Couple of years late, I guess?

Kakanian

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Howdy from Austria, the place that has neither ocean access or Kangaroos,

I registered way back during 2013 or so, but only got around to becoming serious about the hobby recently when I happened upon the pieces I had been missing. I´ll mainly be posting about my ongoing project - articulated 1/72 Battlemechs that aren´t based on video game rips. I figured the series deserves something approximately comparable to gunpla and I have always enjoyed how the company´s substandard art direction, its dodgy IP history and the broad fan community led to the publication of many redesigns by fans who wanted something less derpy, made necessary the specific japanese branch of variant designs and led to a lot of original mechs being commissioned or just drawn over the years.

72 was a scale I picked because it´s still a reasonably common wargaming scale and it scatters these models within the sizes range between HGs and MGs, with most of them ending up somewhere around the dimensions of Frame Arms kits. I´m aware that many mecha enthusiasts build and collect various types of plamos, so ensuring compatibility in a broad sense made sense to me.

As for the missing pieces - while looking for some fast to build car patterns, I happened upon kujiracraft's(くじらの工作部屋) +7th version of his most elegant articulated paper doll internal frame architecture and found that he had solved the issues that had been blocking my progress for years. I´ve been advancing at a steady pace ever since then, though naturally not without the usual troubles that come with engineering anything from scratch.

As for other hobbies, I´m casually into primitive archery and I collect and mod those 12th scale plamo girl dolls.
 

zathros

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One of our Administrators is really into Archery, his name is Rhaven Black. Nice to see you posting. Post some pics of what you're up too, we'd love to see them. I remember these models, they look really well thought out. ;)
 
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Rhaven Blaack

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Hello and welcome you to Zealot!

You have come to the right place for all things paper/cardstock, and to build and hone your skills. The members here are very helpful.

If you have not seen it already, we have a section specifically for Anime, Cartoons, Figurines & Paper dolls. There is quite a bit of information concerning this topic. I hope that you find it helpful.

So, if you have any questions, comments, concerns, need help or advice. Please feel free to ask and we will do what we can to help you (or at least point you in the right direction).

By all means, please post photos of your work so that others can see what you do easier. You can post photos directly from your computer to the thread without the need of a photo hosting site.

When you start a new project, please post a build thread. Build threads are a great way of show off your work and skills. Not only that, but if you run into an issue with a model you can highlight the area that you are having problems with and we can offer you some suggestions on how to deal with them.

Yes, as my esteemed colleague, @zathros mentioned, I too practice traditional archery (as well as other Historical European (and Asian) Martial Arts).

Once again, welcome aboard. I hope that you enjoy yourself here. I look forward to seeing your work.
 

Revell-Fan

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Hello and thank you for introducing yourself. I too would love to see some pictures of your project. I'm sure it will attract quite a few people here! :)
 

mijob

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Hello And welcome, as you know its fun to be on this site. Lot of buildings are going on. Feel free to share your models and builds.
 
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