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Layman’s Gunpla Guide – Sig Super Stripe

Sig Super Stripe in an interesting product I saw laying around at my local hobby shop. It’s a tape with a fuel resistant adhesive meant for making easy pin stripes on RC cars.

Always inquisitive I picked some up to see how it fared on gunpla. Cutting to the chase, it looks pretty good.


Click to Enlarge | On Flickr


Click to Enlarge | On Flickr

For the most part it’s easy to apply and adds a nice look to a kit. Between the color and width choices there’s a lot of potential.

The problem is ends of the strip don’t seem to adhere really well to unpainted plastic. For a special adhesive meant to stand up to fuel why it doesn’t stick very well to bare plastic is beyond me. read more

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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood – Episode 57 Review

Episode 57, "Eternal Rest"

*****SPOILERS*****

Synopsis: Running under the streets, Ranfan learns of the return of Bradley. Fu confronts the man who he holds responsible for the loss of his granddaughter’s arm. Olivier and Izumi interrogate one of the generals, who tries to get soldiers to side with him, but fails. Soldiers instead throw down their rank badges. Needing to escape Central HQ before it’s overrun by enemy soldiers, Izumi suggests making an escape tunnel, and the group take the secret path beneath the Fuhrer’s office. Edward, Roy, Riza, and Scar encounter the scientist with the gold tooth who helped Father create Wrath. The man summons the potential Fuhrers that weren’t killed in the experiment to make Wrath, who attack the group. Greed and Fu engage Wrath in combat, during which Ling takes back his body out of concern for Fu. Fu does a suicide attack with explosives, but the Fuhrer cuts the fuses. Suddenly Buccaneer runs his sword through Fu and into Wrath, injuring him. Bradley kicks the two away and they fall to the ground, just as Ranfan arrives on the scene. Izumi decides that she will leave everything up to Olivier and escape herself and the two women discuss Edward briefly. The scientist with the gold tooth activates an alchemy array formed with the alchemy labs in Central. The black hands of human transmutation take apart Edward, Alphonse, and Izumi.
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Dragon Ball Kai – Episode 55 Review

Episode 55, "That’s Earth, Papa… Freeza and his Father Strike Back", or "We Can Rebuild Him… We Have The Technology. But I Don’t Want To Spend A Lot Of Money"


*****SPOILERS*****

Synopsis: Freeza’s damaged body is rescued from the space around where Namek once was and is rebuilt by men working with his father, King Cold. Freeza declares they are going to Earth next. On Earth, peace reigns, but Kuririn trains, and Vegeta returns from space, having not found Goku. Suddenly, Gohan, Kuririn, Vegeta, and the other fighters sense an enormous ki heading for Earth. A familiar ki. Freeza’s ki. Kaio panics on his planetoid. Everyone speeds towards where Freeza will land. Bulma arrives, too, with Puar. King Cold’s ship lands. They send out soldiers to kill people, but the soldiers are all cut up. A mysterious boy with a sword appears, and tells Freeza that he’s come there to kill him. read more

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