Saturday Ramblings 001: Wips/info/motivation

Starting from the last - a piece of motivation:

Photo credit: Kezdaman via Flickriver

Caption credit: robotspider via Tumblr

So with that out of the way let's talk business. Ok not really, just a general "what's going on". As you might imagine my absence in recent weeks must have some reasons - that would be work. I'm quite happy with it BUT it takes a lot of time (and not just regular time - a lot of overtime recently) and it leaves me exhausted when I'm finaly back home. Also Univeristy work, but that I will be dealing with rather quickly :D

So generaly speaking - same old stuff.

In terms of upcoming events - We still have our challenge, so will definitly work on that - and by that I mean my private "entry" as well as some coverage.
There is some other stuff I would like to enter so I will be sure to spread the word about them so you guys can join as well. Also I should be starting some entries for major contests i'd love to atend (not sure wich one yet as there always are issues  - mostly money)

So with that we come to WIPs

I'm quite close to finish with my Howling Griffons Chaplain - i must say, i haven't been painting as regular recently and i can REALLY feel that :/ Got this guy very cheap and one of the reasons i bought him was to check what's the big idea with finecast anyway. Not that impressed IMO. I don't think i'd pay the retail price if I am to be honest.
One more thing about it before pictures - the base is one of the resin bases awarded as random prizes in recent Bananalicious Painting Contests over at Massive Voodoo. Here is the deal - I LOVE MAKING BASES, ok i said it, sometimes i enjoy it even more than working on the miniature itself. So when i got info that I won some resin bases I was like "meh" BUT I must admit - i was wrong. VERY VERY wrong. These bases are from Taban Miniatures and while they do look great on their own - I do plan to use at least some of them as part of bigger works.

Now with all that said some WIP pictures of said Chalpain

Hopefully I will be able to work on this little piece tonight.
Till the next one!

Intro to MadSpiderz -Harris Hasan

   Hello everyone! My name is Harris Hasan. I go by Harry on the Mecha Lounge Forum and frequent some other forums under relatively obvious variations of the same name (Harris.H, HarrySKRTCH.) The SKRTCH username is pretty stupid and I've wanted to change it for a while but it's not worth bothering people over lol. To explain that little bit; one of my hobbies is turntablism. Scratching records melodically for those that don't know. I doubt I'll be sharing much of that stuff here but it's something else I greatly enjoy and strive to become better at as my years advance.

Anyways...

    I was invited to be apart of MadSpiderz by Mr Zinc.  Mr Zinc is also my good friend Pawel Cynk. Zinc and I first started talking about plastic modeling on the MAC Forums about a year and a half ago now. We then started talking just because it was fun to joke around, work on models, and spend too much time laughing at ridiculous things. Later on Zinc, Decay, Sneeper1980, Hummingbird, Kamm, Darkworkx, Vanz Anasazi, and I came together and created the Mecha Lounge Forum. It's a great honor to be part of this blog along with some of the people I respect the most in mecha plastic modeling.

A little about me

   I am a plastic modeler who works almost entirely on mecha model kits. I have only been working on Gundam model kits as of lately. In the past I have built cars, aircraft, sci-fi aircraft (macross fighters), and ZOIDS (before the HMM line.) I started plastic modeling at a young age but didn't really start doing things properly till my early teens. What I mean is I was always painting and gluing my models but the first few years were trial and error and just learning how to do things. I lost interest after a while and then got obsessed again after seeing some awesome work online. I met lots of cool, supportive, and sometimes frightening critical people who encouraged and also pushed me to work on constantly improving my skills. I think because of this I have a much higher interest level now than I ever have before. Thats basically all I can think to tell you right now. Here are some of the Gundam models I have completed in the last 12 months and one I've been very very very slowly working on. I know I dont have much to show but I am also a student and don't get much time to work. When I do have time Im pretty drained.

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