Otacool 3 – Workspaces

Its that time of year folks! Time to get your camera’s charged and at the ready! For submissions for Otacool 3 are open This Otacool is all about workspaces , be they at work or at home, but more often than not, its gonna be where your computer is situated XD, unless you’re Chun… where ‘workspace’ entails so much more than just a computer :3 Go here to see what I mean if you don’t already know

My entry for Otacool 3 has been posted up to Figure.fm. Might change some of the pictures… might not… will see… fading light is such a bitch sometimes XD But its there. Only posted a few pics here, not final ones either, the proper ones are on Figure.fm.

On a side note, some awesome news regarding Danny Choo!! His TV show is definitely going ahead and we’ve got new details about it D For fullsome details, do visit this page

HG 1/144 Zaku Warrior Live Concert Version

Ikimashou ka?

Now this, is a gunpla I’d wanted for godknows how long. Its pink for crying out loud!! Pink!!! I remember seeing one DannyChoo, I thought it was a modded version, but then later on I found out it wasn’t! And it was a kit like any other! Only PINK!!! Many more pics below!! (After the cut now.)

Harper’s Island

My two favourite characters of the show. Really just Cal, but they're such a sweet couple!!

Ok ok…. I caved…. caved like another of my friends lol…. Watched eps 9,10,11,12 and 13 of Harper’s Island today, great deal of fuss and palava finding them to download though, would have been happy enough watching streams, but megavideo sucks ass with its 72 minute rule… SUCKS ASS!!! But I found a new way. A faster way. Faster that crappy ass torrents, as this place is evil and something about it blocks torrents, so I get the little red mark at the bottom bar saying ‘no incoming connections’ yet it still runs to over 100kbps at some points, but not often enough….stuck below the 10kbps mark for too long…. just long enough to make me go loopy. So, I wrote a little review/rant on the Harper’s Island region 1 DVD on Amazon.co.uk, cos I felt I had to rant a little about this superb little series. A diamond in the rough as it were. Sure some will complain over bits n pieces, my dad especially about ‘script clunkers’ which I didn’t notice lol. I dont mind if the writings predictable/cheesy/cliche, it did the job, and did it very well indeed. Didn’t see the killer coming. At all. The twists and turns were brilliant. And I implore to watch it if you haven’t already.

My little review thing;

Gelgoog-otousan Complete

Finally got outside to take some pics before the light started to dim.

 Finished off using a dark grey Gundam Marker (GM38), grey artist brush pen(with lots of pigment in the ink), black 0.05 pigment pen and flat matt plastic varnish, or more commonly to gunpla makers, topcoat. Of course the dry transfers too, applied before the topcoat was, thougth that’d be best.

Tamiya Gets

I went to a hobby shop situated right in the middle of Snetterton Market, Snetterton Park Model Shop. Its bloody huge! I wandered around for a bit before I found the stuff I wanted, was just to the left round the corner of the entrance. LOTS of Tamiya stuff, had every Tamiya Weathering set available! They had Tamiya sandpaper stuff too, I think it might be for use when wet… since its all in Japanese I can’t tell lol. The can of varnish I got yesterday, its matt finish and meant for plastic modelling, so it should be fine, but I’ll test it on a something to be sure.

Pricewise the weathering stuff was more expensive than it was on ebay or other places, but since I didn’t have to wait for shipping, its better, and worth the money. The varnish was £4-something, I still need the Tamiya Polishing Compound, BUT I found out thats illegal in Europe lol, apparantly we’re the only country thats stopped selling it though, rest of Europe still does. The UK’s such a goody-two-shoes…. Can still import though, not the end of the world.

1/144 MS-05L Zaku I Sniper Type

This Zaku is my 4th gunpla kit!! And after looking at guides, and how-to stuff, I went as all out as I could at this time, (since I can’t get ahold of any weathering stuff where I live, have to order online, same for polishing compound, though I’ve been told, something called ‘Brasso’ will do ok on plastic, but I don’t think it’d do the same thing I want that I’ve seen in guides.

Anyways, this is the final product so far, I wanna get some Tamiya weathering stuff to make her look extra funky. Not sure if its a she or he yet… I mean… it does have a skirt lol… but it has a bigass gun to make up for the femininity lol. Its about 13cm tall, I think its a bit shorter than my 1/144 Gelgoog, but just as cool. Still like Gelgoog more. Now I need a Char’s Zaku.. pink ftw!!

Oh, and atm, I’ve got the tubing on the backpack stuck in the holes with whitetack, since it didnt seem to wanna stay put on its own, same for the antenna. Posted these pics on figure.fm too. Spreading the love! lol