on more than you can handle, like you did. I'm an experienced gunpla builder and I make mistakes.
The regular way is to build a couple of HGs to learn, then you start moving up to 1/100 MGs, maybe try some 1/144 RGs and eventually in time maybe a PG. RGs & MGs are different scales, but they're somehow comparable in level of details, some older MGs don't hold up anymore, newer RGs are often superior to their MG counterpart.
Personally I prefer the 1/144 scale because of it's size and it's also cheaper and it's easier to pose, but I do own the other scales. Luckily you didn't pick a PG as the first kit to build.
Now, do note, these kits are made to be painted, but it's a whole new type of rabbit hole to get into, there's gunpla championships & competitions and the techniques for building and for painting are different from Warhammer. I got custom build gunpla, building the moving parts is quite tricky, you think scratch building is hard? Well try scratch build parts that move and combine with other parts XD. Some kits also use leds, that is a whole other headache to face. This particular kit has a PG version that is a whole other level.
This is such a bad rabbithole to get into and you clearly enjoyed it way too much. I got a massive warhammer collection myself (let's not talk about the pile of shame), I eventually went into gunpla and that collection also got out of hand, but yeah, I love it and have no regrets. Good luck with this new addcition, 1 is never enough. I am curious though when you get to painting gunpla kits.
Bandai's engineering is light years ahead of Games Workshop and in fact most of their competition
For the greater Good!
I’m so excited to watch this, I love Gundams. But man the audio being just out of sync is tripping me out!
Here's an idea: Peachy builds and paints a hguc zaku in his favourite imperial guard regiment
Weirdly I was thinking of using one for my van Saars 😍👍
posing a gundam is definitely an advance skill
-To be honest I want to see him build the Mega Size Gundam, too bad it wasn't re-print too often-
Scratch that, this is like video of unboxing in Christmas morning, pure joy and excitement
It certainly felt like Christmas lol
You should've done the rx-78 PGU
Anyone here feels as excited as me about the fact they're pronouncing it as 'gun' 'dam' and not 'goon' 'daaam'
Try the PG Unleashed next. Great video!
To the guy who bought the Real Grade Gundam. Early RG kits have issues. So don't judge all RG by that one.
JEFF IS THE BEST
You’re very kind.
Hey Pat, somethings off with the audio and video sync atleast in the beginning, cheers for the content!
I saw a lot of mold lines on it. What do you do with those on kit like that? file them down? leave them?
Was wondering where you got the clipper from?
Peachy you have to build a good PG kit like the Perfect Strike now!
Gundams? My wife and I will hate this!
And now paint one aswell 😉
Now paint it ;)
You should get PG Unleashed.
"i wanted something slightly less intimidating."
shows rg rx 78 -2
mistakes were made.
Now panel line it.
Modern Bandai kits are pure magic. The engineering and quality is just insane.
Also a flex starting with one of the best Gundam kits.
The entry grade ones are so simple but the engineering to make them so are mindblowing.
Welcome to the dark world of Gunpla! Jumping in with a MGEX is a bit mad, but I’m glad you enjoyed it. Love to see you guys take on painting one, it’s a blast!
Also if you’re looking to build one with your son try out an Entry Grade, much simpler, quicker, and cheaper but just as cool engineering and sturdy enough for a kid. Just built one with my nephew and he loved it.
Worried about him building that smaller real grade kit. The first few waves of RG kits were plagued with loose joints and parts that would fly right off, but the ones coming out nowadays are the peak of small scale model engineering
He should try the RG Zeta Gundam. That plastic hand-grenade is about as bad/frustrating as Gunpla can get.
Welcome to modern multi shot injection moulding. Bandai are the future, if they ever hit the military kit market, every other brand will fade to nothing. They’re so far ahead of the game. Compared to such as games workshop it’s like Space age versus Stone Age.
I’m glad people are realising just how far ahead they are now.
Can you imagine how much GW would charge if they made that kit?!
😂 I dont even want to think about that lol
That's the thing. They can't even if they wanted to. Bandai's injection technology is light years ahead of GW
@@knightsljx yep, they can injection mold fully moving parts
Gundam model kits are definitely designed to be a builder's kit. There are a lot of great Gundam painters and converters. But they've really designed it to feel like an experience just pushing pieces together.
