Friday, December 31, 2010
Mech9's 2010 Top Seven
Finally decided to write a top seven list of news worthy events that happened in 2010, based on my opinion of course. How apt to to be making the list on the eve of the New Year. 2010 went by so fast, as with the previous years you can't help but wonder how the time went by so fast.
Medicine Dropper
Was at the pharmacy the other day and luckily I remembered to finally get some glass type medicine droppers. This I'll use for mixing paint once I start airbrushing. With this I'll be able to get the proper ratios for the Tamiya Acrylic paint and isopropyl alcohol to be used in airbrushing a model kit.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Bandai HG 1/144 Gundam TR-1 (Advanced Hazel) English Color Guide & Paint Conversion Chart
The RX-121-2A Gundam TR-1 (Advanced Hazel) from the Advance of Zeta:The Flag of Titans manga that was a side story in the Zeta Gundam anime series.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Bandai HG 1/144 Gundam TR-1 (Hazel Custom) English Color Guide & Paint Conversion Chart
RX-121-1 Gundam TR-1 (Hazel Custom) from the Advance of Zeta:The Flag of Titans manga. This mecha makes its appearance near the Zeta timeline of the Universal Century story arc.
1/100 GN-007 Gundam Arios Build Part VII
Ever have this happen to you? I was on my way back to my room after having finished sanding and snap fitting the 1/100 Gundam Arios when I saw a snake crawling across our living room. It was a bit dark and I couldn't tell if it was poisonous or not, so I just did the logical thing, which was to just go ahead and kill it rather than take the chance of it running loose in our house. Especially when I didn't know if it was poisonous or not.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Bandai 1/500 Space Battleship Yamato English Manual & Color Guide
I remember watching the Space Battleship Yamato anime series when I was boy. At that time of course I saw the "Americanized" version which was titled "StarBlazers".
Conceding Defeat at Starcraft2 Skirmish Mode
Spent the better part of the day playing the Demo of Starcraft2 on my PC. I got it up to the "Very Hard" level in skirmish mode but just couldn't get myself to beat that darn computer AI. Quite a devious little algorithm.
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Starcraft2 Demo Part II
After about 8 hours of downloading yesterday, the 1.6 Gb of Starcraft2 demo files was finally saved on my computer.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Starcraft2 Demo
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Bandai HG 1/144 Beargguy English Manual & Color Guide
The GPB-04B Beargguy of Rina Noyama from Gunpla Builders anime series. The first time I saw a picture of this High Grade model kit I was wondering where this was from. After seeing the manual of this and realising that it belongs to Rina Noyama, then I realized why it was built that way *snicker*
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
MG Super Saiyan Son Gokou English Manual & Color Guide
1/8 Super Saiyan Son Gokou from the Dragon Ball Anime franchise and from the Figurerise line of Bandai Master Grade kits.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Bandai HG 1/144 GX-9900-DV Gundam X Divider English Manual & Color Guide
GX-9900-DV Gundam X Divider from After War Gundam made into a 1/144 High Grade kit by Bandai for their After War Gundam line of model kits.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Yamato 1/60 VF-1S Valkyrie of Hikaru Ichijo from DYRL English Manual
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Replica Prop Forum
Probably one of the best sites I like to visit, the Replica Prop Forum. Specifically the General Modeling and Studio Scale Modelling sub forums because that's where the sci-fi based model and scratch built projects are talked about.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
May 20, 2011 is the date to look out for. That's the date when Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is going to make its appearance on the big screen.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Quick Release Couplings
Was out Christmas shopping with my wife yesterday after work at the mall. While waiting for my wife I decided to pass by the hardware store and finally bought myself some quick release couplings for my little airbrush tank project.
Monday, December 13, 2010
A friendly reminder when travelling during the holidays
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Real Steel
I wonder if this is any good? Scheduled for release next year (2011), Real Steel starring Hugh Jackman. Yep, that Hugh Jackman of X-Man/Wolverine *Snikkt* *Snikkt*
Airbrush Tank Conversion Part III
Still raining in my parts of the world so I couldn't get any painting done. Been busy too with Christmas related stuff and all, hence the sparseness of posts. Today, to while away the free time, I decided to change my air tank set up yet again from the last time. Quite funny too since I've been changing a lot in this air tank but have yet to spray one model kit with it...hehehe
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Transformers 3 Dark of the Moon
Found this at youtube, so looking forward to seeing this next year. Its scheduled to be release on July 2011 and I'm expecting it to be another blockbuster movie from Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg.
Cool Dad
On the drive home from the toy store where we went shopping for Christmas gifts for our son and his cousins, I was telling my wife that I've become the "Cool Dad" that I've always envied that my classmates had. In grade school, the cool dad was the guy who was into toys or model kits despite being old. To me he was "peter pan", the kid that never grew up and therefore could easily relate to his kids.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Growing up in the 80's as a young boy this was one of the first videos on MTV that I saw and often wanted to watch. Back then MTV was something that could only be seen in the United States, so us here in Asia had to rely on VHS rental copies. The added benefit of that was that you could rewind to watch it over and over again...hehehe
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Bandai PG 1/60 Strike Freedom Gundam English Manual, Color Guide & Paint Conversion Chart
December is here so it means that this is the month that the Perfect Grade 1/60 ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom Gundam will be released. Bandai must truly love this model kit because there was already a 1/60 non-grade Strike Freedom Gundam released before. Then again, when you think about it, the reason Bandai will release a particular model kit is because of the potential sales that could be generated. Not sure if this is because of some fan poll.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
TeamLiquid 2x2x2x2 Free for All
Prepare to lose 50 minutes of your time with this epic game (Part I, Part II). These 2 clips are a StarCraft2 game with TeamLiquid pro-gamers commentated on by HuskyStarcraft.
Yamato 1/60 VF-1 Zentradi Uniform Set
Announced today at Yamato Toy's Online site, the release of the 1/60 VF-1 Zentradi Uniform set on December 10, 2010. The item will be available on their online shop and will be limited in quantities. Not sure if HobbyLink Japan will offer this, but HobbyLink Japan is known for offering Yamato Toy's online exclusives.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Macross 1/55 Armored Valkyrie GBP-1S English Manual
Took a look at my 1/55 VF-1S Strike Valkyrie and my eyes met with the box of the 1/55 Armored Valkyrie GBP-1S (originally made by Takatoku in the early 80's). I opened it up for old times sake and was looking at the manual. So I said, what the heck? There could be some person of the same interest as I wondering right now how to install the 1/55 GBP-1S on a 1/55 VF-1 Valkyrie. The chest part is actually quite tricky.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
4 Chords to make a hit
According to Axis of Awesome, it only needs four chords to make a hit pop song. Somebody has to verify this, but either way, this is one funny video.
Friday, December 3, 2010
Clouds
I have a feeling that the Big Guy up there doesn't want me making any model kits right now. For 3 days straight, whenever I had free time already to start building it suddenly became dark, cloudy then started raining torrentially. Weird. Been dying to continue with the 1/100 GN-007 Gundam Arios build.
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