News Update! (Feb 18, 2014)

Greetings my follow readers, I like to apologize yet again for the lack of updates on here. I've been pretty busy with life and dealing with some problems in life that I haven't had much of a chance to post many updates on here like my Elyn Kshatriya or had much time with building or painting in general. I have been working on models such as Elyn Kshatriya as the main body is now completed, which I may add some pictures of it soon. I just have the benders to complete and it is all put together.
Anywho, I just wanted to share what my plans for 2014 are going to be with building gunpla and models and life in general.

Calgary's Military Museum

First of all, sorry for the lack of updates. As some of you may know, I have just lately move to Calgary so I been pretty busy looking for work and a place to live so its been hard to work on models. I hope to start getting some more updates in about a month once I get all settled down here.
Anywho, this post is about my little trip down to the Military Museum here in Calgary. It's only $10 to get in for a adult and it is a pretty nice place for its size. It took us about 3 hours to look at everything, we didn't really go outside as it was a little cold at the time.
It was made up of sections such as WWI, WWII and other time frames. Each section took anywhere form 20-40 mins to complete and overall a nice place to check out if you are into military history.

Anywho, time for the pictures.
P.S. Tons of pictures!!!

New Fourms!

 

I would like to tell you guys about the new forums for this blog that I am working on right now.  I know that the amount of people who come here is very low, so I though a cool way to get more people and add something cool to this blog would be a forum. The forum is still being work on, but it is kinda ready for people to post on. My goal is to redesign the forums so it match's the bog theme, but I been to lazy to mass around with the coding. So for now it will have that pretty basic look to it for awhile. Also, there will be some ads, as I am using the free forum, and it will stay that way, unless alot of people start using then I will think about removing the ads, but like I said before. The amount of people here is very low, so I am not too sure whats going to happen. Anywho, if anyone have any ideas, be sure to post them at the new forums!

Update:

Been working on the forums and I gotta say. It is starting to look like a forum now. I move them to Zeta Boards now as they look nicer and easier to redesign. I have the basic design done now, just some little things left like links, fonts, etc.

FFXIII & Collector's Edition Guide

I just pick up FFXII when it came out on the 9th. Seeing how it is a FFXII game, I had to get the guide book for it as well. My plan was to get the Collector's Edition Guide, so I give EB Games a call and see if they were doing pre-orders for the book. They told me they were, so I get ready for work and leave early to gt pre-order it. I get there, and they then tell me that they are not doing anymore pre-orders for it. One reason why I dislike buying anything from there.

Anywho, I try calling up walmart real fast and ask if they were getting any of the books. They told me they didn't know. So at this point I give up, and the next day I go pick up my pre-order of FFXIII, headed back to EB Games to see if they may have got any extra books.  I get there and shortly a huge line up forms up. Doors open and we all go to the checkout right away. I look and see 7 books, 5 were pre-orders, and like that my heart started racing. There was three people in front of me, and I started to get worry as the first two people didn't have pre-orders and they both pick up the CEG. But luck was on my side as the 3rd person did have a pre-order and like that I was able to get my book.

I race home, and play for about 45mins before I had to head to work. I really wanted to call in sick that day, seeing how I never have miss a single day since I been there. But suck it up and headed to work.

Mini Review:

I am not that far into the game yet, so I can't really give a good review, but here is my two cents into it so far.

Story: 9/10

Characters: 8/10

Gameplay: 9/10

Graphics: 10/10

Story:

So far the story is really good. It starts off alot like FFVII did, as you start off in a train and are put into action right away which is a nice feel. As I am not too far into the game I can't really tell you more at this point, but so far is really good.

Characters:

I gotta say, I am really liking the characters so far. They have put alot of work into their characters. Each character has a story to be told and the make it so they are meet up together. One thing I am really liking that I felt that FF12 lack is the characters all have a point to be in the story when in 12, some characters didn't really have a point in being in the story at all after the start of the game. (Vaan)

Gameplay:

This game is a fast turn base game that has you control one guy in battle. I am not that far into the game, so I have very little skills to play with. So right now my main attack is well "attack". But they have really speed up the battles and can't wait to see in later of the game when I got more skills to play with.