Honestly, the God Hand clippers are a god send. Well done on the build, lads
Cheers Dave! I think I’m a Gundam convert now lol…….bloody gundams 😂
The Stedi blue handles are super nice too. Very sharp, clean cuts.
Bandai's engineering make Games Workshop's attempts look like the works of the beaker people by comparison. I love Warhammer and appreciate that gaming pieces are different to what Bandai are going for but still... funky japanese space magic plastic sprues are just at a different level! Different colours, different types of plastic sometimes all on the same runner. And ya dinnae need glue! Anyway, glad you enjoyed it! Much like Warhammer it's a darned slippery slope!
I've been consistently impressed by the incredible snap-fit tolerances of Bandai's kits. They are a guilty holiday pleasure for me to build around Yuletide.
What's this foreign muck!?
Okay... I wrote a comment while I was at the beginning of the video about how I'm leaving a view and like just because I like you guys. but also saying that I would never do gunpla because I don't care for it... Now finishing the video... I might...
Ha! I felt the same about them too, until I opened that box and started building, crazy right!
Hey! Gunpla's great but when using single bladed nippers (godhands et al.) DO NOT USE THEM ON TRANSPARENT PARTS YOU WILL BREAK THEM. Transparent plastic is harder than regular runners and it'll snap/dent the fragile blade of a single bladed nipper. Best practice is cut out your parts with a bit of excess runner (gunpla sprue is called runner) still left on the part with a regular hobby nipper then remove the excess with your single bladed.
Welcome to the hobby Peach!
I've been building Gundam for years, then I bought an Imperial Knight. The difference is stark in every conceivable metric. GW could learn a thing or two from Bandai.
Godhand Clippers? Look who's a fancy lad.
I have watched at least 7 warhammer enthusiasts build gundams now, and every time they're amazed by the wizardry of articulated injection molded parts. And so am I lol. Games Workshop needs to stop pretending they're worth the price.
Love seeing Gundam popping up on more hobby channels recently, and they always seem to really enjoy the process. Dave over at MSPaints did a fantastic diorama using the same kit too! :D
Filthy foreign muck!😅
also japanese plastic sprue organization and model design is far superior to anyone else making plastic models.
Im a gundam nerd and i must say picking RG RX 78-2 is just model kit you dont want to start
I love watching experienced wargame modelers trying Gunpla for the first time. Always a treat and you did end up with one of the most elaborate kits to build OOB
Wait, you don't have to paint it? Where's the fun in that???
Also... *looks at fully articulate hand straight from the sprue* *looks at GW guardsman with a rifle that can only be assembled in one single pose* *cries*
I feel ya bud 😂
I know this is a sponsored video but honestly I love it. What an interesting thing to see the same hobby from a different perspective.
I literally just ordered a Gundam Caliban from Wayland before clicking on this video...🤣😂😭
The Bandai kits are pure genius and insanity. Also the quality is crazy good for their price.
But real flex peachy starting out with one of the most impressive and complicated kits out there.
Loved the video its very interesting seeing a Warhammer Veteran building a gunpla kit
Great work y'all! The build is also just the beginning too (if you want/feel inspired!). Panel lining and repainting are always options you shouldnt feel pressured (for or against). For this one i could totally see leaving the metallic 'structure' and repainting the armor / exterior bits.
Long time warhammer fan shocked that some companies actually offer premium quality for the premium price.
Gunpla and Warhammer are so different, I find it hard to say one is better than the other.
One thing I can say though is "GW, for the love of... fix your sprue layouts and instructions!"
You gotta up your clickbait thunmbnail technique man. Big ol white lettering like "FIRST TIME?!?" with an arrow to the model 😂
Great! I've accumulated quite a backlog of gunpla to build (and others are coming this Christmas) and the last time I built one was 15 years ago, I needed a refresher and now here it comes my early present! Very appreciated, thanks!!! 😊
P.S. considered that you liked the experience, in the future you can try with the other steps like panelining, weathering, painting, etc...
First kit being an MGEX?
Damn, I'm envious. Can't afford that thing in my place.
