| ***December***
Rens & Dolphins
- December
29, 2003
- Christmas has come and
passed yet again for another year, and now I'm gearing up my liver
for an alcohol attack on New Years Eve :) I didn't get any cool
things this year, except for the Animatrix, Daredevil and Fightclub
DVD's, oh and a couple of books, but no toys or anything... I'll
be in the city soonish so I'll go hunting for a post christmas
prezzie then... I did get myself that sabrefang a couple of weeks
ago though... oh well :)
- I found a few pictures
of miniature Star Wars vechiles. Mini because they are for war
gaming. They look pretty good for their size, but when it came
to downloading, only the snowspeeder worked, which was a bit of
a dissapointment. I would have like to get the speeder bike or
the sand barge thing. You can check them out here
for all your paper starwars war gamming.
- That Shunpop guy [Shunichi
Makino] has finished his original robot design which is called
Rens Head? Shouldn't it be called Lens Head or Head Lens? But
I suppose the japanese language doesn't have L's and instead are
replaced by R's. Hence the Rens not the Lens. ANNYYWAAAAYY...
You can download the entire thing for free from his new site [I
wonder if it replaced his old one?], plus there is an optional
gun arm, but he wants ¥500 for it [which is about $6-7AUS].
There isn't a picture of the gun arm yet so yeah... thats a bit
stupid.... You can find the link and everything in the mecha
other section.
- Dolphin Blue? Some new
PS2 game which looks a bit like Contra/Metal Slug. The game's
website has a a couple of the models from the game, including
a submarine, battleship and a few tanks with various colour schemes.
The 'Iso-Gawara' Battleship looks pretty cool and reminds me of
the Yamato ship... you can find them in my other
game section with their details.
- I also found a couple
of models of the Playstation 2 console. One in its upright position
and another in its horizontal position. You can find it in my
other
real section.
- What do we all need
at this joyous time of year? Blood, guns and bullet time dodging
action of course!! What am I talking about? Max Payne... because
of my dated computer I never got to play the PC version [except
for once when I played it on my friends PC]... Anyway, there is
a Gameboy Advance version out! I was a little sceptic in thinking
how the GBA can pull it off... but I was pleasantly surprised.
I've played the recent James Bond game which was crap, but this
is soooo much better. I'll rave about it more in the games
section.
- Like I said last time...
I went looking for a picture of that manga spiderman figurine,
and I found it... I'll have to have a closer look at it next time
in the shops and see how much articulation he has, but its still
looks good all the same... see here for the 'toybiz'
"6inch ACTION FIGURE ASST 5 - MANGA SPIDER-MAN with Wall-Crawling
Action".
ARRGGG me hearties!
- December
22, 2003
- Nothing major happening
this week... with all the christmas stuff happening it doesn't
surprise me. Speaking of christmas... while walking down the toys
aisle, I glanced across the many Batman, LotR and MARVEL figurines
and I stopped there. Why? Well I saw a figurine of one of my favourite
Spiderman's. Its the manga spiderman from a short series called
"The Legend of the Spider Clan"!! I got excited and
wanted to grab this and add it to my collection, but I had no
money on me at the time... I'll buy it after christmas, when the
all the parents have calmed down and returned to Dr Jekyll. Eeeek!
Anyway I'll see if I can find a pic of the figurine, but in the
meantime I'll just show you what the comic looks like...
Click on the Led Heavy logo, to
see some more of the artists (Skott Young) spiderclan work plus
a heap of other comic artwork. Awsome shite...
- Back to the papermodels...
I found a little site that has a couple of models that are pretty
cool. There are a couple of pokemon models, but the Pikachu has
a hole in his head!? Bad design there... but the Charizard is
pretty cool, as is Doreamon and the Pirate ship. When I first
saw this pirate ship I immediately thought of the One Piece pirate
ship, but then after a glance at my manga I was corrected. Its
still cool though. I've realised that my other section has been
getting rather full... so I've divided my other section up into
two types. The first is the original Other
section, which has "other" types of models and second
is the new section called OtherBOX,
which contains the boxhead/hakoclone style models. The pirate/charizard/doraemon
are found in the Other
section.
Y-SYstem, Cardboard
Robots and MedamaOyaji!-
December 19, 2003
- I don't know if these
Y-system robots are new or not, but I've never seen them before.
They are transforming paper robots, much like that VoltesV robot
that I posted ages ago. Once again I couldn't see any download
links as the site was in japanese, but maybe someone else could
help. I think you can buy them though. You can find the pics and
the links in my wanted
mecha section.
- I little while ago I
found a pic of a robot made out of a carboard box... well I found
a heap of em. They have good articulation too... I have a stack
of cardboard from my new 80cm tv, so I'm going to see if I can
ask for the plans to build the robot, or just the poseable hand!
Once again look in my wanted
mecha section
for more.
- MedamaOyaji? This little
marvel of lego robotics is pretty cool. It doesn't have all the
gizmos that the Lego Mindstorms robotics can offer, instead it
is simply just a motor and clever cog work. Plus its really small
too, being not much larger than the Lego motor itself. You can
buy the instructions and stuff to build one of these things, or
you can build a paper version! I don't have a picture of the paper
version, so construction might be a bit of a puzzle, but hopefully
its all good. You can find it in my mecha
other section.
- I posted a picture of
this robot alien thing from the movie 'The Day the Earth Stood
Still' awhile ago [way back in august]
and now i've finally found the model. It comes with his spaceship
thing, but I'm not really interested in building a giant flattened
cone. Its kind small on the plans, but maybe you could extract
it in photoshop or something. Its in my mecha
other section.
- Finally that Aliens
Dropship thing from the movie "Aliens" is available
to download. There are 3 versions of it too so you have a little
bit of a decision to make... or just build all 3! :) Its in my
other
section.
- A few small notes about
a couple of things... that Shunpop guy has a new pic of his 'Advanced
Situation' spaceship and if you click on the robot that is down
the right side of his main page [it looks like one of those repair
droid things that worked on the pod racers from starwars episode
1], you'll get a pic of it half constructed. Bookmark shunpops
site and be sure to visit it regularly. I also posted a couple
of ingram pics in the toy
other section.
'Zenith', Scooters
and a Zabre Fang.-
December 6, 2003
- It didn't take long
for someone to find that Zenith model... so HOORAY! to them! It
was on the site somewhere, but I couldn't read the japanese so
I was a little lost. Anyhoo, enough of me blabbing... get downloading!
You'll find it in my mecha
game section.
- I stumbled across these
'scooter' models, while doing a random "papercraft"
search on one of the many search engines. Vechiles don't usually
find there way onto my site, unless they originate from some anime
series or movie or something like that... but then again I do
have that kick-arse Yamaha YZF R-1 posted. Oh well, make this
another exception... why you ask? Well by the look of the pictures,
it folds up! and thats cool in my books. Anything movable/transformable
made out of paper would probably get my interest. Anyway, there
are 2 versions of this scooter thing... you'll find it in my other
real section.
