Build 5.4b Gundam GP03 Dendrobium SD BB#207

Oh, the video that goes with the last gundam build update

Build 5.4a Gundam GP03 Dendrobium SD BB#207

Here is the tentative look for the pink+gundam=pinkdam.
I will most definitely add a third and possible a fourth colour. Any suggestions!?!?


All pink spraying for the Gundam GP03 is complete.

AUD11 What a RIPOFF. Purchased from Mitre10.

Zoom in. Not bad for my first individual part spray paint job. My first time was spraying the entire runner in black (Strike Gundam SD) then cutting off the pieces but yea not a good idea. Its better to separate the pieces then spraying them.

Good ol' styrofoam block. Found in my back yard

Leave it to dry then I can work on the Gundammobile.

Build 5.3 Gundam GP03 Dendrobium SD BB#207

I needed to hold my gundam parts so I could spray them so why not teach y'all how to make 'em holder thingies.

Build 5.2 Gundam GP03 Dendrobium SD BB#207

Just some of the tools you'll need to start painting your gundam! Awesome job with the recording by Nat Chan.

Build 3.3 Aegis Gundam SD "It's a G-thang"

Words cant describe this.... perhaps 'Fail' LOL

Anyways I had the guitar next to the gundam and everybody knows

guitar + gundam = song

I enjoyed the spontaneity but already regret posting this. LOL

Enjoy the video?

Build 5.1 Gundam GP03 Dendrobium SD BB#207

Welcome to part 2 for gundam n00bies.... "How to properly cut off the gundam parts". I must admit all of my gundams has hideous scuff marks due to poor cutting techniques.

Thanks to guest commentator and gundam activist, Nat Chan.

Also with some interference from everyone's favourite rival©, Mr.P.

As you can see, even three guys that dunno anything about gundam can have fun putting them together!

Build 5.0 Gundam GP03 Dendrobium SD BB#207

Finally, my fifth gundam build . This time instead of pictures, I will be using youtube! Please visit my youtube page and be my friend :3

Taking my cue from other really popular gundam-ers such as prime92, vegeta8259 and rrobbert184. I will kick things off with part 1 - 'the unboxing video' ooooooh. Seems like its a must to unbox your kits, preferably when its just arrived in the mail. Unfortunately, I already opened and had a peek, but yea...

Mr. Nat Chan is guest commentator. So let's roll...

Ok for the cute gundams... they are numbered as they get released. The recent gundam unicorn was #360?! and this kit is #207... so its pretty old... but it has a gundam car!

Build 4.0 Freedom Gundam SD (FINAL)

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Building this gundam as well as painting it took forever. I am starting to wonder if I really hate or love gundam robots. Anyways this is not a Bandai original but a knockoff. Enjoy!

Build 3.2 Gundam Aegis SD

TWO not one disasters in one day. I reckon that's like is the National maximum daily limit a man can tolerate. Firstly I strained the tendons of my left triceps at the gym,and here's the ironic bit, working my biceps. This means I have to lay off involving my arms for the next 1-2 weeks, so it will be strictly back and legs.

Second natural disaster is the claw bit of the Aegis broke. Devasted like this guy here.

I had to sticky tape the broken bits or it might go missing, which will further compound my devastation.

My only superglue has dried up and its harder than both mine and Mr.P's biceps combined. So unable to glue that bit tonight.

Anyways, second paint job completed. No more pink visible bits compared to my first build update.

Same for the back. Now its time to dismantle Aegis and paint him silver.

That's it for today. Need to ice my arm.

Build 3.1 Gundam Aegis SD

Ok this is not really a build, as you have seen him previously in my other posts. I am actually doing a paint job on this guy but for the sake of organising my posts, I will call this a 'build'.

I've been so into this paint job that I forgot to blogarise it :P

First things was to decide on a colour.

I asked colleagues from work for suggestions, and finally decided on the primary colour, purple with white/silver as the secondary colour.

