HG Ginn Type Insurgent Custom

Second post of the month. I guess things go according to plan which i only post this photo after i put it in the show and as usual, back with empty hand. I should went there earlier to get some feedback although i know what's wrong with the project.

So, here is it, the HG Ginn Type Insurgent "with my custom paint job". I have the normal HG Ginn Miguel used but it've been spoil when i try to paint it with cheap can spray while the parts still attach with the runners. Since this HG Ginn Type Insurgent is still in OOB form, it will be more easy for me to paint it.

The color scheme will be as usual but more majority parts painted in blue color. The paint use for this kit? Here is the list:

-White                   -      Mr.Hobby White, Mr.Hobby Super White
-Black                   -      Mr.Hobby Metallic Black
-Gray                    -      Mr.Hobby Metallic Black, Mr. Hobby White
-Light Gray           -      Mr.Hobby Metallic Black, Mr. Hobby White
-Blue                     -     Mr.Hobby Character Blue
-Red                     -      Mr.Hobby Character Red
-Panel line

And that's all.

No customization for the joint or proportion improvement, it's just a painted kit.

Since this kit design looks quite bulkier type, i actually plan the color scheme to make it look more armor-ish like what i did on the chest and the parts that painted in white color but it still can't "emphasize" much.

As a HG kit from Seed with 200X design, we can't expect much on its joint but it still can make some "good" pose. Proportion wise, normal and nothing much need to be done unless you want it look sharper.

Basically, that's all and enjoy the pic....

 

Malaysia Gundam Mid Year Challenge 2013

I guess i should call this post of the month since i only create one post per-month. Alright, the wait is over but i guess its not excited than the warehouse sales which start today. These picture was taken on Monday, there might be more entry coming within this week. So, this is it "The Malaysia Gundam Mid Year Challenge 2013". I guess the BAKUC should be held on end of the year but if i'm not remember wrong, it no longer called as "BAKUC". Well, we can't expect much on the Malaysia Gundam Mid Year Challenge as most of the big player is actually focus more on the Year End contest. This round is slightly better because last few rounds was held in MIECC which is under a book fair. Well, the Malaysia Gundam Mid Year Challenge is finally back to Sungei Wang. As for the rules and prizes, it will be similar every year with some minor changes. As what i know, there is a HG category which i had participated without realizing there is such category. So, let the pictures explain the rest of the story now......

MG Exia Ignition Mode

First i gotta start off the post with some of my personal life updates. Yeah yeah yeah, life is getting more busier after change of job especially the role of the job. From buying to selling, it use to 80% planning, 20% monitoring but now is 30% planning and 70% implementing. Its really suck up lot of time and energy in selling role as there might be no reference or there isn't an always confirm right reference. Turning on the mood back to hobby is rather more difficult than starting an 30 years old engine (maybe i should use another example). While it hard to get in hobby mood, it even more difficult get into blogging mode but i'm still not giving up yet. So, back to business here. What am i going to show here, something that i show before but this time will be in... another way.

Previously i was building the MG OO seven sword, i guess i continue with this one might be suitable for the flow (what kind of flow? i don't know). I watch the entire OO series from first season to second season as well as the movie except the side story. I guess i can describe anything from this MS. The first thing that i want talk about, instead of weapon, it power core or concept, this thing come with lots of variation, till its expansion and upgrade version. It got the original Exia, Avalanche Exia, Exia Type- (many type), Astrea, Exia R1, R2 and R3?. It just come with lot of variation not counting the upgrade version which is the double O gundam that using its concept. Even OO Quanta is base on this. I guess this it just won the best base model of variation in OO series. Maybe the platform of its design really have a lot of potential. So, the concept of this MS was made for melee combat with a lot of melee weapon and the weapons also create to penetrate different types of armors as shown in the season 1. What i like most about its weapon is not those two stupid GN blades ( GN Sword 1 still remain as my favorite) but is the way it design to store those beam saber. Storing the beam saber at the back of the shoulders really something "unimaginable" yet it's actually quit efficient and effective. A melee combat MS that come with super fast attack move from the Trans Arms system (berserk), not an bad idea. I think i should stop talking about the kit here as i really got a lot of opinion about this kit (both positive and negative).

