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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jun 30, 2018 18:48:13 GMT -5
There he is in all his reptilian glory. With daylight and with camera (phone) flash and a little close-up action going on there.
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jun 30, 2018 18:54:23 GMT -5
Cousin Bari Kroc came along to do a small photoshoot, for comparison (and he wanted to check what all the ruckus was about) and afterward he actually felt a bit overwhelmed, they told him up front that Gabrigator was a big fellow, but he didn't expect him to be this big. On the other hand Bari thought: "Well you might be big Gabby, but at least I have some guns on my back, hah! And my pilot is protected in my mouth." ("Awkward, are you gonna eat that?" Gabby thought by himself)
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jun 30, 2018 18:57:00 GMT -5
What more is there to say, I really like him, and the customs I have seen so far look really good, some really nice colorschemes which make him stand out even more ('cause granted the blue might be a bit weird as color for a croc, but even then he looks good)
Oh and he is indeed a bit slow, Barigator can outrun him.
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jun 30, 2018 19:00:32 GMT -5
I allready posted some custom Gabrigators I found (a few posts back in this review), but couldn't resist showing some more.
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jun 30, 2018 19:06:53 GMT -5
All credit goes to the awesome people that did those paintjobs. (Oh and for Maethius, there's one as an idea for a 1/72 pilot conversion)
Well folks that wraps up the 5th installment in this weeks Zoids Wild review, so on to the last one; GilRaptor. (Last one for now, can't wait till it's the end of July for my Kuwaga and Grachiosaurus) As you see I am getting more excited than in my initial post
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jun 30, 2018 19:19:46 GMT -5
Review Part 6: GilRaptor
Okay so that's the last one from the initial 6 Wild Zoids, boooo... BUT end of July there will be 2 more coming in which I will of course be building and maybe in between there will be a small surprise coming to these pages.
Taking care of the sprue marks took about 30 minutes, not too bad this time again, one or two on visible parts, but could kind of fix them, and luckily no nasty ones in his face. The build itself was 30 minutes (and as you know by now, I just took my time, I could have been much faster, but was enjoying the build at an easy pace)
Teal caps this time (not blue, in hand it's really teal) and again 2 extra caps. By the way last few builds I didn't have much issues with the caps, sprue marks wise (as with Wild Liger)
Anyway, here are the parts and Mr Bones
And I do have to say, the red is actually pretty neat. At first I thought bleh shiny red instead of just red RED (but also maybe because of red being difficult at times plastic wise, they thought why not use a different red? Or they just wanted him to look like this, who knows.) I am not against shiny red (Energy Liger rocks his red really well), but just thought that it wouldn't suit him, but it did. It's kind of the same red as Blitz Haken, maybe a tad lighter, but it kind of suits Gil pretty well, against the black and silver (always a good color combo in my opinion, red and black.
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jun 30, 2018 19:22:58 GMT -5
Here he has got his eyes back, so finally he can see where he's going again. (The white in his face is camera flash, it's black in real life)
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jun 30, 2018 19:28:51 GMT -5
As you can see with the shade hitting his eye it looks kind of cool, but with light shining through it looks a bit weird, because then he has no eyes.. (when his mouth opens his eyes disappear, because his head armor moves over them, it's not the eyes that move, it's the head armor that shifts.)
Thing is, that moving thing isn't necessarily a bad thing, BUT I would have preferred fixed eyes. Because now if his mouth is open (and that's a cool looking pose) his eyes are gone and that's a shame.
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jun 30, 2018 19:32:48 GMT -5
But he does look good though doesn't he? (like I said I like red and black, works really well)
EDIT update, weirdly enough I am encountering some sort of upload hickup (and it's not on my side), so I will check back again later to see if I can uploads pics again, as for now he just keeps loading..
EDIT 2: getting this as of 01-07-2018 06:35 (local time) UNABLE TO UPLOAD FILE ERROR: THIS FORUM HAS EXCEEDED ITS ATTACHMENT SPACE LIMIT. YOUR FILE CANNOT BE UPLOADED
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Post by Snowflake on Jul 1, 2018 12:56:58 GMT -5
Interesting. I swear those pilots looked a lot bigger on the other wild zoids, but here they look tiny again, close to the expected size.
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jul 1, 2018 14:10:44 GMT -5
Hi Snowflake, he is the same size as the Wild Liger pilot. Right now there are 2 kinds, the ones for Scorpear, Kabtor, Gabrigator and Gannontoise are all matte clear and look like the pilot pose on Diloforce and Guntiger. The other 2 on Liger and Gil are clear shiny and have more of a jockey like pose. They are both the same size. I wanted to upload more pics including comparison pics with other Zoids, but I got that error as stated above.. Otherwise I could have shown you some more detailed photos..
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jul 6, 2018 8:43:38 GMT -5
Okay so I wasn't quite finished with my last review (GilRaptor) but I am still having that upload thing going on (see 3 posts back)
AND....
Review Part 7 would have been coming up today with KABTOR RARE WHITE and Limited Z-caps Death Metal Black and Freedom Blue...
BUT I can't continue without pics
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Orion
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Post by Orion on Jul 6, 2018 12:35:35 GMT -5
Most likely the issue you have with attaching photos is you've used up your upload space. You'll either need to use an external image host, delete uploaded images to make more space or upgrade to a Proboards Pro account. The easiest (and cheapest) is to use a external hosting source (like imgur or Photobucket, there are many free ones out there) and then imbed the images in your post using the [ img][/ img] tags.
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jul 6, 2018 13:01:04 GMT -5
Thanks Orion for the explanation, I will try one of those options and see what happens (edit, tried to edit the allready uploaded photos with smaller versions but no luck there either) Hope to get some more pics on here soon to show the Kabtor and caps and the last part of the Gil review.
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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jul 7, 2018 12:34:49 GMT -5
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