So the Gunplay Builders World Cup, otherwise known as G B w see if you guys didn't know is an international annual Gumpel, a competition that's put on by Bandai spirits.

And if you're lucky enough to live in one of the qualifying countries, you can enter for your chance to win in your country, which means you'll get a free trip over to Japan.

Now, I assume probably a lot of you already knew that.

But maybe what you don't know is that once the winners get their trip over there to Japan, there's a whole lot of really cool stuff that they get to do and that they get involved with that us on the outside.

Don't really get to see.

So I wanted to do was show that to you guys by going over there and joining in and recording the whole thing.

All of the experiences of the TV WC winners, sharing that with all of you guys and hopefully inspiring and motivating a lot more people to want to join in the competition because it's a really, really amazing experience.

Now, even though I didn't win this year, I was lucky enough to be able to go along.

And so I have to save a really big thank you to the USA winner Tim and then the Australian winner Aaron as well.

Both those guys were really instrumental and talking with their reps to help get me access to everything there.

And then, of course, have to say a big thank you Thio Adam at us a Gundam store us again in store provided the backing for me to be able to go over there and record everything for you guys.

So without Adam's supports at us again, um, store, I wouldn't have been able to go at all.

So, guys, if you get a chance to say thank you to them, head over to us, I'm gonna start side.

As always, the link will be down in the video description below.

It's all made possible.

Thanks to them, all of the coverage of the event is gonna be separated into three videos of the first video is going to cover the Saturday night before the event and then Sunday morning to set up at the event and the lunch before the big award ceremony.

Second video is gonna cover just the awards ceremony itself when they announce the winners are and everything And then the third video's gonna cover the afterparty, which is really awesome as well.

So the first video, the part one is gonna be here on my general Parts two and three are gonna be over on the U.

S.

A.

Gundam TV channel.

So go over there after you're done watching part one where you can see the awards ceremony and after party, those videos will be on the U.

S.

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Gun on TV channel.

So head over there and check those out.

So this before we get into it again Tim, Aaron, Adam, thank you guys all so much for the support along the way.

It was great hanging out with everyone there.

I had an amazing time.

As you as we'll see, it was just a fantastic experience there, and I'm really glad field to share this with all of you guys.

I hope too old to go again in the future and hope to see you guys there as well.

And of course, also have to say a big thank you to band I just for putting on the event.

But also the help and support that I got from a couple of members there, especially Koji Shoe.

Hey there, who helped me out a lot as well and of course, Major Kawaguchi as well who gave us a special message at the very end of the last video.

So make sure you check that and he was just amazing there as well.

Always.

It's always great to meet up with him so big.

Thank you to bend I spirits for everything that they do for Gumpawa and the gun flick community, of course.

And of course, thank you to all you guys as well just for watching the videos.

And we're supporting me all along the way without any further ado, here is J B to B C 2019.

You guys s o This big building here behind me is the hotel where they put up all of the BWC winners tonight before the event.

So everyone's kind of arriving here, gonna go in, meet up with Tim on Aaron and then in a little bit we're gonna go have some dinner with Tim and Bend I reps.

That'll be awesome.

Yeah, this is the hotel where you get to stay if you win, the hotel is located right here on die, but which is actually a manmade island in Tokyo Bay, where the gun, the base and the 1 to 1 scale unit corner located.

So it's a little bit far to walk there from here.

So I think they usually take the bus or you can take, uh, there's a monorail goes there as well.

But let's head in here to lobby and see who's here.

Your loss winners lettuce, the room you get to bed.

So you guys maybe don't know they have to leave their works here or along so much, so few months.

So the staff of Bend are left to disassemble.

It can repack it and send it back to you.

And so the winners will leave instructions where they should leave instructions for the kid's house, taken aback, apart off the base, never had a packet.

And then how to get it back to the winners and peace.

Ideally, unlike that two guys, if you haven't and he had a strong like I saw it, I just That's where the magic happens.

Thistles, where Tim sleeps five.

Thank you.

Hey, Thank you.

make me that I would gushing over like I got long.

I don't want to be.

Oh, we're done.

Okay.

Thank you, dude.

Thank you.

We'll come.

Right.

I'm really touched by this custom sticker.

Yeah.

Tim's instructions were talking about this parents to instructions for this assembly.

Packing that.

How many extras did you make The's?

Only three in existence forgot his head.

City Rome.

Thinking this'll was never meant for you babies again.

This was when I started this.

This was all exercise.

It's all just a big sign.

This is a palate cleanser here.

This is no Virginia.

Then I got the idea.

That's what happens.

You crying?

Yeah.

And stock that you get after this.

Next thing you know, actually, this is pretty cool.

Yeah.

Look at this guy in the video again.

We're going to dinner, but that we need to Canada.

Fine individuals.

Yeah, You right, E.

I want every day like this in my basement.

Right?

So the stairs coming down here and then you turn and there's a hallway right here.

So I passed by this every day.

Nice to see you.

Thank you for coming way.

Appreciate you being here.

Wait exactly right?

Yeah.

What's going on?

Good morning.

How are you?

Get my good side.

