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Work & stuffs, New Tutorial: Figure Clay Sculpting Tutorial

Finally beat the driving school in GTA: San Andreas with gold for every station, unlocking the real cool Hotknife car. So its another "All-gold" in the bag together with my bike school, now left the boating & pilot school to upgrade to gold standard. Tips for the all-so impossible driving school missions: Burn and Lap: If you always finish...
Art

Tutorial: Figure clay sculpting – Painting & finishing

Article table of contents Planning and structure (Concept & frame building) Medium (Clay) application, setting & surface detailing Painting & finishing With your sculpture detailed and ready, now it's time to add one splash of colour with some paint, then finishing it to lock them in. Prechecks Ensure that your model had completely dried out before attempting to paint. The painting process by...
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New Site Section: Kit Modelling Tutorial

:mrgreen: Hey all, the holidays had already started, well, about a week ago! Contrary to what most will think is the birth of a new found adbundance of time, breaking away from the shackles of school -FREEDOM. Nah its not for me. It's more work work work for me, even having to sprout my first IT show...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quiz

I've got recommended to take this quiz, (damn you time killers!), interesting results, yea. Recalled back when I was a kid, Leonardo was my favorite ninja turtle as well, so you can say its quite accurate? Take the quiz: Which Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle are You? Leonardo You're mature and get the job done. You are a natural born leader,...
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Tutorial: Figure clay sculpting – Planning and structure

I generally clay model as an art-based hobby of mine. Clay modeling is another form of expression of art. It allows artists to portray a subject or detail in true 3 dimensional form, contrary to drawing on 2 dimensional media such as paper or canvas. It allows an object to take form with true depth and detail,...
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Tutorial: Figure clay sculpting – Medium application and detailing

Article table of contents Planning and structure (Concept & frame building) Medium (Clay) application, setting & surface detailing Painting & finishing Now I will cover the main star of the show- the clay medium, it's application as well as detailing the clay as it sets. Choice of clay I choose white clay for this tutorial as it allows to be molded with moisture....
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Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin Killed

CAIRNS, Australia - Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday killed in a freak accident in Cairns, police sources said. It appeared that he was killed by a sting-ray barb that went through his chest, Queensland Police Inspector Russell Rhodes said. He was swimming off the...
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Tutorial: Introductory plastic kit-modeling – Posing & finishing

Kit Modeling tutorial article table of contents Intro, cutting & sanding pieces Priming & painting Detailing Assembling & decalling Posing & finishing Posing & Finishing This last page of the tutorial very much covers the remaining steps for your model, such as final touch-ups, finishing & displaying your finished master piece. Finishing Touches After assembling all the pieces together, if needed, do some light sanding...
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Tutorial: Introductory plastic kit-modeling – Assembling & decalling

Kit Modeling tutorial article table of contents Intro, cutting & sanding pieces Priming & painting Detailing Assembling & decalling Posing & finishing Assembling - Part assembly This is the point where you've got everything almost done, painted & awaiting the assembly phase. Besides saving you a bunch load of work space having to hold your parts laid out previously & its also one of...
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Tutorial: Introductory plastic kit-modeling – Detailing

Kit Modeling tutorial article table of contents Intro, cutting & sanding pieces Priming & painting Detailing Assembling & decalling Posing & finishing Getting on fine details Usually my favorite part of the whole process. It involves drawing, painting or spraying in the details which gives your model the extra personal touch & uniqueness. It is this cross-road step where the true skills of a...
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Tutorial: Introductory plastic kit-modeling – Priming & painting

Kit Modeling tutorial article table of contents Intro, cutting & sanding pieces Priming & painting Detailing Assembling & decalling Posing & finishing The School of Thoughts While most amateur modelers simply just smack together all pieces & paint later, this is not the recommended way as you eventually have to disassemble the model again to paint those hard to reach places. If you plan...
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Tutorial: Introductory plastic kit-modeling – Model preparation

