Optimus Primal!

Monkey!

I really love this Optimus Primal and I am really thankful to my wife for giving this to me. I guess I'm blessed that my wife is very supportive of this hobby of mine.

I really thought this would be my last build!

On the night that I was to get married I built the SD Perfect Gundam. It was my way of saying good bye to the hobby. I used to believe that when I got married I would throttle down on getting Transformers and model kits but the opposite happened. The thing is, my wife loves to get me robots hehe... she says it is one of the few things that define who I am and she would not want me to stop doing so. Add those gifts to my own purchases and now I have a collection that is steadily growing at a slightly faster pace than when I was single.

By no stretch though is my collection massive, nor do I collect everything that comes out. I tend to buy on schedule and on a budget and my collection is a bit large because I have been doing this for so long. 


I will however, start to divert some of my toy funds on getting more supplies for building kits as that is an area that I have greatly neglected these past two years. I also plan on taking photos of my builds and toys again and sharing them here, as I find blogging more relaxing than sharing them on Facebook.
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I think I overcommitted to a project that I am working on right now. Anyway, I promise myself that I would say no to gigs like this. I honestly need to focus on our goals for the rest of the year so this one gig will be the last of this kind for a very long time.

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