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YJ is an IT Consultant living in Melbourne, Australia, and a gaming enthusiast. I started gaming at age 6 and grew up enjoying just about every genre of gaming from adventure, FPS, RTS, RPG, racing, to turn-based strategy. In 2002 I was introduced to the world of Gundam, which drew me in immediately with its deep storyline and mecha designs. Eventually, I started collecting Gundam plastic..
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7h ago
This build was voted for a photography shoot by my Patrons in my “Super Robot Wars” poll. I originally built this kit back in 2022, you can find the original retrospective and build notes here: HG Alteisen build retrospective Posing this guy was pretty challenging due to the bulk. The design in “normal” scale looks ..read more
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1M ago
This is build no.9 for 2024! This was voted for all the way in Jan 2023(!) and the build was not quite as simple as I was hoping for. As is par for the Kotobukiya course, there’s a ton of seamlines: the entire leg has a seam down the middle down to the feet, although ..read more
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4M ago
I’ve been meaning to get back into photoshoots this year and so far it’s not going all too well. My one-photo-a-day challenge died about 2 weeks into the year ever since I figured out that I don’t have enough hours in a day nor the energy to paint, do my day job and then take ..read more
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7M ago
Happy New Year guys! It’s 2024 and time to kinda get back to work. I have made myself a goal to take more pictures this year and I thought I’d set myself a goal of taking at least 1 picture per day. I decided to revisit this Asra Archer I built back in 2019. I’ve ..read more
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7M ago
2023 will forever be remembered as my "One Year War", the year I decided to see how many builds I could cram into a 12 month period for the LOLs ..read more
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8M ago
This was build number 23 for 2023 and was a commission for a client who wanted a HG Calibarn in the theme of their original chacacter named Violet. Building Calibarns back to back was a pretty tough experience. Having to deal with those massive seam lines on both the long rifle and the backpack really ..read more
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11M ago
This kit was kindly provided by HobbyCo and is my 18th build for 2023. Well Witch from Mercury is finally over and the highly anticipated HG Calibarn Gundam bookends the fantastic line of High Grade kits that the series spawned. Despite it’s extremely brief appearance in the anime, it’s actually a pretty cool design leaning ..read more
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1y ago
The Nu Gundam ver.Ka has always been one of those kits which I’ve held in very high regard, and it’s only after this long that someone commissioned me that I finally had an excuse to build it. At 55 hours and 621 parts, this felt like the heaviest build I’ve done in a while and ..read more
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1y ago
The HG Witch from Mercury continues to impress with the Lfrith Ur! This was a super quick build running in at under 17 hours with most of the work being decaling using Grework’s set. There’s no seamlines on the kit and amazingly it doesn’t even have any hollow gaps that you’ve come to expect from ..read more
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1y ago
I did not enjoy this build at all and if you’re a builder that’s dead-set on accuracy I can not recommend this kit. The RM Strike is one of my GOAT kits, despite being 10 years old it still holds up quite well. My only real complaints would be the ABS frame and I also ..read more