{"id":2607,"date":"2012-08-30T12:28:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T19:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2012-08-30T12:28:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T19:28:29","slug":"gunpla-private-lessons-and-some-progress-on-the-midnight-zaku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/?p=2607","title":{"rendered":"Gunpla Private Lessons and some progress on the Midnight Zaku"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starting with the beginning of the week, on Monday, the black parts were sprayed with clear gloss. The shoulder armor should be considerably shiner, see the comparison below. After a full day of curing, decals were applied Tuesday along with the standard decal setting\/softening solutions, and again left to dry and cure for a full day. Wednesday, the decaled pieces are sprayed with a couple of clear gloss sessions to completely seal in the decal as well as hide the decal edges as best as possible.<\/p>\n

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More Midnight Zaku progress below as well as the proposal for Gunpla Private Lessons.<\/p>\n

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Last year, during a Trip to Hong Kong, we discovered that some gunpla shops offered up workshop space for gunpla modelers. They can paint, build, do decals, etc, and just pay a set cost for the usage based on time. There were other shops that offered up private lessons; a one on one class for learning gunpla building. I chuckled at this concept since most of my teaching has been done for free either from tutorials and videos posted, or large audience panels at anime conventions. R4L<\/a> had suggested the idea for creating a workshop area for building and also providing classes for students. The discussions never really went anywhere as neither of us ever progressed with the idea. The reality is that I already have a ton of tutorials online and additionally, we’ve been doing the monthly build gatherings for over 3 years now, with a decent amount of communal learning. All of which is free. However, everyone has different learning styles and given the amount of information online and whatnot, people still go to schools and Universities and attend actual classes with teachers. Sure, one can read all about music theory and teach themselves to play the piano for free, but there is a bit of focus when you have an actual instructor guiding the student along.<\/p>\n

I got a message from a forum member asking about the possibility of private lessons, hence the re-visitation to this idea. It got me thinking that perhaps focused one on one teaching sessions may work to facilitate and speed up the learning process. It would work out to weekday evening classes that run from Monday through Thursday at 1 hour long session per day. A fixed schedule of a week should be enough to teach a set level of gunpla model building. I would have Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced levels of teaching sessions. The cost would be $25 per hour for any level course. That said, the curriculum would be the following:<\/p>\n