20260909 The Lopaka App

20260909 The Lopaka App

First and foremost, when it came to animations on a LCD (or OLED) screen, it is something of a stumbling block for me. Heck, I cannot even make the screen work. The same goes for sound. This one is slightly different as I have yet to figure out how to control a sound chip through […]

20290902 TR-595E JLCONE & Lower Interface v07

20290902 TR-595E JLCONE & Lower Interface v07

Sometime between 6th of July and today, JLCPCB has introduced a new ‘thing’, which is called JLCONE. It is an App that you can (need?) to download to your Desktop and Mobile. OK, let’s just say, I NEED to download it as there is a very compelling reason if I want to continue developing and […]

20260826 The UNS Hopper HPR719

20260826 The UNS Hopper HPR719

If anyone is familiar with Michael Fictenmayer’s Industria Mechanika, they would surely come across this model, The HPR719 Hopper. Back then, those resin kits were amazing and so was his concept of paying other Artists for their work to be sold through his shop. Concept models such as Derek Stenning’s Dystopic, Ian McQue’s Remora and […]

The cost of Plastic Model Kits has been rising over the decades

20260818 Why are Model Kits so expensive?

The Usual Topics Very often, in some model kit related discussions that I joined or was involuntarily trespassed into, there would be the usual topics, namely: These topics are quite interesting for the first few times and after awhile, I’d feel that skipping the discussion is not going to make any difference. There is nothing […]