Loots & Purchases 17

It's been 3 months since I last purchased any gunpla kits, and now... behold, my first splurge of the year!

List:
TT/GG PG 1/60 Wing Gundam Zero Custom
GoGo MG 1/100 Hi-Nu Gundam Evo

Mcmodel HG 1/144 HWS Nu Gundoom

Daban MG 1/100 Astray Red Frame Kai

Daban MG 1/100 Epyon Gundam

BTF 1/100 GN Sword IV Full Saber

Tamiya Pla-plate set

Mr. Hobby Mr. Masking Sol R

I bought the PG Wing, MG Hi-Nu Evo & MG Epyon from Taobao, while the others were bought from local sellers. I've been searching for the normal TT/GG PG Wing for quite some time, and there is only the Pearl Coating version available everywhere as China stopped production of the normal version at that time. Recently they have started reproducing it again, so I quickly grabbed it before it become scarce again ^_^v. Good news is TT/GG PG RX-178 Mk-II both AEUG & Titans versions are also being reproduced, so grab it while you can!

The MG Hi-Nu Evo is finally released! I mentioned in a post few months back about China is making a snap-fit plastic kit out of a Hi-Nu resin conversion kit, now finally released, and the results is an awesome looking kit! I bought the 1/100 GN Sword IV Full Saber though I don't have a MG 00 Qan[T] yet. The reason is that this kit is a limited release, so I better grab it now than regret later XD. If you didn't already know, Daban is a new China bootleg company that just started business recently, releasing  MG Astray Red Frame Kai as their first bootleg kit, and the second kit being MG Epyon. On a side note, Dragon Momoko is releasing MG Epyon too, but with add-on clear-orange parts for the heat rod. I can't seem to find any Taobao seller which have Mcmodel HWS Gundoom in stock, so I have no choice but to get from a local seller(last unit to boot) at a higher price =(. Lesson learned for not buying a Mcmodel kit when it's just released. 

I also bought a few decals from Samueldecals again.

List:
RG Freedom Gundam decals

MG Zeta Plus decals Ver. 1

MG Zeta Plus decals Ver. 2

Oh yeah, means I finally can make a move on my previous backlogs, though new backlogs are added lololol. WIP of MG Strike Freedom coming soon!

Loots & Purchases 15

Another long MIA, again. I'm not gonna lament over the reasons, let's just say in short I had vacation in Paris for 9 days, then after return was busy preparing for exams.

Back to topic, although this post is under Loots & Purchases, I didn't bought any gunpla kits for the past month, but I did get gunpla kits as my Christmas presents ^^. Well that does consider categorise under loots, though free, haha.

What I got:

List:

RG 1/144 Freedom Gundam

HG 1/144 Ex-S Gundam

How my relatives know which to buy for me? I gave them a list of my wanted gunpla kits within their budget xD. So you may be asking, since I already had the MG Ex-S Gundam, why want the HG too? Simple, I'm such a huge fan of Ex-S Gundam, I want to collect all versions of it xD.

Now these adds more to the already big backlogs, and I haven't been building or painting any kits for the past month. Now that my exams are over and I'm having my semester break, time to catch up on my projects, stay tune!

Loots & Purchases 14

Another long MIA from me, been real lazy to blog recently, lol

BUT, today(or actually yesterday), 19/11/2011, is a very special date for me. It's so special, that I have to blog it no matter what. The reason it's not because Malaysia's Gundam Builders World Cup(GBWC) Open Category is being held in Sungei Wang Plaza from 18th to 23rd November, nor because the Junior Category is being held in MIECC from 18th to 28th November.

It's because I finally bought my dream gundam kit, MG 1/100 MSA-0011[Ext] Ex-S Gundam!!!!!! *cheering*

Finally made up my mind to buy it after holding back for so long. There was a small warehouse sale during the GBWC, and the MG Ex-S was on sale at a price of RM265. Not a very big discount from the usual price of RM280, or RM272 of Gamers Arena's price. However, I thought, since I'm going to buy it sooner or later(the only kit I would die for), why not buy now at this cheaper price? So I went ahead and bought it ^^

Before this I wanted to buy the HG Hyaku Shiki GPB Color (Byaku Shiki), but my friend, Nicholas Chua aka ascentic advised me not to do so, for now, as the price of RM68 is overpriced.

