Online Gaming Spree!!!!

The past few weeks have been, er, busy. I had 10 days of Photoshop course over the first 2 weeks, meaning having to wake as early as 6 or 7 in the morning. It has been a while since I had to wake up early since the end of school for the holidays. Yes, it has been a long time since I have posted about anything other than Gundam aside from the post "A Tangled Post". And I am waiting for my dear cousin from Kuching to come here for the holiday too. You know, looking forward to NERF battles since I bought my Maverick Rev-6. I has been 3 weeks of no updating and you all, my fellow followers (you know those who follow my blog not... nevermind) must be wondering, , "What is Farid doing, he said he was going to post every week!?" "Oh, dear me, where has he gone too?!!" "I say, he must be rather busy this few weeks, not having posted anything about his beautiful Gundam Models yet." "I hope nothing has happened to him"... and all that stuff. But these few weeks have been mostly gaming weeks as I started playing Black Shot. It is a massively multiplayer online first person shooter game. And I have been playing it for a while now. I have also watched, as I have said before, Tangled and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. The movie, as my sister says, has not missed out any of the points in the book which is good I guess, for those who want to understand the story better. In my opinion they should have made a 2 part movie for the order of the phoenix too. The book was really thick anyway. So, you must still be wondering, was I only playing games this few weeks. As discreet as I want to make it sound, yes, I have been only playing computer games this few weeks. I am currently playing MapleStory too after a long 4 years. I stopped playing and started again and stopped and started again. So only up to Level 47 now.

So more about Black Shot, I had a lot of fun playing it. The most amazing thing happened too, my sisters started playing it as well. The disease spread to me and then too my sisters. But, the thing I hate the most about that game is the HACKERS!!!! Dang them and their ways!!! But what can you do.

I am however trying to do my gundam models yet most of my time is on the computer... 'sigh'

Oh, and I also started reading Harry Potter books. They were in the house for a long time because my mom, brothers and sisters were huge fans. But I never brought myself to reading those books. Maybe it was because when I first read them I lost interest. I don't know how old I was then. But now I read the first, then the second, and now I'm at Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Maybe the main reason for my reading them was because I wanted to understand the story. But I could have wiki-ed it. So, that's all for a quick catch up on me. Bet you wanted to hear what I have to say next: BA BYE!!!!




Farid

A Tangled Post

I guess me giving such an obvious post title would mean I am going to post about the new Disney 3D animation movie, Rapunzel a Tangled Tale. However, I am going to put those rumours to rest. Yes, I am going to post about it. I watched it last night in the local cinema and it was awesome. I also saw the trailer of Kung Fu Panda 2 and he said "Kung Fu staring contest!!!" Well, I would recommend this movie to all because it is really a good movie, nice and hilarious. Well, I would not spoil anything but it does explain more about why she, Rapunzel, does not cut her hair. To put it brief, it is a TANGLED tale, about a TANGLED girl, with her TANGLED problems, and her TANGLED adventures with a guy TANGLED in her adventures which leads to a TANGLED end. See what I just did there, I hypnotized you... Nah, just kidding I repeated TANGLED 6 times. Well, have a nice time if you are going to watch it. That's all finish!!!




Farid

(MG) Guntank, It has Ended!!!

I finally finished working on my Guntank, I took about a week but I enjoyed it. Guntank, unlike the RX-78-2, had much bigger parts, so basically the panel-lining took a while. But here are the pictures as I have said in the previous post. I'll start off with the arms.

The left arm. Didn't really have much trouble putting it together, the only problem was that the front part could be taken off.

The right arm, same not much difficulty, just the front comes off.

See, you can see the part I'm holding, yeah, you can spin this and then the 2 will move forward while the other two move to the back. And the part in front of it is the part that comes off all the time.

Spin it and then, yeah, it moves. It makes it easy of make this model look like it's firing its cannons. And you can see the tip coming off a bit.

The cockpit as I have shown in the previous post but this time with the neck attachment. Under that there's an LED light powered by 2 LR 41 batteries.

Now, this I have added the cockpit cover or maybe protection, it does make the pilot harder to look at though.

The LED lighted up you can see the green light there.

When you light up the LED the display and control screen lights up as well. Its pretty cool.

A closer look.

