Gundam Assemble – Online Zaku Painting Showcase

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Yesterday I (and some other folk on OTT) got an email reading:

Thank you for applying to the Gundam Assemble – Online Zaku Painting Showcase.

We would like to offer you one of the European participant places, subject to confirming your eligibility, participation and shipping details.

I don’t know why but I am very excited. On discord one James suggested

Joint entry on the project system?

And while I like the idea in principle I feel a thread would work best for the WIP stuff to compare against each other.

Also I would like to use this thread to keep track of stuff like

• What hashtags to use
• What the deadlines are
• Random information that pops up easily found for everybody

I am so excited! 8)

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Information is taken today from the official site:

https://global.bandai-hobby.net/en-others/site/gundam-assemble/paint/paint-contest2026/

Key Dates (BST)

• Applications open: 30 July 2026.
• Runner dispatch period: late August 2026.
• Painting period: September to 31 September 2026.
• Final submission deadline: 23:59 BST on 31 September 2026, unless final rules state otherwise.
• Winners / selected entries announced: Mid-October 2026.

Work In Progress Posting

Participants must share public Work In Progress updates during the campaign. Posts should be made on one or more of Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or X / Twitter and must include the approved campaign hashtags:

#GundamAssemble #GundamAssembleShowcase #GundamAssemblePainting #GundamAssembleHobby

Work In Progress Posting Guidance

As part of the showcase, participants are required to share public Work In Progress posts, also known as WIP posts, during the build and painting process. These posts help show the journey behind your finished Zaku, allow the community to follow along, and help UKTC・PENCASE verify that entries have been created as part of this campaign.

Suggested WIP post stages

1. Unboxing / starting point – show the runner or early assembly stage and introduce your idea.
2. Assembly / preparation – show the Zaku being built, cleaned, posed or prepared for painting.
3. Primer / base colours – show the first major colour choices and explain the direction of your scheme.
4. Mid-painting progress – show shading, highlighting, colour blocking, decals, panel lining, weathering or other detail work.
5. Final details / almost finished – show the model close to completion before your final photos.

WIP posts must be posted publicly on at least one approved platform:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• TikTok
• X/Twitter

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• Runner dispatch period: late August 2026.
• Painting period: September to 31 September 2026.

Since we’re already 10 days into September I hope the competition gets moved a bit but I couldn’t find any infos on that. So as soon as the runners arrive I will put the pedal to the metal. “Floor it” as the kids say.

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Go, boomers, go!

Facebook
Instagram
TikTok
X/Twitter

 

Who actually uses these shite platforms anymore?

Gundam excitement … waning.

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so … OTT not an official platform ?
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! 😉

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Luckily I still have a Twatter account on which I duplicate my Bluesky posts. I will be posting stuff in one of my own projects and I will just duplicate those posts in this thread as well then.

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For me it will be facepage. Never had a TokTokTok, deleted twatter and instagerm long ago. So posts to facepage, entries here and on my blog.

[limburger 22632xp 1]

see … that’s why I can’t ever participate in things like this.
Only socials I’ve got left are StinkedIn and OTT

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September 14th – John got his sprue, has build and converted his Gundam and did a project for it.

September 15th – I have no sprue yet.

Unfair!

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Same here. I think we should start a riot…..

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It’s an outrage!

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September 16th – still no sprue

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I’m not sure if this was on that page before … but it does explain things:
// Places are limited. Applying does not guarantee selection. Bandai Tabletop Games will be holding a raffle.

It would have been nice if they had told folk that they had missed out on being selected …

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The website said that before, but we got an e-mail saying; We would like to offer you one of the European participant places. So that kind of confirms it and why we are impatiently waiting for our sprues.

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John, Manda and I “got chosen”. But it seems EU takes longer to be delivered from the UK :S

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