Dig your own Stupid Treasure!!

When I was doing one of my rounds in a toy store in search for extremely rare Transformers the movie toys, I saw an item that knocked some stupidity in me. I know I get to see some odd and silly looking toys every now and then, but somehow this particular one persuaded me to blog about it because it was wreaking with extreme stupidity!!

Here it is, "I Dig Treasures"...

This is the toy named "I dig treasures." Yep, thats the name, and by the name alone, this toy hopes to show kids the wonders of digging for treasures. But the innocent kids need not worry because every toy has a secret treasure inside!! WOW!!! Thats a cool toy!!

Wow look at all those treasures...very... well... nice??!!

So here's the catch, the so called treasure is hidden in a triangular sand cage thats is no bigger than a kids fist! And a small spoon like contraption can be used to simulate the digging! Lolx, now that's so much fun eh!!

Now that's going to be a lot of digging!!Hell Yeah!

Let me see, the digging time for that amount of sand could take around say... 5 seconds? Thats just amazing eh.

Oh and the treasure, well its a plastic version of the pharaohs treasure. Yep, you go that right, plastic in its purest sense and you can get this super special intelligent toy for the awesome price of P249.75!! Whoa!! Sand + a tiny plastic toy + the treasure hunting adventure... very reasonable eh...

Any buyers??

Now please, for crying out loud, shoot the people who came up with this (just a figure of speech, Lolx!) and get this dumb ass toys off the shelves (that's just me, if you like it go buy it...)!

Strike NOir Project (Last Part)

Here are additional images of the completed Strike Noir:

In all its glory!

Big bad ass Gun!

Slicing its way through...

Ready to take on the enemy!!

Say hello to my little friend!

Noir Striker!

Check out the hands...

Dual hand gun.

Brothers??

The STRIKES of Gundam...

Hope you guys liked it!

Red Strike!! - A work in progress!

Racing stripes gimmick!

We are currently working on a "paint and semi modify" project named red strike! We are planning to convert our Strike with IWSP kit to a red dominated Mobile suit.

So we had to disassemble the entire thing to clean the parts of its excess cut parts and paint with its new color.

Strike Noir laments the predicament of Strike w IWSP!!Lolx!

So far we didn't have any problems with the painting part, but when we saw the finished product, we felt a bit off with it.

This work is still under progress, I hope we get to find the right combination in the near future!! He he he!!

Somehow I feel somethings missing... hmmmmmm???!!!

For now its back to the drawing board. Anyway, the kit looks nice with the new paint, we just need to harmonize the other parts!

The Strike NOir Project (part 2)

I posted about the new approach we used in building our MG Strike Noir last week. This is new in the sense that we used a different assembly approach on our earlier MG's (Strike w IWSP, F 91, Strike Freedom). In the post I told you guys about the "part by part - Paint then Build" method we used in order to clean and paint each part better - minus the extra time spent in building - disassembling - then building again.


Now I have to say that this method worked very well for us newbie Gundam kit collectors. And since this is only our 4Th MG Kit, I would have to admit that this method has worked for us, despite the long assembly time.


Now here is a detailed step by step approach to how we built our Strike Noir, plus the little things we learned along the way which I like to share to you guys!


- Thanks to the guys from mechapinoy and hobby fanatics, I learned that its better to paint in short quick sprays, rather than our old method (long continuous sprays) because it covers the parts evenly.


- In spray painting on flat surfaces, we learned to use tape (masking tape) to keep the parts for painting in place, especially the small ones.


- In the absence of putty, clips and holding sticks, I used masking tape plus toothpicks to hold the parts for painting!


- In drawing panel lines, its advisable to draw them thick, then wipe it away after with a cotton bud. This gives it a faded look. Don't worry of painting them after, the spray paint will not cover the panel lines!


- Spray paint still seeps through masking tape, so be careful with it when you use it to cover up parts when painting.


- Tamiya's acrylic bottled paints are so damn thick so its advisable to add just a few drops of thinner (1:5 ratio).

So there you have it, all the things I have learned in Gunpla with our MG Strike Noir Project!


And I have to say, correct me if I'm wrong, that except for the yellow parts, this project is the best we've had so far!! Take a look:

Nice whip you got there!!

Full Burst Mode!! Lolx! (wrong mobile suit eh)

More Images of Strike Noir on my next post!!

Save those excess Plastic Runners!

Break a leg!! Guess whats new with this Gundam leg...

Good day Guys, just want to share to you a solution to the problem i presented before regarding the excess plastic runners/sprues left after building a plastic model (Gundam, Tamiya, Armored core etc).

The idea came to me when my friend and I made some newbie custom changes to our first MG - Strike with I.W.S.P.! What started out to be a painful experience turned out to be a means to level up our GUNPLA skills! So here it goes.

While we were working on our latest MG Gundam - Strike Noir, I kept on tinkering with our IWSP Strike. As I was trying to clean out the excess sprues from the parts, I accidentally broke its cowling (the movable part just above the foot) in half. So as an act of desperation, I was forced to super glue the pieces together, reinforcing it with masking tape.

I broke one of these leg parts.

It looked pathetic with the tape, but at that point I was more concerned with the durability of the repaired part.

Whats missing?? Find out what that's is, read on!

Now when we started painting the parts of the IWSP Strike, the taped parts was still very visible. Now I didn't have any styrene to cover it up, so I just picked up the nearest plastic I could get my hands on to use as a cover of the taped part.

A true blue Bandai loyalist!! Lolx!

This is where the excess plastic sprues came in handy. So whatya think?? He he he!! I think that it turned out pretty well!! So put those excess runners to good use... you never know when it will come in handy!!