HEY!! Sorry to be typing in all caps like that but there's a good reason: I just this Veterans' Day (Remembrance Day if you live in certain other countries) received my Gunpla Real Grade set! In case you didn't read my previous post, I won a set of the first 11 Real Grade Gunpla models in a thing
Gundam.info (the official Gundam news and video portal!) was holding called the "Gundam Midyear Campaign" where you could enter a code from buying certain Gunpla sets or any set in certain places to enter the contest. Once entered, you had to take a survey and then choose which prize drawing to enter. I chose the Real Grade set (it said that 88 people would receive it by the way), and later got a "you have won, congrats"-type email from Gundam.info. It said that my set would be delivered on the day Hiroshi Yamauchi died or later. (Funny [well, not humorous funny {death is
never nice, except Hitler's}, more weird funny] how both those dates coincided with days relating to death. [Veterans' Day isn't about death, but Remembrance Day is.]) Well, it finally came, like 2 months later! My parents were actually concerned that it wouldn't ever arrive. Here's some pics:
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| The box was pretty big if you can't tell. |
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| Why does it say 1964 on it...? |
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| I'm assuming "GODZILLA" is referring to how super freaking huge it is. I can just imagine their box size scale: 'Tiny, small, medium, large, GODZILLA.' |
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| I didn't actually know who or what the box was for until I saw my name on the address and written in marker in the corner of the box - when I saw that, somehow I knew. |
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| The inside was just boxes and boxes of them (11 in all) arranged to fit in the box with barely any room left. I also found it weird how the bottom lid-things of all the boxes were black, shiny, and felt like that stuff paperboard boxes are on the outside. Normal Gundam bottom-lid-thingies are cardboard-feeling and pretty much look like cardboard too. |
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| In the corner of the arrangement, there was a two-model-wide stack with 3 layers. In this picture, I've taken off the first layer. |
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| The second layer moved. Why do I have such detailed coverage of the box and not the models? I don't know. Who cares about the freaking box?! Why am I so thoroughly discussing the box and the inside arrangement?! |
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| I took out the models and made two piles - one pile would most likely topple over. If it didn't on its own, my brothers would make sure it did. |
Ok, that's it for now. I've finished the RX-78-2 model and I've started on the MS-06F Zaku II (original green). Just found out the hard way: don't buy RG unless you like lots and lots of tiny decals. The RX had like, close to 120. The end result really pays off, though, I gotta say.
Well, in other stuff I went to In-N-Out again at some vague time. I've started a habit of adding pics of when I visit In-N-Out or other burger places to posts. I even have a "Burgers" tag for posts. Here's the pic:
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| Sadly, I can't remember when or why I went. |
Also, like I said I would, I'm adding pics of my Gundam Wing model that I finished 33 days ago.
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| This is what the model looks like in good light, at a more or less frontal view. |
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| It has these awesome wings (probably shoulda expected that from a Gundam with 'Wing' in the name) in the back. |
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| Did I mention said wings can be extended for the awesome Bird Mode? (Bird Mode also requires attaching a big red plane-nose-type-accessory.) |
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| Accessory 2(the red thing counts as #1): Inexplicably funny-smelling miniature figure of the Mobile Suit's pilot. In this lighting, it looks like his shirt is being pulled upward by some mysterious force, but really it's just tucked funny. |
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| Accessory 3: Cool sword. No explanation needed. |
Ok, that's it for now. (I really mean it this time.)
