WE had a very successful GB and Here are the Winners.

Alright, People. You are probably Aware of the Chaos Group Build We were having. I made a blog post about this as well back when it started - LINK  ( for Recap )

After a very successful group with 88 finished model, it was the time for the staffs to judge and came up with the results and the results are as follow -

Best Paint Jobs 

1st Galland: M4A2 Sherman- http://www.gundamuk.com/mechaloungeforums/index.php?topic=2556.0

2nd Big Z: MG Shin Matsunaga Zaku II 2.0- http://www.gundamuk.com/mechaloungeforums/index.php?topic=2310.0

3rd Lemniscate: MS Build Freedom Conversion- http://www.gundamuk.com/mechaloungeforums/index.php?topic=2530.0

4th GoodGuyDan: HGUC Byarlant- http://www.gundamuk.com/mechaloungeforums/index.php?topic=2106.0

5th Steezy: MG Nemo- http://www.gundamuk.com/mechaloungeforums/index.php?topic=2299.0

Best Modifications

1st Tigrillo- http://www.gundamuk.com/mechaloungeforums/index.php?topic=2544.0

2nd Dumpling: Air Whale- http://www.gundamuk.com/mechaloungeforums/index.php?topic=2511.0

3rd Beork: Decal Hell- http://www.gundamuk.com/mechaloungeforums/index.php?topic=2551.0

4th Ijoezel: G.H.O.S.T.S- http://www.gundamuk.com/mechaloungeforums/index.php?topic=2555.0

5th Pawces: MG 00 7 swords- http://www.gundamuk.com/mechaloungeforums/index.php?topic=2545.0 

Here is what the winners have to choose from EXCEPT FOR THE GENOBREAKER AND THE POSTERS ( the posters will be randomized.)

Before I proceed any further, Here are a few words from one of our Admin, Harry - 

''''' Congrats to everyone on making this GB a blast and putting in some killer entries. I hope you all enjoyed this GB as much as the staff did. A lot of the judging came down to some really really tough calls. Here's how this will work. In order of placement I want the winners to come in here and select what prize they want. Tigrillo will not be receiving a prize for winning "Best Modifications" because he has already won the grand prize and I want more people to get a chance at prizes because we will be doing some random picks as well as prize donor picks as well. I did this in favour of previous complaints we have received in our 2012 Mecha Contest hosted by Kamm and Sneeper. ''' 

Thank you all for making this GB a fun one. I enjoyed very much myself and there have been a lot of interaction between members and everybody was having fun, building and commenting, throwing banters back and forth.

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WIP 1/35 Tamiya King Tiger - Part 1

Hello Ladies and Gents. Welcome to a brand new WIP from the hummingbird. Usually I would be modding away on some retro gunpla kit or improving an NG or MG but I have been pretty much inspired to focus on AFVs after reading modelling magazines regularly so Here I am, builing a mighty tank I have been dying to build.

Full Details of the king tiger ( to those who don't know what it is ) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_tiger

Here's the Box art -

and here are the Sprues -

This is one seriously simplified kit ... but still, its a lovely kit and tamiya made this thing quite beautifully -

Anyway here's what I have done -

Did the road wheels ... Tamiya is just awesome .. all the road wheels fit just beautifully

Spocket and Ideller wheels

The details are pretty awesome

Exhuast are glued on and sanded ( although they will be covered, I just can't help getting rid of the seams )

 

 
The wheels fit very very nicely on the suspension

And I also made the Wheels movable by utilizing Tamiya's own superb engineering .. I plan to make a video showing you the moving wheels so be on the look out for that .....

Although this kit is really good, when I put on the rear plate on to the chassis, there was this huge huge gaps all along the joint so I had to filled it and sand it down


Also ran into some gaps on the front Glacis plate so I had to fill them and sand them down ( I just realize there are still gaps ... darn it ... oh well, more fillers and sanding


The Exhaust goes on nicely onto the rear hull


And then, I moved on to the Barrel - Here is how I deal with barrel -



I put bits and bobs of my stryene rods lying around inside the barrel as support and to make them heavy and to have a proper rigid feel to them

With those in place, I glued the other half and I can even do this without breaking the barrel -


and followed with some usual filling and sanding . .. ( darn things always leave a seam in the middle )

And there you have it...

I am truly enjoying this build as I haven't touched any tanks for quite some times.

Please look forward to my updates and thank you for your support as usual.

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And here we go again with another BIG event !!!!

Hola People ... Welcome to another post from the Bird ...

I have good news.. Great news infact ...

As you know, Kamm ( Our esteemed and man-love hungry Admin ) always have a knack for coming up with exciting stuffs like the EUGC ( please prefer back to my posts about it ) and the 2012 Mecha Contest that was just finished; successfully with loads of people participating, just a few months ago. And now, the said esteem admin has came up with another idea and after discussing within the Staffs of Mecha-Lounge, we are happy to announce a new and big event for year of 2013.

