Decaling madness have abated. Complete. First impression... this is one of the more flimsy MGs I've worked with. Armor pops off when I move or remove things. But is able to stand pretty stable with all the add ons... suprised.

Ok. On with the photoshoot.

Destroy-mode photoshoot will follow in a few weeks.

I need some time before I can assemble/decal the Unicorn stand so that I can pop out an action pose or two.

I admit that I hav a big issue with my weight of late. My body no longer seems able to burn off the access calories like it used to back when I was in my mid-20. Whatever weight I add, stays. Plus the fact that my physical regime have been reduced to nill nowadays... this only compounds to the problem. And the clock is ticking.

Good news is that my weight hover-ed around 172lbs for a year now. Bad news is that I physically look more like an obese 200lbs even if the scale says otherwise. Honestly, I'm running out of ideas on how to bring that down with the limited amount of time I have everyday.

One - I could starting cardio workouts again - which unfortunately doesn't seem feasible based on my daily routine of late. Or two - I could try starving myself half to death - which makes more logical sense. Lemme try option 2 first and see where it goes.

I'm almost on the homestretch now. Progress would have been much faster if I didn't hav to go back to work on weekends. But I did manage to squeeze in an odd hour or two of assembly time during my late evenings (depending only on an otaku's will power to stay awake), so it's still progress.

 Few things I'm not happy with :

• A lot of nub marks are very visible this time round. A combination of impatience and slip of the razor were the reason for this sloppiness.
• The British Green (Tamiya TS9) I bought, didn't turn out to be the color I wanted. It's actually a dull shade of green, very similar to Dynames green, which I hated.
• I feel like kissing Bandai for taking the effort to include all the itsy bitsy details into the plastic parts, making things look fabulous. But I also want to KILL Bandai for moulding all those detailing for the parts in one single part, making painting it a nightmare. Example, the 'wrapper' mesh for the Bazzooka barrel.

The silver part was hand painted on since it's impossible to mask using tape.

Speaking of the Bazzooka, this is one weapon I trully adore. It's BIG for an MG part. Super easy to build, yet full of gimmicks.

Example... if you think it's still not BIG enuf... you can slide it out... making it almost double in size.

Can't wait to see how the Unicorn is gonna wield this hugeass weapon and remain standing.

One more thing which is driving me insane is the amount of decals this kit came with. As usual, Katoki's decal fetish is giving gunpla fans like me a splitting headache coz each part needs to be plastered with like a gazzilion CAUTION labels.

I mean, just look at the torso of the Unicorn... can you believe the amount of red labels on the damn thing? This haven't yet include the labels which are hidden within the armor, which will be revealed when the Unicorn goes NT-D mode. It's just ridiculous.

But absurdness aside... it does make the damn thing look much more interesting instead of just the plain vanila white scheme. And yes, I did sharpened the unicorn's horn till it's as sharp as Sakurada's nips...  ;)

Aside from my mis-adventures with the damn X-Acto knife which kept demanding blood sacrifice every few days or so... I'm extremely pleased with the progress made this week. Taking the entire week off was the best damn decision I made in quite a while. It gave me time to work on things I enjoy instead of sloggin away in my cubicle doing things I abhor day after day and being bitter all the time... I found out I'm actually still capable of being happy  ;)

The bulk of the work is done. All runner trimmed, prepped and painted; except for the weapons coz I forgot to purchase Tamiya olive green and metallic black during my shopping spree. These will have to wait. I kinda cheated this time round by not washing the parts with soapy water before spraying the parts. I thought since I'm not working with candy paint this time round, I can get away with it. And I did.

I absolutely hated the way Bandai colored the psycho frame parts... it came in a really fuggly pale pink shade which screamed "PANSY". I originally intended to paint these parts metallic red. However, I'm glad I ended up deciding to keep the translucent look of the parts and just coated it with a layer of clear red.

I absolutely luv how the parts look. The clear red totally changed the look of the psycho frame and now they look like pieces of intense ruby when viewed under direct light.  This is one of the few times when things go right and the results are totally satisfactory.

Ya-ta!!!

Pakcik... o pakcik... kayuh lagi... kayuh...

Some shivelled up bud...

Uh... something... from somewhere...

I swear... I did not touch them nips...

A pricky issue...

Even the sky In da mood for luuuuuuuuuuuuv?

Got too excited to start workin again on the MG RX-0... first thing I did was to accidentally stab my thumb with an X-Acto knife when my grip slipped while shaving off nubs. And you know how fookin sharp those thingies are.

Fook.

Fook.

褔. 褔. 褔...

Oh... Happy CNY everyone.

Been itching to get these for quite some time... and finally I managed to find some good use for those dang Border's vouchers which we were kinda 'forced' to purchase if you wanna max our company benefits. Elated as I managed to score 2 tasty finds at QBM. Sad and pissed when I found out the Trade Paperback for Volume 4 was torn in 2 pages when I opened up the shrink wrap. But that doesn't really matter. The main reason I bought these two, are to drool over Stjepan Šejić's amazing art (which unfortunately weren't many in these 2 issues). Also, they make excellent 'artistic references' as well... LOL...