Random crap.
This time machine replica was on display at Aoshima’s booth. Unno-san has made a completely all-new tooling for a new model Delorean! It will feature gull-wing doors that can be opened and closed. They will be hinged with pins so that you can position them as you like. Fantastic! I’ll have pictures of it in a photo gallery of the event in my Greg’s Life section soon.
Finding clothing that fits in Japan can be sometimes worrisome. In America, I’m an M size, but here I’m an L. But while the waist may fit, sometimes they may be a bit tight around the boy parts or just be ill-fitting in general. A new trend are those irritating “boxer briefs” that feel weird. Fortunately, the maker of these Pac-Man boxers makes their boxers comfortable.
They also make these long boxers.
Painting eyes is the most nerve-wracking part of building garage kits. One can do an excellent paint job and assembly on a garage kit (aka GK, or gareki in Japanese), but if the eyes look weird, it’ll ruin the entire figure. You’ve gotta paint the eyes well, otherwise it’s crap and the whole build is no good.
I’m using Delta Ceramcoat acrylic paints, which are typical craft store paints. White, Black, and Mediterranean. I added some white to Mediterranean to add highlights to her irises. I didn’t notice imperfections in the molded surface of her face until I started painting. I tried to imitate Sadamoto’s art style. His distinct eyes are always great. I’m probably going to upload this build’s videos directly to Odysee rather than YouTube.
Yes, I’m a Hasegawa fanboy. Two 1:12 retro vending machines: ice cream and toasted cheese sandwiches. Two 1:72 Regult battlepods: the Scout Type and Heavy Missile Carrier Type. Two 1:12 resin figure kits: Yohko Asagiri from Leda: The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko and Kei from Dirty Pair. The only non-Hasegawa purchase is Max Factory’s 1:72 VF-1A/S Valkyrie, which disappointingly only came with stickers and not decals.
Here’s my Lynx crap. Behold the fancy carry case! I have the type 2 Lynx (the smaller one). I bought a set that came with the console, carry case, screen shield, and several games from an online store called Video Game Liquidators in 1997. Here’s my list of games:
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Chip’s Challenge
Gates of Zendocon
Gauntlet: The Third Encounter
Ishido: The Way of the Stones
Joust
Klax
Qix
Rampart
Roadblasters
Robo Squash
Rygar
Shanghai
S.T.U.N. Runner
Todd’s Adventure in Slime World
Xenophobe
Xybots
Zarlor Mercenary
I had hoped to visit Japan the summer of ’97 with the World Youth Visit Exchange Association (WYVEA), but the trip was cancelled. I had saved up enough money to go, but in the end I couldn’t go. (I went to Japan on my own the following year and made my own arrangements.) So, that summer I bought myself a Lynx and a decent VCR.
After waiting eight years for Ukraine to uphold the Minsk Agreements, after the stand-up comedian-turned-president Zelensky failed to keep his promise to end the genocide, Russia is now having to clean up the Nazi mess that the warmongering Neocons and Obamunists created in Ukraine. Putin is at war with both the Nazis and Biden’s money laundering scheme. Sometimes you cannot have peace unless you destroy the warmongers.
Not many people know what happened just the day before on September 10th, when Rumsfeld announced that the pentagon was mysteriously missing 2.3 trillion dollars. Then the next day, the Budget Analysis department of the Pentagon was supposedly hit by an airplane with magically disappearing wreckage, fitting into a considerably smaller hole with no damage from its wings.
After so many years have passed however, more and more people are waking up to the hoax that a bunch of rotten cavemen Muslim terrorists with magical box cutters who couldn’t even fly a Cessna could somehow perform expert aerial maneuvers in commercial airliners and cause them to slice through buildings like hot knives through butter and that Building 7 just magically evaporated, even though it wasn’t even struck by an airplane. That one never made sense to me, even back then.
As for myself, it was in 2013 when an Australian friend of mine challenged me to find footage of a plane hitting the Pentagon. It is the most highly-guarded building in the USA, so surely there must be a ton of cameras pointed at it, right? All I could find is a low-framerate video feed showing a small streak and then an explosion. Not big enough to be an actual plane. And after the explosion, there was no burning hulk of a plane with its tail sticking out of the building. The plane just vanished somehow. Bullcrap. The laughing Sandy Hook “father” was my first big wake up call to make me realize that we are being lied to, then the Pentagon and Building 7 thing is what really cemented the whole “conspiracy theorist” into my personality. I’m not a “conspiracy theorist.” I just don’t appreciate being lied to.
As far as the angry cavemen who cling to a cult created by a 7th century pedo psychopath, I’m not so much angry at hornets stinging people because that’s what hornets do. My focus is on those poking the hornets’ nest and using them as an excuse to start wars and invade countries.
Arii’s 1:100 scale model of Roy Fokker’s VF-1S. Well, actually Hikaru is piloting it at this point in the story. It’s rather nice box art, but notice that the thruster pod in the center is facing the wrong direction! Oops. The decals for this kit do not seem to be usable. I am thinking I might build this up as Jetfire from Transformers instead. I have plenty of Autobot emblem decals to use.