Vintage Gundam Kit Converted to Statue Diorama!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ย. 2019
- We love using snap-fit model kits for dioramas, and this display at the recent Buildcon Gunpla event caught our eye: builder Benson Chou took a vintage gundam kit and repurposed it as an H0-scale diorama depicting an alternate future. He walks us through his paint process and tricks he used to make the plastic model look like an aged statue.
Shot by Gunther Kirsch and edited by Norman Chan
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that was genus to use that old zaku for that it fit so perfectly in a way the new slimmer kit wouldnt have
A Commander type Zaku statue? That's some Turn-A level stuff right there.
Surely you mean a Borjanon if it's Turn A?
Technically, char's zaku can be considered a command type so... Enter Turn A!
Wow norm finally said "Gunpla"! He used to always say "Gunplay"
Dean we all learn lol.
Dildo Beggins
Reminds me of Macross II, (I think), where there's a huge, seemingly de-comissioned mech in the middle of the city. Beautiful.
Macross Plus, the final battle takes place at Macross City (which has the remains of SDF-1 towering over the city).
I grew up with robotech and gundam, and i had some of the robotech games on the ol xbox. I am just now getting back into them and I beat the first space mission where you have to defent the giant macross mech and the city from an enemy mech ace
This is one of the most creative builds I’ve ever seen. It’s so simple but tells SO much!
MORE GUNPLA!
Edit: Thanks for the likes and thanks to Tested for showcasing this hobby. The interest in the west is really growing and I'm super happy. Plus Norm said Gunpla right so...
Here here!
This is super fun, I'm happy to see Gunpla getting all this great attention lately, bravo!
Beautiful video with great models, love the impressive close ups with the moss, inspiring!
That’s a great idea!! Love the finish and texture
I'll take the sneaky ma.k shot as confirmation that you're finally doing a Yokoyama kit. 👍 So hyped.
Definitely deserves a prize for this inventiveness!
This guy totally knows what he's talking about.
I love it.
I was just looking to make something just like this, awesome and inspiring.
Yooooooo more Gundam vids I loooove you Ty Norm!
Incredible... simply incredible.
I haven't built any Gundam kits yet, but you've inspired me, many thanks
There super fun I hope you get a chance too
If you are a fan of Gunpla please think about visiting and maybe competing in Southern California Gundam Competition held in November every year. 2019's just past, but 2020 is looking to be even better!!!
I have to make it back to SCGMC in 2020!
@@tetsujin_144 If you can please do! I missed this years competition, but I have plans for 2020. I'm a heavy zeon builder and have some eye-catchers set! I know it's really early but if you see someone with a bit too many zeon kits next year feel free to say hi. :)
that is so cool you guys are so talented
Great work!
Adam + Gunpla = new model called AD-4M Savage Gundam. 😂
Ok. I wanna see him build :D
Work of art. 🥇
Very cool idea
That zaku and sazabi is bootiful char would be proud
I would love to see a short series or movie with the alternate timeline where the Zeon forces won. Situation reversed where the Earth Federation gains the upper hand early on with an army of Gundams and ends with Char and the Zeon victorious because of the new type soldiers.
Awesome Diorama !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That last statue at the end was really cool, would’ve liked to see a version where it doesn’t just look abandoned, maybe where it’s sort of bent over kneeling with a hole/ sword through its chest
Cool idea, you should build it
That. Is. Sick
Please tell us you got tons of footage from this place. Awesome stuff. Hope to spy some G Gundam kits there!
I watched Norm and his videographer and they interviewed and handful of modelers and got a bunch of b-role shots. They will probably upload more later.
Ah such beautiful models. What's everyone else doing here in my happy place?!
Somebody made a gundam 00 diorama of the films ending looks amazing
I immediately clicked as soon as I saw gunpla and Tested. These are two things put together that I have been waiting so very long for. Hoping for an interesting build vid in the future!
A great model build, but he seemed confused as to whether it was a statue or an old immobilised Gundam. I favor the latter interpretation, as it's more dramatic.
Why not both? Could very well be a decommissioned Zaku that was made into a statue.
Wow more kits
Nice diorama
旧キットなのにかっこいい‼️
苔が素晴らしいです‼️
Well now I gotta go to this con...
0:45
HEAVY ZEON BREATHING
This would be a happy place for anime fans.