- How hard is it to find
a Gunsniper! My local shops didn't have a single one! They had
plenty of Sabre Fangs, Liger's and those stupid Mulga things or
what ever they are... I remember when the Zoid kits hit the shelves
you couldn't get enough of them! Anyhoo, I wasn't going to buy
a Zabre Fang, instead I was going to get myself a Liger Zero/Blade
Liger, but they were like $40AUS, and as I don't have a solid
job at the momment I wasn't prepaired to sacrifice 40 of me pennies...
so I saw the Zabre Fang for $23AUS and I bought it... What do
I think of it? Well it's damn cool thats what! It walks and its
jaw moves up and down and stuff! After like an hour of watching
it walk across many terrains [it had a little trouble on really
fluffy carpet], I paused the legs in their best position and put
it on display alongside my collection of paper mechs. Anyway,
my eye is still looking for that gunsniper...
This is the holotech
version... I have the plain yellow one.
- Once again I've added
a couple more GaoGaiGar toys to my toy
section. Can't get enought of this thing! Speaking of GGG,
I've been heaps busy the past week so I haven't had the chance
to build anymore of my scratch build attempt of this awsome robot.
Don't worry though, i'll try get it completed. I'll let you know
if there is any progress, but you can look at what I've done so
far in my projects
section.
FRONT MISSION
4, Aibo and more Zoidness!!! -
December 1, 2003
- I first played the first
Front Mission game on the SNES about 2 years ago [yeah I know,
I'm a little late]. I got hold of another of the SNES games: Front
Mission - Gun Hazard, although it was in japanese... so I couldn't
play it much. I've only been exposed to a very small portion of
the Front Mission games as there are a handfull available on the
Playstation/PS2. Now there is the latest installment: Front Mission
4. I don't know the story or anything, but I'm not here to talk
about the game... I haven't read/heard much about this site and
I don't know why because its a good source [even though there
are no downloads]. I've mentioned this site many times before,
and I'll mention it again... http://chokipeta.jp/
Not only it does this site show those cool pokemon models, but
it also has other goodies aswell, and this time is the Zenith
mecha from the new Front Mission 4 game. I looked for a download
for the model, but I couldn't find any... maybe someone who can
read japanese could help. You'll find the pictures of it in my
wanted
section, where you'll also find the site link.
 
- AIBO!!! Well not the
Aibo us westerners are most used to seeing, but its still Aibo.
I found this at the site
that has that Mighty Atom model. I don't know if its poseable
or not, but yeah its pretty damn cool. Browse down the list on
the left to see a heap of pretty cool models... the clothing ones
are particularly good.
- More Zoids? Yeah more
zoids... mostly special versions of the Liger Zero, but yeah I've
added a couple more to my toy
section.
- When I saw this my jaw
dropped... it was a model of the Terminator skeleton. I'd hate
to build this... all those curves and cylinders! AKK! See it here
and in my wanted
section.
***November***
Nothing much
besides my shopping list for Christmas!! -
November 28, 2003
- I don't think I have
any new papermodels to add this week... a bummer really... The
might be a stargate model out soon, maybe...
- The past week I've been
gathering references of the really cool GaoGaiGar robot. I'm considering
a scratch build of it... transformable thats another question,
but yeah I'm giving it some serious thought, drawing up sketches
and seeing if I could pull it off. Building paper models are like
magic tricks: you need to think it through, practic it a few times
and then see if you can pull it off. I've only found a stack of
pictures of that kick ass transforming toy of it... which have
served me alright, but I'd like to have the 3 views of it so proportions
and stuff can be somewhat accurate. How detailed, the quality
and how big it will be I cannot say. I also can't say when it
will be released, if ever. I've been gradually building a model
of it in Maya from the ground up [literally], so for more information
about what I'm planning and to see what I've built so far check
my
projects section. I've also added couple of new cool GGG pics
and have added them to my toy
section. The image below shows 2 GGG mecha [there's another
one which has the lion guy with that stealth bomber, 2 drills
and a bullet train]. The site which had this image had sliced
up the image so I had to reconstruct it and I missed 2-3 of the
slices on the second image :(
 
I've started building
the GGG Final one [the one on the right]... It looks a little
easyier to build than the lion one :)
- So whats this christmas
list of mine? Well the WHOLE toy section is classified as my christmas
list!! hehe but to be more realistic, I've found a couple of images
of the different armoured liger's which I must get my hands on...
First of all a Liger Zero X then probably the Panzer armour. I
just recently saw the episode of Zoids where Bit goes up against
Vega in his Beserk Fury, & Panzer uses that humungus all out
assault on the falling judge ship. Look at all those missiles....
AWWWWSOME!! Anyway... I haven't managed to find the different
armour upgrades anywhere in the main chain stores in Sydney. I
think I might have to settle for a Liger Zero X... or maybe a
Berserk Fury?... Also a couple of other little guys like Black
Ox from the Getter stuff and some cool looking Megaman toys...
See me toy
section, where you'll find my realistic christmas list.
- So apart from being
no new paper models this week, what is there? Well a stack of
new GBA games that's what! James Bond: Everything or Nothing,
Medal of Honor: Infiltrator, T3: Rise of the Machines and StarWars:
Flight of the Falcon. I've only played Medal of Honor out of the
lot of them and its a pretty cool game... see more info in the
games
section.
Arrow, more Stickfas
& GaoGaiGar fever -
November 17, 2003
- I got a message from
a fellow modeller saying he had just finished building the Destroid
Monster, and he has a heap of pictures showing
his construction. Anyway he has also taken up model building
himself and he has made the 'Arrow' ship from Wing Commander 3.
Because he let me know about his model I'm happy to post it on
my site :) Find it in my video
games section.
- I found this site
which is all about actual robots [asimo, hrp etc] and there is
a model of a robot whose feet are sticking out sideways and has
rotating arm and leg joints. The site is worth looking at, even
though its in japanese... its good to see what those crazy japanese
robotics people have been up to. The model is in the mecha
section.
- I went looking around
for what other versions of stickfas there are out or going to
be out and I found a few that are a must have. You can find them
in my toy
section.
- I can't remember what
got me on to this, but yeah I've gone on a GaoGaiGar frenzy...
Theres that Voltron style transformation thing to it that has
gotten me interested in this weird but cool looking mecha. I have
a stack of pictures of this cool toy, plus a heap of pictures
of another mecha, similar to the GaoGaiGar guy but with a different
name... I'll have to look it up again... Anyway have a look in
the toy
section.
Pepakura, Nautilus,
mini VF-1S & Stickfas!
- November 17, 2003
- When I first looked
at the models at the pepakura site, none of the models really
caught my eye. However with a recent revisit, I had changed my
mind. There are about 4 models that are worth your while. The
first being Noface from that awsome anime - Spirited Away, the
second being that Titan 08 model which I have mentioned once before,
the third being that rocket which looks like its from Wallace
& Gromit: A Grand Day Out [also mentioned before], and finally
a squished up [chibi style] jet. I haven't posted up the jet on
my site, but you'll be sure to find it in the pepakura
gallary. Noface and the W&G rocket is in my other
section and Titan08 is in my mecha
section.
- A couple of weeks ago
I went and saw "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"
and got meself a look at Captain Nemo's revamped Nautilus... pretty
damn cool... anyway I found the model of the original Nautilus
which includes that giant squid! I'd build it just for the giant
squid :) Find it in my other
section. Also at the same site, I found a model of Robbie
the Robot... I think thats what his name is... Its what i remember
him being called... anyway yeah that "Danger Will Robinson!!"
robot from 'Lost in Space'. It'll be in my mecha
section. On this site there is a heap of space related models...
plus that chic with that spikey ball from Kill Bill...
