One big prize!

[Faust]

Just like in the now-classic Christmas movie “A Christmas Story”, I too am the recipient of a “Major Award”! While it might not be the hoped-for bowling alley, and it isn’t a leg lamp (kind of a shame, I know…) it is awfully cool.

I entered the Gundam Mid-Year Campaign 2015, and was lucky enough to be a winner in the contest! I won a set of 20 (Yes, 20!) Build Fighters Try kits. While some might criticize the show as being a big commercial for kits, I’ll say this; it works! The kits are beautiful, right on par with any other Bandai offering, and getting a 17lb box of models in the mail is just freakin’ sweet.

The only hard part was the waiting. I won in August, 2015, and just got these in the mail on January 26, 2016! Good things come to those that wait, I guess!

Check out the box of awesomeness here:

https://adamrehorn.wordpress.com/gundam-mid-year-campaign-2015/

 

 

 

Edited January 28, 2016 by Faust

[Jim B]

That's pretty cool.  I'm not into Gundam, but it's still pretty cool.

[Deathgoblin]

Nice!    Looks like there's some fun ones in there.  What's the BearGuy?

[cobraman]

Congrats !

[Agent G]

Now that's a collection of awesome.

G

[GTJUNIOR]

Gundam heaven. I have often wondered what it would be like to build one of those. Have fun Adam. Those should keep you out of mischief for a while. lol.

[Faust]

Thanks guys! 

As to your question, Tony: They're actually a blast to build. Compared to smashing my face into old MPC kits, the precision of these new Gundam kits is amazing. 

They're extremely high quality, the fit is excellent, and the ability of the kits to pose when done is incredible. They really are some of the very best engineered kits ever. To my mind, they blow away even a well engineered car or plane kit. People often ignore them as serious modelling subjects (at least here in North America) because they think they're "just toy robots". However, there's a lot to them that kit builders can really sink their teeth into. 

If you see one cheap, grab it and give it a go; all the normal skills apply, and the instructions are easy to follow, even if you don't speak Japanese!

 

Brian: 

The Bearguy is an adaptation of an amphibious mobile suit called an Acguy. The head's different, but most of the rest is the same. The show that these kits are from (Gundam Build Fighters Try) is about groups of kids who build and customize Gundam kits and then fight virtual battles in a tournament. Sounds hokey, but it's well animated and there's lots of good robot-on-robot action! the original Bearguy was a girl builder's first attempt to customize a Gundam kit, and she wanted to make it cute. This one, the Bearguy F (for Family) has a little mini-Bearguy (known as a Petitguy) with it, that serves as a secondary combat machine. It's all very "out there", but cool in a cute way. 

Hope that helps!