A mixture of Gunpla, Cooking, SCUBA, Corgis, and Life

This is a first attempt at something to this scale. Not so much the SD Glaug, but more so the progress delivery. FOr this project, I created a headband mount of sorts from a file at Thingiverse that allows my…

Over the past couple of weeks, I spent some time fixing the damaged Sazabi. I checked out the wiring, and I found that one of the two small backpack lights is not turning on. So that’s one casualty that will not get fixed. The wiring for this bastard is a bit too complex to bother trying to fix that one light. I may end up just breaking other connections, so that is going to be left alone.

Starting with the base, the excess broken parts were cut. The base was then masked off so I could sand down the excess. I grabbed a new piece of acrylic rod and drilled out a section in the middle. The same was done to the corresponding joint piece on the base.

Angel and I also drove up to San Jose this past Saturday to invade Tatsu Hobby’s Mono Eye competition. Before jumping to images of an interracial gunpla themed movie by Ang Lee; we brought our respective wives with us on this quick little weekend getaway. Angel and I put up our kits as display only and helped judge the event. I guess showing our kits gives the guys some credence to our judging abilities. The Sazabi was just recently repaired and there are still some small issues with it, so I didn’t feel comfortable with entering it. Plus, we’re there to support Tatsu’s contest. There were a good number of people that recognized if not us, our kits and were pleasantly surprised that we made the drive for their one day event. There were a good number of excellent entries and a great deal of potential with some of the other builders. They are quite creative and just need some work on the basic building techniques to really get to that next level in building. It’s quite inspiring to see.

More pictures of the Sazabi repair after the jump.

(more…)

I've taken a different approach to progress pictures and posts. More so, I think I'm just adding another element to the whole build process documentation. I'm not sure how this will work out in the end, but hopefully it makes…

I started a few new projects this past weekend during the build gathering. I’m actually also in the middle of doing repairs to the Sazabi, and will post up a more detailed discussion on that end when I’m finished with those repairs. I hope to be done soon. But in the mean time, we had a build gathering this past weekend, and even in the absence of a good number of TGG folks, we had a damn good showing with alot of familiar faces that we haven’t seen in a while, some for a few years. We also had a good number of new folks show. This is always good; the hobby is still growing within the Southern California sphere.

At this past weekend’s gathering, I started work on an SD Glaug (Zentradi Officer’s Pod from Macross) that I picked up in Hong Kong last year and got some work on a 3D printed T-800 head piece I printed out earlier that week.

(more…)