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

Grrrr!!!! Why does life gotta be like dat??

was gonna finish my vf-27 this week
but then my computer went dumb after a graphics driver update, so i had to spend a few days trying to fix it. in the process of that, i discovered my system restore is a dud. it does nothing and doesnt work and loses restore points for no reason. so now that i got my graphics fixed, i need to fix my system restore...

when first got my graphics back to normal (which turned out to take nothing more than deleting the driver itself and letting it install and update again -_-), i was about to rejoice when i accidentally whacked the vf-27 and gave it a desk dive >_>
the microscopic points on the right cannards broke of, but i found them. on the other hand, the antenna at the top of the head snapped in half and one side flew somewhere which i can't find. so now i've got these near impossible repairs i need to do...all of which comes after i turn my room upside-down to find the missing piece, while dealing with a defunct system restore.

yay me! =D

old school ipod shuffle for size reference

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

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.

Updates about random stuff.

First off, I just fixed the charater count of my cbox. It was at 100 before and felt kind of short, so I went to check my settings and found that I could set it to 200. So now the max charater limit is about 5 lines, it should work better now.
Took me a while to figure out my cbox account name lol. I thought I had the password wrong so I reset it. Then I found out I was using the wrong username lmao. So now I don't know if i ever had the correct password before XD.

Second is that my airbrush came in. It's looking good =D. I'll post more on that later on. Still gathering bits and pieces so I can have a setup that I can work with. It's not just about the compressor and airbrush, there are a few things that go in between and around them. Those are the things I'm trying to figure out.

I thought I had a third thing, but i can't remember what it was, or if there really was one lol...

Looks like me blogging backlog is getting as tall as my gunpla...

P.S. got uncharted 2, beat the story, can't connect to multiplayer because of the famous "error synching models," and can't get my $35 worth of free DLC becuase of the stupid messed up expiry date...

Edit: Forgot, my cold is almost all gone...my excuses for not dealing with those pictures is running low..

Getting Airbrush Soon-ish, I Think

i've been thinking of getting an airbrush lately. any advice people? lol who am i asking, barely anyone comes here... if you happen to come by, leave me some tips or suggestions under this post or in the cbox.

anyway, i've been thinking of getting a Grex Genesis XG, the only thing is that it comes in 0.3mm. i would like to have a 0.2mm and really do some crazy stuff with that someday. i don't like to upgrade and replace things along the way, i prefer to go a little overkill the first time around, and then be done with it forever, and only make additions if it doesn't render too much of my existing stuff useless. so anyways,  i read that it's a pretty good clone of the Iwata hp-c.

any thoughts on either airbrushes?

i've already gotten a mastercraft 2 gallon comperssor. i think it should do fine for painting kits. it's about the size of an airbrush compressor, but it also has a tank. i'm not painting an entier car or anything, so it should be enough.

i'm quite sure by the time anyone reads this and bothers to comment, i will already have all the bits and pieces and will already have started airbrushing LMAO

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.