- I have a job interview
on Monday at a printing company and they deal in making boxes
and stuff, so to show my cutting/gluing skills I wanted to show
some of the models that I have built. So I managed to borrow the
digital camera from my Dad's work. To make this story a little
shorter... Something went wrong with the camera or something...
a little red light started flashing or something [oops]... anyway,
I took photos of all the models that I built, but for some reason
I lost half of them... I think I buggered up the internal memory
or something... anyway, after all that I don't have pictures of
any of my models to show at my interview :( I do however have
some of the pictures of the other not so important stuff. One
being that Gun Sniper/Genosaur Bionicle thing I created and the
other being my miniature VF-1S veritech fighter!!! I never ended
up making that 3D model to show yall, but this is even better!
Find more info in my
projects section.
  
- I don't know if we'll
find out what that shunpop guy was building... he's updated his
'advanced
situation' page with drawings/designs of some of the models
that he can't manage to build... one of them being the most wanted
battloid mode of the VF-1S [sob sob].
- In the past few weeks
some of the most anticipated GBA games have been released and
I'm still playing the first one. 'Fire Emblem' is still being
played in number 1 slot, closely followed by the new mario bros
game 'Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga', then 'Sword of Mana'
and finally 'Beyblade VForce'. Find my reviews of most of these
games in my games
section. I hope no more good GBA games come out for a couple
of weeks... I have a bit of gaming to catch up on.
- You may have seen those
Stickfa figurines in my toy section... well I bought one today!
I wanted to get the robot or samurai but I don't think we have
them out here yet... all they had was the alpha & omega male
guy, the knight & horse and the biker... I didn't have much
money on me, so I couldn't get the knight, so for $13AUS I settled
for the omega male guy. Mine has like heavy weapons [like a rocket
launcher, flamethrower, mortar etc]. Next time I'm in town I'll
look out for the samurai or the robot guy and I'll bring a little
extra cash. I wrote a little bit more about the actual thing in
the toy
section.
Nerfect robot
and Overman
- November 12, 2003
- Nerfect? What is this
nerfect? Well its some website... or the name of some guy... Owen
Nerfect? Anyway... this guy was inspired by that
site which has a stack load of box robots which I call the
'old school robots'. Anyway... you can download his incarnation
of it... find him in the mecha
section for the details.
- Went for another web
crawl the other day and I managed to find a couple of book's [which
I haven't seen before]. The first, 'Captain
Harlock Arcadia Real Paper Craft' I think is much like that
huge Yamato ship and the other one, 'Overman
King Gainer Exodus Guide' I haven't a clue. I couldn't find
a picture of the actual model [see image below], but it by reading
the book contents, its supposed to have a "9 inch tall papercraft
Overman model"... from a series called 'Overman King Gainer',
made by Gundam and Aura Battler Dunbine creator Yoshiyuki Tomino...
its news to me :) I'll continue to do some research on this Overman...
in the meantime look in my wanted
section for a squiz at the books.
- Dunno if this is new
or not, but I revisted the Sonic
Chao site, and found a rocking horse.
- There's probably going
to be a delay with the Fuchikoma model. Just one version [the
red one] is 24mb, so the transfer of this awsome robot will probably
take some time or if at all :(
Is this Overman?
Maser and birthday
fallout
- November 9, 2003
- If you haven't already
seen/heard elsewhere, that shunpop guy has finished his Maser
Tank model [which I think is from the Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla].
You'll find the info on it plus the link in my other
section... While still on the subject of shunpops work, he
has a puzzling image of basically a rectangular prism in his 'work
in progress' page... It has puzzled a few people, with them trying
to guess what its going to be... Someone suggested it looks definately
like the 'Gamilon Tri-Deck Carrier' from the Shapeship Yamato
series... I don't know how this guy can see this from this one
picture... see for yourself:
 
Now I don't know about
you, but shunpops piece of paper looks more like the body of some
Star Trek ship... Its a weird mystery... I used babelfish to translate
the japanese below the picture and this is what it made it out
to be: "It tried uniting the plan of yesterday, but it is
harsh sure enough, is." This isn't english in my books, so
yeah I'm anxious to see what this turns out to be.
- For something completly
off topic... Squirrel Fishing... its the most hilarious sport
invented, but if you don't know what I'm talking about then look
here.
- Back on topic again,
kind of... Fire Emblem, the latest game for the GBA that I have
managed to get my hands on... I saw in game footage of it when
I downloaded one of the video's from this years/last years E3
expo. Last week or so it was released and i've completed the first
chapter of play... and damn its cool. The animations and character
designs are awsome and yeah its a must play. See a sneak peak
and mini review in my games
section.
- Also a trailer has been
released for the upcoming new Ghost in the Shell movie? called
'Innocence'. It looks pretty cool... trailers a bit short, but
then again its just a trailer... go here
to download a copy.
- Oh well another yeah
has flown on by... damn a year goes fast... Anyway... Birthday
prezzies! I got a new green shirt! Raymond E Feist's latest installment
to the Conclave of the Shadows saga: King of Foxes, Ronin on DVD
[awsome movie], The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
by Ben Folds Five... Its somewhat old but its the only one I haven't
got yet, and I'm listening to it while I'm typing this and its
pretty cool... oh and little gift from myself... the Lego
Bionicle Rahkshi, Lerahk. This thing is awsome... [see picture
below]... I've bought one of the Bionicle things last year...
it was one of those Bohrok? things... Pahrak it was called. I
loved that one and now that I have another bionicle figure with
more moveable parts I can make heaps of mutations weird beasts...
This joint system that lego has created is pure genius... its
like an animators armature skeleton. So far I have created my
own armoured warrior guy which I call 'Pahlerrak'... the good
fusion of my Pahrak and Lerahk and with a few small ajustments
[YES IT TRANSFORMS!] it mutates into a 6 armed dinosaur type beast
which I call 'Lerpahrak'... the evil fusion. My character has
like a split personality so it can mutate back and forth depending
on its feelings... I've scribbled down the plans for that beast
and now i've created another beast which I haven't named yet and
probably won't... I was thinking Zoids at the time of building,
so its kind of a Gun Sniper/Genosaur. Its pretty cool... plus
it can carry one of those technic men on its back. I wish I had
a digital camera... Go to the bionicle
website and download some of the videos of the bionicle creatures...
pretty cool 3D stuff.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
ME!!
- November 7, 2003
- At the time of typing
this message its actually 5th Novemeber... but it'll be uploaded
on the 7th so its all good. I've got myself a casual job as a
PAPER BOY!! WAHOO! A 20yr old paperboy! I've spent the past 2
days folding and delivering newspapers... the whole damn 460 of
them... The pay isn't something to brag about, but at least its
something and I'll be able to buy some of that japanese pop culture
(^-^)
- Anyway enough about
me.... whats new this week? Well I got an email from some guy
in which I forgot his name, but i'll be sure to remember it soon,
as he said he saw that I was looking for that fuchikoma model
and he happens to have a copy! I got all excited and yeah I asked
if he could send me a copy of at least one of them.... So brace
yourselves people!
