Former Games Workshop Presenter Builds His First Gundam! - MG EX Strike Freedom
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Building Warhammer is fun, if you enjoy building miniatures how can you take that experience to a whole new level? GUNDAM's!! In this Video Peachy builds his first ever Gundam, the Master Grade Extreme Strike Freedom.
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First ever kit being a MGEX is defo a mental choice like god damn
Hahaha! Yeah we here at the painting phase like to go in HARD!
@@thepaintingphase Oooh MATRON! 😱
I foolishly went for an RG for my first, years ago.
clearly going to ease into it by doing PGU as a 2nd kit
@@thepaintingphase A not-crazy person would have started with the HG Gundam Aeris, which looks great anyway, is 'only' the size of a Canis Rex, and goes for $15.
Modern Bandai kits are pure magic. The engineering and quality is just insane.
Also a flex starting with one of the best Gundam kits.
The entry grade ones are so simple but the engineering to make them so are mindblowing.
Welcome to the dark world of Gunpla! Jumping in with a MGEX is a bit mad, but I’m glad you enjoyed it. Love to see you guys take on painting one, it’s a blast!
Also if you’re looking to build one with your son try out an Entry Grade, much simpler, quicker, and cheaper but just as cool engineering and sturdy enough for a kid. Just built one with my nephew and he loved it.
After 30 years of making Gundam, Mecha, and more Tamiya/Asuka AFV kits than I've had hot dinners, I can't help but admit JP companies make GW sprues look like rubbish in comparison.
Totally agree, just built the doomsday ark and the gates were huuuuge!.
Love all the warhammer people getting into gundam and all the gundam folks getting into warhammer that's been happening recently. A lot of the skills transfer over to each hobby.
I REALLY wanted to start Warhammer but I find it a bit too pricey for me.. on one hand I can get a 1/100 scale MG for 90$ whereas a medium sized Warhammer kit costs somewhere around 160$ to 250$ and even 30$ for singular figures. It's just a bit scary to me but I remain open to it If I can manage to afford it someday
Worried about him building that smaller real grade kit. The first few waves of RG kits were plagued with loose joints and parts that would fly right off, but the ones coming out nowadays are the peak of small scale model engineering
He should try the RG Zeta Gundam. That plastic hand-grenade is about as bad/frustrating as Gunpla can get.
Would have been epic to see Pat in perpetual forward motion during the Wayland Games ad
😂😂😂
@@thepaintingphaseDO IT
Welcome to modern multi shot injection moulding. Bandai are the future, if they ever hit the military kit market, every other brand will fade to nothing. They’re so far ahead of the game. Compared to such as games workshop it’s like Space age versus Stone Age.
I’m glad people are realising just how far ahead they are now.
Gundam model kits are definitely designed to be a builder's kit. There are a lot of great Gundam painters and converters. But they've really designed it to feel like an experience just pushing pieces together.
Can you imagine how much GW would charge if they made that kit?!
😂 I dont even want to think about that lol
That's the thing. They can't even if they wanted to. Bandai's injection technology is light years ahead of GW
@@knightsljx yep, they can injection mold fully moving parts
Bandai's engineering make Games Workshop's attempts look like the works of the beaker people by comparison. I love Warhammer and appreciate that gaming pieces are different to what Bandai are going for but still... funky japanese space magic plastic sprues are just at a different level! Different colours, different types of plastic sometimes all on the same runner. And ya dinnae need glue! Anyway, glad you enjoyed it! Much like Warhammer it's a darned slippery slope!
Honestly, the God Hand clippers are a god send. Well done on the build, lads
Cheers Dave! I think I’m a Gundam convert now lol…….bloody gundams 😂
The Stedi blue handles are super nice too. Very sharp, clean cuts.
I've been consistently impressed by the incredible snap-fit tolerances of Bandai's kits. They are a guilty holiday pleasure for me to build around Yuletide.
Hey! Gunpla's great but when using single bladed nippers (godhands et al.) DO NOT USE THEM ON TRANSPARENT PARTS YOU WILL BREAK THEM. Transparent plastic is harder than regular runners and it'll snap/dent the fragile blade of a single bladed nipper. Best practice is cut out your parts with a bit of excess runner (gunpla sprue is called runner) still left on the part with a regular hobby nipper then remove the excess with your single bladed.
