Over the last Weekend, there were a lot of news from the San Diego Comic Convention 2023 i.e. SDCC. What got me interested were the Studio Models and the Star Trek: The Next Generation props. In this YouTube video, Norm from Tested was with Barry, showcasing the so-called studio models of the Enterprise-D (light leaks), […]
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Strange New Worlds S02E05: Charades
Here, let me complete Spock’s sentence for you: What the F*ck. For a Movie philistine like me, this episode can be considered quite cringy. In a nutshell, we have a Vulcan suddenly becoming Human, who now has to do Vulcan things to impress his future Vulcan Mother in Law. So, the rest of the show […]
20230716 Stock Image Fails
IN THE BEGINNING When I first started to dabble with model kits, I really had no clue about using proper glue and paints. Anything sticky was game. You could say my first fully built model (as far as I can remember) was a Matchbox plane… covered with fabric plasters. It was a bluish-white jet of […]
20230529 I guess maybe I am a freeloader
https://www.facebook.com/eric.kervina/posts/pfbid0T1ZwqmwuVLoza94dn8BfFGS27iW7PNbYooVBT5EG4xjkjoQHZakpfWzRDVeJyoTBl?cft[0]=AZXDJTlkqaBQzFlXHqAhvJB6jZwWVNc-40jq41xgse1tAXL2KE2GYzq6QnPbh-zMzgsLFKx9jcJspAGyiK18y-R9aQ-P_KTa3yz8MxzkYYc-jPe1CxsabhWoQN1A4VtwurU&tn=%2CO%2CP-R So, in the last few hours, the modeling scene is rocked by one David Lockhart calling non-IPMS/USA modellers as freeloaders. Bear in mind, this is IPMS/USA only but many did not share the same sentiment. Then again, I am living at the other side of the World and I am happy being well, just […]
20230430 Are we there yet?
Its just one day short of the month of May. Looking at my progress on the project, my disheartening answer is, ‘No, we are not there yet.’ When I first started the project last year, it was just to light the engines of the AMT model and nothing more. Then I realised, the cockpit needs […]