I actually made a "simple" review about this kit before and i totally forget about until i search for some old action pose photo of this kit. I was thinking maybe i can skip this post but from what wrote on the previous post was, i feel i miss something.

So, start with the assemble process for this kit, straightforward. Connecting the arms and shoulders to the main body were a bit difficult due to the GN Condenser that attach at the side of shoulders  and arms. The structure or design of the kit is simple too, no heavy back pack or heavy weapon to carry. Although the design might simple but it still pack with lot of detail and/or panel like that make it look not too plain. It might not come with sliding armors but the transparent GN Condenser can expose some of the sliding part in the inner frame. Color separation is great as most of the individual parts only come for one color.

In terms of the proportion and articulation, this great have it all. Articulation is great in this kit because it can be said no obstruction for different movement (especially the waste). As for the proportion wise, at first i thought everything look too square-ish but after the completion of the assemble process (for the first time), its totally different. The shoulder seems shorter, main body bulkier, bigger tights, and bigger head unit compare to NG 1/100. As compare to the current Metal Build version, i will give at least 80 point for the proportion.

MG OO Seven sword review

Since i have review MG OO Raiser, I'm going to focus more on its weapon in this review. For the review of the main body, maybe you can refer to this link here.

About the box or the boxart, i decided to drop it from this post because.. i'm totally forgot to take picture about it. So....... just leave it.

OO seven sword, i don't have much information about it. I heard it was design and featured in some of the OO manga (don't know which series). When we talk about seven sword, it always remind me Cloud from Final Fantasy advent children and the other chinese movie also called as seven sword. Exia, upgrade to seven sword and now we have OO seven sword. It seems like whenever anything related about "seven sword", it must be cool especially it include something huge. The problem of the concept is, will a soldier in the old time will carry seven sword to fight its enemy, it will be very heavy isn't it. In that OO series era, they got GN Beam sword, rifle and some megalauncher cannon and the GN blade or GN Sword 2 are enough to cut through different types of armors as well as hold any slash from the beam saber and OO gundam will always have one pair of it. Why do it need seven melee weapon in the mobile suit? Well, those weapon that come with it are cool individually but when all put into one mobile suit, it will become not logic. Too bad, due to it come with a big GN sword, i will still get one of this for myself.

Lets discuss more about the actual kit. What is the main different in between MG OO raiser and MG OO seven sword. Except the weapon, there is some changes on the leg which allow it to attach the GN Qatar on it (Qatar?, what's that for). As for other on the main body will remain same.

The weapon that included in this MS were GN "huge" sword (which is a favorite from most collectors), Two GN Sword 2 which one side is longer than normal and another one is shorter, GN Sword 2 Blaster, 2 x transformable Qatar shield and two beam saber .With all these weapon come with it, this thing really can create a lot of "slashing" pose but it will work when only certain weapon attached on it due to the weigh of some weapon. It can handle most of this weapon well in the post except the "huge" GN sword. From my experience from MG Astray model, it better to forget about handling all these huge sword because it really trouble some.

About the articulation, the original kit itself is great and these extra weapon come with it doesn't cause much trouble except the weigh issue on the GN drive when it attach with the huge GN Sword.

As for the detail for each weapon, it can still be improve with more pla-plate or panel line. Other than that, that's all for the kit.... LOL.. lets check out the photo

MG Force Impulse Review

Another kit from Seed Destiny again. I always like to review kit from this series as it is my favorite series which i'm more familiar with compare to UC, Wings or others. Previously i have review the MG Sword Impulse version which have most of the parts same with this except the silhouette parts.

Since i have review the Sword Impulse, in this post i will more focus on the Force silhouette pack but it gonna be short. So, the force silhouette pack that form Force Impulse, as what we know this pack is serve the same function as the Aile Striker from Strike. Compare to Aile Strike, the force silhouette is more smaller which didn't come with two large thruster at the back. The design is more sleek and sharp compare to Aile Striker pack. Come with two beam saber which make the Force Impulse still able to fight for medium and close combat. The wing is foldable which doesn't require much space to store it. The detail of this Force Silhouette is pretty great too. Compare to other Silhouette such as the Blast and Sword Silhouette, those are more focus on the weapon that it can carry but as for this, it greatly improve the overall performance of the MS. Therefore, what we can see it's more focus on the individual silhouette unit compare to the weapon it can carry (only two beam sabers)


The actual kit here is actually quite accurate for this Force Silhouette pack compare to the anime. On top of that, it come with one of the sword from Sword Silhouette ( but its slightly different) to form some of the "Excalibur" scene.