Graphics:

Not to say much here, but for a JRPG. The graphics are just plain out the best I have seen in any JRPG.

Here are some pics:

Tanglewood Thicket Creations

I would like to share with you guys some work that my older sister does. Everyone is handmade, and they all range in different sizes from small to huge. (As you can tell from the pic with my cute little niece in it.) I would highly recommend anyone to check them out. Better yet, buy a few of them would be even better. My sister is very friendly, and you would not meet anyone nicer then her. Check out her store at:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/tanglewoodthicket

or check out her blog at tanglewoodthicket

Here are some pics of some of her work:

 

 

 

New Website Design!

So I have redesign this site to have a much cleaner look then before. The layout has also change, giving me more room in my post now. But because of this, some of the post my have huge spaces in them now, which is a small problem. But on the upside, no more adds as I have completely made this layout on my own, as that last layout was just someones design that I change alittle bit to match my blog. If anyone want to know how I made it. I found a really simple, yet really good designer called Artisteer.

My new Katana

This is my new Katana that I order online. It is one of those things that if am hard on money, I will not buy, but always wanted. Anywho, I had a little extra money, so hey why not. So if took a little longer then what I figure it would take for shipping which was 3 weeks almost at 4 weeks. But the Packageing was very nicely done, and there was no damage to it at all. This Katana is 100 percent of the blade is hand forged, and It consists of high carbon AISI 1055 steel. It is a Tempered blade and water quenched.

I have not try cutting anything with this katana as I don't feel safe doing something like that, but I would think it would be fine as long as you ain't cutting into metal. Here are some pics, enjoy! =)

Sorry to all

First of all, I would like to say sorry to the 1-10 that actually read my blog for not keeping it up to date, as I been alittle busy and lazy at the same time lol. You can also thank games like LBP for that as well. Any way I though it was about time to change that ugly title I had before to a more cleaner and nicer one. I also change the poll and added some extra things like followers, and added a thing called "Subscribe To Dark Shrine", which should tell you when I do update this blog.

For blog stuff, I do have alot of stuff to add here when I get the time, but for now I updated FFXI mini fights for now. More to come in the near future hopefully.

Marry Christmas!

Hehe I know it's a little soon to post something like this, but oh wow. Think this as a remember that Christmas is less then a month away.

Getting ready to start Gunpla

My reason to start:
For those people who know me well, will know that I am a big mecha fan. When I was little I used to save up all my money and go to the store and buy the Gundam Wing action figures that were out at the time. I was able to collect almost all of them, other than one or two of them which were Leos any way so I didn't care too much. I would also buy most mech games like Armor Core, Front Mission, Mech Warrior, Mobile Suit Gundam, and so on, which I still do buy them whenever a new mech games comes out. Anyways, since I love mechs that much, it hit me, why don't I start building them as well. I not that big of a fan of models cars, I build the odd one every now and then, but if it was a mech that would be another story. I have known about gundam models for a while now, which I did build one when I was little, but didn't really like it then for a few reasons. The model I build then was a cheap NA made non graded model of the RX-78-2 Gundam that had very little detail on it. The reason I didn't like it then was that I put no work into it, all I did was snap it all together, so it was very ugly to look at which my action figures had much better detail on them my model did. Now that quite a few years have pass, I really want to get into gunpla and other mech models now like painting them, adding panel lines, basically trying to make them look nice. I have done some research and know of some of the different grades that are out there. I plan to start on mastergrades because I love all the detail that is on them. I think the first master grade I plan to start on will be the RX-79(G) Gundam because it is one of my favorites gundams, which it’s also one of the cheapest MG kits, and that it doesn’t look too hard to start on.

Update: Sept, 23/08
My Supplies so far:
This is a list of all the supplies that I have collect so far.

