what rough beast…

so the bastard started his next project.

the Dom is proving to be strikingly easy to build thusfar.

which means I'll have more time to think about paint.

paint that I've already discovered comes out of corian when you use a standard cleaner.

whoops

—the bastard

…on gunpla

the bastard has taken to doing his builds slowly these days.

take this real grade I finished building this week.

I've been really savoring taking my time on these things.

even though sometimes its actually due to circumstances beyond my control, I like to know something small is waiting for me when some quiet time happens.

took me 4 months to complete this one. took me almost a year to build the last one.

I think the Dom I got for Christmas will eat some time too.

ridiculous hobbies are ridiculous.

—the bastard

this weak in anime

the bastard

frikkin' loves

gundam unicorn!

never have i followed a series that takes so long to produce. 

never have i followed a series that continues to deliver the goods.

and never will a series leave me waiting around with baited breath for the next installment.

the bastard will be sad when it's done

—the bastard

this weak in anime

The bastard is kinda digging the new gundam anime.

it's a little young considering I'm actually waiting patiently for gundam: the origin

but it'll do

—the bastard

this weak in anime

wow guy.

screw me?

no

screw YOU!

—the bastard

assertions…

as defined by wikipedia, 'gunpla' can be best described as 'the practice of building Gundam models, rather than the models themselves.'

this is what the bastard foes with his spare time.

I'm sure if people hung around with me, my hobby would be hanging around with people.

but people don't hang around me so I build robots and hang around them.

in my last place, I had no room for the robots and even less so when we were selling the apartment.

you know because people get frightened when they go apartment hunting and find otaku in the place.

it just stinks up the joint.

lately the wife allotted me some space for my gunpla so I've been mucking about building some models.

I started one before we moved out and finished it tonight. he's a companion piece to one I had built a year ago in my office.

what?!? I wanted to unwind during my lunch hour.

anyway, I realize that could never properly display any large number of my collection as they number in the over 75 category and are in various states of repair.

I may do a rotating exhibition given the chance but until that day arrives the bastard is content to use the space allotted for whatever.




besides, I have a new one to start on whenever I get started on it.

not to mention whatever I'll inevitably pick up at comic con this year.

shit. I have to find my flip camera for that.


—the bastard

the bastard TOTALLY needs to get back to the gunpla

tonight the bastard dug up a freebie he got when he picked up a copy of dengeki magazine.

1/810 ideon model that isn't all that challenging.

the bastard is just trying to make space.

I may be winding up black f91 after the boy goes home next week so I can deal with his absence.

until it becomes my norm again.

but I had done a little business with the builder last week and he had something for me to build.

something for the boy to build.

something for me. a match for my real grade.

getting a free model totally takes the sting out of pro Bono work for good friends.

and while I could use some pay work, I like doing the work anyway.

stretches the brain once in a bit.

that and the robots. I've been building for damn near 30 years and I have yet to learn ANY Japanese yet.

I should.

I'd like to go there one day.

I'd like to ride across the country too on a motorcycle.

see if I can get either done.

until then… it's gunpla

—the bastard

this weak in anime

well i have NO IDEA who else would.

the bastard just got finished watching 50 episodes of depressing dirge fest tegami bachi letter bee and i initially liked it except for it's

depressing

full of unresolved story lines

and the protagonist cries his ASS off in every episode.

i mean seriously, the bastard likes sad but this kid cried so often in fifty episodes that i had become desensitized to the depressing story line of a world that exists with no daylight save for an artificial sun that subsist on the souls of the living.

so if you'd like to get depressed, have a watch

—the bastard

this weak in anime...

gundam unicorn

episode 2

was sooooo dope!

that is all

—the bastard

this weak in anime

i don't believe in me.

i believe that you believe in me.

what the hell does that even mean? do you know wh o the hell i AM?

—the bastard

this weak in anime

 haruhi suzumiya wants your money

—the bastard

…the white ogre

the bastard actually started working on the ogre a few weeks ago after my bout with the 1/144 real grade.

aside from putting the hands together, this won't be too too hard to build.

however it's the paint job that'll be the challenge.

but the bastard is confident that between a screw, a candle, and a bachelors in fine art, he can figure out how to make this thing look like it's been though the ringer.

—the bastard

…on cons…

…and comics


this just in.

there's a giant gundam in manhattan.



and little goth girls attacking giant monsters


and comics about ayn rand. yeah you guessed it jerks.

the bastard went to the comic convention. my friend, the builder, invited me to hang out at the show where I saw many things.

for one, too many adults are wearing headbands from naruto for my taste. and there were many disheveled super heroes to be found.

way too many of them.

and left hand rob was there.

and the tin man

and the scarecrow.

and alot of women in thigh highs and latex.

you see

I'm used to going to gun shows and the only people in costume there are wearing camouflage anyway.

so this was something new.

—the bastard

…on the beast

so the bastard has come into some robots.

this is through an ongoing job I'm doing for the builder.

which reminds him, I have to learn more about web.

I've never been much of a reader. I've been more of a doer. it's a terrible personal failing I know so I may very well just get a damn book anyway.

but I digress.

I came across these models from the builder and he threw in the latest model as a bonus. it's called real grade.

it's 1/144 sized, which makes it approximately 6 inches tall at completion but it has more parts than most 12 inch master grades.

it is supposed to be representative of a realistic robot in the gundam ethos but I think it was essentially designed my a crew of sadists over at whatever company designs gundam models.

sadists! no one with hands like mine needs to be building something so small and so intricate.

three hours across two evenings to build two feet and part of a leg.

8 more to finish both legs and the torso.

alternating plates of white and off white for added realism.

it's awful.

but it's fun.

and so I'm a masochist.

oh well,

sure beats a sharp stick in the eye.

—the bastard

this weak in anime

only you can prevent fansubs.

only you.

—the bastard

this weak in anime...

stan lee wouldn't make fun of psychic powers if he was you.

—the bastard

more things the bastard bought at a Japanese big box store

for your consideration…






…ultraman lemonade

the bastard bought this because it looked like a robot. the builder told me what it's contents were.

I will leave all urine related discussion about the contents of this can of lemonade to the mad Russian.

because it's a goddam gimme.

—the bastard

…on new builds

the bastard has stupid hobbies.

he plays in traffic.

kicks old ladies.

robs liquor stores.

and he builds robots.

aren't you happy you asked?

i put together a logo for the builder's website and he's paying me in robots

I look at it like this,

at best, when I'm done, I've done 250-300 dollars work in the short run and a poor bastard like me can't pay much in the way of bills on that.

but,

building 250-300 dollars of robots can at least entertain me through this crap economy .

now if only there wasn't misprints in the all Japanese directions.

oh well

go to hell.

—the bastard

this weak in anime

In gundam, even the robots complain

—the bastard

…on traveling without moving

I have this old friend.

and he's indirectly responsible for every this weak in anime installment the bastard has ever put on this blog.

because he's part and parcel responsible for getting me into anime,

and building models,

and eating something else with noodles that isn't fucking spaghetti.

anyways,

I'm doing a job for him, the builder and he invited me out for noodles yesterday to discuss business and visit a little pocket of japan that is across the river in edgewater new jersey.

and the ramen was rock solid.

and it was PACKED with Japanese people there just to buy shit for their house.

you wanna make sushi?

go down aisle 5 and get a frikkin brick of tuna.

want some noodles for yer home?

we got three aisle of what you're looking for.

it's essentially a big box store of Japanese things for you the consumer.

and there was a fair going on in the parking lot too, so there was no shortage of people in traditional garb and one or two gothic lolitas or Asian guys in pompadors.

did I mention the ramen was good?

—the bastard