tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257088012012-02-03T16:22:20.168+11:00Where YJ blogs about gaming, gunpla, and sometimes even real lifeYJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11422797949827010545noreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25708801.post-41546908221649582982009-07-27T16:21:00.001+10:002009-07-27T16:23:23.655+10:00

A friend has graciously decided to host my blog for me.So from now on I'll be posting at saint.waterscape.cc

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Completed in just under a month!Couple more pics after the jump.Since I just finished painting the weapons today, I've yet to take any proper action shots yet. The posability on this kit is terrible though!

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The Murphy's law of Gunpla Building - shit will always get lost or broken.Writeup after the jump.I find this kt has a few posability problems. I find it actually kinda hard for it to stand upright without rocking about. Anyway I also discovered that "Zaku Green" is really fucking hard to get right. It's really light green which is borderline white, but when you're painting it, it just never

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Hot on the heels of my last kit, here is my latest work in progress:MG Zaku II F2...never built a Zaku before, but the great thing about Zeon suits is that they never have that many seam lines. So with no Gundam head mod to worry about, the whole build process is alot more streamlined. More after the jump.The kit comes with a fair few weapons, a machine gun, bazooka, 2 grenades, and 2 leg

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After god knows how long the damn WZC is finally completed!17th May update: some better non-posed pics added.18th May update: Write-up added.So, my thoughts on this kit. For one of the later MGs, there's some No Grade 1/100 design issues, like the hollow forearms. The arms also don't connect very well to the shoulder joint. The rest of the kit is basically the same as the Wing ver.Ka.As you

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WZC is nearly completed!More pics after jump.The only thing remaining is the final white coat on the wings, and that will be done this weekend, maybe sooner if I'm impatient. I'm leaving the Twin Buster Rifles alone for now, at least until a replacement arrives.

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Another short update on the MG WZC build. Blue parts and internal frame have now been painted!Arms after assemblyMore pics after jump.Blue was preshaded as well. I used Gunze Blue as a base, followed by some combination of Cobalt Blue + Bright Blue + drop of Red + drop of White. After this coat, I added more white to the combination to give further shading. It's not as noticable as the white

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I've decided to do a joint collaboration with some friends and created www.rsigamers.com for blogging on gaming opinion. So from now on I'll post gaming stuff there while keeping IRL rants and Gundam building stuff here.Here's my latest article, Game movies - why the all suck.

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Okay, a bit of progress today. But first, Gundam Head mod!Update 25/04/2009: I've put on the final white coat, and I've taken a pic so you can see the differenceMore after the jump.Head on the left, eyes/face on the rightSo, heads are usually split into 2 parts, down the middle, from right to left. In this case is it's front to back, which is weird, but the same principles apply. The problem

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Short update on the build.After much cutting, sanding and stabbing myself with a hobby knife in the process, most of the parts are now cut and sanded.Everything was going according to plan until I started test building the wings. There is a main (gray) attachment that connects the wings to the main backpack, and the two wing halves go over it. This is of course arse, as it leaves a massive seam

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I would like to extend my thanks to Yu Suzuki for making this awesome game. I would also like to extend a massive FUCK YOU to Yu Suzuki for making this game.Here's why.Yu Suzuki, creator of Virtua Fighter, decided one day he wanted to make an RPG based on Virtua Fighter. Not only would this game be an RPG, but it would be almost a simulation of life itself, and thus he created the term FREE or

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Where YJ revisits an old favouriteIn 1999, Sega released the Dreamcast. The system had a good variety of games, most of which were arcade ports, but fans of the system were hoping for an RPG that could be the system's own Final Fantasy. In the following year, gamers were blessed with this true gem of a game.Skies of Arcadia was a refreshing breeze in a rather depressing era in terms of RPG

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Where YJ tries to build a Gundam model after a 3 year hiatusWing Zero Custom. Not really a fan of the design, and that's probably why it shall be my first victim in my return to Gunpla. Chicks dig the wings though. Pics after the jump.For one of Bandai's later MG's, there's several weird design issues. Firstly, the head is split in half into left and right, not back and front. This makes

