While I didn't show this kit during the build completion post for my HG RX-78-02 Gundam [Early Type/Middle Type] double build, I already had these next two kits in mind. Primarily due to the upcoming series Mobile Suit Gundam THE WITCH FROM MERCURY and I really wanted to at least finish the lead mobile suits … Continue reading I Don’t Like Hand Painting, Technically and Literally: HG Gundam Barbatos Lupus/ Lupus Rex Dual Build – Work-in-Progress #0
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Kinda Wanna Watch The Series Now: MODEROID “Granbelm” White Lily & Viola Katze
Good Smile Company and their Good Mecha Smile brand has been doing a great job of bringing exposure to otherwise more obscure mecha properties with their MODEROID line of model kits. Whether or not these kits sell is a different discussion, with some speculating that their large profit from Figma sales allow them to do … Continue reading Kinda Wanna Watch The Series Now: MODEROID “Granbelm” White Lily & Viola Katze
Hyped More Than it Should: “Red Giant 03rd MS Team” Exclusive High Grades
Back in Shizuoka Hobby Show last May, Bandai Spirits teased a cross-media project between the Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield II game, Gundam Ace, and Gunpla -- Mobile Suit Gundam: Red Giant 03rd MS Team. Now the title is a ringer to the well loved 08th MS Team OVA though the connections on … Continue reading Hyped More Than it Should: “Red Giant 03rd MS Team” Exclusive High Grades
That’s Two More Grandaddies Done! Double Build Complete: HG RX-78-02 Gundam [Early Type/Middle Type]
Just as I was able to watch Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island in the last week or so, I also finished the double build of the HG RX-78-02 Gundam this weekend. As previously mentioned, my intent for this double build was to have two separate kits of the Gundam for both the Early Type … Continue reading That’s Two More Grandaddies Done! Double Build Complete: HG RX-78-02 Gundam [Early Type/Middle Type]
Everything Else is Underwhelming. Hobby Next Phase 2022 Summer: 30MM Spinatio [Knight Type]
Day two and pretty much the whole of Bandai Spirits' Hobby Next Phase 2022 Summer has ended and to say that I was underwhelmed by the reveals is an understatement. Today's "new" items were supposedly from Gundam THE WITCH FROM MERCURY, new Gunpla, and 30 Minute Missions/Sisters stuff. I said "new" because none of these … Continue reading Everything Else is Underwhelming. Hobby Next Phase 2022 Summer: 30MM Spinatio [Knight Type]