Winners of the 2012 Contest: Congrats to all the Winner!!!!

HELLO ALL ... and All HELLO ......

Welcome, yet again, to another one of my blog post. You guys must noticed why I have been postings a bit more actively then I used to be since I started working. The thing is, our hotel is changing company and the new company doesn't block bloggers, forums and some stuffs. And by 3 AM, I have nothing else to do so I have been blogging happily.. haha... ANYWAY,

I blogging today to announce the winner lists of the 2012 Mecha Contest. There have been a massive load of entries and everybody really gave their best and all of their works are beautiful. I don't wanna bore you guys out with my mumbling so, without further ado, I present to you, the Winners list :

OOBPAINTED:
1st: Timotao - PG STRIKE FREEDOM (LINK)
2nd: Enderwiggen - RG ZAKU II (LINK)
3rd: Caylen - 1/72 Armored Messiah (LINK)

MODIFIED PLASTIC:
1st: Mr gav - MG Sazabi (LINK)
2nd: Vanz - MG Zaku Cannon (LINK)
3rd: Blublek Studio - MG unicorn(LINK)

RESIN:
1st: Ogami - EVA-02 - The beast (LINK)
2nd: Substance - SMS 1/35 - Guerrilla Reconnaissance Unicorn Bust (LINK)
3rd: Vanz - MG 1/100 RX-78 GPO4 GERBERA resin kit (LINK)

DIORAMA:
1st: Ogami - EVA-02 - The beast (LINK)
2nd: Shiro11 - Char's Counter Attack Diorama (LINK)
3rd: ijoezel - Snow Bug Diorama (LINK)

CONCEPT:
1st: Dumpling - Sky Shrimp (LINK)
2nd: Enderwiggen - Junkbot (LINK)
3rd: Mokanaman - Hermóðr 'the messenger (LINK)

Here is a little video made by Kamm and Sneeper's to announce the winners and explaning how the prize system works -



And, I asume you all know about this already , the prize list doesn't stop there. Lets go on with the contributors choices -

Kamm's pick:
Aor or Die; Scratch build Jaguar -winner of a MG GNX (LINK)

Steve's pick:
Side out ; MG Zeta plus C1 custom -winner of MG Epyon (LINK)
Lollipop ; Custom Acguy -winner of Zoids Sabre Tiger red (LINK)

Hummingbird (yours truly) picks:
Tigrillo ;  custom 1/60 Exia-winner of  1/35 Leopard tank (LINK)
Kyoshiro21 ; custom color scheme MG Duel Gundam- winner of 1/35 chieftan tank (LINK)
P3TB ; MG GPO3 Diorama- winner of 1/35 Patton tank (LINK)
Substance ; MG Unicorn custom color- winner of 1/35 Sherman tank (LINK)

Tember Gundam's pick:
Mafo127 ; Mg OO gundam with resin conversion for XN raiser- winner of RG Aile strike (LINK)
P3tb ; Mg GP03 custom color- winner of the Mg wing gundam ver KA (LINK)

AOR or DIE's pick:
Berst ; custom Kitbash Gelgoog/ kshatriya- winner of Neograde Sinanju kit (LINK)

AND HERE IS THE RANDOM WINNERS LIST!!!!!!
SLIVER, I.M.P.A.O, DERX074, Angelsora, A.yue, galland, gunplanut, retroboy, Meadeslemicah, Blueturtlegirl76


And here is a little video from ''the'' master Mrozeks -

And another video from Gunplameister -

Well, There you go ... You have the entire list of all the winners and contributors choices. I hope all of you enjoy the contest as much as we have.

Congrats to all the winners!!!!!

Stay Tuned for more.