 

Big New Toy (Canon EOS 7D with EF-S 18-135mm IS)

So, finally the new tools is here. Its not completely own by me as it is consider as it actually belong to my so called "company". We are doing some freelance job and we do need some good camera to make it work (in Malaysia, they classified professional photographer by the camera model, LOL, so i can consider myself as semi-pro now, hohoho). Well some people said, if you're not pro you don't need a big professional camera. In fact, lower end camera need more skill to take a good photo. Higher end model simplified the skill as the performance is a lot more better. It just like dragging a big horse power car with a normal sedan, all you need to do is switch the gear accordingly in a super car while the normal sedan require lot of skill to catch up. Well, if you are in Malaysia I got another 2 unit selling with good price. If you interested on it, you may contact me through my email (waikuen1988@gmail.com) or call my number (017-3872533).

Mobile Suit Gundam Arein : The Awakening of the Earth

For the part two of Mobile suit Gundam Arein, its actually doesn't related much to the Gundam Arein itself. The series was call "Mobile Suit Gundam Arein : The Awakening of the Earth". It will be a single episode and from this episode, the ending of the first series will be review here.

At the end of the Mobile Suit Gundam Arein, VF main base was being attack and damaged heavily. Eneuf take the entire VF and its new developed weapon of destruction called "Mirror" to take down WU. With the limited number in VF, it strike directly to the heart of WU in the center colony of The Ark and break down the entire WU defense system. Leon and WU forces retreat into Second colony of The Ark. RS take this opportunity while both WU and VF was exhausted in the war. RS try to attack and destroy the remaining of WU forces but VF knew it and try to protect the WU remaining forces as he know Leon is there. Due to the forces of RS was too huge, Eneuf lure the main forces of RS to Mirror which make the RS forces stay linear back to its RS space Headquarter. During this operation, Leon MS was damaged and save by Arein but both stuck at the Mirror's target as the RS keep on pursue them. In order to save his friend while make sure the RS main forces stay linear with it headquarter, Eneuf push Leon MS away just before the Mirror fire. The entire of RS main forces was destroy together with its space headquarter near Earth. At the end, all three forces which are the RS, WU and VF was suffered heavily in this war and finally call the end. These three nation then signed a new agreement to stay peaceful in the space near Earth. Leon survive as the representative of WU while Leana became the representative of VF with Eneuf's son call Rident. These three nation were declared as the Space Alliance (SA) as they are no longer able to go back Earth due to the radiation.

The story of this episode start when the refugee of the WU in Earth who was left behind by the RS starting to attack the space colony from SA near Earth. These people called themselves the Origin (of the WU or Earth). They have suffer a lot from the Earth radiation. With the scrap from the WU and RS left on Earth, they build themselves a very strong forces on Earth and begin to assault and capture the space colony near Earth. Leon piloting its prototype Gundam from his friend (Eneuf) which called the "Vanator" lead the old forces from VF to stop this madness. Vanator was a project develop in WU by Leon and Eneuf before Eneuf knew his real identity. With the technology from the VF, Vanator are quite similar to the Arein but performance was slightly lower.

Although the SA technologies was far more advance but they never thought the Origin forces was not small too. This series will be the beginning of the true battle in between nation from Earth and nation from Space Colony. The leader of the Origin was only review on the next Episode ( The Legacy Return) while this episode is focus more on the rising Origin and the main focus character will be Leon.

My Gundam Story (MS Gundam Arein)

Alright, this is how my story is. It going to be divide into four parts which two should be movies and the other two will be in episode. The first episode will go with the main character which will be the prince of the colony that revenge for its colony, second will be a OVA version which is a movie which was about his best friend defending the Earth Space Colony called "the Awakening from the Earth", third one will be the second OVA which will be "the Falling of the Ark" and the last one will back to the long episode called "The Legacy Return".

