r/Minipla

And before anyone says "it's not complete", I know I don't have updated pictures of Jaguar Vulcan, BioDragon, and DenziTiger...but I do have them.

Some of the recent posts inspired me to fiddle with my Gaoranger SMP. They’ve been on my shelf in their base configurations forever now.

The ability to swap stuff around like this is one of Gao’s stronger appeals, and this does kind of push me a bit more to wanting to grab a dupe or two with the reissues. I think that’s going to mostly depend on the pricing. But the other thing that’s always been a bit of a nagging issue for me with wanting to customize power animals is, whether you are abiding by the official list of 100 power animals or just doing your own thing, a good handful of the components are kind of inflexible for kitbashing.

Gaoranger already has one less pair of legs than it does torso + arms (even if you’re going with centaurus, lion’s still in two places at once) and while bison and rhino are really unique designs for legs, the problem then becomes that you’re pretty damn limited with what you can turn them into lol.

All from Akihabara. Mandarake is the best place like that is my new favourite place 🤣 and surprisingly I couldn’t find much Minipla/smp at other places, there is but they’re quite rare.

I found the whole Glister Injection SP01 Kyuranger set which was a rare find! Together with the shinkenger miniplas.

I was contemplating whether to get the full shinkenger minipla set from Mandarake but they were a little expensive so I just opted for the Kingohger minipla.

Next time I’ll be more prepared with a bigger luggage and savings 🤣

I plan to buy more Gavv So-do figures soon, hopefully.

Buying RV Robo kinda kicked my ass lol

Finally finished my Time Shadow. Well. Mostly. No TimeRobo Shadow yet; the Pro Divider’s orange plastic is to match the DX toy. I’m going to paint mine yellow to match the show prop and may well paint the helmets to do the same.

Here’s Titanus with the chain and without the chain.

and without stickers :)

I would like to add orca 50/50 is equipped I thought about Roki/zenaku. Blue wolf decalibur is inspired by kiva’s garuru saber.

So in case anyone else other than me weren't aware, Timemegazird and wildFirce Megazord are cross compatible with each other

Just like the original, this kit was a fun build, but the sticker amount was way too much. I painted about 85% of this kit and used stickers for the rest. Essentially, if the sticker had to wrap around a piece, making it unsightly, I opted to paint instead. The wingspan was too large for my light box, so I improvised with cardboard.

Once I get this guy clear coated, I'll be taking pictures with Wolzard in the core spot.

I just start building the SMP Victory robo today,start from morning. I still pratice my paint skills as amatuer in the colouring the kits. I build this kits while listen all OST GoGo 5. (make me fuel up 🔥🔥).

I Hope can improve the paint skills for my next SMP and anyone can share the painting tips here.

I wanna buy them again lol, since they’re my number one 🤣

Images courtesy of Hobby Magazine on X.

Image features all the GaoRanger products listed for pre-sale so far this year, including varients of GaoKing, GaoHunter alonsige the SMP Storage Series. As mentioned in Bandai's official blog, GaoKnight is purposefully missing from this reissue.

Was a pretty fun build I will add, I added my motor nuclear kits to the background cause I don’t have the mecha yet.