Continuing with Black.....

On the topic of black, came across this when I was walking to the station the other day.

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Don't know if you'd call it art or not, but I have trouble understanding whether its a picture of a black guy or white guy.

What made me even more confused was the line engraved in at the bottom. "Shock the monkey"

Heres what urban dictionary has to say about this line...

1. shock the monkey

verb, when a person (usually a law enforcement officer) uses an electronic form of non lethal force (usually a Tazer) on an African American, to subdue him or her during an arrest.

That nigger must have been high on crack; he kept fighting off the cops, so they had no choice but to shock the monkey!


2. shock the monkey

When a vibrator short circuits in an extremely hairy vagina, thus literally shocking the monkey. This is actually the inspiration behind the song shock the monkey as Peter Gabriel is an avid fan of this move.

Matt: Yo how was you're date with that chick?
Johnny: You know we were just makin out and shit then she asked me to go into the shower and shock the monkey, my bathroom still smells like burnt hair


3. shock the monkey

To Milk the prostate, utilizing a finger inserted into the rectum and the prostate physically manipulated to produce a more intense than normal ejaculation

He let his girlfriend shock the monkey last night. What a mess!

4. shock the monkey

When a redneck pees on a spark plug

Hey Billy Bob d'you hear bout Billy Joe. He done shock the monkey an nearly kill'd he'self

5. shock the monkey

(verb)
the same as shake the monkey but much much harder

Seriously girl, you really gotta shock the monkey before it drags you back to the German jungle.


6. shock the monkey

To have sex with an extremely ugly girl.

Speaker 1: I can't believe Nico is hanging with that girl, she's gross.
Speaker 2: haha, he's gonna shock the monkey.


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In other news, finally received employee id card, and attached to that, was this card as well.

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Promoting you're environmental policy by printing it on a plastic card. Great!
Its like printing "Stop using plastic bags" on a plastic bag, and handing it out to people.
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Now on the topic of green, feast your eyes on this

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Just a little prep work for the MG 00 raiser.

As some of you may remember, I covered a bit about the HG 00 raiser in a previous post

Today, we'll have a look at the MG.
So far, we'll be looking at the inner frame of the kit.
Next to MG exia

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Compared to the exia frame, which was quite sloppy and loose even oob, the 00 frame is nice and sturdy.

Theres also a lot of improvement with articulation.
For starters, we'll have a look at the torso.
Exia torso has very limited amount of roll for either side.

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The 00 frame almost doubles the range of roll movement

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One of the strangest parts of the exia was also an incomplete frame.
Being one of the more modern bandai MG's, the exia's legs had a few problems.
As you can see from the following picture, the parts which are separated aren't actually attached together properly, and can fall apart without armor holding it together.

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Given that we know bandai can make full inner frame kits, eg Zaku 2.0

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there shouldnt have been any reason as to why they couldnt make the same for a newer kit.

Thankfully, the MG 00 has it all.

Range of leg movement for MG exia

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Range of leg movement for 00

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Arm movement also excellent

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Now back when I did a quick review of the HG 00, Sum was complaining how robot yoga looked weird. So heres a bit more, with the MG instead. ^^

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Oddly enough, the MG cant strike the God gundam pose with legs crossed while standing.

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But then again, REAL men stand with their legs apart.

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Inner frame of the O raiser

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Full frame of 00 raiser

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Well, thats the review of the 00 frame out of the way, next post would be with the armor attached.

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MG Acguy

I purchased this baby over a year ago during the first gunpla building get together I went to which was at COFA and have always been meaning to do something nice with it and since I was in the mood I decided to brush off the dust and get my arse into gear.

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This was the only photo I have of it before I started working on it but I'm sure everyone knows what it looks like

The goal for this project was to achieve a semi decent marbling effect and since I've never tried it b4 I found some spare parts and dabbed on some silver paint with a paintbrush and thanks to my every impressive laziness I opted to brush on a clear color instead of using the airbrush

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Big mistake. The brush strokes literally melted the silver paint so it became blurry but that a side I was confident with what I had to do so I busted out the airbrush and sprayed on a layer of Alclad Gloss Black - which I also forgot to take photos of.

Interesting note. The gloss black was more transparent compared to Tamiya paints so it would require multiple coats to achieve a solid look but since the Acguy was brown to begin with it didn't make much difference and Alclad Gloss Black is super cheap.

After that was to apply the patterns. At first I was planning on varying the tones by using silver and interlacing with white but since I wanted a dark shade of blue as the clear coat I figured the white would become redundant.

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I opted to use a soft bristle brush since it was the less messy.

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N.b. the paint used was Tamiya Chrome Silver and its touch dried in like 5 minutes.
ATTENTION! For all those who attempt the next part remember to lay down a coat of clear coat to protect the patterns incase you screw up the color coat like I did.

Better lighting. Sunlight is the best when it comes to photography =)

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Notice how the patterns are pretty uniform due to using a brush. I assume using a sponge will yield more realistic patterns.

