Gundamaniac

upcoming HCM-Pro Gundams

marvin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:00:04 +0000

news from Gunota images from hobbysearch. more gundam re-releases by Bandai.

HCM-Pro E.F.F. 08 Team Vs. Zeon Set - Gundam Ground Type (gray tone) + hovertruck + Magella Attack. something tells me Zeon forces here seems severely outmatched. ^^;

HCM-Pro RX-78-2 Gundam Jaburo Defensive Battle, milking the RX-78-2 HCM-Pro frame for all its worth. ^^ Jaburo Infiltration set sold separately.

news also posted on Ngee Khiong. check out his site for more gundam news. ^^

USB Rei and Ultraman

marvin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:39:31 +0000

some interesting finds on Alafista, a 2GB USB drive in the shape of Ayanami Rei and Ultraman.

definitely a cute novelty item, something to put your files on and play with while waiting for your next presentation. ^^

Building a Musha Gundam part 2

marvin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:10:05 +0000

boy! I must have been really stressed out to need to continue building the Musha this week.

a gundam without its legs… would always look like a SD gundam. ^^

as mentioned before, didn’t bother on painting this particular gundam. since me preggy wife wasn’t too keen on the paint smell at the back of the house (not good for the baby) and it looked good without painting anyway. although I did sneak off and spray all the gold parts somewhere outside the house while she was sleeping. ^^

did a bit more work on the MG Shin Musha Musket, didn’t like the gold foil stickers so used some masking tape to protect the brown area and sprayed the parts gold. also sanded it a bit to give the part some wood groves. they probably had to cut down a redwood to actually build a musket big enough for a gundam. ^^ on a unrelated note, why are the three musketeers called musketeers? they obviously more often use their rapiers rather than muskets. ^^

another reason why I ended up painting the gold parts, the golden upper chest area of my Shin Musha had a hairline inconsistency. must have been a problem in production since I see it on other people’s kit as well. And although its more of an aesthetic problem than anything else, it’s nothing a few spritz of gold paint can’t fix. pity I wasn’t able to cover the whole thing before I ran out of paint. ^^;

Anime Cosplay Fiasco

marvin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:08:32 +0000

I’m not really a big fan of cosplay. and apart from the usual bouts of halloween trick or treat as a kid, I have never worn an anime inspired costume before. although it is not to say that I do not appreciate the novelty of seeing people in costumes walking around in your average everyday places like the mall or in the streets, the intricacy of a well-made costume, and the accuracy of a cosplayer’s rendition of a 2D character.

A while back, I remember a friend told me about an interview she did regarding a famous Cosplayer. I didn’t give it much thought then, thus I never realized how well-known she was up until lately when a commenting war ensued on dannychoo.com a few days ago. Danny posted on his news item section an image of one of the most duly noted cosplayers in the Philippines Blackmage9 Alodia Gosiengfiao. the comment match on the post went so bad as considerate Danny Choo ended up having to clean up all the tripe off his site.

Alodia seems to do well with her cosplay. And with disregard for all the relentless battering of inept naysayers, I sincerely hope she will continue on doing her cosplaying for folks who have an appreciation and passion for it.

Check out Alodia’s stunning cosplaying anime rendition at her deviantart or see the her interview with Cosmic Queen Val from the youtube link below

YouTube Direktvideo link

Diablo 3

marvin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:18:04 +0000

coming soon woot! check out the official site. news from Blackmage9

Building a Musha Gundam Warrior

marvin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:49:15 +0000

Started work on the Shin Musha Gundam Yesterday, took me a while to actually start building the Gundam since I decided to repaint the gold parts and ink those panel lines before I start the actual building. Didn’t bother painting the other parts since seeing how good it looked on other sites without paint. And though I haven’t got around to take some shot of how much of the gundam I’ve finished, there were some thoughts on the Shin Musha kit I’d like to share. Some praises to Bandai on putting in a little extra here and there to make a gunpla builder’s job a little easier.
I’m not sure about the MG Impulse, however the Shin Musha’s manual had this nifty “needed parts list” on each panel. Quite handy! since now you can precut the parts off the runners before assembling. The last MG gunpla I built was the MG Lukas’ Strike-E IWSP, I remember that the manual had “needed runner letters” intead of this.

I have already blogged about this back while I was building the Turn A Gundam, however a brilliant innovation like this deserves another mentioning. Gunpla runner labels these days are holed into the runner label rather than the traditional embossed letter. Certainly this wouldn’t be different for the Shin Musha. However since the Shin Musha do borrow some parts from the old OYW RX-78-2 Gundam, it would be logical and inevitably excusable that the Musha would have some parts without the holed letters. One thing I noticed though that the Musha doesn’t have a tiny 1/100 pilot. I wonder doesn’t the MG OYW have a tiny 1/100 pilot as well?

in any case, the Shin Musha Gundam is one fun kit to build. personally I find it as an easy build, although it’s probably because I spent some time building the screw infested PG Wing Zero’s arm. However since I do have a lot of work these next few days, I’ll probably won’t be finishing this kit soon. so until then check out fudoushin’s review on the Shin Musha Gundam.

Gundams Macross and Canon EOS

marvin — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:57:42 +0000

Dear Santa, I’ve been really good this year, I might ask for an advance.

sure thing will a MG Shin Musha Gundam, PG pearl coated Wing Gundam, A Yamato VF-1S and a Canon EOS 450d do?

wow thanks Santa!

sure thing kid, now fork over everything in your wallet.

waahhhh!

thinking of building the Shin Musha next. ^^

Revoltech Fraulein Yoko

marvin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:26:46 +0000

could this be true? Yoko of Gurren Lagan will be released as a Revoltech Fraulein? image and news via Danny’s member news feature posted by Kenjiharima.

the post mentioned that the image was taken from the idolm@ster fraulein release. must have been from the tokyo toy show.

Gundam Avalanche Exia and GN-X boxart

marvin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:10:51 +0000

Boxart for the Avalanche Exia gundam and the GN-X. news via Gunota and image from the Gundam 00 site.

Upcoming Revoltech Figures

marvin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:52:14 +0000

upcoming Revoltech 058 and 059. spikey Gurren Lagan and Full Metal Panic ARX-8 Laevatein. the previous image of which is the ARX-8 and the second the drill spiked Lagan. looking at the image I have to say, looks like Revoltech has been improving on their quality. I almost mistook the mecha in the image as a kotobukiya armored core kit. then again never saw the ARX-8 in the anime series before. It’s probably a mecha featured in the manga. anyway some more images of the ARX-8 Laevatein below.
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