Posts by  mtomczek

My wife and I travel to Tokyo/Japan at least once year for vacation and to visit friends. This year we had been planning our big trip around my 30th birthday, and the cherry blossom season. Two weeks before our big trip, the earthquake hit, and of c...

Another one of the fantastic 1/4 scale resin figures from Volks, this one is of all-time classic fighting game girl Mai Shiranui. This kit was picked up at the Volks store in Akihabara on one of my trips to Japan. In visiting the store and seeing all...

I had picked up the 1/6 Kaneda figure a few weeks ago and finally today purchased the matching bike that completes the set. These are limited releases from the new BM! line. This is a collaboration between Katsuhiro Otomo, Bandai, and Medicom. The bi...

This kit is from the mega hit video game series Monster Hunter. Over the past few years a few small garage kit makers have been putting out fantastic 1/8 scale figures of the various character and armor types from the series. This was my first figure...

Name: Matt and Julie Tomczek Ages: 29 Country of residence: USA Main machine spec and OS: AMD Athlon x64 630 2.8ghz, 6gb Ram, 512mb video card, 1TB internal HD, Windows 7 64 Bit Job title/ Currently studying: Matt: Project Manager Video Game Industry...

Hello all - Here is a quick shot of my stash/loot from our recent vacation to Japan. We visited from Oct. 15th - 26th and went to Tokyo, Osaka, Nara, Hiroshima, and Miyajima. This was our 4th year visiting Japan in the fall for vacation, and it was a...

Hello! This is my entry for the Bandai World Gundam Competition, the MG MSN-06S Sinanju! Overall the build took me about 2 1/2 weeks, and features custom metal parts as well custom waterslide decals. The paint is a base of Mr. Surfacer 1200, with Mr....