Good morning, Will Baines.

Washington Pressures cutters.

Three years, David.

Morning, Lorna.

Let's go way.

Everyone, wait.

You're gonna pick up your artwork on one by one?

Okay?

Okay.

Feeling good, man?

Citing really nervous.

It's getting really, really, really Thistle is this is like, one of the best feelings ever right now.

Intensification first.

Yeah.

First piece in the case of the way.

That's actually sure way from Italy.

On the Italian families of the WC is my entry.

Ah, military modeler.

I always liked it there.

Military part off first Gundam.

Serious.

Nine first releases.

You see, after serious, I was very excited because, of course, I can match my military modeler model their mother affection to the universe.

Off the one year war period off the ground in Syria courts.

I cannot resist to be this amazing.

Graf won six a five bank which I found it.

A very great kid.

It's been that mainly out of the box with a few minor modifications off extra detailing robes, faces on the turret on extra machine gun turret and some details for base I concluded that the 2nd 2nd keep from you see on Syria, which is their anti mobile suite, which is included.

So this one mainly for out of the booth bits with arm, some infantry base.

Of course, I imagine a warfare period and tank advancing with the cover off infantry, which are using their destroyed the arm as a bridge across the river.

Total flavor is something like, Let me get more for general warfare uses that they're very old Linden production and the rest is everything.

It's a scratch that explains a lot of plans.

Various product making productions.

It's a Japanese company that makes a lot of cutting paper, paper plants and scratch funded with governments around house and stabilize it with special brother.

And that's you almost one year, but not off the news work.

Otherwise, I will get on.

You have to spend the biggest part of the building collecting pictures on dhe plans to create, I hope, really, which is the main this diagram, because it doesn't matter how many plants I put on it.

It always looks for you.

I always have to add more plants.

This is the result, and I'm quite happy.

After I started that finished with Tank and I'm planning to realize the drama.

I decided to participate as a my entry for the baby because I thought it would be My strategy was to present something very different from all the other contenders.

Andi, I win.

So I'm happy about my my my racing strategy.

I discovered it, Lucy, last year since my friend popular one previous.

So I decided to try a course.

I start building gum flower in maybe 25 years ago, so I'm not a new one.

But I'm a new one in this kind of competition.

Follow your imagination and don't try to take inspiration for others ideas.

For if you ever figured and imagine something, do it on, follow your way.

It just looks great.

But that's so good.

U S A and this is air drop.

I made this in like, two days from paper McShay and Hopes and dreams.

No obvious series Eso air job took me like I don't know, eight months to make It's a highly detailed, just a master grade customized way Scratching parachutes, scratch builds jump back on dhe Highly modified accessories like the weapons and things like that.

Um, highly detailed on, uh, scratch built base, the whole nine yards to support the entire unit.

Parachutes and everything I held held on by rare earth magnets.

And your gimme.

Um, for those of you playing at home on, uh, yeah, like you see it, it is literally suspended in midair, So it's dropping.

You said the inspiration for the air drop is the 67th Tactical Fighter Wing that's actually located here in Japan.

Kaneda Air Force Base.

They are inactive tactical fighter wing, and I actually found their logo on a sheet of the accounts that I bought from my local hobby store.

And I just thought the logo was cool.

But then I did research about it, and it just everything just fit so kind of the idea.

Waas to imagine what if, in the future, this tactical fighter wing evolved from using jets planes and stuff using air drop mobile suit, So it just kind of fit the theme.

And, uh so I guess this is kind of an image to 67.

So?

So the base is completely scratch built.

It's made from solid core of MDF on, then laminated in plastic sheet detailed up painted the whole nine yards.

So it's built in different pieces, so it comes apart really easily.

And, yeah, so it supports and sports suggested perfectly.

And I think it sells the look of dropping with the cloud motifs and things of that nature.

And then, of course, the radio blurred.

It's not a background.

It's an underground to simulate the dropping motion.

So don't stare, too.

Don't stare at it too long or else you get vertigo.

So, man, So if you ever want to come here to Japan and compete in D P.

W C, you absolutely can.

I've been in this hobby for almost 20 years.

I have unfair advantage and unfair head start on most people.

But if you continue to work and you continue to protect perfect your craft, you show full dedication to the hobby.

You absolutely can make it.

When I first started out, I didn't think in a 1,000,000 years that I have an opportunity like this, much less twice to be here in Japan and competing at a world competitions.

But here I am, so you could do it to weigh one.

An only child of Mecca Hey, we'll see you guys later.

Macca Army, Simon's from Australia on mine, known as With My Second Year, Lucky enough to represent Australia massively happy with that, I wanted to be here.

My work is based around my favorite samurai.

I Musashi just loved the story of him on a familiar with that he's a hell of a warrior once regarded as the best swordsman in Japanese history and run an amazing book.

When he was in his all day, she wrote, a book brings is actually sort of scrolls, but they put it together and it's still really current today, and I read that really inspired me.

So I tried to get elephants in my field.

The book represent their twin twin swords.

He used a book in which was remitted from or all those elements air in the actual work to bring it all together on traditionally wore a blue What about blue and gray?