JK Modeler's Guide - Ch. 6 - Kunio Okawara's Fun Mecha World - Omoroid

[MangaDex]

 

[Acrelorraine]

Those horns look sharp.

 

[Mr.Archer]

I scrolled back through the pages and noticed that the model I mentioned in the end page isn't actually in the chapter because P-Bot's box is sitting on top of it in page 3, panel 1. So, it's this one. This is the one I'd like to get:

https://omoroid.jp/lineup/ao05_zbar/

 

[Kaarme]

She's not wrong: Yanmo is very cute. She's real sucker bled dry by the model shop owner, though.

 

[Korvalus]

Three days for the glue to dry up? What is she using, epoxy?

I scrolled back through the pages and noticed that the model I mentioned in the end page isn't actually in the chapter because P-Bot's box is sitting on top of it in page 3, panel 1. So, it's this one. This is the one I'd like to get:

https://omoroid.jp/lineup/ao05_zbar/

I found them super cute. Not my cup of tea for modelism but hope you find some way to order them. I actually had to check Kunio Okawara's designs. Throne of Terra, the guy is certainly something. Curious about what he would come up with for Adeptus Titanicus, though...

 

[auriga]

TIL about Omoroids. I was never really a big fan of Okawara's designs but the Omoroids really suit his style. I kinda dig them.

 

[Mr.Archer]

TIL about Omoroids. I was never really a big fan of Okawara's designs but the Omoroids really suit his style. I kinda dig them.

Yes, I also had to go off on a research journey for this one. About halfway through translating I realised I was going to have to read the Omoroids website in Japanese since all the names had official English versions. This sort of thing makes the chapter take way longer than the extended page count does.

And next week's chapter took the additional research to the extreme. I think I spent longer working on chapter 7 than chapters 1-4 combined. Untranslated manga volumes, Japanese fan wikis, I sat down and watched a movie; I learned more about [redacted] than I'll ever need to know.

Three days for the glue to dry up? What is she using, epoxy?

I... I don't know. This isn't the first time it's come up (I remember having this conversation about chapter 1) and I double checked it and that's just definitely what it says. At least this time you can kind of hand wave it as her just not getting back to it for 3 days, since it doesn't explicitly say it was drying for that time.

 

[mallet]

I... I don't know. This isn't the first time it's come up (I remember having this conversation about chapter 1) and I double checked it and that's just definitely what it says. At least this time you can kind of hand wave it as her just not getting back to it for 3 days, since it doesn't explicitly say it was drying for that time.

It looks like the bottle in the first chapter says Tamiya Cement, and this looks pretty close. I think it's something like Weld-On plastic cements for solvent welding. In practice, it acts like glue for certain plastics, and you need to set it and let it dry out for at least a day, just like with epoxy. It's not "glue" but the name branding for this stuff doesn't help.

 

[Korvalus]

And next week's chapter took the additional research to the extreme. I think I spent longer working on chapter 7 than chapters 1-4 combined. Untranslated manga volumes, Japanese fan wikis, I sat down and watched a movie; I learned more about [redacted] than I'll ever need to know.

I'm actually scared about what's going to be.

I... I don't know. This isn't the first time it's come up (I remember having this conversation about chapter 1) and I double checked it and that's just definitely what it says. At least this time you can kind of hand wave it as her just not getting back to it for 3 days, since it doesn't explicitly say it was drying for that time.

It looks like the bottle in the first chapter says Tamiya Cement, and this looks pretty close. I think it's something like Weld-On plastic cements for solvent welding. In practice, it acts like glue for certain plastics, and you need to set it and let it dry out for at least a day, just like with epoxy. It's not "glue" but the name branding for this stuff doesn't help.

Tamiya Cement is a more-or-less regular plastic cement type of glue. Those tend to be workable pretty quickly (referencing Revell's and Citadel's) with only needing 24h for full welding, if anything. 72 hours seems "a bit" overkill to me specially since it shows glued test-assembly, which with plastic cement is just asking for trouble. She's probably using the cement for final assembly, while using another for the tests. But still, three days...

 

[ksen]

Huge thanks for scanlations!

 

[bluekosa]

Thank you for the chapter!

 

[Fugutron]

Before their recent revival, Omoroids used to be quite cheap and plentiful on Mandarake. I used to add one in to pad up a Mandarake puchase to fill in the box.

Not anymore, thr old ones have gone scarce and jacked up in price since then.

Three days for the glue to dry up? What is she using, epoxy?

3 days for plastic cement to dry up fully is pretty normal though.

 

[BP]

She's not wrong: Yanmo is very cute. She's real sucker bled dry by the model shop owner, though.

Let's be real: The only one increasing our piles of shame is ourselves.

 

[EchoGirl]

it's fine being really into your hobby but be nice if she did spend time with a friend(s) or take a break and stuff even if she's so obsessed to the point of not caring about anyone else but at least her friend is fairly patient and didn't do anything petty like break a previous collection or so