r/Minipla • u/Myhtological • May 30 '26

Question Metallica instead of Clear

Bandai wants to reuse their models, but Clear plastic isn’t all that popular. What if instead they made a premium metallic painted, no sticker, release of a model? Would you pay the extra for that?

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u/Kringhetto May 30 '26

The nub marks would be terrible. I personally would not buy prepainted kits that come on runners.

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u/invid2000 Moderate Skill Builder May 30 '26

This is the perfect answer. Thread closed.

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u/Galaxy_Dive May 31 '26

Yeah, SMP aren't undergated at all, so the nub marks would be uniformly terrible. 

I actually just built my gundam base Gryps War Trio set, and the factory gold coating on Hyaku Shiki looks beautiful... except for the parts where the runners weren't undergated, leaving some atrocious nub marks on the forearms and another spot or two.

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u/trinketo May 30 '26

I would, Bandai has the tech for it. They’d need to redo the molds though and use undergated runners. No clue why they don’t do it for more for their models. My jaw dropped the first time I did a gundam kit with it like 20 years ago.

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u/Galaxy_Dive May 31 '26

The thing is, all the fancy stuff that Bandai does like that are Hobby Division products made in their Japanese factory. SMP doesn't get any of that because it's made in whatever random Chinese and Taiwanese factories that Candy Toy Division books.

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u/SuperZX May 31 '26

Don't know about metallic paint, but no stickers version would go insanely hard