Snap Build while Waiting

Build Strike Full Package and Gundam Deathscythe EW

I haven't been able to really post anything lately. I've put blogging on hold while I wait for my paints to arrive. It's been 4 weeks! Not being in Manila makes finding the color of paint, you need, really hard and while there are websites that sell and ship the hobby paints, supplies on the site are still very limited. I have to wait for my monthly visit to Manila so I can go to the different stores and get whatever they have. My last visit was disappointing, the stores didn't have the colors I needed for my B-17 kit. Painting other kits are going to be on hold till I paint the B-17. I've been to wanting to build and paint it for a while now, and I don't want to push it to next time.

But I have not stopped building! I have been snap building two gundam kits to fuel my eagerness to build plastic models. You may have noticed that my Deathscythe lacks its weapon, sadly, I broke it while playing with my son. He got too excited swinging it around that it hit another toy and broke it into two. I've tried to glue it back together but it kept on falling apart. Decided to just ask for a replacement from Bandai, hopefully they will accommodate me. No decals on any of the kits yet, I plan on painting them so I'll reserve the decals till then.

Hopefully, I have my paints soon! Thanks for reading!

Model Kits in QUEUE!

After building my first MG Mobile Suit RGZ-95 Rezel, more kits got dropped off my doorstep, courtesy of my wife and dad! :) I browsed through the kits and all except for the Texan kit seemed like a Master Grade kit equivalent. It's seriously intimidating to look through the boxes and see over 20 runners with probably more than 200 parts to assemble. I'm not sure if I can finish all these kits this year. My current pace in building is extremely slow to be honest. I mostly just work during weekends and not even the whole day. I'll try though as I hope to build a Perfect Grade kit next year.

I'm planning to alternate Gundam and aircraft. I've already started working on the Texan and I have had a lot of down times due to research and trial and errors on painting. I think alternating them will help me relax for a bit. The Gundams are snap fit kits so it's easier to redo some mistakes. I made some huge mistakes on the Texan including mistakenly gluing parts together the wrong way! I'll be more detailed on this on another post.

Anyways, the order I'm building these guys will be Texan, Astray Red Frame, DUKW 353, Gundam Deathscythe, Memphis Belle, (hopefully a Macross kit here) and then finally the F-14.

I'll try to do some work in progress posts but don't hope for it :) With the limited time I spend building kits, I'm probably not going to always want to stop and take pictures :(. I will however try :)

A New Beginning!

I've always wanted to build model kits especially Sci-Fi kits since I was a kid. My dad used to build and fly a lot of RC Aircrafts in the 80s. He built them entirely too, from the ribs of the wing to wrapping the entire aircraft. I used to help him build it too. But I was always just an assistant. I just helped glue some parts together and my favorite part but never got to do it myself...ironing the wrap. I thought that was the most awesome part in building the plane, watching the wrap slowly shrink into a perfect fit each time the iron passed by!

Anyways fast forward, I never got into the hobby because I was a poor pilot (crashed a training glider!) and just looking the parts to assemble was just intimidating!

(from http://www.rc-airplane-world.com)

Just look at how many parts you needed to put together to make your planes back then! Repairs were horrifying too! Build it and then crash it on the weekend, just wasn't inviting to an 8-year old.

I stumbled into this hobby when I watched "Gundam Build Fighters". It reminded of how I loved building the airplanes with my dad. So on a weekend, I decided to buy a Gundam kit (just the Advance Grade) for my son :). We built it together and I really enjoyed it. Hopefully my son did too but he's 3 so everything is always exciting for him! Hehe!

Our first mech kit! The AG G-Bouncer!

I built 2 more Gundam kits, one HG and the other a MG. I'll post more pics later!