Chris | March 30, 2010
If you’re like me and love painting your Gundam kits, you’re going to notice that you can’t always just pick up a jar of paint, thin it, and use it on a kit. Sometimes, you’re going to have to mix your own paints. While a lot of suits have colors that you only see on that specific design, you’ll come to notice that there are quite a few colors that appear every now and then, be it faction colors, ace pilot colors, colors of a certain class of suit, or just your average, run of the mill colors. I’m going to offer some suggestions for how to make these colors.
Category: Gundam, Loran |
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Tags: Custom Colors, Gundam, Paint Mixing
lindsay | March 26, 2010
So its a reeeeally small week this week, about 10 books. Three of those books are Mobile Suit Gundam related. First up is the 9th (and I believe final) volume of Gundam: Ecole Du Ciel. In case you were curious, Ecole Du Ciel first started coming out in the states in 2005. That’s five years to put out 9 books. The only excuse for that kind of fan-teasing is some horrible debilitating disease that left the artist minus both their hands for a couple years. On top of that, Tokyopop seems to think they are justified in raising the price on the book not only to $10.99 like they did the rest of their series, but instead this final volume is going to be $12.99, like anyone who even was reading the series 5 years ago hasn’t already fallen out of love with, or plain old forgotten about the whole thing. I know they had issues with a lot of downsizing in the last couple years, but it has been 2 years sine volume 8 released, and even that was really far behind it’s predecessor. At some point in the last two years you would think Tokyopop would have switched one of their crappy pseudo-manga books if just to finish a series that at least has pretty covers and nice artwork. But I digress.
Category: Dark Horse, Manga, Mat. K, Welcome To Shibuya-cho |
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Tags: Black Blizzard, Chobits, Clamp, Dark Horse, Gundam, Manga, yoshihiro tatsumi
lindsay | March 26, 2010
by Unkie Dev Movie nerds are well aware of the upcoming deluge of summer blockbusters based on board games. To the rest of you I can only say “Yes, seriously, board games. ” Ridley Scott has an alternate reality flick based around Monopoly in the works. Films have been optioned off of Battleship, Risk and [...]
Category: Comics, Dark Horse, Devin T Quin |
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Tags: board games, Chew, dark horse comics
Chris | March 26, 2010
By Christopher Troy Being a man of my word, I’ve managed to stave off Final Fantasy 13 and Megaman 10 (to an extent) and completed the Unicorn. Above the text is a completed and nearly completed leg. The amount of articulation is standard for a 1/144th sized kit (ankle, knee) but the foot itself is [...]
Category: Anime, Christopher Troy, Gundam |
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Tags: building, model kit
Chris | March 20, 2010
By Loran Ah, the Hi-Nu Gundam. If you told any of us 5 years ago that Hi-Nu would have not one, but TWO plastic kits, we’d think you were crazy. Well, the Master Grade came out in 2007 to mixed reactions. The design was changed by Yutaka Izubuchi, the original designer, to streamline the design [...]
Category: Gundam, Loran, Reviews |
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Tags: Action Figures, Assembly, Gundam, Model Kits
| March 18, 2010
By Devin T. Quin Thanks to the Internet we now live in a world of instant gratification, where vast fortunes and celebrity careers are launched and lost with just a few clicks of a mouse. Before we relied on word of mouth, observation and experience to build fame. Due to its “low-tech” nature, the old-time [...]
Category: Devin T Quin, Gaming |
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Tags: board games, Cities and Knights, Mayfair Games, Seafarers of Catan, Settlers of Catan
Chris | March 18, 2010
When we last left off, it was time to build the arms and legs for the Unicorn. There’s no set length of time it take for me to usually build the limbs, as construction and painting usually factors in to that.
Category: Action Figures and Toys, Christopher Troy, Gundam |
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Tags: Anime, Gundam, rx-0 unicorn
lindsay | March 16, 2010
Hello boys and girls and welcome the Saint Patrick’s week. There’s not a whole lot going on in the manga department this week, but that is not to say there is nothing. There are a couple of new books that are definitely worth checking out. The first one up is Bunny Drop Volume 1 by Yumi Unita. The story goes a thirty year-old bachelor named Daikichi has to go to his grandfather’s funeral. He’s floored when he finds out gramps had an illegitimate child with a younger lover. While the whole family is shocked, the rest of the family seems to be embarrassed and not want anything to do with the poor silent girl. In a fit of angry spontaneity, Daikichi decides to take her in himself! But will living with this overgrown teenager of a man help Rin come out of her shell? And won’t this turn of events spell doom for Daikichi’s love life? Drama and wackyness ensue. This is definitely a side-step from your typical manga formula.
Category: Manga, Mat. K, Viz Media, Welcome To Shibuya-cho |
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Tags: bunny drop, dorohedoro, Mat. K, ristorante paradiso, Welcome To Shibuya-cho
lindsay | March 16, 2010
As April 1st approaches I’d like to highlight two books this week which will focus on the absurd, the silly and the wild. I’ll break it into two crowds, the Comic’s Journal elite and the Wizard reading masses.
Category: Comics, DC Comics, Marvel |
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Tags: comic strips, hulk, incredible hulk, Krazy & Ignatz, Last Resort, Siege, X-Men
Chris | March 13, 2010
Over the years, the original RX-78 Gundam has seen a lot of changes, be it in animation, video game, toy, or model form. It’s a staple of anime and science fiction history, and should be a mainstay of almost any Gundam or general robot collector’s collection.
Category: Gundam, Loran |
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Tags: Gundam, Gunpla, Model Kits, UC
