Never Ever Read First

I know you're wondering why did I put Never Ever Read First as the title for my post today. Well, because the first letter of each word of the title spells Nerf. Anyway skip that, lets talk about Raya. Oh, and maybe a mini review of Kamen Rider W.



And so it it is the 10th day of raya. Hmmm, my holiday will end today and school starts tomorrow. And my two sisters are going back to KL tomorrow. It seems the tomorrow will never get worse than that. However, I have to live with this kind of life for 2 more years. They seem so long, but as my teacher says "Pejam Celik Pejam Celik dah habis 2 tahun." And to think of it, I is true, it seems as it was only yesterday that I was having the UPSR and now the PMR has passed. However, the Raya was exciting. I helped make the cookies and cakes and spent a lot of time with family. But the last night was an exciting one. Me and my cousins played Nerf Blasters. It was the kind of game which, how should I put it, make you feel more alive. It was all thanks to my cousin Danyal, he bought 3 Nerf Blasters, 2 Nite Finders EX-3 and 1 Deploy CS-6. Plus my grandparents house was big and spacious enough for a 3 man battle. We played a game which in my terms is called "1 shot kill, last man standing". It is played as said, if you get shot you're out of the game and the one who evades every shot in the end wins. This was fun, because we had to really save up our bullets. I ended up buying 1 Maverick REV-6 for myself and my bro bought 1 too. So, my sisters and elder bro started playing as well.



I have finished watching Kamen Rider W. I have to say, the story pleased me in a way. "Spoiler Alert" The make you think it is going to be a sad ending but ends up to be a happy ending ending really makes you feel in a way relief and irritated. However, it was quite obvious due to the fact that Shoutaro still cannot remove his habit of transforming or "henshin" without Phillp even though it has been a year. The design of this Kamen Rider is also nice, using the classic grasshopper look and also it's capabilities to mix his forms. One of the songs has some what caught my attention. It is the song "Nobody's Perfect" by Narumi Soukichi. Here's the music video.



Well, I don't really want to post such a long post so that's it.




Farid

A Revisit To The Past

I managed to sit back awhile a think back about the past. Hahaha, sounds so lame, I know. It has been a while since I updated my blog. Laziness was the main factor other than having nothing to blog about. Gundams was not a factor, I finished many and is still in the process of completing one. But, still I thought maybe I should be posting some stuff on my blog so here I am. Well, I wanted to post something on the first day of Ramadhan, to wish happy fasting to my fellow muslims, but too late now.

Recently I thought back about the past as I said above, I remembered about me playing beyblades when I was younger. It was when the first beyblades were released. So, since here they were selling a few of the new beyblades from the new beyblade series Metal Fight Beyblade. It first uses the Metal Fight Beyblade system but then changes to the Hybrid Wheel System. The difference is that the beyblade using the Metal Fight Beyblade has 4 layers compared to the HWS which has 5 layers. The layers are divided to the Face, Clear Wheel, Metal Wheel, Track and Bottom. The Metal Fight Beyblades are divided to 4 which are Face, Wheel, Track and Bottom. The metal wheel is combined with the clear plastic wheel. As you can see below this is the one I purchased, it came with a light launcher which is shown in the picture below. I had some fun playing with mine.


That's all, maybe I'll try posting every week again like before.




Farid

RX-78-2 Gundam

The Gundam that started it. The first one!! RX-78-2 Gundam. I was very happy with it when I got it. I looked at the runners, and with one guess, I knew it would be one great model to work with. The mecha for this model was amazing, and it also had the articulation which was much better than the previous MGs that I have, no wonder it was the best MG.

Front, Side and Rear veiw of the model, very simple, but the mecha shows otherwise. The model came with a lot of weapons, from the basic beam rifle to the beam javelin. However, you will not see any of the beam javelin photos, till I edit this post for the second time. The Hyper Bazooka was very nice. But it was quite difficult putting it on the gundam. The Hammer was something, looks pretty cool too. The Beam Rifle could also be fitted with a Super Napalm launcher a nice piece of equipment to be added to this model. The Beam Sabre was of course added.

I started work on at the second day after the return from KL. I actually wanted to delay making it, but I changed my mind. Didn't regret it one bit. This time I was extra careful with cutting the parts from the runners, and cut away the marks with a pen knife, the model looked better anyway. This time, unlike the previous ones, I panel lined the inner skeleton so it looked a lot better, and of course took more time to finish. The core fighter alone took a tiring 2 hours of continuous work.

The core fighter and in its folded form, the part goes into the torso as show above.

The Core fighter could be transform just by pulling the head down and the tail was made to fold inwards when this happened. The wings however had to be folded manually.






Farid

A Week

Man, it's been 2 weeks of holiday, this is the last week, and still I'm not that satisfied with my holiday. What could be missing? I keep asking myself that but I still can't get the answer. What is it that I have not accomplished?? And the results for my exam will be revealed on the first day at school. Hmmm.

All the stuff I did took quite a long time to finish. I made Gundam models, the RX-78-2 Gundam took at least 5 days to complete. I made 2 others which took 2 days to complete, 1 day each. Maybe what I have to do is draw!! Or maybe not. I play Starcraft every day, maybe that's what's bothering me... maybe not.

Arghhhhhhhh!!! My holiday in KL felt like 3 weeks instead of one. Maybe it was because of all the places I visited.

