Model Kit Accessories

Mr Turntable 2026-02-02

I have a secret I want to share with you.

For a while now I’ve really wanted one of those spinny turntable things that all the Gunpla Youtubers use to show off their models. Like this:

Courtesy of Mecha Gaikotsu

To be clear, I have no desire to become a Gunpla Youtuber, but at the very least I thought it might be cool to take small videos showing my models off from all angles, and a turntable would be the best way to do so. So I the used the last of my birthday gift cards to grab one:

Now we get to see how it works, but more importantly, we get to see how much extra work my little attempt at becoming a videographer and editor is going to lead to (as well as see just how crappy a video I can possibly make)

New Job, New Kits 2021-11-08

This is a post about model kits, but it’s also not a post about model kits.

After eleven years at the same job, I finally decided to make a move. As someone who fears big, life altering changes, this was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done (and one of the biggest decisions I have ever made). But now that it’s done, I’m feeling very excited. Celebratory even. And what better way to celebrate than to indulge in my favorite hobby? And not merely by buying a couple of arbitrary kits, but by buying a couple of arbitrary kits and splurging on a very specific kit. A very special one. A very big one.

Pictured: The High Grade Gouf Custom, High Grade Barbatos Lupus, and the Pièce de Résistance, the Real Grade Nu Gundam

On Option Sets 2021-11-03

The concept of weapon and accessory packs for Gunpla is hardly new, but in my (admittedly limited) experience, they tend to be squarely in the “nice to have” category. The only people who really need them are:

Completionists who want the option of equipping their mobile suit with every single weapon it ever possibly used.
People who are really into customization, who want to equip their models with nonstandard weapons and gear.
People who do complex dioramas, where maybe you have a squad of suits that need to have different loadouts appropriate for the scene.

For everyone else, they’re not strictly necessary (though some of them are cheap enough, and come with enough accessories, that you can amass a nice mini arsenal just by buying a couple).

Having said all that, it is also my (admittedly limited) experience that the Option Sets made for the Iron Blooded Orphans line of High Grade kits turned the idea of accessory packs into something a lot more cynical and capitalistic.