Hey @aetios I have question for you since you love Modell-Building so much. I though I might ask you for some gift advice.

My Bro is turning 30 soon and he does like building GunPla-Kits from time to time. So I thought about buying a nice and more expensive model for him. It does not have to be a GunPla but thats what I somewhat know lol. It can be a bigger one, but painting is out of the question.

You have some recommends for me?

@aetios Tbh I did not think all too much about it but 300€ at max I think, so I should be able to get something nice

@aetios I was eyeing for those exactly. Since they are bigger and more detailed. Also I am pretty sure my brother never would one like that for himself. So it seems like a great gift.

Any you can recommend in particular?

@aetios do you happen to have any images I could reference when buying? I am not like super into gundams myself ^^"

@aetios I will see that my sister makes a photo of the collection he has atm. I just there being a lot of white ones (yeah I know very helpful xD)

I will come back to you when I get that one.

@aetios Though I am pretty sure he does not have such an intricate one looking at the website xD: https://en.gundam.info/pgu-gundam


I will though come back with photos

@aetios The photo is kinda meh but it should be enough to get a gist I suppose?

@aetios Thank you very much aety I really appreciate the recommends.

While the Unleashed seems like a great set (like damn the detail) its the most expensive of course. Though my brother has only a small scale Model of it. I don't think its the one.

Buying another Unicorn does not speak to me as well. (Especially since I could not figure which one you meant xD)

Personally I like the blue MK2 the most since it would some more color to the collection. There is also a point in going that unicorn instead as a big show piece of white.

Its kinda hard to decide. Though tbh the shops decide for lol. The Mk2 is not as easily found in stock atm.

@aetios I will think about these options. I don't actually know how much of the series he has or has not seen. It could be just about big anime robots for all I know xD.

I think with these models its also about building. He did built the ones I gifted before as well. So I do not think it would matter that which one I get tbh. He might have fun building anyway. I may ask my sis which she thinks would look best.

@aetios is this one the zaku I am looking for?

@aetios Ignore the image. I will get the RX-178 Mk2 that one seems like a nice model

@aetios that is if I can find one

@aetios I actually specificall did not want a white one D: I might look around a bit. The AEUG is readiliy availiable in stock it seems.

@aetios Ye I will have to look for somthing else I suppose. I did not want to buy another white one really. And that Zaku just looks so goofy to me xD

@aetios I have to say the green one does look less goofy than the red one atleast. So I might actually go for a Zaku still. The Weapons are a seperate purchase I suppose? What would I need to buy?

@aetios I see thank you for all that info atleast.

@aetios Yeah I thought just buying a second one in 1/100 as well.

@aetios Just to give you a heads-up. I know settled on the green Zaku. It was also on a slight discount being 117€ instead of 129€ (seems to be generally affordable for a PG dunno if thats good or bad though)

So I grabbed a 1/100 as well this one kinda caught my eye it looked cool from the pics: https://www.o-gundam.de/pre-order/full-mechanics-1-100-forbidden-gundam-ca-21-cm-gross_2524_3455/

Even though I have no clue what "full mechanics" is supposed to mean. Bought it since it looked cool.

Thanks again for all your help aety

@aetios Either my brother will the detail or he will curse me for it. I just thought it looked cool with the scythe and stuff.

I literally scrolled through what the shop had in stock.

My wallet is hurt a lot this month since there is 3 people celebrating birthday