-Dual action gravity fed airbrush
-Airbrush Stand
-Air Compressor
-New 1/8 - 1/4 Air hose
-Spraybooth
-Razor Knife
-Homemade sanding sticks
-Paint brushes
-Testors Acrylic Paint
-Tamiya Flat Base
-Future
-Paint Trays
-Mr. Spare Bottle
-Testors Cement
-Gray Primer
-Masking Tape

This is some of my Supplies

Close up

My Air Compressor & Air hose

Will update list as I get more stuff. Also if by some chance someone finds my blog and knows of some more stuff that I will need, that I don't have listed, feel free to leave a comment letting me know. Your help will be great help to me.

Update: Sept, 23/08
Today my order from Hobbywave come in, which made me feel like it was a mini Christmas for me, as this is my first Gundam model I have ever done before. (I don't count that RX-78 as a model) For anyone who is looking for Gunpla or modeling supplies I would recommend Hobbywave as they are safe and has very fast shipping. I made my order on Saturday, which they got ready Monday, and was at my house by 2:30PM Tuesday. They also have flat shipping which was a plus to me.

For my order, I got a MG RX-78-4 Gundam x1, MG Mk-II Titans Ver.2.0 x1, Mr. Paint Tray x1, Mr. Spare Bottle 18ml x6, and Mr. Stand for Airbrush x1, and for not that much ether. I did change my plan a little bit as I was going to get the RX-79(G) Gundam as my first, but I have other plans for the kit so I got the RX-78-4 Gundam as my first and the Mk-II Titans Ver.2.0 will be my second model.

This is my order I got from Hobbywave

My Spray Booth Plan

This is my basic design for my spray desk that I plan to build. I have already change the design a little bit already making it a little smaller. So far I have only design it on the computer, so I have an idea what it is going to look like and have not started building it yet. The size I plan to build this spray booth is around L2', W1'6", H4'. For the design of this, I plan on making it mostly of wood, and plan on using cardboard for the sides as you can see in my picture to the right. For the air filter, I plan on using a bathroom fan attach to the back of the booth, which is the back wall hole shown in the picture. I then plan to attach a dryer hose to the fan, which will leaded out my bedroom window for the paint fumes to get out. I don't plan on putting on a top bathroom fan right away like I have shown in the picture, which will be a later upgrade. This is my basic plan, which may change as I start building this. Here are some more pics of my booth.

Update: August 29
Here is another update for my spray booth. I have made some changes to the overall design of my booth plan. One of the changes that I made was that I took out the top fan and made the back fan look more like a bathroom fan, then a hole and pipe that I had before. I also added on the dryer tube to the back which now points up to the sky. The biggest change that I made was that I added places to put paints, modeling tools, and so on. Here are some new pics of my updated booth.



Update: September, 6/08
I no longer need to build my spray booth from scratch anymore, as I found a easier and cheaper way now. There is this old desk that has been sitting in one of the rooms just collecting dust and is mostly covered in junk right now. It is a nice desk and needs very little work on it. The only problem with it is that the supports that hold it up are very weak and moving the desk too much will make it break apart, which is a simple fix. Other then that all I need to do is add the bathroom fan to it and some other things and it will be all done. The nice thing about using this desk into a spray booth is that it looks very nice (nicer then anything I could build), and has lots of room for other things like paint, tools and etc. Will add pictures when I move every thing off and move it into my room.

Update: September, 23/08
Funny how things change as you get going. My first plan was to build my spray booth from scratch, but then I found this old desk that was going to become my spray booth and now......... haha funny how it turned out. My friend first word was "Wow, I didn't think you could become any cheaper". My spray booth now is just a box with a bathroom fan on the back with a metal tube going out the window. The reason why I did this is that for one I am pretty cheap, two, it is easy to move and if I every need to switch the box for something it is super easy. Overall I am very happy how it turned out.

The Front View of my Spray Booth

The inside of my Spray Booth

The metal tube going out side the window