Background (Western Union "WU" and Rising Sun "RS" and Viscous Fleet "VF")

The timeline will set at 500 years from now where all the countries on Earth have decided to join in a project which build a large space colony in space. This large space colony was develop with the highest technologies which it even can expand itself and able to harvest material from the asteroid belt for different material. While the colony is keep on developing without the support from the Earth, the resources of the Earth was running out where most of the big power taking over the small one and fighting for the territory just to harvest resources until it reach one point where the Earth was split into two different big nation with very strong military power separate as east and west. Due to the imbalance of the the Earth power, this large space colony called itself The Ark decided to separate itself from the Earth and declare itself as another nation in space (about 100 years after it deploy and develop). With the both nation on Earth struggling to harvest more resources such as petroleum or nature gas, both nation highly rely on nuclear power as energy and also the power to destroy its enemy. Due to both nation are highly rely on this power for destruction, the Earth was highly expose to radiation and in order to stop this mess go further one must end this war as soon as possible by destroying another side. With the amount of man power and the left over of other resources at the Eastern side which called as RS, the Western side which is WU was in disadvantage position where it try to get help from the space colony, The Ark. The Ark doesn't want to involve in this mess and therefore refuse to provide any aid which trigger the anger of the WU as they are the one who provide the most of the technologies to this The Ark during the development. Having itself at the disadvantage point where the power is not strong enough and limited resources, the WU decided to focus and launch a full scale assault on the The Ark in objective to dominate the colony and the resources of the colony. The reason WU try to capture The Ark is the because the technolog of The Ark that able to harvest mineral and other resources near the Asteroid Belt. The assault was successful as the The Ark was more to a peaceful colony with lesser development on its military strength ( but not technologies) but it take few years for the WU to achieve its objective and take over. Although the WU won the war and conquer the space colony but at the same time, it lost the war on Earth to the RS where the whole Earth was under RS control now.

20 years after the take over of WU for the space colony and lost of war on Earth, the war stop but never resolve. WU always wanted to take back Earth while the RS still facing high radiation on Earth although it dominate all resources on Earth and looking for a alternative place to live. The story start here where the main character will be a teenage (male) called Eneuf (bare in mind, there are no character with any special power such as Newtype, Ultimate Coordinator or Innovator, it all just base on skill, strategy, experience, a little bit of luck and talent), born during the war in the Ark (the space colony). He was live together with his guardian called Alex and study about fusion power core for mobile suit. He have two best friend which are Leon and Leona (twins, Leon was the male and Leana is the female which is younger). Three of them was study in the same university. Leon and Leana were the children of the latest Ark government Prime minister Alexander Minnoth which formerly known as the Defense Minister of WU.

On the 21st birthday of Eneuf (which 21 years after the falling of the Ark), his guardian gave him a box which reveal his real identity. The original name of Eneuf was Hyuga Ark which have the same last name of the Vicous Ark, the former Leader of the Ark. This means the Eneuf was the descendant of the previous Ark's leader's son.  It was order by Vicous for Alex to pass the box to Eneuf when he reach 21 years old. The box contain the coordinate of a hidden stealth colony (call the Soul) contain the Ark's most advance technology and military strategy that it automatically updated, revise and develop. The technology from Soul was far more advance than the current technology which at least  take 300 years for RS or WU to catch up. The Soul also contain the clear background of the Ark and the future of the Ark. On top of that, the "Soul" also able to summon all the remnant that loyal to the Ark from other hidden colony which use to be Ark's allies but become independence after the Ark fall onto WU and they all was disappear in order to prevent from being attack by WU. With realizing the true identity of himself, Eneuf became aware of what he is and he should do next in order to bring back the old Ark which had conquered by WU. At the same time, he also struggled due to he had just start his relationship with Leana while she was the daughter of his enemy who destroy and conquered the Ark.