I took his advise, and went to look for another worthy kit, if any, to purchase. Had my eye on the MG RX-178 Super Gundam, since it was rare, and the good thing is I can mount the G-defender on MG RX-178 MkII v2.0 when I buy it in the future. But then I thought when will that be? Moreover I'm not really loving RX-178. Then I saw workers bringing in new batches of stock, so I went and checked out what new items were brought in. That's when I saw MG Ex-S Gundam and the rest are history~

I'm definitely broke now, trying to salvage some cash for the upcoming Mcmodel Nu Gundoom HWS, still surveying for a good price. But this purchase today is not the only reason I'm broke, but also due to I've ordered ALOT of bootleg gundam kits from Taobao. It's not convenient for me to tell the price here, but all I can say it's BIG =X. I ordered a total of 7 kits, that's right, 7!!! Here's the the stuffs I've ordered:

List:

HG 1/144 Gaplant TR-5

HG 1/144 Psycho Gundam

NG 1/100 Akatsuki Gundam

MG 1/100 Sinanju

MG 1/100 Deathscythe Gundam EW

MG 1/100 Deathscythe Hell Custom

MG 1/100 Zaku II J-Type

*I'm not really sure which version of this Zaku II is. It's either the normal version, or the MS Igloo version. They are suppose to be of different shade of green, but I can't differentiate it by using photos from web.

Now that's alooooooot of kits to build, adding up to the large number of backlogs I already had.

Other than Mcmodel Nu Gundoom HWS, no more purchases for me until next year, the most until Chinese New Year, lol. I hope I'm not tempted to buy the upcoming TT/GG release of MG Wing Zero Custom, or worse, the TT/GG MG Hi-Nu Gundam Kai! >_<

That's it for this post, I'm currently working on my MG Strike E + IWSP, hope I'm not too lazy to post up a WIP, lol.

P/S: I'm starting to number my 'Loots & Purchases' posts, it's head cracking task to think up a different title everytime, lol.

GG HG 1/144 GN Arms Type-D + Dynames - Unboxing

This is the GaoGao's bootleg version of Bandai's HG 1/144 GN Arms Type-D + Dynames kit.

GN Arms is a mobile armour/weapons platform add-on for Celestial Being's Gundams, and the Type-D is specially designed for Gundam Dynames. As the name of the kit says, this kit also includes a HG 1/144 Gundam Dynames.

Front/top/bottom/side view:

*This is the first time I've bought a bootleg kit(other than Mcmodel), so I just knew that bootleg kits' box art is different from original Bandai's, especially the sides. On Bandai kits they usually have photos of the kit in action with information, but on TT/GG kits, they only have simple few photos of the kit.

More surprisingly for this kit is they altered the front box art. Where on the Bandai's kit there's a pic of Lockon Stratos on the bottom right, but on this GG kit, they removed it and carelessly re-drawn the GN Arms' left leg, LOL.

Contents:

There are a total of 24 runners for this kit, with 5 runners for Gundam Dynames and 18 runners for the GN Arms. There's one more runner for the included display stand.

The runners for Gundam Dynames

The runners for GN Arms and display stand

*As you may notice, a few parts have came off the runner, nothing surprising as it is quite normal for bootleg kits I've heard.

There are extra unused parts which are actually from GN Arms Type-E. It's actually possible to build the GN Arms Type-E wholly =D.

Foil stickers and screws are given

*This is the first time I've got a gunpla kit with screws, which are used to tighten joints for large and heavy kits.

Manual:

*Needless to say, bootleg kits are produced by China, so of course the manual's in mandarin, hahaha. It does have English too, albeit badly translated XD.

That's it for this unboxing, stay tune for updates!

Received A Package!

I got a package yesterday evening~


If you already read my previous post on 23rd July, you should know what's inside =P.