- Another visitor to my
site mentioned that I don't have any of those models from the
Aliens movie posted on my site. I thought I already posted them
here, but obviously I hadn't... So you'll find the link to the
Pulse Rifle and the others in my other
section.
- Now for some pure skill....
this 70 odd year old modeller is a master of papercraft. He has
a huge model of the Spirit Resort from Studio Ghibli's Spirited
Away [an awsome movie by the way]. You can look at it here
and here,
or have a sneak squiz in my wanted
section. I tip my hat to you dude... keep up the good work.
- Now for a little bit
of miscellaneous jumble... I found a pic of a pretty cool boxhead
Mickey Mouse, and at the same site, that automated Smoking robot
[see pictures below]. I also added a couple of pictures of some
Virtua On models to my toy
section.
   
Mostly VirtuaOn
Mecha...
- November 2, 2003
- YAY its NOVEMBER!!!!
Me birthday month you see... Another 5 days!!! YIPPA!
- Anyway, like I have
been doing over the past few weeks with the previous posts is
revisiting some of the good sites which we have all lost in the
huuuuuge list of links in our favourites/bookmarks. I stumbled
across the guy that has a heap of cool looking picks of the Virtua
On paper models. There's not a great deal of stuff that grabbed
my attention again as I've seen it all before, but in one of his
many links [that I'm still ploughing through] there were 2
downloads for a chibi styled virtua on mecha. I downloaded
them and extracted them and they were Illustrator files (.AI)...
this sucked cause I don't have Illustrator and Photoshop didn't
open them for some reason... maybe I need a plugin or something.
Anyway 'the wonder that its' - Flash, imported them like it were
its own and the kingdom rejoiced YAY! The only problem is that
it wasn't coloured... I don't think it was meant to be, but I
will never know. The image below is what it is. I also might export
the images from Flash to Photoshop and start to colour them in.
- Following the endless
chain of weblinks, I also found a rather cool looking site that
also deals in the Virtua On subject. Its mostly CG work of the
mech and there was a download for one of them [unknown if it was
paper] but the link is now dead... There's a stack of CG work
to google over, so you can check some of it out in my toy
section, where you'll also find the link.
- What else.... oh yeah...
while still looking for that fuchikoma paper model [no luck yet
:(], I found a cool little toy of it [actually I found it on the
toyboxDX site :p]. I think
I read somewhere that it was a little bonus gift from the GITS
people saying sorry for taking so long to release something...
anyway it's small and was stuck to the lid inside the box of the
clear/transparent model of the Fuchikoma mech. You can find it
on the toybox site, or if you just wanna see some pics check my
toy
section.
- A little bit of a model
building update... After buying a new little bottle of glue [YAY!],
I'm now about 2/3 of the way through the Destroid Monster, and
I must say its up there with my most favourite. The original image
files of the model are HUGE HI-RES JPEG's! which wouldn't fit
on an A4 piece of paper nor would it fit on any shelf space that
I have left. So I shrunk it down about 50-60% and I thought it
was a reasonable size without making it all pixelatted and impossible
to cut out. Now after completing the legs and majority of the
body I think I probably could have shrunk it a bit more. My version
stands at about 26cm tall, about 30+cm length and about 25cm wide.
Its huge...I was expecting it to be kinda in the same proportions
as the Veritech models I have, but I was dead wrong. I'm going
to have to somehow shuffle all my models that little bit closer
together or find somewhere else to put it... [mmm on top of the
family TV! hehehe]
***October***
Koi Carp, Pokemon,
Optimus & Eva Unit02!?
- October 31, 2003
- Ever wanted to have
a huge lake in your backyard with hundreds of koi carp swimming
around? Well bad luck cause this isn't a fish pond... its a Koi
Carp & Koi Kite. I made a koi kite when I was studied japanese
in high school... I wish I took it home... they used it to decorate
the classroom. Anyway... these things are cool.. find it in the
other
section.
- I posted another message
in the smartgroups papermodel group asking if anyone has had the
chance to get their hands on this japanese
gamecube magazine which has regular papermodels. This time
round its Charmander... [I called it Charizard on the group...
I had a memory blank :P]. I added a picture to the wanted section,
and I'm going to post the same message on my
papermodel group, but yeah someone should get their hands
on this magazine.
- I was revisting some
older sites seeing if they have any new material and this is what
I came up with: That mad modeller guy who made the transformer
hako clones has an awsome model of the autobot leader Optimus
Prime. I put some pictures in the wanted
section... I can't wait to for it to come out. You can download
the autobot insigna base to print out and build... I'll wait until
you can print Optimus :) Also I found a couple of pictures of
some cool looking robot things. There's this one that has no
legs... its weird looking and I don't know what its from...
and also there is a picture of a different Eva Unit00 and pictures
of Eva Unit02!!!! Oooooo... No downloads though... but yeah look
at me wanted
section.
Bandai's Tamashii
and Maser Tanks!
- October 26, 2003
- Bandai has a new site
which gives you a bit of info about its new Gundam and other toys/models.
It's www.tamashii.jp. Lots
of cool looking gundam mecha to look over, bummer its in japanese
though... Using babelfish to translate didn't work 100% and well
it never really does... so for some of the models I only can read
half of its name [sob]. I uploaded a few of the cool looking ones
in my toy
section.
- Maser Tanks? If you
remember a few posts ago I showed a picture of really detailed
paper model of one of the Maser
Tanks from the Godzilla movie series. Well mr shunpop, the
guy who the veritech/startrek/starwars/delorean models is working
on one of the Maser Tanks. You will probably see the finished
thing in the not to distant future, however in the mean time see
what he's up to and check out a short history of the Maser
Tanks.
- Like I said last post,
I had finished my Karen O model and I said I should have the rest
of the band finished by the end of the month... well make it the
end of next month. Its coming up to Christmas and next month is
November!! The month of Birthdays!! I have my and a heap of my
friends 20th, plus a couple 21st, so I'll be a little busy. I
have the Destroid Monster to build, a few box head models for
christmas, a handfull of new
GBA games to play and hopefully some one would read my resume
and employ me for the christmas rush.
A few models
to buy... -
October 20, 2003
- Not really worth mentioning,
but it might interest a few. Its some links where you can buy
that poseable Gundam RX-78-2, plus a few others like Char from
Gundam and Fuchikoma from Ghost in the Shell. I got a bit excited
when I saw the Fuchikoma model... i've seen it before, but it
has given me a bit of enthusiasm to search for it. Here are the
models: Metal
Gear Solid Rex | Gundam
RX-78-2 more|
Ghost
in the Shell: Fuchikoma | Char
Aznable | Sayla
Mass. You'll find some of the pictures in the wanted
section.
- I also found a picture
of book which is full of paper models of characters from 3x3 Eyes
anime. You'll find the picture of it in the wanted
section.
- Also I finally found
a site which has images of those giant gundams!! I don't think
they are to scale, but you need a ladder to get into it. Check
em here, here
and here.
- A member in my group
enquired about this site,
which had a few models [page 1,
2
& 3]
that he wished to build. I had a look and it was site where I
found that small kobun, gundam and whitebase model. I had a look
at the others and they all seem to be a .tmo file format...? I
haven't a clue what program opens this, but the guy said there
is some program that has a limited evaluation on it or something.
