Let's Build RG Strike Gundam Part 4 and 5

Part 4

Part 5

Hey guys, just dropping two more Let's Build videos! Hope you enjoy!

Let's Build Part 3

What's up guys?

Today feeling a bit bad, kinda sad and stuff, so I took my time and did the chest without recording the building process of it.

Though I took some pictures, and in the end I ended up doing a small video showing the end result and the cockpit hatch of the Strike Gundam

Hope you enjoy it!

Let's Build: RG 1/144 Aile Strike Gundam - Part 2!

Hey guys, leaving here part 2 of my let's build! :D

My first Let's Build Video! RG Strike Begins

Hey hey, I'm back, and this time with a video of the "Let's Build" of my RG 1/144 Aile Strike Gundam.

This is Part 1 - Building the Legs.

The video is soundless so be sure to bring your own music ^^

Thanks for reading and watching!

Back to Gunpla :D

Hey hey, how have you been doing?

Well basically 7months away from gunpla and another 6months away from the blog. I've been focused a lot on college, but all the focus payed off with good grades so I'm happy with that.

Finished first year of college in the beginning of this month but just took all the other days to rest and I took the chance and bought a RG Strike Gundam, one of my favorite designs in several Gundam Series.

Just received it today from the mailman and gosh, what a better way to start off the day :D

Also it has been 2 years since I started doing Gunpla and modelling, and 2 years since I started this very same blog, which so far has 18152 views, a number that for me is very big and I'm really happy.

So for this 2 year mark I'm gonna do a short video of the building process of the Strike, it'll be going to my Youtube account which you can check by following this link:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Agcsantos

See you next post :D

10000 Views Special - 2011 Review and 2012 Preview - Part 2

Yo! Welcome to part 2 eheh, hope you guys had an amazing 2011, and a great new years party, I sure did :D

I'm good as new, new motivation and new strength for gunpla projects ehehe, so just to start, a list of the works I did this 2011 year.

So three projects that got to feature my gallery, but I also did others, like MG Red Frame, RG RX 78-2, and RG Zaku II as I painted some warhammer figures.

So this 2011 was a bit full in a way. Hope this 2012 year goes the same way...

Now the reviews of the Unicorn and Age series, Unicorn OVA's so far so good, you see the cool old designs and the overall look of the designs are always the same as the others from the UC universe, so it just gets a modern feel, and I love it! Designs like Unicorn, Jesta, Delta+, amazing amazing! They keep their inspirations in previous series like, Zeta Gundam and GM's...but in such a new, fresh and modern look :)

The OVA just got exciting now with the Banshee Unicorn gundam...I wonder... how will be the fight between those two titans :D

Gundam Age series, well better than I was expecting to be honest, still it's not amazing, neither great, it's just normal, the story itself is weird, you feel like each episode you don't see anything, it's so simple, some series in a 20 min episode you see so much that you don't remember half of the stuff, in Age so far, it runs in a slow pace, and them jumps a lot, then runs slow again...don't wanna judge too much before seeing it all...

The Designs, well, some are ok, some are BAD! The G-Exes is probably the best one, I could see that one living in the same universe as 00 Gundam, the designs are similar in a lot of ways, ( the designer is the same so that might be the reason...)

The bad guys design is awful it's so plain, so weak, so fragile, the Genoace, it's so ugly, something supposed to be a Mass Produced MS, it's more like a colony construction MS, it's so weak...it can't even beat one of the bad guys... =/

Well...I gotta go to college ahaha so see you guys next post! :)

Part 3 coming soon!

10000 Views Special - 2011 Review and 2012 Preview - Part 1

Wow...10000 views, I can't believe it, it was like what? 3 months ago I was partying because I had 7000 views, and now 10000 ehehe...

THANKS GUYS :DD

This will be part of some special posts I'll be making, to celebrate this 10000 views, so I'll be reviewing our 2011 year of Gunpla and previewing the 2012 year!

I wish you a Merry Gundam Christmas / Feliz Natal :D

So guys, just to say I wish you all a Merry Gundam Christmas, and like the picture you seen, a Zaku giving a present to a Gundam, so it serves to show the purpose of Christmas, a time of peace, a time where we all forget and forgive the bad stuff of this year, I had a couple problems myself, I hope I can find some peace this next few days..

