Gunpla Expo 2016 Singapore - Photos Report (Part 1)

hi Guys, here they are! The  Gunpla Expo 2016 is happening in Singapore from June 1st to June 26th 2016. Location = Takashimaya Square B2 - Orchard Singapore. The event promoted as "The largest Gundam model kit exhibition in Singapore". Indeed, this year gunpla exhibition are quite showy and put lots of new interesting stuff in it. All photos taken by our photographer - "Madame F" via Fuji Finepix camera.

the pamflet of Gunpla Expo 2016 Singapore

PART 1 - Photos of the locations :

Gunpla Expo 2016 - Takashimaya Square Singapore

a welcoming huge size RX to usher us in

Gunpla Expo 2016 Singapore - Photo Reports (Part 2)

hi Guys, here they are! The Gunpla Expo 2016 is happening now in Singapore from June 1st to June 26th 2016. Location = Takashimaya Square B2 - Orchard Singapore. The event promoted as "The largest Gundam model kit exhibition in Singapore". Here the Part 2 of our Photo Report.

All photos taken by our photographer - "Madame F". Exclusively for gundamshutter.blogspot.com
SEE PART 1 - THE LOCATION HERE

the pamflet of Gunpla Expo 2016 Singapore

PART 2 - THE GUNPLA PHOTOGRAPHY

Here the collections of Gunpla High Quality Photos taken by Madame F's Fuji FinePix camera. The bokeh is just right for photographing gunpla.

the "Trans Frozen Raiser" - one of GBWC Model in display

GBWC Model in display 

Excellent RX-0 with its grey theme diorama

and a wonderful details of RX-0 , Gunpla Builder World Championship Model

Gunpla Expo 2016 Singapore - Photos (Part 3)

Hello  readers ! The  Gunpla Expo 2016 is happening in Singapore from June 1st to June 26th 2016. Location = Takashimaya Square B2 - Orchard Singapore. The event promoted as "The largest Gundam model kit exhibition in Singapore". Indeed, this year gunpla exhibition are quite showy and put lots of new interesting stuff in it. All photos taken by our photographer - "Madame F" via Fuji Finepix camera.

the pamflet of Gunpla Expo 2016 Singapore

This is part 3 of our photo reports.  See :

Part 1 - The Locations

Part 2 - The Best Photos 

PART 3 - THE GUNPLAs 

custom model in Gunpla Expo 2016

Display...

interesting diorama

the badass Kshatriya in display

the Original RX

One More Time Freedom

Tamashii Nations

custom model and diorama

the Mad King, inspired by Game of Thrones!

(One of ) GBWC 2015 Winner

Qubeley 

Zaku Emperor

Gunpla Releases May - June 2014

May and June 2014 saw a quiet gunpla releases from Bandai. The main attention focus on their 53rd Shizuoka Hobby Show expo which revealed several important updates from the company:

- New Grade / gunpla category will be produced in 1/100 scale ,  to have "High Detail Appearance" and "Sophisticated Parts Composition."
- Finally, Nightingale is in production, which going to be in that new category . The full line up / project are: RE/100 MSN-04 II Nightingale, RE/100 MSF-007 Gundam Mk-III , RE/100 RX-78GP04G Gundam GP04 Gerbera

photo from SgCafe

Sertifikasi SNI Mainan di Indonesia

On April 30th, 2014, Indonesian authority will implemented new regulations to make all imported toys to mandatory obtained a safety certification, so called SNI (Standar Nasional Indonesia). The move has triggered a large worry amount Indonesian gunpla collectors, in which believed this good intention of protecting underage consumer can go wrong in practice. Collectors worry about complicated process of doing extra certification and foul play in goods and immigration office which will resulted in catapulted the gunpla prices even higher than before. This article written in Bahasa Indonesia is to carefully examined this, to support and in the same time to guard the new regulation to not cause more difficulties on gunpla in Indonesia. Please use Google translate if you interest. (note that SNI will translated as ISO in Google translate, which altered the meaning of this article).

Mencermati Sertifikasi SNI Mainan di Indonesia

Beberapa minggu lagi Indonesia akan memberlakukan sertifikasi Standar Nasional Indonesia (SNI) untuk produk mainan di Indonesia. Detail dari regulasi tersebut bisa ditelaah di website resmi Kementrian Perindustrian di sini. Intinya, semua mainan impor harus memiliki sertifikasi SNI. Regulasi ini direncanakan aktif bulan September 2013 namun baru tegas diterapkan mulai tanggal 30 April 2014.