Welcome to the hobby Peach!
I've been building Gundam for years, then I bought an Imperial Knight. The difference is stark in every conceivable metric. GW could learn a thing or two from Bandai.
What's this foreign muck!?
I too remember my first Gunpla. Gunpla is in my opinion one of the most accessible plastic hobbies. There's such a wide range of price ranges and build difficulties that anyone can pick it up and start, and the only tool you need is clippers. Then you can go beyond a straight build and apply panel lines to bring out more detail and even paint it if you want, or get real crazy and kitbash your own custom Gundam. As the saying goes "Gunpla is freedom"
Okay... I wrote a comment while I was at the beginning of the video about how I'm leaving a view and like just because I like you guys. but also saying that I would never do gunpla because I don't care for it... Now finishing the video... I might...
Ha! I felt the same about them too, until I opened that box and started building, crazy right!
Love seeing Gundam popping up on more hobby channels recently, and they always seem to really enjoy the process. Dave over at MSPaints did a fantastic diorama using the same kit too! :D
Filthy foreign muck!😅
I have watched at least 7 warhammer enthusiasts build gundams now, and every time they're amazed by the wizardry of articulated injection molded parts. And so am I lol. Games Workshop needs to stop pretending they're worth the price.
I love watching experienced wargame modelers trying Gunpla for the first time. Always a treat and you did end up with one of the most elaborate kits to build OOB
Godhand Clippers? Look who's a fancy lad.
As Mecha Gaikotsu puts it: Bandai Black Magic
"i wanted something slightly less intimidating."
shows rg rx 78 -2
mistakes were made.
also japanese plastic sprue organization and model design is far superior to anyone else making plastic models.
Im a gundam nerd and i must say picking RG RX 78-2 is just model kit you dont want to start
Great! I've accumulated quite a backlog of gunpla to build (and others are coming this Christmas) and the last time I built one was 15 years ago, I needed a refresher and now here it comes my early present! Very appreciated, thanks!!! 😊
P.S. considered that you liked the experience, in the future you can try with the other steps like panelining, weathering, painting, etc...
Great work y'all! The build is also just the beginning too (if you want/feel inspired!). Panel lining and repainting are always options you shouldnt feel pressured (for or against). For this one i could totally see leaving the metallic 'structure' and repainting the armor / exterior bits.
I know this is a sponsored video but honestly I love it. What an interesting thing to see the same hobby from a different perspective.
Wait, you don't have to paint it? Where's the fun in that???
Also... *looks at fully articulate hand straight from the sprue* *looks at GW guardsman with a rifle that can only be assembled in one single pose* *cries*
I feel ya bud 😂
You gotta up your clickbait thunmbnail technique man. Big ol white lettering like "FIRST TIME?!?" with an arrow to the model 😂
First kit being an MGEX?
Damn, I'm envious. Can't afford that thing in my place.
The Bandai kits are pure genius and insanity. Also the quality is crazy good for their price.
But real flex peachy starting out with one of the most impressive and complicated kits out there.
Loved the video its very interesting seeing a Warhammer Veteran building a gunpla kit
Long time warhammer fan shocked that some companies actually offer premium quality for the premium price.
Gunpla and Warhammer are so different, I find it hard to say one is better than the other.
One thing I can say though is "GW, for the love of... fix your sprue layouts and instructions!"
Really struggling to get it up to this video, foreign muck.
Bloody Gun-Damns!
I literally just ordered a Gundam Caliban from Wayland before clicking on this video...🤣😂😭
i was never into gundam as a kid but i must say these kits all look really cool
there are rulesets for using them in a wargame btw. Free online. multiple options.
Oooh! I did wonder, thanks for letting us know 👍👍👍
No interest in gundam. All the interest in watching your videos. Cheers!
would suggest getting an entry grade, high grade, and real grade, and full mechanic and compare them and stuff
Some kits like the Ver Ka’s dont tell you beforehand which runners you need
The emotional attachment is how I feel on a lot of my models, Warhammer or otherwise. I know I've kitbashed or painted things no one else will notice but it's the process of getting there that I enjoy. Thanks for sharing!
the japanese have got their act together
Amazing job! I am abit worried starting off with an MGEX might raise your standards too high, but I'm happy you enjoyed the process of gunpla!