Anyway, I watched the 38th episode of Kamen Rider W. And the storyline has changed drastically, Wakana turned evil, just as soon as she was about to leave the city and her job with Phillip who also agreed to do so. It is getting very interesting, and surprisingly, I just noticed how many episodes were downloaded. And Accel has a new form, Accel Trial which allows him to move more quickly and dodge opponents attacks with his speed. It looks cool, his new form, maybe I will purchase the SH figurearts model. Oh, I so the Kamen Rider W models in KL, they were really nice, and S.I.C Dark Kabuto was there too. There were Heat Metal, Luna Trigger and Cyclone Joker. They all looked great.

A week of holiday left and down to 5 days of holiday. And not many people are online these days. Maybe they are on holiday...




Oh, and here are some of the pictures I took. I borrowed my bro's RX-78-2 Gundam SD for the picture of the trio. Looks good. Looking forward to buy the MG RX-75-2 Guntank.

So many maybes, I just wish I could spend this holiday to its fullest.




Farid

Stocked Up And Ready To Go!!

Yes!!! I have just come back from Kuala Lumpur today, and I thought maybe I should update my blog and I did. I did a lot of things there other than going to the shopping complexes such as, Midvalley, Time Square, Lowyat, Pavilion, One Utama and Ikea (bought quite a lot of furniture). I also went to Melaka or Melacca I guess the spelling changes from BM to English and Cameron Highlands. The only problem during that trip was the constant health problems I was having. I had a terrible headache, I sprained my arm, neck which also increased the headache pain. So travelling by car was of course a problem.

Now, I did buy Gundam Models there, they were cheaper too!!! I bought the Gundam Model I have always been looking for, RX-77-2 Guncannon, and even better with clear kit and its SD Model. I also bought Decal softener. This is used, if I am not mistaken, to make the decal stick much better and also make it not come off, you know because it seals it so any dust cannot interfere with the 'stickyness' of the decal. It costs RM 9.90. I wanted to buy Flat Clear Paint, but didn't and I regretted not buying it. Anyway, that costs RM 8.00.

I think I'll post more stuff tomorrow, need some sleep. 'Yawn'




Farid

Maybe Not As Good.

I'm having my exams this week, the following week and the week after the following week. So, my blog might not be updated that frequently as before, which is maybe not every week but I will try my best to update it like always. Anyway, I finished the Starcraft Battle between me and my bro but it is quite big in size, 400 MB for a 17 minute long video. Maybe I should decrease the size to 200 MB, but I'm afraid the quality will not be as good.


I will show the picture of my nice War Machine model I recently purchased the week before. It is actually very well painted but the eyes and the core in the centre is not that bright. But, it still looks good. Bwahahahaha!!!

The new picture for my picture!!!!




Farid

New Post? Yes. Good Post? Maybe.

A lot has been happening lately. And by a lot, I mean a lot of time wasted. Somehow, I played a lot of games during this weekend, but I doesn't feel worthwhile. I played Starcraft, I didn't feel any joy and fun that I used to have when playing it. So, I played with my elder brother, to "Regain my Honour" so to speak. It didn't work either, the weekend felt gloomy, boring, motionless although time passed by. I didn't work on my gundam models at all either, I guess I was mentally tired from the Military Units.

Oh, I won against my elder brother 3 times. But, somehow it felt as if he was giving me a chance. I'm not really sure, but I want to battle him again, and this time I'm asking him to train a lot first. I guess that would be hard to do for him, because he has work and all. I guess I'll get a video of the battle against him up next week, I'll also try adding stuff to it to make it more interesting. Don't worry I won't change anything that happened during the battle. Last of all, the Starcraft Battle Net finally managed to update, so now it is possible to play using wireless network connection instead of having to attach cables to enable the game to play multiplayer games, IPX and UDP. IPX is cable and UDP is wireless network. And that's all for Starcraft. Wait, one more thing, Starcraft II is out this September, 27th of September 2010 to be exact. This can be preordered through a number of sites which you can find on the main website.

I have recently purchased a new Iron Man model to add to my collection but you won't see any of those on my blog. Should I post them?? Anyway, I now have Iron Man Mark I, Mark II, Mark III and Iron Monger. The new model I purchased was War Machine, It is quite small and has limited articulation but I looked special and better than the other models. I have always like robots with Gatling Guns anyway. The shop also sold other Iron Man models like Mark III, Mark IV and Mark V but they are not really painted that well. I guess it is also because of the price which is less than RM20. So, I might put it on my blog or just leave it in my collection. Oh, and I also saw an Iron Man model for the Marvel Universe Version not the one based on the movie. It really looked nice!!! I wanted to buy it but, after thinking back I didn't. I should save up first and then I buy it.

Games!!! I am now playing Starcraft, Brave Fencer Musashi, Digimon Rumble Arena and Megaman Legends. Except for Starcraft the others are for the Playstation. But I downloaded the emulator and played those games. The game that is still downloading is Army Men Sarge's Heroes and the other Army Men series. Brave Fencer Musashi is a very interesting game. Both needing you to think about solving the problems and skill to execute certain moves and reach your goal. This game is an old game, but usually the old games are fun. That's my opinion anyway and I don't mean the new ones are not fun. Megaman Legends to me lacks a lot of what Brave Fencer Musashi had, it is not very easy to execute moves. For example, the camera does not rotate to suit your view but you have to manually rotate. The other thing is you cannot fire while locked on target while moving. So you have to run, lock on, fire and repeat it over and over again. Brave Fencer Musashi is a better choice!!

Gundam Report!!! I am currently working on my Shiba-I Sazabi. But, I didn't work on it this weekend. It took a while to work on the colours, I had to mix red and white to get the right colour. It doesn't look exactly the same but it'll work. Other than that I am planning to fix up my MG Unicorn Gundam Ver.Ka. I would probably throw and remove the decals, they look horrible to me. I guess that's it. Ba bye.




Farid