I hope you guys get a lot of gunpla as presents, and have fun building them ^^

I wish I could talk more, but I started my college winter break yesterday, and I want to enjoy this week and half to the maximum eheh

Merry Christmas everyone! :D

(now for my Portuguese readers)

Não não me esqueci de vocês que lêm o meu blog ahah

Desejo-vos um Feliz Gundam Natal, com muitas prendinhas e muita saúde e boa disposição acima de tudo :)

Vá, Feliz Natal rapaziada :D

1/100 - "Last One Standing" - Diorama WIP - Part 3

So here is the Part 3 of the WIP of this diorama, this is a short one, yesterday I created the "moon" surface for the diorama, I still have to do some clean up job on it before painting.

Here are the pictures!

Don't worry about the panel lines, I covered them with masking tape to protect them ahaha ;)

See you guys next WIP! I hope I'll have it painted ehehe

1/100 - "Last One Standing" - Diorama Work In Progress - Part 1

Welcome to my new project, the "Last One Standing".

This will be a very challenging one, it'll require a lot of time and patience, still, I think I'll manage to do it successfully.

This is the last draw, where I imagined and placed all the essential stuff for the diorama.

As I referred many times in the past, this diorama I'm doing, will go for a friend of mine.

So as my previous diorama, I started by cutting some wood for a very strong base for my construction.

And then I started cutting some pla plate for the "floor"

Then I designed some panel lines and this is the result (after a small china ink panel line wash just for checking how deep and wide were the panel lines)

As you can see, some panel lines will need some touch ups, but so far I like it a lot.

The part I'll enjoy more will be creating the terrain just like a meteor/moon surface.

And then the painting I think will be very cool too, can't wait to show you more stuff.

See you all next update!

1/100 - "Last One Standing" - Diorama - Part 2 - Concept Phase

Since this diorama will be more precise in terms of what I have to put there, to make it more believable, I have to use more images as concept art, inspiration and reference pictures.

I'm going to post them here, so that you can all see them too!

Hope you enjoy this images, they truly are rich in information, detail and concept..

I'm so inspired and motivated I can't hold in me all this excitement ehehe.

See you next update and if I can WIP :P

1/100 - "Last One Standing" - Diorama first update!

Hello guys! Been away from this blog a couple days, these days I have very little time to post things, but two days ago I received what I needed to start my project with my friend.

We ordered some decals and he got them first, and he sent me the ones I wanted, and also a base for the Strike Freedom MG, which I'll be using on the diorama so It'll be a Diorama fully made for Strike Freedom MG.

I have been gathering some inspirations, checking some artwork and all that, and I'm gonna post some pictures I used as reference for the initial concept.

The concept is pretty simple...Strike Freedom will be the Last One Standing..

The diorama will include a lot of tiny tiny detail and I intend to push myself to my limits once again :)

See you next update!

Gundam Age Review!!

The AGE has begin! Keep reading for a small review of the first and second episode of the newest Gundam Anime!

Project: AstrayGamer Begins!! - Pre-7000 Views Special Announcement!

I'm so pumped with the fact I'm almost getting 7000 views on my blog that I'm making a huge announcement right now and here!

It is with great great pleasure that the project called AstrayGamer.net is going to start.

AstrayGamer.net is a Portuguese Web Site, which belongs to my dear friend ZackFair, he introduced me to his project last year, I said I'd help him out if he needed, a few months ago, we made some modifications to the site, and we started posting some stuff. But like I did on this blog, soon we stop posting on the site, school life and personal life leave very few time to post stuff.

Now we made some changes for easy access to everyone and for better organization.

Our dream is to make AG something like Gundam Guy or Gunjap, but in Portuguese, and will include room not only for Gundam and Gunpla, but for figures, anime, mecha, modelling and gaming.

 I'm a proud admin of AG and I'll do my best to post here and on there.

I already know the schedule for college, and I'll have classes from 18 or 6pm to 22.30 or 10.30 pm, and I'll have classes on Saturdays from 8am till 14 or 2pm...weird schedule, but I have to take it and accept it!

Once again, the AstrayGamer.net is a Portuguese Web Site, so only Portuguese readers can fully understand it, I know it can be a bother to some of you, but the only thing I can recommend is either learn Portuguese or use Google Translator if you want to check our Web Site. (Sorry...)

This for us Portuguese community is very important, because there are a few blogs, some gaming web sites, but when it comes to modelling or anime, there are only forums, so what we are doing is getting the best of each and put it on the same place, and for now there won't be a forum section, though we might release it this year.

So Portuguese and Brazilians that read this blog, you now have a new place to stop by!

Stop by http://www.astraygamer.net/ and leave a comment there, we will appreciate it!