Vocaloid 2 - Hatsune Miku

Recently got poison by Yamaha's product Vocaloid 2!!! and have become a fan of Miku-chan! Basically Vocaloid 2 Hatsune Miku is a digital generate (or software generate) female voice that can sing the lyrics following rhyme of the song. She is like a digital singer (pc generate singer!?), if you have watch Macross Plus and know about Shannon should roughly get the idea.

Want more detail about vocaloid? Visit its official website (it is in Japanese), or google it for more details.

Still no idea here is some video that I grabbed from youtube!


The are tons of similar video now in youtube, you can get as much as you want, or you may even go purchase the software and make your own!

Some screenshot that I got from my fellow forumers in LYN (thx to Kei):
Join our discussion in LYN there is also some useful info in the first page. Lets make some interesting song!

Blog Rush

Today while I was surfing the net and saw one of the bloggers using this so call blog rush stuff! So I click on it made a visit its website.



Blog Rush is widget that u place on your blog and you get information of RSS information from ppl that updated their file, it will automatically rotate the blogs in it and can be customized to show ppl the blog they liked (by choosing which category).

Since it mention its is free and others that have this widgets on their blog can see yours blog on it! So I just gave it a tried! Who is interested may visit their website here.

MG Gundam Unicorn

I think most of you out there already knew that the December Upcoming MG will be Gundam Unicorn. For those that are wondering what mecha this it and where the heck it came out from, why no anime! It is base on a novel written by Harutoshi Fukui. For more info on Gundam Unicorn you may tried googling it or wikipedia.

If you never read it before don't worry, so do I. Since it is just Japanese only I think a lot of Gundam Fan all over the world never read it before........

Back to the topic! Recently we get to see all sort of information regarding the development of Gundam Unicorn MG kit, from the pic that were gather online we get to know that the transformation of the kit in to destroyer mode is included! Here some pic that I got from Toysdaily:










Seem to be a very interesting kit! The transformation should be one of the main feature of this kit. I just hope the parts won't break off easily (like my Zeta v2.0). This would be a very nice Christmas Present.

Revoltech Macross VF-1J Detailing

Finally I have complete the detailing work on my VF-1J Revoltech! Took me sometime to update it here, hope all of you like it.

I painted the cockpit part in blue since it look really weird with the whole part white color! In the anime this part should be a see through glass (if not mistaken), did some panel lining and weathering as well!

Detailing this kit ain't a hard thing since you wont need to snap fit it like gundam kits out there, all u need to do is to dissemble the figure like below:

As you can see all the parts are really plain........

Just use any Gundam Marker out there and feel up the seem line, and you may get a better effect like above!

(the picture above include weathering)

Now we come to the part painting the cockpit! Some simple masking like wat i did in one of the previous post.

The color I used here is Mr Color Bright Blue mix with a bit of Mr Color White! Some Retarted Mild should be used in order to make the paint job much better.

After u paint the cockpit, all you left to do is some weathering and topcoating it! You can do weathering with the Gundam Weathering Marker + a paint brush, using the dried brush technique. I may cover the technique of it in later post (sry forgot to take picture of how i did it).

Finally after all the hard work, this is what you get!

Black Getter and VF-1J

Finally got time to go down to Berjaya Times Square XL shop to collect my Revoltech! Black Getter and VF-1J! (OMG too many Revol)

Black Getter! So far I think tat this is the coolest Revoltech in the market! The color and the traditional design makes this a must get for the Revol!

VF-1J.....This is a very disappointed figure! It lacks of the panel lining and it seem to have some color lacking! Ahhh why i bought this figure! Nvrmind I will faced the problem myself! I will give you update on how I am going to recolor it!

Yotsuba is not here yet! The release date is on 27/9 so still a few more days to go! So now may as well enjoy this 2 figures!

The battle of the giants!!! Who will win!!! Wait they is another giant coming Shin Getter 1!!! I will get u!!! Gotta Catch em All (pokemon music)!

Look at those panel line! White! WTH?! Must do some editing!

More updates later on repainting VF-1J

Team Fotress Classic 2

I assume a lot of ppl have heard about Half Life. A very famous FPS game back in 1998 and the source of the famous Counter Strike! Today i would like to talk about another famous mod back the 20th century - Team Fotress Classic! Back then it was one of the most hot game in CyberCafe (before CS came out), also 1 of my favourite!

Now after so many years of rumor about the upcoming TFC2 finally arive with cartoon like graphic! Give the feeling of "The Incredible" from Pixel! have some look at the picture:
The Half Life Engine is doing a great job to make this character, from the engineer video below you will notice its mouth movement looks very smooth and nice!



Recently they even come out with funny videos like this! I am already thinking which version of the game should I buy, PC or PS3?????? Ahhh my PC sucks but playing on PS3 just aint the same feel as PC!!!! Damn cant make up my mind! Hope there is a dedicated server in Malaysia!

Masking a model kit

Masking a model kit for Airbrushing or hand painting is one of the part that hate most! Masking is really troublesome, and is a must if you want your kit to look good! U can even do special effect with masking!

Today I want to show you wat will happen if you did not plan your move correctly.

I wasn't planning to paint this kit from the start but after snap fitting it, I changed my decision so dissemble it again, but the feet part seem to be too tight. So as a result I had to mask the feet part to airbrush the 2 different color (white and blue).

Masking isn't a easy job, you will need to cut the masking tape shape to make it cover up the part correctly. While masking small and specially shape angle, you need to used a lot of tape.

From my experience with masking kit, I feel that the Tamiya masking tape is the best. It ain't too sticky (wont tear off ur paint) and masked part won't have the airbrushed color on them. I will strongly recommend you ppl buy Tamiya masking tape if you wish to do masking, those normal masking tape will course you more problem although they are cheap (my experience).

Tamiya Masking Tape (2 size)

There are few more method to mask a kit, but this is the most simple one and straight forward one. Later I will show a few products that are used for masking kit and what masking tape can do to make your kit more cool.