I will be hitting you up when your extras come in.

Sure, no problem. Just PM when the time comes.

I got off my lazy butt and finally painted up GekiGorilla this past weekend. You don't even need to be a good painter to make MiniPla kits look amazing. I'm pretty sloppy with my lines and use too big of a brush.
The Gekiranger sets get the added bonus of all the extra articulation that MiniPla affords. The DX toys were the only time that Super Sentai toy blockiness really got to me.

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And the final goal, the whole reason I decided to collect these sets: GekiRinBatFire!
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Only decals I kept: The sides of GekiFire's helmet (because they were tiny flames) and the chest fire decals (because they had a gradient)

haha that looks good

I did not know you could put rin lion and rin chamelion on that thing! Thats awsome!

You can only do this combination with the MiniPla version. The main of the Rin Lion can spin around and has extra pegs that go into extra holes in MiniPla GekiFire's chest plate.

Rin Chameleon can be held like a pistol, or be plugged onto one of the large posts coming off of GekiFire's forearms. I chose pistol as to not scrape the black paint off of the post.

Nice, how long did it take you to hand paint the whole thing, and did you paint straight from the bottle or thin it?

I find airbrushing faster but it is a pain to mask such small areas and Tamiya acrylics, my main paint, are annoying to thin properly and layer for hand-brushing.

I'm pretty simple in my painting. I use only Tamiya acrylics and hand brush straight from the bottle. But that's the process I mainly use for Super Sentai MiniPla. Next I'm gonna work on D-Style GaoFaiGar and plan to only paint the colors that are missing, flat-coat the whole thing, and pen some panel details.

As for time? An hour or 2 per kit/box. Ample downtime if I have to do multiple coats like with the yellow on GekiPenguin or the reds and oranges on GekiGorilla. When I did ShinkenOh in the past, it was much more straight-forward.

That's a great job done for only an hour or 2 per kit. I'm much too cautious sometimes on casual kits and end up taking about 2 hours per box or more depending on how much details need to be painted in, I usually leave the solid main colors alone unless it is completely off.

Your plan for the GaoFaiGar is what I usually do for more complicated or too simple kits that would take too much time to prime and paint over the entire thing, like minipla and Kotobukiya Hresvelgr (nightmare to mask...). Though depending on what type of ink you are using for panel lines I would recommend doing it under and not on top of the flat coat.

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Late may right?

According to preorders yes.

Some close-ups. These things beg for paint. Especially Tank

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:D:thumb:

Oh yes, that's dynamite, that's the good stuff.

Yeouch. You're right, they're all single-color molds. Oh well, wasn't a minipla made that couldn't benefit from paint.

better yellow, blue and red than all black.

Finished my Kyoryu Origami kit earlier this week. Here's a pic of it with my ShinkenOh I painted up a year or so ago (it was my first MiniPla I ever tried painting).
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Due to some of the stickers containing textures that were not featured on the plastic itself, I applied some of them. I also applied the shiny silver sticker to the spinner as I didn't think to try chrome spray paint until typing this just now. <_<

Now the debate rages: GaoFaiGar, DaiKaiOh, or Tora Origami next?

I do not like lobster ,so my choice is Tora Origami. :D

amazing!

Just got these yesterday in the mail, $20 and even though they are built and stickered it's fine since I'll probably paint them in the future. Great deal as opposed to getting it new for almost $50...

Crap forgot to fold out fins on hat...:

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So what's the best way of painting all the sculpted detail on the Tokkyuger minipla? I'm thinking of getting a tiny brush but not sure how small I would need.

I've been using paint pens. Works well to get in close if you get a small tip

i use gundam marker pen. and black wash with tamiya enamel .


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Marker pens are good beginning tools but harder to control without experience and as a result you get pooling or marker lines. I prefer small tipped and medium sized brushes with a pot of paint, thinned for larger areas. Metallics go on great straight out of pot.

even a lot of sticker it look fantactic

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Tank looks to be a pain in the ass to sticker, but I might get it...

It's far into the future (at least for me), but can't wait for this likely release as a minipla: http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/p...36&mode=retail

yes yes yes.

Glad its not foil stickers, won't be tempted to use them then.

H-How is that even a question? THE OATH SWORN THROUGH COURAGE DEMANDS YOU! Final Fusion! GaoFighGar!!

finnaly order my minipla tokku-oh. cand wait for my mini-goodness

New minipla up @ HLJ

New products up @ HLJ. Expect AmiAmi later today or early tomorrow (or tonight since they're ahead):

Minipla ToQger Additional Weapon: 1 Box (12pcs) (3240 JPY)
http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN985453/

Unsure exactly what it is though. The new cannon? If so, why minipla and not candy toy?

The shield, fire and police resshas maybe? Since they aren't part of an individual robot.

Hmmm, that's a possibility. Maybe Energy too.

You mean fire and police arnt part of an individual robot yet.

Well if they are, it isn't likely to be until the last/next to last minipla wave hits whatever happens.

Ah, it's been Order Stopped. Probably have to wait for more stock or hopefully get a complete set from another person that got the case. Don't want to separate order on AmiAmi if it ever stocks since I have a warehouse shipment with HLJ.

Damn, that was quick. Didn't even last 2 hours haha