Featured Modellers Chapter 4.3: Winndom's Knightmare Frame Lancelot Albion

Greetings my fellow gunpla enthusiasts. It has been a while since I have featured some one. Well, today, I'm featuring a great piece of work from within MAC.

Again, just like his first two work, Winndom has done yet another ingenious work, converting a gundam kit into a completely different mecha from a different anime.

That's right folks, just as the title, he SB and sculpted the knighmare frame, Lancelot Albion, from the much acclaimed Code Geass series.

There's nothing to say about how this kit actually started but it was just out of the woodwork, Winndom suddenly made a thread on the forum with some insane putty sculpting and boom, a nice piece of work is born.

He did have some difficulties however, as he started to paint this kit, his airbrush crapped out and he thought this kit will never be finished. He also stated he was so incredibly desperate to finish this kit that heresorted to spray cans to finish the job.

He did admit the build wasn't as clean as he would like because of his AB messing up but in the end, he was really pleased with the work.

He stated about 75%-85% of this kit was SB with putty and he was also bragging about how it show off his sculpting skills... yeah yeah .. we know, Winndom.. we know.. LOOL

The decals he used was printed onto waterslide paper from his laserjet printer, would you look at that .. DIY decals... that's nice.

Well that's about what he did on this one. My personal comment - its sculpted beautifully, its looks beautiful, it was made by many innovative ways of SBing, I find the use of copper wire to mimics joints very ingenious and the wings are just beautifully made.

The draw backs is that , like Winndom's had admitted himself, not perfectly clean and the paint , as some of the members have pointed out and which I agree on, the gold needs to be reworked on. He himself knows and he also stated that he will be working on his painting skills. Come to think of it, I need to too.

Well, that's that. Without further Ado, I present to you, Winndom's masterpiece -

Well, Winndom have taken many photos and these are just some of them. If you want to see more , please kindly click on the LINK to the official thread on the MAC forum. 

A beautiful kit regardless of the little Boo-boos Winndom made. A great piece of work and I really love it and I hope you dear readers love this too. 

This is for now ... Please look forward for more... Stay Tuned until the next update.

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Special Feature 1.1 - Decay's Space Type Sazabi (HG)

Hello there Ladies ( if there are any) and gents .... Once again, its time for the little birdy to blog again....

And that's right ... you saw it in the title... A special feature .... for one of the Legend of MAC. . and the name of the Legend is Decay.

Now if you all could remember that I made a blog post about the build off between the Decaying Legend and the Hand Painting Assassin, You might have noticed already What I will be featuring today. But in case you don't remember, let me kindly refresh your memories with a link back to it - Here it is 

Right, now, I'm pretty sure You all know who Decay is but there maybe some who don't know so let me re-introduce him again -

• Decay has been modelling for over 20 years
• He only started working on Gunpla for a mere two year
• Decay was only scarcely active at figure FM once
• He became an active member of MAC as soon as he register
• He now hold the Meister status in MAC, which is a moderator level
• He hails from Germany
• And best of all, A very very very good friend of mine.

Decays is a very skilled modeler, doing a range of modeling including painting figures, clean works, diorama, weathered and the ever impressive modifying works.

If you could kindly refer back to the announcement about their build off, Decay and Kamm decided to mod a HIGH GRADE Sazabi into their own version. Decay choose a space type and worked on and boy-oh-boy, did he mod it or what.

To do justice to the space theme, he went for a Gray Red color scheme tha was inspired by one of his favorit games - Mass Effect.

And hang on to your hats cos the next fact will blow you away ... The whole kit has been hand painted. That's right, Hand painted... I will be damned if I could find a single brush stroke on that thing... ( thank god I didn't.. :P )

You may be wondering why I featuring this exclusively while I have my own chapter, featuring Decay's work...  Well, here's a list of why -
1st - a very very magnificent piece of model
2nd - the mods are legendary - it's not even the Saz anymore .... its been DECAYED
3rd - one of the best weathering I have seen
4th - amazing paint and clour scheme, screams out ''alien'' or ''space''
5th - perfect decals

I could go on and on about this Sazabi ... but Why bore you out ???
So without Further Ado, I present to you ....
'' The DECAYED SAZABI '' 


that's a wallpaper Decay made for this baby.... great isn't it ?? Love it ...











There are loads more photos at Decay's own personal Blog - Here is the link so if you want to see more, just jump over there .... And if you are interested in reading about it, you can always visit the offical Thread over at MAC.

I hope you will find this Sazabi as magnificent and beautiful as I do. Lets give Decay a round of applause for completing such a monster and please DO visit his blog to give feedback.

OH, I almost forgot, here are some BEFORE/AFTER pics -



I hope this post has been a fun to read one.
As usual, thanks so so much for being such supportive and kind readers.

STAY TUNED FOR MORE

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Featured Modellers Chapter 4.2: Winndom's Gundam GaGa

Greetings and Salutation to you, my dear readers.....

Today, I would like to feature another work of the ingenious work of Winndom. I'm sure you will recall his Carnage gundam, his custom, transforming gundam.

In this, I will be featuring his Gundam GaGa, no you haven't read it wrong. GUNDAM GAGA.

