Warmachine/Hordes Painting - The 50mm Painting Contest

New Monthly Contest!! I know all of us have unpainted models out there and some of us procrastinate the most on the big models! So this month anyone who enters will have 30 days to paint a 50mm model. It can be any figure as long as it has a 50mm base (Example: Epic Borka, Khador Destroyer, Extreme Carnivian etc...)
Judging will start on July 1st where the top 5 Unit's will be selected by the admins. The Best of Show award will be voted by everyone in the group out of the top five. There will be two categories entrants will be eligible for, Masters and Mercenaries. **You may only enter Masters if you have previously entered our painting contests and have placed within the top 5 previously.** Judges reserve the right to move your entry into Masters category if we feel your painting is of high enough level.
Entries will be judged July 3rd at a time yet to be determined by the admin staff.

Join our Warmachine / Hordes Painting group page at Facebook and join the fun! Link below...

Warmachine/Hordes Painting

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NO GUNPLA for almost a month now...

I have been staying at work ( in the office ) since October 6 and it has been a while since I last blogged. Managed to squeeze a bit of time to blog today as there is a Halloween party of sorts here at work. We are currently working on a very complex project at work as of the moment, but I should return to Gunpla very soon.

GBWC 2014 was so much fun eventhough I failed to join for the 3rd straight year. My daughter won her 2nd bronze at GBWC 2014, she is asking for a trigger type airbrush this Christmas and vows to do better than bronze next year. Dang hobby gets more expensive every year.

I deeply apologise to all my clients whom I have pending commissioned works, will focus on my commission works once I return to Gunpla next month.

The GBWC 2014 here in the Philippines was extra special as I got Master Kawaguchi autographed all my ancient Gunpla trophies. Great stuff, hope to join next year's event with an entry.

Should make this space more active by next month.  Thanks as always for the support guys! :)

 

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Weathered OR Clean for my PG SF???

I am having second thoughts on the eventual finishing of my OLD Boys GB project if I will do a clean build or a weathered build due to Mr.Gav's WIP photos of his PG RX build.

Unlike Mr.Gav of Gavin Lee Manners, I very seldom do clean builds. I think I only have a couple of clean builds which are my MG Acguy and my commissioned work RG Aile Strike Gundam. I originally wanted to finish my PG SF clean... but as I've said Mr.Gav's work on his PG RX is poison!!! Great stuff as always and I am looking forward to the completed build!

I am as always leaning towards weathering my PG... I just think it will blend better on my diorama. I just can't make up my mind. Oh well... will see sooner than later. Will work on the diorama this weekend as I am itchy to weather and hand paint all of sudden.

Do check out Mr.Gav at his website at Gavin Lee Manners and also check his new account at Instagram...

GAVINMANNERS @Instagram

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1/144 Commissioned Diorama WIP part1

Still a long way to go with this project, but I thought I'd archive my progress here in my blog already.

This is a 50cm x 50cm diorama commissioned work. I used 3mm pla plates, wooden frame and some styrofoam for the mountain side. The scale is 1/144, so obviously a ton of details to go before painting. I basically need to add some more windows and walls to the ruined buildings and bits and pieces to make it look more convincing.

I was looking for some references for some ruined buildings and concrete craters when I stumbled upon my best friend in the hobby's old work in progress posts at his blog. I must say his works are still the best in the world wide web. Below are some links to his awesome posts at his blog and these posts are my main references to further enhance this diorama project.

• 1/87 Ruined Building by KrizKreations
• Bombed City by KrizKreations
• Crater with Plaster by KrizKreations
• Quonset Hut by KrizKreations

Now I need to review all the links above as they are awesome and made my progress look like an 8 year old school project! Dang Kriz! Awesome stuff!

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MG Kampfer Ver Gav

All photos taken from gavinmanners.blogspot.com

Modeler: Gavin Lee Manners

Type : Custom Painted and Modified Build

Scale : 1/100

Model Kit : Bandai MG Kampfer

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GUNJAP Gunpla Builders Interviews

Hi Gunpla Builders of the world! I thought I'd compile all of the interviews done by Gunjap so far ( will continue to update this ). I have only seen the last episode of the recently concluded Gunpla Builders series as I do not really watch much Gundam. I thought of watching it after reading Becky's article.

Anyways will continue to update this post ( add thumbnails or even create a page for it ) as all the interviews are an entertaining read. Below are the list of Interviews arranged by dates ( except Master Kawaguchi's ).

Katsumi Kawaguchi 

TR13

DC23 

Anazasi Custom 

Toymaker 

Waylander

vegeta8259

Matt Mrozek

Eday

 Justinius Builds

Miko Matsing

Mechaion

YAYA

Olka Ramalegawa

Rebootyourself100 

Lean Bacalzo

David Ceremonia

Blublek Studio

JKL

Frasiska Fortunata

KC Tienda

Becky Customizer

Dhani

Mechanoid Paranoid

Raymund Victor Aguilar

KrizKreations

TK Mechworks

Babahobbyworks

Fabio Carturello

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1/48 Zaku Diorama " Resurrection " by Phoon

 Modeling by Ronnie Phoon! Ronnie Phoon! Ronnie Phoon!

I am 200% sure that I will be having sleepless nights this weekend! I am so dang inspired right now after seeing the most impressive 1/48 Zaku diorama ever! What is most inspiring is that I personally know the alien ( the person ) that did this masterpiece!

I am so proud and delighted to present a work that most likely all of my readers have already seen ( I know I am late ). I am so guilty to steal all of the photos of this 1/48 Zaku Diorama " Resurrection " by Ronnie Phoon. Apparently Ronnie Phoon aka Phoon at Pla-Zone has been creating impressive masterpieces for the past few years. The last masterpiece that I knew Phoon created was the " Dawn of Change " which was almost his last update in his blog. As I have not visited forums for the past couple of years, little did I know that Phoon has become a monster in this hobby!

Although I stole all of his photos, do head out to Pla-Zone to check his original post. Link below

1/48 Zaku Diorama " Resurrection " by Ronnie Phoon

Thanks for dropping by! Until next post guys! Just enjoy the hobby! :)

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