HMM Gun Sniper Custom

Here's my HMM Gun Sniper that I custom painted for the 2012 Zoids Poison Contest. It's a much smaller and simpler kit than most other HMM Zoids, but it's still a ton of fun to build and paint. It's a relativly quick work, as mine took only a week and a half for paint and building.

The kit has very good articulation, and can get in a wide variety of poses, but it occasionally take a few tries to get the balance for each pose worked out so that it stands upright. One of the most impressive parts to this whole model is it's tail - each segment is individually articulated and posable, making for lots of great different ways to display the Gun Sniper.

There are quite a few variations of this kit - while this is the original, there are also ones that come with the Wild Weasel Unit (essentially just a LOT of guns to put on it's back) and there's the Naomi version, which comes molded all in red. The original colors for this kit are a mix of dark blues and purples, but unfortunatly I dont have any pics of this kit without paint, so you may just have to look that up if you want to see an unpainted version of this.

HMM Dark Horn Harry Special Custom - Red Horn

Here's a gallery of my HMM Dark Horn Harry Special, that I customized into a Red Horn. I must say that of all my kits I've painted I'm most proud of this one, it just holds a special place in my heart for some reason or other. It's a bit dusty in the pics below, as it seems that I couldn't find my original picture of it and I had to retake them. It's been sitting on a shelf for over a year, so I got as much dust of as I easily could, but of course some still remained.

The kit itself is a fun build, but very challenging at times. The feet were extremely difficult to get together, and took a lot of patience, and assembling the three sections of the main body together was quite a task as well. Once you get it all together though it is a great model to display, and one of my favorite ones to see on a shelf.

Do be warned however, that this kit, more so that almost any other Zoids kit, needs paint to bring out it's full beauty. Unpainted, the gold parts are very marbled, and look pretty bland once put together. If nothing else, I would strongly advise painting the gold pieces just to get a solid gold look to it.

Lots of Galleries on the Way Today!

I'm probably going to be posting a decent amount of completed model photosets today because I'm trying to bulk up the new section on this blog of my model galleries. You can find the new section along the tabs on the top of the page and from there you'll be able to view all the galleries of my painted models. I also have new tabs that link my ebay auctions (I sell lots of old toys/action figures, primarily Digimon stuff) and a link to my youtube account.

Anyway, expect a lot of Zoids galleries and maybe a few other kits too.

LBX Lucifer Model Kit Review

I reviewed this guy a couple days ago on my youtube channel, and I must say he's a great model! I got him last summer while in Korea primarily because this LBX line was literally all over the place, and because they were pretty cheap too. I snapped him together while at the hotel in Seoul, but never got around to reviewing him until recently.

 

I was quite impressed by the parts seperation and the quality of the parts themselves, they were all very good for the price point (I only paid around $12). The build itself was a ton of fun as well. What you see in these picture is straight out of the box, it's not painted nor panel lined - just the stickers applied.

 

 

The articulation on the figure is pretty decent, for being the equivilant of a high-grade gundam. There is a good range of posability out of both the arms and the legs, the only issue being that the chest piece doesnt move at all - a feature that I'm willing to live with.

 

 

I also love the design for this kit, and for that matter, all of the kits from the LBX line. Even through online retailers like HobbyLink Japan, they total to be only around 13-14 dollars whenever utilizing their combined shipping options. I have three of these, only two of them built, but I look forward to being able to purchase more of them in the future. The designs of each kit in the line is very diverse, and there are well over ten of them that I'm looking to purchase whenever I get some extra money to spend on models.

 

For my full review of the LBX Lucifer, check out it out here: 



Hello!... again!

Well, I know that I've only made a few posts on this blog and then disappeared, but I'm back to posting on it, hopefully in a quite vigilant manner. I'm still collecting toys (of course) and building models, and recently I've been working my way through the HMM Gojulas.

The reason for my absence before is because I kind of got "out" of models and collecting, basically meaning I didn't have enough money to buy figures, and I was too frustrated with the model I was painting to care about it any more. The new Gojulas model and the new Digimon Fusion toyline really reignited my spark for my hobby though, and I'm incredibly appreciative of that.

I'm not sure if I have mentioned it on here in my couple of posts before, but I have a youtube channel (Same name as here, ThePunisherMAX17) where I do toy reviews and show off my models. My progress on the Gojulas as well as my reviews of the Digimon Fusion toyline can be found there - Check them out!

TomyTec MSS 1/144 Command Wolf

Well, it looks like this is the new MSS Zoid from Tomy, the Command Wolf. It's my favorite Zoid that they've released in this line so far, but that said, I still won't be getting it. the size of the models are far too small for a fr too high of price in my opinion - so I'll just stick to the HMMs. The Command Wolf was actually my first of the Hasbro released Zoidspois that I bought back in the early 200s, and I've had a fondness for it ever since. More than likely, we'll be seeing some color variants of this (brad, empire, etc.) of this in the MSS line in the coming months.

HMM Liger Zero Core

This is from my Schneider, but it is the same core figure that you receive on all the Liger Zero kits (Schneider, Jager, and Panzer). Its a beautiful inner frame that's worthy of being displayed all on its own.