It is not every day we get treated to a new Gundam-related Shokugan brand, yet here we are. In a year signified mostly by being shot in its own foot, we are now seeing some product brand news after quite the while. I am personally very worried what is going to happen with the MicroWars figure line for example. It has been pretty quiet around here and wave five was originally supposed to be released this August but I haven't seen or heard anything about it yet. There also haven't been any updates regarding a possible wave 6.
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MicroWars 5, where are you?
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The latest idea from Bandai however is called Gundam Artifact. In short, the concept is all about very small ultra-detailed mini-kits. The first wave consists of five tried and tested mobile suit design in ABS plastic. The figures are supposed to be around 55 mm in height but I guess they are not going to be to-scale if the promo pictures are anything to go by which would be a real shame.
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Look at the smallest part on the right and ask yourself if you can even grab them with your fingertips.
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The main kicker is however that they will come as unpainted kits with around 50 components. The component shots do not reveal if we can expect parts on sprues or if they will come loose in a bag, but I would be very surprised if you don't get tem on sprues, since this is the way that more and more bandai gashapon and Shokugan are going lately (I assume because of production-related costs). Can you imagine the tedium of taking fifty tiny pieces from sprues all full with large nub marks considering how small the figures will be? I don't know about you but I just want to collect figures, not put piles and piles of to-do's on a pile of shame.
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Do you take commissions?
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Do you remember the Mini-kit Collection which Bandai introduced in 2016? They had the tag-line "made in two minutes" and mine still sit in their boxes awaiting assembly. That line folded after three volumes and remains notoriously difficult to pick up abroad. If I couldn't get around to building figures with max half-a-dozen parts, this doesn't exactly bode well for Gundam Artifact...
The first line-up consists of the following mobile suits (in the order presented by Bandai):
RMS-099 Rick Dias
MSA-0011[Ext] Ex-S Gundam
RX-93-ν2 Hi-Nu Gundam
MSN-04II Nightingale
RX-160S Byarlant Custom
I build the model kits but I see your view point as these look like they be a pain to build,let alone paint(I guess we'll see the view of the people who make the figures)(also I'm hoping for micro wars 5 to come out so I can get an acguy and FA gundam)
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