Then I fired up the good ol' MS Paint.

Grabbed a pic of Aegis from the 1999.co.jp website. I have not bought from this site yet, I have bought an action base 1 from Hobby Link Japan but I reckon the best place to get gundam is still Walter hobby.

Then I painstakingly colour its pink bits to purple and from black to white.

Looks good on the screen and I really like this colour scheme. Sold.

So then its on to Mind games to get my paint. This store is located along Swanston street, in the city. You will have to walk all the way to the back and up the steps to buy the paint and brushes. I found that this place is currently the cheapest place to get paint and brushes. I beg you to please not buy your kits and supplies from a certain shop in the city featuring a rude asian man. He tends to throw your change at your face.

This paint is actually a brand from 'the Games Workshop'.

I took apart my aegis and have been painting the parts purple over the week.

Most of the left side is the completed side and the most of the right side of this picture are the inside of the pieces will which when put together won't see the light of day. Just thought be nice to include 'before (pink) and after (purple)' shots.

I started painting the pieces silver only on the head but haven't completed it because I realise I have not been blogging about this paint job. So let's roll...

Here is the head in silver and purple.

And artistic shot no.2. Reminds me of the helmets that the characters in Lord of the rings wore.

After this build, I will commence Gundam Freedom SD.

Build 2.4 Gundam Striker Weapon System SD (FINAL)

PHEW! I am finally glad this build is over. My feelings for this kit were like a roller coaster. When I opened the box, I was disappointed with the colours of the runners and the details were badly done.

'Nevermind', I told myself. 'It's going to be ok'. I went on a high when I had the brilliant idea to spray it black and detail it gold. Spraying is fun. Inhaling fumes is not. Then it was onto the gold painting and during this time, I thought this is what playing with gundams was all about. Sitting with a cool breeze through my hair and the sun shining on my face as I paint the panel lines. I was in the zone, and not just any zone, THE GUNDAM ZONE. lol.

Then, I find that the pegs wont snap into the holes. I stabbed myself (in the finger and bleed so much, 30mL, I measured) while shaving the pegs so that it fit. Not a single peg would fit in its hole, every peg had to be shaved. And even after shaving the pegs, there were still gaps between the parts. The only thing holding this robot together is hope.

The sad thing after all this is that I wont be able to play with this robot, one slightest move and its arms or legs will fall out. I am all for pirated stuff or knock-offs but this particular 'brand' of gundam kits is just terrible plus horrible. What's worse is I have two more of this kits. But looking at it in its Black and gold glory redeems its many many sins. So as I end this woeful tale, instead of pictures, I thought I give my hand at my very first youtube video.

Build 2.3 Gundam Striker Weapon System SD

This is the woeful story of the golden Nintendo DSLite





Ok what the golden dslite is alluding to is that he is the only dslite of its type (the really shiny eye-blinding golden dslite - ONLY ONE OF ITS KIND IN MELBOURNE)

Finally some progress on the build. I have sprayed all the runners black


As you can see it camouflages with my carpet nicely.

And with my Midas touch...














I can guarantee you that this gundam will win the 2009 Bandai's Sexiest Robot of the year! All the female robots better becareful! I must say changing the colour of this gundam to black and gold was a nice touch.



One can compare the before and after colours of the runners by look at the previous entry here.

Build 2.2 Gundam Striker Weapon System SD

I have guests over at my place so I have to sacrifice what little time I devote to my gundams and be a nice host. However on my way home from the gym, today I bought two items...


The famous Tamiya Spray Can@$12 a can... RIPOFF!!I wont mention where I got this from because the guy who sold it to me is a member of the Gang Of Very Rude Asians (GOVRA). What a rude person. Throws my change on the counter and not in my hand!? It wasn't even a toss, he like Powerbombed my change on the counter. Very poor form.