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EB Games has gathered much scorn over the past few years as being the gaming retail outlet that charges RRP for everything. Why buy at EB when you can go to JB to get it much cheaper? Despite this, I actually do most of my games shopping at EB nowadays. Here's why.Price Matching - EB will price match any store's lower price ie everyone else. What's cool is that you can actually price match

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Where YJ is bitter about all the money he's wasted on 'collectors' editions over the past few yearsSpecial editions of games have been on the rise over the past few years. These days it seems that every second game has some kind of Collectors / Limited / Special edition. I'll just refer to them as CE from now on, because they often mean the same thing. These CE usually include some kind of '

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Where YJ reminisces about one of the best games ever made Back in 1990 when I got my first computer, and I just started getting into PC games, I watched my bro play a game which totally captivated me. That game was Wing Commander.More after the jump.Wing Commander was a game developed by Chris Roberts in 1990. It was a sci-fi flight sim game which he wanted to deliver a cinematic experience not

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The Perfect Grade Astray has just been released recently, and at a whopping 18,000 yen it's one of the most expensive ones out there. Is it worth the price?The first question that comes to mind is why the Astray? Bandai's made a few weird choices for PG's in the past, such as the GPO1/fb combo. I don't recall Gundam 0083 being that popular a series. The Astray is not a mainstream Mobile Suit

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It's a bit of a slow time for gaming, so let's take a look at whats coming out in the next few months that catches my eye (and potentially buy).Batman: Arkham AsylumIt wasn't about a week ago until this game popped up onto my radar, after watching the video from GDC of Batman taking on the challenge room. The game is touted as a 'predator' game, because apparently using the word stealth implies

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Zangief has always been a beast in Street Fighter games, but it wasn't until the crappy 3D EX series that I really took notice of him. Something about landing the Spinning Pile Driver on your opponents and taking off 1/5 of their health really caught onto me. The years passed and he saw some good action in Capcom vs SNK series, but back then being the noob Gief I was, there wasn't any real

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Having owned all the consoles for the last 2 cycles, there's always clear winners and losers as to which console is played most. In the last generation, we had the original Xbox, Playstation 2, Gamecube and I'd argue the Dreamcast as well to some extent.The winner was the PS2, hands down. Sure the library was full of shovelware, but there were some really great gems amidst all the crap. Super

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After 2 weeks off relentlessly plugging away at RE5 it has fallenHaving finally completed everything I took some time to watch the Making of Documentary that came with the special edition. RE5 has some really good production values and some of the techniques they used for making the cutscenes I'd never heard of before but were really awesomerealtime motion capture, so the movements processed

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Saved for my interests...10:18 Snake? Are you there? It's me, McWhertor... 10:30 I've infiltrated the Moscone Center's Esplanade Room... 10:30 And I've decided not to make any further Metal Gear Solid puns. 10:31 Megan Scavio, the person responsible for something GDC related which unfortunately escapes me, is readying the crowd for Kojima's appearance. 10:32 Kojima takes the stage, also wearing a

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Having played this to death and having 900/1000 points (for now) I'll share my thoughts about it. But to give some perspective we need to take a look at it's legendary predecessor. (spoilers, don't read if you haven't played either game)Resident Evil 4 was a brilliant game in it's day, totally reinventing the series for the better. The clunky tank controls were gone, replaced by slightly less

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It seems these days that co-op gaming is all the rage.It's been around for a while, with games like Diablo, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter etc. But it's only lately where every game seems to have a co-op play for campaign or story modes which used to be exclusively a single player experience.When I think of the co-op of today, I think of Halo: Combat Evolved for Xbox which was probably the first

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So in my entire one year as trade master, this is my biggest heist yet. The red limited edition RE5 elite tempted me since I laid my eyes on it, but alas I bought my replacement 360 a month too early and missed out.Or so I thought.Here's how it went down.JB Hi-fi were offering the usual trade deal, but for some reason they were doing a special 'trade 2 and get it free' instead of the usual 3

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