Hobby time was non-existent this past weekend aside from a little bit of Dark Heresy RPGing Friday night. The rest of my time was spent (with quite a bit of help) moving my GF in and various pieces of our redundant furniture out to their new homes.
As such, the house looks like a bomb went off inside! Anything that we didn't immediately know where to put went into the dining room. As a result that room is now impassable terrain, aside from a walk-thru lane to connect both ends of the house. Her kitties seem to be adjusting to their new home...however tonight we'll pick up my dog from my grandparents' house and on her return, I'm sure a whole new level of chaos shall ensue...
I do have one bit on the hobby front though. My GF has a coffee table that is essentially built around/out of an aquarium (sorry, no picture of it as its buried in the dining room). Wanting to keep it she suggested we could put terrain in it and display battle scene-type dioramas in it! Awesome idea! The dioramas will change periodically, but one project we've already earmarked for it is a 1/72 scale, super-heavy anime-inspired tank which was originally drawn by Miyazaki Hayao.
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| I'll be honest, the addition of the crew of pigs is what really sold me on this...somehow they make this monster kinda 'cute' (which sold my GF on the idea as well). |
'I first spotted this tank on a google search for...something some ways back, but it was out of production. Drooling over the kit and instantly wanting it, I checked on it periodically to see if it was ever reissued, and lo and behold it was! So I used last week's ebay sales to finance virtually all of it, and with shipping from Japan it came to about $55. Which, to my surprise is less than a Space Marine Whirlwind!
Speaking of which, can somebody please explain to me the justification of $57 for a $37.25 rhino with one extra turret sprue and a different box??? Insanity.
anyways...
My order was ready to ship and so I paid for it Friday (that site has a bit of an odd process for ordering...) and so we should be good to go in a month or so when it gets here. At least I hope so...I see today it is listed as 'back ordered'. It was still 'in stock' when I paid for it, so I can only hope I got the last one. Kindova worrisome development though...
Edit: I got the shipment notification last night, so apparently I did get the last one, whew!
2 comments:
Hah! That's a great tank - looking forward to seeing what you do with the kit!
I've been tempted by that same tank on the HLJ site. I'm glad you got the last one so I don't have to worry about it!
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