I kit model as a personal hobby, I particularly like assembling mechas and vehicles. Besides getting down & dirty, the past time involves the combination of ones patience, skill, tool handling, let be painting or adding details to produce one-off models unique to a modeler's wants and imagination. Kit Modeling tutorial article table of contents Intro, cutting & sanding...
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Google Adsense? more like Senseless Cheats

I recieved an unexpected email from google recently stating the termination of my google-adsense account. After displaying my ads for about half a year, I've made a total of $300USD since then, no idea how such ads can generate so much cash by just putting them up on the site. They sent me a letter to comfirm...
Sports & Runs

Standard Chartered Marathon SCM 2006 Details and Shirt Sizes

Standard Chartered Marathon SCM 2006 Mega Update Been recieving quite alot of enquiries regarding SCM, especially about the sizes for SCM singlet & Finisher's Attire. So I've included an official measurement chart for both the singlet & finisher's shirt size measurements. Personally from my last year's attire, I wear an M which is quite a good fit for the...
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Army Half Marathon Race Report

Just woke up at around 5pm after sleeping the whole afternoon upon reaching home, of course definately after lunch, a nice warm bath. Found time to blog, amazingly recovery is very fast this year no more sore feet & wobbly legs now, can even jog & jump about. Unlike the aches last year lasting even 2 days...
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Piggin’ out before Army Half Marathon

Updated my long lost friendster account after like god knows when! Nothing much just new photos, but we can have 50 now! ooooo! Last time was like only umm 3? Preps for AHM Mmm tomorrow will be 21km day, just a little more than my usual 15km jog in the park. Up-ed my Mp3 player with a playlist full of...
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TTSH today, AHM Tomorrow

Come on people! 18k hits a day & not a single comment for days? wahh maybe I should increase the comment link font size.... Visited the doctor at Tan Tock Seng Hospital today with regards to my potential leg problem. You see my lower leg have this slight abnormal curve in the bone & if left uncorrected can...
Computers

Dell Laptop Use Banned From Qantas Flights

New Qantas regulations make it clear that no Dell laptops, not even those unaffected by the battery recall, are allowed to contain batteries while on the plane. That means nada usage while your fellow flightmate beside you happily go tippy-tappy on their Vaio with the same defective battery. Apparently as we all know, the Dell batteries that were...
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Even Laptops hidden in Cars not safe in Malaysia

Story: Malaysian laptop thieves using mystery gadget to pick which cars to break into. Presumably exploiting RFID scanners to detect those RFID tags/stickers normally placed onto the bottom of laptops containing serial/model numbers &/or li-ion batteries for computer assembly & manufacturer identification purposes. For ya people intending to head up north with ya lappies. The best is to carry...
Sports & Runs

Terry Fox Run 2006

Hey all tracksters, heres an update of an upcoming event during the SP semester holidays, the Terry Fox Run 2006- The Run For Hope. Event Date: 17 sept Time: 8am Venue: Sentosa Tanjong Beach Fee : S$25 for adults Dist : 9km (competitive), 5km (fun) I will most prob take the relax-jack 5km haha & maybe chill out at the beach for the...
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Exploring Cup Noodles Museum Yokohama

Let’s take an explore today The Cup Noodles Museum in Yokohama, Japan. It is an interactive museum dedicated to the popular instant noodle brand....

Visiting Batu Caves Selangor, Malaysia

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Exploring Yokohama City and Chinatown

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How to install and run a local Deepseek R1 instance

This article teaches you how to quickly install, setup and run DeepSeek R1 large language models (LLMs) in under 30 minutes on your local...

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Hanami Market 2025 Suntec City

Let’s take a visit to Hanami Market 2025 at Suntec City in Singapore. This annual event is a marketplace which tad celebrates Japanese culture....

River Hongbao 2025 explorations

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Light to night 2025 SG Art week

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Nosh Bistro at Henderson

Nosh Bistro, located at 213 Henderson Road in Singapore, is a western-style eatery known for offering quality dishes at affordable prices. The establishment originated...

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