Bloody gundams!
i was never into gundam as a kid but i must say these kits all look really cool
the japanese have got their act together
Really struggling to get it up to this video, foreign muck.
Bloody Gun-Damns!
there are rulesets for using them in a wargame btw. Free online. multiple options.
Oooh! I did wonder, thanks for letting us know 👍👍👍
Amazing job! I am abit worried starting off with an MGEX might raise your standards too high, but I'm happy you enjoyed the process of gunpla!
Some kits like the Ver Ka’s dont tell you beforehand which runners you need
would suggest getting an entry grade, high grade, and real grade, and full mechanic and compare them and stuff
No interest in gundam. All the interest in watching your videos. Cheers!
The PG Unleashed Gundam is probably still Bandai's peak in engineering and design. Get it if you want to be completely blown away simply by what's on the runners, as well as the build experience, which is in three stages.
For starting kits, I could recommend the MG Gundam the Origin or MG Gundam 3.0 equally easily, or if you want simpler, there's now the Entry Grade, same scale as the High Grades, but streamlined like the 30 Minuets Missions kits. You can also try anything from the Revive line, and the HGs from _Witch From Mercury_ are also beginner-friendly.
Others have hinted at it, but RGs are for more experienced builders due to all the tiny pieces. They're basically MGs shrunk down to HG scale, so they can be a bit of a pain, but so worth it because they look absolutely great. But there are some things to be cautious about with them on top of that: Early RGs have a partially prebuilt frame, and the joints tend to weaken, making them flop or turn into plastic hand grenades. If you do get an RG, I recommend the later ones, without a prebuilt frame. You'll build it, like an MG frame, and it'll be much more solid. Sazabi over Sinanju, until they build a 2.0 of that, if you get my meaning. The best all-around Sinanju is still the HGUC versions of it. Unless you can afford to go Ver Ka, I guess.
I’m impressed you started with the MGEX Strike Freedom for your 1st Gunpla build. If you enjoyed the MGEX maybe the PG Unleashed would be a similar experience.
Bandai are the best kit manufacturers, no one even comes close.
A statement of fact. Now Peachy just has to think about what makes this kit so much better than what he's experienced with other manufacturers.
I've had some Hasegawa kits that were pretty comparable to Bandai's HG kits. Not quite there, but close.
You guys should try the Bandai Star Wars kits, those are a lot of fun too!
As usual on a Friday night after work, I put on a bit of The Painting Phase, just to set the mood like. So I'm whipping it out, then you're whipping it out... but it's not Warhammers?! IT'S A GUNDAM? FOREIGN MUCK!
Haven't touched myself since 🤬
😂😂😂
Someone needs to send GW a gunpla kit, if only so they can learn to label each sprue and make assembly so much easier. Im fed up at having to looking for a ****ing number on 3-4 sprues just so i can cut an arm off for my model, just label the damn sprue!!
Peachy and Pat's reaction to the hand off the sprue is exactly the same as Adam Savage, of Myth Busters fame, when he made the PG RX78-2, and i dont blame you. The level of tech Bandai have squeezed into a plastic model is just insane.
I was mind blown seeing that hand 🤯🤯🤯 utterly sensational engineering
Went with a MG for your first time?? Crazy love Gundam. My personal favorite is anything from Endless Waltz. Big fan
One of us. One of us! Mspaints will be chuckling all day in the background
Bandai already did the hard part of having a expansive catalog of ETB models with colored plastics (which makes the painting optional)... can you imagine how more popular gunpla could get if Bandai just locks a dozen nerds inside a hotel room for a year to cook up a wargame ruleset for their models? I think that they could seriously challenge 40k's dominance and also give me an excuse to build an army full of Leos.
The guy on the other side of the table with 2 Zakus and a Gogg watching me plop FA Unicorn, Banshee Norn, and Grandpa Gundam on the table: 💀💀💀
And that hand?? Are they importing technology from the future or form another dimension or...?? I've felt like a bronze age human discovering a fusion reactor....
Same…..it’s utter witchcraft
Now imagine that kit with some panel lining and a matt top coat. Honestly sometimes that's really all you need to make a gunpla kit pop.