Burn Out!

A couple of weeks ago I was neck deep in work that I got totally burned out. One morning I woke up and didn't feel like working at all.

So after two hours of sleep and a sudden urge to go toy hunting I called my GF and went to Divisoria to hunt for bootleg Transformers toys just for kicks.

There's this place in Divi that I used to go to when I was in college and was hunting for model kits that I could practice on. This place was a building that housed all types of KOs from China at dirt cheap prices and I'd go there with some of my friends whenever we had free time.

So I was there and I tried to find the KO Beast Wars toys that used to be so abundant there 6 years ago and I couldn't find any. Granted that it's been more than half a decade since they used to stock them there but I had this faint hope that maybe they weren't able to sell them and that they'd still be there. Nope, they weren't and instead I went home with two crappy TF's and two sets of pseudo-Lego's

The space ships were surprisingly nice... and very very cheap. Lego bricks would cost around 10 times what I paid for these guys.

When I was a kid my parents couldn't afford Legos and now that I've got my own money I wouldn't dare spend them on such expensive bricks.

Anyway, these are fun and a nice break from the model kits that I build whenever I feel the need to sit down and play with something. That's just me, I find it hard to sit and work long hours without fiddling with a figure.

I've been working on this guy for almost 4 months now, I think. I don't get to sit as much as I wanted to with my kits these past few weeks so I haven't been having that much progress but the Sandrock, as pictured here, is ready to be flat coated.

It's shiny because of the oil paints that I used to weather it and the discoloration and color filters that I used. This also brings me back to the roots of my college Gundam building days when I would use artist acrylics instead of Hobby Paints because I couldn't afford them then. I've decided that for this build I won't be using hobby paints since I don't live anywhere near a hobby shop that carries Tamiya paints and because I felt that I could pull off something nice using the cheap paints that I have at home.

It took waaay longer to paint but the results are ok with me :)

Here's a quick update on my Marvel try-out.  I still haven't been able to spend more than 4 hours on these guys daily and there are even days when I couldn't touch them because of the projects that I'm working on and sadly most of them are stuff that I can't post anywhere yet.

Just two more pages to go for my Marvel stuff and I'd be able to start working on new things come August. Thank God for the comic book gig and card illustration projects that are scheduled to start next month.

And yup! Finally got featured in ImagineFX's FXPose gallery hehe! So happy that I subscribed for one year!!! This one feels nice because being published in an industry mag was one of the top 3 goals for 2012. The other one's working from home and the 3rd, well, that's something that I'm praying and believing for right now.

Thank God for the blessings this year, 5 more months to go :)