Happy 50th Dad!!!

Happy birthday dad!!

Our father's birthday is actually on the 20th of the month, but we gave him a little advance on the party and presents last sunday. We had a small BBQ session at home, that nearly became a kitchen affair because the typhoon decided to threaten the late afternoon with strong winds and a possible downpouring in the evening. Besides the wonderful meal and the ipad mom got dad, me and my sisters were able to surprise our father with a little custom toy we made for him.

it is based on the Danboard toy by Revoltech.

My First iPad Art

I finally uploaded this! Oh happy day!
My first try at using Sketchbook Pro on my iPad. Did this Tron inspired Mighty Muggs in about 2 sittings. I used 3 layers, 3 brush styles, 2 main colors, the mirror and erase tools, and my fingers. I'm pretty pleased with how this piece came out, though honestly finger painting wasn't as easy as i expexted it to be. I realized once again how fat my fingers are... and here i thought the iPad's bigger surface would be more forgiving. Don't get me wrong though, I had a lot of fun doing this and deffinitely hope to do more stuff in the future.



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The Mez-Itz line looks promising

A while back I got a couple of Mez-Itz, namely the Hellboy and Abe Sapien ones. I was very pleased at this toy line. Mezco translated the character's images into their mould very well, and maintained a unique personality as a toy line. The fact that their articulation made them really posable and looked awesome on the shelf helped as well.

Mezco came out with a few others like Freddy & Jason from their respective horror franchises, a monotone Zombie, Perseus from the Clash of the Titans, the Wolfman, and a few others. None of these really caught my attention and so until now Me and Kat have kept to our ever growing Mighty Muggs collection and didn't buy any further into the Mez-Itz line. 

Recently though there was an announcement that Mezco would be partnering with DC to introduce characters from their universe. This actually piqued my interest, and I have been keeping an eye out for possible sneak peaks. Recently my wait was rewarded and I saw these guys online...

Backstabbing Fun!

The last time my gaming group met up, we ran Cutthroat Caverns. This game, by Smirk and Dagger Games, came highly recommended by a number of people from the TW forums, and I have to admit we had a blast with it. My thanks to Brel and Adrian for this one.

I can't help notice though that the game wasn't recommended just to me, but more to my gaming group. We have a reputation as a bunch of self-serving backstabbers, who regularly play co-op games. It has never been just about winning the game in my group, but its how much you can beat down each other along the way.

Soul of Popynica Kaneda's Bike ... finally here

I just picked this up yesterday from Greattoysonline's Greenhills branch.


It is the 1/6 scale replica of Kaneda's bike from the phenomenal Akira manga and anime. This is by Bandai, or Project BM! to be precise, in collaboration with Katsushiro Otomo, the creator of the Akira franchise. From what I have read online, this is supposedly the "ultimate reproduction" of this Iconic bike, and has all the bells and whistles to show for.