Work In Progress 1/24 Ferrari 360 Modena

It's well over for GBWC 2011, cash in the prize money happily and lost it when I accidently dropped my wallet after collecting my Harute Booster from the competition...AAARRGGGHHH!!! ....was only able to get 2 SD kits using the prize money ...what an unlucky day ...

Anyway, life goes on, and so does modelling. In conjuction of ZeroGunz.com forum's X'mas Group Build,  2 friends of mine is doing a car for this particular GB, Ronnie Phoon and Becky Law. Since I was thinking of not touching gunpla for the time being, well why not build a car and having a 3 way face off with Ronnie and Becky.. as Ronnie always said " Sharing is Caring", so lets share and care for each other in this non official 3P build..

I will be building this...Tamiya Ferrari 360 Modena (adnd so is Ronnie). This kit is produced in 2000, well over 11 years ago. The molding is good and fitting is slightly on the down part.

The seam was quite well hidden and not very noticable except for the oil cap (presumming it is the oil cap, hope I m not wrong).  Took some time to cut out the cap to cover the seam...actually I tot the manual indicated the cap is in Orange (manual bit fuzzy) and I tot since I m going to putty it might as well separated it for coloring...only now I realised the cap is black ..oh well..

The last 2 pics, is an example of the real engine serve as reference in the painting process


 

Gundam Builder World Cup 2011 (GBWC)

The Gundam Builder World Cup, is a new name to replace the previous BAKUC (Bandai Action Kit Universal Cup)..that also means the Mr. BAKUC lost his job too....hahaha ...kinda miss him ...

The event was helded in Sungai Wang Shopping complex on the concourse at 18th November to 23rd November 2011. The level of competition this year is very fierce as a lot of massive diorama are submitted for this competition. Some of the well-knowed gunpla master / friends really packed a punch in their diorama.

A lot of entries if compared to this year mid year competition and not to mention the standards had improved from the previous compy. Here are a set of pictures of the kits with courtesy of Wayne Chung who had great talent in taking these awesome shots ...

TKTing's Endless Waltz Sandrock

Thien Tiong Kong's Char's Zaku II, which is his second airbrushed kit 

Execllent finishing !!!

Chris Woo's Rezel Commander

Harute Booster version Neo (my kit) which won the HG category

Ronnie Phoon's Dawn of Change diorama , with 8 kits invovled and tremendous painstaking SBed MAN-08 Elmeth

Another spotlight diorama from Jeff Ho, which eventually became champion for Malaysia.

Renny Dieh's Mark II and Zeta in hangar diorama. A very handsome entry which has superb finishing skill

Ivan a.k.a. Zero717's entry after a 2 years absent from the modelling scene

Zodiect's Strike Freedom custom which grab the 1st runner up for HG category

A very cute dio from Angel Kay, featuring the zakukus...which grab a merit prize.

Julius Lim's Lost Zaku II dio.

WY Quan's Full Armor RX-78 Gundam

Haykushiki's Delta plus custom paintjob.

Wing Gundam category champion

Meor's Acguy

Zhen Yu's Zaku Slash!!!

Sixty2Hunter's Unicorn which shows a lot of improvement