RX-78 SD Came Out To Play

Since I had no plans this morning, I decided to bring one of my Gunplas out for a photo shoot. When I picked RX-78NT-1 Alex SD, he was damn excited.

Once we reached out destination, he immediately climbed up a tree. Never knew he was a tree climber.



This tough guy even dared to point his BOWA·Norfolk XBR-L Type-3 beam rifle at me... tsk tsk tsk.



After a while, he decided to come down and play on the ground.



And since there were so many flowers on the ground, he then told me he wanted to lie down on the bed of dunno-what-flowers. I obligingly followed him... To my surprise, RX-78NT-1 has a weird fetish, he likes to put a flower between his stumpy legs when he is resting.

Cute?

Ok, enough of fooling around, it's time to get back to business. He pulled out the flower and decided to use it as his prop for his photoshoot.




Handsome?






With a flower in one hand, and a sword in another, he whispered to me that he is ready to go see his sweetheart and propose to her. With a heavy heart, I let him go... Hoping that one day, he will come back to me with his partner and his little ones. All the best RX-78NT-1 Alex!

The end.

p/s Thanks to allenang.com for helping out during the shoot. :)

Gunplas Family Shot

Family of short but cute Gundams and Zakus (except the one in dark grey which is a HG version Zaku)

Gundam Odaiba

When I came across this post at DannyChoo's blog, my jaw was literally on the floor.


Photo courtesy of dannychoo.com

WOW! 1/1 scale of a Gundam robot!



Somemore the Japanese built this life-sized, 59-foot tall RX-78-2 Gundam model from the first anime series (1979) guarding the artificial island of Odaiba (お台場) Shiokaze Park over at Tokyo bay. It was constructed to mark the 30th anniversary of Mobile Suit Gundam robot anime franchise and will remain on display for 2-months starting July 2009.


Gundam Odaiba Tokyo in Tokyo by Akiyoshi Odagawa

More photos HERE

Gunpla Hobbyists

When I first started assembling my first Gundam model, my mom made a remark "Mind you, how old are you now? Still playing with toys?". Yeah, I must admit I am no longer young enough to be considered young, but some interests of mine bloomed late. Yesterday morning, my bradas assembled at Snoopy Ang's crib to kick start our Gunpla project.


Clockwise: Wahoo (in black cap), Calvin, Valen (Keeper of the Gunpla Museum), Gameniac who hates photography, Vell (Canon 50D proud owner) and Snoopy Ang.


Boys at work

I still have 2 mint un-open gunpla sets but I didn't bring it over. Well, my objective yesterday was just to see and capture the building process.

Calvin, Wahoo and Snoopy were working on SD oo Raiser while Valen and Gameniac were working on Zakus.


Toolbox...checked!


Calvin working on the finishing




Short and Stout...that's what SD (Super Deform) is all about

Then, Vell pull out his lightbox from his car and managed to setup 2 table lamps and 2 Speedlites for the following shots...


Shot by Vell himself






Calvin snapping photos of his newly acquired Super HCM Pro Exia DX

Boys love toys!

Anime and Toys Convention

Does this place look familiar to you? Of course it does... it's Kuching largest shopping mall.


The Spring

I was there two weekends ago with Cal and Loi for a very important and special task (which will change the course of their entire life... like their lives depended on it. Hahaha...enough suspense??? Stay tune for more details, latest by end of this week). But we coincidentally came across this "Anime and Toys Convention" event which was organised by....erm...i don't know :Þ


1st of its kind in Kuching

It was held at the Spring from 20~31 August 2008.

I personally feel that this is more of a toy exhibition rather than an anime and toy CONVENTION. Anyways, just wanna share a few photos I took using my w810i camera (pardon the high noise and low MP).

There was Gundam


Too bad it was placed in a showcase

And there were many figurines too. Some were cute but some were just so sexy that I wonder how on earth would parents buy them for their kids to play with. If I was a dad, I would rather buy them and play with them MYSELF.... hahaha... just kidding.



One of my fav... very decent and innocent looking girl


Look at those big eyes @_@


Am I sexy or what?


Come and get it... 2 durians for RM10.


Some dude managed to ask the girls in kimonos to pose with him... kawaii desu ^_^

Gundam feva

Recently, a few of my colleagues have been talking a lot on Gundam models. Before I knew it, I was suckered into this boyhood dream of robots. I have just placed my order for a MG 1/100 Strike Gundam +IWSP through the internet and expected time of delivery is within 2-3 days.

ooo... I just can't wait to get my hands on it.