Just saw this on reddit, latest game play video for Blizzard’s Starcraft2: Wings of Liberty. Boy is it good. I can just imagine that once this gets released there will be a sudden increase in demand for new processors and video cards.

I heard though that the release of the game has been pushed out again till next year. This game is sure taking too long to finish. Not to mention that there is the fan uproar over LAN games not being allowed in the game. Meaning that you can only play if you connect to the BattleNet network of Blizzard. Kinda unfair to the millions of fans of the game.

Other starcraft2 cutscenes can be found here.

It’s nice that Hobby Link Japan recently put up a video section in their site and started posting videos relevant to the modelling culture. Just recently they went on a tour of Model Factory Hiro in Japan that makes model car kits out of resin, metal and rubber.

To make a model they first make a master. If the master is of simple design with only minimum detail, it is hand made with scratch building materials (styrene sheets and tubes I am assuming). For more complex designs with intricate detailing, they make the design in CAD then print it out afterwards in a 3D printer.

Things have been moving slow lately around here because I accidentally broke the mold of the 1/60 Lancer SF-3A project. Yep, a wrong flick of the wrist had me taking off more of the main fuselage with the file I was using. This could not be remedied anymore by the plaster of paris patching technique I so love to use….

Back to the carving board for me…. blehhhh

Bandai will release the DX Chogokin Armored VF-25S Messiah of Ozma Lee in 1/60 scale this August 2009. It is basically a VF-25 equipped with armored packs with the colors and trimmings of the SMS Skull Squadron Leader. The color trimmings of Ozma Lee are Yellow and Gray. The VF-25S Messiah appears in the Macross Frontier series of the Macross Franchise. Judging from the images, the toy doesn’t seem to have any nuclear missiles included in the kit. The 1/72 model kit of Ozma Lee’s VF-25S Armored Messiah comes with the nuclear missiles, this kit also comes from Bandai.

Its retailing right now for 17,100 at Hobby Search and 18,000 at Hobby Link Japan, 13,192 yen at amiami.

As part of the toy’s gimmicks, the missile hatches and cannon turrets in the armored parts are movable as well as the armored parts found in the landing gear hatches. This mecha can boast that Macross Frontier Creator and Mecha Designer, Shoji Kawamori, took special interest during the production stage to ensure that the toy followed closely his design for the VF.