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Reviewing the Swarm

First and foremost, Arckham and I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas. I hope you all have eaten well and are sufficiently full just as we are.

So with that aside, we'd like to give you our thoughts on Ben 10: Alien Swarm. Arckham was able to watch this movie ahead of me and I watched it with my siblings as our yearly Christmas Movie. Anyway, for those of you who are not familiar with it, there may be spoilers ahead and well, yes, it's based on the TV Series, Ben 10: Alien Force from Cartoon Network.

Now for a quick plot summary: Ben, Gwen and Kevin find some alien nano technology. They investigate and Ben goes into hero mode and saves the day from the Alien wanting to take over planet earth. It's pretty much a like the regular episode except in movie length.

PLOT	Xy: I think there could have been more twists and turns. It really felt like it's a regular episode nothing new and exciting Arck: I feel it's a bit empty as to how the last episode of alien force ended.
CASTING and CHARACTERS	Xy: Well great choice for Kevin which is played by Nathan Keyes. He really captured the character. Plus points from me who thinks he's hot. [Yes, Arck knows. :P ] As for Gwen (Galadriel Stineman)and Ben (Ryan Kelly), they could have done better. Gwen, I felt, had no power in the movie. Arck: I hate Gwen and Max (Barry Corbin). Kevin is dead on. Ben was so-so.
CGI	Xy: I love Big Chill! The voice and the way they portrayed her was right on. This is big plus on the movie. I also like the fact that the queen was really girly even if she was a bug and bot. Arck: FTW on the aliens.

On the other hand, great job on Kevin's car. The paint job on that Camaro is superb too bad it gets thrown by Humongousaur. I also like the car Kevin built. [Does anyone know what make that car is?]

Overall, being the geeks that we are we recommend you still catch it. It's the type of movie you either download or catch on the tube not really the one you go to the movies for. Why do we still recommend it? Well, for the CG of course. It is this movie's redeeming factor.

Power Rangers? XD

MG Wing Gundam Ver Ka Wing Mod

Greetings! This is the wing mod for the MG Wing Gundam Ver Ka. It'll allow the wings to pop open to six different wing pieces instead of the initial two big wings.

Xy got me early Christmas presents which included the knife I used.

Materials needed:
-Hobby knife
-Varying grit of sandpaper
-Plastic cement
-Putty
-Wing Ka (kahit pakpak lang XD)

1.1. Cut the pink lines with your knife.
-The white and red parts to separate.
-The blue part near the backpack joint and the large yellow part to allow room for movement.

1.2. The pink circle represents a male-female peg on the blue piece. Trim that off.

1.3. The red circle and red line represent points of contact for the would-be moving parts. Cut carefully and make sure they allow for movement.

1.4. The green line is optional. I cut mine off.

DC's Emotions Embodied

I noticed that a lot of people are not aware that there are other colour rings involved in DC Comics' Green Lantern Universe. So I thought I'd give you guys some information on it. Since Arckham already completed his collection of rings, this is a follow up.

Arckham's Emotional Spectrum Collection

So the rings are part of the something called "The Emotional Spectrum" which is how the Guardians of the Universe divided the different emotions into colour rings which represent a different emotion.

Let me introduce the Emotional Spectrum (plus their Oaths):

Red Ring- stands for Rage and is wielded by The Red Lantern Corps
which is led by Atrocitus

With blood and rage of crimson red, Ripped from a corpse so freshly dead, Together with our hellish hate, We'll burn you all - That is your fate!

Orange Ring - stands for Avarice or Greed wielded by Larfleeze and he has no corps.

He has no oath.

Yellow Ring - stands for Fear and is wielded by the Sinestro Corps
which is obviously led by Sinestro

In blackest day, in brightest night, Beware your fears made into light Let those who try to stop what's right, Burn like my power... Sinestro's might!

Green Ring - stands for Will and is wielded by the Green Lantern Corps
which is directed by the Guardians of the Universe.

In brightest day, in blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight Let those who worship evil's might Beware my power...Green Lantern's light!

Blue Ring - stands for Hope and is wielded by the Blue Lantern Corps
which is under Ganthet and Sayd former Guardians

In fearful day, in raging night With strong heart full, our souls ignite When all seems lost in the War of Light, Look to the stars-- For hope burns bright!

Indigo Ring - stands for Compassion and is wielded by the Indigo Tribe
which is so far being lead by Indigo-1

Tor lorek san, bor nakka mur Natromo faan tornek wot ur Ter lantern ker lo Abin Sur Taan lek lek nok -- Formorrow Sur! (No english translation)

Violet Ring - stands for Love and is wielded by the Star Sapphires which is lead
by Queen Aga'po of the Zamarons

For hearts long lost and full of fright For those alone in blackest night Accept our ring and join our fight Love conquers all -- With violet light!

Alright that compromises the Spectrum, but as you might have noticed there is the last ring which is where the current arc, Blackest Night, is evolving.

Black Ring - stands for Death and is wielded by The Black Lantern Corps

which is owned by Nekron

The Blackest Night falls from the skies, The darkness grows as all light dies, We crave your hearts and your demise, By my black hand--The dead shall rise!

There you have it, the Emotional Spectrum. Another tidbit before I end: the ring bearers recite their oaths to recharge their power rings.

