By Christopher Troy Running a little late, what with the Iron Man 2 release and Mother’s Day (don’t even ask me about my progress in Final Fantasy 13) , but here’s the 2nd installment of […]
By Loran When Gundam SEED came out in 2002, one hell of a merchandising push came with it. Several new model kit lines were introduced like the new and unposeable take on the No Grade […]
by Loran When the HGUC line first started back in the summer of 1999, it kept things rather simple. Instead of covering all the main character units, fancy new OVAs, and stuff outside of the […]
by Keith GENTLEMEN, BEHOLD! ANOTHER ARTICLE! It’s been kind of a long road working on the Arche so far, and progress to this point has been relatively slow. Thankfully, that won’t be the case this […]
By Loran Boy, Bandai sure loves our money, don’t they? In the past few years, mostly through video games, Bandai has been having totally-awesome mecha designer Hajime Katoki redesign some of Kunio Ookawara’s M-MSV designs. […]
By Christopher Troy Heya folks! Since I mentioned the Dynames in last week’s review, I figured I would review that kit first first, as I already have it constructed, and I’ve mentioned it twice so […]
By Keith It’s that time again- time for part 3 of the HG Arche build. We’re starting to get to some of the more fun bits, but also some of the more annoying ones, especially […]
By Loran Ever since Bandai started making new kits of some of their class mecha back in the nineties, builders have been looking for ways to add some of the MSV designs to the ranks. […]
By Christopher Troy Despite (in my opinion) a weak 2nd Season (also see Code Geass R2). One of the things I liked about Gundam 00 was how unique the mecha design was for the series. […]
By Loran Waterslide decals are sort of a staple of model kits. I’m not quite sure how far these things go back, but my dad was using them on airplane models when he was a […]
By Keith Welcome back, model-monkeys! Last time you were subjected to my semi-coherent pontification, we began construction of Bandai’s High Grade 00-series Arche Gundam. This week we’ll be continuing where we left off- moving on […]
By Christopher Troy And welcome to part 2. We only have 2 kits to look at this time, so let’s cut to the chase right? This is the MBF-02 Strike Rogue, which appeared in Gundam […]
By Loran Welcome back! My Zaku is as finished as it’s going to be for now, but I still have a bit of progress and other advice to show you. This modification here is rather […]
By Keith Hello, hola, and ciao! If you’re here, I’m going to assume you already know what Gundam kits are, and you may have even built a few yourself. If you haven’t, that’s cool too- […]
By Christopher Troy When Gundam SEED debuted on Japanese TV in 2002 (Cartoon Network would later air it in 2004 as part of the new Saturday night Toonami programming block), it was a huge hit […]
By Loran If you’ve been building kits for as long as I have, chances are you have a bunch that you worked on a long time ago, and look back at them now and say, […]
If you’re like me and love painting your Gundam kits, you’re going to notice that you can’t always just pick up a jar of paint, thin it, and use it on a kit. Sometimes, you’re going to have to mix your own paints. While a lot of suits have colors that you only see on that specific design, you’ll come to notice that there are quite a few colors that appear every now and then, be it faction colors, ace pilot colors, colors of a certain class of suit, or just your average, run of the mill colors. I’m going to offer some suggestions for how to make these colors. […]
By Christopher Troy Being a man of my word, I’ve managed to stave off Final Fantasy 13 and Megaman 10 (to an extent) and completed the Unicorn. Above the text is a completed and nearly […]
By Loran Ah, the Hi-Nu Gundam. If you told any of us 5 years ago that Hi-Nu would have not one, but TWO plastic kits, we’d think you were crazy. Well, the Master Grade came […]
When we last left off, it was time to build the arms and legs for the Unicorn. There’s no set length of time it take for me to usually build the limbs, as construction and painting usually factors in to that. […]
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