Gundam A 2011 October No. 110

Grab this magazine at Hobby Search, it's include 1/48 RX-78-2 Gundam The Original Head Model.

A very thick magazine XD

1/48 RX-78-2 Gundam The Original Head Model box cover.

It's only have 2 runners, painting job require.

I just highlight few of the contents about this magazine. Beam saber umbrella?

90% of this magazine are cover by gundam manga, here is the fighting scene Unicorn vs Kshatriya.

This caught my attention. Extra 1/144 Zaku weapons and MS Hangar. MS Hanger will be release on December 2011. 1st wave of Extra 1/144 Zaku weapons will be release on December too, 2nd wave fall on January 2012.

Lastly is the 7-Eleven exclusive Gunplas, available in Japan now. This time they added BearGuy as one of the exclusive gunpla as well.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II Miniature - 4GB USB Drive

Get a Canon EOS 5D Mark II Miniature - 4GB USB Drive for my Yoko :) As know it's fit all the 1/3 scale Dollfie Dream.

Nice black leather cube box.

What is inside the box?

x1 CANON EOS 5D Mark II Miniature - 4GB USB Drive

x1 Strap

x1 USB cable

Back view, look at the details.

Yoko is happy with her new CANON EOS 5D Mark II.

Volks Dollfie Dream Yukino Unboxing

This is my first Dollfie Dream from Volks, Yukino set. I gonna name her as Yoko, the reason I name her as Yoko it's because Yoko Littner (from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann) is my favorite female anime character.

As know DD Yukino it's come with M bust, so I order L bust for her.

It's content x1 Volks catalog, x1 wig, x1 underwear, x1 DD Yukino.

Close up look on the head.

Here you go!

Look! Yoko has a hippo~

Tutorial: Color test on your gunpla kit x HGUC 1/144 RGM-96X Jesta Group Build

Today I gonna show you how to do color test on your gunpla kit with photoshop. This is actually a matter for those who wants to try to use a different color from the original.

Seems I'm joining the HGUC 1/144 RGM-96X Jesta group build, so I'm using HGUC 1/144 RGM-96X Jesta for sample. Let's begin!

1. Do your research. Study your kit and what kind of color you wish to put.

2. Find a big and clear images from net. Recommend to choose front, back and side view. At this tutorial I will using the front view. Click on the picture for larger view.

3. Duplicate another layer. Keep the original picture, incase anything go wrong you still have the original picture.

4. Now I need to remove the orange background by using the Magic Wand Tool (short cut key: W).

5. Make sure all the Orange color are selected.

6. Press "Delete" to delete selected area.

7. As you can see there still have the Orange color on the model kit, now i gonna make the picture as black and white. Goto Image > Adjustments > Black & White.

8. Ok done. Here is how it look like.

9. Now I want to make the picture more brighter or light grey. It just like applying primer on your gunpla kit. Goto Image > Adjustments > Levels.

10. Adjusting the Levels. No fixed formula, suit yourself ;)

11. Once done, create a layer, add a background color on the layer, and position it to the bottom.

12. Now is the interesting part. Let's say I want to make this kit as 7-Eleven color theme, so it has Green, White and Red colors. What I'm trying to do is using Polygonal Lasso Tool (short cut key: L) to draw a shape on the shoulder.

13. Before you adding the color, create a new layer. Fill the shoulder with green on the new layer.

14. Change the option to Multiply, so it will look like a clear green.

15. As you can see there is the excess green. Let's remove it.

16. Hold down CTRL and click on the "Layer 0 copy" small thumbnail to select that section. And then right click on your mouse, select "Select Inverse", and press "Delete". Make sure you select the right layer before you delete.

17. Now the excess it's gone.

18. Here is the sample that after applying Green color.

19. Ok set! HGUC 1/144 RGM-96X Jesta 7-Eleven version.

You get the idea now? Do make sure each color each layer.

HGUC 1/144 RGM-96X JESTA GROUP BUILD

I'm so excited to joining this Jesta Group Build organized by B-Mecha and Kevin Goh. You can check out more info from www.mvpfigure.com. Over there you can see how many participants are joining this event. If you interested to join, just leave a message at the comment.

Volks Dollfie Dream Yukino

Just picked her up this early morning. HURAY~! Mm.. not the iMac, that's just an empty box = = It's Dollfie Dream Yukino~! For those who don't know what is Dollfie Dream, you can check out more from here.

Bough this Yoko outfit in August, I can't afford to buy the official Yoko set, it's too over priced. But I am grateful that I still manage to get this outfit.

FG RX-78-2 Gundam Part 5

It's deca time~

I'm using OMNI deca, cause I don't have much deca at the moment :(

Ok here is it.

FG RX-78-2 Gundam in action.

Front view and back view.

Here is another view Before and After.

Epilogue: I'm still not really satisfied on this kit, if you look close enough, my panel lining are really bad. Need more practice I believe. So far this is the most hand painted kit I ever done, compare to the previous FG kit.

As I mention early, this kit suppose finish before the Brunei Gundam & Model Competition during the EACON 2011. Due to work issue, oh well..

FG RX-78-2 Gundam: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.