MG 1/100 Wing Gundam Ver Ka Part 1

This MG 1/100 Wing Gundam was a gift that I received from Manay about two birthdays ago. I'm a huge Katoki fan, I like how he juxtaposes shapes in very interesting ways to form the parts of the mech and I love the overabundance of details that he adds to the surfaces of the robot. That being said, this version of the Wing Gundam from Endless Walts is the one I prefer over the "winged" version simply because this one has a more mechanical feel as opposed to the "mystical wing effect" that the one from the Endless Waltz movie has.






This kit is painted with lacquers for the broad areas and I used Reeves acrylics to for the detail painting. I used the decals with the kit along with some from my decals pile. 






I replaced the dark blue parts of the kit with green as I wanted to at least give the kit a custom paint scheme and I was sort of inspired by the color of Mountain Dew so I went for this lime green thing highlighted with yellow and a custom pink mix.











It has been a long time since my last post. I'd like to say that I was sort of busy but the truth of the matter was that these past few months I haven't had the desire to blog. I guess I was sort of overwhelmed by the stock pile of kits that I was able to acquire and I was just building left and right without taking the time to sit down and work on the blog. Hopefully by being able to post tonight I'd be able to get over this block :)

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The internet is a crazy place, and I think the fact that I am saying this means that I am really getting old. Facebook in particular has been an irritant because of the way most people think that what they have read there is real. One post in particular that has irked me a lot is the one about Gideon sending Bibles as emergency aid during the earthquake that hit Nepal. The original article was accessible via this link:

http://thelapine.ca/emergency-gideon-bibles-rushed-to-nepal/

Well, the article can no longer be read because the Lapine has taken it down. What irked me a lot is that it is clear that the Lapine is a satire site, and that most people do not know what satire means. 

A lot of my FB friends posted this, with statements pointing out that Gideon International  was insensitive, impractical and sort of stupid. Someone even said that the Bibles could be used as toilet paper instead. We all know how much flak the Christian community is getting these days and if the story was true, then I guess we deserve what we are getting... but sadly these people who were to eager to spread their opinions online did not check their references.

I noticed a lot of red lights while I was reading the supposedly real news article. First was that the Prime Minister of  Nepal had the time to comment on the issue. I mean, come on. Your country is in a state of calamity and you had the time to say something about Bibles being sent as relief? Second, which courier would, in a time of calamity at this scale, would allow their planes to carry Bibles instead of relief goods?

Lastly, the site. Come on... the Lapine does not claim to be a news agency. They say it right there: "Canada's Best Satirical Online Newspaper"

The problem with articles on Facebook is that they tend to get viral easily, and people often believe what is viral. The Lapine was insensitive when they published the article, I honestly think it isn't funny considering how much damage the article did to Gideon International. I understand that they were writing in satire, but most people aren't that smart,  and they will take whatever it is that they can use to fuel their hatred and share it with the rest of the world. It painted Christians in a bad light, it painted missionaries in a bad light, but most importantly it highlighted just how important it is that we take our news more seriously and that we share articles more responsibly. 







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