SD Sangokuden Gundams

September 3, 2009 — Z

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My friend came back from Hong Kong this week and got me these two as presents ^^. What’s better gifts from HK to give to a Gunota than Chinese-themed Gundam models? The Gunplas are Guan Yu Gundam and Chang Fei Gundam (thinking of naming this one Chang Wu Fei already…) xD. They both look pretty awesome. I have never looked into these before because I have no idea what they are and not really fond of the pupils inside the eyes ^^;. Not sure when I’ll be able to get to these models though. Oh… my first time seeing these models clearly shows how much Chinese I know; I can almost easily read the kanji in Japanese but not in Cantonese… ahaha orz.

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Anyone else collects these type of SD models? Do show off what you got :)

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Lighting Setup

September 2, 2009 — Z

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A couple of you asked what is my new lighting setup so I’ll talk about it here… but it’s nothing spectacular xD. It does the job though. Please excuse the grainy photos… I just did a quick resize to give an idea.

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A floor lamp with a 60w yellow and a 100w white fluorescent bulb. Ceiling have two 100w white fluorescent bulbs. This is all ^^;. My reactor lamp is a bit overkill in this case as my room gets hot enough as is with the lamp right behind me. I’ve always wanted to find some way to reproduce sunlight and guess this is as close as I’ll get.

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Monitor glare… I don’t really like it but at least it doesn’t put the model in a pitch black backdrop.

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Truth be told, I’m not exactly too impressed by this MG… I’ll save the nitpicking for the full review. If you have any questions, do drop them now and I’ll answer them later when I type everything up ^^.

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Bandai World Gundam Competition

September 1, 2009 — Z

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It’s on now! I think the name is pretty self-explanatory for what this event is but you can check out Danny’s page for all the details. This is going to be HUGE… and sadly, I don’t think I could take part this time around due to school starting, work and all that life stuff. Although…since it ends in November, I just MIGHT have a chance. Since this is such a big competition, submitting past work again would be a bit disappointing. If I could, I want to build and paint a Gundam specifically for this contest. There’s not much I could do with my current line-up considering the results from the HLJ competition xD.

Actually, I think EVERYONE should submit an entry because part of the rules ask for you to “Please include the region that you live in and tell us how long you have been building Gunpla for. Also tell us what Gunpla you would like Bandai to make and in what scale.” This could be a good chance to slip our dream MGs into Bandai! Be it the other MG GW:EW Gundams, Epyon, V2 Assault-Buster, Turn X, or even MG Deep Striker or whatever you have in mind. It’s worth letting Bandai know!

Lastly, I would like to thank all of you who are helping each other out with the questions posted on this blog ^^. This community effort is much appreciated. Knowing myself, some of you could’ve possibly already built the model by the time I get around to answering your question XD. I’ll try to answer the bulk of the questions as I’m typing up my reviews though. Keep the questions coming so I know what to write on my reviews ^^.

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