Gundam AGE-1 Fan-Art + Figma KOS-MOS Ver.4 GET + HG Seravee Gundam GNHW/B & McModel HG 1/144 Hi-Nu Gundoom COMPLETE!

A quick rough sketch I did after seeing the promotional video of the series. Not so accurate but it has the basic silhouette of the Gundam AGE-1. I drew Frite yesterday as well... o.o

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Figma KOS-MOS Ver.4 from Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra

I got her on Tuesday night. More expensive than I expected but I luckily made an estimation if that happens so here she is. My very first Figma GET! Review on her after the following Gundam and Gundoom.

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HG 1/144 Seravee Gundam GNHW/B & HG 1/144 Seraphim Gundam

After months being in the box, quite ignored, I finished it as a "live build" during the Kyan!me 2011 anime convention held last week at The Hills Shopping Mall. Technically I finished it up at home but did most of it at the Sarawak Gunpla Meisters booth with some help from my friends' tools (markers mostly). Just in case you can see it clearly, yes, that is Seraphim on top. You'll need to buy it separately for the full experience unfortunately... a rather simple review for this later.

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McModel HG 1/144 Hi-Nu Gundoom

Finally finished it! I thought I could do that last week but time flew by faster than expected and I had to prepare myself for the Kyan!me event. At any rate, review on this up next, after I put some decals.

That's all for this simple "what's up" post. Another post to come shortly, hopefully by tomorrow, for the Gundoom.

Kyan!me 2011 Ends, Age of a New Gundam

Phew, the weekend went by quickly than I thought but I'm very tired after spending most of my Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Hills for the Kyan!me 2011. The event was alright but quite a number of hiccups happened throughout the event which the MCs had to apologize heavily to the audience most of the time. I'll talk about that more once I upload the videos over at Youtube. (FB side is almost done.)

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Gundam AGE.

Let's talk about Gundam AGE. More about it at GundamGuy, as usual. And thanks to Tsukinari as well for poisoning me with Gundam AGE-1. Credits to both of them for posting material as well.

As far as the promotional video of the series, I like it. You can argue about the "aliens" AKA UE but from how they have shown to act, they could be not what we thought exactly or could be. Who knows?

Technically speaking, the main purpose of "Gundam" is to end wars as what the various series have shown. In a forceful way, you can say it is to end war by winning it. Otherwise, even with introducing non-human enemies, it can still be Gundam as the main character, Frite, wants to end the war after loss of his mother.

It has a more "childish" feeling to in terms of design. That I can admit but we'll see how that fare when we see it in full motion when the anime hits in October later this year.

This is also the first time a Gundam "can grow" but that can be attributed to what Gundam 00 shown to us in its final moments. Even machines can "grow". How the story explains that, in a more logical explanation, is yet unknown. It may not be as far fetched as some may think. But that could just me being accepting of the new Gundam series.

About the merchandises (card games, etc) and slew of model kits coming out for the main Gundam (AG, HG, GB, MG and MZ), please don't take it too hard. You're not in any way or form being forced to get them at all. Some may be tempting, like the Mega Size 1/48 Gundam AGE-1... @.@

In a way, the whole series is being targeted at a younger audience... or is it? What has Tomino shown us in the past for a "Children's toy commercial"? More may meet the eye. If I were you, I stay tune for until the series starts and leave any negative initial impressions on the low for a while. Well, I can say I'm loving the design of the Gundam AGE-1 so far. The model kit sealed the deal for me. ^^;

So what are your thoughts? Or will you wait before you say something?

Finals End, E3, Gundoom & Real Grade

My finals are finally over! Although I'm supposed to announce that on Monday afternoon earlier this week. I hope I did alright since my last paper wasn't done all as great as I hoped, tricky one that day. For the best. ^^;

Right after the last paper ended, I went back home and rested for the afternoon. Then I read my FB and other usual sites and realized the E3 live broadcast was gonna start at 12.30AM Tuesday (for M'sia time). I quickly made a search and found GameTrailers.com. Since I' talking about it, let me discuss about some of the highlights for the three big game companies, Microsoft (Xbox 360), Sony and Nintendo (Nintendo's one was on the 2nd day ofE3).

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But before that, since I don't think most of you wants to read a post full of E3 ramblings, I finally started on the McModel HG 1/144 Hi-Nu Gundoom.

Photo taken with a Samsung Champ Phone Camera @ 1.3MP at night with a too bright lamp for the sensor.

So far so good. The color accuracy is a bit off for silver parts mostly and the overall build was a smooth ride. Be careful of some wrong instructions in the manual such as the "I#" is actually "H#". I'll be talking more on it once I finish it later today or tomorrow.

Photo taken with a Samsung Champ Phone Camera @ 1.3MP at night.

I went to Heng Kim Trading last night for a Sarawak Gunpla Meisters meeting for the Kyan!me later this week at the Hills. It was practically a PSP party with some added randomness which made it fun to hang out with people. :)

Before I left the place, I bought a RG 1/144 Aile Strike Gundam and curiously bought a GaoGao action base. I'll blog about the base to see if it is good enough to mass buy for mass base usage.

Watch out for Kyan!me 2011 later this week from 9th June (Exhibition), 10th to 12the June at the Hills shopping mall in Kuching!

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Read on for a long post with lots of links regarding my E3 impressions! (Mainly just Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo TBH.)

Warning, you might not get what I'm saying, so how about reading the latest news up at Kotaku first beforehand? I'll be using Kotaku as a reference here, easier for me. :P (Read up other sites, even video sites to get a more clear idea of the event!)

