HGUC Gouf Custom - Better than the MG?

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A review of the High Grade Universal Century 1/144 Gouf Custom from the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team.

Intro - 00:00
Build - 0:52
Appearance - 4:25
Articulation - 6:34
Gimmicks - 9:03
Final verdict - 11:17

One of those HG's that I really do say is better than the MG. I was going to review the MG, but it would've been 10 minutes of bashing a dated kit, so would rather review a better kit based on the iconic Gouf Custom.

- Production notes for me to laugh at in 2 years -

- Originally, this had a plug (a thank you) for a company a buddy of mine worked at. He sent me some kits, so I gave him a shout out. Now the company is out of business though... Guess I'm bad luck lol

- Anyway, since I had to re-upload this, I'd figure I'd make some fixes. They include:

- An updated script with more focus on the comparing it to the MG ver. Figured this is more of an MG channel, so I should probably tie it back to that Master Grade if possible

- Completely newly recorded audio going off that new script. Still a little too many mouth sounds imo

- Tighter editing to match the new audio. Ended up ~3 minutes longer than the original. I honestly don't care about brevity anymore. It's too much effort and I enjoy rambling too much

- New footage for the MG to actually show the comparison. Shot with the Canon R5 while the original was on the Canon 6D. Also different lenses. So the footage doesn't match how I'd like. I really have to figure out color grading beyond Adobe Camera RAW

- Fine tuned the background music, mainly lowering it. As these reviews get longer, I've found the music can get more annoying

- Updated the color filter, just to get things up to par

And here's the (slightly abridged) production notes from the original version:

- This is a 'casual' review, so I didn't try to perfect anything, but long gaps between working gave me a lot of time to tweak and experiment things. Learned a lot, and hopefully the next review will be able to bring some of these changes to fruition.

- There were 2 major upgrades to this review, the lighting and the audio, but let's do a full run down

- Script - really simple. I do regret saying the waist ball joint was restricted, because it really isn't as bad now that I'm looking at the footage, but eh~ not the end of the world

- Speaking of footage though, I think it looks pretty solid here. I did some camera tests to see how low I could get the ISO, and what was the sharpest aperture for my lens, and I think it really helped

- My terrible Polaroid 350 LED finally gave it up. That light had been garbage since the day I spent $115 on it. What a terrible brand. Anyway, despite needing to slap it to make it stop flickering, it did last me about 2 years before it finally gave up after shooting the inner frame footage. So, I bought a new, albeit weaker LED to mount on my camera. Then, wouldn't you know it, the Polaroid began working, at least when plugged into a wall. So now I have 3 LED's and 2 lamps for this stuff....

- All the light has let me really mess with the ISO and aperture, which helped get this video looking better. Look up the exposure triangle if you want a run down on that. Basically, more light = more options

- Downside is my work station is CROWDED with stands and lights. I just can't get in there for good pictures. Might actually need to cut a light or two out...

- The articulation section was really hampered by the added light stands, so there's lots of blurry shots that I could've redone, but was getting too frustrated, so just gave up. I did manage to fix the set up slightly for the upcoming Gun-EZ review's articulation

- Please no one mention how the chest piece pops in and out between inner frame wide shots and close ups lol. I am not re-shooting that!

- The video footage was much darker than the still images, again because I was tweaking stuff, so I ended up applying color correction to each video clip, then had the over-arching adjustment layer be just a bump to contrast. It worked pretty well, but really cranked up the export time.

And that should about do it. This was just a weird review to make lol.

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