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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 Entry: Legend Gundam Part 9

Hey peeps.. I am terribly sorry for my lack of update ..... Why no update u ask?? well, this should explains it - A Modeller's Innovation: Why The Bird Has been InActive lately

Well, For what its worth, I have an update for all my comrades, seniors and juniors.... had to squeeze what amout of free time I have to steadily push forward to the completion of this kit ...
When I left off, I left off right where I was building the back pack yes? So lets just start from there - I made up a mock up for you guys last time, which is this - 

so, I now have to start making up the dragoons attachment binders. This was done by first, stacking plates like so -



And after brain-storming and digging into two of my spare parts boxes - I achieved this 



The little black thingys are from the original backpack, cut off from the round thingy and closed on the sides with some plates. The yellow part is from my FG Kyrios ... and the little angled parts is the knee armor of my HG S gundam .
If you look to the right, you will see a rod (sprue) sticking out... That is put in there so that I can attach the binders into my main backpack -Which are these two- 



As you see, I already demonstrated there where those runners will go.. And then, I made some vents for those two parts and glue it on -



The binders are put on to see if there is any restriction of movement ....and once put together, they can do this -

And if it is not being used, they can be folded back and stored like this -

Now I really love this one as I really hated the overly large round original back pack.. but this, me likey.. (LOL).. 
And I never liked the original gun.. its too long and just too cumbersome...  so I made a better version ... Still in progress though-

And as you all know, when it comes to detailing, I suck, so I tried my best to do what I can for the details -

I asked my friends around and they said I there is already enough plates and that I should start putting in panel lines .. SO here it is - 

I also put some on the feet as well -

and some on the thighs ( I REALLY NEED TO DO MORE CLEAN UP ON THE THIGHS ''sigh '' )

Following up on the head with my usual way of covering up seams- 

I was looking around and I found the shoulder flap ''bare'' so I decided to put some bits and bots there -

AND this is how it looks now in its primed stage-

I only have to do MORE( a lot MORE) clean up and add details and bits and bots and we are done... ( I think)..

AND I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH THAT I AM AWARE OF THE CLEAN UPS

I'm sorry I can't do any more ''big'' update ... Im not rushing but Im kinda running on fumes on this one so these would be all the major works on this... 
As usual, thank to you all for the support and reading..... 
Stay Tuned 

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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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2012 Mecha Contest Entry: Legend Gundam Part 8

Yosha ... The Bird is back.... I am sorry guys ... Life just wasn't kind on me .. LOL .. but that won't stop me from modeling... not only just life, I was focusing on the Gold frame and the Xbone that I didn't work on this ... I kinda need a break from ''Amaimon'' as well,, as you all know, modding takes its toll on the mind and body, but now, I'm back ...

Right... lets get cracking shell we??
First, I draw some panel lines on the back skirts -

It looked so plain and I didn't put on that big a piece of platings so I decided to go through with panel lines

did the same thing for the front skirts but since the front skits have bigger pieces of plates, I just went through with small panel lines -

I'm pretty happy with that much amount of details on it.. I don't want to go ever board ...
Also, I fixed the feet. I didn't like how it initially looked
As you can see from the photo -


I further extended the toes and made the toes wider and with some step-ish effect just for appearance sake ... I like it though.. kinda unique ...

I big the toe bigger and thus, I can't leave the heel alone... So I increased the side-to-side width only by a fraction and put in some very small amount of detail platings at the back of the heel-



Also, I was working on the feet and this hit me, the ankle is so poorly engineered that there is a huge gap once the ankle flaps are up. I was like UGH ..
So I decided to build this -


and this is the out come and WHY I made such a thing -


Now, even with the feet folding back, and the ankle flap open, it would be so ugly, and also, it will make the ankle more blended in, like a MG or a better engineered kit

Next, I put in some details in the holes I made on the lower leg...
You see, it was just an ugly hole when the the knee is bent and I was like '' UGH'' and I figured that has got to do.. so I decided to put in some vent-ish looking, mechanical looking part and here it is -

Now, as you can see from the lower photo, there is no more gaping hole when the knee is bent....

Next up, I was looking up the arm and I figured the front of the Bicep could use some details so I did this -

That's that for the arm, Im happy.. I still need to finish the shoulders though ...


