MG 1/100 RX-78-2 Gundam Ver. OYW0079

My exams are around the corner but I managed to get some time to install Photoshop and deal with these photos which were taken back in September. This model was built back in April 2007, long before I had an airbrush. Some parts were hand-painted, with panel lines done using Mr. Color Flat Black and sprayed with Mr. Super Clear Flat. I only applied the given dry transfer decals and did not use the provided stickers except for the camera at the back of the head.

Please excuse the bad modeling but I like this iteration of the RX-78-2. How can a Gundam fan not have the First Gundam – father of all Gundams? I think I’ll have a separate category apart from my more recently completed ones. Maybe someone could give me ideas on what 1/100 kit to work on when my exams finally end.

Lack of Content

Sorry for the lack of updates. It’s been almost a month since my last post. My final exams are less than a month away and I don’t have the time to build a model now. Also, without an income I have to control my spending, so I’m holding my money for some toys that have yet to be released.

I took a few photos of my older, non-airbrushed Gundams for filler content but I don’t think I can upload them. I also haven’t got around to re-installing my old Photoshop onto my laptop as I recently upgraded to Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. I was relieved the installation was quick, smooth and too user-friendly for my taste (I couldn’t find the option to format my hard disk).

Once my final exams are over, I should have a month of vacation and hopefully I can resume posting here.

Stand up to the Victory!!

(Ngee Khiong) MG Victory Gundam Ver.ka spotted at the 49th All Japan Plamo Radicon Show. This is too awesome to not post.

More pictures at Toy World which has a collection of photos from Hobby Stock and amiblo (1), (2) (possibly overwhelmed by traffic at the time of posting)

Figma Hiiragi Tsukasa

Hiiragi Tsukasa is one of my favourite Lucky Star characters and it was nice to finally be able to obtain a figure of her. I’ve looked through several online stores and all of them are out of stock and resorted to buying from Ebay instead.

Another Get…?

This time round, could it be a 12-pack carton of coffee-flavoured CRISP CRUNCH???

Over a year old! / Get…?

Just realised I’m several weeks late – this blog is over a year old already! I just looked at my first few entries and most of them were pretty much just news snippets of upcoming toys. So for the blog, I hope I can continue sharing reviews of toys and Gundam models, and possibly increase my skills if I ever have the time to build them. Right now I’m in the midst of mid-term tests, and having not gone through education and examinations for almost 3 years, has made this a very taxing period. I cleared 2 insanely tough tests already; one more looms this Saturday and another in mid-October.

Anyway, it’s too late for celebratory photos, but what is this box doing on my desk?

I wonder what lies inside it…

Night out

I’m joining the bandwagon of “live blogging”. Instead of using an iphone, I’m equipped with my E71 and free wi-fi (can’t afford hefty data charges). I don’t have any figures or anything to spice up my pictures, so no posting on figure.fm

Right now I’m hanging out at Arab Street famous for shisha. But my friends and I aren’t smoking it (yet). We’re watching soccer now (stoke city vs manu, but I’m not a soccer buff).

Life with Braces 4: Pain Returns

I just came back from a trip to the dentist. He made some slight adjustments to the bridge across the roof of my mouth as I complained that one side of my tongue was pressing hard against it. The shape of the bridge is imprinted on my tongue, but it hurts a little on that side. He also clipped the rest of the brackets in my upper jaw as not all of them were completely clipped to the archwire. For the lower jaw, he added a second archwire. The pain is back.

Actually I posted this to see if my RSS feed was working. I’ve just started to use Google Reader to manage my subscriptions and it’s an awesome product by Google. It’s more convenient than bookmarking feeds in Firefox as I can see everything in one screen like a LiveJournal Friends page. So I was looking at my own RSS feed and noticed that the previous post didn’t show up. Not that I’m expecting people to subscribe to my feed, but I was curious to see what conditions resulted in a post not showing up in the feed.

I haven’t built a Gundam kit for a long time. In fact I have this crazy craving of wanting to spend on so many things. :3c (now hopping onto the bandwagon of people who love this emoticon)

Gundam Fiesta 2009

This event is currently held in Singapore from 2 – 14 September. I thought I would be missing out on it since school took up all my free time. Today I had a pretty useless make-up lecture in the afternoon and decided to just go take a peek there when it ended. I didn’t expect to get anything since I’m now a student and not paying taxes to the government, and most of the event-limited stuff would probably be sold out long ago.

Indeed, I left without buying anything. Tons of people were snapping up the limited edition kits and the MG Sinanju. I wish I had some dough.

Warning: very long article – 166 photos ahead! Click on them for larger-sized ones! You know you want to once you go all the way down the article

Microman Micro Sister Orga

The Micro Sister series from Takara’s Microman line brings a new base body that is even smaller than the average Microman figure. This series contains female figures with many accessories which use a 3mm port to allow for mixing and matching of weapon combinations.