Other Plamo

This is the page with plamo kits that don't fit into any other category!

Honda Super Cub 110 (Tasmania Green Metallic)

A photo of the Super Cub 110 model kit. It's a model kit of a Honda Super Cub, a motorcycle with an upright seating position and a classic, slightly retro design with one central circular headlight. I don't know how to describe motorcycles, sorry! It's green and off-white.
The Super Cub.

Super Cub (2021, Studio Kai) didn't get me to buy an actual Super Cub (although it did get me close to getting a different scooter/light motorcycle). It did, however, lead me to finding this kit by Fujimi and it's really special. No, it doesn't go into the ridiculous level of mechanical detail with punch-out sheet metal parts and tiny chains that traditional automotive model kits can get into, but for a color-seperated, snap-together (mostly) plamo kit, it's exceptional. They got the plastic colors just right (it really looks like glossy, factory-fresh paint) and some well-used stickers add detail in all the right places. The tyres are even actual rubber!

A photo from the back of the Super Cub model kit, shwoing the brakelight, license plate, instrument cluster, and exhaust pipe.
The detail and colour seperation on this kit is very good, all things considered.
A photo of the side of the Super Cub model kit. It provides a better view of the engine and 'Super Cub' logo on the side, underneath the main seat.
Yep, it's a Cub.

Haropla: Green Haro and Hello Kitty Collaboration

A photo of the standard green 'Haropla' plastic model kit. It is a spherical robot with curved panel seperation somewhat resembling a tennis ball, and has small red elliptical eyes. It is mounted on its included stand, which is shaped like a puzzle piece and can be used to join multiple Haros together in a display.
Haro is in the running for 'most friendly robot', although I think the Marruttoys line has it beat.
A photo of the Hello Kitty collaboration Haro. It is spherically shaped like the standard Haro, but has cat ear-shaped pieces attached to the circular upper panels (with Hello Kitty's iconic red bow on one of them), and has several stickers to make the Haro resemble Hello Kitty (including whiskers, a little nose, and striped red-white stickers to make the lower blue section look like Hello Kitty's suspenders). It is also on a puzzle-piece stand.
The Hello Kitty collaboration Haro is so cute!

In the Gundam category but not belonging to any particular Gundam series, here's some Haropla! I actually got the Hello Kitty one first.

A photo of the green Haro with its mouth open, revealing a red inner section with a keyboard of some kind moulded in.
Haro, say 'aaaa'.
A photo of the Hello Kitty collaboration Haro with all four limbs attached, making arms and legs appear to pop out of panels in the body shell (in reality, there is no space inside these kits for them to retract in, so they are seperate parts stored in the base of the puzzle piece stand). Also in the photo is an empty sticker sheet, showing how many stickers needed to be placed on the kit.
This sticker sheet was slightly stress-inducing.

There's really not much to say about these kits: they're very simple to make, and the most panel lining you can do is in-between the 'segments' on the arms and legs. The Hello Kitty one is notable in that it achieves the Hello Kitty look via a sticker sheet, which requires a lot of careful placement with next to no visual guides for most of them. These are supposedly aimed at kids, but getting everything to line up acceptably was a nightmare! Maybe the kids wouldn't care if the whiskers are a bit wonky, though.

Bandai Hobby System Base 001

A photo of the System Base kit, a 1/144-scale mobile suit hangar bay. It has been fully assembled and detailed, with silver struts connecting different parts of the overall frame. There are some decals on it, and there are also green and red nav lights at the top for some reason.
The painted, decaled, and topcoated system base.
A photo of the System Base kit, this time with the Ryusei-Go (Graze Custom II) model kit standing in it. The camera is positioned low so that the mech is looking down at it, and it gives the photo a good sense of scale.
Ryusei-Go, ready for launch!

Honestly, I just added this to an HLJ order because it wasn't too expensive and looked neat, and well... it's pretty neat! Normally I wouldn't put stuff like this in a list of 'models I've built' (after all, I panel line my action bases but I wouldn't consider them a 'model kit'), but this was a bit more involved and ended up being a lot of painting and detailing - the entire kit is just grey plastic out of the box. I also used it as a trial run for decals under a topcoat, and that part went extremely well: I wouldn't be considering the Graze refit without it.

FEISAR & AG Systems FX350/400

A photo of two models of ships from wipEout: an AG-SYSTEMS ship on the left, and a FEISAR ship on the right. Both ships are pointing forward towards the camera, although the AG-SYSTEMS ship is slightly off-angle. Both ships are pointy and streamlined: the FESIAR ship is all one continuous section with blue, yellow, and white coloration, while the AG-SYSTEMS ship has an almost detached tail section and red/white livery.
Welcome to wipEout.
A photo of the two wipEout ship models, this time from the side. Some more details can be seen, such as a character logo and access ladder on the side of the FEISAR ship. Both ships are on raised stands, with futuristic gridline bases.
Only the finest in future dystopian anti-gravity racing.

Okay, so these aren't model kits. But they certainly are plastic models, and Sony is never going to pay any attention to anything interesting ever again (apart from that Gravity Rush movie that is definitely real and coming out. RIP Japan Studio), so these will have to do. And they're very good, especially for the price they were sold at. There isn't anything in the way of articulation apart from the ships pivoting in a ball joint in the base, but that's fine. The FEISAR ship also has a color error (that brown stripe should be light blue), but I think it works out to be honest. Anyway, pour one out for wipEout and for Studio Liverpool/Psygnosis. One of the best.