I forgot ... I also made this -
Both Harry and Thelmos pointed out this and I had to fix this -

after that, I started forming the knee armour by closing the parts -



What's next is the start of the what Thelmosengine have been nagging me to update..... the Backpack ..

BEAR in MIND all of these are still in their infancy .. I still have so much to work on them ..

if you could recall, I cut up the back pack like so -


and I cut the boosters part further and I got this -


The big plates are glued on because there is a big gaping hole on those sides after cutting it away from the main backpack.
The black parts are scavenged from the 1/144 HG Bushido .. You all know how I feel about HGs .. anyway, those are the thigh parts from it
The Rod is meant to be some details like a pipe or something ... I will further detail it later on ....

Next, I made this... An adapter for the two boosters to attach to -


and yes, IT looks messy because I haven't finished it yet ..any way, that adapter allows the boosters to be like this -


Im still figuring out where exactly and How exactly ( as in, distance with the both, the angle and what not) to attach that adapter But this is test fit for all of you to see -

I think I might just go ahead and just glue it on to where I test fitted... Im not sure ... thinking thinking .. .

And here is another mock up of how the big dragoon will be placed -

I am trying to work out the final mechanic of how the small dragoons will attach to but I can at least say this, it will have an appearance similar to the Hi-nu BUT ( and a big but) it will be able to rotate all around so that the dragoons can be used to shoot at the enemy in a massive bombardment of beams, just like how the original backpack was intended.

Well, that's about it for today. Hope I do not disappoint you guys. If I did, I do apologize. I will make sure the next one won't be soo disappointing.
Please stay tuned for more and Thank you so much for reading, as always.

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2012 Mecha Contest Entry: Legend Gundam Part 7

Hello ladies (if there are any) and gents .... Here is an update to the legend

first of all, I would like to apologize for my lack of updates on this baby as I have hit a wall with that back pack, not mention busy finishing this - [url]http://modeller-innovation.blogspot.com/2012/02/trumpeter-135-c1-ariete-mbt.html[/url] ... now, I can restart on the legend .....

Lets start with the detail-platings I made here and there -
I put on some weird shaped platings around the forearms

I kinda like it ... I purposely made them asymmetrical on the outsides and insides of the forearms... you could say to make it more uniquely my own version, you know ...

And I plated the upper arm like so -

This is the out side of both arms ... the front,back, and the inner sides of both upper arm are still untouched though but I will come back to it

And I made this little thing which I learned from GondorDestiny of Plamo... Again, I thank you Gondor as you have been very very influential in this WIP ...

The picture would say everything, there was a big big gap when the arm is bent and I had to cover it ..... and I also extended the arms by 1.5mm. The extension of the arms really make the whole proportions pop ...

and Also, I thicken the lower torso, ( the waist area) with 1.0mm all around and a little bit at a angle so that the whole torso won't look so out of proportions ....

And this is how it looks with extended arms and thicken waist -

I LOVE it ... personally, the thickening of the waist and the extension of the arms were good move ...

Moving on, I also made a small amount of detail works on the shoulders -

I plan to put more on there but for the life of me,I can't think of anything else apart from Panel lines.... oh well, it will come to me, eventually

And I also put on some platings on the back skirts .. Trouble is - I don't know if that is enough platings or should I plate more?? hmm.. decisions, decisions ...

And I told you that I had hit a wall with the back pack, yes ?? well, not any more and here is what I did with the back pack -
Don't forget these are still initial steps -
I cut off three portions of the Back pack

and I also cut off those parts from the round thingy .. I really hate that Round part -

You are gonna see a completely different backpack on the legend ... nothing too great, but nothing too simple... just right .. mua haha .. LOL. just joking ...

Well, that's about it ... Oh, one more thing ....... Its name is ''' Amaimon ''' .... I was watching Aoi No Exorcist and it hit me ... ''' Amaimon ''' .... I love the name ... :P

I'm sorry as this is not a big update but with some rather dull platings and do forgive me if I snuffed out your expectations with these dull stuffs-
Until next post ..... Stay Tuned for more

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