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  1. Not a great spot...I was at the very back against a wall. About maybe thirty or forty feet away from the stage, it is a very small place, the 2nd floor of a building in fact. Yes she had two back up dancers for a few of her songs.
  2. I was at this concert, my only complaint was being herded into the room and the doors being closed behind us...made it much hotter in there then it needed to be. I am taller then most so I did'nt have to crane my neck too much. In such a small venue I was hoping there would be some sort of opportunity to pose for pictures and get autograph but after the encore we were booted out. I am going to see if I can get a kanji reading friend of mine to help me become a member of her fanclub, I think joining that nets you an autograph. I was able to secretly take a photo of her, but started to get angry looks so I put the camera away.
  3. Wow thats amazing. How did you do the saw tooth design, did you follow panel lines with masking tape or did you make up some sort of template? They lool symmetrical.
  4. I find a graphite pencil works much better for subtle panel lines, if you make a mistake it can be easily removed too. If you mess up with a Gundam marker...you're not getting that off without a fight.
  5. I had the same problem with my super pack Alto and I ended up throwing the decal out and painting it. That oddly shaped triangle intake...that decal was so off.
  6. It is now finished. Was extremely difficult to transform as I have no experience transforming my Alto this was really scary. I noticed the wing joints showing fatigue, I do not think they were designed to hold the weight of the armor packs. Will have to watch those closely. On the plus side I had zero decal chipping during the transformation process
  7. Does anyone know of a US based store or an online store that ships to the US that stocks the GSI Creos sprays, in particular the Super Clear Gloss, Super Clear Semi-Gloss, the water soluable Top Coat and the Gundam sprays (which in Bandai style is used to color thier valkyries)? HLJ deciding they can't afford to put a sticker on thier boxes that says aerosol has screwed up my future model building as I have one can of top coat left and they didn't ship the two blue sprays I wanted to use for my Michael build before what ever deadline hit them.
  8. I am entering the final stages now. The only thing that needs to be mounted is the antenna assembly, but since that gets removed in transformation (this kit is going straight to battroid) I am going to leave it off. Just a few decals drying then its off to completion.
  9. Unfortunately HLJ has kowtowed to the Japanese postal service and will not ship out any aerosols because of Japan's new postal regulations and according to HLJ it is not economically viable to conform to the new laws.
  10. My order arrived today. Thanks for all your work newca!
  11. Spent the weekend working on the backpack unit and the skull emblem decal. Emblem was such a pain...curled in on itself as soon as it was removed from the water. Thats drying now. Didnt get it position as well as I would have liked, but it was starting to dry and I didnt want to risk tearing it. I used a little bit of creative license on the backpack unit in terms of coloring, but I think it looks good.
  12. How did you paint the red and green marker lights on the backpack unit? Was that a clear over a silver basecoat, free hand or a spray?
  13. Made a little bit of progress so I decided for a little update. Right leg assembly is completely finished, and all that remains on the left is the topcoat. I have now moved onto the chest missile launchers. I did not like the white color that was used in the decals, so I just cut them out and used the red stripes, didnt turn out as well as I had hoped due to the tons of film surround the lines, tried to remove as much as I could but I think I could have taken off a little more. Learned an important truth during these steps...do not paint all sides of the missiles when they have to slide into a holder, I added so much resistant friction, my fingertips are still numb from pressing them into place. Also know that I suck with water slide decals, no matter how hard I try I end up messing up something, and for symmetrical aestetic reason I have to discard the dacal on the opposite side. Case and point, the red leg stripes and spheres, I tore one completely apart so I had to free hand paint the whole thing.
  14. How did you manage to get the red stripes and ankle spheres to come out so good? I spent twenty minutes wetting and reapplying the red stripes but they would not position at all until my knife tore the thing in half. Which of course was followed by many explicit words as I dug out my paintbrush to try and hand paint the area.
  15. That is not entirely true, the basic plot is lifted from the film "Kakushi-toride no san-akunin" that Kurosawa made in 1960. Most of the characters are in there, you have the two comic relief characters making up C3PO and R2D2, you have a general, representated later on in the form of Obi-wan, and the princess, naturally becoming Princess Leia. And as much as I despise George Lucas, you have to admit his brilliance, as he knew that successful movies make successful toys, he added in his contract that he gets a percentage of all toy sales.
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