One last thing I'd like to share:

 

Xylith and Arckham

WIP: 1/144 HG Virtue Gundam

Before the operation:
The Virtue was built nine months ago. The builder (moi) made a terrible noob mistake of using pylox paints. Since that day, this model started to chip and get ugly. Time for a new look.


This may or may not be close to what it'll look like by the time I'm done. I'm not really sure yet. I did all the GN condensers with a metallic neon green acrylic, otherwise known to my girlfriend as "apple green nail polish" (shown below). The condensers are the Exia parts that come with the 1/100 Astraea.


Here's the kit being taken apart. Already started scraping some paint off.


Milky. Acetone bath.


Me and Xy wnet out today and we did a little shopping for my Gunpla. A bottle of Tamiya cement, a tube of Tamiya putty basic type, a knife and some sandpaper. That knife's only 36 Pesos and it works like magic.


Pic of the first successful panel line scribed with the hobby knife. This is the first time I've done this and I'm really enjoying it.


I scraped off some plastic in some areas, widened and deepened panel lines, also scribed some horizontals. Pla plates? No. Lil's didn't have anything but 0.2 when I came earlier so no. Those plates are from the sprues! XD
The knife did its job again and I scraped off the Japanese writing on that XD


The left one only has drawn lines as guide. The right one's already modified by a little bit with the horizontals.


First attempt at making panel lines. Good thing I bought putty.


In gunmetal.


Clutter.


Sitting on Optimus.


What's awesome with gunmetal is black Gundam Markers work on it.


Fixed failure! XD

Suggestions are welcome XD

In Brightest Day. In Blackest Night.

Over the past few weeks, releases of DC's Blackest Night came with rings from different lantern corps. The Black Lantern ring came out a few months earlier, and the colored ones came out in two's every week this November. Just last week, I finally had the last two, the red and the green.

So, picture.

A little bright for Sinestro.

00 Gundam [1/100 NG] Review/WIP/Finished

Okay, I've been meaning to post about this since I got the kit, and now I've finished it and it's time to review.


Contents of the kit.


Overview

The good.
-This kit has great posability, despite not being a Master Grade. A wide range of motion on the Twin drives, feet, legs and the arms.

-All weapons can be stored on its body (blades, sabers and swords), which is a big plus for me 'coz I hate it when they have more weapons than they can carry. Why? 'Coz that means you can't display it with all its weapons at once. But that's just me.

-Weight distribution is great. It never tips over unless you made it to. The feet moves in all directions with swiveling horizontal and vertical joints, plus the typical ball joint where the entire foot assembly attaches to the leg.

All weapons on, no tipping over.

Breaking Down the 00's

Why are there so many versions of the 00 Gundam? I don't know. But I can help Identify each one of them for you. Here we go.


00 Gundam with GN Sword III


00 Gundam in Designer colors with GN Sword III


00 Gundam and the 0 Raiser - "00Raiser"


00 Gundam Seven Sword


00 Raiser and Seven Sword


00 - XN Raiser


00 Raiser Seven Sword with 2 GN Sword III's


00 - XN Raiser Seven Sword with 2 GN Sword III's


00 Crazy Mode (lol!)

Images from Gundam Wiki.

Customizing the Over Flag

I bought Xylith a 1/144 SVMS-010 Over Flag a couple of months ago. She built it OOB (Out Of the Box) and gave it to me about a week later because it wouldn't stand up if it was holding any of its weapons and its arms kept falling off. So I took care of it and tightened some joints and fixed some assembly errors. Just today, I thought of doing a bit more work on it. Of course I start by taking it apart. I wanted to make it look a bit like Graham's GN Flag at the end of Gundam 00's first season so I sprayed a few parts white and I'm gonna give it a GN beam saber. Be sure to wash the parts first before painting. Use soapy water and a toothbrush. Be sure not to put the toothbrush in your mouth afterward.


For the fixes. I superglued some parts on. The wings on either side of the head and collar kept falling off and also the skirt part on the crotch. Since those aren't moving parts, it's okay to use superglue to keep them on.

For moving parts, however, using super glue is a no no. To tighten the joints, I like to use acrylic paints. Specifically acrylics because they don't harden, but instead get all rubbery. Also, because I found really cheap acrylics in Saizen(like Japan surplus in Robinsons Galleria) so I had a lot to spare. Just paint it on to both parts of the joint, let it dry, then slap 'em back together.

For some reason, it's the ball joints that usually get all lose and require this kind of fixing.


Done with the fixes, now the details. As usual, Gundam Markers for panel lining.

Now, the GN Beam Saber.

Graham took the Eins Gundam's beam saber so he had one for his Over Flag. He later plugged it in to a GN drive he got off some innovator somewhere. What I did here was I took one of the sabers from my 1/144 HG Virtue Gundam. Since I like to display him holding his bazooka, I don't mind him losing one of his sabers. So I took the saber and carved down one side of it with a knife for the wire to insert more than half way through. I inserted the wire and cemented it with some good 'ol superglue. This particular wire is the one Hasbro uses to tie Transformers so they don't shake inside their boxes. Afterward, I painted it black to make it more show-accurate. Also, for more Graham-accuracy, I put the squarish rifle instead of the trianglish one. And lastly, for an added flare, >Over Flags< stickers on each shoulder. And there we go, a customized hybrid of the Over Flag, Over Flag Graham Custom and GN Flag. Enjoy!

Click to full view. Sorry for the blur.
Blogger uploads pictures without its contact lenses.