OhGeek Toys

This is the old Victory Gundam kit from the 90s that my brother gave me. He originally bought it, along with a GM from the same line, for himself to build but work got in his way and he had to give them both to me hehe :) I got them maybe around 5 years ago and pulled them out of my stash a couple of months ago to work on. I messed up with the paints big time by not planning ahead. This was supposed to be a clean build but I got too excited and handled the parts when their paints were not yet fully cured and I ended up with chipped paint all over so I decided to go ahead and weather the kit. Ok, so now I just realized that I forgot to take photos of the core fighter. I also wanted to build this as the version with the big guns attached to the backpack but I broke off the pegs so I decided to just go ahead and build the simpler version instead, which, quite honestly, I liked more. Notice that the rail gun does not come off. I also b...

And now for something else! I have been a huge military modeling fan although I haven't really built a lot of them. I have with me this tank, a Thunderbolt (Warthog), a Corsair and a HellCat.  I admire pro military modelers because of the intricacy of their builds and the way they weather their kits. I also had with me a fair amount of Fine Scale Modeler magazines that I read and reread all the time to get inspiration from even though I was more into sci-fi/mecha models.  Honestly, I do not know a lot about this tank. I mean, a lot of the guys who are heavily into military kits aim for accuracy and I admire them for it. They know tons about specific models of tanks and how they should scale down as kits. I'm not like that though, I just bought this kit for fun and to build something different and I enjoyed it a lot even though the tank is really really small. In hindsight I should have bough for myself a 1/48 kit... and maybe I will one day...