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| So my house is finally done (after almost a year of renovations. Yeesh) and I'm in the process of moving in. I created an area specially for a hobby room, which is sort of a loft built on top of the guest room. My architect did some initial sketches when he proposed doing the hobby room as a loft.
 
So after the rest of the house was completed, I got the architect to start designing the hobby room. The pictures below are 1st drafts:
 
The first floor is the guest area. Since I don't expect to have many guests, only a sofa bed is required. All around the sofa bed are display cases and storage space.
The concept art for the 2nd floor are below:
 
The display/storage space downstairs doubles as the stairs, which is limited to 6 steps due to the limited size of the room. Once when the 2nd floor is reached, there will be a wall mount for my airsoft guns. Immediately after that is the workdesk. The exhaust fan built-in to the wall is about a meter or so away from the desk so there needs to be customized casing to redirect the exhaust fans suction feature.
The section right above the balcony will be all filled with storage racks. These are indicated by the boxes with 'X'es. Opposite the storage racks are display racks made of glass. According to the architect, glass will reduce the 'heaviness' of the loft. I don't really see much point in it as I'd rather have more storage space in the loft itself. However, seems like the space is pretty cramped and the bigger display cases are only 20cm deep. Can't really be of any use as storage space.
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Crap. It's been almost 3 months since I did anything else to this build.
Today, I finally got around fixing the demarcation lines.
And boy did I have a 'great' time doing it.
 
First I used blutack to mask all over the kit. And ended up not doing anything to it for 3 weekends. And what happened? For some reason the blutack left some sort of residue that of course, couldn't be rubbed off. So I ended up having to spray everything all over again.
So what I did was for each color, I'd slowly blutack and spray to fix the soft camouflage pattern. Took awhile. Over 3 weekends in fact. But I... am... done! In the process however, I lost the shade of green I originally used, so I ended up respraying all the green again. I also quickly masked off the grey parts and sprayed that on too. The left stablizer also fell off but that's a small easy fix. So all the major parts (except for the parts that need to be white) are... done! BOO YEAH!

Here's a before and after look at the camo:
 
Up next will be the rest of the detail parts. Won't be long now. Won't be long...
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The annual Shizouka Show is upon us again and my oh my, there are some really fine stuff coming in 2008! I can't wait, but my wallet sure ain't happy.
First up is Bandai's VF-25 from Macross Frontier. Looks like it's fully transformable, which usually means the proportions in all modes would be compromised. However, they seemed to have done a pretty good job although the details aren't up to Hasegawa's standards. Now I just hope they release all the versions of the VF-25. So far, 4 versions have been seen in the anime. What was a pleasant surprise is a prototype of the Vajra. I really hope they will release this one.
 

One of the biggest news is (finally) the Guntank is being given the MG treatment. This would finally complete everyone's Operation V set. Seems like they will also release a remote controlled version which can even simulate cannon firing. Just have to wait and see how it turns out. Some other notable releases would be B-Club's 1/144 GM Canal from the manga series Ecole Du' Ciel, which is a must get for me. The Zaku Cannon from Gundam MSV is also getting an MG release. Not sure yet if this is the original MSV version or the one from 08th MS Team. Then there's the Desert Zaku which B-Club will release as a conversion kit, which frankly baffles me. Knowing gunpla fans, the Desert Zaku would be a popular release and for Bandai to choose the resin route (i.e. expensive) doesn't make sense to me.
 
 
Lastly, Tokyo-Marui has announced their upcoming airsoft releases and damn, they are must gets for me. First up is the AKS-74U with blowback action. I've always wanted one of these in my collection. Also upcoming is the Colt 45 MEU pistol! Oh wow... what can I say? A modern Colt 45! Skirmishable, powerful, accurate and reliable straight out of the box. Being a Marui pistol, it's going to be reasonably priced too! Western Arms might make the best Colt 45 replicas, but they cost a lot more and are not as skirmishable. Die die must buy!
 
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March and April 2007 news archived. Removed Collections section. Kinda redundant...
February 2008 news archived. Also redesigned the works pages, adding an intro to each finished kit.
January 2008 news archived.
December 2007 items archived. Also restructured how the Archives look. See below.
Brand-spankin' new section up! Collections to help me keep track of my kits!
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