Gundam 00 Coming this August!

Gundam 00 - Agent 007; Look Familiar??Lolx!

I'm writing this while I stare at my Strike with I.W.S.P., seemingly floating in space propped by its stand and sporting a fighting stance as if waiting for a horde of Zaku's to attack it!

I just can't get enough of my MG Gundams. I always imagine them doing their stuff on the battlefield, remembering the Mobile suits in action on Gundam Seed and Seed Destiny and the OVA Endless Waltz. Its just so cool seeing these mobile suits fully animated!

The cool cast of Seed, Hope 00 has the same type as well!

And as October inches closer, I also wait in bated breath the coming of the next Gundam Franchise: Gundam 00! Finally a new series to look forward to and new Mobile suits to feast my eyes on!

Now about the new series, I'm still biased with the seed Mobile suit designs (Strike, Strike Freedom, Strike Noir, Akatsuki, Archangel) so I'm quite half hearted with the new Mobile suits for this series: Exia, Dynames, Kyrios and Virtue in terms of design.

Now in terms of story line, I believe that 00 will come out with guns blazing, taking a cue from Seed and Seed Destiny. Based on the information circulating on the web so far, the political backdrop of the storyline should be another serious yet action packed package.

Gundam Exia - Melee combat specialist!

Oh and I believe there will be an ample amount of butt kicking since the lead character, Setsuna Seiei, will be on board a melee combat based mobile suit!

Can't wait to see this series, and start collecting the new MG models of Gundam!

Here are some of the links about the new series: Gundam 00
Trailers: You Tube Gundam 00

Super Strike Freedom E.V.O.

Good day guys just wanted to show you the work of one Pinoy Gundam Modeler! he calls this creation Super Strike Freedom E.V.O.

As part of my immense appreciation of his creation, I chose to post some of the pics of Super Strike Freedom!

I have made one Strike Freedom MG and seeing this one inspires me to better my craft, nice!

Check out the bad ass rifles with 2x more fire power!!

if you want more of the images and how he did it visit this link: http://mechapinoy.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4081&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Or visit mechapinoy.net!!

Strike Noir Project (Part 1)

Good Day guys, we just purchased our next MG Project and that is none other than the fully posable Strike Noir MG!

For this next project, we plan to make a different approach, one that takes more time and paint...

We really need to find a way to save on paint...

He he he! We used to paint all the sprues before assembly, which was definitely a faster method but left a lot of problems after cutting and sanding. We had to repaint some parts which brought about some inconsistencies with the paint texture.

We were told to pre-build and then disassemble then paint the parts. That's how majority of the plamo experts do it. With this method, sanding, cutting, fine tuning would have been done before hand so the paint will be even all throughout after we paint each part.

Parts of the Striker pack ripe for cleaning!

However I wasn't comfortable with this method because I felt that it would tend to loosen some parts, not because its a faulty method, but I believe our skills are still not that advanced.

Anyway, the approach we will be using is somewhat of a hybrid, taking to consideration the pros and cons of the two methods. So here's how it goes...

We couldn't find 400 grit sand papers, so we settled with 360... I hope that's still OK.

We pick a part to assemble first, cut out the parts, trim the excess plastic, fine tune it with a little sanding and then line them up for painting. Now with this method we were able to pay attention to the cut parts, giving it the extra spray of paint it needed.

Spray painting time!

Drying with a little help with the almighty LAMP!!Lolx!

This method however would cost us more paint and more time... but, that shouldn't be a concern since we only like the best outcome for Strike Noir.

For Strike Noir, we started with its Striker pack. As dictated by the method, we first cut out the parts, cleaned each one then placed it in a small box before painting.

All in a little box to prevent any confusion...

So after almost three hours of familiarizing ourselves with the method via Noir's Striker pack, we finally complete the back pack!

Weeeeeeee, finally, the Striker Pack is complete!!

Our Strike with IWSP tries the Striker pack but is puzzled with its functions...

We will update you with the progress of our work in the future... stay tuned!