I’m impressed you started with the MGEX Strike Freedom for your 1st Gunpla build. If you enjoyed the MGEX maybe the PG Unleashed would be a similar experience.
The PG Unleashed Gundam is probably still Bandai's peak in engineering and design. Get it if you want to be completely blown away simply by what's on the runners, as well as the build experience, which is in three stages.
For starting kits, I could recommend the MG Gundam the Origin or MG Gundam 3.0 equally easily, or if you want simpler, there's now the Entry Grade, same scale as the High Grades, but streamlined like the 30 Minuets Missions kits. You can also try anything from the Revive line, and the HGs from _Witch From Mercury_ are also beginner-friendly.
Others have hinted at it, but RGs are for more experienced builders due to all the tiny pieces. They're basically MGs shrunk down to HG scale, so they can be a bit of a pain, but so worth it because they look absolutely great. But there are some things to be cautious about with them on top of that: Early RGs have a partially prebuilt frame, and the joints tend to weaken, making them flop or turn into plastic hand grenades. If you do get an RG, I recommend the later ones, without a prebuilt frame. You'll build it, like an MG frame, and it'll be much more solid. Sazabi over Sinanju, until they build a 2.0 of that, if you get my meaning. The best all-around Sinanju is still the HGUC versions of it. Unless you can afford to go Ver Ka, I guess.
As usual on a Friday night after work, I put on a bit of The Painting Phase, just to set the mood like. So I'm whipping it out, then you're whipping it out... but it's not Warhammers?! IT'S A GUNDAM? FOREIGN MUCK!
Haven't touched myself since 🤬
😂😂😂
its fun to hear the results of others peoples take on gundam specificlly but I have to say, the standard is high if thats your first gundam kit and you will not see the other "grades" the same AT ALL and i would highly recommend if you ever want more past that, is perfect grades(which are pricey for sure) OR the recent master grades(MG) and real grades(RG) releases
my recommended picks after that hot pick of the MGEX:
PG red frame
PG RX-78-2
PG exia(light edition)
PG freedom strike(for a bigger take on the designs)
MG dynames
MG virtue(the recent release)
RG god gundam
RG astray gold frame
RG sinaju
RG msn-02 zeong
Yeah I do believe I was spoiled, but I expected as much with the master grade, I’ve seen Pat build a smaller and less expensive kit……still bloody impressed though.
And thanks for the recommendations
And that hand?? Are they importing technology from the future or form another dimension or...?? I've felt like a bronze age human discovering a fusion reactor....
Same…..it’s utter witchcraft
Someone needs to send GW a gunpla kit, if only so they can learn to label each sprue and make assembly so much easier. Im fed up at having to looking for a ****ing number on 3-4 sprues just so i can cut an arm off for my model, just label the damn sprue!!
Peachy and Pat's reaction to the hand off the sprue is exactly the same as Adam Savage, of Myth Busters fame, when he made the PG RX78-2, and i dont blame you. The level of tech Bandai have squeezed into a plastic model is just insane.
I was mind blown seeing that hand 🤯🤯🤯 utterly sensational engineering
Bloody gundams!
Bandai already did the hard part of having a expansive catalog of ETB models with colored plastics (which makes the painting optional)... can you imagine how more popular gunpla could get if Bandai just locks a dozen nerds inside a hotel room for a year to cook up a wargame ruleset for their models? I think that they could seriously challenge 40k's dominance and also give me an excuse to build an army full of Leos.
The guy on the other side of the table with 2 Zakus and a Gogg watching me plop FA Unicorn, Banshee Norn, and Grandpa Gundam on the table: 💀💀💀
You guys should try the Bandai Star Wars kits, those are a lot of fun too!
Went with a MG for your first time?? Crazy love Gundam. My personal favorite is anything from Endless Waltz. Big fan
I know he's gone now, but you should have had Peachy build a Leo or something... something simple. lol
I agree but It was sent to us by a sponsor, so you have to work with what you’ve got.
If you want to keep building Gunpla, get the RG Sazabi or the new-ish RG God Gundam. They look fantastic, and they're modern Bandai so the engineering is up to par. The Perfect Grade Unleashed RX-78-2 is also incredible.
Modern Gundam stuff, when Bandai actually puts in the effort and it isn't a remold and/or recolor of an older kit, is Japanese black magic. And starting with an MGEX, you have impressed me with your determination. Built Gundam and Warhammer stuff, including a Knight Castellan, I prefer Gundam stuff every time.