And the upper torso is complete!!! I forgot to post pics for the 120 mm low-reaction cannon.

The lower body. This is where the torso meets the waist. This is also the part where the core fighter is placed.

A rear view.

Now, I am going to show the articulation for the waist.

Move front.

Move back.

Now for the track joint. you can actually pull it outwards and downwards.

Pulled downwards, this can help the Guntank gain height. Then, he'll be saying,
"I grow taller, you can't look down on me anymore!!"

The tracks, and I lost a picture off the other side. I panel-lined the wheels interior with paint and then cleaned it up with cotton buds. Quite a messy job but easier than panel lining all those wheels.

A closer look at the wheels, I used the same technique to panel line these too.

This is the shock absorber system, it also allows you to increase the height of the Guntank.

When you switch it the other way the tracks loose height.

Now the complete model. I will also show other features it has.

Now you can lower this thing so that it opens.

As shown above.

This part can too be opened to reveal further detail.

As shown above.


Now this is the travelling lock to allow the cannons to stay in position I think.

Well, that's all. I completed it next up will be the Guntank and RX-78-2 together, side by side
and also a distorted look to Gundam models. I really liked this model. And the tracks are not meant to be spun or moved they are supposed to just stay as they are. Earlier tries made the tracks come off easily, an early warning. Appart from that, the gimmicks for this model is just extraordinary. I never liked this model last time, I thought, "Ugh, ugly gundam with tracks for legs!!" But it never looked so good before. Bwahahahahahahaha!!!! Ba Bye!!



Farid

I Wish...

I had enough money to buy gundam models. But the thrill is always there to collect and buy them. I have arranged my wish list in order of which to buy first.



Now, first of all will be Zaku. Honestly I never liked the Zaku. I never like the bad guy's mobile suits actually. But somehow, I learned to appreciate their unique design. Why? Why? WHY?? But still my RX-78-2 would like to beat some Zakus. So, I'm planning on buying one.Next would be Char Aznable's Custom Zaku.

And NERF?!?! Yeah, I like them, this has always been on my wish list. But, the last on the list so I'll hold it off. I will buy you eventually, just you wait Raider CS-35!!!




Farid

(MG) Guntank, It has Started!!!

I recently purchased another MG to complete my collection, the Guntank!!! I start showing the progress from upper body to armoured upper body, and head too!!!

First of all, for this MG I started with the upper body unit. There were many parts involved, took a really long time panel-lining the parts one by one. (Above) the completed unarmoured upper body unit.

I painted the bullets, or shells for the Guntank, used 2 different colours, titanium gold for the lighter gold and gold leaf for the darker part.

The lower body part, didn't work much on it really, that's all I finished.

The rear end, a lot of detail, so much fun panel-lining. Wait, no exclamation mark, so much fun panel-lining!!!

A painted pilot of the core pilot, forgot to take pictures of the head unit pilot. Guntank actually has 2 pilots one controlling the armaments and the other the movement. But later on the system was changed and only one pilot was needed to use the Guntank.

The painted pilot sitting snuggly in his cockpit. The cockpit took some time to panel-line as well.

The view of his control panel, if you look closely you can see it in front of the pilot. There is an LED light that will light that up so it looks like a real control panel, activated!!

Now the upper body unit armoured on!! It looks cool and bulky. Bulky because it needs to make up for its low mobility, maybe.

Rear view, the painted bullets are covered but if the cover is taken off you can see them.

Earlier shown was with the chest vents closed, now I opened them. Quite and easy thing to do actually, with the help of the gear system in there.

There are these two things, maybe meant to hold his 2 120mm long-range low reaction cannons.

Now, the head unit covered with armour. I painted the glass top cover, no, its not actually glass. Originally, it was just clear. You can see the pilot there, soon I will add the frame so you won't be able to see it that clearly anymore.

The cockpit is opened.

This, is how big the pilot is compared to the upper body.

Now the head unit and the core fighter. You can see the 2 painted pilots in their cockpits.

The core fighter, this time with a landing wheel base, thingy.

Core fighter folded up to fit the core block system in the upper torso.

See, you can still see the shiny bullets. Now, continuing to armourize the lower body unit and caterpillar wheels, if that;s what you call them, or maybe it was tracks? Well, that's all for now. The progress will continue on the next post. Ba bye.




Farid