When I can I like to work on my Gundam models. It’s a hobby and it’s not computer related so that makes it a good thing. Both my kids enjoy watching me assemble the models and as an added bonus I build some just for them. They get to keep the models I make for them and they take good care of them.
They’re 5 and 6 years old. Sometimes they get out of control (like all kids do) but when it’s important to them they really are well behaved.
I’ve completed the HG Dynames from Gundam 00. Not quite as good as the HG Exia but not bad either. Here is the picture.
Finishing the HG Dynames freed me to let my girl pick one from her pile. She asked me to assemble the HG Gundam Astray Red Frame. As I assembled it, she would look at the finished pieces. She sat right next to me as I completed it and really admired it when it was finished.
It’s not often that I can get my girl to appreciate what I am doing. But when she and her brother do give me their undivided attention, it’s great.
Since I completed the girls model, the boy wants me to start working on one for him. He’s selected the 1/144 HG Strike Rouge + IWSP. It’s bigger than the other 1/144 models so he might be asking for it as a competition for his sister. He always asks for me to build him model that have large back packs.
Arturo says:
hi I have been looking your page i would like to make you a question do you have the 1/100 Hi-nu Gundam because i have it but after buying it I left the manual in my room with my other manuals nut after being in my brother’s house for a week when I returned and decided to begin to build the model Irealized that it wasn’t there so icould ask if you can pass me the scans of it please there is my mail
August 8, 2008 — 10:31 pm
Jan Dembowski says:
Arturo,
I don’t have the manual (or that model) but I think you may be able to find what you are looking for here.
The Hobby site http://www.1999.co.jp posts the scans of most of the Gundam models that they sell. It’s a good resource.
August 8, 2008 — 10:48 pm
raguel says:
hmmm..the red frame astray should look better with marker linings
March 9, 2010 — 6:19 pm
Jan Dembowski says:
Definitely would. But it was for my 5 year old girl, so she didn’t mind.
March 9, 2010 — 8:13 pm