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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Why 3D Printing isn't a fad

Why 3D Printing isn't a fadInteresting article here from Technology Review about 3D Printing that works to counter this other article. What got me interested however was a link to this other article from that post on how the Warhammer developer issued a DMCA takedown notice on a 3D printing site for sharing 3D plans of its toy designs.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Rest in Peace

Rest in Peace

Update: Deleted the name for privacy, at least for this site's purpose

Saw this hosted at imgur, but was posted for Reddit. The man was a fan of Robotech and his family had the image of the VF-1S Valkyrie of Roy Fokker engraved on his head stone. You sir, get my upvote.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Why I won't eat KFC often

Why I won't eat KFC often

I was having dinner with my family and my wife offered me a piece off my son's Kentucky Fried Chicken meal. To which I declined, my wife of course wondered why I did that considering that she knew I loved eating that fastfood meal. During my birthday and Christmas we usually order a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken and I gorge on that chicken for every meal till the bucket is empty.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Classic 1993 Syndicate game available at GOG



Was happy to see this announcement by GOG that they now have that classic 1993 real time strategy game, Syndicate, in their inventory. Its selling for $5.99 at their site. I was surprised that that game is only 17MB in size considering the great game play. Considering that it came out in 1993, don't expect any great graphics or mouse gameplay, back then when you played a PC game it usually involved playing with the keyboard.

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Hobby Search Announces Changes in Cancellation Policy

Hobby Search Announces Changes in Cancellation PolicyLast Tuesday Japan based online Hobby retailer, Hobby Search, announced changes in their cancellation policy whenever you order from them. These changes will take effect next month on February 1st. You can read more about the changes on their official post, here.

Friday, January 20, 2012

Bandai EX 1/144 Samson Trailer English Manual & Color Guide

EX Samson Trailer English Translation Manual & Color Guide
Released in May of 2006 by Bandai was the 1/144 EX model kit of the Samson Trailer. The Samson is a maintenance truck used for carrying Mobile Suit's when they are being serviced. Like the character of Samson from the Bible's Old Testament, this trailer has to be pretty strong to be able to move a Mobile Suit. Since its 1/144 in scale, a High Grade or Real Grade mobile suit kit can easily fit on its trailer bed.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Leader Class : Starscream

Leader Class Starscream

Yet another beautiful Transformers transforming toy from the Leader Class line of Hasbro/Takara-Tomy. This time its the Leader Class: Starscream from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie that came out in 2009. This particular toy was released in 2009 in time for the movie and was made in Vietnam.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Slow week...

Recuperating from an Illness

Things have been running a little bit slow on this blog of late... I caught something nasty a few weeks back and am still recuperating from it. I think I caught the nasty bug from somebody who sneezed at me...bleehhhh

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Ghost & Lancer II Garage Kits for Macross 30th Anniversary?

Ghost & Lancer II Garage Kits for Macross 30th Anniversary?

Saw this Retweet (or was it a copy paste?) at Yamato Toy's official site from an original Tweet at DIGIMIXStudio. I hope I'm reading it correctly, because to be honest, I have a hard time understanding the tweets at twitter because of its shortened state and unique address syntax, signs of old age creeping up at me...*snicker* Well if I am reading it correctly we can expect a Ghost and Lancer II garage kit (as well as some others) to be released this year for the 30th Year Anniversary of Macross.

Mech9 Turns 3

Mech9 Turns 3

This site officially turns 3 years old today. I'd like to give thanks to all the nice folks who visited and left a little of their happiness behind (took that from the Coppola Dracula movie incase you were wondering *snicker*). Special Thanks to HobbyLink Japan who sponsors the site. As a Christian, I Thank God for giving me the opportunity of doing something that I love doing.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

MakerBot Replicator Announced



Saw this via Hackaday. Makerbot announced the release of the Makerbot Replicator. It offers a slightly larger work area than the original Makerbot 3D Printer as well as an option to add a double extrusion head to allow for two colors when printing. Check out the video above for details. Price will be $1749 plus a little bit more if you get the double extruder head.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Bandai 1/20 Brutishdog English Manual & Color Guide

1/20 ATM-09-GC Brutishdog English Translation Color Guide & Manual

Fyana of Armored Trooper Votoms personal battle suit, the Brutishdog. It sports a unique red color scheme against the drab green of the usual Votoms Scopedog from the anime series. Aside from that it also has a gatling gun and a claw in place of a right hand. This is actually an old kit already, having been released by Bandai in 2007.

Friday, January 6, 2012

Kewpie Roasted Sesame Dressing

Kewpie Roasted Sesame Seed Dressing

Ok I admit, I have nothing mecha related to post today. Start of the year and there's just too much stuff to accomplish. So for the sake of posting I'm writing about this wonderful salad dressing that I got for Christmas from the lady who raised me. It's Kewpie's Roasted Sesame Dressing and boy does it taste good. Too bad that I couldn't find that exact salad dressing on Kewpie's website

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Bandai HG 1/144 RX-0 Unicorn Gundam 02 Banshee (Destroy Mode) English Manual & Color Guide

HG RX-0 Unicorn Gundam 02 Banshee (Destroy Mode) English Translation Color Guide & Manual

Episode 4 of Gundam Unicorn gave us a teaser of the Banshee, the Gundam Unicorn No. 2 unit. We can see at the last part of the episode the Banshee at an aggresive dive towards the Unicorn Gundam and Delta Plus.