I've always loved Gundam. Started with Gundam Wing on Toonami on Cartoon Network in the early 2000s and have watched a lot over the years. Gundam Seed was great as well. The model really shows whats possible to create these days in a plastic miniature.
Now imagine that kit with some panel lining and a matt top coat. Honestly sometimes that's really all you need to make a gunpla kit pop.
They made Entry Grade just for this but honestly going straight into the marvel of engineering that is Master grade extreme is massive respect
Also thanks for pointing out wayland sell kits now, had the exact ones I was looking for
One of us. One of us! Mspaints will be chuckling all day in the background
Never was a fan of the anime Gundam but have wanted to maybe build one of these. I laughed at 12:11 mark you can see you marked off completion of steps and must be a section you marked off and added note "f**k yeah!"
Teehee! I actually forgot I wrote that, cheeky Pat and is camera
My three favourite hobby things finally collide: Peachy, Warhammer and Gundam 😁
🥰 it was an absolute treat doing this vid. Pleased you enjoyed it
Bandai are the best kit manufacturers, no one even comes close.
A statement of fact. Now Peachy just has to think about what makes this kit so much better than what he's experienced with other manufacturers.
I've had some Hasegawa kits that were pretty comparable to Bandai's HG kits. Not quite there, but close.
Do the MG psycho zaku next
I build the entry grade gundams with my 4 year old and he loves them as you can just push the parts out the sprue and then he can play with them, would recommend
Fantastic! I’ll look at getting some of these for my lad 😍👍
That thing looks incredibly complex of a build but the part I can't understand is how this video got made with pretty much almost 0% painting happening in the video from the Painting Phase podcast.
I was so shocked at this video of gundamns that I almost dropped my cup of tea on a strange little frog trying to steal my biscuits.
Foreign muck!
@@thepaintingphase maybe next time use the non brush end of the paintbrush to open the shrink wrap around the box 😃
Also I'm so glad I never got into that end of models because I'd be too scared or too much of an uncoordinated fool & break the tiny bits.
you guys should pose its iconic pose
I just wanna adress a gripe mentioned. 12:20 (around here)
The MGEXs sales gimmick is the super intricate and detailed unarmoured body, because you are "allowed", encouraged maybe, to display it without its armour panels. (you'll notice that they show the inner frame off on the box, but other MG kits don't necessarily have this, not to this extent).
Some people decide to only add half the armour, others buy 2 kits, and probably the majority just finishes the build.
The MGEX Strike Freedom mostly has that as a gimmick because the Strike Freedom Gundam is designed with a rather unique golden inner frame, something that no other Gundam has. In fact, for the MGEX version of the Strike Freedom they made certain red parts of the armor transparent so the armor is visible underneath. All MG's though have a detailed inner frame, with some being more detailed than others.
"light saber cutlass weapon light lance" Peachy, it's called a beam saber
Hahaha! Every possible option accept the right none lol 🤣🤦♂️
Joiiinnn usssss
That was awesome! I’m definitely going to have to have a go as building is one of my favourite parts of the hobby, love the intricacy of it might do a Pat though as I’m not that brave
Nice video but man, the audio is badly out of sync.
Only for a bit. Sorry!
Now you'll have to get out an airbrush and paint one. People tend to use quite different techniques for these than they do for smaller minis. As for covered details, it does give you an interesting inner layer if you wanted to expose some panels to model battle damage. Also, I think the makers of these think a lot more about the build process than companies like GW do with their kits.
Is there an audio/visual issue with the video starting around the time of opening the box or is it just me? To me peachy is talking but it isn’t synced to the movement of his lips
It’s a little out for a couple of minutes, it’s meant to represent the shock of Peachy doing a Gun Dam! 😉😂😉
@@thepaintingphase XD I have to say it’s very shocking to see Peachy doing something outside of GW lol a great build none the less and was great to watch Peachy get so excited!
Going to do a 2nd part where you upgrade it with detailed paint and panel liner?
I hope so yeah👍
Super Sentai (aka Power Rangers) minipla robos (megazords) are also made by Bandai and are snap fit like gunpla. They are also really fun to build. The newer ones are fully transformable and articulated, something the deluxe version usually lacks.
my friend in work got me into gunpla, did a few and jumped into the PG RX 78 and oh my god it was beautiful to build
Peach, what a chad. Starting with the MGEX Strike Freedom! Next is the Narrative Ver. Ka. 😁 that’s what I’m building next
I hope this video does well.