Note: I didn't paste every single link available from Kotaku since some aren't from the keynotes themselves (I added a few for reference's sake though). It should be easy to find nonetheless.

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Robot Damashii Strike Freedom Gundam Review

Price: 3500 Yen

More info on the X-20A Strike Freedom Gundam @ MAHQ.

This is a horribly belated review. I blame my sudden urge of gaming busier real life. Nonetheless, I don’t want to skip this out just because of timing problems. It may not bring upon a plausible purchase consideration as the product has been discontinued (but there might be some local shops having this in stock or there might be a reissue in the future though). This will be a rather long review (not as long as another RD figure though, since posing this guys was rather troublesome) but I’m typing this with some time constraints so I won’t be editing the omake just yet.

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PS: Trip got delayed to tomorrow so I was able to type this out today.

Robot Damashii Strike Freedom Gundam Preview

See it at my Facebook album.

Not really a preview when these are all the shots I'll be using to make the extremely late review of the figure once I have enough time to sit down to type it up proper. In a way, the review can't really do much in terms of a purchase consideration as it has been discontinued. There's always a chance for it to be re-released sometime in the future or some hobby shop luckily have it in stock.

PS: I'll be off for Gawai next week. Those who are celebrating Gawai too, Selamat Ari Gawai!

For those curious, just read a bit ahead for an early pro and cons write down.

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Quick Omake (Via FB): Strike Freedom VS Destiny

More at my Facebook album.
Do not take the images as your own, I've seen some of my stuff taken without a word of mention of where it came from, especially since these aren't watermarked. I won't attack you or anything but be moralistic about other people's efforts.

Note: HG Destiny is from TT Hongli which I got two years back now. Wasn't easy posing something that literally falls apart off every time I adjust the arms and wings. I can say the same to the RD SF too as well... I'll tell you the weaknesses in detail soon enough but I can expect you guys to guess the logical weakness it has.

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This is just a quick simple omake I did for the long overdue review of the Robot Damashii Strike Freedom Gundam I got last year. I heavily blame the lack of reviews for my final gets of 2010 figures due to time loss to my re-inspired will to game once more (as well as getting a busier role in real life). I can elaborate on that here but I think a previous post on my secondary blog explains it well enough.

As the review is late, it is a gun-sure thing I'll make them so long and as detailed as possible when I can, I hope I'll be at least. It is the least I can do due to the lack of attention I've been giving them lately. ^^;

Until the actual review with the proper graphical edits. :P

Okay, I seriously needs to focus my attention to my finals next week, wish me luck guys!

Argument: PS3 VS Xbox 360

I wrote a personal opinion about these two consoles earlier this month. I admit I'm not completely knowledgeable about them so some of my points are not exactly right and/or tells the whole story. Nonetheless, I'd like to see what you guys think and know what you guys know about these two.
Right now, the Xbox 360 is gaining a better light compared to the PS3 even though my initial thoughts were otherwise.

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Mc Model HG 1/144 Hi-Nu Gundoom Manual Scans

Since I'm resting for a bit, I decided to scan the manual of the recent release from a China company - Mc Model, the Hi-Nu Gundoom. I just got it earlier this week but won't have time to build it until next month. At any rate, here are the scans.

Download 100DPI @ Mediafire

You totally must read this one! Unlike other bootlegs, if you'd like to call this one which it technically isn't, the English text is very interesting to read especially the Soul Cleaver System. Didn't know Amuro can do that...

Until the actual review~
(RD SF will come first of course.)

HGFC Shining Gundam & HGFC Master Gundam + Fuunsaiki! O_O

HGFC Shining Gundam @ 1500 Yen, HGFC Master Gundam + Fuunsaiki @ 2600Yen
Release Date: August 2011

Source: GundamGuy

OMG! Look at that Shining Finger Sword! Please tell me it will come with that! O.O It would be totally awesome and really worth it. You can totally recreate lots of awesome scenes with that. The one thing I don't like about the HGFC Shining so far is...

That's one obvious seam line on the arms. Looks like Bandai tried to hide it by making it a panel line but... I don't feel it looks right.

HGFC Master is looking pretty good at this point. Full armor (forgot what the mode is actually called) and FUUNSAIKI! Now all we need is Devil Gundam...
Nothing much for me to say for it yet besides the set looks to be very nice to include his companion as well as the possibility to recreate the epic scenes from G Gundam between Domon and Master Asia. :D

Hopefully I can get them when they come over here due to my hopeful end year purchase. Nonetheless, these I won't miss out.

SHINING FINGER! >>> <<< DARKNESS FINGER!

April Get! Part 3 (Final)!

Holy spending, Batman! Okay, these are small items that are a week apart so I hope no one attacked me about it. :P

Bought a HDMI switch for my Work/Play Space since I got the Dell monitor two weeks ago. This one doesn't need an external power source and works as well as I hoped. (The monitor only has one HDMI input but I want to connect 3 devices - PC, PS3 & Xbox 360, so I looked for a switch.) Costs RM37 without postage.

It is just that I finally can come to a conclusion that you shouldn't really try to invest in really cheap HDMI cables unless you've good experience with them before. They do work well enough but sometimes don't connect properly if bent too much. ^^;

Next up...
This one, as you all know costs 1000 Yen and just arrived at Momotoys earlier this week. I immediately got it since I was dragged there (not literally). As I don't own the HGUC, yet, I'll get this first for the time being. It will pair up with my SD Unicorn very well. >:D

I hope I can build it after my assignments are done or after my finals later this month. At any rate, gold trims! Fight-oh!

Okay, back to my important work. :(