A simple price guide and pictures of my new tools. I was at SM Megamall earlier to buy some enamel paints for panel washing my Gundams (because I really wanted to try that technique) but ended up buying a LOT MORE! Anyway, while everyone else was enjoying the last day of the Megamall 3 day sale, I was at the hobby shop purchasing additional tools for our beloved hobby!
Anyway if you want you can check out the first post I did about some of my tools – click here . It may help you if you are starting as well on this hobby.
Here are the items I bought.
Tamiya Design Knife ( I already have an exacto knife but I needed an extra one so I tried this one instead)
298 pesos
Plastic Scriber – for cutting plastic/acrylic boards and adding lines to Gundam Armor
250 pesos
Handy Craft Saw – as the name implies 🙂
258 pesos
Pin Vise – for drilling holes – includes 3 small sized drill bits
198 pesos
*there is a tamiya brand but it has no drill bit included and costs more!
Decal Tray – Trumpeter brand
120 pesos
*helps a lot when applying water slide decals
Erasing Shield – I will use this as guide when adding lines to armor
25 pesos average
Cutting Mat – Acura brand
117 pesos
Foldable Magazine File Box – made of carton
18 pesos
Tamiya – Regular and Extra Thin Cement + Paint Retarder
Regular cement – 120 pesos
Thin cement – 170 pesos
Retarder – 180 pesos
Tamiya Acrylic:
Sky Blue – 100 pesos
Flat Aluminum – 75 pesos
Chrome Silver – 75 pesos
Flat White – 75 pesos
Flat Base – 75 pesos
Tamiya Enamel – Dark Grey and Flat Black
75 each – for panel washing. Should be mixed with lighter fluid and surface of materials should be smooth.
Also I bought this pirated copy of Gundam 00 at St. Francis for 120 pesos 3 DVDs already. I haven’t watched the series yet. So I guess its time to know my PG Raiser that will come this July.
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Yeah! Same here! I went there to buy initially a side-cutter since I got the cheap one (from Alexan too). And just like you I ended up buying more. Hahaha. I bought the tamiya side-cutter, angled tweezers, fine point gundam marker(gray), & acrylic paints (copper & gold leaf). Since i saw your recent purchases I might go back there tomorrow to buy the decal tray & eraser shield.
Btw, I have a couple of questions..
– purpose of the regular cement, thin cement, retarder?
– plastic scriber is it really useful? this one is used to add more line details?
– foldable magazine box?
– gundam markers is it really good? i haven’t tried one.. i believe brush is better. what’s your take on this one?
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gundam markers are great, especially if you’re more engineer than artist (i handle pen-type implements better than i do brush-types). i use them primarily for highlighting small areas like the eyes and leg/arm pistons. can’t go wrong with the bb sangokuden marker set (the metallic ones) 🙂
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Hi Djang,
Check the forum link below. I placed the answers there. Feel free to post your replies there as well.
https://gundamph.com/forum/?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=34.0#postid-60
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i agree, i always end up buying more than initially planned. darn you bandai and tamiya ^_^
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When doing panel lining Sir, what do you use to apply the paint between the lines? Paint brush? Toothpick? haha. Thanks! 🙂
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Sorry, i meant PANEL WASH instead of PANEL LINING haha.
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toothpick is a good choice. drop it on one end then let the capillary action do the rest. The remove the excess with cotton buds. I am not an expert yet myself since most of the time I use the gundam markers (0.5 grey)
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sa lil’s po din nabili yung cutting mat?
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ung cutting mat po sa national book store
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Sir san po yung St Francis? where you bought the DVD
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St Francis po is located behind SM Megamall Ortigas
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ah ok thanks.. and dvd format po ba yan? puro po anime dun with lots of title to choose? gusto ko rin po bumili ung mg high quality video para masarap panuorin sa HD TV heheh
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compilation po un… di ganun kaganda quality… enough lang para mapanood
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sir sa lil’s nyo po ba nabili lhat?
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opo, karamihan sa Lil’s sa Mega…
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meron po ba kaung ibang alam na place/mall na mbibilhan ng mga TAMIYA Acrylic Paint. ?
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ano pong mall ung alam nyo na?
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sa St. Francis po ba meron din bang mga hobby/toy shops sa loob gaya ng Lil’s?
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none that I know of ^_^
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Saan po ba nakakabili ng cutting mat?
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sa national bookstore po meron
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magkano po ba ang surface primer/paint primer sa lil’s. medyo natutunaw yung plastic using bosny primer sa tamiya scale model nung tinesting ko sa spare plastic trees.
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nasa 500-600 plus ata ung primer sa lils. tried bosny on gundams have no issue though.
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anong pintura po pwede gamitin sa hand painting ng gunpla… bago lng po kasi ako sa gunpla-ing salamat po ng marami..
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tried the tamiya acrylics. ok nman but you need the paint retarder para to slow the drying time. also you can try vallejo, gw citadel paints. these are used for miniature painting. you can purchase them sa deovir, neutral grounds store respectively.
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san po makakabili ng mga Tamiya tools at paint?
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may hobby shop sa megamall sir? O.O saan po?
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saan po kayo nakabili ng tamiya cement?
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san po kayo nakabili ng pin vise?
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Where did you buy the cutting mat?
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you can buy them at national bookstore, or at any hobby shop in greenhills
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Great! Thanks, saw one in NBS. 🙂
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cool! enjoy building more kits!
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Saan po nakakabili ng pin vise?
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sir where did you bought those tools ? is there an online store where can I purchase them ? pinoy din ako haha mahal kasi mga nakita kong tools eh ang lalaki ng patong tamiya design knife for 600 pesos
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um saan po makakabili nang cutting mat sana poh mag reply kayo
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national bookstore
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sir saan po nakakabile ng tamiya craft tools, tamiya paint, etc.pls help me para makatipid at maka mura ng items salamat.
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saan po nakakabile ng murang tools pls help us. may tamiya paint din po ba sa national book store? at tamiya craft tools?salamat
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where did you buy that pinvise and also know where to buy mirco saw set?
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Sir saan po kayo mismo bumili ng tools,tsaka tamiya store po ba yung binilan nyo?
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Hi san ka nakabili ng lighter fluid?
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