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The weekend actually started on Friday, as when I woke up, I didn’t feel like going into work. I typically have every other Friday off as my schedule, but since there was a holiday, I could have potentially worked my usual Friday off to earn the holiday, but waking up I decided against it. Work was probably going to be a ghost town anyways, especially with the holiday. So I ended up doing some errand in the morning, which included getting some new brake pads for my front wheels. I had lunch with a friend, then we did a few more errands and later met up with Angel and Nicky. I had prepped some grilled cheese sandwiches and a few other fruits and when Sam showed up, we drove out to Pomona for an evening at the Drive In. We went to see Machete. (yes, it was bad, but it was good in that Desperado<\/em> kind of way) And come on, what do you expect from a movie for which its original premise was as a bad B movie trailer from the Grindhouse films set. Oh the brown folks were out in force at the drive-in. We had a pretty good night that ended at the Tea Station out in Hacienda Heights. No more outdoor seating….<\/p>\n I crash out around 2 or so and expected to wake up around 10:30 and prep the house for the build gathering. Hitting my snooze one too many times, I don’t actually wake up until 1:30, thirty minutes past the scheduled build gathering start time. The dogs didn’t bark so I guess no one has come by yet. Opening my front door, I see Eddie drive by and park, perfect timing. Folks start showing up and we get into building. I spend the first part of the build gathering pinning a new kit I received earlier that week. There are far too many gaps in this kit, serves me right for picking up a recast, but I was outbid when trying to get an original at every turn. After pinning my kit, I got a little work on my Asuka, but stopped and gave my spot to Brandon when he showed up.<\/p>\n We had one new guy that a few of us had met a few months earlier when Sugoi Life had their model build seminar at their shop. The guy blames me for igniting the spark for model building. He also showed up at the panels I held at AX. Some of the newer guys learn to airbrush with my and Ed’s help. X shows up with a stack of bandai catalogs from Bluefin for which a good number of people grabbed. It’s always cool to see folks helping out the new folks. Learning is fun!<\/p>\n Manny’s still working on his Gouf Custom, but brought over his Megaman Exia. Sean working on a ship measuring very precisely, and Vin is working on another resin kit, having accidentally sanded down the zipper of his kit, he used putty to re-sculpt it.<\/p>\n Rock band make its triumphant return to the build gathering. <\/p>\n And of course a short video of the group playing.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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