Although Enuef have the dilemma of revenge for his father's legacy from the family of his lover. he know that what must he do and that should be the only option for him to stop the war by creating the advance forces from the Soul. Guided by his guardian Alex, he approach to the Soul and reveal everything from the Soul. From there he discover one of the most advance unique design mobile suit which called "Gundam" which means the "the Gun for Freedom" (lol). Only the inner frame with its fusion power core were build. Other than that, Enuef also discover some design for mobile suit, battle ships, space fortress and weapon of mass destruction. From there, he summon the remnant of the Ark to help him build his own forces in his father's name called the Viscous Forces. The main battleship was called Damien which is also the flag ship of the Damian Fleet and the Gundam he found in half build was completed called Arein (specification of the Gundam will be discuss later). The Gundam come with two special features which is self-learning system where it will record the data from every single combat, self-adjustment and development to upgrades its agility, fire power, defence and match up with the ability of pilot. With this system, the pilot and the Gundam itself will keep on evolve to its best for different battle. The second features will be it's power core which is the Nuclear Fusion Reactor. This power core was able to provided the Gundam Limitless power while the it equip with the reactor was cover with "RE" (radiation eliminator) to prevent the Nuclear Fusion Reactor to release any radiation. The first assault of Viscous Force to the WU in Ark happen 1 year later.

WU realize the existence of Soul and Viscous Forces after the they lost some of their outpost which use to monitor the movement at the Asteroid belt. WU ordered Captain Dino together with its fleet to search and destroy the Viscous Forces but the strength of this fleet was away weaker than the Viscous Fleet which suffer heavy lost when they try to enter the Old Ark war colony debris. WU now realize that they are facing two different enemy at the same time. Leon later join in the WU military forces and assigned to fight against the Viscous Forces.

While WU was under attack, RS also realize the existence of VF. After they watch the defeat of RS to the VF, they acquire some combat data about VF which is far more stronger than themselves as well as WU. Since they are facing insufficient of resources and radiation on Earth, they decided to negotiate with VF and they take this opportunity to attack WU together in The Ark. The negotiation with the VF was fail as VF realize the motive of RS will be conquering the Ark same as WU. Through the negotiation, RS has discover the real identity of the VF was from the old Ark. Therefore, RS made a major move by shifting most of main forces and headquarters to the front line (space) to attack whenever the opportunity come which wait till WU and VF exhausted in the war. At the same time, RS also move lot of it's people to the new space colonies and moon to stay out of the radiation on Earth. Most of the refugees from WU on Earth that live under RS was left behind (Awakening from the Earth).

With three forces clashing in the Space while the Earth was being left behind to recover from the radiation, the story will fully focus on the consequences of war, vengeance and greediness which had cost a huge lost to the humanity.

(Basically the story was inspired by many gundam series such as Gundam 00, Gundam Seed/Destiny, Gundam Age)

HGUC FA-78 3 Full Armor Gundam 7th Custom paint complete

Alright, finally i got this finish. Its been a while that i didn't paint any kit and only focus on building OOB kit. After this kit, i will be going back on building another 2 OOB kit before move into another painting project. As for any project with additional detail or modification? I haven't think of any since last few modify project was not really up to some basic requirement, it really think of where are the mistake and what i should really focus before starting any. As for this, i guess its another trial to improve my painting skill and masking skill but there are still some part that i didn't do well. Its all because of IMPATIENCE.

HGUC FA-78 3 Full Armor Gundam 7th review

Damn, i delayed this post again. Its was supposed to be here by the end of December but it ended up being upload now, mid of January. The pre-build was completed few weeks ago and it already under painting process now. Too bad that this project was held during the hand over for my previous job and i'm in another job which is in another field now. Two days off on weekend, i can spend one day for gunpla and post it on the coming weekend (Great).

So, FA-78-3 (instead of RX-78) Full Armor Gundam 7th, i don't know why it goes by number 7th but i guess this should be the 7th variation from RX-78. If i'm not wrong, it was from one of the Gundam game series and its not from any gundam anime series. As read from our best friend or you can called it as "gundam wiki" a.k.a MAHQ, this thing really come from many version or generation. The origin was from RX-78 till it develop to FA-78-1 to 2 to 3. And the best part of it was this 3rd generation can be said the combination of the FA-78-1 or 2 with using the NT-1 as the platform. This kit was actually re-design from the Mr. Katoki and the original of this FA-78-3 was carrying a lot more weapon than this. There is another heavy armor of this FA-78-3 which something look like Gundam Double X with its add-on flight "jet". From what i read, this should be the strongest RX/FA-78 series as the with more weapon and additional armors while maintaining its agility. If this come in MG version, which using the original design concept of this MS, it really can store a lot of weapon as MAHQ stated on its design concept. What a small kit with a lot of story.

Let check out the box and the runners.