new project

recently I started thinking about a mobile suit head which I saw while playing MS Saga: A New Dawn and  I started to wonder what suit it goes to or if it was just something that was put in the game as background art:

(I did not take this picture/screen shot)

(I cropped the picture above to show the head a little better)

as shown in the pictures it seems to be (in my opinion) a gm command with a gundam v-fin, I've tried researching the head and I've only found one mobile suit but I'm not sure if it has anything to do with this head.

(this is not my picture)

in this picture it shows a gundam whose name is apparently gm command hammerhead gundam (it might be gm command hammer head gundam, but I don't think splitting hammerhead into hammer head makes any sense), I'm not sure if this is a real gundam or a fan made one or if it is suppose to be the finished product from that head and I doubt that it is.

(this is not my picture, this picture is of box art for a 1/144 scale model kit)

so with the head on my mind I decided to make a 1/144 scale model with the head, I purchased a gm cold districts type model kit so I could build it, as of right now I've only just started building the kit and it will probably not get finished for quite some time, but if I am able to find a gm command model kit for a decent price I will use it instead, or I might just make a different version of it.

custom painted rx-79

I recently bought a rx-79 ground war set and wasn't actually planing on building it, I had bought the kit so that I could get the hover truck and gm head for my older rx-79 kit so I could have the entire 08th ms team (the ez8, rx-79, rx-79 gm head repair, and hover truck).

I was helping a friend clean out his basement and found a couple bottles of nail polish and I got the idea to paint this kit using nail polish, so I saved the bottles I had found and I used them to paint the kit. I painted the blue parts purple, the red parts were painted a darker red, and I used actual paint to paint the yellow parts metal. I don't think I will ever paint another model kit with nail polish ever again, it is very hard to work with and takes a very long time to fully dry.

this kit has not yet been panel lined due to the fact that I can't find my gundam marker so I am currently unable to panel line it.
all in all, I like how it turned out, it's not perfect but it has character and I like the color so I'm happy with it.

Phantasy Star Blue Burst RAcaseal: yellowboze ver. APSY

I recently bought a PHANTASY STAR ONLINE Blue Burst – RAcaseal: Yellowboze Ver.APSY 1/12 plastic model kit by Kotobukiya, I'm not really a fan of phantasy star but I really liked the look of the kit and decided to buy it, it took about two days to assemble (I started late at night so I only got the arms done then I went to sleep, when I woke up I built the rest of it). it is unpainted (I don't plan on painting it), the skirt piece that comes pre-painted in this kit was not very well prepared before it was painted as you can see where it was clipped out from the plastic tree so having it already painted is pointless because you would have to sand it down and repaint it if you wanted it to be perfect, but it comes with some extra parts that aren't used (a chest, torso, toes, knee joints, shoulder armor, skirt armor, and eye plate (I think that was everything, I may have forgotten something)) so you can change the color of a few parts and build a perfect skirt armor, she also comes with a variety of hands (some are already done and ready to use (I think they are actually made of pvc) and there are some that are in a plastic tree and need to be assembled).

the articulation of the model is really nice and it is very poseable the only trouble is keeping her from falling over as she does not come with a stand (apparently this kit is compatible with a stand that kotobukiya makes, not sure what one though). the weapon and back unit pieces in the pictures shown are from 1/144 scale gundam kits (gun: rx-79 ground gundam, back units: amx-107 bawoo), the kit does come with its own weapons but I thought she'd look better with some gundam parts.

this kit also has four different hair/head pieces to choose from so you can pick the one you like best, but sadly she only comes with one face plate so you can only have one full head (unless you buy four kits).

(these head shots are not my pictures)

all in all, I am very happy I bought this model kit.

my bikes

my two miniature motorbikes, on the left is a suzuki dirtbike (not sure what model) and on the right is a kawasaki ninja.
the stand on the suzuki somehow got broken before it was even opened, but luckily it can still stand on its own.
as for the kawasaki, the mirrors kept falling off so I decided rather than gluing them on that I would just leave them off, I actually really like the way it looks without the mirrors so it doesn't really bother me.

gundam converge: zaku 2s

over the past year or so I started collecting gundam converge figures, converge figures are sd style and are in the same design as in the playstation 2 game ms saga: a new dawn, so far I've only collected the zaku figures from this line of toys, I had originally planned on collecting the actual gundams and some of my favorite mobile suits but for whatever reason I've only purchased the zakus.

 

 

so far I have four zaku 2 figures and one zaku 1 (not shown), from left to right front to back: garma zabi custom zaku 2, zaku 2, j. ridden custom zaku 2, and char aznable custom zaku 2.

the zaku 1 that I have is apparently known as the zaku 1 black tri-star version (not shown in this post)

kamen rider

I think it's time for something other than busou shinki, so here's a few pics of my kamen rider toy that I've had for years.

here is the view from the front showing him with and without the extra helmet piece. back when I got this toy I knew the character as masked rider, I learned many years later that the name was originally kamen rider, personally I like the sound of masked rider better but that's just my opinion.

again the pictures show the toy with and without the extra helmet but this time the view is from the side.
I'm not sure if the figure actually goes with the bike or not (I seem to remember getting the figure before I got the bike but I don't know, maybe I'm not remembering it right) but the figure is to scale and it fits on the bike very nicely, I think there might be a wind up base or pull cord that's suppose to go with it because there seems to be a gear on the inside next to the wheel, but I'm not sure.

busou shinki benio and grapprap

recently I acquired a second busou shinki prototype partio so I decided to use it to give grapprap a new body and to restore benio.

 

 

even though I'm not much of a fan of benio I do like her armor but on the other hand I hate it because it is really hard to pose her while she is in full armor, but it might just be the combination of armor, benio comes with enough armor that if you had a blank body you could basically have two benio figures, her none armored face/head in my opinion is kind of ugly so I prefer her armored face/head (she comes with two heads total), because of the posability issues I ended up giving her a somewhat weird pose.

now that grapprap has a new body I think she looks much better, personally I think she looks really good with the yellow, if I was able to get a better picture the color of her armor would be more yellow but in the photo it looks more like it's orange instead of yellow (at least to me it does) but oh well I guess, all in all I'm very happy with how she looks now.

I decided that it would make sense to take a picture of them together seeing as they used to be sharing the same body, I think they look really good together.