After a back-and-forth debate of naming, we have come up with this title, C.H.A.O.S, which is the abbreviation of -

Collectively Hoarding Astronomically Over-priced Styrene

Here is the background theme thought up by Kamm -

The world plunges into war as the fight for resources becomes too great. As chaos descends upon humanity two factions were formed those who would choose to inhabit the air and space, those who would choose to inhabit the land and sea. The colony's prepare for what will come to be known as the Great War, in which only one colony will survive and lay claim to Earth's resources. We would like you to choose your side and build your own personal war machine for the Great War and aid your colony to victory.

And the Rules are as followed -


GROUNDED COLONY             OR                 SKY COLONY

- First choose your side (Grounded or Sky)
- You may build any kind of model kit for your chosen side for example. You may choose the Grounded Colony and build a Zoid, Gundam, Tank, Boat, Figure etc.
- All we ask is you try to paint / modify / build your model kit to match your chosen Colony. E.g. for the Sky Colony you may build your model with numerous thrusters etc.

- This is not a competition. This group build is for fun and we will be announcing prizes for lucky winners and participants throughout the event! We want to encourage everybody to take part regardless of skill level and just have fun together. You may build models for more then one colony and again this event allows for almost any kind of build so if your looking for an excuse to work on your back log! now is the time.

- Deadline will be January 1st 2013 - June 30th 2013
- You can enter More then one model into the group build and dioramas are accepted!
- Prizes will be announced during the GB to keep the excitement rolling.

So what will it be!? who will you choose to fight for? and what will you choose to fight with!? (more information will become available over the next two weeks)

So there you go. Since this is kinda like a Teaser announcement and we still have more process and bugs ( to coin a phrase) to iron out, I can only release this much information so I do apologize in advance but I will keep you all posted.

BUT here's something you guys need to know -

This GB is not limited just to Gunpla ( and gundams) and mecha, this GB is given life so that all kind of models  ( plamo, mimi, figure, gunpla) and all kind of modeller can have a good time, kick back and enjoy, share their build and , most of all, to have fun. I wouldn't even be building any gundams ( fingers crossed) as I have a huge backlog of Tanks and this is the perfect excuse I have been waiting for.

We hope to bring all kind of modellers together to have fun while in the mean time, share techniques as well. Basically put, this GB is made to '' SPREAD THE LOVE OF Astronomically Over-priced Styrene WHICH WE CALL MODELS '' .. lol .. 

So even if you are a tank modeller, a car modeller, a ship modeller, a mini-figure ( wargaming modeller ) or a plane modeller, gundam modeler etc. etc...  doesn't matter what as long as you build models, Join us ... Join our GB to spread the love and most of all to have fun ...

The friendly and dedicated staffs and equally awesome  members of Mecha-Lounge await your participation.... lets have some fun ...

Now, CHOOSE YOUR SIDE ( Im going to the Ground team, btw )

Would you like to know more ??? Simply click on the image below and it will take you to the forum thread -

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oh and here is a teaser ...

Stay TUNE for MORE INFO

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2012... It has come to an end ..........

After  7 long months, The 2012 MECHA Contest is finally closed. With 5 categories , it is not surprising there have been lots of awesome masterpieces that were submitted for the contest in each Category. 


As one of the prize member of the contest, I cannot give my feedback until the official results have been released by the judges. We will do our best to proceed with the judging as quickly as possible so in the mean time, I would like to ask everybody who have shown interest, entered, supported to be patient. 


As you all are aware, there are tons of exciting prizes, just around the corner, waiting the lucky winners.What are those prizes..? Check out and visit '' THE MECHA LOUNGE '' to find out more. 

In the mean time, you can go and check out the entries yourself, by going to the ''Mecha Lounge'' 2012 contest submission PAGE . 

To peak your curiosity, let me share what one of our judge and admin of Mecha Lounge, an awesome modeler who goes by the name of DECAY, the decaying modeler, has done - 

Entries of the Diorama Category

Entries of the OOB Painted Category

Entries of the Modified Category

Entries of the Concept Category

Entries of the Resin Category

As you can see, there are a tone of cool stuffs submitted and I hope everybody involved in this is as excited as our ML staffs and the judging team.

To all participants..in behalf of the ''ML ADMINS AND STAFFS'' ...

WE thank you all!! Thank you so much for overwhelming love and support!!

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2012 MECHA CONTEST Extended for 30 more days !!

Dear Participants of the 2012 MECHA CONTEST -
2012 MECHA CONTEST will be extended until the end of July. As Kamm and Sneeper, the brains and organizer of the Mecha Contest , have decided the most awaited contest has been moved for everyone's delight.

The Main reason to extend was just that there have been a number of confusion with the venue change and everything became kind of not very convenient for all the participants for  2 week and Kamm, Sneeper and the rest of the gang thought we should extend it until the end of July as a mean of compensation for the inconvenience caused by the events of early may.

SO the contest is now extended a further 30 days until July 31.

That's good news for all modelers and aspiring ones to finish up their in-progress wips OR make a new fast one. Just be sure to send those entries and finished those in time. You have more than a month to enjoy your WIPs..So keep the ball rolling. Keep on churning out those  awesome kits and we will be waiting for your outstanding entries!!


Good Luck and more power to all participants!! Interested parties can still join the contest. There are lots of great prizes to be won.So what are you all waiting for.... SIGN UP and enjoy!!

You can check out and visit our new ''HOME''  -

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