Yikes would highly recommend against building that RG as your first kit, it's infamously a hand grenade, a lot of the early RGs. You will genuinely have a bad time.
for people intimidated by this kit and want to try out making a gundam try a HG or a Entry Grade kit, they are a lot easier and cheaper
>builds first kit
> kit is Strike freedom
You have objectively good taste, do not listen to the opinions of people who are chronically gundam.
Gundams? My wife and I will hate this!
Discovering new awesome things is just the best! A couple of items that you may find helpful if you wan to do more but not 100% take up a whole new hobby would be to get a Glass File to file down the attachment nubs (you'll have a similar WOW moment like when you tried the Godhand clippers), and also the two sets of Real Touch paint markers. You can use them for quick and easy panel lining (wipe off with cotton buds like with enamel washes) and you'll get so much more return on your time investment with them if you don't want to do full paint jobs. They're like contrast paints in that they feel like cheating!
Awesome! Thanks for theses suggestions 😍👍
That was absolute timing with you guys doing a Gundam kit. I got my first one for Christmas, which was also a Strike Freedom (but not the MGEX, I got a Real Grade one). Was lovely seeing you both having the same reaction I did to the fully articulated pieces straight off the sprue!
It’s crazy good, and mind blowing, good to hear you had a similar reaction
My first was an sd 00 diver ace was my first build and paint and first time using a dual action airbrush,turned out ok , 2 years later i own 60 😂 some are over 30 odd year's old , half ive bought new . Love them
Dear Patrick,
RG's are just as, arguably more so due to size, difficult as MG's. I made the same mistake for my first kit. Now my torso barely connects to my dude's legs. Am I still proud af of it? Yes I am. Good luck, and happy holidays.
P.S. Try watching the media your gunpla is from. It's like animated lore from 40k. Peachy's is from Gundam SEED Destiny, which is a sequel to an earlier show, Gundam SEED. Both series have been condensed into films. Patrick's is from the OG Gundam, which has also been condensed into a film trilogy. Cheers!
Money grubbing inconsistent bastards that they are, there's one thing we can commend Bandai for, and that's that they never, in all fifty years plus of making Gunpla, never sat on their laurels and said "yeah, this is good enough".
They keep innovating on the model kit experience, to the point where even in the last decade, if you were to pick at a random three year segment, it's possible you could actually see some massive improvements between their higher end kits of any given scale, like when they made the HG Moon Gundam.
dah first gundam kau terus ambil mgex, memang ah banyak...cuba la sd,hg,eg dulu...lol
OMG NOT WARHAMMER AAAAAWWWW GAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWW *other whining noises here*
Just kidding! Really enjoyed it. Have been thinking about trying to do one for a while but there's so many of them, glad to see they're at least an achievable level of assembly!
"I'm an experienced hobbyist," lol. Peachy, the modesty is enduring, but we all know that's a gross understatement.
Honestly, this isn't a bad first choice. The Strike MGEX is REALLY nice, especially with all the undergating, but you are certainly brave. I didn't assemble this one until I had a bunch of MG experience.
I love you guys, but as a U.S. citizen, I cannot afford Wayland Games shipping costs. I'm sure they are fine for Brits, but they wanted to charge me $45 in shipping for a $60 kit. That's on par with what the Aussies have to charge. And, as an international shipper myself, that's nearly double what I pay to ship to the U.K.. To be fair, I don't use DHL, but that's the only shipping option they offered, so I didn't buy the kit.
Master Grade Extreme .... going in for Top Quality for the first one...spoiled ;-)
Now panel line it.
Would love to enter but a s+h from Wayland for $50 is abit rough. Great video nonetheless. If you wanna see some really impressive shit, go build a old PG. They take work, but they look amazing. PG Gpo1-FB is my favorite. Need to panel line it, and really make that sucker pop!
as long as you stick with the new one, the Gundam Model kit really addicting to build.
Nooooo, you bought one of the worst kits available. The real grade line is currently fantastic, but it did NOT start that way. The RG rx-78 is a horrible build, and in no way comparable to the MGEX Perfect strike.