Calamity in the sky?!

who says calamity gundam can't fly in the atmosphere? it even has a flight mode!

this is what happens when you are too lazy to build your kits and get me to build them for you. it gets sloppily slapped together and doesn't get assembled properly =D

big bro has arrived

forgot to say in my last post

while i was gone, i went half way around the world to retrieve this guy


he's the boss of all gunpla in my collection.
this was my first gunpla. i got him when he first came out, and i didn't even know. i was just i wee little man when i built him.
fyi this is the original gundam mkII, this is not 2.0

im surprised he still stands, and i expected more missing parts. as it is now, the missing parts are not so obvious, but still, i wan't to have him fully complete and cleaned up eventually. i can do a putty recast for the missing bits, but the vulcan pod is completely missing and i don't know what to do about it. =(

anyone have an extra one lying around that they want to donate to me? =D

=(

stuff happened, and now i need to be out of town for at least a few weeks.
that means no ps3 or gunpla...
but random idiotic rants can continue once i get hooked up on some internet =D

i'll see how stuff goes...there's a small chance that there will be a treat for the 3 or so lurkers that occasionally come here while im on the trip =D

Regen Duel Gundam R.I.P.

Alright! Here is the first of the things I had planned to post about.
It's nothing much, just a repair in progress(you didn't really think it died did you?).

so I was removing the leg from the waist a while ago, and ended up snapping the shaft of the ball joint as you can see below.


then, months later, I finally gathered the tools and materials I needed to do the repairs on it.
I got some precision hand drills at a local Daiso(apparently the largest dollar store franchise in Japan) and drilled 2.5mm holes into each end of the broken shaft. Then I sawed off a piece of Evergreen plastic rod of the same width at a random length(and ended up making big scratches into my beautiful cutting mat also from Daiso) that seemed about right.


Finally there was lots of Mr. Cement added in. Then I waited a day, and tried to assemble the ball and socket together again. It felt wonky, so I took it apart very carefully, which resulted in the shaft semi-snapping with the evergreen rod and all. It didn't fully dry and harden, and the cement had made its way into the core of the rod, causing it to almost break in a soggy kind of way. So then I decided I needed lots of Mr.Cement, and then left it to cure for a few days. I was pretty frustrated, and emo at that point so I didn't take any pictures.
In the end, it turned out well.
here's how it looks
the fuzzy white square at the top is the plastic rod squirting out when it was goopy and I pressed the two sides together. The white line is the glossiness of Mr. Cement. This is how it looks even when it's dry. also, the fuzzy looking stuff on the rear skirt(this is the backside, although not really a skirt) that looks like a terrible nub removal is actually the pretty white plastic being ruined by the cement because I have amazingly shakey hands - only when it matters most =P


no full shot of the gundam yet because there still some stuff that's broken or need touch ups.

Hope this post was somewhat informatice and meaningful in some way.
To be continued...

P.S. those precision hand drills are the greatest things ever invented. maybe I'll show those off some other time.

I Won A Prize!?!?

Apparently I won GG INFINITE's september lucky draw as seen here
http://gundamguy.blogspot.com/2011/10/gg-infinite-september-lucky-draw.html

not here to brag about it.
I just wanted to share about how shocked i am.
I did not expect to win anything. In fact, I never expect to win any sort of draws, so usually I don't even participate. It was just that this one was simple enough so I thought "why not?" You may even remember, this blog was spawned from me joining these draws =D

So anyway, here's what happened
I was just doing my usual visit to GG's blog, scrolling through it, not expecting results to come out on this day due to GG sorting through cheaters making multiple entries. So there it was, out of nowhere the big title appeared. So I read through the post and saw the mystery prize and though it was pretty cool for GG to have planned to give away such an awsome prize that was not even released at the time of the contest. After that, I skimmed through the winners and and other prizes not really reading them. That's when my name suddenly caught my eye, then my heart launched like a javeling missile in top fire mode, after popping out of the tube, it rammed right into the ceiling and blew my house up. In other words, my heart just javelined. In plain english, it my heart jolted like I was thrown off a cliff, fell out of an observation deck, or maybe more along the lines of being in a roller coaster that suddenly derailed...
I didn't even see what the prize was, but the simple fact that my name was on the list was shocking beyong my imagination. I don't even know why it was that shocking to be honest, but it was lol.
Seems I got a GM III, but I'm still in denial XD
Be warned, good news can be harmful to your health too. =D

Not only should one always prepare for the worst, he should also prepare for the best - at all times.

For the record:
If you thought I had a magical foresight, and was still able to get surprised, you are overestimating me, and making me out to be a super weirdo. This is is not the stuff I said I had planned in my previous post lol.

gundam.info promo campaign

i have recieved intel about it being available in HK even though it isn't listed as a participating country(cause it isn't a country) like japan. but apparently those code cards still come in specially maked boxes, although my source has somehow not been able to enter the draw... =__=
could be that they give it out in HK but don't let you use it, or the store could have directly imported/bootlegged the kit from japan where the promo only gives the one type of prize and the code is not applicable out side of the country, or that HK is a participating region, but each region's codes can't be used for an address from other participating regions(in this case a Canadian address). derp

btw, the mg epyons in HK also come with that special book...unless it is a japan exclusive but the kit was imported also...

My First Gunpla Post =D

heres a WEIP(work eternally in progress) that I took a picture of many months ago.

its more or less still in about the same state of progress but more broken... im never gonna finish this thing at this rate. the left hip ball joint is broken and stuck inside the thigh ATM... the support arm for the cannon is all cracked because apparently the ABS plastic can't handle enamel. I wasn't even planning to pain that part, but I got a smudge of paint on it and didnt feel like going through the trouble of cleaning it off  Orz
at this rate, it's never gonna be finished, therefore a WEIP.

here's a bonus reward for reading this post =D. if you can cross your eyes, look at the left side with your right eye and the left pic with the right eye. adjust your eyes until both images overlap into one. once you have that, just keep your eyes still and wait for them to focus. finally enjoy the stereoscopic 3D effect =D

Added Modelling/Gunpla Building Guide Page

I've added a basic modelling page that I will use to take notes of what I find across the internets. By no means are they correct, tried, or tested in anyway by me so i do not know if they are correct. Please post in cbox or comment under this if you think something is missing or wrong.