This is a project that he started after seeing an Overflag ver. GaGa from Aor-or-Die. He stated he love Lady Gaga and he also love Gunpla and this custom was  built as to celebrate those love. He decided that Gundam GaGa would need to take on some essential GaGa accessories in order to truly embody her. Thus Gundam GaGa is equipped with:

1. A pair of reverse grip buster rifle (inspired by Lady GaGa's crutches in her Paparazzi video)
2. A pair of rifle boobs (inspired by her Alejandro video)
3. A pair of killer high heels (come one, you can't be GaGa without fabulous heels)
4. A funnel system comprise of 7 funnels for her 'hair' because GaGa always has crazy hair
5. Face shield in the style of Astraea because sunglasses are trendy.
6. Feminine proportion...duh


The crutches are modded from 4 buster rifles from Wing Zero HG. Rifle boobs were modded from NG Strike Freedom, high heels were scratch built with muzzle from two of the leftover buster rifle and extra beam saber hilt. The whole funnel system were scratch built. The body was modded from NG Blitz mostly with NG Infinite Justice providing the upper body.

This was his first custom project and he rushed through the details. And he made some boos-boos with sanding and the sanding marks become visible after painting and some minor mistakes showed up after painting. Even with mistakes, he still churned out a awe-inspiring kit with his ingenious design and take on GaGa concept. Another kit from Winndom that I personally find very very inspiring and I do believe so awesome that it eventually will get in a place in MAC's Legend Hall. I hope you guys find this inspiring as I do.

So, Without further Ado, I would like to present to you, Winndom's Gundam GaGa.














There, isn't that amazing? I juts love this.
If you want to see more of this amazing kit, drop by to the offical Thread here on the MAC forum.
As always, I would love to extend my gratitude to my dear readers for reading this. I hope I don't bore you guys out.

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Featured Modellers Chapter 4.1: Winndom's Carnage Gundam

Hello All and All hello. 


In this 4th chapter of my featuring series, I would like to feature a great great work from an upcoming modeler who is also a newer member of MAC.


This modeler goes by the name of Winndom and, believe you me, he can churn out great modified kits and his skill are really really impressive.


I saw one of his kit in another forum and immediately fell in love with the kit and felt like he has a great load of talent and potential that I invited him over to MAC. Fortunately for both party, he has decided to join and damn, I so glad that he did.


Let me tell you a little bit more about him. He had always built kits since he was little but started looking at the forums back in June and that was when he learned about all the things one can do further. In other word, he has been a collector but only been a modeler for about 4 months. 


Much like yours truly, this guy like doing body mods more so than detailing. He stated that scribing custom panel lines and pa-plating is not that fun to him (gosh, you guys have no idea how happy I am to meet a similar styled modeler :P ). He said and I quote - '' There's nothing more fun than coming up with your own mech design. '' - which I completely agree.


He has only completed 3 modded kits ( hard to believe, I know) and now that he has learned airbrush he will be brushing his kits from now on.

Now, this piece of art which I will be featuring is his very first mods and I have to say, it is damn well impressive. He stated really like the SEED line's designs and decided to take some inspirations from the Gaia Gundam and make a mobile suit with an animal mode. He used the NG Infinite Justice as the base kit and just modded parts from there. The color scheme was to make the suit give off a villainous aura. The story behind the concept is that the suit is equipped with an AI system that activates when it goes into beast form. In that form, performance is boosted to extreme but the pilot has no control over the actions of the suit.
The kit was hand painted with acrylic, Apple Barrel Acrylic, that one to be specific.


Apart from the obvious think paint ( remember that this is his first hand painted kit), and the dusts ( which is the nemesis of us all), this is a great great kit. A kit that personally inspire me to a point that I kept looking at it, again and again. This will definitely go down as one of the masterpiece of MAC, and who knows, Winndom could become a Legend of MAC in time.
So, Without further ado, I present to you, Winndom's Carnage Gundam

















There, isn't that amazing? I juts love this. 
If you want to see more of this amazing kit, drop by to the offical Thread here on the MAC forum.
As always, I would love to extend my gratitude to my dear readers for reading this. I hope I don't bore you guys out. 


Stay Tuned for more.

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Featured Modellers Chapter 3.2: Decay's Kshatriya

Hello dear readers. Once again, I have the honor to proudly feature and present one of my close friend's work. This friend of mine goes by the Name of Decay, the Decaying Scratch-builder.

Special introduction won't be necessary as you all know the amazing works of Decay and you probably have seen his previous work. In any case if you haven't seen it, here is a flash back to his The-O.

This is , for Decay, nothing more then a relaxed built. But it would not be exaggerating to call him a great modeler as you can see from the photos. Let's see what he said about his own build, shell we -

'' I have to say this was a fun built, but I would still prefer a plastic kit over a resin, simply because I did not dare to mode this.
Another thing is that while I was taking the pictures, I was so scared to move it because once the wings are on it, it becomes very heavy and puts a lot of pressure on the legs. This is also the reason I glued it to the base. ''

There you go. This was the first kit that he used Revell Aqua colours, which are basically acrylic color from model company Revell and he said those revell acrylic works pretty well. ( I can vouch on those paints as I use them myself ).

He used them with both his airbrush and brush. He said that this kit is about 50% hand painted and that is the main reason he went for the Revell colors.

And he used hair spray technique to make those magnificent paint chips and weathering effects. And dang, those weathering are just too awesome.

Decay's skill has been noticeable in his scrathbuilding but even more so obvious in painting and weathering as he has spent the last 20 years, modeling and painting figures. No surprising his touch on this kit is no less then awe-inspiring. I am proud to feature the works of my dear friend and a value member of MAC.

Let's move on to the pictures shell we ??















There you go. I hope you guys like this kit as much as I do. If you are interested, you can check out the discussion in the thread on MAC.

Or if you simply wanted to see more of Decay's works, here is the link to his BLOG.

Thank you all for reading. Hope you have a enjoyable read. Stay Tuned for more.

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