Baca selengkapnya ....

Guide to Bandai High Grade (HG) Logo

This is a beginner guide for understanding the meaning behind Bandai's Gunpla High Grade logo. If you are completely unfamiliar with Gundam TV show series and/or only interested in the Gunpla design rather than to watch the related anime, you may find this guide useful.

In Bandai's Gunpla based on the world of Gundam, they categorized the design into several grades. The Grade simply mean the sizes and the difficulties to assembling it. A quick guide to Bandai Gunpla most common grades you will find in the store:

First Grade - scale 1/144
basic parts and earliest production, recommended for children at least age 5 up

High Grade - scale 1/144
usually about five runners (A,B,C,D,E) and takes about 30 minutes to 2 hours to build it, recommended for children at least age 8 years above. About 13 to 16 cm in real height. This grade has the most number of models, there must be about more than 400 models being produced under this size and scale.

Real Grade - scale 1/144
the latest grade from Bandai and introduced in 2010. It is basically a Master Grade in details but comes only in 1/144 sizes as in High Grade. About 13 to 16 cm in height.

Master Grade - scale 1/100
the parts already has skeletal frame. More details than HG. About 17 to 20 cm in height.

Perfect Grade - scale 1/160
This if for hardcore Gunpla enthusiast. Real details in all parts. About 30 cm. As per 2013, there are only about 20 models being produced.

you can read more on Wikipedia

I found the "medium"-level called High Grade is their most popular and most numbers in production. If you confused about the meaning behind their HG logo, this is the Guide to Bandai's Gunpla High Grade (HG) Logo, found in their box cover.

the HG logo mean High Grade and the below text refers to the related TV show

you can find a full list of Gundam Franchise and TV series HERE

almost all known HG logo in the market by Bandai,

Bandai High Grade 1/144 Guide in wallpaper resolution 1280 x 800

The most popular High Grade line is HGUC, about 179 models as per year 2014
The latest line is High Grade Build Fighter based on the current Gundam Build Fighter series.
As the time of writing, Gundam HGCC Correct Century is not yet released and only a prototype of Gundam Turn A model being displayed for public, it is scheduled to released in April 2014.
You can read more about this on Gundam Wikia page.

tags: gundam 1/144, gunpla, gundam universal century, gundam high grade thunderbolt, HG UC Hardgraph, 1/144 HGFC Future Century, HGFA Fighting Action, HGAC After Colony, HGAW After War, HGCC Correct Century, HG Seed, HG Age, HG Gunpla Builders, HGBG Build Fighters, HGBC Build Custom

Universal Century Mecha Timeline Wallpaper

Using my Gundam photostock, I arrange the Universal Century timeline. I missed out the MS Igloo and G-Saviour in the beginning and last timeline, but overall this is the chronological timeline as appear in the Gundam canon. This is also fit in wallpaper resolution of 1280x800.

The titular mobile suit for each timeline / movie are as follows:
(U.C. 0079 One Year War in MS Igloo, mostly a Zaku Unit in use)

U.C. 0079 RX-78 (MS Gundam)
U.C. 0079 RX-78-2 (MS Gundam)
U.C. 0079 RX79BD Blue Destiny Unit 2 (MS Gundam Side Story Blue Destiny)
U.C. 0079 RX79(G)-Ez-8 (The 08th MS Team)
U.C. 0080 RX-78NT-1 Alex (War in the Pocket)
U.C. 0083 RX-78GP01 ZEPHYRANTHES (0083 Stardust Memory)
U.C. 0087 MSZ-006 ZETA (MS Gundam Zeta)
U.C. 0088 MSZ-010 ZZ (MS Gundam ZZ)
U.C. 0093 RX-93 v Nu Gundam (Char's Counter Attack)
U.C. 0096 RX-0 Unicorn (MS Gundam Unicorn)
U.C. 0123 F91 Gundam Formula 91 (MS Gundam F91)
U.C. 0153 LM314V21 Victory Gundam (MS Victory Gundam)

(U.C. 0223 in G-Saviour)

Wallpaper for Gundam Universal Century Timeline with titular mobile suits

1280x800 Wallpaper with Gundam model photograph, then using photoshop to create the artwork. 

The Unicorn photos are not my credit