By tetsujin on 2009-02-28 in Models | 0 Comments
Tags: 1:100 Old Zaku, 旧キット
My quest continues to execute a quality build and the best “I take giant cartoon robots too seriously” paintjob on this, the very first Zaku kit… (edit): Actually I don’t know for sure when the various early Gundam kits were released – I had thought the 1:100 Zaku came before the 1:144… but according to […]
By tetsujin on 2009-02-24 in Site News | 0 Comments
Tags: 1:100 Old Zaku, 旧キット
I’ve been working on this project for a while: it is to be my entry in the Old Kits Contest on MMC…
By tetsujin on 2009-02-22 in Models | 3 Comments
Tags: 1_100_Zaku_V2
One thing about wiring a model – these wires always seem to have a way of breaking. It’s really annoying. Anyway, after I set up the LED for the monoeye… Gee, didn’t I already do this post? Oh, yeah, that’s right, I had to wire the monoeye again because I broke one of the wires…
By tetsujin on 2009-02-13 in Reviews | 4 Comments
Late last year Kotobukiya announced they were releasing new, injection-molded static-pose hands for robot kits… I’m almost never happy with the stock hands that come with Gundam kits and the like so to me this is great news: finally a cheap, reliable source for good-looking hands for robot kits. I missed out on the first […]
By tetsujin on 2009-02-11 in computers | 0 Comments
Lately the idea of getting a netbook has been a bit of an obsession of mine… I’ve always liked small laptops – to me it’s more useful to have a little bit of computer that’s very mobile rather than a lot of computer that’s less mobile. So this whole “netbook” thing started by the EEE […]
By tetsujin on 2009-02-03 in Models | 0 Comments
Tags: 1_100_Zaku_V2
One thing about wiring a model – these wires always seem to have a way of breaking. It’s really annoying. Anyway, after I set up the LED for the monoeye I decided to go a step further and light the cockpit as well. The cockpit on this kit isn’t much to look at, but it’ll […]