Tekkoshocon: Random Thoughts…

This past weekend I was at Tekkoshocon. This was my first time venturing out to this event. Last year at Otakon, I met Chris Barretta and a few others and was told that I should go to Tekkosho for the model contest. The time came and I had the resources and time for heading out there for the event. I just really wanted to meet the several people that I have communicated with via various model related forums; and finally get to see in person, some of the wonderful works that I have only been able to see online. Pictures of the event can be found here: Tekkoshocon Pictures. (more…)

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Partially Covered or Pulled Up?

On Monday, I finally received my missing part for the 1/6 Young Hip Cover Girl Orchid Seed Wonder Festival Winter 2007 kit. Damn that was a mouthful. I had received the kit a while back in the first half of March; however upon opening up the box and dry fitting things I noticed that I had a duplicate part in place of the actual part. After contacting the manufacturer, I was able to send them the duplicate, and then have them send the replacement part to a proxy service (Tokyo Hunter), and finally having the part shipped out to me. (more…)

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Spray Booth Ver 3.0

Prompted by a thread over at HobbyFanatics that began with a question on wiring schematics for a setting up a spray booth, the discussion turned towards recommendations for good spray booth fans. When asked the question, I replied that I had seen several very well done spray booths that utilized Range Hoods (typically seen in the kitchen over the stove). Since I drew up the simple wiring schematic I used for my spray booth, (more…)

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