500,000 Vietnam Dong... err HITs! Thank You!

Woot! Half a MILLION hits! I do not really keep track of my stats as much as last year but I can't really let 500,000 hits pass me by. I could retire in Gunpla blogging knowing that my free website has reached 500 K at one point. 

I never imagined that a Pinoy Filipino Gunpla blogger could have as many hits as it never happened before. Heck we do not even have good Filipino Gunpla individual sites before and now we have a lot of very good Filipino Bloggers ( I have them all in my blog roll ).

Half a MILLION Thank Yous goes to all the readers and visitors of my blog, all my fellow modelers that allows me to feature their fantastic builds, my ZeroGunz and GMAC family, all our MAC forums and MAC Facebook family, all my fellow Bloggers, all my fellow Gunplars,  Gundam Guy, Adam Sonar, Ryukaze, Rayloke, Kamm, Matt twins, Vanz, rzero1, Krescenhaze, Oceansean, Amir, David C., Fil, sacrophage, Toymaker, MatX, Kriz and basically all of the guys I get to interact with almost everyday!

Based on TOPBlogs.com, This blog continues to be the No.1 Gundam site in the Philippines today! My blog has changed so much since November 2009, It now features everything from MAC forums and anything Gunpla.  Blogging about yourself and your works all the time gets too narcissistic and tiring, thus the focus is to share the spotlight with my fellow modelers here in the Philippines and abroad. 

Like I always say, Just continue to enjoy the hobby guys! and like in MAC forums, Fun comes first before the friggin rules! lol. Now here are a few screen shots of my stats if your curious how I reached half a million hits in 14 months... pressing F5 does not really work... hahaha

Half a MILLION Thank Yous Everyone!!!

random thoughts on blogger, twitter and facebook

Just some random thoughts on blogger, twitter and Facebook guys. I do not claim expertise in these social networking sites and blogging, heck I think I am not even a year old member of both twitter and Facebook and have been blogging since November 2009 only. But I do have some insights that could be helpful to some newer bloggers, twitters, Facebook mainstays out there.

my New avatar and twitter, well I have used quite a lot of avatars since starting my blog. But it is only recently that I have started to actually design my own though. I envy Toymaker's and Bmecha's avatars, it is very unique and they have been using it for a while now. 

The sudden change in avatar is primarily because of twitter yesterday. As I was looking for good twitters to follow, I found some really cool looking avatars that stood out of the bunch. I then designed an avatar that would also look good even when it is very very small already ( important specially in twitter ).

My new avatar is yellow and black and is obviously based on the color scheme of my Kampfer. I added a bushy goatee as I sometimes forget to trim mine in real life. I also designed it to have a frown and a smirk at the same time ( close friends knows why ). I like my new avatar, even though it says nothing about my hobby, it pretty much shows my personality in a glance.

Facebook, I manage a couple of Facebook pages and have my own personal account. As most of you know by now, my wife uses my account for playing some Fb games even though she has her own account ( I wonder why? ). I am a bit active at our Mech Arts Community group page and a few fellow modelers and Gunpla enthusiasts like Gundam Guy is active in our community page as well.

As much as I have fun with interacting at our MAC Fb page, I feel I kinda neglected my own DC23 mech arts artist / fan page. Most modelers have this fan page stuff, just copied mine from Kenny ( Toymaker ). I am now starting to visit my own page more often these days, post a few photos once in a while and answer inquiries if there are some. It is easier to manage yourself than a community after all.

Blogger, Blogger is NOT free! This is important coz as much as I enjoy blogging, I felt it was kinda unfair that I thought it was a free service. However since last month, I could NO longer upload photos in my blogger account. Once you've reached the 1 GB quota for photos, you have to pay a premium for continuing to use it. Good thing I have a Pro Photobucket account, I now upload photos, even banners through this account.

SO, if you blog and upload photos as much as I do, be ready to pay a premium or have a Pro Photobucket or Pro Flicker account at hand. Heck, I have a Pro Photobucket account coz I also have exceeded the FREE quota in Photobucket. hehe, I guess I do blog too much. 

Anyways, thanks for dropping by! Til' next post guys! :)

my BLOG just got bigger!

In the vain attempt to maintain the status of my blog as the runaway no.1 Gundam site in the Philippines, I came up with another page. LOL... Narcissistic mode and kidding aside, I enjoyed my photography session of my Nobell Gundam so much and thought of giving it it's own gallery.



Obviously I snap fit a lot of kits specially in between finished ( painted ) builds. Snap fitting Gunpla remains my favorite part of this hobby and it keeps me from burning out from heavy modifications, painting, commission works and diorama making.



I am also starting to really get comfortable with my mediocre photography skills. I hated photography back in college as I think it is a hobby for rich people. People get better than other people coz they have a gazillion kinds of lenses and have the best SLR camera body amongst his peers.



However, I am starting to enjoy photography with my point and shoot Canon camera these days. My gallery photos are getting better ( I think ) even though I have been using the same camera since I started this blog ( 2009 ). It's not the camera... its just a friggin' tool, though I plan to get a SLR this year. lol



I think setting up my REVIEWs page would make me improve my photography even with unpainted straight builds. I hope to give you better photo reviews in the future. Reviews with less talk as I suck in writing and with tons of nice straight build photos.



Hope you'll liked my new page? It won't be as useful as my Tutorials page, but hope to bring good content in there in the future. Til' next post guys! :)

No.1 at ALL TOY SITES.com! THANK YOU!

Ello guys, just a quick post before going to work. Once again THANK YOU to all who supports my blog, my fan page at facebook and to all the members of M.A.C.! Of course THANK YOU as always to my ZeroGunz.com family and the other forums I visit!



I joined alltoysites.com a month or a few weeks ago and my blog has stayed as number 1 amongst all the members of the ranking site worldwide! yes, worlwide! hihi... Much like topblogs.com it is a site that ranks the popularity of its members. Topblog ranks Filipino sites only though.



However, this is not really true... all toy sites ONLY ranks its members, and it only has 40 TOY sites as members. Wait til' Ngee kiong, Toymaker or the Toy Room joins the site. hehe. But it is always nice to know that my blog, DC23 mech arts ranks as first amongst all the first 40 members of the site. Thank you for the support! XD



Once again, THANK YOU!