Spray Booth ver. 1.0

Recently, I wasn't able to continue painting my kit because of the rainy weather. I was hoping to find a cheap Spray Booth so I can paint in the comforts of my own room. But to no avail, I can't find anything less than $100. Thus I decided to build my own...

My DIY Spray booth only costs as much as $65:

• Exhaust Fan = $39.50
• Aircon Filter = $8.50
• Flexible Air Duct = $5.35
• Wood = $11.65

Since I already have a working table, I designed my Spray Booth so it will be like an attachment to my current table. Here are the Before and After shot of my workstation. I can remove it when I'm not painting and I can put it back when I need it. :D

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And yes, I did try to use at right away and here is the filter after its first run.

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Thanks for viewing. ^_^

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Old Toy Revisited + Limited Edition Kit

My friend Janjan, in one of our Gunpla Facebook Group chats, mentioned how he has these collection of special edition cowls of the ever famous Tamiya mini 4WD. And then old stories of how everyone also have their own mini 4WD came pouring down like rain flooding our chat box.

Then it hit me, why don't we build new machines and race again?

So came weekend, me and my girl went to the local hobby store to get me my new race machine.

Now, this is all that's left of my old machine after I took all the parts that can be reused... it will be remembered.

ON THE OTHER HAND: I got this rare kit last Friday for around $100 (usually costs $135-$140 here in the Philippines) from another member of the forum I usually visit for mech markets. It is the 1/100 scale Master Grade Zeta Gundam Karaba - White Unicorn version. Unbuilt but the runners are no longer inside the protective plastic. But everything is still intact.

Yup, me and my girl also watch a movie and bought some donuts.

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While BZ-Bee was away...

Well... this is the post where I give my explanation for being a lazy @$$ in posting updates. Yes, I was not posting updates because I had to do a commission work for my even more busy friend, Janjan. He needed to do some work out of town so he left me his 1/144 scale GN Sword IV Full saber and his 1/100 scale Master Grade Gundam Epyon, and in return, he will order me some water-slide decals for my other kits (Payment, of course, coming from his wallet).  >:)

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1/100 MG Gundam Deathscythe Hell Part 2

I know... I know... this is another very late update for my latest project. But please, let me explain in my next posts. =)

I already finished snap fitting  all the parts of MG Gundam Deathscythe Hell. My apologies for this one, no picture. I forgot to take one. I also started priming armor parts until I ran out of primer. I haven't got the chance to visit our local market to buy fresh cans to continue with the priming. So for this post, I decided to show my paint tests using my bootleg Gundam Kyrios parts and how I fixed the face plate of Gundam Deathscythe Hell for its factory defect using Tamiya Basic Putty.

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Metallic Black for the Active Cloak, Shoulders, Chest and Feet	Metallic Gold over Flat Black base coating for the V-Fin	Gun Metal for all the gray/purplish armor parts
Light Gun Metal for the Face Plate and Neck covers	This is the Face Plate defect of this kit. I'm not sure if this is still the case on new releases	I used Tamiya Basic Putty to cover up the defect and re-scribed the lines using a simple office pin
After curing, I sanded the excess and again lightly re-scribed panel lines	Another angle showing the fixed Face Plate

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