JK Modeler's Guide - Ch. 8 - Volks IMS 1/100 The Knight of Gold - Part 2

[MangaDex]

 

[Mr.Archer]

I had 3 pages translated when I sat down yesterday. I guess I must've been pretty excited to get back to it after a break..

 

[Korvalus]

I understand you, Iroha. I also get all giddy when I just open a box full of sprues. But holy CRAP, that's a fuckton of sprues...

That spear, the Buster Launcher is ginormous. The model must be big AF or that thing must be oversized.

Careful with rubber bands. Years ago I secured a Plagueburst Crawler with it and the band's strength bent the piece out of place. I had to use green stuff to fill the resulting gap, a freaking mess.

Wait, skeleton frame? Is that a thing in gunpla? Doesn't the pieces get assembled between themselves with dedicated joint parts?

Separating all the parts before assembly or sub-assembly? Now you're asking for trouble.

Somebody gift this girl (or the author) an Imperial Knight, Wraithknight, XV104 Riptide or Arkanaut Ironclad. She's going to LOVE them.

Yup, oversized as... wait, that thing is a cannon?! And I thought the Inferno Lances were long...

Yup, been there, done that. Conversion for posing is as old as modelling itself. Also, instead of a stand, what about a base? Magnets do wonders and if you texturize the base looks all the better.

 

[sssr]

I understand you, Iroha. I also get all giddy when I just open a box full of sprues. But holy CRAP, that's a fuckton of sprues...

That spear, the Buster Launcher is ginormous. The model must be big AF or that thing must be oversized.

Careful with rubber bands. Years ago I secured a Plagueburst Crawler with it and the band's strength bent the piece out of place. I had to use green stuff to fill the resulting gap, a freaking mess.

Wait, skeleton frame? Is that a thing in gunpla? Doesn't the pieces get assembled between themselves with dedicated joint parts?

Separating all the parts before assembly or sub-assembly? Now you're asking for trouble.

Somebody gift this girl (or the author) an Imperial Knight, Wraithknight, XV104 Riptide or Arkanaut Ironclad. She's going to LOVE them.

Yup, oversized as... wait, that thing is a cannon?! And I thought the Inferno Lances were long...

Yup, been there, done that. Conversion for posing is as old as modelling itself. Also, instead of a stand, what about a base? Magnets do wonders and if you texturize the base looks all the better.

Volks FSS isn't gunpla. It's another genre entirely. Volks pioneered the skeleton frame system that is now used in higher-end gunpla like the Perfect Grade, Real Grade and a very few Master Grades. It's too bad that the planned Seed PG line never materialized. In Seed lore, Duel, Buster, Strike, and Blitz Gundams shared the same inner frame with specialized outer frames. The PG Strike Gundam instruction manual actually showed the way this would have worked with the Seed PG line, showing how the Duel and Buster's exterior armor and equipment would have attached to the frame. Unfortunately Bandai never released those other Gundams in PG.

Volks also pioneered a few more robot kit technologies that aren't used anywhere else, like the flexible cores for MH torsos, basically a rubber inner torso that twists like a biomechanical structure. This kit was made before that, though.

The KoG's buster launcher is quite tame compared to what other MHs carry. Look up Schpeltor's launcher, the LED Mirage's flamethrower pack, and the absolute badassery of Jagd Mirage Twin Towers.

 

[Kaarme]

Yanmo isn't so easy to be friends with, but Iroha isn't giving up.

 

[xanon]

BUT BIG, ARMORED ROBOTS...​

 

[BP]

Three days for the glue to set? Plastic cement takes like 24 hours to fully cure and is workable within 10 minutes?

Careful with rubber bands. Years ago I secured a Plagueburst Crawler with it and the band's strength bent the piece out of place. I had to use green stuff to fill the resulting gap, a freaking mess.

It's why I gave up on rubber bands and just bought a bunch of modelling clamps.

 

[Fugutron]

Sorry Nagano, but 90's/00s Bang doll design trumps gothicmade bangdoll anytime.

Also trivia for the 1st page, you noticed Yakumo dump a pile of dusty old Newtype magazines in front of Iroha?
Back in the 80's and 90s Newtype used to give inserts of cut-out-your-own cassette tape mixtape labels, FSS was one of the subjects depicted on them.

 

[fight2live]

Yakumo is the "you need to understand the lore before building the model" kind of builder, huh. can't relate lol

 

[Mr.Archer]

Back in the 80's and 90s Newtype used to give inserts of cut-out-your-own cassette tape mixtape labels, FSS was one of the subjects depicted on them.

Ah, thanks. I could tell they were some kind of media label by what was written on them but had no idea what the context was.

 

[Korvalus]

Volks FSS isn't gunpla. It's another genre entirely. Volks pioneered the skeleton frame system that is now used in higher-end gunpla like the Perfect Grade, Real Grade and a very few Master Grades. It's too bad that the planned Seed PG line never materialized. In Seed lore, Duel, Buster, Strike, and Blitz Gundams shared the same inner frame with specialized outer frames. The PG Strike Gundam instruction manual actually showed the way this would have worked with the Seed PG line, showing how the Duel and Buster's exterior armor and equipment would have attached to the frame. Unfortunately Bandai never released those other Gundams in PG.

Whoa, whoa whoa, easy there. I was, in my ignorance, using gunpla as a catch-up term for japanese mech models. Still It's helpful to know the differences. Still weirded out for the whole inner frame thing, but if it helps with posing...

Volks also pioneered a few more robot kit technologies that aren't used anywhere else, like the flexible cores for MH torsos, basically a rubber inner torso that twists like a biomechanical structure. This kit was made before that, though.

You mean as a piece made entirely of rubber or an internal structure which include rubber pieces?

The KoG's buster launcher is quite tame compared to what other MHs carry.

WHAT.

Look up Schpeltor's launcher,

checks THE HELL. (Actually this one appeared when looking for the KoG's launcher)

the LED Mirage's flamethrower pack,

checks ...Well, that one is not as bad as the others.

and the absolute badassery of Jagd Mirage Twin Towers.

checks HOW IS THAT THING EVEN STANDING.

The next time somebody tells me the Ta'unar weapons are oversized; I'll show these bad boys to shut them up.

It's why I gave up on rubber bands and just bought a bunch of modelling clamps.

I'm also considering it, but I always have this fear of them damaging the pieces with the teeth or clamping too hard.

 

[ksen]

Chicks dig giant robots. And big armored robots too.
Thanks very much for translation and happy new year!

 

[BP]

I'm also considering it, but I always have this fear of them damaging the pieces with the teeth or clamping too hard.

I feared that too but I bought clamps specifically made for modelling and they're quite reasonable when clamping.

Besides, model kits are actually more durable than you think. I used those binder clips that offices use to hold paper together and they didn't damage the model (but because they were smooth they easily slipped off). If you're still afraid of clamping too tight you can get these adjustable plastic clamps and tighten them as tight or loose as you want

https://www.amazon.com/Excel-Blades-Adjustable-Modeling-Miniature/dp/B081HY1VGB