Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Soundtrack - Volume 1 & 2

Even in the beginning 5 minutes of the first Episode, you will right away notice the amazing soundtrack for the 2199 series. It pays homage to the original series while being fresh and original in itself. The score is composed by Akira Miyagawa, and is broken into 3 discs. My brother was able to get 2 of the 3, as they can be rather expensive, so the 3rd will have to wait for the moment.

There's a lot of music on these discs, 46 tracks on Volume 1 and 44 on Volume 2. The clarity is excellent the sound is clear and loud, much nicer than the tracks found on Youtube. I've played them on my Dad's big stereo system and you really get the feeling of being in the orchestra, this sense of awe and excitement that you originally felt while watching the show.

Although they are 99% all in Japanese, CD's are universal unlike DVD's so they will play on any system, they have these cute tabs on the sides with advertisements on the inside, booklets inside featuring scenes from the show and a write up I cannot translate. However I did find a write up here on ourstarblazers.com . This is a fantastic website full of Yamato 2199 material and translations, I highly suggest you add it to you favourites page, you'll be visiting it often.

Volume 1

Volume 2

Cardboard sleeves on the sides

Inside advertisements 

Disc 1

Disc 2

Back CD 1

Back CD 2

Booklet 1

Booklet 1

Booklet 2

Booklet 2

Brengun 1:72 Messerspit

This was a cool surprise from a fellow Youtube Modeller: Rob@basicmodelling. He showed off the finished pictures of the kit and I went crazy. Mainly because I collect 1:72nd Spitfires, and this was an oddball worth having, I began to search the internet and found a few good deals when Rob messaged me and asked me if I wanted one as well. Well thanks to Robs generosity I got one (thanks again)

A few things kept me from building this kit. 1. I was in the process of looking for Airfix's 1:72 Spitfire Mk IXc, to turn it into a twin seater trainer. And at the time I was really into figuring out proper RLM colors. I decided that I wanted an exact RLM 04 Yellow and desperately wanted to use Model Master Enamel RLM 04. The only problem it wasn't in stock.... for a few months...Well to my delight I finally got it, and some desperately needed Tamiya tape. And I decided to make a video, and build this kit.

I explain most of my problems with the kit in my build video series. I also went against my rule of Never watching a video on the same model kit I'm currently building!  To see if Rob's build could lend me a hand in any snags I might encounter. His videos are as always really great, but I think the problems I encountered cannot be the same for every one else, that also being said I think I'd run into different problems every time I would build this kit. It's a bit fussy in some area's but not bad or unmanageable, If you are an inexperienced modeller I'd stay away form this kit until you get a bit more experience. It looks like it's going to fit properly but then something goes wrong, all the fixes were/are simple but could frustrate some modellers.

I also ran into a weird problem, Brengun gives you a new fuselage for the Messerspit, but the kit I got had no panel lines beyond the cowl. A bit of plastic surgery and I swapped the Me 110 Cowl, to the clean Spitfire fuselage, enabling me to keep my panel lines. Enough of me, this is a really great kit i had a lot of fun building, and I'm thrilled to have it in my Spitfire Collection, and thanks again Rob.

Western Canadian Model Show 2013 --- Nanton Lancaster Museum

I'm thrilled that I happend to find these pictures form the show, I thought that they were deleted. Only downside is they are pretty small, so sorry for that in advance. This was the first model show I ever attended, my brother and I entered in, I took my Tamiya 1:32 A6M2b Zero and Airfix 1:48 Me 109E (which placed Bronze) I saw a ton of great talent there and I was saddened by the announcement that the 2014 show was going to take place in Edmonton, that's a 6 hour drive I wasn't up for. Thankfully this years show (2015) is back in Nanton, I can't wait!