DC23 Pilot Painting Contest Finalists and Winner

The first Pilot Painting Contest was pretty successful I think. We got a total of 82 entries during the competition. The Contest was most active at Instagram as I have 7,000 followers at Instagram during the contest. It was so cool judging and screening entries during that time. We hope to bring you a quick exciting competition in the near future soon.

This fun contest was sponsored handsomely by GreatToysOnline.com and Hobbymate, links below..

HOBBYMATE

GreatToysOnline.com

Both HobbyMate and GTO ships worldwide. Fittingly so as I have more following internationally than locally ( Philippines ). HobbyMate will be shipping a handsome HM Airbrush and GTO will be shipping a set of Gundam Metal Nano Puzzles ( Both shops has shipped the prizes to our winner as I write this post ). and so our winner ( as posted both at Instagram and Facebook ) was 

Mark Carlisle of Australia 

( two time Australia GBWC Champion )

Also a ton of thanks to all the 82 entries and a warm congratulations to the other 9 finalists below! Again, I cannot thank you enough for joining our fun and humble competition! Hope to come up with more competitions soon! As always thanks a ton for dropping by! Until next post guys! Just enjoy the hobby!

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Newtype Gunpla Competition by Mechaspot.com

I have judged a handful of online Gunpla Competitions already, but never have I been invited to fly to another country and be a guest judge on a competition. I am so honored that Mechaspot.com extended me an invite late last year and I am so excited that their competition is pushing thru.

Yours truly ( Don Suratos aka DC23 of the Philippines ) and Anupong Channarong ( aka nuNunu of Thailand ) will be flying to Indonesia and will be staying there for 3 days. We will be judging a Gunpla competition and both of us will be conducting workshops on Gunpla. The workshops should be fun as we will try to teach you as much as we can during the event ( with live demos ).

Me and nuNunu will also be giving out a special award for the entries of our choice. I will be awarding my fav diorama entry and nuNunu will be awarding his Kitbash King award.

This competition is on December 11 and 12 and is OPEN TO ALL participants as long as you can fly to Indonesia with us. You may register now at Mecha Spot Facebook and Inquire on how to participate in this event. 

Mechaspot @ Facebook

I'll leave you with nuNunu's latest build featured at Kenny Lim's aka Toymaker's Blog...

Alpha Seraphim modeled by nuNunu

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PG Strike Freedom verDC23 WIP081314

Not much update since my last post. Basically I did more armor trimming on some parts which I always love to do on any Master Grade or Perfect Grade kits. Armor trimming and separation is done already and I have started to work on the actual modifications I had in mind for this kit. Stay tuned guys as I try to give this PG Strike Freedom a more menacing look.

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

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PG Strike Freedom verDC23 Armor Trimming WIP

While I am writing this post, I am actually restraining myself not to show my progress on the diorama of this build so far ( to keep the element of surprise ). I made changes on the diorama last weekend as this Perfect Grade SF is not the original kit for it. Although I said I will no longer post updates of this build here in my blog, I love sharing so much I just can't keep all of my updates to myself. lol

Just a little over a couple of months to go ( October 1 ) before submission at GBWC 2014 here in the Philippines and I just started my entry a couple of weekends ago. I managed to do a bit of modifications on the armor parts and will continue to do so until I am happy with my armor trimming. After armor separation and trimming... will work on adding pla plates and panel lines to the kit.

The plan is NOT to kit bash 3 to 5 MG kits to this Perfect Grade kit and make it look ridiculous. I do not want to sacrifice 5 kits and this expensive PG kit just to try to win at GBWC 2014 ( I am so guilty of this as you can see in my old contest gallery HERE ). The focus is to create a living room showcase out of this for my new house, not a cluster - fuk of my collection modified into one kit. lol

My objective and design goal is simple...

1. Make the Unicorn Gundam Destroy Mode look like it is wearing a sweat shirt. So I plan to expose the gold internals thru armor separation and armor trimming as much as I can.
2. Maximize what this Bandai kit has to offer. I will try not to use too much Kotobukiya option parts, metal parts and builder's parts as much as possible.
3. Try to paint it as clean as I can.

All the design goals and build objectives above are very difficult for me. I used to slap too much pla plates, kotobukiya parts and paint unskillfully all of my old Bandai contest entries for the past 3 years ( 2008 to 2010 ). But then again, old habits die hard much like restraining myself to post my updates. 

Hope I can pull this off though. I like my armor separation and armor trimming so far... will see my progress after next weekend. Thanks as always for dropping by! Until next update guys! Just enjoy the hobby! :b

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Perfect Grade Strike Freedom BFG WIP

Finished snap fitting my PG Strike Freedom during the weekend. I was also able cement the parts with seam lines and could sand those off today ( after giving the cement a day to cure ). I was also able to come up with a Big Fu...ing Gun ( or Bayonet ) and am pretty happy with the rough design as of now. I also plan to create a sort of shield for this build and should do so by next weekend.

Honestly I am having second thoughts if I will push to enter this for GBWC as my original planned kit has just arrived. Besides rushing my first owned Perfect Grade is not a good idea. Will see if what kit to push thru for the Bandai competition once I get home and snapfit my classic ZZ Gundam kit.

Thanks a ton for dropping by! Until next update guys! Just enjoy the hobby! :)

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