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Photo Booth for Models, Miniatures and Toys


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Other than painting clean models, my other weakness is photography! I used to take photos outdoors under the shade of the afternoon sun. Pretty good results as it is mostly sunny here ( Philippines ). I never had any fancy camera though ( as obvious with my gallery photos ) and I have always used my phone cameras for photography ( iphone4s, iphone5 and now iphone6 plus ).



I still use my iphone6 plus for all my photography needs, I did get a couple of photo booth domes to try to level up the quality of my photos a couple of weeks ago. Waiting to shoot under the sun is not the most convenient method of taking photos of models and miniatures, my photo booths are my only solution.



I have the bigger dome roughly the size of a kid's play tent ( 3.5 feet wide ). I use the big dome for Gunpla photography like the 1/48 " Dead Turtle " diorama below. I feel I lack enough lights to effectively use my big dome though... so I also got the small 1 foot dome which I love the most! I rarely do Gunpla these days so I get to use my small dome a lot. I have enough lights to light up the small dome and I am experimenting on different light set-ups as of the moment.



As I've said before, I never liked photography in general when I was growing up... Unlike drawing or painting, I felt you need more equipment to get better OR at least get to be known as a good photographer if you have more equipment ( or lenses )... It was and it is a rich man's craft. Never realized I would enjoy photography with a couple of domes and my phone camera.



Thanks as always for dropping by! Until next post guys! Just enjoy the hobby! :)






Photo Booth for Models, Miniatures and Toysphoto




Photo Booth for Models, Miniatures and Toysphoto




Photo Booth for Models, Miniatures and Toysphoto




Photo Booth for Models, Miniatures and Toysphoto




Photo Booth for Models, Miniatures and Toysphoto




Photo Booth for Models, Miniatures and Toysphoto




Photo Booth for Models, Miniatures and Toysphoto




Photo Booth for Models, Miniatures and Toysphoto




Photo Booth for Models, Miniatures and Toysphoto




Photo Booth for Models, Miniatures and Toysphoto




Photo Booth for Models, Miniatures and Toysphoto


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DC23 Pilot Painting Contest Finalists and Winner





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The first Pilot Painting Contest was pretty successful I think. We got a total of 82 entries during the competition. The Contest was most active at Instagram as I have 7,000 followers at Instagram during the contest. It was so cool judging and screening entries during that time. We hope to bring you a quick exciting competition in the near future soon.



This fun contest was sponsored handsomely by GreatToysOnline.com and Hobbymate, links below..













Both HobbyMate and GTO ships worldwide. Fittingly so as I have more following internationally than locally ( Philippines ). HobbyMate will be shipping a handsome HM Airbrush and GTO will be shipping a set of Gundam Metal Nano Puzzles ( Both shops has shipped the prizes to our winner as I write this post ). and so our winner ( as posted both at Instagram and Facebook ) was 





Mark Carlisle of Australia 


( two time Australia GBWC Champion )




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Also a ton of thanks to all the 82 entries and a warm congratulations to the other 9 finalists below! Again, I cannot thank you enough for joining our fun and humble competition! Hope to come up with more competitions soon! As always thanks a ton for dropping by! Until next post guys! Just enjoy the hobby!




DC23 Pilot Painting Contestphoto




DC23 Pilot Painting Contestphoto




DC23 Pilot Painting Contestphoto




DC23 Pilot Painting Contestphoto




DC23 Pilot Painting Contestphoto




DC23 Pilot Painting Contestphoto




DC23 Pilot Painting Contestphoto




DC23 Pilot Painting Contestphoto




DC23 Pilot Painting Contestphoto




DC23 Pilot Painting Contestphoto


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Newtype Gunpla Competition by Mechaspot.com





Newtype Gunpla Competition by Mechaspotphoto



I have judged a handful of online Gunpla Competitions already, but never have I been invited to fly to another country and be a guest judge on a competition. I am so honored that Mechaspot.com extended me an invite late last year and I am so excited that their competition is pushing thru.



Yours truly ( Don Suratos aka DC23 of the Philippines ) and Anupong Channarong ( aka nuNunu of Thailand ) will be flying to Indonesia and will be staying there for 3 days. We will be judging a Gunpla competition and both of us will be conducting workshops on Gunpla. The workshops should be fun as we will try to teach you as much as we can during the event ( with live demos ).



Me and nuNunu will also be giving out a special award for the entries of our choice. I will be awarding my fav diorama entry and nuNunu will be awarding his Kitbash King award.



This competition is on December 11 and 12 and is OPEN TO ALL participants as long as you can fly to Indonesia with us. You may register now at Mecha Spot Facebook and Inquire on how to participate in this event. 







Newtype Gunpla Competition by Mechaspotphoto




Newtype Gunpla Competition by Mechaspotphoto



I'll leave you with nuNunu's latest build featured at Kenny Lim's aka Toymaker's Blog...







Newtype Gunpla Competition by Mechaspotphoto



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