Without further ado, here's what's inside the package~~~ tadaa~~~!!! xD


List:
GG HG 1/144 GN Arms Type-E + Exia(Trans-Am Mode) - RM95
GG NG 1/100 Avalanche Exia - RM40

I bought from GundamNation Shop. I bought at a total of RM130 only with postage, thanks to Ryan of GundamNation Shop for giving me a discount of RM5 =D. Very nice and secure packaging Ryan have done, not even the rough handling of Skynet workers can affect the boxes inside, good job there Ryan! A recommended nice and efficient seller! Hope to see more nice promos from you again!

New Gundam Series - Gundam AGE

Looks like the hot topic for Gundam/Gunpla fans these few days is the announcement of a new Gundam series - Gundam AGE. If you didn't already know from various sites on the internet, here's the article on the announcement of Gundam AGE:


Apparently majority of Gundam fans are raging over it, criticising that the Gundam AGE's design is a combination of recycled designs from various Gundam. Most people are also fuming over the chest design, which looks like jet engine intake according to some. Not only that, they are complaining that the storyline is too childish, it's to cater for younger audiences, especially that the lead character is a young kid.

I'm not really excited about it when the announcement was made, but nor was I particularly hating it. After watching the promo trailer, I'm now pretty looking forward to watch it, as it's pretty nice in my opinion =).
I don't understand those people who criticised this new series before even it was even aired. They are basing their opinions on the not-so-much information about the series and bashing it up before they know the full extend of the story. Ironically, when Gundam 00 was announced, the same thing happened, but now most of the criticism died out, with a large fan database some more. Some of them happened to be those who criticised it in the first place =_=.

Enough said about my opinions, here is the promo trailer:


Official Gundam AGE site

Here's a short summary of the story:

The new series will have three generations of "father, child, and descendant" as the lead characters. The main characters pilot the Gundam unit to fight against an unknown attacking enemy (UE) and save Earth in a "One Hundred Year War" — an apparent homage to the One Year War of the first Gundam series.
The first main character is Furitto Asuno, who developed the Gundam AGE-1 mobile suit (humanoid mobile weapon) equipped with the AGE System (a self-adapting computer). The second main character is Asemu Asuno, Furitto's child. The third main character is Kio Asuno, Furitto's descendant who inherits the Gundam. The Gundam AGE-1 can be augmented as the Gundam AGE-1 Titus for more power, or as the Gundam AGE-1 Sparrow for more speed.
Other characters include Emily, Furitto's friend since he was 7. Guruudekku is a Commander in the Earth Federation Forces and the captain of the battleship Diva. Mireesu is a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the Federation Forces aboard the Diva.

The Gundam featured in this series is obviously Gundam AGE. Seems like Gundam AGE has artificial intelligence embed based on this sentence:

The Gundam AGE-1 is the main characters unit. Although it’s a machine, surprisingly, the Gundam grows with the “AGE SYSTEM”. It’s form seems to change with growth from experience in battle!

Gundam AGE will also have 3 different battle/armour configuration:

GUNDAM AGE-1 NORMAL
GUNDAM AGE-1 SPARROW (Speed Type) – A cool blue unit is the highlight. The enemy is torn to shreds with the cutting edge of the sharp Sigl Blade.
GUNDAM AVE-1 TITUS (Power Type) - Though it doesn’t appear to carry weapons, with it’s unbelievable destructive power it crushes the enemy.

Seems like Bandai is going all out to promote this series as they have already produced Gundam AGE gunpla kit of various grades! Surprisingly, or shockingly for some, that a MG kit of Gundam AGE is already in the works while other more popular Gundams/MS from older series don't even have MG kit yet!
Apart from the usual HG 1/144 kit, a Mega Size 1/48 kit is also announced, with another 2 new grades: AG 1/144(Advanced Grade) & GB 1/100(Gage-ing Builder).
Apparently GB kits are figure kits embed with a Gage-ing chip, used at GAGE-ING BATTLE BASE in Japan, a kind of arcade game. This seemed to be aimed at children market, another reason for older fans to grumble, lol.

