So begins the mods... starting with the skirts. I added 2mm plastic plates to extend them. This will give the Rick Dias a more balanced look since the rear skirts are pretty long.

I decided to add some details to the kit to bulk up the Rick Dias somewhat. A simple attaching of 2 thrusters to a plastic card and inserting to the leg skirts.

I might not be able to paint my kits (since I'm still setting up my new hobby room), but I can still start projects. At least, assembling and modding-wise. So here's my latest project, the RMS-99 Rick Dias from Zeta Gundam. Assembly is pretty straightforward and it builds up into a pretty nice representation of the Mobile Suit.

I saw this pose on the left from a pic taken from a hobby show and I liked it. Unfortunately, the best the kit could do was what's on the right. The one on the left is obviously not the HGUC kit. It looks like I'll need to do quite a bit of modifications. Shouldn't be too much problems.

I managed to catch the 1st part of 3 compilation movies for the Zeta Gundam TV series. I was quite impressed although squeezing basically 18 episodes into a 2 hour movie obviously presented some problems.

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Ohohoho... the colored pictures are finally out and it looks REALLY sweet. Voltes V has been a very early influence on me when I was growing up. In fact, it's been an influence for any Indonesian kid grewing up at that time!

And now Bandai is releasing a modernized version. In FULL metal glory. It's super poseable and comes with ALL its weapons (including the really ghey-looking twin belt whips). Problem is it's gonna cost about SGD 200... sigh...

Oh man... this upcoming B-Club conversion kit takes the cake in design. I can't even really describe what it looks like. Just look at it there on the right. Out of all the other designs, they pick this one for release?!

The original looks like this. Not much better to be honest. Sometimes I do wonder how Bandai picks their releases. It's so scattershot. So random.

The only good news for this release, if you can call it that at all, is that it's from B-Club. Which means it's resin. Which means it's super expensive. Which means it's super limited too. Not so lucky if you're one of those who actually likes the design of the Zaku Warrior. Which means you gotta have this one to complete your collection.

No updates on my projects this week since I'm preparing my bomb shelter for my new hobby room. My Internet's not down tho, so here are some VERY impressive models I ran across this week. A Model Kit Buffet of Masterpieces if you will...

› Yoda's Fine Molds 1/72 Millenium Falcon
› Ma's Bandai MG Hyaku-Shiki
› Roopy's Bandai HGUC Marasai 'Strum Wolf System'

And in Airsoft news, Tokyo-Marui has put up prototypes of the Heckler & Kock MP7 at the BlackHole 2006 airsoft show. Oh man... I can't wait for this one to be released, it just looks so badass! I think I may have to put off getting my H&K MP5 again...

The Cannon Fort is a re-release of the 1980s original. The main difference between the two versions is the color and the markings: The new Cannon Fort is dark green and black while the old one has the green parts in a medium blue. The old kit also comes with 2 gold coated mind-riders instead of just 1 dark grey one for this release.

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It's the New Year again! And with the coming of the new year come the resolutions. The things we try to live up to and utter fail for most of the time. But we'll keep on trying... uh huh. So here are my toy-related resolutions:

1. Finish (decently) 12 kits this year. 1 a month.
2. Stop impulse buys totally.
3. Save enough money for the upcoming Chogokin Voltes V.
4. Join at least 1 model kit competition this year.

Man... I just hope I can at least fulfill ONE resolution...