It started as a regular ‘ol MG Zaku II 2.0 – my friend and I picked it up as sort of an impulse buy nearly two years ago (or more, I honestly can’t remember) at our local hobby shop while there was a big sale going on. It should be pretty obvious just by perusing the Gunpla catalogue on this…
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Southern California Gundam Model Competition 2016
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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HG Gundam G-Self
I have to confess now that I, like many other Gundam fans, never made it all the way through Reconguista in G. To be fair I gave it a chance – five episodes in I just couldn’t bear the narrative anymore – the animation style was also pretty jarring. But alas, this isn’t an anime series review, we’re here to…
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Hasegawa 1/100 Temjin 747 Type a8 “White Rainbow Knight”
My second Hasegawa kit – unlike my first foray into the Virtual On franchise two years ago with my Apharmd the Hatter model kit, this Temjin Type a8 is actually a commission build from a customer who happened to purchase my Apharmd whilst it was on sale through eBay.
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Aoshima Top Secret S15 Silvia
My next automobile model kit – this time I decided to go full race-car, no holding back. After my test mule GT-R R32, I considered my options carefully for my first real car that I planned to build for display. I wanted a kit that was just as cheap, since I was spoiled by that bargain-bin pricing on the GT-R,…