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.
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.