Life As Usual

Rovin watching cartoons in my room in his favorite position. ^^

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              Rovin will surely hold a grudge on me when he grow up.  From profile picture to blog banner, and now this.^^

Answered Prayer

          Some time last week, I was asked by my father to water the newly-planted duhat (indian blackberry) located a few steps from our backyard.  Just when I was about to pour the water using an aluminum pitcher, I heard a honking sound nearby.  

 

        Armed with an outdated 2.1 eclair android phone, I took a picture of the noisy waterfowls.  The honking didn't stop....and I assumed the geese was startled to see a caveman holding a pitcher and an outdated 2.1 eclair android phone.  It's a disturbing sight for the geese I thought.  As I turn and walk away, the honking continued.  I simply put the aluminum pitcher on top of a shaky washing machine and went back to my cave.  I turned on my jurassic laptop which took the usual 3-minute boot-up time.....waited.....plugged in the router....double-clicked Firefox and sat.

 

           Who would've thought that the honking geese could have something to do with what I am about to see online.  Perhaps it's a sign.  After years of waiting, my prayer has finally been answered....the Master grade Tallgeese is now officially announced by Bandai, which will be available January next year.

photos from gundamguy.blogspot.com

               The more slender shape of the upper torso and the smaller shoulder armor will surely help shoulder movement, but I'm not quite sure about the additional armors for the Tallgeese III....still hoping that it won't affect posability. The fatter thighs are just right for me.  I think it's one of the Tallgeese's trademark aside from the mohawk head and the two thruster pods on its back.  The smaller feet will also look better for aerial poses.  The dobergun looks a lot better, and the shoulder attachment doesn't seem to differ much from the high grade.

 photos from gundamguy.blogspot.com

              One complaint though, I find the the shape of the upper thruster pods too pointy....unlike its HG counterpart.  Maybe there's a good reason behind its pointy design....maybe Bandai want it to make look more aerodynamic....I guess.

               I always tell myself not to be redundant when it comes to purchasing stuff...always be happy with what you currently have....that's why I'll be keeping my 1/100 HG kit and wait more months for the MG Tallgeese III to come out. It will be my master grade after two years of MG abstinence.  Now is the right time to start filling my piggy bank again...because my most favorite non-gundam mecha deserves to be in my collection.

We Pee Zone

Rovin:"It's the correct way of reading it."

Monkey Reflex

          There's one thing that comes in my mind when I see horses roaming around in our backyard: free buko juice. Lacking the monkey reflex to climb a coconut tree, buko juice isn't something that I can enjoy on times when I wanted one (despite few coconut trees planted around the jungle). I just look up thirsty and drooling....and it ends there.

        Coconut harvesters still use horses nowadays. Few basketful of coconuts are worth about a few cigarette packs....father is always the beneficiary.^^

       I think having a pet horse is a good thing. Horses eat weeds...weeds grow and needs to be mowed...mower needs gasoline to function.

           The local term for coconut with hard meat (the one that usually hard to scrape from the shell) is called "magulang". The term "mura" is the one I prefer to eat with the juice. It has soft meat (mala-uhog) and can be easily scrape off from the shell.

           Dividing these into halves isn't as easy as swiping your thumb on a smartphone. There's no such thing as Fruit Ninja in real life....only spies.

"♪If you eat too much you'll get very....very♫.............I forgot the lyrics.

1/100 HG Gundam Sandrock Custom

After a few weeks' "hiatus" (ok...I swallowed my pride this time) I have finally finished my Sandrock.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/infrasmell/

I based the look of the Sandrock on the manual of 1/144 Sandrock custom. In my opinion, it is much better than the one pictured on 1/100's manual.

Just love those huge....curvy............heat shortels. I borrowed my father's slightly used Pylox silver spray can for the shortels.

I didn't able to make Quatre's eyes right...he looks like Sailormoon in a new hair-do.

Since this isn't a master grade, I did not bother coming up with dynamic poses. Aerial poses isn't Sandrock's strong point either.

          Instead of having a plain gray cloak, I decided to add a little brownish tone to it. I used the remaining gray and brown poster colors on the palette...soaked the whole cape in it (i used the spray can's cap to mix the poster colors) then waited for it to dry. I used a pair of scissors to add tear at the bottom edges of the cape.

        I was tempted to use ballpen caps for the thrusters (something I learned from gmtristan.com link here: http://gmtristan.com/china-blitz-gundam-1100/) but I'm not particularly good at modding. I thought I will only mess things up if I only super glued the caps in place, so I decided to just spray it Pylox silver.

1/100 HG Gundam Sandrock Custom: WIP part 3

 still to add shading and linings

 sprayed 3 coats of Bosny flat clear

sprayed the two heat shortels with Pylox metallic quick silver