Closure of Reeve's Hanger
Monday, September 15, 2008
4:29 PM
Hi everyone. It has been a good run and due to some heavy workload I will have to close down this Hanger and shift all my update to this new one. Do check this out :) I see you all there :)
http://gundamshanger.wordpress.com/
MG Force Impulse Ver K (Work In Progress)
Friday, July 18, 2008
8:58 AM
Got this MG from Bernard a while ago. I have been procrastinating on that I will not be getting this but due to the Internal Frame this kit has and to me it sort of a preview of the upcomming RX-78 Ver 2.0 ( Yeah I'm a Lover of the old UC gunpla and Zeonpla LOLZ ). So I started this a few days ago. Progress is slow due to the amount of commission work that I have to clear so only have a day maybe 1 to 2 hours to work on my kit, Further more the SMC is kicking off operation soon on this 13th of July so it gonna be a very busy month for me and also I'm in the mid of doing my Bakuc project for this year. sweat.gif It almost done but still need a little tweaking. So I be putting that aside till further news from Sheng Tai on their announcement date of Bakuc 2008.
Ok here is the review I had for this kit while working on it.
MS Force Impulse Mini reviewThe frame use by this kit is almost the same as all the frame use by the Seed series. Mainly the Strike Freedom frame. The arms and Legs are almost the same. The only difference is the Main Upper body and lower torso. The middle intersection is not entirely hollow. The connector point is the four mini hydraulics that connect the upper torso to the lower torse with a small hollow section to house the core fighter. Only the main cockpit intersection will be connected onto the upper and lower torso. The rest will be outside the body. When without the outer armor piece it will be very protruding but after the armor has been place on. The protruding section of the core fighter won't be that much smile.gif So Kudos to Bandai for making this design. But articulations on the torso won't be as solid as the MG Destiny. No bending forward or backward in the centre of the torso. But it remove the overall fat looking torso that the NG or the old RX-78 has to offer smile.gif I will update more on this review when i built further smile.gif
Now for the modding I have done. Overall the proportion of the frame is good. So I had to work on the armor as there is nothing I can do to make the torso bend forward or backward without "wasting" the core fighter. So i skip that section and work on the "cosmetic" outlook of the armor. This is what I have done to on the upper body
From the left....

From the right....

Now for a close up on the chest. I have made some changes to the left and right upper chest armor pieces. As it molded in one piece. As I would want to show off the internal frame as I will use star bright silver on it to make it shine. So I had to remove the one piece molding and break it into different level. On the right upper armor I have remove the upper portion and make it separated attachement piece. And have added some detail piece under it
The upper chest armor I have added some Koto parts and some panel lines on it to make it more mechanical. I choose to make the panel line slightly different from the left and right so it will show a slight difference between them smile.gif No sense but kinda like it LOLZ. The shoulder armor piece is nicely molded and detailed. So I just gave it a few panel lines to make it look seperated smile.gif
Now onto the arms armors
You you all can see, I have added a hover groove onto the upper arms unit as when it flying without combining into a gundam. It can still land. As it don't have wheels to land the unit. So a hover groove will make a little sense to it when it needed to land
From the back...

On the lower side of the torso...

These are the modification I have did in order to show off the upper internal frame.
Now for the Lower legs frames mods that I have did. As for the upper thighs I have done some cutting to allow the internal frame to be expose yet still maintain the gimmick for it to move. And some of the lower legs armor has been cut off to show the lower legs frame. Will be doing more detailing to it once I have done all the cutting.



Scale Model Club (KGCC) Open House
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
6:00 PM
Hi everyone.