I briefly looked for this program to download but I failed. The
models ae pretty simple, being only different shaped prisms stuck
together. It should be pretty simple to recreate in any 3D program.
He are a few that interested me:
    
- I finished the Hako/boxhead
model of Karen O, the lead singer from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. It
looks pretty cool... can't wait to finish the others. I'll upload
it when I've finished them all. I also printed out the Destroid
Monster model... which is a bummer because it used up the rest
of the colour ink in my printer and now I have little ink to build
anymore models. To top it off i'm also running out of glue! AAAAAGGGHHH!!
- A revisit to the ToyboxDX
site and I found pictures of a bootleg General Marshall Gundam.
See them in my toy
section.
- I just got my hands
on the next Megaman game, "Megaman Zero 2". You'll find
a few screenshots of it in the games
section.
- I've also updated my
pixel
and archive
section. I now have animated gifs displaying some of my icon work
and the archives were getting pretty full so I've devided it in
two. Pretty neat stuff.
It's GREEN and
its MEAN!
- October 17, 2003
- No its not a paper model
of Hulk, but it is a hulk of metal (paper?). What is it? Well
its the Destroid Monster of course. There are a gazillion of people
hanging out for this model and I was one of them. Well, wait no
longer thanks to a fellow paper modeller. I don't know what else
to say about this model... its just too good to be true :) Check
my group
or the mecha
section.
- On other news... while
browsing around again for new models, I found a paper model of
Robotman/Biotron. It looks transformable, but i don't know. There
was only one image of it and I failed to find anything else on
it. I'll need to look harder. Anyway check my wanted
section for a glimpse of it.
- Also check my toy
section for a few veritech fighters and zoids to drool over...
- I've made 5 boxhead
models of my own, but only one of which I have posted on my site.
If you haven't seen him, his name is Bad Ben, You can find him
in my other
section and my updated
project section. I also have another called Dopey Jim, but
I haven't posted him as I don't particularly like him. I have
two others based on my parents and another of a my good friend
Jess :) I don't intend to post these ones as they are kinda personal.
Why am I telling you all this then? Well I've started work on
another boxhead style character, not the same style of boxhead
though, more like those hako-clone ones. Anyway, this time they
are based of my favourite band at the momment. The YEAH YEAH YEAH'S!!!!
I've finished Karen O's [lead singer] head and am now drawing
up her body. She should be finished in a week or so, and I should
have the rest of the band [drummer and guitar] done by the end
of this month. Should be good.
- Also over the weekend
I have put together a somewhat transformable VF-1J. I intended
to make a hako-clone/boxhead style version, but I ended up trying
to make it transform. Its really small [being only 5cm long],
and really fiddly [because of its small size]. I haven't figured
out how to incorporate the wings and head to fold up with it yet.
So far just the legs, arms and chest piece fold up perfect. You
have to add/remove the wings and head to transform it. It doesn't
have poseability and it isn't meant to. Its just supposed to transform.
It can transform into gerwalk mode, but the arms are facing backward
because they can't rotate. Its a work in progress, and I don't
intend to release it, unless of course I complete it and it turns
out really good :) I'll probably release an animation of how it
transforms and the boxhead style version of it though... look
here
for an update. Anyway enough of my babble...
MBR-ST8s &
Lucky Star
- October 13, 2003
- From the same guy that
made the ST-6M, is a new and much cooler red looking mecha. There
are only pictures of it so far, but cross your fingers, and I'm
sure that in the not to distant future you will be able to download
it. Check my wanted
section for a couple of pictures or go here
for the site.
- This thing is from some
japanese game, which if you buy you get the model included. I
think you can only buy it in Japan or though the net though [bummer
no downloads]. Anyway, it looks like that booster/thingy from
Gundam mixed with Rex from Metal Gear Solid. Kinda weird looking
but pretty cool. Again check my wanted
section for a couple of pictures or go here
for the site. Even though you can't download it, you can download
the instructions for it. Its a two-something-odd megabyte download,
but it will give you a good look at what it is.
- Also on the same site
that the Lucky Star model was found are a handful [not that you
could hold all the models in your hand, they're huge!] of models
of characters. Charaters like Sayla
& Char
from Gundam and Dente
from Devil May Cry 2. There are a few others, like 2 baseball
players and some other fighting guy. Its worth
a looking if your into building huge models of people.
- Nothing major here,
I was just going to mention what I've been up to of late. I've
been meaning to give my site a revamp. Make it look a little better...
I'm currently fiddling around with forms and tables and frames
and a whole lotta complicated junk. I'm getting a bit tired of
this black on white boring look. I'm not promising anything, but
its just an idea. I also need to revamp my pixel section, update
it a bit and make it more of a feature on my site.
Also while I'm here I
may aswell comment on the new Flash. Its up to version 7, and
the new app is called 'FlashMX 2004'. I don't know what is wrong
with just Flash 7, but hey what do I know. Anyway, its pretty
damn snazzy. It looks heaps better than the previous version using
the window docking feature and enabling them to disappear to a
small bar on the side of the screen. Lots of eye candy done to
the GUI. I don't know much about its new features yet, I just
installed it this afternoon. However I did notice it has a star
tool which is good. Its a whopping 72mb download, which was bad
on my lil 56k modem, but I think 6 hours later it was worth it.
If your not into creating Flash, you might want to download
the latest Flash Player instead. The internet is full of Flash
content these days.
Contra bike &
More Old School Robots!
- October 10, 2003
- Have you played the
latest Contra game on PS2? I have... I didn't particularly like
it.... to hard. Anyway... like many other [japanese] game sites
they have a papermodel from the game. From the latest Contra game
is the Contra bike. Its pretty cool, I'd rather build the Akira
bike, but thats just because I'm more of a fan of anime than of
the Contra series. It comes with the rider aswell, but unfortunately
he ain't 3D like the bike, he's a flat piece of paper folded in
two. Find the link in the VideoGames
section.
- While searching around
for new models I came across a site that I forgot that existed.
When I first found it, it didn't have a large selection of "robots".
I put these " around robots, because you can really call
them all robots. They are kinda weird looking contraptions. Most
of them look like the Old School Tin robots though so thats what
I labelled them. They site is very colourful and so are the robot
designs, so you may need to wear sunglasses. Check the Mecha
section for the link and a couple of examples of the 30+ "robots"
you can find there.
- Also while searching
around, I found this 2-3m tall cardboard robot. The sites in japanese,
but I was using babelfish to translate it at the time so I only
have the babelfish
translated link. I hope it works, but just to be safe next
tim I'm online I'll retrieve the correct address and update this
post. Anyway back to the robot... its not coloured, so its just
that plain old cardboard box colour, it kind of looks gundam inspired
or its a robot that I've never seen before. Also from the strange
translation that babelfish gave me, it looks like there is a computer
built into it?!! Its the new craze, buy a new computer and then
build a 2m tall robot out of the cardboard box it came in! :)
- I wish I had a credit
card... then I could buy some of these macross paper craft books
that were release in the 80's and that. Anyway I found another
book, not Macross related, but its a guide book for the Armored
Core game on PS1. It comes with a paper model of one of the Armored
Core mecha... There is a image of one of the pages, but its not
very helpful. See this link
for details about it or just look at these pictures.
