With everyone locked at home and stores limited to the essentials, it will be difficult getting paints and other hobby supplies until most of the specialty shops resume operations. And so I've chosen to build something that would require minimal painting but still color accurate. What are the best kits to build that would fit … Continue reading Quarantine Build! RG Crossbone Gundam X1 – Work in Progress #1
Tag: Real Grade
Box Art Extravaganza: April 2020
Everything is essentially at a pause right now because of what's happening around the world lately. But staying at home is indeed a perfect opportunity to build more kits. Fortunately, Bandai Spirits is still releasing them and so, here are some packaging art for kits this month. I think it's been more or less a … Continue reading Box Art Extravaganza: April 2020
Plastic Crack: RG Evangelion Unit-01 – Size and Scale
When the recently released RG Evangelion Unit-01 was first announced, the first question that popped into my mind is automatically about the scale. The Real Grade line was previously confined to Gundam designs and thus, stuck to the 1/144 scale. That said, Evangelion units, at least in Neon Genesis Evangelion have been portrayed inconsistently, with … Continue reading Plastic Crack: RG Evangelion Unit-01 – Size and Scale
Now With Updated Blurb: RG Evangelion Unit-01 Box Arts
Here's something I'm not paying that much attention to when I know I probably should. Scheduled for release this weekend is the first non-Gundam Real Grade kit, the RG Evangelion Unit-01 and to be honest, I don't know what to expect. What I'm expecting are changes to the blurb usually found at the bottom of … Continue reading Now With Updated Blurb: RG Evangelion Unit-01 Box Arts
Next Phase Gunpla: Road to 2020
2020 is the Gunpla 40th Anniversary, so in sort of a preview of the stuff to come, The Gundam Base Tokyo once again opened their Next Phase Gunpla exhibit and on there were a lot of kits I personally didn't expect. What's more, all of these have planned release dates! Here's a quick video from … Continue reading Next Phase Gunpla: Road to 2020