As I stormed my way out onto eckersley's where I greeted by a very polite gentleman. Helpful and knowledgeable. That is called customer service! I must note that he was wearing really tight jeans. With his help, I bought a fine paintbrush



to add to my ever growing junk collection



Why talk about a can and a brush? Well, to be honest, after discovering colour mix-up, I have become disheartened and even disillusioned. :|

Ok maybe not, but I am going to modify the Gundam Striker Weapon System SD to become Gundam black-with-gold-bits Striker Weapon System SD! I am going to spray all the runners black and with my gold paint, I will detail the panel lines. How exciting!

Build 2.19 Gundam Striker Weapon System SD

Finally I am back in the gym. I think people that don't gym and even those who do gym but slack off should be prosecuted by the law. The mysterious right hand injury is healed miraculously... for now. This also means ranting about my gym escapades. Today is no exception :) I dont discriminate over-weight nor under-weight people in the gym nor the muscularly-blessed ones BUT there are some that causes me to be indifferent.

I cannot stand people who don't apply correct techniques in their exercises or those who use weights that are clearly too heavy for them yet they persist. Like today this little asian dude (note: In case you didnt know, I'm an asian so I can freely bag other asians lol) doing the pelvic thrust while performing a standing bicep curl with a 30kg bar-bell. This is so wrong. Even repeating it again is so wrong. Doing more than one pelvic thrust in public with shorts is wrong.

I dont get it, I pay $xxx.xx in gym fees every year and the fees just keep increasing each year. Why dont people just ask the gym instructors for advice? Are we paying them to just wipe down sweaty benches and put away misplaced dumb-bells? End of rant.

Master grade. I just love the sound of these two words together. (Lila commented that it sounded like masturbate lol) If James Bond planted a listening device on me on my way to work. He would like only hear me repeat over and over again, "Master grade" in my best Peter Cullen voice impersonation. Why? Because two days ago, I received my Master Grade Gundam Astray Blue Frame Second Revise with bonus backpack connector.



Thats enough teasing. Back to the current build. Well, this is just minor update on the build as I have discovered the one of many mistakes of this knock-off. I have overlooked the fact that the parts are not as defined as the Bandai ones but to mix up the colours!? That is unforgivable!





Can you spot the difference?

Build 2.1 Gundam Striker Weapon System SD

Before I begin my second gundam review. I want to announce that I have achieved a 400-note streak on Guitar Hero: Decades on the DS. The song is Lenny Kravitz's 'Are you gonna go my way' on medium setting. Achieved on the 2nd December 2009. Perfect Hero. BUT I cracked the hinge after that so I gotta get a new case which is a good chance to make a nice tutorial for changing one's DS Lite shell. That will come up sometime in the future.



This kit is a knock-off. Its not a TT Hongli or GHD but some chinese brand. By the way, walterhobby.com has taken off all their TT Hongli gundam kits cos someone dobbed them in. I hate rats.

*EDIT : According to Delphine the translator, the chinese logo says "REAL BRAND". So there you go*





Pictures of the box on both sides. I would say look at all those weird chinese characters but then one can say look at all the japanese characters on the bandai kits. Oh yea I finally found the Bandai SD Gundam 00 Raiser kit BB 329! Cant wait to start that kit!









Coloured side of the manual.









Otherside of the manual is assembly.



I've read that stickers of knockoffs are very poor quality and fall right off after sticking them. Hopefully mine will stick well.

















Here are the runners of this kit. 7 runners is a lot for an SD kit. The RX-78-2 30th anniversary kit had only 3 kits by comparison. I have to say that some of the part were originally black but sprayed white and red. Also parts which are white are not so defined but hopefully some black line paneling can fix that.

This time I have bought some sandpaper number 1200 and number 1500, couldn't find number 2000 or 3000. Note: According to the guy at the hardware store, the bigger the number of sandpaper, the finer it is. To file down the nibs after separating them from the runners. Also got some fine paint brushes and gold paint as well. So onto to the next part.