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Oy! Hoping to start getting these sometime this month. I was curious; how would one go about painting these things? I imagine it won't be easy. What have your experiences been like?

Ive been using sharpie paint pens with some tape for borders. Works quite well.

Can somebody tell me more about minipla? Are they model kits? Where do I get them?

Cool. Thanks for that!

Yeah, they're model kits. Much smaller versions of all the various Mecha that have stickered details, similar transformations to the DX toys & more articulation. Only place I've been able to find them are Ebay. They're not impossible to find but they aren't easy either, atleast for me. Hopefully you'll have more luck.

You can get them on AmiAmi, but they tend to sell out quickly, unfortunately.

Also, if you do get some, either invest in some super glue, or learn to paint, because those stickers can easily peel within days...

Oh yeah. I've heard that so often that I think painting these is actually a requirement for collecting them. ^^;

I use the little jars of Tamiya paint and hand paint mine. I also use Gundam markers to panel line them after I finish painting. It's not too difficult though its good to have some fine brushes so you can paint the smaller details. Painting is definitely the way to go, makes the models look much much better!

Here's my most recent kit though this was done last year:
http://i.imgur.com/zlrn0ES.png

Holy crap! That's incredible! How long did that take you!?

Lol, thanks! I think it took about 5 days to fully paint everything. I spent about one day painting each Gokai machine. The details on the model weren't too hard to paint and the colours that were missing are the same for each model so it didn't take too long to paint them up. I definitely cheated and used stickers for details that I wasn't able to paint or for colours that I was missing like the pink on the submarine and some of the other parts where the details were on the sticker while the model kits was just blank.