2012 Mecha Contest WIP - initial mods

Started a little bit of work on my 2012 Mecha Contest entry for the modified plastic category earlier today. Not much progress actually. I stripped the PG Aile Strike of it's precious 30th anniversary clear armor parts and started with the basic shapes of the chest and as usual the crotch.

I also started a bit of work on the huge weapon which was made of 1.2 mm pla plates, 8mm clear plastic rod and a 5mm plastic rod. I basically need to scratch built huge armor pieces and sort of design my own. Scratch building on the fly without much reference adds to the challenge and the fun of this project. I hope I can pull it off. Needless to say I only plan to use the internals of the perfect grade kit and will not use any of it's armors. Maybe I will end up with a naked kit. lol

Anyways here are photos of the initial mods...

 

 

 

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1/60 G System ZAKU for the 2012 Mecha Contest!

We are having serious problems for our 2012 MECHA contest. Serious but good problems actually. A few moons back, we revealed the insane prizes of our 2012 Mecha Contest. We have a truck load of prizes from our creators and sponsors and we continue to get prize donations from our generous MAC forum members.

Good friend and long time MAC forums VIP member Matt Mrozek aka mvm3897 is donating / giving away a 1/60 G-System Zaku for our competition. As if all the prizes from our original sponsors were not enough... the prize donation is totally insane.

Needless to say... our humble one year old MAC forums is obviously setting up a not so humble online competition. This is by far the biggest and craziest competition hosted in a forums to date. And we are not yet done... more prizes and surprises in the next few moons.

So stay tuned guys! Register in our MAC forums today and gear up to join our insane 2012 Mecha Contest. Do not get left behind guys... ;)

Need I say more? :) Thanks for dropping by guys! Hope to see your entries at MAC soon! :)

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HobbyMate's 2012 Mecha Contest pick award

Aside from the random prizes sponsored by HobbyMate, which are 8 sets of tools that will be randomly drawn from all the participants. Edmund Teo the owner of HobbyMate will be selecting his very own pick amongst all the participants of our 2012 Mecha contest.

The HOBBYMATE's pick award might not be necessarily be amongst the top winner's of the contest. It could be anyone with a very nice entry that Edmund really likes OR a very nice entry with lots of HM upgrade parts. :)

The pick will get the top of the line airbrush from HobbyMate which is the HM ACE airbrush! The HM ACE airbrush will be shipped to the winner wherever he is in the world for free. The ACE is a dual action airbrush with a lightweight aluminum body in black matte finish. Handsome piece of gun for painting those precious masterpieces to be.

I will keep it a secret for now as to what is with the 8 sets of tools packaged for the random draw winners. Random draw means that anyone participating gets an instant chance to get awesome HobbyMate tools and supplies for FREE!

So as we always say... gear up and put your A game on, for our 2012 Mecha Contest coming very soon! Thanks as always for dropping by! Til' next 2012 Mecha Contest update guys! :b

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Hobby Link Japan co-sponsors 2012 MECHA contest!

We are proud to announce that Hobby Link Japan is co-sponsor to our 2012 MECHA contest at MAC forums! Much like the other sponsors, HLJ will be shipping it's prize to a winner of the competition. Your prizes like all the other loads of prizes will simply be dropped to your doorstep.

HLJ sponsored our recently concluded Europe Gunpla Cup and it won't be much different this time. We at MAC forums together with our partners and sponsors, do not give away leftover model kits in shopping mall stores. You are as always assured of great and new prizes that you want or would like to have. Not model kits that you would like to sell. lol

So like us, I highly suggest you gear up and buy your stuffs for this competition that should be unveiled very soon! Do not get left behind guys... sign up and register at MAC forums today and join our discussions on this much anticipated huge event.

Thanks as always for dropping by! Til' next post guys! :)

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GreattoysOnline.com co-sponsors 2012 Mecha Contest!

We are proud to shout out today that the best source of toys and Gunpla here in the Philippines will be co-sponsoring our 2012  Mecha Contest! GreattoysOnline.com generously co-sponsored our very successful MAC anniversary party a couple of months ago. And will now be giving more for our contest that will be launched very soon.

Their tag line great toys, great prizes is exactly what Greattoys has been giving us for the past 10 years. I need not compare their prizes with prizes in huge shopping malls... but I highly recommend you check them out before getting your model kits at a big mall.

Malvin Lim owner of GreattoysOnline.com has agreed to sponsor a couple of kits for our 2012 Mecha Contest. He will sponsor one 1/100 Master Grade kit and 1 Kotobukiya model kit... It could be a Bandai MG Epyon and a Kotobukiya Nine Ball? Who knows what Malvin has in stored for us!

GreattoysOnline.com will be shipping the winners' prizes anywhere in the world, much like our other sponsors. So be sure to register at our forums today and get a feel of your competition. Do check this site out as we reveal the categories and all of the prizes of our huge 2012 Mecha Contest soon!