Super cool 😎
Some fashion designer signed , on but coulred, peace, love, flowers, flash ❤️❤️❤️
I want strangler figs wrapping around the old warrior with a skeleton still inside. Maybe a swamp with mist.
sick!!
I wonder if he was inspired by the video for Luke Vibert's Shadows?
Please tell me there were some zoids in there too
Reminds me of Elden Ring's. I'd love to have one of ED's giants or moving palaces.
Beam rifle in the foreground @ 0:51 is definitely inspired from M1A1 pulse rifle from Aliens.
more gunpla plz
Love you guys so much
This is no Zaku 2.0 boy!
No Zaku!
Please build a undertaker Gundam version!
I want that War Greymon kit.
you can buy it
@@dharkann Sweet, do you know where the best place to look for it.
Why does the statue have leaking gun holes if it's made of stone?
Kinda what I was thinking. I like the idea, but I think it'd of been a better idea to make it an old, rusted suit that had been sitting around forever.
I think the builder was a bit confused about whether it was a statue or an old immobilised mech. I favor the second interpretation because it's more dramatic.
Yeah seems like kind of a confused issue with this build.
Though it could be whoever made the statue (in this builder's head-canon, I mean) intentionally built the statue to represent a battered machine. In other words when the "statue" was "carved" the damage was carved into it also.
They did a good job on those Goddamn Transformer dolls.
the GM in the intro, the Kshatriya, the Nanju Stein, that unicorn cosplay, all of the kits shown in the intro are beautiful. and those were more interesting to look at than the main focused kit of this video lol.
also @ 0:11 "gunpla con convetion" xD
_Zaku survived a war_
Me: Nani!!!! Masaka??
Cool
anyone knows the name of the red one 0:39 seconds in the video?
Sazabi, Gundam Char's Counterattack. Not sure what run of model or grade, but the suit is the Sazabi.
This shit is beautiful as fuck. True works of art And I dont even like model kits lol.
Where is that
I don't want to downplay what Newtype HQ has done with their Build Con event, but I feel like you're missing out if you're not covering the Southern California Gundam Model Competition.
Give it the “krylon” touch
ITS A GUNDAAAAAM
Wait. So did this mean that they made those gunplas customly?!
Did Benson win?
Alternate Reality where Zeon had Won? So like the Original Retconned Novel Series where Amuro Died during the Final Battle of Abao-aqu.
This diorama is giving me The Iron Giant vibes
Iron Giant / Castle in the Sky
happy zaku noises
why is the videos so short when tested goes to convention they always make the shortest videos why🤔 and why don't they leave the social media of The Creator in the link below
zaku gouf Some conventions restrict them from filming, like an art museum
@@user-wn7pz7up4s if that is the common hindrance then it is a shame we get to see limited vids on some of these cons. Only now did I find these gunpla/gundam related vids in the Adam Savage Tested channel and they are a treat even if short for me as a fan haha
This should not expand dong, BUT IT DOES
Increíbles,
What about F T C ? from the new year???????
omg wow
ItsaGunpla!
This video is too short
NIce
49 MS Pilots got Shot Down
Нам не понять
awww... Zeon is not evil, that's like calling the Martian Congressional Republic from The Expanse as evil... this is what's great about UC Gundam, it's not some Kamen Rider good vs evil villains stuff. it's not black & white like that. EF has bloody hands as well, and there's the corps...
awesome 😍😍🤤🤤🤤
This vintage one reminds me of Greifhardt a reinhardt skin.
he didn't have to say alternate reality where the bad guys won, he could say it's the American South where there's statues of the losers all over the place
Would have been even better had it had rust.
Battle damaged statue jfc some builders would Battle damage their nippers if they could
Meanwhile me finds the same fundamental for 9 dollars: 🥴
Norm needs a new hair style..
☺😊😀😁😂5 Smile's
Coulda featured the Gm sniper, Ma.K or the psycho zaku but nope he features the half ass job that somehow has battle damage on a statue. Didn't even bother figuring out how to do proper bullet holes.
Well, yeah. It’s Norm, he’s always missed the mark.
While I'm happy that he's featuring gunpla on tested, seriously bro wth. Dude straight up used the same moss on the tress as well.
imho its kind of like heresy if you are in a place like that to devote your time to a piece like this.
Thanks for not saying 'gunplay'
are these fake transformers?
Cool
This would be a happy place for anime fans.