I’ve finished the 2nd arc of Blood+, and I must say I’m liking the show a lot. The basic plot is pretty standard – evil corp turning people into monsters, girl kick-ass fighter, forgot who she is, lived peacefully with family until it got destroyed, trying to find herself. But the details somehow pull the… Continue reading Blood+
Month: April 2006
Weekend crunch #2
Continue from the last post… The kit has an elongated layout, so I had to get a frame that has similar sort of aspect ratio. Again Walmart answered my call 🙂 I debated a bit on whether I wanted to save the trouble of cutting an acrylic sheet to replace the frame’s glass, but I… Continue reading Weekend crunch #2
Weekend crunch
I rarely take a whole weekend to work on a kit, but I kinda got obsessed with finishing Four this time. Except for the few hours that I spent watching Blood+ — these dang end-with-cliffhanger shows are so evil 😀 Her bed frame is made with craft wood, I banged it together and applied wood… Continue reading Weekend crunch
Back to Four
While waiting for some mail order supplies for the Griffith on Horse kit, I got back to my fabrics experiments. Last week I went to Jo-ann’s and got some pretty nice “Prom dress” fabric that has great patterns and texture. The problem is that it has these gold rings glued on the dang thing which… Continue reading Back to Four
Still learning…
Have been working on re-photogaphing older kits for the new gallery. In the process I found that the white balance can’t be set to “Auto” on my Canon, which seem to arbitrarily change the temperature of the colors 🙁 Like Shiki , which is one of the hardest kit to take pic of, even though… Continue reading Still learning…
Himoo Yuina
Introduction Scale 1/8 Sculptor Masashiko Kagawa 香川雅彦 Maker Kaiyodo Completed 1/99 Parts 10 Retail 4800yen This is a character from the hit game Tokimeki Memorial. Although I never played the game this is one of my favorite kits; the long flowing doctor’s gown and that cool pose make this figure very unique. The base is… Continue reading Himoo Yuina
Griffith on Horse #2
Mucho sanding and priming later, the horse is sort of ready for painting. But I wanted to do more test fitting with its cape first. The instructions said put the cape pieces in hot water and bend to shape. I think they’re just too thick for that, so I’m thinking of dremeling the edge so… Continue reading Griffith on Horse #2
Misato Katsugari (NERV Uniform)
7529Introduction Scale 1/8 Sculptor Hiroki Katayama Maker Kurushima Completed 5/99 Parts {parts} Retail {price} I thought the pose is really neat and cute, the guy really knows how to make dynamic poses. Unfortunately this is one of the kits which has only one display angle – other angles aren’t ugly but they aren’t interesting either.… Continue reading Misato Katsugari (NERV Uniform)
Arggggh
Don’t you hate it when you’re ready to ship a kit, just when you’re trying to wrap it up, when you thought oh, I needed to fix this one thing… and then dropped the whole kit on the floor 🙁 Even though I’m perennially fixing broken things and have gotten pretty good at it, you… Continue reading Arggggh
New gallery test
There are still more work to be done on my new Gallery2-driven gallery, but I think I should test things out first… say if the host still can’t handle the load, I should really switch before the 30-day trial period. So I’m giving it a one-day test drive 🙂 I don’t have time to put… Continue reading New gallery test