Well ok it wasn’t that special but my package from HLJ finely arrived today and here it is.

It don’t look like much and there is a little damage to the top but lets open it up and take a look inside.

Well that mail came today with more modeling supplies and another kit for me to work on but I think I may have bit off more than I can chew with my choice of a second figure kit.
There are a whole lot of parts, a big bunch of parts, more than just a few parts, [...]

Well progress has kind of stalled on the model building as I await for supplies to arrive from the various mail orders that I have placed. I have been working on sanding and prepping Umetsu’s Girl. The magnifier visor that I picked up this week has really helped out I thought I was doing well [...]

Yep there they are the old molders best friend a Magnifier Visor. Well I am not that old I am just blind. I have been wearing glasses since I was seventeen months old and started wearing bifocals last year.
 
On my trip to the hobby shop last week one of the things I was looking [...]

Well the construction is complete. He stands, he poses, his seams are visible, his arms fall of if your not careful.
While the construction is done not all parts were used. Now normally this would be a bad thing but Gundams come with a bunch of parts the you may or may not use depending on [...]

So I take the 45min drive south to visit the hobby store that I remembered as having a good variety of supplies and what do I find… jack. The store that use to have most everything you would need now was about 50% RC stuff and smattering of everything else. They didn’t even have filler [...]

Umetsu’s Fantasy Girl is from the anime Robot Carnival, a movie that was a collection of robot themed shorts. Most of the segments were without dialog just visuals set to music akin to Disney’s Fantasia.
The Fantasy Girl is from the segment Presence.
See here or here for more details.

Got the hips completed and it is starting to come together.
With the hips complete the rest of the body can now be attached.

Well things have been moving along fine and I am nearing completion of the construction faze.

The arms took alot of time to construct there is a whole lot of pieces that make them up. Fitting them on with the shoulder pieces is a bit of a trick as there is not a lot of clearance [...]

Well I have been working on the Gundam for about an hour or so a day, when I have been feeling well (it not that I am all that sick just dont have a lot of engerary. I have made quite a bit of progress. I have the shield mostly done, need to figure [...]

So here is the latest project.
So as you know on my week off from work I spent a great deal of my time cleaning my room and going though stuff deciding what to keep and what to toss and finding stuff that I forgot I had. One of the items I cam across was an [...]