Anecdotally, the biological engineering department at my university has a much higher fraction of women than the rest of the college of engineering, while mechanical/aerospace has the lowest, so it varies even within engineering.

I agree! Who knew one kit could have so many hands!

That's great work, especially with the waterslides on a first build! Definitely one to be more proud of than my first build. Out of curiosity, what did you use for your topcoat? It looks more satin than matte to me and doesn't seem to have full coverage. In images where a dark part catches the light it looks splotchy.

If the people tied to the previous segments are magically moved forward to the next one, 34 turns. If not, everyone would be tied to one of the tracks at 33 turns.

Edit: forgot to add 1 to include the first lever.

The first build with any of these things is kinda terrifying, I agree. Definitely worth trying them on a kit you wouldn't care about "ruining," like an EG or SD or even some random HG. That can help get past the initial anxiety, if you're anything like me. My airbrush setup sat unused for 6 months before I started my first paint job.

Thanks! The kit is airbrushed, and the shading technique I used is the highlight method, where you paint a darker shade of the color you want then paint the desired color over top of it in the center of pieces, panels, etc. It's surprisingly easy, imo, especially compared to preshading for smaller kits like HG and RG, and can give you very strong shading effects.

They are! Newer RGs like this have much better engineering (though this one does have a couple notable flaws, like the upper arms). This kit comes with a few really cool multicolor parts, too, like one version of the horn, the eyes, and the upper arm. Never seen that anywhere else.

lemmy.world has an auto-updating scroll that you can’t disable that I suspect is also a memory leak.

The auto-updating should be gone in Lemmy 0.18, but lemmy.world is waiting for 0.18.1 to update so they can keep sign-up captcha. Should only be a couple of days, from what I've read.

I've heard this kit is really good! As a Full Mechanics kit, it's not a proper MG, though: same scale but design standards are closer to an HG. The external detail is comparable to a MG, but they lack the inner frames typical of MG kits. Unless it's an IBO Full Mechanics kit, which do have a frame, but instead have lower overall detail. It's kind of convoluted and they're just "The less expensive and easier to design 1/100 kits"

Not quite: The AEUG theme is similar, but the song used for the English release OP is Zeta's Pulse/Z-Gundam theme

Tamiya is certainly diversifying their product lines

I've been using an Iwata Eclipse HP-CS for about a year now and I'm very happy with it. It's a good choice if you have the budget and only want one airbrush, since you can swap the included .35mm needle+nozzle out with a .5mm set to do things like prime. I use a master airbrush TC-326T compressor, which has been good. It has a regulator with water trap, and that water trap has been good enough for my dry climate. My paint booth is just homemade with a bathroom fan and furnace filter, gets the job done. For respirator, I just grabbed one intended for painting from Home Depot.

And I might as well include an image of my latest finished project, just for fun 😊.