  
- A little bit of a ToyboxDX
& Stickfa revist the other day. Found this awsome detailed
toy of the battloid mode of the VF-J1 veritech fighter, I've got
to get my hands on this... I don't know if it transforms, but
who cares it looks good. Also a little wooden robot guy [see picture
above]. He's cute and funny looking.. another must have. Also
I found a pic of the Metal Gear Solid Rex model. Also there is
a couple of new Stickfa figurines coming out or are already available
so keep a look out. Check them all out in the toys
section.
***September***
Cones, Foam Robots,
Pokemon, Zaku and Zentradi Regult! -
September 28, 2003
- Nah, not cones as in
the drugs thingo, but cones as in an actual cone. I found this
little program that generates cones. You specify the diameter/radius,
angles and height and bobs-your-uncle you have the cone of your
choice. Not only does it generate a 3D image of the cone that
you can rotate to your hearts content, but it also unfolds the
cone! So for yall that are trying to build papermodels from scratch
[like myself] and want a conical shape an their models... look
no further. The only problem though is that it doesn't put tabs
on the cone once unfolded, but the program wasn't built for papermodelling
unlike Pepekura. Go here
to check it out.
- Robots made of foam?
Well something like that... You know those "Z cards"
or whatever they were called... it was a 3d model, which pieces
were punchouts on a regular sized trading card. You punch the
pieces out and slot them together and you have a little 3d model.
Well, this site has a heap of little and not so little robots
made from the same foam rubber card stuff. Go here
if you like robots and especially if you like the old skool tin
robot types. No downloads though.
- Found a site which had
a couple of pokemon models. There ain't any downloads, but there
a few pictures to look at. Not as complicated as the pokemon models
from that gamecube magazine,
but still good. Check them out here.
- For those who haven't
already downloaded the Zaku model, and if your having difficulty
with that taiwanese site thats incredibly slow, you might want
to head over to this site.
I tried the first link and the link didn't appear dead so this
might be helpful for some people. I've added the link to the mecha
section.
- YAY finally an other
Macross mecha paper model. Its been ages since the release of
the fighter mode version of the VF-1S, and that uber photo of
that Destroid Monster at some convention, and it will be a little
while still untill I finish my Monster. Its a polygon/pepakura
style model created by a guy known as Diego. People belonging
to the smartgroups papermodel group would have heard this guys
name. In fact thats where you have to go to download this model.
The link is in the mecha
section.
Super Asimo,
Custom Cam08 & Mighty Atom!! -
September 28, 2003
- Don't know if this is
an official asimo or a fan type thingy, but yeah if looks pretty
cool... like asimo for the military. The only problem is that
its still in a pepakura state, so you need to unfold it and fix
it up yourself. There aren't any instructions either. There are
4 of them. The red and grey one are the same, but the blue one
has a different head design. The fourth one is really weird. I'd
hate to build these, unless someone else unfolded the model and
created some instructions or something. I'm not a huge fan of
somewhat complicated pepakura models. I extracted the shotgun
trooper guy from Quake 2 and unfolded it in tenkai and yeah it
was a brain killer to build. Check the mecha
section.
- On a might brighter
note, that Kamiasobi or whatever its called, made an Astro boy
[Mighty Atom, or whatever its called in your country] and his
girly friend to celebrate the year of might atom or something.
It looks like an OK build, maybe a little fiddly, but yeah its
ASTRO BOY! Check the other
section.
- I loved the original
Cam08 model. Now I found a 'custom' version of the Cam08 model.
Its yellowy tan-ish colour with a black frog logo on it. I probably
won't build it, cause I've already built the original one, but
you never know. Check the mecha
section.
Its a COW!!
-
September 26, 2003
- I went on a big site
crawl the other day. I don't think I've seen so many non-english
sites in my life and I don't really want to see anymore. I can
read basic katakana and hiragana japanese, but i don't know what
it means, and that can get frustrating especially when your looking
for a link or a particular word like "robot", "mecha"
and "paper". Anyway, I've dug up a couple of things
that might take your interest.
- You guys know the farming
RPG called Harvest Moon? Well there is a GBA version of the game
[not a port from the SNES] coming soon and I found a site [in
japanese] that has 2 models to download. There is a cow and your
pet dog. I like the cow the best and have posted it in my video
games section, but you'll find the dog at the same link.
- I found a heap of images
of the lazer gun tank thing from the godzilla movies. I think
I saw it in Godzilla vs Destroyer. Go here
for the pics.
- If you remember a little
while back, I mentioned that there was a really cool Link model
from the new Zelda game on the Gamecube. Well I revisited the
site and found a heap of new stuff. The Link model was with
a japanese gamecube magazine, and it looks like this magazine
has regular papermodels in it. These lately have been pokemon
characters. These models are pretty good and have made it my wanted
list. So if you live in Japan or you have friends in Japan,
or you happen to be able to find this magazine where you live,
email me.
- I revisted a site
that has the automated papermodels. I especially like the tin
robot style ones and of course the one made to celebrate the year
of the Mighty Atom!
 
- The same site also has
the Gundam Wing model! Check the wanted
section for a revisit of this model.
- On the topic of Gundam,
I also found this model of this C-Fighter. Don't know if thats
its name, but its what the site called it. Can't download it though...
just look
at the pic.
- For those who are looking
for the names of papercraft books that have punch out pages of
Getter Robo and Ultraman for example, check this site...
Don't think there are any downloads though... I haven't check
all the links... If there is, you'll be sure I'll let you know
next update.
- There are a couple of
new plastic models in the toys
section, including some destroids.
- Nothing major, but I'm
stuck again while building my scratch build of my Destroid Monster.
I'm having difficulty securing the 4 gun barrels on top the thing.
I might copy that other guys Monster. Also, I've printed out and
have started building the head of the ST6M robot. Its looking
good so far. I also printed off one of the boxhead zelda models
and the hako dinobots. I printed them at like 20% and they are
pretty small and somewhat fiddly, but they look pretty cool once
built.
More stuff to
add!! [and its good too!]
- September 21, 2003
- A few cool things that
will get you excited. For starters I found a heap of images of
a HUGE card model of the SDF-1!! Yep, I did say huge and I ain't
kidding, I have a couple of images in my wanted
section but go here
for the actual site. Unfortunatly there is no download.
- The guys that made that
Mazinger Z head and the Astro boy model have now made a Zaku head.
I get confused which zaku is which, but its not the red one. Look
at the image of it, in my mecha
section.
- There is also a model
of the Pizza Parlor from the Samurai Pizza Cats anime/cartoon.
Word of warning though: Its hand drawn and had coloured with which
looks like coloured pencils. Cool model though. Find a very bad
image of it in my other
section.
- That gun guy is still
churning out gun models, this time the AK47 and M92 pistol. Awsome...
find them here.
- I recently followed
a couple of links and stummbled across another site pack with
images from some model convention. See some of the cool looking
ones in the toys
section.
ST6M password,
bike and BEAN!!
- September 19, 2003
- YAY! for some reason
the guy who made the ST6M robot [which you had to purchase the
password for the coloured version] now has the password for the
coloured version along side the download. Thanks to a member of
my paperandglue
group for telling me about this. Go to the mecha
section to get it.
