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At long last...Some progress!
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Wizard Pack: Blaze 1
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This blog is about my collection of Plastic Models - primarily Gundam. Read on and don't forget to share your passion!
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Showing posts with label Gunpla Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gunpla Tips. Show all posts
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Monday, October 24, 2011
Advanced Modelers Syndrome - Do You Have It?
ADVANCED MODELERS SYNDROME (AMS) - A chronic malady that strikes most modelers eventually.
Symptoms Include:
1. Not being able to build anything straight out of the box.
2. Spending more money on aftermarket parts and accessories than the cost of the original kit.
3. Opening a box and your first thought is: How can I light this?
4. You super-detail the cockpit or engine compartment only to close it up inside the fuselage or hull and hide your work.
5. Never display finished pieces, possibly because you've never actually finished one.
6. You have more opened and half-built kits than you do unopened kits.
7. You’re long past the point where the opened, half-built, and unopened kits are sufficient to insulate your attic, garage, and the shed you built next to the garage to store all your previously acquired opened, half-built, and unopened kits.
8. You bought that new uber-kit because it was on sale, even though you knew that the only way you’d complete it (to say nothing of actually displaying the bloody thing!) at home would involve rearranging one or more large pieces of furniture—and only after the inevitable discussion with your spouse/significant other on the subject of: you want to put that thing where in my home?
9. The surgical operating suites at Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic are shabbily equipped compared to your modeling area.
10. You are heavily restricted in your modeling activities because you cannot get to your modeling table or tools due to the kit boxes piled up around that area and any adjacent areas - so you have to go browse for more kits online as that’s the closest you will get to actual modeling for the foreseeable future.
11. When you see half walls, closets, shelves, flat furniture tops, tables, etc, in your home that are not otherwise occupied, you automatically view them as potential kit storage space--subject to terms of item 8, above.
12. You use vital parts from forty-seven different kits to make a unique, original model (or to reproduce a starship from your favorite screen epic exactly the way the original was made).
13. Conversely, the remainder of those same forty-seven kits go into your spares ‘box’, which by this time is larger than the chest-type freezer in your basement.
14. Your modeling bookshelves contain more reference works than the local public library.
Source: Ninfinger
PS: I never thought I have this syndrome already...
Symptoms Include:
1. Not being able to build anything straight out of the box.
2. Spending more money on aftermarket parts and accessories than the cost of the original kit.
3. Opening a box and your first thought is: How can I light this?
4. You super-detail the cockpit or engine compartment only to close it up inside the fuselage or hull and hide your work.
5. Never display finished pieces, possibly because you've never actually finished one.
6. You have more opened and half-built kits than you do unopened kits.
7. You’re long past the point where the opened, half-built, and unopened kits are sufficient to insulate your attic, garage, and the shed you built next to the garage to store all your previously acquired opened, half-built, and unopened kits.
8. You bought that new uber-kit because it was on sale, even though you knew that the only way you’d complete it (to say nothing of actually displaying the bloody thing!) at home would involve rearranging one or more large pieces of furniture—and only after the inevitable discussion with your spouse/significant other on the subject of: you want to put that thing where in my home?
9. The surgical operating suites at Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic are shabbily equipped compared to your modeling area.
10. You are heavily restricted in your modeling activities because you cannot get to your modeling table or tools due to the kit boxes piled up around that area and any adjacent areas - so you have to go browse for more kits online as that’s the closest you will get to actual modeling for the foreseeable future.
11. When you see half walls, closets, shelves, flat furniture tops, tables, etc, in your home that are not otherwise occupied, you automatically view them as potential kit storage space--subject to terms of item 8, above.
12. You use vital parts from forty-seven different kits to make a unique, original model (or to reproduce a starship from your favorite screen epic exactly the way the original was made).
13. Conversely, the remainder of those same forty-seven kits go into your spares ‘box’, which by this time is larger than the chest-type freezer in your basement.
14. Your modeling bookshelves contain more reference works than the local public library.
Source: Ninfinger
PS: I never thought I have this syndrome already...
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Kotobukiya Option Parts and a Good Business
In line with my Blaze Zaku Phantom project, I ordered some Kotobukiya Custom Parts from a hobby shop in Malaysia. For today's article, I'm going to share my experience with the hobby shop called "Hobbies Corner".
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Snap-fitting a Master Grade Gunpla - 1/100 RX-78 GP01-FB
The SD Gundam was ready for painting but the weather doesn't allow me to...
So inorder to kill time, I decided to build a Master Grade model kit. It's been a while since I touched an MG and I don't know which one to choose.
I was watching Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 Stardust memory and I saw one MG that looked familiar (found under my worktable). It's the RX-78 GP01FB!
Let the snap-fitting begin!
Warning: Tons of pictures.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Gunpla 101: The basic tools
Hello everyone!
It has been over two weeks since I started posting my finished kits and a lot of readers became excited and wanted to build their own Gundam kits as well. For fellow readers who kept on asking me "what are the tools I'll need?", this post is for you.
It has been over two weeks since I started posting my finished kits and a lot of readers became excited and wanted to build their own Gundam kits as well. For fellow readers who kept on asking me "what are the tools I'll need?", this post is for you.
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Original Bandai Kits...why?
It was October 2010 when I bought my first Bandai kit - 1/100 scale Gundam Dynames from Mobile Suit Gundam 00 series. I was very excited because it was one of my favourite Gundam from the show., and because my childhood dream finally came true...(1998 - "Someday I will own a Gundam...until then, I can only draw :-) )
Seven months (May 2011) and 20+ Gundam kits later, I read a news regarding the "pirated" Gundam kits made by
