HK loot version 1.0

As some of you know, I’ve been in Hong Kong for a week now!
I won’t bore you with any snapshots from the peak (that will follow later): instead you will be helping me find a way to bring back all the stuff I bought (and more…) Last year I threw away all the boxes, I’m trying to find a way to keep em this time. I did bring 2 large suitcases with me, but one of em is already full of clothes, tripod and the likes.  The other one will carry two MG Gundam max *sighs* I’ll probably have to ship things back home. I do have another smallersized carry-on-board suitcase, but my notebook+camera is taking up the space already.

The Zeon flag was high up on my to buy list and I managed find it in this shady little shop at the Richmond shoppingcentre in Mong Kok.

Buying figures in HK, is kind of a hit and a miss I found out. My advice is if you run into something that you want, then just buy it.  Don’t go bargain hunting to save a buck or two, chances are, that you won’t find the same store again.   (I’ve ran into that problem more than once and I know my way around even…) or you just don’t remember in which tiny store you saw that awesome figure. The shops tend to keep stock low too, especially if they are more expensive. (>US$50 figures)

Sure enough, popular things like figma and nendroid (fake ones included) are widely available,  but are almost always overpriced at launch. (Yoko or Miku Kagami for example)

Did I mention I love that Zeon flag? ^_^ I’m really happy that I ran into those Luffy x Songoku figures. I picked up MG Gouf Custom for cheap, the 1/100 Dynames was barely cheaper. Haven’t been able to test my Tokina 11-16 F2.8 yet (which I picked up as my b’day present yay) because the weather has been totally shite.It has been raining non-stop since Saturday afternoon. I was on the boat coming back from Macau, The waves were pretty bad, but I’m a pirate! So no complaining hehe.

I’m glad that I went with this brown Domke camera bag: I planned to buy the black version originally, but that one is not water resistant.

Next time I will be posting more about my adventures, H1N1 (swine/mexican flu) in HK, and more loot ofcourse.

MG Exia

What a big day it is,  the MG Exia was announced and on display at the 48th Shizuoka Hobby Show! 
MG Exia is definitely sexy ^^ on sale this July (*sniff* I won’t be able to buy this in HK, since I’m leaving halfway June)

The special ignition version will cost a bit more (5250yen), but you will get the cape, leds, and chrome swords. 
Gundam Base has a great coverage gunpla wise  but for an even more extensive photocoverage (of nearly everything)
check out the hobby show album  (modem-killer! lol, those were the days when you had to warn people..)

I’d love to attend a show someday: I’d totally be the guy (red arrow) who has the guts to setup a tripod/monopod in the middle of the crow hehe

 

For the time being, us guys living in the west can only dream…

Yamato 1/24 Patlabor – Ingram

1/24 Patlabor Ingram #1 movie version by Yamato  June 2009 - 29,400円 

Always loved Patlabor, but never got me one. But that will change soon :) there will be  a limited number of 1000 made in the first batch. This thing is huge, around 33cm high – the price is pretty steep too US$300/€225,-

Pics taken from Toysdaily

Bazookah-Get!

Pre-ordered this back in January and it finally arrived today!

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MG GP03S – update

Well after verifying that I’m a slowpoke last week (thanks guys) XD
I can proudly show you guys my progress: out of 10 pages,
I’ve completed 4, but the last few pages are all weapons related..

Above you can see the arms, legs and some of it’s torso done.
On the right you can see my trusty tools: nailfile, knife, pinvise, another nailfile, sidecutter.

So where do you guys store your gunpla parts? Put them back in the box?
One of my biggest enemies would be dust, so I use these ‘keep em fresh’ boxes:

I find them really handy, they are cheap and available in wide variety of shape n sizes.
I bought a set of 10, one of them is actually large enough to be a container for my
unfinished MG Strike E, I should revive him soon.