- You know that
boxhead guy on a bike model that I was looking for? Well I
posted a message in the smartgroups papermodel group and someone
replied saying they found the bike, but not the guy riding it.
Which sucks, but its better than nothing. I could probably make
my own boxhead guy to put on the bike.
- From the same place
that the bike came from, I also found a heap Mini models [mini
as in a car mini], and with all the different colours and stuff
there was a Mr Bean version including his  !!
A site not to far away from the site where I got the bike from
are a heap of boxhead style animals. I only upload images of my
favourites, but there is a small collection to choose from. Also
there is a Wallace & Gromit style rocket there aswell. So
if you can't be bothered to wait until that guys site is no longer
clogged and decides to post his Wallace & Gromit rocket somewhere
else besides on a geocities site!! Find it in my other
section. Compare them below!
| Rocket based of Wallace
& Gromit, but can't be downloaded because site is always
dragged down due to heavy traffic. |
A Rocket that looks similar
and can be downloaded in a matter of seconds, but the colour
scheme is wrong. |
|
|
W&G rocket that you can get due to mega traffic
on geocities site OR A somewhat similar rocket [colours are all
wrong].
- While at 3dpapermodel.com.tw,
on the front page is a new model that has been released [a guy
with a sword]. Go to my wanted
section to briefly see what the model is, and then check the
site for more info and more pics. I think its from some RPG on
the Playstation or something, I dunno. It looks good though.
- Don't know if this is
a mistake or something, but it could be gold. Visit this site:
http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Toys/9328/
and then tell me if this guy is a nut like me and is building
a Destroid from Robotech/Macross. At the bottom of the page, there
is a coming soon link. Next to the link is a picture of this spaceship/aircraft
thingy and right next to that is a very small black & white
image of this: 
A Destroid ADR-04-MK10 Defender!! Clicking on the coming soon
link only shows images of the spaceship/aircraft thing and nothing
on the Defender. I hope it ain't a mistake.
- Nothing major, but since
I have finished building the Votoms Brutish Dog model, I needed
a new model to build so I saw my half built Destroid Monster covered
in dust and so I picked it up and got stuck into it again. I've
successfully built the feet first go! Usually I make a miss calculation
and forget a face or something, but nuh, I built it perfect first
go. All there is to go now is the lower leg part which joins the
upper leg/knee to the foot, the 4 large turrets on top of the
whole thing, little detailed pieces and then finally giving it
a paint job. Go here
to see some early pics of it.
A large, but
little bit of everything
- September 11, 2003
- A bit of info about
the ST6M robot model from my last post. I translated the site
and it said something about that you have to pay for the password.
Which sucks for us el cheapo people, but if you want the model
so much you could probably try extracting the images from the
black and white version and colouring it yourself.
- There's some guy who
has his own site... I think his name was Steve. Anyway he was
at my site, saw Pepakura and then downloaded it. He had created
this spaceship
thingy [don't quite know the history behind it, if it has
any], which he built in Rhino and exported to Pepakura. He gave
me a buzz through my email and told me about it and gave me a
link or two. Its his first build so its not as high quality as
some of the pro stuff. Also its only black and white, which sucks,
but yeah... I thought I'd mention him because he linked my site
ton his so I guess I'll have to repay the favour. This is his
site.
- For those of you who
are looking for those incredibly
cool poseable paper gundam models, look no further. No I haven't
got a download link or anything, but you can now buy them through
Hobbylink Japan site. Also while you are there check out the 1/100
MG MSN-00100 Hyakushiki
[Its that really cool looking gold gundam model/toy that you can
find pictures of in my toy
section].
- I've gone a bit Transformers
nutty in the past week. I had a craving to build some more Transformers
icons. The problem was that I had built every Transformer from
my Transformers catalogue that has a heap of pictures of all the
Transformers available in that year. That year happened to be
1986. Ahh the good old days... Anyway, so I went looking around
to see if I could find any of the catalogues from previous/latter
years. Only a few minutes later I happened to find a site,
which pretty much has every single Transformers manual scanned.
I got clicking happy and now I have about 30mb of Transformers
manuals in jpegs on my harddrive. Its not all wasted though, I
also found another site, which had Transformers
catalogues from Generation 1. I also found them at the Transformers
Archive site aswell. Check them both out because one site
has some better quality scans than the other and vice versa. I'm
really only interested in Generation 1. So now, I can get busy
making some more icons!
- Also still on the subject
of Transformers, while in my city bound Kings Comics store, I
came across this book that was like an encyclopaedia of Transformers
toys. Basically it was like every Transformers toy that had been
available in like one book [or a series, not quite sure]. Next
time i'm in store, I'll be sure to get more info and a price check
so I can add it too my Christmas stocking and then clear 30+mb
of jpegs from my harddrive. The book was called "Cybertronian
Index: Unofficial Recognition Guide". There's a picture of
the cover in my
toys section.
- From the guy that made
those Starwars models, the Valkyrie and Gerwalk modes of the VF-J1
and who can forget the cool Delorian, comes a half model of Getter
Robo. Half model as in its just the torso and head. I'll get more
excited when its more of a complete build, but yo can download
it and built it like this if you want.
- Whats with that Wallace
and Gromit model at the SmartGroups Papermodel Group. One minute
people are saying you can't download it, then the next some guys
says "i just downloaded it" and so when I go to get
it, I can't download it! Stupid.
- I have found the link
to the One Piece boxhead models. I lost it before, but now it
is found. You can get the 3 One Piece models, Domo and that anime
snot bubble, plus a heap of other little ones. What has got me
more interested, is the image of a boxhead
guy riding a bicycle on the front page. I couldn't find a
link to download it and I need to have it! Its soo cool!
- I haven't talked about
Flash on this site before. Flash as in Macromedia's FlashMX. Flash
is great, i use it to make small animated thingys when I get bored...
and its somewhat a better image making program than Photoshop
in a way. Yeah yeah I know you might think I'm a bit stupid and
I don't know what I'm talking about, but the layers thingy on
Photoshop annoys me. When you are designing something or just
drawing something, being able to hit copy paste, without the copied
image being sent to its own layer is a blessing. Anyway, why I
bothered to mention Flash in the first place is, that there is
a new version coming out in the not too distant future called:
FlashMX 2004. It has new features and stuff, like all new versions
do, and plus it looks pretty damn cool. Can't wait.
***August***
Not much happening
besides viruses & ST6M
- August 31, 2003
- I think I'll call this
week 'Hacker Week', or 'The Media like's Virus's Week'. In Australia
anyhow, every day or 2 I've seen a topic in the news about a new
virus or something...
- Anyway, there is a new
robot thing out, its called ST-6-M or something... I forgot about
trying to translate the site so it was all a gibberish to me.
I managed to download the robot though... both versions (black
& white and colour versions.) The problem with the colour
version is that it's a password protected pdf. Which sucks...
the password might be there somewhere if I looked at it in english,
but maybe someone else might find it, and if so email me or drop
a message to my group
if your a member. You'll find the link to it in the mecha
section.
