Nerd Builds: SD Gundam 00 Raiser

The last SD in my SD building binge is featured in today's Nerd Builds. The 00 Raiser is from Gundam 00 and is piloted by Setsuna F. Seiei in the second season of the show as the main Gundam. Purported to be one of the most powerful Gundams in the Gundam line and one of my personal favorites, it was a fun build. Let's get into it. 

How does this massive Gundam look in chibi form?

Nerd Builds: SD Musha Gundam

Welcome back Nerds! Today's build features the always cool SD Musha Gundam! This Gundam has been around for awhile and is a mash-up with traditional Japanese samurai armor, which is just the best mash-up ever.

Honestly, this should be the mainstay of all Japanese-mecha because it typifies everything cool. 

SD 0 Gundam (Type A.C.D.)

Today's build is another SD kit but this time it's the 0 Gundam from the Gundam 00 series. Piloted by one of the main villains Ribbons Almark, this model most resembles the original RX-78-2. I decided to use my Gundam markers to paint this one a bit, since it comes mostly white and would be a good practice piece for me with detailing.

RX-78-2 rebooted.

SD Justice Gundam

Hello nerds, we'll end the week with the build of the Super Deformed Justice Gundam from the Gundam Seed series. Athrun Zala's beefed up mobile suit was one that I expected to be awesome, but the older SD design and lack of color detail really hamper the fun on the build. Luckily difficulty was not a factor on this build.

Box art looks cool right?

Nerd Builds: SD Delta Plus

Hello everyone-

Hope y'all have been having a stellar week! Today I wanted to feature a change of pace from all of the HG Gundam Build Fighters, especially since I have been pretty busy as of late and have only had time for smaller units...literally. So this is the SD Delta Plus from Gundam Unicorn. I don't know a whole lot about Gundam Unicorn since I haven't been able to watch any of the episodes, but if you will remember, I won this kit at the Gunpla competition last year and I finally built it.

I does everything you see in the box...cray

This Week's Haul: Lent Edition

Hello everyone~! It's time for another haul post. If you do not know, last Wednesday was Ash Wednesday which would start the period of Lent for Catholics and some Protestants. Lent is basically the 40 days leading to Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection. Our church started a fasting relay and yesterday was my day, and it was hard. One way I was able to get my mind off of food was this haul!

Pretty excited about the new Moon Knight comic and the SD 00 Raiser!

2013 Southern California Gundam Modeling Competition

This past Saturday Mrs. Nerd and I got to go to our first Gundam modeling competition! It was the third annual competition thrown by Those Gundam Guys at the Holiday Inn near Cal State Fullerton. They had some pretty awesome models there as well as vendors (including our friends at Robot4less!) and modeling tutorials. Here are some pictures from the competition.

My first Gunpla party!

So a month ago, I was at church just hanging out and observing everyone during their free time. I noticed that only the people who play sports or play an instrument had anything to do. They were bonding with other people with common interests. But the people who weren't into sports or music were just kinda sitting around doing their own thing, bored. What a perfect opportunity for the Nerd of Nazareth! I pulled together some of the guys and asked them if they wanted to have a Gundam building party at my place and they all agreed it would be a great idea! So this past Saturday, that is just what we did!

Jesus Loves Noobs: Gundam Scale and Grade for Beginners

So I'd like to start a new corner on the blog for beginners getting into new hobbies called "Jesus Loves Noobs! Beginners tend to get a lot of flack especially from more established veterans and naysayers (ask Jesus), so hopefully this is a safe place for you to get your questions answered on different nerd (or spiritual) topics. But bear with me since in some areas…I am also a NOOB.

So today I'd like to talk about the different scales and grades that Gunpla has to offer. I hope that more people will find a new hobby in Gunpla through this post.

So let's talk about scale first. Scale simply means the number of models it would take to fit into one life size model. So most HG (high grade) and RG (real grade) models are 1:144 scale. This means your model is 1/144th the size of a life size Gundam. 1:144 is the smallest scale that Gundam models come in (about 13cm tall).