Thanks for dropping by! Til next 2012 Mecha Contest update guys! :)

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HobbyMate co-sponsors 2012 Mecha Contest!

I will be posting capsules of posts in the following weeks about our Kamm and Sneeper's 2012 Mecha Contest. We figured that posting all the details of the competition in one post during the launch will be information overload. The amount of prizes and the rules and categories will be insane. So let me introduce our first co-sponsor...

HobbyMate owner Edmund Teo is the most generous person I have ever met in this lifetime. For those people who attended our MAC anniversary party back in August 2011, you personally experienced that generosity in the amount of raffle prizes HobbyMate gave away in the party! The MAC party was arguably the biggest Mecha / Gunpla party of any forums or club to date, mainly due to the support of two sponsors including HobbyMate.

This time HobbyMate co-sponsors our huge 2012 Mecha Contest. HobbyMate plans to give an airbrush to a winner and also plans to give other loads of tools and supplies for the contest. HobbyMate will also give a special HobbyMate's special pick winner!

To keep the surprises coming, I will not disclose to you the details of the prizes from HobbyMate. But HobbyMate basically will sponsor $600 worth of HM tools and supplies!

So do not get left behind guys! Drop that project for that small local contest and register at MAC forums today! Join in the fun in our huge competition soon! Thanks for dropping by! Til' next post guys! :)

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2012 competition with end of this world prizes...

Our 2012 competition is almost ready to blast you very soon! This online international competition will be hosted at our MAC forums, this will be judged and sponsored by two insane modelers, Fichtenfoo of Industriamechanika.com will be our special judge and the prize line up will simply end this world.

Obviously I am hyping up our contest, but once you've seen the prizes you'll understand my excitement. The creators of the competition has thrown insane amount of model kits for prizes already. However the prize line up is not yet final as more sponsors are lining up to give us more prizes for this huge mecha modeling event.

As I've said before... we are not going to give away old unsold model kits in shopping mall shelves. Much like our Europe Gunpla Cup prizes which was both sponsored by Hobby Link Japan and the creator of the contest Kamm, the prize line up will totally blow your mind away.

Their will be two Bandai Perfect Grade Gundam model kits, some Bandai Master Grade model kits, A lot of Kotobukiya model kits, including the Armored Core White Glint in the poster above and some more rare model kits that you need to explore the world to find them ( literally )!

Minor prizes are not really minor. My toolBOX23.com will co sponsor this event by giving away 3 tool sets for the contest, which will be randomly selected from all the entries of all the modelers joining the contest.

As much as I want to disclose more information like the number of categories and the exact number of the insane amount of prizes, I highly suggest that you just stay tune for more 2012 news as we are gearing up to blast this event very very soon!

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FichtenFoo on board 2012 competition @ MAC forums

Yes you read it right guys! Michael Fichtenmayer aka FichtenFoo of FichtenFoo.com and of IndustriaMechanika.com is now onboard our 2012 competition at MAC forums. Master Foo graciously accepted my offer to him as special guest judge of our competition that will be online soon.

FichtenFoo needs no introduction at all. His website is where I learned all my basic skills in modeling and I constantly get inspiration from his outstanding works. He is the most complete Sci Fi modeler around. He plays with Bandai kits, works on resin kits and even designs his own line of sci fi stuffs at IndustriaMechanika.com.

The two insane creators of the 2012 competition will co judge the contest alongside master FichtenFoo. I cannot reveal those two insane creators just yet, but once we reveal the details and the prizes you will agree that the creators of this contest are simply insane.

Hope to see more members as we rev up to start this huge contest guys! Thanks as always for dropping by! Til' next post! :)

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2012 competition... online soon!

We don't call our forums MECH Arts Community for nothing. We might as well call our forums Gundam Community forums if the only builds that we do our Gundam model kits right? We love Gundams very much, but their are a ton more robots out there.

We also know that the Gunpla Builders World Cup is coming soon... well, it's all Gundams and Bandai marketing stuff, so I just want you guys to brace yourself on something bigger, better and a totally never before seen event!

We also value creativity and originality so much in our forums, and we try to push our members to do more with their model kits other than sand the nub marks and paint. So we have something really really good very soon. And I believe it is obvious by now that we do not do it small time... have you seen how we celebrated our MAC forums anniversary?

Or have you seen the prizes of our recently concluded Europe Gunpla Cup, created by Jonathan Kaminski aka Kamm? Those are great prizes courtesy of Kamm and Hobby Link Japan, BUT we assure you of even better and bigger prizes come 2012!

As much as I want to share to you the details of this huge undertaking that we are cooking up inside our MAC forums, I just want to leave you with this poster inspired by the awesome art of an Alien Mech Bust by dasAdam at DiviantArt.

Thanks for dropping by! Til' next post guys!

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