GBWC 2014 World Champion - ANDY WONG of Malaysia

I have a very serious confession to make guys... I am also Malaysian!



Just kidding... I spent a lot of time in the old Malaysian forums ( ZeroGunz ) back in 2009 to 2011. In fact I was one of the moderators of that forums. I learned a lot of my techniques from Ryukaze, Ronnie Phoon, Jeff Ho, Rayloke ( whom I met personally back in 2008 Bakuc Finals ), Becky Law, Sammy514 among so many others.



Malaysia is producing Bandai World Champions and competing in the world stage, like they are competing in a forums group build or something. These guys most likely because of the friendly nature and the teachings of the the older modelers have not regressed at all.



The newly crowned Gunpla Builders World Cup (GBWC ) World Champion this year ( 2014 ) is

 ANDY WONG of Malaysia!

I did not ask permission and stole all these photos of Andy Wong, so be prepared to read Andy Wong's name in this post numerous times ( lol ).



I believe most if not all of the entries in this year's GBWC finals at Japan were unique and original. I love creativity the most and skills and execution is secondary for me personally and The Spider O of Andy Wong is one of the most creative builds I have ever seen! I am so humiliated to post my re-painted MG The O ( coz it is also painted yellow ) even here in my blog as this Spider The O makes my work looks like it belongs to the junior category ( albeit helped by Uncles ).

Inspiring work! I am so inspired to work on my GBWC 2015 entry as early as next month! Inspiring stuff from another talented, skillful and creative modeler from Malaysia! How I wish I live in Singapore, HongKong, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, or Malaysia ( lol ).



Hope you are as inspired as I am! Thanks as always for dropping by! Until next post guys! Just enjoy the hobby! :)

Hasbro X-Wing Red 5 repaint by Ryukaze

Izham Ryukaze or simply Ryukaze is the founder and creator of ZeroGunz. He left a comment on my 1/72 Finemolds X-wing kit about adding some " space dust " to the kit to give it a nice space used weathered look. He then told me to look for his Hasbro X-Wing in his blog.

As I've told him, it took me roughly around 30 minutes to find his X-Wing in his archives. Gladly he has now added a search box on top of his blog today so re-finding his X-Wing was a ton easier. I have seen Ryukaze's repaints on some TF toys that looks really good, however I never thought that even Star Wars toys could be repainted and made to look as good as this.

I am hunting a bit on some Star Wars kits after the 1/72 X-Wing as I felt I could do better on my next. But I figured I'll just hunt for a Star Wars Hasbro toy and have it repainted and weathered much like Ryukaze's X-Wing. Ryu actually had to painstakingly mask and paint the X-Wing's markings to convert it to Luke's Red 5 but the hard work looks like its well worth it.

The shading is a ton better than mine, the " space dust " effect looks like a charm and the weathering and washes is just perfect. Tons of photos of this beautiful repaint in Ryukaze's blog and  I highly recommend you visit it, here is the link guys...

Hasbro X-Wing Red 5 repaint by Ryukaze