Managed to do the clear blue today after uni but made a mistake with thinning the paint on my 2nd cup hence half the parts had to be stripped down to remove all the acrylic - Glass cleaner works wonders here. It's like waxing legs minus the pain.

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Hopefully I'll remember to mix the paint properly tomorrow

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Ex-S Gundam Wallpaper

MG Ex-S Box Art scanned and touched up.
Makes a nice wallpaper for widescreens

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4PAK's 3rd testicle

One of our all time favourite gunpla would be the MG Ball.

Last year, we've seen a featured RB-79 "PokeBall" made by ToFu.


We've also seen 4PAK's "other ball" by Onderon

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and today, we get to see 4PAK's 3rd ball

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Clear Ball!!
We already know that the ball has some of the best mechanical details of all gunpla kits (more than the PG 00 Raiser XD), and now with clear armour, all that mechanical detail can be seen without removing it.

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Unfortunately, the armour is crystal clear type of plastic. Instead, it is slightly frosted. Hence, internal detail is still best shown when the ball out of its sack.

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Since all of the Ball's armour is located on Runner A, you pretty much get another set of armour.

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Gunpla Build Session

Just adding more onto Sums post about last sunday's Gunpla group build session.

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pretty much everything layed out on the floor to build.

PG Strike for Tim, PG 00 for Sum, and MG Ex-S for me.

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For those of you who have no interest in gunpla, i can assure you now that we do other "fun" things aswell.

Such as watching Sum eat the following

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On the packaging, it claimed to be a drink with "coconut fibre"
These little white cubes were very chewy, almost like bitting into rubber, and had a very strange taste.
Among the strange experimental foods and drinks which we try, this would have easily made it into the top 3, along with Curry ramune (AKA Ball Sweat Juice) and those little sweet ball cakes.

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After our brake, moving back to gunpla.
Comparison between PG Strike, and PG 00 Leg

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Part of the reason why I bought the ex-s was to pose along with my Z+booster.

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In the picture above, i also equipped the Z+ with the Ex-s beam smart gun.
For those wondering about the differences between the MG Beam smart gun and the GFF, heres a pic. Theres more detail on the GFF version, although it is slightly smaller.

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Plamo Updates

The lastest addition to our gunpla collection.
MG Strike Freedom, Full Burst edition.
Yes, this has been sitting around in my room for over a year before I finally got the motivation to build it. As for the MG Destiny, well....thats still in the box....

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And right after i finish this, Bandai decides to anounce the PG Strike Freedom kit. Just my luck isnt it???

Another kit which I have been working on, was the Genobreaker.

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Now a couple of weeks ago, having recieved our pay cheques, Sum and I decided to go and splurge.
He decided on getting the Perfect Grade Strike, while I set my eyes on the Gundam Fix Figuration Metal Composit Z Plus Booster.
However, I can say that we have some of the worst possible luck. Uppon arriving at hobbyco, all PG Strikes were sold out, and they only had the red version of the GFFMC Z plus.
If this was Sum, im sure it wouldnt be too much of a problem, since it would just be another collection to his red army.
However, having already gotten a very red kit recently, (Yes, the Geno Breaker is VERY red), I decided that I wanted the blue one instead.
What made things worse was that GFFMCs are limited items, so it was probably impossible to get another shipment.
So I guess we had to look for alternatives.
After alot of consideration, Sum had a change of mind and decided to get the PG 00 Raiser instead.
I guess this was because ToFu has had a unbuilt PG strike sitting around for around 4 years now, and we could sooner or later get together for a massive group build.
I on the other hand, looked on Ebay, and found what i was after.
EMS shipping was expensive, but atleast it was fast.

Like most parcels from Japan, we get newspaper.

No nude girls in this one, but painting auction.

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Neatly bubble wrapped.

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And then wrapped in another layer of thin paper.

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As for box size, its around the size of a MG, but alot deeper.

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And we go through the package contents.

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Bandai only bothered printing one version of the manual, featuring the Zplus Red.

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Layer One
Here we have the main Zeta Plus unit, wing binders, A1 and C1 tail binder, A1 and C1 shields, guns, beam sabers, etc...

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Layer 2
Here, we get most of the booster attachment parts to form the Z-Plus Bst

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Layer 3 consists of parts used to build the stand, and display base

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Like all other Ver Ka model, the Z+ comes with decal markings all over its body.

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And if you think that Katoki missed an area or something, well you dont really have to worry. Cos bandai were generous enough to give you a whole sheet of extra warning decals

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137 decals all up

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Most of the GFFMC, appart from the Psyco gundam and Psyco gundam MKII, are 1-100 scale.
Heres comparison with my MG Zeta 2.0

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This kit has 6 modes. Z+ A1 MS, Z+ A1 wave rider, Z+ C1 MS, Z+ C1 waver rider, Z+ C1 Booster MS, Z+ C1 Booster waver rider.
I normally prefer to have it in Booste Waver rider form. Looks like a flying tank ^^

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