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Gearing up for the SCGMC model show next month, I reached a point where I kind of had to accept that the more ambitious projects I had in mind for the show just weren't going to be done in time. It's always disappointing to reach that point, and it happens a lot. But even if I can't steal the...

Every year I try to get together a bunch of projects for SCGMC and other model shows I attend. I haven't really been working on those projects lately, though, and so even with a few months still before the show, I worry a bit with the amount of stuff I want to get done by then... But I've...

For the last several years I've been really struggling in the hobby and have produced very little completed work. Some of it comes down to the demands of family life, some of it is due to a basement flood that destroyed a bunch of gear and threw my studio into a chaotic state I still haven't...

I am interested in buying this kit: http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN08703 I don't know if anyone will be able to help me find one but I figured I'd give it a shot. So far the only one I've found is on a Yahoo! Japan auction: the auction price is a bit steep but not totally unreasonable, but by...

I'm working on a build of the 1:144 Zaku. I want to improve the look a little bit but still retain the hokey charm of the base kit... One of the things I like about this kit is it's got those legs - symmetrical, sleek-but-stumpy. It's kind of typical of the Zaku's look in the anime, and it's...

I have a laptop with a monitor 600 pixels tall. So any time I load the forum, I have to scroll down a page and a half to see anything useful at all. It might be better to keep news and ads compact on the forum display pages and just show them full-size on the front page or something. Well...

HGUC Zaku WIP The Zaku is, generally speaking, my favorite design from Gundam. However, this also means I tend to be pretty picky about how they should look. The situation with the Zaku is a bit odd in that its look has never been entirely consistent. The original animation, the lineart...

I think the earliest MGs are great stuff. I like that they're basically big "High Grades". I like that they're composed of pretty much just the parts I need to build the model. I like that they're not more complicated or expensive than they need to be. I like how, early on, the emphasis in MG...

I'm going to Tekkoshocon in April - so I'm trying to get a few projects ready in time for their model contest... In particular, a Hasegawa VF-0 Battroid and a Bandai Scopedog. (Not familiar with these subjects? The VF-0 is a variable fighter from Macross Zero. The "Battroid" form is the...

It's got a leg now. I can't say "it's got a leg to stand on", though, 'cause there's no hip, knee, or ankle joints installed... Zaku Kai Update: 2010-1-20

A while back, one of my coworkers gave me this kit - a 1:5 scale Dalek vac-form kit by Sevans. I finally decided to get started on it. I've built about half the skirt so far. 1:5 scale Dalek (Of course, this being a kit produced in 1984, it's not really accurate to "Dalek Fred" - but I like...

Since I can't presently move forward with my Armored Core build (waiting on a shipment of paint) I've decided to spend some time working on another project. I was a bit inspired by the model work in the recently reissued "How to Build Gundam" books, in which they did a lot of builds in which...

Hakuheisen 2009-07-29 Update I made a big push trying to finish this for Otakon - that didn't work out but as a result of all the recent attention I'm now very close to the painting stage on this thing. This update covers a lot of different stuff I've been doing - the leg thruster lights and...

For various projects of mine I've been working on a design for a microcontroller board. The problem of trying to fit a circuit board into some of these models (not super-small models, just fairly dense with multi-layered parts) has led me to try to make this thing as small as possible. The...

I've been working on this guy lately - I think I'm just going to add clear lenses to the rifle scope and call it done... For those who aren't familiar with Gundam: it's a robot show that aired in 1979 in Japan. It's hailed among its fans for being one of the first and most prominent examples...