AGX-04 Gerbera Tetra modeled by Aor_or_die

 All photos taken from Gundam Dreams

 1/100 AGX-04 Gerbera Tetra modeled by Omar Zampetti aka Aor_or_die of Gundam Dreams

AOR_OR_DIE of Italy is now in the Philippines!

Omar aka Aor_or_die of Italy and of  Gundam Dreams arrived in the Philippines a couple of days ago, and I together with a handful of MAC people met with him yesterday.



I met Omar back in BAKUC 2008 in Hong Kong and has always been sharing notes and works since then. It is super nice to see a friend in person that came from a very distant place ( 20 hours of travel from Italy to the Philippines ). I was very excited to see him since I posted this post and his masterpieces a while back, but I honestly could not describe the great feeling of seeing him in person once again.



It was also sooooooooooooo inspiring to see Omar's " MONSTERPIECE "of a kit! It is nice to see his PMS-007 Jaguar as it slowly comes to life in his website ( Gundam Dreams ), BUT it is breath taking to see all those scratch built pieces in person! Omar has outdone himself and is about to come up with the badest " monsterpiece " / Monster Grade to date!



This hobby has been so fun for the past 4 years and meeting other ( international and local ) modelers and making great friends is truly what any hobby is ALL ABOUT!



I totally enjoyed 9 hours of chatting with Omar and his friend Anar. I hope they enjoy the rest of their stay here in the Philippines, as they swim inside the crater of a volcano ( Mt. Pinatubo ) and swim with the Butandings ( Whale Sharks ) in Palawan! I also hope Omar gets to see a Tarsier as he told me he loves monkeys very much ( lol ).



A ton of THANK YOUs to both Omar and Anar for all the food and beers yesterday! And super thanks for my first resin kit and my daughter's HG Gaddes kit! Another great Gunpla experience that I will cherish for the rest of my life ( great stuff ).



Have a great one in the Philippines guys!

 

 

 

 

  

 

AOR_OR_DIE arrives in the Philippines in 10 days!!!

Good friend back from BAKUC 2008, Omar aka Aor_or_die from Italy will be landing in the Philippines in 10 days!



Aor of  Gundam dreams is an old friend I met back in HongKong at BAKUC 2008. He represented Italy as their Italy BAKUC champion. He has produced countless Plastic and resin masterpieces since then and remains to be an active inspiration of the community until today.



Aor is now a moderator at ZeroGunz ( my old forum ) and also an active VIP member of our MAC forums. I am very excited to see him again, eventhough I am no longer that active in Gunpla these days. Omar will be landing in the Philippines ( Manila ) on February 25! And together with a handful of MAC forums people, we will be meeting him on the 26th!



So book February 26 guys and be ready to meet one of the masters of the craft from Italy in Aor_or_Die. I'll leave you with links of some of Aor's notable masterpieces...

• http://gundamdreams.blogspot.com/2010/07/1100-nz-666-kshatriya.html


• http://gundamdreams.blogspot.com/2010/03/z-gustav-scratch-build.html


• http://gundamdreams.blogspot.com/2011/04/massive-attack.html


• http://gundamdreams.blogspot.com/2011/08/1100-sinanju-rewloola-base.html


• http://gundamdreams.blogspot.com/2011/12/midnight-king-1100-sazabi.html


• http://gundamdreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/over-flag-lady-gaga-ver-commissioned.html

PMS-007 JAGUAR 1 WIP by aor_or_die

I am very envious as all of my friends are joining our 2012 Mecha Contest at MAC forums ( 163 entries so far ). All the big names in Matt Mrozek, Matt Tomczek, Decay, Tember Gundam and even Toymaker    has joined the fun! Lots of new, young and up coming Filipino modelers has also joined the 2012 Mecha Contest in amir anti yosi, krescenhaze, Davime and Gianshopao among others.



Lots of great entries to look out for so join in the fun today!



Content in watching this battle of mecha building at Mech Arts Community forums, I will just feature work in progress threads of entries that I like. Although it is almost impossible for me to keep track of all the entries but if your works are impressive, will sure shout it out here in my website. Simply put, impressive WIP threads in our 2012 Mecha Contest gets featured through out the contest ( until July 1st ).



First 2012 Mecha Contest WIP feature would be the work in progress thread of my good friend Omar aka aor_or_die of Italy! Omar is scratch building and scrap building a PMS-007 Jaguar 1 from various plastic and resin parts. He has casted a MG Sazabi head as the base shape and has progress well with the scratch built neck and face parts.



Although he has only finished the head up to the neck part, this build sure is looking very impressive already! Anyways join the discussion and see more photos of this 2012 Mecha Contest entry at MAC forums. Here is the link guys...

PMS-007 JAGUAR 1 WIP by aor_or_die

Someone MASSIVE is coming to town!!!

Yes I am not talking about the peace talk with MechaPinoy, our 2012 Mecha Contest, G-SHOT, or our ZAKU Group Build at MAC forums. I am talking about someone ( a massive person actually - lol ) coming to town.



We've been fortunate at MAC forums to have met our friends from Singapore back at the MAC FORUMS anniversary party. Now I am very happy and excited to announce that one of our big boys and huge contributor and VIP member is coming to town this February 2012!



 Omar aka AOR_OR_DIE will be coming from Italy to the Philippines this 2012!



I met Omar back at BAKUC 2008 when he represented Italy as their BAKUC Champion. He got a special prize during the event from Mr. Kawaguchi himself and I sat beside him and Matt Tomczek ( US Champion ) during the BAKUC dinner party. Omar / Aor got a crappy HG kit during the raffles ( lol ).



I have been following his builds since then and was good friends back at ZeroGunz and now at MAC forums. He is a VIP member of our forums and has been a very active VIP member ever since. Aor even donated a prize for our 2012 Mecha Contest.



BTW, I say he is massive as he is I think around 6 foot 4 inches. Filipinos like me ( at 5 foot 7 inches ) would get stiff necks talking to this guy. Anyways I am pretty sure you know Omar's website, but I'd still leave you with the link guys...

GUNDAM DREAMS.blogspot.com

1/100 NZ-666 Kshatriya by aor_or_die

Aor is a really good modeler from Italy and one of his earlier masterpiece was featured here in my blog already. His z-gustav-scratch built is still my personal favorite amongst his superb works! The work put into the build and the topnotch weathered finishing.



Anyways, I present to you aor_or_die's most recent masterpiece, The 1/100 Kshatriya! This is basically a  resin kit but aor added more details to this kit to suit his personal preference. The weathering is topnotch as always as he shows his mastery of weathering mediums on this build. the weathering is just enough for a space MS in my opinion as it is subtle but convincingly realistic!

Aor has this build at ZeroGunz and has a TON of photos at his website - Gundam Dreams-Kshatriya