Ma.K Books I bought

Sorry for the lack of updates, I've been extremely busy at work recently and haven't got the time to sort out the shipment 6 kits and average out their prices... Bought a couple of Ma.K books in shipment 6, the Ma.K Encyclopedia 1 and 2, SF3D book and the 1st Edition of the Ma.K BD book. The other books I've gotten earlier. I will be posting indepth reviews of each book so that you guys can decide which to get very soon. Also, I've gotten some of these books at pretty ok prices and might be letting go of them after the review. So, keep checking back! Will

My Lobot Room Part 3

More Pictures of my robots...
This shelf holds all my HGUC GMs, I collect all the different variants.
On the left is an MG GP01.

All my HGUC/HG Gundam, Gun Tank and Gun Cannon variants.

Mazinger, old Gundam ZZ, and a Gundam Wing from my friend which started my Gundam hobby...

My wife's collection of Japanese toys

I gave her some shelf space to be fair and so that I can buy these shelves...

house

restaurant

additional furnituretons of dolls

My Lobot Room Part 2

Here's the other-most shelf. I will see it first thing when I enter the room.

Top level: All my smaller Zakus, Goufs and my personal favourite,
the Geara Doga, in their HGUC, SD, and gasaphon forms.
Whenever I like a particular robot, I will try to collect all the different formats.

Middle level: HGUC Titans mechs. I have the O, Palace Athene, Asshimar and the random Hazel gasaphon. Where are the rest of the Titans like the GM and Hazel? They are in the building phase now and all in pieces (for the time being)

Lower level, my Eva collection, Patlabor and the odd Gasaraki kit...
Thats all for today... :)

My Lobot Room Part 1

I was trying to find old pictures of my lobot room to show Primer but somehow I was unable to find them. And so I decided to take new photos of my lobot room. Pardon the messy room, its kinda like a store room for Ashley's toys and my models.

All 4 Ikea shelves in one corner of the lobot room...
I am still very much a Gundam guy even though I've been deeply poisoned by Ma.K.
I collect mostly HGUC with some MG here and there...

My work table (converted TV console from Ikea). The brown elevated flooring is actually storage for many of my model boxes and magazines.. This room is supposed to be neat! You will recognise the table as the one used in my Ma.K reviews. I don't usually do my models in this room cos there's no entertainment. I do models on the coffee table in my living room.

First shelf Top: Zeta and Advance of Zeta stuff...

First Shelf Top level: Zeta and Gundam Sentinel. Plus 1/35 MaK Figures from Hobbybase.

First Shelf middle level: Neo Zeon and Zeon Mobile Armour.
You can see that I love the Neue Ziel and I have the HGM, SD, gasaphon versions...

First Shelf Lower level: All my lovable Zeon underwater mechs... Mostly snapfitted

First Shelf Bottom level: More Zeon and Neo Zeon forces with a lone HGUC NT1 Alex Gundam...
Not enough space ...

2nd Shelf Top: Doms, Rick Doms, Dom Tropen and an MG GM Kai

3rd Shelf Top Level: GP02, Armored Core and my WOOB2 entry, the MG RX78 Ver Ka G3 Colors (won the fabulous LAST place!)

4th Shelf Top Level: I am a Zaku fan... MG Zaku 2 (my first finished MG) and Zaku F2, Pyscho Gundam behind and Kampfer on the side...

Stay tuned for more... Gotta get some sleep... :)

3rd Shipment is IN!

Just came back from my church camp and received another shipment from SMJ...
Ashley quickly proceeded to open up the package for me...

Throws out all the newspaper...

See how fast she works!

A cute pose, pretty?

The kits!!!

Oskar x 1(thinking to keep or not for myself), Gans x 2, Fledermaus x 1, Raptor x 2,
Fireball SG x 1, Kauz x 1, Konrad x 1, Raccoon x 2, Luna Pawn x 2, Polar Bear x 1,
Fliege x 1, Tamiya Tire Changing crew 1/20 x 1, Honda Humaniod Robot P3 1/12 x 1 (wave)
Most are already spoken for, the 'unsold' ones will be out on sale soon.

Gans Kit Review coming up!

Next up, WAVE Gans! This is the kit which EVERYONE and his dog seems to love, and me too!!!
Keep checking back!

Ma.K I bought today

Just won the following at YAJ today:
1/20 Nitto Fireball
1/20 Nitto Prowler
1/20 Wave Gans

Here we go again...
:)

Krachenvogel Kit Review coming up next!

Stay tuned for the next kit review!
Any comments so far with the kit reviews?
Let me know via comments!

Plans for this blog

When I started this blog, one of the aims is also to post kit reviews of Ma.K kits/prepainted toys as Ma.K kit reviews and information is sparse on the web. My main source was, and still is Ma.K in Action and also www.maschinenkrueger.com. Here's what I have in store for this blog:

• WAVE Gans review
• Nitto Krachenvogel review
• Nitto Neuspotter review
• Krachenvogel vs Neuspotter kit differences
• Hobbybase SAFS tropical colors review
• Hobbybase Gladiator review

So Stay tuned! :)

Hobbyfanatics Prizes in!

On a side note, a few months back I took part in the HobbyFanatics' Fanatic Fest '07. I entered the Sci Fi & Creatures category with my Ma.K Fireball, and the Anime Mecha Newbie category with my 1/100 No-Grade Nu Gundam. Both won something at the competition! :)
Today the prizes came in and they are resin casts of the HobbyFanatics logo made by cwmodels himself! Very light resin and the casts had very little flash. The pins were even casted and this enabled me to put together the model in less than a minute (see picture below)
I am very very happy! Now the thing is few people took part in the competition and I won mainly due to the fact I participated. I entered the competition with the attitude that I should support the forum's activities seeing how much time and effort the moderators had put in, as well as to get some feedback on my model making skills. My fireball isn't great, in fact if there were more entries I probably wouldn't have won anything, but that doesn't bother me. I had 'won' the LAST place in other competitions as well, but I enjoyed the build, the group effort, and the interaction, everyone inspiring each other's build and giving suggestions and urging one another... THAT's the fun!

I prefer meeting up with people like in m.con, where I met up with KGM2, Max and Bernard, and talking with them got me SOOO excited about modelling and especially with Bernard, his passion with modeling inspired me even though it was the first time I talked to him... Also introduced me the Ma.K modeling book and now I am poisoned :)

Ya, and that time the SD Gundam show at United Square where I met up with Salmonjim and finally got to meet Pazu face to face... They all all very nice, sharing tips and I also get to see their SDs which are waayyy better and uber cool!

Ok ok, I am being lorsoh (long-winded) already..

Winning is a bonus to me, the more important thing is that I participate... And what a bonus it turned out to be!

Thanks CHI!
Fanatics Fest 08 I will be participating again!

First Post and Introduction

Decided to launch a blog on my endeavors in Ma.K modelling...
So far completed a Fireball and in the midst of making a Fledermaus for the Nadef competition.
Stay tuned!