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Friday, July 31. 2020

Natsumi...Don't Miss

Truth be told, I hadn't planned to include this one in my current crop of projects. But as I was looking through old pieces I had set aside, I found this and realized that it fit my "remakes and adaptations" theme perfectly: not only was the animated You're Under Arrest based on Kosuke Fujishima's manga of the same name, the No Mercy OVA was itself a spinoff of the main series.

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Friday, July 17. 2020

We Will Fight On Our Honor...What is Right, We’ll Defend

By far my most ambitious 3D project to date, the Spiral Zone monocycle was also my first foray into using Master Box's figure kits. I'm very happy with the results in both cases, so look for more of them in the future!

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Saturday, July 4. 2020

Who're We Chasin'?

Legend has it that Steven Spielberg saw Castle of Cagliostro sometime in the early 80s, and remarked that its car chase was "one of the greatest chase sequences ever filmed." While that claim has been so far unproven, I can say from personal experience that while I've only watched the whole movie once, the chase scene never fails to get me to break from whatever I'm doing for a few minutes.

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Saturday, June 20. 2020

I'll Just Threaten Them

Of all the Ride armors featured in Mospeada/Robotech, I always liked the design of Houquet/Rook's VR-038L the best. Unfortunately, thanks to a dumb theory that only recently seems to be falling away (largely thanks to the #WhereIsBlackWidow and similar social media campaigns), toys and replicas of that bike simply didn't exist. A bit of custom reworking to the VR-052F fixed that problem, though.

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Friday, June 5. 2020

Klaatu Barada Nikto

Although it hasn't been in my stash quite as long as the recently-completed Prowl, Gort has been in waiting for an embarrassingly long time. At this rate, I'm starting to think that my 2021 theme ought to be blowing the dust off some of these older projects!

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Monday, May 25. 2020

Memorial Day 2020



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Sunday, May 24. 2020

Yes, Well, I'm Running the Show Today if that's All Right with You...Let's Go!

When I first saw Tekkonkinkreet, I knew I had to get myself a model of Kimura's ride. Unfortunately, the only option for the correct Mitsubishi Galant at the time was a very old Nitto kit that was light on detail but heavy on price. My procrastination paid off, though, because before I dropped any cash on one Hasegawa released their brilliant new tooling.

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Sunday, May 10. 2020

Well, I Would Like to Have My Car Replaced

Not in the budget? Here, have a miniature version of it instead!



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Friday, April 24. 2020

You Can Run, But You Can't Hide

Despite the extremely long gap between the original Autobot Brother and his upgraded form, I wasn't lacking for the base model: I had bought it back when K·B Toys was a thing, and they were selling Maisto and Bburago diecasts for $5 a pop. I have the other two as well, hopefully it won't take another two decades to get them finished!

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Friday, April 10. 2020

Viene una Tormenta

This one is kind of a gray area as far as my 2020 theme of "Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations" goes, but there's been a pretty strong argument for The Terminator to have at least been inspired by Harlan Ellison's Soldier from Tomorrow and/or Demon with a Glass Hand. Strong enough to get a credit in the movie, at least, which is good enough for me.

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Friday, March 27. 2020

I Think the First Chance One of Those Lovers Gets, He's Going to Shoot the Major Right in the Head...Sir

The Dirty Dozen wasn't particularly vehicle-oriented, but there was a nice bit of continuity in that Lee Marvin's Jeep seemed to have the same serial numbers throughout. Not that it was literally the same prop vehicle—wipers and antenna came and went from scene to scene—but it was still nice to see that at least some modicum of attention to detail.

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Sunday, February 9. 2020

Danger is Her Constant Companion!

Despite only lasting a single season, Honey West occupies a prominent place in the pop culture landscape. From being a precursor to Aaron Spelling's later Charlie's Angels to acting as inspiration for characters and stories in Archer, the influence of the show and Anne Francis' role as the titular character remain more than half a century after it went off the air.

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Friday, January 24. 2020

Yesss...

Despite my preference for cars and trucks, I actually have quite a few Megatron figures in my collection. G1, G2, Beast Wars, Armada, Energon, Masterpiece, Siege...he's been around here in one form or another for years. I've also been making custom Transformers models for a quarter century. But for some reason, the two concepts never crossed paths until right now.

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Friday, January 10. 2020

Die-Cast Construction...It's a Lost Art

So for 2020, I've decided to (almost) continue my build theme of books et. al. as "Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations." All of my projects this year will be based around the concept of reimagining ideas in different contexts. Some may be obvious like movies made from books or TV series made from graphic novels, but I'm also thinking about ideas that are still more or less in-continuity but have been rebooted in some massive way that completely changes the look, feel, or idea of the original. Something like when over a decade of established mythos was turned on its head to make Munky not Trukk.

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Wednesday, January 1. 2020

2019 Year in Review



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