For more information, please check out my source of these information:
gundamguy.blogspot.com

HGGPB MSN-04 Sazabi GPB Color - Unboxing

This is a recoloured white version of Sazabi that appeared in the Mobile Suit Gunpla Builders Beginning G OVA series.

Front/top/bottom/side view:




*The box is pretty plain, expected from a limited edition gunpla kit

The contents:

*There are 10 runners in this kit.

This kit is basically the same as HGUC MSN-04 Sazabi, with the exception of including a paper giving some information on the GPB version. Even the construction manual is the original HGUC Sazabi's, lol. So Bandai just cast the runners using the same mould with different colour during manufacturing, print back the old manual, dump in an extra piece of paper, then sell it at a higher price. Nice marketing strategy, Bandai *sarcasm*.

Here's a sneak peak of the kit I've finished assembled. Snap fitted with nub-marks cleaning done, no panel lining and decal applied yet.




After completing this kit, I went on straight to start building my RG GAT-X105 Aile Strike Gundam.
It's not only until I finish assembling the legs and waist unit, that I noticed I've forgot to snap pics of the runners in sealed plastic *facepalm*.
Looks like I have no choice but to show empty runners during unboxing post of RG Aile Strike *sweat*.

Loots From 2011 Mid-year BAKUC @ MIECC

Been quite busy so can't blog much, looks like I'm gonna skip the WIP Part 2 for Hi-Nu Gundoom, or just minimise it.
Today's post is about my loot from 2011 Mid-year Bandai Action Kits Universal Cup(BAKUC) event held at Malaysia International Exhibition & Convention Centre(MIECC) @ The Mines.
Litt Tak, the distributor for Bandai products in Malaysia, took this chance to have a small warehouse sales during this event, and here are what I bought from there:

*Definitely not bought MG 00 Qan[T], it's just the paper bags containing my purchases XP
Quite nice designs on the bags, going to store it nicely =D

Here's what's inside...


List:
MG MSZ-006 Zeta Gundam 2.0 (RM165)
HG MSN-04 Sazabi GPB Color (RM150)

The purpose of me going there today is to buy a second unit of MG ReZEL Commander Type, because I've been informed that it is selling for RM135 only!
Originally I've decided not to go, as MIECC is not near to my house and not very convenient to go there, but this awesome price changed my mind!
However, after going all the way there, lost the way a bit in between, frustratingly searched for parking, finding the way to the exhibition hall, looking around for ReZEL Commander Type......
Found the last unit on sale, and you know what? The price tag shows RM165!
I thought it may be a typo, so I asked a staff, and to my dismay, he told me that was the true price!
I interrogated further that I was told it was RM135, and the staff told me that yesterday's price of RM135 was a typo, those who bought it yesterday were lucky!!!
CAN YOU IMAGINE MY RAGE?!?!
How irony that I thought RM165 price was a typo but in fact actually is the RM135 price that was a typo!

Damn I was so pissed off, I passed up on buying the kit although it was still cheaper than usual price, but I don't want to went all the way there just to leave empty handed, so I choosed the MG Zeta 2.0.

In forum(lowyat.net), members were saying how awesome the white Sazabi was, and it's a limited event only edition, but I didn't want to buy due to it's a HG kit(an expensive one too).
But I saw the assembled kit on display at BAKUC and I immediately decided to buy it, because of the large size of Sazabi for a HG kit, and the white colour is awesomely cool! Felt like a guardian knight xD

I didn't have time to post some of my purchases last week from Berjaya Times Square:


List:
RG GAT-X105 Aile Strike Gundam (RM90)
Mr. Super Clear Flat (RM39)
Mr. Super Clear Gloss (RM39)

Hell I'm so regretting buying the RG Aile Strike, because it was on sale at the warehouse sale for RM80 only! Bundled free with Action Base 3 some more!

EDIT: I misunderstood sbout the RG Aile Strike promo, it is not bundled with Action Base 3. The promo is if you buy RG Aile Strike + Action Base 3, you'll get a free 3D RG Aile Strike postcard. Sorry for any misunderstanding caused.

Kinda lots of disappointment today, not to mention burnt a hole in my wallet >_<

That's it for this post, kinda long winded, LOL