I would like to announce to everyone that the 1st local
Scale Modeling Club has kick off it operations. There will be an Open House for public to visit and the members of Katoots are Invited to come over to the Open House event.
Scale Modeling Club ( S.M.C ) is under the wing of
PA and we're operating at
Kampong Glam Community Club. S.M.C has been sent up for one main purpose. It to expose scale modeling as a Hobby to the public and to have a fixed workshop which is located in the heartland centre which members can easily access the workshop from all locations in Singapore. The Community Club can be reach via MRT or Buses. Membership is open for registration on that day with Discount Vouchers by
M-Workshop.
Venue: 385 BEACH ROAD, Singapore 199581 (Nearest MRT = Lavender MRT Station )
S.M.C Club Room at Level 3 on the left from the stair
Date: 13/07/2008
Time 11am till 5PM
How to get there
Pls copy and paste this over a blank internet page to view
http://www.sgclub.com/singapore/scale_model_club_
78084.html#post1146303
Do drop me a sms or call me at 97110641 so I'm able to put you under our visitor's list :)
Hope to see everyone there on the Open House events as there will be live demo on model kit building, Showcasing of current built model kits, Cosplayers cosplay as characters in the Gundam Universe and more. S.M.C will like to announce that the club is officially taking over the Gundam Model Kit from Sty's Workshop as from today and many thanks for all the hardwork and effort Sty's Workshop has put in all these years in supporting the local scale modeling communities. S.M.C will provide the event space , Halls, Theater that will hold all the upcomming Gundam Model Kit meet and the next
Clash of the Titans Modeling Competition next year March. Now there is a solid 6 to 8 months to prepare for your solid, mod frenzy, resin conversion, Kit Bash and Mega Diorama set up and brace yourself for the clash of the Titans at the March Modeling Competition. Do give us all your support everyone :)
S.M.C welcomes everyone on the 13th of July 2008. See you all there :thumbs:
The Shin Musha is one of my Fav Gundam. Due to the announcement but I still want to share some thingw which interest me. Go check out his website. This Shin Musha was modeled by Sandrum. See more of his works at
http://anaheimmachines.blogspot.com/
Tokyo Toyshow 2008 Part 3
5:58 PM
This is the last set of the photos for the event. I will be returning back to Singapore by this weekend. Sad thing though is I have not taken much photos on the Singapore Toys and Comics Convention. And the convention is quite disappointment to me. Maybe it because it quite un-organized but I'm sure next year they will be able to do better. Jia You to everyone from the Toys and Comics Convention team. You guys are great :)
Here goes :)





That all folks for the day :)
Tokyo Toyshow 2008 Part 2
5:58 PM
Hi everyone. As I'm going outstation on this Friday and won't be back till the 2nd week of next month. I won't want to hold everyone back. So these are the 2nd set of photos of the conventions.








Now that is the rest for the part 2 of the conventions. Will update the last part the 2nd week of next month
Tokyo Toyshow 2008 Part 1
5:53 PM
Hi everyone :) This is around the year in Japan where there will be a huge toyshow in Tokyo where it feature lots of very solid toys and model kits that will be announce :) I have always wanted to visit Japan one of these days since I was very young. Lucky thing is my "going to be married to me" wife has agreed to go to Japan for our Honeymoon next year. I just can't wait LOLz :) In the mean time let me share these photos with you all :)
This is the entrance of the event

Quite alot of peoples are looking at the displays man :)

Now for the toys and model kits display at the toys convention









That is all for now folks :) Do enjoy these photos and I will update you all soon next week for the Part 2 of the Convention :)
The Big O
Thursday, June 19, 2008
8:47 AM
Hi everyone. I have been building non-Gunpla kit recently and this is one of the more rare kit that is release by Bandai quite a long time ago.I have recently bought it overseas from Japan. Here is a simple writeout I took from Wiki to give everyone an in-sight on what is the Big-O is all about :) The animation DVDs has been release in the market quite a while ago and I'm sure you still can pick up a copy or two :)
From Wiki
[Forty years prior to the events of the series, a mysterious occurrence caused the residents of Paradigm City to lose their memories. The series follows Roger Smith, Paradigm City's top Negotiator. He provides this much needed service with the help of an android named R. Dorothy Wayneright and his butler Norman Burg. When the need arises, Roger calls upon Big O, a giant relic from the city's history that may hold the key to its future...The Big O deals with the nature of memories. A memory is a record stored in the brain of an organism, but in Paradigm City memories can mean much more.[1] "Memories" (メモリー, Memorī?) embody the lost knowledge of its residents, and can take the form of records from before the Event, forgotten artifacts from the previous era or manifest themselves as recollection, hallucinations and recurring dreams.]
When I saw the show a few years ago Roger Smith always reminds me of Bruce Wayne. And the Big-O is like a super huge batman LOLZ :)
Ok here goes. Check it out :)


A Close Up on the face

A Close up on the huge arms :) Don't you just love it :) I do :)


The kits is release non-scale by Bandai and when I place it side by side with my MG Zaku II it stand almost the same height as it:) Big Kit if you are me :)

Till next time :)