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Finished this post a week or so back. Posting this first while we recover and settle the AFA articles.

As our regular readers would have known by now, there are some of us who are gamers, in the traditional sense, as well. However, from previous articles, many people would think that we only play Warhammer 40k. However, that is not true. Both me and Julius started out with BattleTech. For my post today, I will be showcasing the buildup of some Flames of War miniatures, in particular, the box below.

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Wing Zero, Kunio Okawara version

AFA has just successfully concluded, and I trust that it had been an enjoyable and memorable event for all who attended. After all, this is the first time a large scale anime event has been held in Singapore, and the management can only get better with experience. Let us hope for an even better event next year, one that will be spectacular enough to lure more fellow anime and mecha fans from our neighbouring countries into attending.

This will be among the first in a series of AFA-related articles that NKDS will be working on, as we try to work our fried brains into some semblance of competence while recalling details about the event. Aniki and May’n were responsible for this, they were the ones who made us shell-shocked with their awesome performances. Though I never knew the process of being shell-shocked felt so good.

While AFA 2008 as a whole was excellent, several observations made by NKDS personnel who attended Kunio Okawara’s autograph session caused some of the more mecha-inclined among us to become rather incensed, and with that in mind, we elected to dedicate a post to the phenomenon in question. This article has nothing to do with the organizers of AFA, instead it has everything to do about the fans, or more specifically, the Gundam fans who attended the event.

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