Waiting in excitement turns off reasoning

After getting the box from Wilson, I tried cutting off one piece from the runner using an ordinary scissor. Why would I do that? Coz its one of the things I said to Wilson... that I can build a gundam using only a scissor and 2 grids of sand paper.

The following day I was asking Wilson if I can borrow his gundam cutter, which he replied with "How about NO! Hmmm scissor eh... ha ha ha!" I then asked Willie if I could borrow his cutter which he generously obliged. The next morning the big guy forgot to bring it! and it was the last day of our work-week T_T (Thursday). I was really looking forward on starting to build the Exia on my long weekend.

Before I really didn't want to buy any cutter because i knew i would only use it once... for Exia. But I was too excited! I've already waited a few days in anticipation for this long weekend. So I then decided to get the cutters. Friday afternoon me and Fred set out for the mall to get groceries, walk around the mall and me to get the cutter but we ended up watching "How To Train Your Dragon" XD hehe the movie was awesome!

Ok, so Saturday I really went to the shop in Tungku to get the cutters. I wanted to start on Exia so badly that practically nothing else was on my mind but the cutter! Cutter! Cutter! Cutter! I marched into the store and walked right in front of the owner.

Owner: *Working on an RC model for the other customer sitting in front of him.

Mac the Cutter boy: Cutter! Cutter! Cutter!

Owner: Oh you need a cutter sir?

Mac the Cutter boy: Cutter! Cutter! Cutter!

Owner: Oh ohkay (dot dot dot) *walks to the other side, pulls out the cutter and hands it to Mac.

Mac the Cutter Boy: Cutter! Cutter! Cutter! *takes the cutter looks at the price.

Mac the Cutter Boy: Cutter! Cu... $33.90? Do you have anything cheaper.

Owner: We have a tool set for 41 and the cutter is already included.

Mac the Cutter Boy: *Thinks for a second... Cutter! Cutter! Cutter! The moon is made out of green cheese. Cutter! Cutter! Cutter!

Mac the Cutter Boy: I'll take the cutter.

I went home happy and started working on Exia ^_^

Here are pictures of the Cutter:

I managed to finish the body of exia within 2 hours but I hadn't used sand paper yet. I didnt take pictures when I started building so I'll just post someone else's exia XD

The photos below are from http://gunpla-inochi.com/mg/mg-gundam-exia-ignition-mode/ I hope he didnt mind XD

I really like building the body. The details are exellent! There are lots of pieces that make up the body alone. I was joining the pieces together, not knowing what they would turn out to be and just followed the instructions closely. And when i finished it i'd say, "oh so thats what it is!". I particularly liked 4 main aspects of the body:

1. The details on inside hole for the GN Drive.
2. The 2 yellow vents on the chest have transparent moss green back-pieces (and are movable).
3. The shoulders can move up and down while the waist from side to side.
4. The blue door on the abdomen opens up and you can see a little Setsuna sitting inside.

Despite of the expensive cutters, building the Exia's body was fun enough to make the my weekend great ^_^

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