As chosen by popular demand on my second Instagram “what should I build next?” post, I present this beautiful flying boat. I thought, for a while, that this model had been retired, but it appears that just the gift-box set version of it has been retired. But when I thought it was going to be […]
Coming Soon: Piececool Goes Historical
Ending their Chinese New Years hiatus, Piececool added two new models to their website, both of seemingly historical significance, and both in the new IP-designated line of models that started with the Terminator Rev.9 model. One is called the Moire Copper Ban Bronze Jin with Cloud Design and the other is Chime Bells from the […]
#TT: Temple of Heaven
So, I’ve not done a Throwback Thursday post in a while, and I recently thought about the fact that I did a lot of compressed reviews (compressed to the 2000 character limit of Instagram captions) before I started the blog. And since this blog is supposed to be a resource for builders, it would be […]
Piececool Adds Some Not-Transformers Models
Four new models have been added to Piececool’s website, marked with a pre-sale date of 10/28. Once again, the models have been bundled together, almost as if a set. Strangely, this set includes 3 mythical warriors in ancient-Chinese style armor that most definitely do not [they do] resemble Transformers characters. And the Southern Gate. You […]
Metal Earth Short Story
In the March edition of the Metal Earth Newsletter, they issued a challenge to not only capture a creative photo, but also to write a short story for the photo (or photo for the story, depending on your perspective). I decided to take this opportunity to do a collaboration with my older two kiddos. I […]