Author: HLJ : Luke
Broken Ball Joint
Submitted By : mokanaman / Alan A broken ball joint in a poly-cap is a common fault in Bandai articulated kits. Snappers and people who are a little heavy handed or regularly play with their kits are most likely to face this problem and throw out or replace their kit. All you need is wire, a pin vise, drill bit, super glue and plastic cement for this tutorial.
Doi’s Corner 2 – Horses!
Are Ukrainian Horses the Best? Taking a break from tanks, I thought I’d liven up my modeling a bit by building some horses. There have been resin and white metal horse kits in the past in 1/35 scale, but there hasn’t been much available in injection-molded plastic…until now! I’m happy to say there is now a pretty good selection of regular injection plastic horse kits availa...
Gunpla TV – Episode 2 – Building Basics!
Syd is back with episode 2 of our Gunpla series! And this time we cover the basics when it comes to building Gundam. Gundam model shown in this video: 1/144 MSZ-010 ZZ Gundam Gundam Competition: Gunpla – Playing With Plastic
Honda RC166
Submitted By : Ren Katayama Here’s Tamiya’s kit of the Honda RC166. The kit featured a lot of parts, making construction a little difficult.
1/144 Psy System Zaku
Submitted By : Jens Hoepfner As a Zaku fan, I ordered this old 1994’s 1/144 kit from HobbyLink Japan (HLJ item code: BAN01345), they happened to have one in stock, although stated as ‘out of stock’ back then. Well, finally I managed to build and paint it. What will you get? Besides the runners with the parts for the Psy System Zaku and the manual, you’ll get a sheet of wate...
Model Talk 1 – Introduction and Works
“Heaven doesn’t make any model better than others, nor does it make any model worse than others.” Hi, everybody! Tatsuya Kaneko here! Welcome to Model Talk, where I’ll be blogging about dioramas and modeling right here on hobbylink.tv! Rather than write a wordy self-introduction, I’d like to present a quick compilation of dioramas I’ve created over the last thirty yea...
Gunpla TV – Episode 1 – Grade Introduction
The inaugural episode of Gunpla TV sees HobbyLink Japan’s resident Gunpla builder, Syd, introducing the various types of Gundam model kits Bandai has to offer.
Shizuoka Hobby Show 2010 – Interview with Brett Green
We caught up with Brett Green from Model Military International and talked with him about his magazine and his first visit to Japan and the Shizuoka Hobby Show.
Shizuoka Hobby Show 2010 – Tamiya Part 3
Follow us as we talk to Mark from Tamiya about their new Zero Type-22 1/48 scale plane, yet another great release from Tamiya.
Shizuoka Hobby Show 2010 – Fine Molds
If you love machinery then you’re going to love what the wonderful people at Fine Molds have conjured up this year!
Doi’s Corner 1 – BMW R75
Modeling, text, and photos by Masahiro Doi Recently we’ve seen many companies releasing quite a few kits of “softskin” military vehicles…trucks and other non-armored vehicles. So instead of seeing only a collection of German tanks from WWII when we check out a company’s display at a model show, now we can see a wide variety of different subjects. The kits that ma...
Shizuoka Hobby Show 2010 – Doyusha
On show this year from Doyusha were some amazing creations from Leonardo Da Vinci along with a nice set of 1/43 scale model cars.