- Also a minor note about
my group: I've lifted the need for messages to be authorised on
my group
so memebers can freely post messages as they please. I might not
check my group as regularly as my email so if you need something
in a hurry or you couldn't be bothered having to wait a bit longer
email me directly.
Also my group has a 20mb storage limit in the file section so
make sure that if you are to post a model, it isn't already linked
or available on my site. If they are image files upload them to
the photos section.
- The Bandai Museum opened
earlier this month. Can't remember the date but yeah sometime
this month. Its in Japan too, which sucks for little old me living
in the land down under. But I've added it to my imaginary list
of things to see in Japan. You can buy a 'Master Grade Gundam
RX-78-2 version 1.5" at 8/30 scale for a tiny chunk of about
¥6000, which is about $80AUS. You can find the image of it
in my toy
section or check the Bandai
Museum site to have a little look around. Its in japanese
too so get that translator
ready.
- Also, while browsing
around I found a toy magazine [in english] that caught my eye.
I haven't been out and about looking for it yet in my city-bound
comic stores yet, but from what the site shows it looks like a
damn good read if your into Japanese toy culture... and if your
not, what are doing here?! The link to the magazines site is on
its logo below:
- I've also been playing
Pokemon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire and Final Fantasy Tactics
on Gameboy Advance. Look here
for a couple of screen shots and an unofficial review of what
I think of them.
- While the virus crap
was going on, I had the chance to get back to my pixels. I made
a handfull of Gundam icons and a couple of new Veritech fighers.
Also I was fiddling around with the Agent Smith character and
I made him do a bullet time dodge thingy. It looks pretty cool,
well I think so anyway. A friend of mine said I should use this
creativity on my own characters/story. He's right, but its easier
to take something that already has a history and story behind
it and muck around with it. I'm probably crossing some fine line
with copyright laws, but its only to see what I can do with the
medium of pixels, and you can't push it much further than the
Matrix. Go to my pixel
page to read a little more on it and check out my new icons
or just look at it below:
Wallace and Gromit?
and Titan No.08
- August 15, 2003
- Not much in this update.
I forgot to look up about that show that had that Destroid Monster
model, so i'll do that next time :)
- I got the new Pepakura
Designer recently and its pretty cool. A bit better than Tenkai.
I haven't used it much, except for looking at the sample model,
which is that little green dragon thats like the Pepakura mascot
or something. Anyway.... I was at their site lookig at the gallery
of all the models, and it was in japanese. Altavista's Babel fish
translation site didn't do a very good job of translating so I
was a bit lost and couldb't figure out if you could download any
of the models or not. One of those models was the Titan
No.08. A pretty simple looking polygon character when you
look at it, but it looks cool none-the-less. Can you download
it?
- Looking for spacecraft
models? planets? sattelites? Well thanks to a link sent to my
group, theres a site which has a gazzillion of them. Including
a rocket, which looks similar to the rocket that Wallace and Gromit
built from 'A Grand Day Out'. Is it the same? Also there were
to models that I think are from the movie 'When the Earth Stood
Still' or 'War of the Worlds', one of them, but the links didn't
work. Does anyone know where they are?
- There is also an Elven
Destroyer from Warcraft 2. Its a bit of an old model and I don't
know why I didn't post it earlier. There is also a Lara Croft
model and a Death Star on the same
site.
- There are also a couple
of new models added to the Wanted section, which I have moved
to its own
page and a couple of FoundryDX lego models added
to the toy
section.
  
Too many things
to put in one title!
- August 10, 2003
- Wow, I got bombarded
with stuff this week. One or 2 people had problems with my downloads,
so I have to check all my links and hopefully all problems are
fixed. Remember people if everything fails don't forget, Right-click
"save target as".
- Appart from that community
service announcement, the niche of papermodels has been busy.
In the Mecha section you will find a link to a site with a handfull
of Homeworld spaceship models. I only provided 2 images, but there
are about 8 or so to choose from. It took me ages to download
them, and they were no larger that 2mb... my trasfer rate kept
throttling down to like 0.1kb/sec... don't know why, bad server?
or I had a bad connection? dunno but it was very slow.
- I have found the head
of that unknown robot model from Hayao Miyazaki's animated classic
"Castle in the Sky Laputa." And boy is it huge. Like
I mean, like once it was built you could probably put it over
your head. Don't know why it was that big. I wonder if the rest
of its body will come out too. At the same site there was also
the head/torso of a female character from Gundam, i think... Go
here.
- Also there are few more
Nintendo characters to build aswell. Including Boo and Shyguy
etc which you will find in the new Video
Game Model section. Basically if it came from a game
it will be here, so don't freak out if you can't find a model
that was orginally in the Other section.
- Tenkai is on its last
version and will no longer be updated or anything as it has been
merged into Pepakura.
- A little while back
I started a scratch build of a Destroid Monster from the Macross
universe. I haven't done any more work on it in ages, and then
the other day I saw an image of one already built that was at
some model expo or something. Its pretty damn good... I like the
arm joints, but they didn't make the feet rounded? cheaters! hehe
I'll look up more on the expo next time. In the mean time, compare
mine
to the professionally
made one:
 
MP5a5, Worms
3D & 4 Gundam RX versions
- August 3, 2003
- That Mad Modeler Masamune
keeps churning them out doesn't he? He has completed 4 versions
of the RX78 style Gundam. They are pretty much the same just different
colours. I don't know whether I'll build one of these because
I already have the huge detailed Gundam RX78. I might build the
blue one, but make it really small, like 10cm or so high. I haven't
started on the Patlabor one yet though, i'm still building the
Votoms Brutish Dog model.
- That guy who makes all
those guns has put out another favourite of mine... the MP5a5.
There is also a silencer aswell.
- Team 17, the creators
of the very addictive Worms games, is currently working on the
next installation in the series, Worms 3D. And of course there
are some paper models to follow. So far is the Banana Bomb and
a Mine. Can't wait to build a Super Sheep and one of the worms
characters.
Patlabor, Gundam
and Homeworld ships -
August 1, 2003
- The excitement meter
has risen up two or three notches this week. That guy [Mad Modeler
Masamune] who makes those 'hako-clones' of Transformers and a
handfull of other odd characters has finally released his Patlabor
model. The image of this model has been on his site for ages but
now we can all download it and build away. The zip file comes
with 3 versions of the same labor mech, one piloted by Noa Izumi
another by Isao Ohta and then the backup type labor. There is
also the police command car and labor transport truck. Unfortunately
this model is a little blocky, but hey I shouldn't complain. He
should make the Griffon model aswell (see image).
- I found the guy who
made those Gundam ships. Some nice big images too look over...
No downloads as yet unfortunately, cross your fingers though.
Heres the
site if you want to have a look... there is a model of some
crazy guy there too...
- Last week I mention
some guys who are making some of the spacecraft from Homeworld.
Well, one of the guys gave me the link to his site where there
were 2 pepakura/tenkai polygon style models to build. One of a
Fuel Pod ship and the other a Multi-beam Frigate. He mentions
on his site that it is a bit fiddly printing it out on 1 A4 sheet
but more on this here.
Hope to see that huge mothership one :)
- Off papermodels... there
was a model building competition or something on not that long
ago and heres a site full of some pretty cool looking plastic
mecha: http://www.thaigundam.com/tour_mast2003_day2.htm |
