Oct 7, 2010

GG Infinite!!!!



All right, most of you may already know who Gundam Guy is, but some may not know that there will soon be another place to go to get your North American/FPO Gundam fix. Gundam Guy is close to opening his business officially. If you are in need of something right now you can email him; that will quell the fix until he officially opens for business.

Thank you for all the help and hard to find parts! Above is a link to GG's blog and the official update.

Oct 6, 2010

Back to GUNPLA!!!!! The O WIP ?4?

Well as you can see I have uploaded a lot of photos. I have been working hard on drilling holes. It is unbelievably time consuming. 3mm spacing and a rigid ruler, but the end look in my opinion really does have a look of an old tank, or piece of armor.
There have only been about 3-4 times where I have gone through. I haven't decided if it is going to affect the look enough for me to back it and fill it or not though.

Below you will see the "improvements" I have made to The O, making it truly a Ver. Tem. I am not giving everything away just yet, but needless to say on the backpack I am adding 2 large beam guns, this is the piece that will hold them. I had a Freedom Gundam that I messed the paint up on when I first started, I just couldn't bring myself to throw the kit away; luckily that worked out nicely; I will have to remove the paint before I start working on it, but that's all right.
When you add weapons, you need to find a way to power them, I added this to the huge!!! butt plate, and will take some wire and brass springs to make it look like a power supply. I have also done some seam line removal on it, but that is not reflected in the picture. And as you can see this guy can now fire from the hip! I just can't see the biggest MG I have seen so far with one gun and some beam swords. He should be a long and close range threat. Hope you enjoy the pictures. there are about 6-8 more pieces to drill before I can begin the paint work on this guy. So close...

Oct 3, 2010

By Request. FFXIV Review.

I will start by saying that I am not a pro-gamer, nor am I a Senior player in the game. I have been playing for a few days. I must say that the graphics blow most other games out of the water! Granted my Computer is capable of running the game at its highest settings. The game says its casual gamer friendly (1-2 hours daily game play.) I am personally not seeing this at all, but it is an MMO so that is to be expected. My chief complaints are the targeting system is a pain to use especially while tanking. The story line starts off well right away, but as with all Square-Enix games is a long story line so very little details in the beginning. This game is not like WoW in any way. That game is really easy to level in and honestly after playing that game its too easy to level. ( I did 28 lvls in one weekend) Any way I digress, FFXIV is challenging in that you will need to level 2 jobs at a minimum so you can truly compliment what ever position you want to fill for example: Marauder-Gladiator then you will be a stronger Area of Effect (AoE) tank, if you are Marauder-Lancer then you will deal higher Damage Per Second (DPS). There are a lot of combos and not a lot of people putting guides out for higher levels. This is the other interesting thing in FFXIV; there is a fatigue system in which after a certain point (I have not found it yet) You will no longer gain physical XP, and after that your job will stop gaining XP, this can be countered by leveling another job; so not a lot of concern for the hard core gamer there. The game is fun, there are a million things to do as is standard with Final Fantasy Games and Square-Enix in general. The graphics are amazing if your computer can handle it. If you have some time to spend and are looking for an MMO this is a good one that is still new enough to not be crushed with end game players.

Oct 1, 2010

Final Fantasy XIV, and more


Well here I am day 3 of playing FFXIV, and its pretty freaking great! Would love to see some fellow Gunpla artists on there! I am continuing my work on The O, its a slow process as hand drilling holes 3mm apart starts to make my hands hurt after about an hour or 2, so its going to take some serious time, but I am liking the end product a lot. Started the next project also, as sprue cutting with my uber powered cutters isn't any stress at all. I will leave it a secret for now, I am purely in the snap it together stages, no clues at to the direction the build will go. I may actually go with the intended color scheme. Scary I know. I did for the first time, break from symmetry on a few pieces of The O's armor plating. All right until next time. Enjoy.