Ironic now that I’m in a period of time when I’m building models less and less frequently that I actually attend my first large-scale model competition. In fact this contest was the sole motivation for me to finish a kit that was rotting away in my backlog for nearly two years. For those unfamiliar, the SCGMC is an annual model…
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Anime Expo 2016: Day 2
Day 2 has only just wrapped up, but by the time we got home it had felt like years passed between the morning and evening. Unlike yesterday, we actually set out today to accomplish a few goals and attend an event or two. The armor was becoming worn, but Day 1 had orientated us well enough to the Expo that…
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Anime Expo 2016: Day 1
Last year I said I wouldn’t be coming back – that I was done with AX because it wasn’t quite as enjoyable anymore. I obviously lied. Back for another annual show, though I’d be lying again if I said my main motivation for coming at all wasn’t because I co-built a suit of Gundam armor to show off at the…
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Operation Barbatos: Form 5
Scraping by the deadline by the skin of our teeth. Worked on the first full test fitment well into the actual morning of the Expo – we only pulled the suit off and worked out the final kinks at around 3am. Dedication, sweat, and tears are required to pull off a project of this magnitude in the time span we…
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Operation Barbatos: Form 4
Only four days left as of this writing until the big day – I thought we’d have a few days before the Expo to cool off and chill out, but it looks like the deadline is breathing down our necks once again. The upside is that we’re very close to actually being finished – he can wear half the suit…